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Privacy Policy
What we collect, why, and your choices. Last updated 2026-07-21.
The short version
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.
What we collect
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.
What we do not want
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.
How your data is protected
BenchPath's application holds no server secret: public pages use a publishable key, 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.
How we use it
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.
Retention and deletion
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.
Sharing
We share personal data only with the infrastructure providers needed to run the service (hosting and database) under their terms, or where required by law. We do not sell it, and we do not share it with advertisers.
Your choices
Use BenchPath without an account for anything public. Decline optional fields on any form. Request access, correction, export, or deletion of your data. Report a privacy concern — including a judicial-PII removal request — through the corrections process, which has an expedited lane.
Related: terms of use, security, and corrections & data requests.