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compliance adviser, consumer-reporting agency, background-check service, or identity-verification service.
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Search and public-record inputs. We may process donor, report, committee, state, date,
export, queue, third-party source research, and official-source lookup inputs needed to provide requested features.
Account, provider, and consent records. If you sign in, request higher limits, or contact
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role, city, state, website, intended use, support messages, current acceptance records, communications
notice choices, review status, and related account activity.
User-provided lookup credentials, support records, and payment status. If you provide a third-party
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Authorized administrative account records and exports may show saved lookup credentials and related
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rate-limit and security context, timestamps, request metadata, signed guest legal acceptance records,
browser-local acknowledgements, browser-local cache state, and feature activity needed for service
operation, support, troubleshooting, security, accountability, and product improvement.
These records may be collected when you use finance.how.vote or how.vote and may be associated within the same
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page view with a fixed page title, a public page location without query strings or fragments, and a
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source, support, security, consent, and saved-key records as needed to operate, support, secure,
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requests; investigate misuse or security issues; comply with law; and work with service providers. Ordinary
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The service may use hosting and cloud providers, authentication providers, payment providers, official source
and API providers, Google Analytics for narrow site measurement where enabled, security, logging, storage,
email, support, and infrastructure providers. Official
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Service, account, support, consent, activity, security, abuse-prevention, compliance, recovery, and
operational records are retained as needed for those purposes, subject to applicable law and operational
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merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted availability, source availability,
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