Terms of Service

Last updated: October 9, 2026

These terms are a binding agreement between you and The Democrat App LLC, a Georgia limited liability company (“we,” “us,” the “Company”), governing your use of The Democrat App — our mobile applications, the website at thedemocrat.app, and everything we offer through them (the “Service”). By creating an account, or by using the Service at all, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

1. Who we are, and who we are not

We compile publicly available information about candidates and elected officials and present it in one place. We are a publisher and a software company. We are not a party organ, an election authority, a campaign, a political consultant to any campaign except under a separate written agreement, or a provider of legal, financial or voting advice.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. By using it, you represent and warrant that you are 16 or older, that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement, and that you are not barred from using the Service under the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction.

The Service is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If we learn that we have, we will delete the account and the information. If you believe a person under 16 has created an account, write to support@thedemocrat.app.

The Service is offered for use in the United States. We make no representation that it is appropriate or available elsewhere.

3. Your account

You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, including by anyone you allow to use it. Keep your credentials confidential and notify us promptly at support@thedemocrat.app of any unauthorized use.

You agree to provide accurate information and to keep it current. We may refuse, suspend or reclaim any account or username at our discretion.

You may browse much of the Service without an account. Some features, including the Political Match Quiz, saved addresses and community posts, require one.

4. Licence to use the Service

Subject to these terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial civic participation. That is the entire extent of the rights granted to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

This licence terminates automatically if you breach these terms.

5. Acceptable use

You agree that you will not, and will not permit or assist anyone else to:

• Scrape, crawl, harvest, index, or bulk-extract any part of the Service, including candidate records, officeholder records, district data, event listings, quiz content, scoring logic, media listings, or user information, by any automated or manual means
• Use any part of the Service, or any data obtained from it, to train, fine-tune, evaluate or develop any machine learning or artificial intelligence model or dataset
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, or scoring methodology of the Service, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law
• Use the Service, or information obtained from it, to build, inform, market or operate a competing product or service
• Resell, sublicense, rent, lease, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service or any data in it
• Harass, threaten, stalk, impersonate or defame any person, including candidates, officeholders, their staff, or other users
• Upload content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, obscene, or that you lack the right to share
• Use the Service to send unsolicited commercial or political messages, or to assemble a list for that purpose
• Misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any campaign, committee, party or organization
• Interfere with the Service, probe or scan it for vulnerabilities, circumvent any access control or rate limit, or impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure
• Remove, obscure or alter any proprietary notice
• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law, including election law and campaign finance law

We may investigate and take any action we consider appropriate, including removing content, suspending or terminating accounts, blocking access, and referring matters to law enforcement.

6. Candidate and officeholder information

WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT ANY INFORMATION IN THE SERVICE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT. Candidate records, officeholder records, district assignments, voting records, biographical details, issue positions, event listings and match scores are compiled from public sources, third-party interfaces and our own research. Sources contain errors. Districts are redrawn. Candidates withdraw, switch races, change positions, and are replaced.

Match scores are opinion, not fact. A match score is an editorial comparison between your questionnaire answers and our record of a candidate’s stated positions. It is a tool for forming your own view. It is not a statement of fact about any candidate, not a measure of a candidate’s fitness, and not an endorsement, recommendation or disparagement of anyone.

If you believe something is wrong — in particular if it concerns you, or a candidate or committee you represent — write to support@thedemocrat.app. We review correction requests and will correct what we find to be in error. That is the remedy available to you in respect of inaccurate information, and it is your exclusive remedy.

Verify your registration, your polling place and your ballot with your county or state election office. Nothing in the Service is an official election record, and we are not responsible for any consequence of relying on it as one.

7. Events

Event listings originate from third-party organizing platforms and from campaigns. We do not host, organize, staff, verify, endorse or vouch for any event, and details change without notice. Confirm with the organizer before you travel. We are not responsible for anything that happens at, on the way to, or in connection with any event listed in the Service.

8. Political contributions

When you choose to donate to a candidate, the Service directs you to that campaign’s own donation page, operated by ActBlue or another processor. We do not collect, process, hold, forward, earmark or direct political contributions. Your contribution is a transaction between you and the recipient committee, governed by their terms and by applicable election law, including contribution limits, source prohibitions and disclosure requirements. You are responsible for your own compliance with those laws.

9. Supporting The Democrat App

Contributions made to The Democrat App itself — through in-app support, tips, or third-party platforms we use for that purpose — are payments to The Democrat App LLC and fund the development and operation of the Service. They are commercial payments to a for-profit company. They are not political contributions, they are not charitable donations, and they are not tax-deductible. They are non-refundable except where required by law or by the platform processing them.

10. Merchandise

Merchandise orders are processed by Stripe and fulfilled by Printful. Prices, availability, product specifications and shipping estimates may change at any time before we accept an order. We may refuse or cancel any order, including for pricing errors, and will refund amounts paid in that event.

Defective or incorrect items will be replaced or refunded if you contact support@thedemocrat.app within 30 days of delivery. Custom and print-on-demand items are otherwise not returnable.

11. Services for campaigns

Featured placement in the Service and marketing services for campaigns and committees are sold separately, at our published rates, under their own written agreement. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer of, or an agreement for, those services.

Purchasing placement or services does not constitute an endorsement by us, and does not affect match scores, which are computed solely from a user’s answers and our record of a candidate’s positions. We do not sell placement in, or alteration of, match results.

12. Your content

You retain ownership of content you submit. By submitting it, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable licence to host, store, reproduce, modify for formatting, publish, display, and distribute that content in connection with operating and promoting the Service, for as long as you keep it posted and for a reasonable period afterwards for backup and legal purposes.

You represent and warrant that you own or control the rights to everything you submit, and that it does not infringe any third-party right or violate any law.

We have no obligation to monitor content, but we may remove anything at any time for any reason, with or without notice. We are not responsible for content submitted by users.

Feedback

If you send us ideas, suggestions, feature requests or other feedback, you grant us an unrestricted, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right to use it for any purpose without compensation, attribution or any obligation to you. Do not send us anything you consider confidential.

13. Copyright complaints

If you believe content in the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to support@thedemocrat.app containing: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the work; identification of the material and its location; your contact details; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are authorized to act for the owner.

We will respond to valid notices and may remove material and terminate repeat infringers.

14. Our intellectual property

The Service, including its software, source code, design, user interface, brand, name, logo, and our selection, arrangement, compilation and presentation of candidate and officeholder data, together with our quiz content and scoring methodology, is owned by The Democrat App LLC and protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret and other laws. Underlying public facts are not ours; our compilation and presentation of them is.

“The Democrat App” and our logo are our trademarks. You may not use them without our prior written permission.

15. Third-party services

The Service depends on and links to third parties, including Supabase, Apple, Google, YouTube, Mobilize, ActBlue, Stripe, Printful and news and media sources. We do not control them, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, availability, accuracy, security or practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that party’s terms, not ours.

16. Privacy

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

17. Changes to the Service

We may add, change, suspend, limit or discontinue any part of the Service, including any feature, at any time, with or without notice, without liability to you. We are not obligated to maintain, support, update or continue the Service, or to retain any content or data.

18. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, without liability. On termination, your licence ends immediately and we may delete your content and data. Sections that by their nature should survive — including Acceptable Use, intellectual property, Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Dispute Resolution, and the limitations period — survive termination.

19. Disclaimers

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

20. Limitation of liability

These limitations apply even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted.

21. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless The Democrat App LLC and its members, officers, employees, contractors and agents from and against any claim, demand, action, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to: your use of the Service; your content; your violation of these terms; your violation of any law, including election and campaign finance law; or your violation of any third-party right.

We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with our defence.

22. Dispute resolution, arbitration and class action waiver

Informal resolution first

Before filing anything, you agree to contact us at support@thedemocrat.app with a written description of the dispute and the relief you seek, and to give us 60 days to resolve it informally. This is a condition precedent to starting arbitration or litigation.

Binding arbitration

If we cannot resolve the dispute informally, you and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court. The arbitration will be conducted in Georgia, or by telephone or video, or by document submission, at your election. The arbitrator’s award may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class action waiver

Exceptions

Either party may bring an individual action in small claims court. Either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect intellectual property rights or to stop unauthorized access to the Service.

Your right to opt out

You may opt out of this arbitration agreement. Send written notice to support@thedemocrat.app within 30 days of first accepting these terms, stating your name, the email on your account, and that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect any other part of these terms, and will not affect your use of the Service in any way.

If the class action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim will proceed in court and all other claims remain in arbitration.

23. Time limit on claims

Any claim arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service must be brought within ONE (1) YEAR after the claim arose. Otherwise it is permanently barred. Some jurisdictions do not allow a shortened limitations period, in which case the shortest period those jurisdictions permit applies.

24. Governing law and venue

These terms, and any dispute arising from them, are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. For any matter not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Cobb County or Fulton County, Georgia, and waive any objection to that venue.

25. App Store and Google Play

If you obtained the app from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that: these terms are between you and us, not Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support; in the event of a failure to conform to any applicable warranty, Apple’s only obligation is to refund the purchase price, if any; Apple is not responsible for any claim relating to the app, including product liability, legal compliance or intellectual property claims; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a US embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and are not on any US list of prohibited or restricted parties.

If you obtained the app from Google Play, these terms are between you and us, not Google, and Google is not responsible for the app or its content.

26. General

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign or transfer them freely, including to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets.

Severability and no waiver

If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions remain in full force. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it.

Force majeure

We are not liable for any delay or failure caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, government action, power or internet failure, or failure of a third-party provider.

Electronic communications

You consent to receive communications from us electronically, and agree that electronic notices, agreements and disclosures satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms at any time. We will change the date at the top of this page, and for material changes we will provide notice in the app or by email. Continued use of the Service after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service.

Entire agreement

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service, and supersede all prior agreements and understandings.

27. Contact

The Democrat App LLC
Atlanta, Georgia
support@thedemocrat.app