LegiStorm Terms of Use and Other Legal Matters

Warranties

Accuracy of information - LegiStorm collects its information from expenditure reports published quarterly by the Clerk of the House and semi-annually by the Secretary of the Senate. The information is then typed in by LegiStorm. While LegiStorm makes every effort to ensure that the information is faithfully reproduced from the official reports, data transcription errors can and will occur.

Therefore, LegiStorm makes no warranty of the accuracy of any information contained on this site. Use of the information contained on this site should be made with the understanding that it may be wrong. All information contained on this site should be verified with the original source, and even then with the understanding that even the official record might be wrong.

Terms of Use

Use of information - Users of this site agree not to use information on this site for any purpose for which it was not intended. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to:

Verification of income for employment or other purposes
Solicitation for commercial or charitable purposes
Automated information collection methods except for bots feeding publicly available search engines and which obey robots.txt instructions

Privacy

LegiStorm respects privacy and understands that web sites users do not want their email and other personal information to be distributed to others. Therefore,

Information collection - LegiStorm uses cookies to collect non-identifiable information about each user's travels on the site in order to analyze patterns of use on the site. This information will be used only for statistical purposes and will not be used to monitor the specific requests by identifiable individuals.

Information distribution - LegiStorm will never sell, rent or otherwise disclose personally identifiable information to any 3rd party for the purpose of marketing or solicitation or other information gathering. The only exception is under the valid presentation of a subpoena or other judicial order.

Of course, this site's purpose is to distribute public information about congressional staffers obtained from public records. Obviously, nothing in this privacy policy is intended to suggest otherwise. We do, however, pledge to ensure the privacy of non-public information of users who happen to be congressional staffers. For example, we will not release email addresses or site usage information of congressional staffers to third parties as described above.

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