Privacy Policy
Unframed is built on a simple premise: you should be able to see exactly what we know about you and why. This page describes what we collect today, in plain language — no legal boilerplate.
Our principles
Transparency first.
Every field we ask for on the dashboard comes with a plain-language reason it helps. This page exists so that reason is never more than a click away.
Minimal collection.
We only collect what changes what you see. If a field doesn't affect your legislation feed or reading digest, we don't ask for it.
No article tracking by default.
Ellipsis's analysis of what you read happens entirely in your browser. Article text, titles, and URLs never leave your device by default — only a weekly summary (article count, bias-cue-strength distribution, topic counts, and a count of distinct sources) syncs to your dashboard, and only once you've connected Ellipsis to your account. If you separately opt in to saved-article syncing, the specific articles you choose to save — title, URL, bias scores, framing notes, and summary — sync too, and you can delete any of them from your dashboard at any time.
No selling or sharing.
Unframed does not sell or share your data with third parties, and never will. Legislative data flows one way — from LegiScan and Congress.gov to your dashboard — nothing about you is sent back to them.
Demographic sensitivity.
Citizenship status and other sensitive fields are always optional, and are used solely to personalize the legislation shown on your own dashboard — never for any other purpose.
What we collect
Account (from Google Sign-In)
Email address, display name, profile photo
To identify your account and greet you by name. We don't see or store your Google password.
Civic profile
State and city (required); interest areas (required, minimum one); citizenship status, ethnicity, education level, income range, and age range (all optional)
To determine which state and federal bills are shown to you, and why each one is relevant.
Saved and dismissed bills
Which bills you've saved or dismissed
So your feed remembers your choices between visits.
Weekly reading digest (only if Ellipsis is connected)
Article count, bias-cue-strength distribution, topic counts, and a count of distinct sources for the week
To show the Reading Digest panel on your dashboard. Never individual article URLs, titles, or text.
Saved article analyses (opt-in, off by default)
Article title, URL, bias scores, framing notes, and summary for each article you choose to save with syncing turned on
To show your saved articles on the dashboard so you can revisit their analysis without reopening Ellipsis. You turn this on separately from connecting Ellipsis, and can delete any saved article from the dashboard at any time.
Who else sees it
Google handles sign-in only. We receive your email, name, and profile photo through standard OAuth — nothing more.
LegiScan and Congress.gov are the public sources for the bills shown on your dashboard. Data flows one direction, from them to you — we don't send them anything about who you are or what you've read.
Ellipsis, our Chrome extension, keeps its bias and framing analysis entirely on your device. If you connect it to your Unframed account, it syncs the weekly aggregate summary described above — never article content, unless you separately turn on saved-article syncing in Ellipsis's settings, in which case only the specific articles you save are sent.
Your control over your data
Saved article analyses are the one thing you can already manage entirely yourself: turn syncing on or off anytime from Ellipsis's Unframed sync settings, and delete any individual saved article directly from the Saved section of your dashboard.
We're still building self-serve tools to edit your civic profile and delete your account directly from the dashboard — they aren't available yet. In the meantime, you can clear your Ellipsis reading history at any time from the extension, and you can reach out to us directly to update or remove any other information we hold about you.
We'll update this page the moment self-serve edit and delete tools ship, and reflect exactly what's true of the product at the time — not what we plan for it to do someday.