Privacy Policy

Effective November 11, 2026

The #AutoErase™ Campaign ("we") runs autoerase.org. We collect as little as we can, we never sell or rent your information, and we never use it for advertising.

What you type stays with you, unless you send it

Your name, email, ZIP code and street address fill in the letter to your legislators. They stay in your browser. If you tick "Remember my details", they are saved on your own device only, and you can untick it at any time to erase them.

What we receive

• Notes you send through "Send us a note": your message, and your name and email only if you add them. They go to the campaign team.
• "Keep me updated": if you tick it and give an email, we keep your email, name and ZIP code to send #AutoErase news. Untick the box, or write to us, to be removed.
• Questions you ask the Ask #AutoErase helper, and its answers. We keep them, without your name, for 90 days to find gaps in our research and improve the answers; then they are deleted automatically.
• Follow-up reminders: if you ask for them, we keep your email, state, what you sent and the date, and delete them after the 90-day reminder or when you click "stop".
• Stories: only if you send one. The AI removes names and identifying details first, and the campaign reviews each story before it is posted without your name.
• "I sent it" clicks, counted to show how many letters have gone out. No letter content is kept.
• Visit statistics: we use Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not identify you, and simple counts of button clicks (for example, how many people downloaded the Model Legislation).

Services that see part of your request

• U.S. Census Bureau geocoder: if you enter a street address to find your exact legislators, your browser sends that address to the Census Bureau to look up your districts.
• Anthropic (Claude): what you type into the helper or an AI tool is sent to Anthropic to write the answer. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, it is not used to train their AI models. Letters written with the site's fill-in templates never leave your device.
• Google News and Wikipedia: when the helper searches the web, it sends the search words, not who you are.
• Email: when you press "Email" to a legislator, your own email app sends the letter. We never see it.
• Hosting: Vercel hosts the site and keeps standard server logs for security.

How long we keep it

Questions to the helper: 90 days. Reminders: until the last reminder or until you stop them. Notes you send: up to 2 years. Sign-ups: until you unsubscribe. Anonymous stories: while posted, or until you ask us to remove one. Server logs: as long as Vercel keeps them.

Please don't include

Names, case numbers, dates of birth or anything else that identifies you or anyone else in what you type into the helper or the AI tools. The fill-in letters have [brackets] for those details, and you complete them on your own device.

Children

The site is meant for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13.

Your choices

You can ask us to see, correct or delete anything you sent us. Use Send us a note.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top.