Privacy Policy

ShowUsTheData is a website seeking input on what kinds of information is not available from the federal government. ShowUsTheData is operated through a partnership between the Center for Democracy and Technology, OpenTheGovernment.org, and the Sunlight Foundation.

ShowUsTheData does not track visitors to our Web site. Our site captures limited information (user-agent, last URI requested by the user, client-side and server-side clickstreams, IP address) about visits to our site, but we use this information only to analyze general traffic patterns (e.g. what pages are most/least popular) and to perform routine system maintenance. ShowUsTheData uses some of this limited information in order to determine your voting history.

ShowUsTheData does not sell, rent, exchange or otherwise disclose information about our site visitors. If you request one or more documents or provide comments about one or more documents, we may disclose and post your request or comment.

The comment pages of ShowUsTheData's site optionally allows you to provide contact information. If your comment is unclear, we may email you (if you included an email as part of your submission) in order to clarify your comment. If you choose to email us and provide personally identifiable information about yourself, we will not use the information for any purpose other than to respond to your inquiry.

If we deem your posting or request to be objectionable or otherwise inappropriate for the site, we may choose to remove it from ShowUsTheData.

If we are required by law to disclose the information that you have submitted, we will attempt to provide you with notice (unless we are prohibited) that a request for your information has been made in order to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure. We will attempt to provide this notice by email, if you have given us an email address. If you do not challenge the disclosure request, we may be legally required to turn over your information. In addition, we may independently object to requests for access to information about users of our site that we believe to be improper.

If you have any concerns about this policy, please contact ShowUsTheData, or write to CDT at 1634 I Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006.