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Privacy policy
New Jersey Money Trail collects as little as possible: no accounts, forms or advertising, and Google Analytics only with your consent.
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Who runs this guide
New Jersey Money Trail is an independent public-interest guide to disclosed political money in New Jersey’s 2026 federal races, published by After Citizens United. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or funded by any government agency. This policy covers visits to newjerseymoneytrail.org.
What this site collects
This site asks for nothing that identifies you. It has no accounts, sign-ups, comment or contact forms, advertising or tracking pixels. Its pages, styles and fonts are static files. It runs no application server, database or logs of its own, and it never asks for your name or email address.
If you accept analytics in the cookie banner, Google Analytics counts your visit for us, as described below. If you decline or make no choice, it does not load.
The homepage’s “Find your district” box is the one place to type a street address, and this site never receives it. After you type six characters, your browser sends the partial address to aftercitizensunited.com to show up to five matching U.S. addresses; After Citizens United asks its suggestion service, Geoapify, and does not log or keep the text. When you search, your browser opens the district lookup on aftercitizensunited.com and carries the address in the part of the link after “#”, which browsers do not send to any server. That page fills in its own lookup form; the address is sent only when you submit it there, and After Citizens United then matches it with the U.S. Census Bureau. See the After Citizens United privacy policy.
Services that receive information
Like any website, a few services receive the information your browser sends with every request (network address, requested page, time, and browser and device details) so they can deliver what you asked for:
- Cloudflare hosts these pages and uses request information to deliver and protect the site. Cloudflare may also ask your browser to report failed network connections to it. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
- After Citizens United evidence cards. When a race card loads, your browser requests it from
aftercitizensunited.com. This site tells browsers not to send the address of the page you were reading. The cards run no scripts and set no cookies. See the After Citizens United privacy policy. - NewsFeedReader news feeds. Home and race pages request public RSS feeds from
newsfeedreader.com. The request sends your network address and browser details without account credentials, cookies, or the referring page address. News is kept only in page memory. See NewsFeedReader’s privacy policy. - News publishers. A news story can show the picture its publisher supplied. Your browser loads that picture directly from the publisher’s image server, and only for stories shown on the page. That server receives your network address and browser details, but not the address of the page you are reading. Opening an article takes you to its publisher. Each publisher’s own privacy policy applies.
- Google Analytics, only if you accept analytics. After you accept the Analytics category in the cookie banner, your browser loads Google’s tag from
googletagmanager.comand sends Google Analytics the page address and the previous page’s address without query strings or fragments, the page title, the time, and a random identifier kept in Google Analytics cookies. The request also carries your network address and browser and device details. We use it only to count visits and pages; Google signals and advertising personalization are turned off. If you decline or make no choice, it does not load. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services. - Cookie banner. The banner script is delivered by jsDelivr. Its configuration and your saved choice are handled by the project’s Probo service at
probo.asktq.org. When you make a choice, Probo receives a random visitor identifier, the banner version, your choice and categories, the time, and limited reports about the cookies and browser storage the page uses. The cookie policy lists what the banner stores.
Links to official election offices, the FEC and other sources open separate websites with their own privacy policies.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies of its own. The cookie banner stores your choice so it does not ask again. If you accept analytics, Google Analytics sets its own cookies here too. The cookie policy has the details.
Retention
This site keeps no visitor records. Cloudflare and After Citizens United keep request information under their own policies. Your banner choice stays in your browser for the period set in the banner, or until you clear site data. Undelivered banner reports are discarded after no more than 30 days.
Google keeps Analytics data for the retention period set in this project’s Google Analytics property and under Google’s terms. After you withdraw analytics consent, Google Analytics no longer loads; you can delete its cookies with your browser’s cookie and site-data controls.
No selling or advertising
We do not sell or share personal information, build advertising profiles or track you across other websites. Google Analytics, when you allow it, is used only to count visits.
Public records are different from reader data
This guide shows official political-disclosure records, which can name people and organizations that have never visited the site. To ask about a record or how it is presented, use the After Citizens United contact form. A correction changes how a record is interpreted or matched, not the official filing.
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Changes to this policy
When this policy changes in a material way, the effective date at the top of the page changes too.