How privacy works here
The detail behind each point on our privacy page, for anyone who wants to check it rather than trust it. Much of it you can see for yourself in your browser’s developer tools.
What stays on your device
This is the whole list of what the site saves in your browser. The district is a cookie; the rest are in local storage.
kyv.district: the district you chose (see the next section).kyv.saved: the candidates you “keep in mind”, by their public IDs, written only when you press the button.kyv.install-dismissed: whether you closed the “get the app” prompt.kyv.ads-consent: your answer to the cookie question.kyv.donate-dismissed: whether you closed the donation prompt.
None of them holds your name, your address or your ZIP, and clearing your browser data removes them all. Two are used by our server: your browser sends the district cookie with each request to this site, which is how a page shows your races, and opening your keep-in-mind list asks our server for those candidates by their IDs, so it can show their names.
If you accept advertising cookies, Google stores cookies of its own; that’s under advertising, below.
Your address
Your address and your ZIP aren’t stored — not on your device, not with us.
We use your address for one thing: finding the census block it sits in. The block tells us your district, using Florida’s enacted 2026 map, and the district is the only thing that is kept. We don’t log the address and we don’t store it.
The one exception to “not stored” is a ZIP you give us yourself, for email reminders. That’s under the one thing we store, below.
Request logs
Your address is never put in a web address on this site, so our hosting provider’s request logs don’t record it.
We look up your district from a copy of the district tables held on our own server, so finding your district never sends your ZIP, your address or your census block to our database provider.
When you type an address
When you type a street address and press Enter, we send what you typed to the U.S. Census Bureau’s public geocoder, which finds the census block the address sits in. The block tells us your district, using Florida’s enacted 2026 map, and the district is the only thing that is kept. We don’t log the address and we don’t store it.
The request goes from our server, not your browser, so the Census Bureau receives the address and nothing else: not your IP address, not your name, not anything that says who typed it.
Rather not share your address? Choose your district from the list instead — it works with no third party at all.
Official election sites
The sample-ballot and how-to-vote links open your county Supervisor of Elections’ site or the Florida Division of Elections’ site in a new tab. We never see what you enter there; their own privacy policies apply. We link to their tools rather than putting them on our pages, so their scripts don’t run on this site.
The one thing we store
If you ask us to email you where to vote, we store your email, your ZIP, when you consented, an unsubscribe token, whether you’re still subscribed, and when we last sent you the welcome email (so we send it at most once a day). Nothing is linked to your browsing, nothing is shared or sold, and every email has an unsubscribe link: open it and press the confirm button, and you’re off the list. Your mail app’s own Unsubscribe button works too.
That same signup also gets you a handful of deadline reminders by email — voter registration, vote-by-mail request, early voting, returning your vote-by-mail ballot, and election day. Every reminder contains only dates and official links, every date is verified against its official source before anything sends, and every email carries the same unsubscribe link. Our send records store counts, never addresses. Prefer zero email? The same dates are available as a calendar file that never touches our servers again after download.
Writing to us
“Report a mistake”, at the bottom of every page, opens an email to info@knowyour.vote in your own mail app, and “Contact” leads to the same address. When you write, we get what any email brings: your email address and what you write.
“Report a mistake” fills in only the subject line, “Correction”. It adds nothing about you or the page you were on; say which page in your message if you like. Writing to us doesn’t sign you up for anything: only the email signup above does that.
Analytics
We don’t run site analytics right now. If we turn on cookieless, aggregate analytics (Plausible), this page will say so.
Advertising
We ask before setting advertising cookies. If you accept, our ad provider (Google) receives the page you’re on and your IP address; decline and they’re never set. Until you accept, Google’s ad tag doesn’t load at all. It’s there to tell us whether our ads bring people here.
Some old shared links carry a ZIP in the page address; the tag removes it before Google sees the address. If you accept, Google also stores cookies of its own in your browser. See Google’s advertising policy.
Error reports
We don’t collect error reports right now.
Something here unclear, or not what you see in your browser? Email info@knowyour.vote. Back to privacy, in plain language