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What we collect, why, and your choices. Last updated 2026-09-02.
Most of BenchPath — search, rules, judge directory, workflows, coverage — works with no account and collects no personal data about you. Personal data enters only when you choose to create an account, save a matter, follow something, or submit a report. We do not sell personal data, and we do not run third-party advertising trackers.
Account: email and authentication data when you sign up. Your work: matters you create (which may include a client name, case number, county, and case type you enter), the judges/rules you follow, and alert preferences. Contributions: the content of any correction or ruling report you submit, plus an optional email and, if you provide it, a case number or bar number. Operational: standard server logs and aggregate analytics needed to run and secure the service.
Do not submit privileged, sealed, confidential, juvenile, or protected-victim information through any form. Do not enter more personal data into a matter than you need. For judges and judicial assistants, BenchPath stores only official professional contact information published by a court — never residential addresses, personal phone numbers, dates of birth, or family details.
BenchPath's browser application holds no server secret: public pages use a publishable key, server routes use scoped server-only secrets that are never exposed under a public name, and access to your private data (matters, follows, alerts, profile) is enforced at the database by row-level security so that you — and only you — can read your own records. Authorization attributes are server-controlled and cannot be changed by an ordinary account.
To provide the service you asked for: authenticate you, generate and save your matters, deliver alerts you subscribe to, triage your reports, and keep the service secure and reliable. Contributed reports may be used, in de-identified and reviewed form, to improve the accuracy of published entries; a single report is never turned into a published judicial tendency.
Account and matter data are kept while your account is active. You may request deletion or export of your personal data through the contact channel; we will honor it subject to any legal-hold or fraud-prevention needs. Reporter identifiers on contributions are kept separately from any published content and are not published by default.
We share personal data only with the providers needed to run the service, each under its own terms: Vercel (hosting), Supabase (database and authentication), Square (payment processing — card details are entered on Square's own checkout and never touch BenchPath infrastructure; BenchPath keeps the order reference and your resulting access), and Resend (transactional email to your own address). When you use an AI-assisted analysis feature, the AI provider receives the court-record material and case context needed for that analysis — never your account identity. We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with advertisers, and where the law requires disclosure we disclose only what is required.
Use BenchPath without an account for anything public. Decline optional fields on any form. Request access, export, correction, deletion, restriction, or objection from the requests panel below (sign in first); each request carries a 30-day response deadline. Report a privacy concern — including a judicial-PII removal request — through the corrections process, which has an expedited lane.
File an access, export, correction, deletion, restriction, or objection request from your account. Each request carries a 30-day response deadline; the privacy team replies to your account email and never asks you for a password.
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