Straight talk about data.

Last updated August 17, 2026

Most privacy policies are written to be survived, not read. This one is written to be read. It explains what BuildLeverage.org does with data, in plain English.

We are not an advertising company. We don't run ads, and we don't sell your data to advertisers or data brokers.

The organizations that use BuildLeverage.org own their supporter data. It's their list, not ours to traffic.

We collect what the platform needs to work, and we use it to run, secure, and improve the service.

We're a paid product. Organizations pay us for the software — that's the business, so surveilling people isn't.

Who’s who

BuildLeverage.org is advocacy software for organizations. The organization is our customer and controls its own campaigns and supporter data. Supporters are the people who take action through an organization — signing, calling, giving. When a supporter acts through an organization, that organization decides how to follow up with them; we provide the tools and process the data on the organization’s behalf.

What we collect

What the platform needs to do its job: account details for the organizations we work with; for supporters, typically name, email, and the address or ZIP that lets us match them to a congressional district, plus a record of the actions they took. Payments are handled by our processor — we don’t store card numbers. We also keep the ordinary technical logs any secure service keeps to prevent abuse and keep the lights on.

How we use it

To run the service, keep it secure, support the organizations using it, and make the product better over time — including building and improving features like district and voter matching. We don’t plant third-party advertising trackers, and we don’t follow people around the web to build an ad profile, because we’re not in that business.

What we don’t do

We don’t sell, rent, or trade personal information to advertisers or data brokers. Our revenue comes from organizations paying for software, not from monetizing the people who take action. That’s the line we care about most, and it’s the one we’re making a promise about here.

Service providers

We use trusted vendors to operate — hosting, email delivery, payment processing, analytics that help us run the product. They only get the data they need to do their piece of the job, and only to do it for us. This is how every serious software company works; we just tell you plainly.

Voter and district data

To make advocacy land, we match supporters against public voter and district data so an organization can show a decision-maker their own constituents. That matching serves the organization’s campaigns. Our best-built estimate is not a certified public record, and we treat it as the working tool it is.

Legal requests

If we receive a valid, lawful request for data, we respond as the law requires. Where we’re permitted and it’s appropriate, we’ll let the affected organization know.

Retention and deletion

We keep data as long as it’s needed to provide the service and meet legal, security, and operational needs. Organizations can manage and export their data, and can request deletion; we’ll honor reasonable requests, subject to what we’re required or genuinely need to retain.

Text messages

The box is shown already ticked, and you can untick it before you submit. It is never required — you can take the action either way — and the exact wording you agreed to is stored with your record, so consent is a thing we can show you rather than a claim we make.

To be plain about why it is ticked by default: these are not marketing messages. They come from the advocacy organization whose action you just took, they are about that work, and you are choosing to hear from a group you just chose to act with. You can untick the box, and you can stop the messages at any time with a single word.

We do not sell, rent, or share mobile numbers or SMS consent with anyone for their own marketing. Not with advertisers, not with data brokers, and not with other organizations on the platform. A number given to one organization is used to hear from that organization and nothing else. The only outside party it reaches is the messaging carrier that has to deliver the message.

To be exact about the organization’s side of this, because it is a real distinction and not a technicality: when you give your number to an organization using BuildLeverage.org, that data is theirs, not ours. We are not sharing it with them — we are holding it for them. They decide how they contact you, we process it on their instructions, and if they leave, it goes with them. That is also why we cannot hand your number to a different organization on the platform: it was never ours to move.

Reply STOP to any message to stop receiving them, or HELP for help. Opting out takes effect immediately. Message frequency varies, and message and data rates may apply.

We keep the number and the consent record for as long as the organization uses the service, and we keep a record of an opt-out permanently — deleting it is how somebody who said stop gets messaged again by mistake. A revocation is stored alongside the original consent rather than overwriting it, so the history stays honest.

Cookies

We use the cookies required to keep you signed in and the site secure, plus basic analytics to understand how the product is used. No advertising or cross-site ad-tracking cookies — there’s nothing to advertise.

Changes

We may update this policy as the product grows. We’ll change the date at the top, and for material changes we’ll give appropriate notice.

Contact

Questions? Email privacy@buildleverage.org.