Terms of Use

Welcome to Visible Citizen. By accessing or using this site, you agree to the following terms. Please read them carefully before participating in our community.

Purpose of the Platform

Visible Citizen is a civic engagement platform that allows U.S. citizens to review, discuss, and vote on congressional legislation. Our goal is to promote transparency and informed participation in democracy. Visible Citizen is not affiliated with any government agency or political party.

User Responsibilities

• Use the site respectfully and lawfully.
• Provide accurate information when creating an account.
• Avoid posting content that is hateful, harassing, discriminatory, threatening, or violates the rights of others.
• Do not attempt to disrupt, damage, or misuse the platform.

Content and Contributions

You retain ownership of any comments or other content you post. By submitting content on Visible Citizen, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display and distribute that content as part of the platform's public discussion features. We reserve the right to remove any content that violates these Terms or community guidelines.

Voting Data

Votes you submit on bills may be displayed publicly in aggregated form by state or congressional district. Individual votes are not attributed to your personal identity unless you choose to share them publicly.

Disclaimers

Visible Citizen is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. We do our best to ensure accuracy but do not guarantee the completeness or correctness of legislative information, user content, or third-party data.

Limitation of Liability

Visible Citizen and its team are not liable for any damages arising from your use of the site, including loss of data, interruption of service, or reliance on displayed information.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use periodically. Continued use of the site after changes are posted means you accept the revised terms.