This Privacy Policy describes how Congress Pings, operated by The Greenway Group ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), collects, uses, and protects information about you when you use our service.
We collect the minimum data necessary to operate the service. We do not sell your personal information. We do not share it with advertisers. We use it only to deliver the service you subscribed to.
We collect only what is necessary to provide the service:
| Data Type | Why We Collect It | Who Handles It |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | To send you onboarding instructions and service communications | The Greenway Group |
| Payment information (card number, billing address) |
To process your monthly subscription | Stripe, Inc. — we never see or store your card details |
| Telegram username (if configuring Telegram alerts) | To deliver alerts to your chosen platform | The Greenway Group |
| Subscription status | To determine whether your account is active | The Greenway Group |
We do not collect your legal name, home address, phone number, date of birth, or any other personal identifiers beyond those listed above.
Your information is used exclusively for the following purposes:
We do not use your data for advertising, marketing to third parties, or any purpose other than operating Congress Pings.
Subscriber information — including email address, Telegram username (if applicable), and subscription status — is stored in a secured private database maintained by The Greenway Group. This database is not publicly accessible and is used solely by our alert delivery system.
We do not store your payment card number, CVV, or full billing address. All payment data is tokenized and stored by Stripe, Inc. under their own security and compliance standards (Stripe is PCI DSS Level 1 certified).
We retain your data for as long as your subscription is active. Upon cancellation, your data is retained for up to 90 days for operational purposes, then deleted.
We use a small number of third-party services to operate Congress Pings:
| Service | Purpose | Data Shared |
|---|---|---|
| Stripe, Inc. | Payment processing | Email, payment details. Governed by Stripe's Privacy Policy. |
| Telegram | Alert delivery | Your Telegram username is used to deliver messages. Governed by Telegram's Privacy Policy. |
| Discord, Inc. | Coming soon — not yet active at launch | No Discord data is collected at this time. When Discord alert delivery is added, this row will be updated and the Effective Date of this policy will change. |
| U.S. House of Representatives (house.gov) | Data sourcing — we directly retrieve publicly available STOCK Act disclosure filings from the official House Clerk XML feed (disclosures-clerk.house.gov). No account or relationship is required; this is a public government data source. | No subscriber data is transmitted to or shared with house.gov. We only read publicly available government records. |
We do not sell or share your personal information with any other third parties, including advertisers, data brokers, or analytics platforms.
The Congress Pings website does not use advertising cookies, third-party tracking pixels, or behavioral analytics tools. We do not track your browsing activity across other websites.
Stripe may set cookies on our payment pages as part of their fraud detection and payment processing systems. These are governed by Stripe's own privacy policy.
You have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at GreenwayGroup@Proton.Me. We will respond within 30 days.
Congress Pings is intended for users 18 years of age and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we become aware that we have collected data from a minor, we will delete it promptly.
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, loss, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
In the event of a data breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page and notify active subscribers by email if the changes are material. Continued use of Congress Pings after any update constitutes acceptance of the new policy.
For any questions, concerns, or requests related to this Privacy Policy or your personal data, contact us at:
The Greenway Group
Email: GreenwayGroup@Proton.Me