Effective as of: 8/3/2026
Civie asks you a few civic questions each day and shows how everyone answered. We designed it so your answers are anonymous: we can see that you participated, but nothing we show, export, or publish can reveal what you personally answered. This page is a plain-English summary for convenience; the full legal text (tab above) is the version that governs.
When you answer or skip, two separate records are created. Your account records only that you participated that day. The answer itself goes into a separate anonymous collection along with your demographics, with no name, phone number, or email on it. In the app, results are shown as totals and percentages.
One honest detail: an internal key stops anyone from answering twice. It never appears in any export or public data, and we never use it to connect answers back to people.
Civie also publishes its data openly, and that includes more than totals: anyone, including researchers and journalists, can download the anonymous responses themselves, row by row. Each row shows an answer plus age, gender, race/ethnicity, rough geographic area, state, verified status, and time. No row ever includes a name, phone number, email, or account identifier, and nothing connects a row to you.
Like any company, we may have to comply with valid legal process. That could reach your account information (like your name or phone number), but because your answers are stored with no link to your account, there is no record connecting you to your answers for anyone to demand.
Optional, and at most one per day, sent only when you haven't answered yet. They arrive as a text message on the web or a push notification in the iOS app. Stop anytime: reply STOP to a text, or turn off notifications in the app or in iOS Settings.
You can verify your identity with a government ID through Persona so your responses count as verified. We never see or keep your documents. We keep only the verification result and a one-way scrambled fingerprint of your name, birth date, and zip code so the same person cannot create two verified accounts.
You can delete your account at any time, and everything tied to you is erased. Anonymous answers stay in the public dataset because nothing links them to you, not even us.
Google Firebase (accounts and database), Apple (the iOS app and notifications), Twilio (text messages), Persona (optional ID checks), Vercel (website hosting), Resend (contact form email), and Upstash (abuse protection). Each processes only what is needed to run Civie and may not use your information for their own marketing.
You can view and update your information in your account settings, request a copy of your data, or ask us anything at chris@civie.org.