What we hold, and what we do not

Four kinds of thing, and nothing else:

• Your account. Email address and a hashed password. Optionally a firm name, an alternative address for alerts, and a phone number.
• The cases you track. County, case number, caption, courthouse, department, judge and hearing details — all of it typed by you.
• What the courts published. The text of tentative rulings for your hearings, read from the court's own public website, with the time we found each one.
• A record of what we sent you. Which alert went to which address, when, and whether the mail provider accepted and delivered it.

We do not ask for, and have nowhere to put, anything about your clients, your files or the merits of your matters.

This is shorter than most policies' equivalent section because there is genuinely nothing in this category.

• No analytics. There is no Google Analytics, no product analytics, no session recording and no error-reporting service. Nobody is measuring what you click.
• No advertising or tracking pixels, and no third-party scripts of any kind on any page.
• No selling or sharing your information, for advertising or anything else. There is no mechanism by which we could.
• No cookies beyond signing you in. The only cookies set are the ones that hold your session. Nothing tracks you between visits or between sites.

A tentative ruling is a public court record. Anyone can read the ones we read. What is not public is the association — that you are watching a particular case.

We use three providers. Each one only receives what it needs to do its job, and none of them are permitted to use it for anything else.

• Supabase hosts the database and handles signing in. Your data is stored in its Canadian region.
• Resend delivers the email. It therefore receives the contents of every alert, including case captions and ruling text, and the addresses it goes to.
• Vercel runs the site and keeps ordinary server logs.

When we fetch a court's calendar, we request the whole public page for a department and match your case locally. The courts are never told whose case is being watched.

Routine check records — the ones that say “the court has not published yet” — are deleted after 14 days. Check records that mean something went wrong, or that a ruling was found, are kept for 180 days.

Everything else — your account, your tracked cases and their rulings, and the log of alerts we sent — is kept for as long as your account exists, because it is the history the service is for. We do not set an expiry on it. When you close your account it is deleted, as below.

You can close your account yourself, from Settings. It asks you to type your email address back, and then it is immediate and complete: your profile, every case and hearing you tracked, every ruling collected for them, and the log of alerts sent to you are all removed. There is no soft delete and nothing is retained for later.

Backups held by our database provider are purged on their own schedule rather than instantly.

We do not yet have a self-serve export. If you want a copy of everything we hold about you, email us and we will send it.

You can nominate a second address — usually a paralegal or an associate — to receive copies of your alerts. That address then receives case captions, case numbers and ruling text for the matters you track.

• By entering it you confirm you are entitled to send that person this material.
• We store it only as part of your preferences, and it is deleted with your account.
• We do not use it for anything else — no marketing, and no separate account is created for it.
• You can remove it at any time from Settings. If that person asks us directly to stop, we will remove it and tell you.

Separately from your cases, we read and keep the tentative rulings that the 13 counties we cover publish each day, whether or not anyone is watching them. Those are public court documents. That collection contains no information about you, is not linked to any account, and is used to run the service — confirming that a case number is real, and measuring how far ahead each department publishes.

Access to your data is enforced in the database itself, so one attorney's cases cannot be read through another's session. Traffic is encrypted in transit. Only the operator has administrative access.

If personal information is ever exposed, we will tell affected users as required by California law, and we will tell you what happened rather than the minimum we can get away with.

If this document changes materially we will update the date at the top and email account holders before the change takes effect. Past versions are available on request.

See also the Terms of Service, which cover what the service does and does not promise.