Terms of Service

Last updated 5 October 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and ElectionsMCP, 3101 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto, CA 94306 ("ElectionsMCP", "we", "us"). They govern your use of our website, web application and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (the "service"). By creating an account or using the service you agree to them. If you accept them for an organization, you confirm that you have authority to bind it, and "you" means that organization.

Please read section 5 if you intend to upload voter files, donor records or membership lists — the responsibility for that data stays with you. Section 15 requires most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration and waives class actions; it explains how to opt out.

1. What the service is

ElectionsMCP is a scenario calculator for U.S. elections. It applies your assumptions about swing and turnout on top of published election results and shows you the outcome on a map, at whatever geography you choose. It can be driven by a person in a browser or by an AI agent over the Model Context Protocol.

It is not a forecast, a projection, or a prediction. Numbers the product shows you are the arithmetic consequence of inputs you or your team supplied. Where we display official results we say so and name the source; where we lack data we say that too, rather than estimating. Do not present our output as a forecast, and do not rely on it as one. The service does not give legal, compliance, campaign-finance or election-law advice.

The service is in alpha. You get full access while we finish building it: the core modeling loop works, and features and surfaces will change — sometimes daily. Where something is unfinished we aim to say so in the product rather than let it mislead. Individual features may additionally be marked beta or preview; those are provided as-is, may change or be withdrawn, and are excluded from any commitment we make about the service.

2. Your account

You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract to use the service. You must give us accurate account information and keep it current. You are responsible for what happens under your account, for the people you invite into your workspace, and for the AI assistants and API keys you connect to it. Sign-in is by one-time email link or code, or with Google — keep access to your email, your Google account and your API keys secure, and tell us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.

3. Acceptable use

Do not use the service to break the law, to infringe someone's rights, or to attack the platform or other customers. Specifically, do not:

upload data you do not have the right to upload, or use data in a way its licence forbids;
attempt to reach another customer's workspace, campaign or data;
probe, scan or load-test the service without our written permission;
scrape, bulk-extract or resell the service or its data, or use it to build a competing product;
reverse engineer the service, or get around its usage limits, plan entitlements or security controls;
share an account or API key outside the seats your plan includes;
present modelled output as official results, certified returns, or a forecast;
use the service to mislead voters about when, where or how to vote, or otherwise to interfere with an election;
use the service to harass, intimidate or unlawfully target any person.

You are responsible for complying with the election, campaign-finance, privacy and communications laws that apply to your work, including any rules on contacting voters.

4. Your content

Everything you create or upload ("your content") stays yours. You grant us only the licence we need to run the service for you — to host, store, process, transmit and display your content to you and to the people you have given access, and to back it up. We do not sell your content, use it to train models, or use it to improve the product for anyone else.

You confirm that you have the rights needed to grant this licence, and that your content does not break the law or infringe anyone's rights.

5. Data you bring — voter files, donor records, membership lists

This is the section that matters if you import third-party data. You warrant that you have the right to upload every dataset you bring, and that our processing of it on your behalf is permitted by whatever licence, contract or law governs it.

Commercial voter files, donor databases and similar products are typically licensed on terms that restrict who may hold and access them. Those terms are between you and your provider. Before you upload such data, it is your responsibility to confirm that your licence permits a hosted service to process it on your behalf, and to obtain any consent or notification your provider or the law requires.

For this data you are the controller and we are your processor. We process your imported data only on your instructions and to provide the service to you, we scope it to your workspace and to the campaign it belongs to, and we delete it when you ask. Our security page describes the controls, and our privacy policy describes the vendors involved.

6. Plans, payment and trials

Paid plans are billed in advance through Stripe on the interval shown at checkout, and renew automatically until cancelled. You authorize us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method for each renewal. Where a free trial is offered, its length is stated before you subscribe, and the plan converts to paid at the end of it unless you cancel first.

You can cancel at any time from your account. Cancellation stops the next renewal; your workspace stays available until the end of the period already paid for. Fees are non-refundable except where these terms or the law say otherwise. Prices do not include taxes; you are responsible for any sales, use or similar taxes, other than taxes on our income.

If a payment fails, we may suspend paid features after giving you notice and a chance to update your payment method. We may change prices; we will give at least 30 days' notice before a change affects an existing subscription, and the new price applies from your next renewal.

Entitlements — how many campaigns or seats a plan includes — are shown in the product and enforced by it.

7. Our data and intellectual property

The service, the software, the interface, our models, our compilations of public election data, and our names and logos are owned by ElectionsMCP and its licensors and are protected by intellectual-property law. Except for the limited right to use the service under these terms, we grant you no rights in them. Underlying official results are public records, and third-party datasets remain the property of their providers on their own terms.

You may share and publish maps and reports you produce, and they must carry the attribution the product generates — which includes the "not a forecast" framing and the as-of date.

Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or payment to you.

Usage data. We may collect and use data about how the service is used — not your content — to operate, secure and improve the service, and may use it in aggregated or de-identified form for any lawful purpose.

Customer list. We may name your organization as a customer, using your name and logo, in our customer lists. Write to [email protected] and we will stop.

8. Third-party services and data

The service draws on data from election offices and from vendors such as RoutPoint, and it can connect to third-party services you choose, such as an AI assistant or a Google Sheet. We do not control those parties and are not responsible for their services, their data or their terms. Third-party data can be late, incomplete or wrong; we show its source and date where we can.

9. Availability, changes and suspension

We aim to keep the service running and to be candid when it is not, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free availability, and we do not offer a contractual uptime commitment unless we sign one with you. We may change or discontinue features; if we discontinue something you depend on, we will give reasonable notice and a way to export your work.

We may suspend your access, in whole or in part, if we reasonably believe that your use breaches these terms, puts the service or other customers at risk, or must stop to comply with law. Where practical we will tell you first, explain why, and restore access once the problem is fixed.

10. Disclaimers

The service is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that modelled output, official or third-party data, or AI-generated summaries are accurate, complete, current or predictive of any election result — modelled output is a calculation on assumptions you supplied, and decisions you make with it are yours.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill or data, even if told they were possible. Our total liability arising out of or relating to these terms or the service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim and (b) one hundred U.S. dollars. These limits apply whatever the legal theory, and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They do not limit your payment obligations, your obligations under section 12, or liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless ElectionsMCP and its officers, employees and agents from claims, losses, liabilities and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from: data you upload without the right to do so, or your use of data in breach of the terms it came with; your content; your use of the service in breach of these terms; or your breach of any law, including election, campaign-finance, privacy and communications law. We will tell you promptly about a claim, let you control its defence, and give reasonable help at your cost; you may not settle a claim that imposes an obligation on us without our consent.

13. Termination

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account that materially breaches these terms, ordinarily after notice and an opportunity to fix the problem, or immediately for non-payment after notice, serious abuse, or where the law requires. We may also end the service, or your account, for any reason on 30 days' notice; if we do so without cause, we will refund any prepaid fees for the unused period.

On termination you may export your content for 30 days, after which we delete it as described in the privacy policy. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including 4 to 7 (as to ownership and payment), 10 to 12, 15 and 16 — survive it.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will notify account holders of material changes by email at least 15 days before they take effect, and reflect them in the date above; changes required by law or to address security may take effect sooner. If you keep using the service after a change takes effect, you accept it. If you do not agree, stop using the service and cancel.

15. Disputes: informal resolution and arbitration

Try us first. Before filing a claim, each party agrees to send the other a written description of the dispute and to try in good faith to resolve it for 30 days. Send yours to [email protected] and to our postal address.

Arbitration. If we cannot resolve it, any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will be resolved by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, in Santa Clara County, California, or by video conference. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

Class-action waiver. Each party may bring claims against the other only in its individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate claims or preside over any representative proceeding.

Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek an injunction in court to stop infringement or misuse of its intellectual property or the service.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this section by emailing [email protected] within 30 days of first accepting these terms, with your name, account email and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable for a claim, that claim will proceed in court under section 16, not in arbitration.

16. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act as to section 15. Subject to section 15, the state and federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising from them, and each party consents to that jurisdiction.

17. General

Entire agreement. These terms, the privacy policy, and any order form or written agreement we sign with you are the whole agreement about the service. If a signed agreement conflicts with these terms, the signed agreement controls.
Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets.
Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including outages of third-party providers, other than a failure to pay.
Export and sanctions. You may not use the service in breach of U.S. export-control or sanctions law, or from a sanctioned country or as a sanctioned person.
Notices. We may send you notices by email to your account address or in the product. You must send legal notices to [email protected] and to ElectionsMCP, 3101 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto, CA 94306.
Time limit for claims against us. To the extent the law allows, any claim you bring against ElectionsMCP arising out of or relating to these terms or the service must be filed within one year after it arises, or it is permanently barred. This time limit applies only to claims against ElectionsMCP; claims by ElectionsMCP are subject to the time limits set by applicable law.
Severability and waiver. If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent allowed and the rest remains in effect. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
Relationship. The parties are independent contractors. These terms create no agency, partnership or joint venture, and no third-party beneficiaries.

18. Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected], or ElectionsMCP, 3101 Park Boulevard, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States.