The letter tool
Your name, address and letter stay in your browser. They are never sent to us. Your draft is saved in your browser’s local storage so you can come back to it; the “Clear my details” button deletes it. When you copy your letter and paste it into a senator’s contact form, that goes to the senator’s office, under their own privacy policy.
Email updates (only if you sign up)
If you tick the box and sign up, we store your email, first name, state and ZIP, and when you signed up. We use them only to email you about Senate and House leadership votes and related ways to take action, and to know roughly where our readers are. We never store your street address or the text of your letter. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
The community board (only if you post)
To post, you sign in with Google. We see your Google name and email, but we show only your first name and the state you pick next to your post. Your post text is sent to Anthropic’s Claude AI to check it against the house rules before it appears; Anthropic doesn’t use it to train models. We keep a private record of which account wrote each post so we can remove spam and ban abusive accounts. Reports are anonymous.
Spam and abuse protection
To stop bots, the page uses Google’s reCAPTCHA (through Firebase App Check), which is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms. To limit how often someone can submit, we briefly keep a scrambled (hashed) form of your IP address; those records delete themselves within a few days. When you report a post, we keep a one-way code made from your IP and that post (not your IP itself) so the same person can’t report one post over and over.
Who handles your data
- Google Firebase hosts the site and stores sign-ups and posts (in the U.S.).
- Google Fonts serves the page’s fonts.
- Anthropic checks board posts for rule-breaking.
No analytics, ad trackers or tracking cookies. We don’t sell, rent or share your information with campaigns, parties or anyone else.
Deleting your data
Email writeyourleaders@gmail.com and we’ll delete your sign-up, your posts, or both, usually within a few days.
Who runs this site
Write Your Leaders is a free volunteer project run by Sean. Questions: writeyourleaders@gmail.com.
Last updated November 2026.