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LegalTerms of Servicev5.0.0
Effective: October 7, 2026View current versionPrivacy Policy

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Terms of Service

Quick summary

  • Ledger is a nonpartisan public results board for public-policy polls. Each policy poll is a current policy question tied to a sourced news story, and each race poll asks who you expect to win a 2026 federal race. Ledger doesn't endorse candidates, campaigns, parties, or positions.
  • Anyone can read the board. You need an account, and you need to be 18 and a US resident, to answer polls or react to them.
  • Your answers are private; the results are public. Your individual answer is never shown to anyone else. Aggregate results are public to every visitor once a poll reaches a minimum number of responses.
  • Polls are not scientific surveys. Results show how Ledger's signed-in users answered, not how the country thinks.
  • Don't abuse the board. No automated voting, duplicate accounts, scraping, or attempts to get around Ledger's technical limits.
  • Optional profile questions. The profile page can record gender, an age range, a 5-digit ZIP, and a political leaning. Every question is optional. Ledger stores a ZIP as entered and does not resolve a state or district. Those answers stay on the account: they are not shown next to a vote, and they do not change which polls or sources you see.
  • You can delete your account by emailing the support address on the contact page.
  • Material changes to these Terms ask you to accept the new version the next time you sign in.

1. About Ledger

Ledger is operated by Ledger, Inc. (placeholder — entity formation pending; the final legal name, state of incorporation, and registered-agent address will appear here once finalized). You can reach Ledger through the contact page.

Ledger publishes public-policy polls on a public board at ledger.vote. Each policy poll presents a current policy question as a news story — the source's own headline, a neutral description of what the policy does, and a link to the source — and asks for a two-way answer. Race polls ask who you expect to win a U.S. Senate or House race; their choices are the candidates on the state's certified list. Founders at Ledger review and approve every poll before it appears.

These Terms govern your use of Ledger at ledger.vote. The Ledger iOS app is covered by its own Terms, linked above. Ledger has no paid tier.

2. Eligibility

Anyone may read the board without an account. To create an account you must be:

  • At least 18 years old. Ledger is not designed for children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
  • A legal resident of the United States. Ledger's polls concern US public policy, and its compliance posture assumes US residency.
  • Signing up for one account per person. Duplicate accounts, bot accounts, and impersonation accounts are not permitted.

3. Your account

You can create an account with an email address and a password, in which case Ledger emails you a 6-digit code to confirm the address is yours. You can also sign in with a 6-digit code emailed to you instead of a password, or with Google.

An account holds your email address and a display name, set at sign-up from your Google profile name or the part of your email address before "@". The profile page does not edit the display name.

The profile page asks four optional questions: gender, an age range, a 5-digit ZIP, and a political leaning. Every question can be left blank. Gender, age range, and leaning include Prefer not to say; leaning also includes Something else. Ledger stores a ZIP as entered and does not resolve a state or district from it. Choosing Prefer not to say for the ZIP stores no digits. These answers stay on the account. They are not recorded on a poll answer, not shown next to a vote, and not used to choose which polls or sources the account sees. You can change or clear them at any time.

You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials confidential. If you believe someone else has accessed your account, contact Ledger through the contact page.

Deleting your account. To delete your account, email the support address on the contact page from the email address on the account. Deletion removes your profile, your optional profile answers, your poll answers, your reactions, and your record of accepting these Terms and the Privacy Policy — see the Privacy Policy for the full scope.

4. Acceptable use

Ledger is built around neutrality, accuracy, and honest counts. When you use Ledger you agree not to:

  • Manipulate results — through automation, scripts, multiple accounts, coordinated inauthentic answering, or any other way of recording answers that do not reflect one real person's view.
  • Scrape, systematically copy, or reverse-engineer Ledger's data, interface, or APIs beyond ordinary reading of the public board. Rate limits apply.
  • Impersonate candidates, campaigns, elected officials, other people, or Ledger staff.
  • Harass anyone through reactions or any other surface Ledger provides.
  • Circumvent rate limits, sign-in flows, or any technical measure Ledger uses to keep the service running fairly.
  • Use Ledger to send spam, distribute malware, or attack any system.

Violations can result in a warning, account suspension, or termination, at Ledger's discretion.

5. Polls and reactions

  • Answering. When you answer a poll, Ledger records one answer per poll for your account. You can change it while the poll is open; the last answer counts. A poll stops accepting answers when it closes.
  • Founders' answers. Ledger's founders answer polls like anyone else, and each answer counts once.
  • Reactions. You can add one emoji reaction per poll, and change or remove it while the poll is open. Reactions are separate from your answer and never change a result.
  • What others see. Nobody else sees your individual answer or reaction. The board shows aggregate results — the split, the number of responses, charts over time, and reaction counts — to every visitor, whether or not they have answered. The split, chart, and 24-hour movement are held back until the poll has at least 10 responses; each emoji reaction count is shown only once at least 10 accounts have used that emoji on that poll. The number of responses is shown only once the poll has at least 10; below 100 it is rounded down to a multiple of 5.
  • Closed polls. When a poll closes, its last published result stays on the board.
  • Not a survey. Poll results reflect the people who chose to answer on Ledger. They are not a scientific sample, a prediction, or an endorsement of any position.

6. How polls are made

Every poll starts from a news story or public record at a source Ledger has vetted, and is written to a neutral standard. Ledger uses AI models (Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's models today) inside its own review and publishing process — to help founders draft proposed polls, to check each proposed policy poll against Ledger's editorial rules, to give an advisory screen of stock photographs before a person vets them, and to choose which already-vetted library photograph accompanies a poll — but no model publishes anything: a Ledger founder reviews and approves every poll before it appears. A poll about a race, whose options are the candidates on the state's certified list, is instead checked against that list, and no model is involved. Ledger has no AI assistant or chat feature, and nothing you enter is sent to an AI model. The editorial rules are in the AI Policy.

Poll questions and summaries can contain errors. If you find one — or anything that reads as biased — report it through the contact page.

7. Your content

You retain ownership of your answers and reactions. By using Ledger you grant Ledger a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store and process them to run the service — counting them into aggregate results, showing you your own answers, and publishing aggregate results as described in §5 and §8.

Ledger doesn't use your content to train AI models — not its own, and not anyone else's.

8. Social posts

Ledger mirrors published policy polls and their aggregate results to its own accounts on X, Instagram, and Facebook; race polls are not posted. A Ledger founder approves every post. Posts carry only the poll's question, its source, and aggregate results, plus the poll's summary in an Instagram caption — and a results post is made only once a poll has at least 50 responses. No post ever identifies you or your answer.

9. Account suspension and termination

Ledger may suspend or terminate an account if:

  • The account breaches these Terms, including the acceptable-use rules in §4.
  • Ledger detects fraud, abuse, or credential compromise.
  • A government or legal order requires it.
  • The service is wound down, in which case Ledger gives reasonable notice.

Serious violations may be actioned without prior warning. For less severe issues Ledger will typically warn first. If you believe your account was suspended or terminated in error, contact Ledger through the contact page and Ledger will review it.

10. Disclaimers

Ledger is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

  • Ledger does not warrant the accuracy or timeliness of poll content or results. Sources have their own errors and corrections.
  • Neutrality is a commitment, not a perfection guarantee. Ledger works to avoid partisan framing and acknowledges that no editorial process is completely free of bias. Report a specific concern through the contact page and Ledger will investigate.
  • Third-party links are not endorsements. A link to a news source or public record does not imply agreement with it.
  • Poll results are informational, not predictions, endorsements, or measurements of public opinion at large.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ledger and its officers, employees, and contractors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of the service. Ledger's total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to US $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages; in those jurisdictions, Ledger's liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify Ledger against claims arising from your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the service. Ledger will indemnify you against third-party intellectual-property claims targeting the Ledger service itself.

13. Dispute resolution and governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Binding individual arbitration. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of Ledger will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by a recognized US arbitration provider (such as the American Arbitration Association) under its consumer arbitration rules, rather than in court. The arbitration will be conducted in English and may be held remotely or, if required by the arbitrator, in your state of residence. Judgment on the arbitrator's award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Small-claims carve-out. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, provided the claim qualifies under that court's rules.

Class-action waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party waives the right to bring or participate in any class, collective, or representative action. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims from multiple users and may not preside over any form of representative proceeding.

Consumer-protection floor. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable statutory rights you have under applicable state or federal consumer-protection law.

14. Changes to these Terms

Ledger will update these Terms as the product changes. When Ledger makes a material change — anything beyond a typo fix, a clarifying sentence, or a stylistic edit — Ledger will publish the new version at /legal/terms, list it with a summary at /legal, and ask you to accept it the next time you sign in after it takes effect. Continuing to use Ledger after that means you accept the new version.

Ledger publishes only the current version. The version history is summarized at /legal, and the full text of any earlier version is available on request to the support address on the contact page.

15. Contact

Questions, concerns, and legal notices can reach Ledger through the contact page. For formal service of process, a physical notice address will appear here once Ledger's entity formation is complete.

16. Effective date and version

  • Version: v5.0.0
  • Effective date: October 7, 2026
  • Prior versions: v4.0.0, v3.0.0, v2.0.0, v1.0.0.

What changed in v5.0.0. The profile page asks four optional questions: gender, an age range, a 5-digit ZIP, and a political leaning. Every question can be left blank, changed, or cleared. Ledger stores a ZIP as entered and does not resolve a state or district from it. Those answers stay on the account. They are not recorded on a poll answer, not shown next to a vote, and they do not change which polls or sources you see. The display name is set at sign-up and is not edited on the profile page. Deleting the account removes the optional answers. This is a material change, so Ledger asks you to accept it the next time you sign in.