Draft for legal review. Last updated [date].

Privacy policy

The short version: your dollar amounts stay in your account. What’s public is your percentages and anything you choose to write. We don’t sell data and we don’t run ads.

MoneyMouth is run by [legal name of owner or company] (“we”), [city], Connecticut. Questions: [contact email].

What’s public

When you post a split, anyone can see:

• the percentages you chose for the federal budget and any state budgets, and the level you played
• your note, if you write one (up to 280 characters)
• your home state, which you declare yourself and we don’t verify
• the date you posted
• your display name, unless you post anonymously. Anonymous posts say something like “A Connecticut taxpayer.”
• how many people co-signed your post

Your email, phone number and tax numbers are never public.

What stays private to your account

• Your receipt. If you save the tax numbers you typed on the Receipt page (income, taxes paid, town, filing status), they’re stored in your account and only you can see them on the site. Database rules block every other user, signed in or not.
• Your email address, used to sign you in.
• Your phone number, if phone verification is turned on. It’s used only to make sure each person has one account.
• Who you co-signed and what you reported. Co-sign counts are public; the list of who co-signed is not. The person you report never sees that it was you, and neither does the site owner.

Honest caveat: the people who run MoneyMouth, and our database provider, technically have access to the database to keep it running. We don’t look at receipts, and we will only access account data to fix a technical problem, respond to a report, or when the law requires it.

The research pool (optional)

If you check “Add my numbers to the research pool,” we store a separate copy of your receipt with your name and account removed: state, town, filing status, an income range, and tax amounts rounded to the nearest $100. It isn’t linked to your account in any way someone could look up. Uncheck the box any time and your row is deleted. We use the pool only for summary statistics, like average tax rates by town, and never publish a single person’s row.

Things your browser stores

Your browser keeps a few small items on your own device: your light or dark setting, your progress through the site, which levels you’ve cleared, and a sign-in token so you stay signed in. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.

Companies that help run the site

• Supabase stores the database and handles sign-in emails.
• Cloudflare hosts the website. Like any web host, it briefly processes visitors’ IP addresses to deliver pages and stop attacks.
• [SMS provider, e.g. Twilio] sends phone verification codes, if phone verification is on.

Budget numbers come from public government sources and are downloaded by us; your visit isn’t shared with those agencies.

Your choices

• Delete your post any time from the Vote page.
• Download your data from Account, including your receipt and votes.
• Delete your account from Account. This permanently removes your profile, posts, co-signs, reports you made, saved receipt and research-pool row. Database backups held by our provider may keep a copy for up to [backup retention period] before it’s overwritten.

Age

MoneyMouth is for people 18 and older. [Lawyer: confirm the age requirement.] If you think a child has made an account, email [contact email] and we’ll delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that affects what’s public or what we keep, we’ll say so on the site before the change takes effect.