Civic Forge Solutions — Terms of Service

Last updated: July 7, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Civic Forge Solutions LLC (“Civic Forge,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) and govern your access to and use of our website at civicforge.solutions, its content, our free public election-data tools and maps, our blog and articles, and any related services we provide (collectively, the “Site”).

Our subscription product, CivicFS Pro, is also governed by the additional terms in Part B, which apply on top of these general Terms whenever you access or use CivicFS Pro.

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

Part A — General Terms (All Visitors)

1. The Site

The Site is the online presence of Civic Forge Solutions, a political consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. It provides marketing and informational content about our work, a blog and articles, and free, publicly accessible tools that present Georgia election data — including election results, early-vote and turnout data, and interactive maps. Most of the Site is available without an account. Features and content may change or be discontinued at any time.

2. Eligibility

The Site is intended for adults and for use in connection with U.S. elections and civic information. By using the Site you represent that you are able to form a binding contract and that your use complies with applicable law.

3. Acceptable Use

When using the Site, you agree not to:

use the Site for any unlawful purpose or in violation of any applicable law;
scrape, crawl, harvest, or use bots or automated means to extract content or data, or place unreasonable load on our systems, except as expressly permitted (for example, by our published API endpoints used as intended);
circumvent, disable, or interfere with security, access controls, or rate limits, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system or data;
copy, redistribute, resell, or commercially exploit Site content or data except as expressly permitted, or use it to build a competing product or dataset;
reverse engineer or attempt to access non-public portions of the Site; or
upload or transmit malware or otherwise disrupt or compromise the Site’s integrity, security, or performance.

4. Intellectual Property

The Site and its content — including text, articles, graphics, design, software, and the selection, arrangement, and presentation of data — are owned by Civic Forge or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable license to access and view the Site for your personal or internal informational use. Election and other source data may originate from public records and third-party sources and may be subject to those sources’ terms. You may share links to public pages and make reasonable, attributed reference to published content, but you may not otherwise reproduce or redistribute the Site or its data without permission.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions, ideas, or other feedback about the Site or CivicFS Pro, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it for any purpose without restriction or obligation to you.

5. Data Accuracy; No Guarantees

Election results, early-vote and turnout figures, precinct and district geometry, demographic estimates, and any modeled or forecasted values presented on the Site are derived from public records and third-party sources and are inherently subject to error, revision, incomplete reporting, and change. We do not warrant that any data, map, estimate, or content is accurate, complete, current, or fit for any purpose. The Site is provided for general informational purposes and is not a substitute for official government records or professional advice. Independently verify any data before relying on it.

6. Third-Party Services and Links

The Site relies on third-party service providers to operate, such as mapping and geocoding. The vendors and sub-processors we use are identified in our Vendor & Sub-Processor List at https://civicforge.solutions/legal/vendors. We also use privacy-focused, first-party analytics that does not use cookies or collect personal information. The Site may link to third-party websites and social media (such as our Bluesky profile). We are not responsible for third-party services or the content of linked sites, and your use of them is governed by their own terms.

7. Contacting Us

If you contact us by email, phone, or social media, you do so voluntarily. Please do not send us confidential, sensitive, or regulated personal information through these channels. Contacting us does not create a consulting, client, or other professional relationship unless separately agreed in writing.

8. Disclaimers

THE SITE AND ALL CONTENT AND DATA ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranties regarding accuracy, availability, or uninterrupted or error-free operation, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CIVIC FORGE AND ITS AFFILIATES AND PERSONNEL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR ELECTORAL OR STRATEGIC OUTCOMES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE. For the free, non-paid portions of the Site, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we have no liability to you whatsoever. (For CivicFS Pro, the limitation in Part B, Section B-12 applies.) Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you.

10. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Civic Forge and its affiliates and personnel from any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to your use of the Site, your violation of these Terms, your misuse of any data obtained through the Site, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

11. Availability, Changes, and No Service-Level Guarantee

We may modify, update, suspend, limit, or discontinue the Site or any of its features, content, or data at any time, with or without notice. We do not guarantee that the Site will be available, uninterrupted, or error-free, and we provide no service-level or uptime commitment for any free portion of the Site. We may perform maintenance that makes the Site temporarily unavailable. (Any service-level terms specific to CivicFS Pro, if offered, will be stated at purchase.)

12. Copyright and DMCA Notices

We respect intellectual property rights and expect users to do the same. If you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, you may send a notice to our designated agent at [email protected] with: (a) identification of the copyrighted work; (b) identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location; (c) your contact information; (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and you are authorized to act; and (f) your physical or electronic signature. We may remove allegedly infringing material and terminate repeat infringers.

13. Export Controls and Sanctions

The Site is provided from the United States and is subject to U.S. export-control and sanctions laws. You represent and warrant that you are not located in, or a national or resident of, any country or region subject to U.S. embargo or sanctions, that you are not on any U.S. government restricted-party or sanctioned-party list, and that you will not access or use the Site in violation of any applicable export-control or sanctions law.

14. Governing Law; Dispute Resolution; Arbitration

Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.

Informal resolution first. Before filing a claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting us at [email protected] and allowing at least thirty (30) days to resolve it.

Binding arbitration. Except as provided below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Site that is not resolved informally will be settled by final and binding arbitration administered by a recognized arbitration provider under its applicable rules, before a single arbitrator, seated in Georgia (or conducted remotely, as the arbitrator directs). Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver. You and Civic Forge agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims or preside over any form of a class or representative proceeding.

Exceptions. Either party may (a) bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies, and (b) seek injunctive or equitable relief in the state or federal courts located in Georgia for infringement or misuse of intellectual property or for unauthorized access to the Site; you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts for such purposes.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by notifying us in writing at [email protected] within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms; if you opt out, the governing-law and Georgia-venue provisions still apply.

15. Electronic Communications and Notices

By using the Site or CivicFS Pro, you consent to receive communications from us electronically — including notices, agreements, and disclosures — and you agree that electronic communications satisfy any legal requirement that a communication be in writing. We may provide notices to you by email, by posting on the Site, or through the Service; notices to us must be sent to [email protected]. You are responsible for keeping your contact information current.

16. Force Majeure

We are not liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, governmental action, power or network failures, or failures or disruptions of third-party services or infrastructure.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be indicated by an updated “Last updated” date and, where appropriate, additional notice. Your continued use of the Site after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

18. General

These Terms (together with the Privacy Policy and, for CivicFS Pro, Part B and any order or plan details) are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

19. Contact

Civic Forge Solutions LLC — Atlanta, Georgia Email: [email protected] Website: https://civicforge.solutions

Part B — Additional Terms for CivicFS Pro

These additional terms apply whenever you access or use CivicFS Pro (“Pro”), our paid subscription platform for Georgia campaign intelligence. Part B supplements Part A. If there is a conflict between Part A and Part B with respect to Pro, Part B controls. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meaning given in Part A.

B-1. The Pro Service

CivicFS Pro is a subscription political and electoral data-intelligence platform focused on Georgia elections. It provides tools that may include district and precinct maps, historical and current election results, early-vote and turnout data, geographic and demographic analysis, saved views and exports, and an AI-assisted analysis assistant (“Scout”). Features, data coverage, and availability may change over time. Pro is a decision-support tool provided for informational and strategic-planning purposes only.

B-2. Eligibility and Mission-Based Access Restriction

Eligibility. You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use Pro.

Mission-based restriction. Civic Forge builds and operates Pro to advance progressive ideals and to help Democratic and aligned movements win. Because Pro functions as a tool for political expression and organizing, we intentionally limit who may use it so that it is not used against the causes it is built to support. Accordingly, access to and use of Pro is reserved exclusively for:

(a) Democratic and aligned progressive candidates, campaigns, committees, and political action committees (PACs);

(b) academic and educational institutions;

(d) non-profit organizations, provided that any advocacy or lobbying conducted by a 501(c)(4) or similar organization does not support right-leaning causes and does not oppose progressive candidates.

Pro is not offered to, and may not be used by or for the benefit of, conservative, right-leaning, or opposing political efforts. You represent and warrant, on an ongoing basis, that you and your organization satisfy the eligibility criteria above and that you will not use Pro, directly or indirectly, to support, assist, or advance any candidate, committee, campaign, cause, or effort that opposes Democratic or aligned progressive candidates or causes.

Our discretion. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion and at any time, to review any account, request information about an account holder’s affiliations or intended use, and suspend, restrict, or terminate access to any user or organization we determine (or reasonably suspect) does not meet these eligibility criteria or otherwise uses Pro in a manner inconsistent with our mission. A determination under this Section may be made without prior notice and does not entitle you to a refund except as required by law or as expressly stated in Section B-5.

B-3. Accounts, Organizations, and Seats

To use Pro you must create an account and sign in. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login and for all activity under your account.

Pro is organized around organizations (workspaces). An organization may invite additional members up to its seat allotment and purchase additional seats. The person who creates or administers an organization (“Administrator”) is responsible for managing members, seats, and permissions, and for ensuring that every member complies with these Terms and the eligibility restriction in Section B-2. You agree to provide accurate account information and keep it current.

B-4. Subscriptions, Credits, and Fees

Subscription plans. Pro is offered as a recurring paid subscription that includes an allotment of credits and a number of seats. Additional seats and additional credits may be available for purchase. Current pricing, included credits, seat counts, available billing terms, and plan features are described at the point of purchase and may be updated prospectively.

Credits. Certain features — including Scout AI analysis and certain other features — consume credits. Included credits are provided with your subscription for the applicable billing term, and additional credits may be purchased. Unless expressly stated otherwise at purchase, credits are consumable, have no cash value, are non-transferable, and expire at the end of the applicable term or subscription. We may adjust the credit cost of any feature.

Billing and renewal. Subscriptions bill in advance on a recurring basis according to the billing term you select and automatically renew for successive terms until cancelled. By subscribing, you authorize us and our payment processor to charge your payment method on each renewal date at the then-current rate for your plan.

Payment processing. Payments are processed by our third-party payment processor, identified in our Vendor & Sub-Processor List. We do not store your full payment card details; those are handled by the payment processor subject to its terms and privacy policy.

Taxes. Depending on your location and local jurisdiction, applicable sales, use, VAT, or similar taxes may be added to and collected together with your fees. You are responsible for all such taxes, other than taxes based on our net income.

Price changes. We may change subscription prices, credit allotments, or seat pricing with reasonable advance notice of material changes; changes take effect on your next renewal.

B-5. Cancellation and Refunds

You may cancel or suspend your subscription at any time through the billing portal or by contacting us. Cancellation stops future renewals; it does not retroactively cancel the current term, and you retain access through the end of the paid term, after which paid features and access end.

No refunds except for unused credits. Except where required by applicable law, subscription and seat fees already paid are non-refundable, and cancelling does not entitle you to a refund or credit for the unused portion of a term. The one exception is unused credits: if you suspend your account, we may, on request, refund the value of your remaining unused credits, less a ten percent (10%) processing fee. Credits that have already been consumed, and any promotional or plan-included credits, are not refundable. No refund of any kind (including for credits) is owed where we suspend or terminate your account for breach of these Terms (including the eligibility restriction in Section B-2) or for other cause.

B-6. Acceptable Use of Pro

In addition to Part A, Section 3, you agree that you will not, and will not permit any member or third party to:

use Pro in violation of the eligibility restriction in Section B-2, or to support, assist, or benefit any conservative, right-leaning, or opposing political effort;
use Pro in any manner that violates election, campaign-finance, privacy, telemarketing, anti-spam, or data-protection laws;
use any voter, individual, or contact data obtained through or in connection with Pro to harass, intimidate, dox, threaten, defraud, or suppress the participation of any person or voter;
attempt to re-identify individuals from aggregated or de-identified data, or combine Pro data with other data in a manner prohibited by law or by the source data’s terms;
resell, sublicense, redistribute, or provide Pro or its underlying data to any third party, or use it to build or train a competing product or dataset, except as expressly permitted in writing;
circumvent usage limits, seat limits, access controls, or other technical restrictions; or
misrepresent your identity, affiliation, or eligibility.

You are solely responsible for your compliance with all laws applicable to your use of Pro and any data you obtain through it, including laws governing the use of voter files and personal information.

B-7. Your Content and Data

You may create content within Pro, such as saved maps, workspace configurations, chat threads and messages, saved “memories,” notes, and instructions (“Your Content”). As between you and us, you retain your rights in Your Content. You grant us a license to host, process, store, transmit, and display Your Content as necessary to operate and improve Pro and to provide features you request (such as generating AI analysis or exporting to connected third-party services). Our handling of personal information is described in the Privacy Policy. You are responsible for having the necessary rights to submit Your Content and must not upload personal information you are not permitted to use.

B-8. License to Outputs

Subject to these Terms and your payment of applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use Pro during your subscription term. You may use maps, tables, exports, and analyses generated for you (“Outputs”) for your own permitted campaign, organizational, academic, or personal purposes. Underlying data, models, and Pro itself are licensed, not sold, and remain our property or that of our licensors; public-source data may be subject to its originating source’s terms.

B-9. AI Features (“Scout”)

Pro includes AI-assisted features (“Scout”) that use third-party artificial-intelligence providers to generate analysis, summaries, and responses. To produce a response, your prompts and relevant context are sent to these providers.

Data handling by AI providers. We make reasonable efforts to select AI providers whose terms are designed to protect your information — for example, providers that offer options intended to limit or prevent the retention of your inputs or their use to train models. However, these providers are independent third parties that operate under their own terms and privacy policies, and we cannot guarantee or promise how any provider will handle, retain, or use data submitted to it. Do not submit information to Scout that you are not permitted or comfortable sharing with third-party AI providers.

Accuracy. AI outputs are generated probabilistically and may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading, and may misinterpret data. Do not rely on AI outputs as statements of fact or as professional, legal, or compliance advice without independent verification. You are responsible for how you use AI outputs.

B-10. Third-Party Services and Integrations

Pro relies on and integrates with third-party services for functions such as authentication, payment processing, and mapping and geocoding, along with optional integrations you may enable (such as connecting a Google account to export to Google Sheets or Google Maps). AI providers are addressed separately in Section B-9. The vendors we use for these functions are identified in our Vendor & Sub-Processor List at https://civicforge.solutions/legal/vendors. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that provider’s terms and privacy policy, and enabling an integration authorizes the associated data sharing described in the Privacy Policy. You may disconnect a connected Google account at any time in settings.

B-11. Programmatic and Third-Party Client Access (MCP)

Pro may allow you to access certain data and features programmatically or through third-party clients, applications, or AI agents — including via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar interfaces (“Third-Party Clients”). If you enable or use such access:

You are responsible for the Third-Party Clients you use and for all activity conducted through your credentials, access tokens, or connections, whether by you or by any application or agent you authorize. Keep your credentials and tokens confidential and do not share them.
These Terms continue to apply to all access to Pro through a Third-Party Client, including the eligibility restriction in Section B-2 and the acceptable-use terms in Section B-6.
Third-Party Clients are not operated or controlled by us. Your use of any Third-Party Client is governed by that client’s own terms and privacy policy, and we are not responsible for its behavior, security, or data practices.
Data leaves our control once you transmit it. When you request, export, or route Pro data to a Third-Party Client or agent, that data leaves our systems, and we are not responsible for how it is stored, used, disclosed, retained, or secured once it does. You are responsible for ensuring that any such client and its data handling comply with applicable law and with any terms governing the underlying data (including voter data).
Limits and revocation. We may impose rate limits, scopes, or other technical restrictions on programmatic access, and we may suspend, revoke, or disable such access at any time to protect Pro, other users, or the integrity of our mission, or for suspected misuse.

B-12. Suspension, Termination, and Liability Cap for Pro

We may suspend or terminate your access to Pro, in whole or in part, immediately and without liability, if: (a) you breach these Terms (including Section B-2 or B-6); (b) we determine or reasonably suspect you are ineligible under Section B-2; (c) required to protect Pro, other users, or third parties, or to comply with law; or (d) for non-payment. Upon termination your license and right to access Pro end, and we may delete Your Content as described in the Privacy Policy; export any data you wish to retain before your subscription ends.

For Pro, notwithstanding Part A, Section 9, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to Pro will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us for Pro in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100). The disclaimers and indemnification in Part A also apply to Pro, and the indemnification covers your violation of Section B-2 and B-6 and your misuse of any voter or personal data obtained through Pro.

B-13. Beta and Preview Features

We may make features, data sets, or tools available on a beta, preview, early-access, or evaluation basis (“Beta Features”), which may be labeled as such or otherwise identified as not generally available. Beta Features are provided “as is” and “as available,” may be incomplete, unstable, or changed or withdrawn at any time, and may have limited or no support. They may also produce inaccurate results and are excluded from any availability, performance, or accuracy expectation. Your use of Beta Features is at your own risk, and any feedback you provide may be used as described in Part A, Section 4 (Feedback).

B-14. Survival

Sections that by their nature should survive termination of your Pro subscription survive, including Sections B-2, B-5, B-8, B-9, B-11, and B-12, along with the general surviving provisions of Part A.