Privacy Policy
Plain English. No legalese.
Go Vermont is a civic information project. We take privacy seriously — this page explains exactly what data we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it. This policy also covers VT Life, the iOS app published by 802 Flamingo LLC.
What we collect
When you submit a data correction via our contact form, we collect the information you provide: the official's name, the town, a description of the error, your suggested fix, a source URL, and — optionally — your email address. Your email is never required and is used only to follow up on your correction if we have questions.
When a business submits a sponsorship application via our sponsor portal, we collect a business name, tagline, website URL, logo URL, contact email address, and placement preferences. The contact email is required — it is used only to process the application and communicate about the sponsorship.
When you submit an event, we collect the event details you provide, any source URL you submit, and your email address. Your email is required to identify the submission and follow up during review if needed. It is not displayed publicly. Event entry is manual; the public form does not send submitted pages to an AI extractor.
When you ask Action Assist to find a contact, the selected town, issue category, entry point, and optional official profile ID are sent to our server for a deterministic lookup. Go Vermont does not write those choices to an Action Assist database or collect usage telemetry or helpful/not-helpful feedback. Your draft summary and signoff name stay in your browser. Calendar reminders are generated locally and no reminder email address is collected. Action Assist requests, errors, and breadcrumbs are excluded from our Sentry monitoring: browser-side Sentry transport is disabled, and server/edge filters drop Action Assist routes.
VT Life does not require an account. The app may store your selected town, profile preferences, optional home-value inputs used for local tax estimates, 251 Challenge visit progress, and issue-report notes on your device. Issue reports are local notes for your own use; VT Life does not automatically send them to towns, Go Vermont, or 802 Flamingo.
VT Life may ask for camera, photo library, location, or calendar access only when you use a related feature. Photos and issue locations are used to help you keep local issue notes. Calendar access is used only if you choose to add an election date to your calendar.
How we use it
- →Correction emails are used only to follow up on the correction you submitted — nothing else.
- →Sponsor emails are used only to process and communicate about sponsorship applications.
- →Event submitter emails are used only for review and necessary follow-up about the event you submitted.
- →Action Assist lookup choices are used only to return a source-backed contact; draft text and signoff names stay in your browser.
- →VT Life on-device data is used only to provide app features such as town selection, local notes, optional tax estimates, challenge progress, and user-initiated permission flows.
- →We do not sell your data.
- →We share submitted or technical data only with service providers needed to operate the site, process an enabled submission workflow, secure the service, or serve advertising if that program is activated as described below.
- →We do not send marketing emails or newsletters.
Data storage
All submitted data is stored in Supabase, a U.S.-based PostgreSQL database provider. Data is stored in the US East (N. Virginia) region. Supabase encrypts data at rest and in transit. We do not store payment information — sponsorship payments are handled offline, outside this platform. Event URL extraction and correction validation may use external AI services to process submitted page text or public source material, but we do not use those services to send marketing emails or sell personal data.
VT Life stores app preferences and issue-report notes on your device using iOS app storage. The app may make network requests to Go Vermont or 802 Flamingo-hosted data services, weather services, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap map tiles, Google Fonts, and external town or civic websites when you use related features or links. Those providers may receive standard technical information such as your IP address and device/browser request details.
Action Assist uses the request IP address only for a short-lived abuse-prevention counter. Hosting, security, and rate-limit providers may process standard request metadata under their operational retention practices, but Go Vermont does not create an Action Assist activity or feedback record or put the request IP in application rate-limit log messages. Sentry performance tracing and browser-side Sentry transport are disabled, and Action Assist server/edge records are dropped before transport.
How long we keep it
Retained as long as it is relevant to maintaining data quality on the site. Once a correction is resolved and no longer needed for reference, it may be deleted.
Retained for the duration of the sponsorship relationship plus a reasonable period afterward for record-keeping. If a sponsorship application is not approved, data from unapproved applications is retained only briefly and then deleted.
Retained as long as it is useful for reviewing, publishing, and maintaining the events calendar. Rejected or duplicate submissions may be retained briefly for abuse prevention and audit history, then deleted when no longer needed.
Go Vermont does not retain an Action Assist usage, draft, feedback, or reminder record. Short-lived rate-limit counters expire automatically; a downloaded calendar file remains on your device under your control.
Local app data remains on your device until you delete it in the app, reset the related app feature, or remove the app from your device. Calendar entries created by the app are managed in your calendar app. If you contact us through Go Vermont, that message is handled under the contact-submission rules above.
Your rights
You can request deletion of any personal data you have submitted to Go Vermont at any time. To do so, email us at hello@govermont.co with the subject line “Data deletion request.” We will process your request promptly. For VT Life data stored only on your device, deleting the app or clearing the related app data removes it from that device; we cannot access local-only app data unless you choose to send it to us.
Request data deletionAbout public official data
Go Vermont publishes names, titles, party affiliations, and contact information for elected and appointed public officials in Vermont. This is public information. It is sourced from the Vermont Secretary of State, the Vermont Legislature, Vermont county offices, and other official government sources. Elected officials exercising public duties have no reasonable expectation of privacy for information related to those duties. If you are a public official and believe information about you is incorrect, please submit a correction.
Cookies, analytics, and advertising
Go Vermont uses Plausible for aggregate site analytics. Our Plausible integration is configured without tracking cookies and is not used to build profiles of individual visitors. Hosting and security providers may process standard request information, including IP addresses, to deliver and protect the site.
Go Vermont does not currently load Google AdSense advertising tags. If AdSense is activated, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to serve and measure ads. Google's advertising cookies may be used to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to Go Vermont or other websites. Other Google-certified vendors or ad networks may also serve ads and use their own technologies under their published policies.
Visitors can control personalized Google advertising through Google Ads Settings. Additional industry opt-out choices are available through WebChoices. Before advertising is enabled, Go Vermont will configure Google's required certified consent experience for visitors in the EEA, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, along with applicable U.S. state privacy messages and opt-out signals.
Direct sponsorship credits are separate from behavioral advertising. Sponsors and advertisers cannot buy a change to civic facts, source approval, ranking, or editorial treatment. See our methodology.
Questions
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how your data is handled, email us at hello@govermont.co. We are happy to answer.
Last updated: August 25, 2026 · Go Vermont is an independent civic information project. Learn more about our data sources →