Effective date: March 30, 2026. Last updated: July 10, 2026. This Privacy Policy describes how the operator, Completely Offensively LLC, of Docket Daily ("Operator," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares information when you use our websites, applications, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). It is written to reflect common practices under major U.S. state consumer privacy frameworks (for example California, Virginia, and Colorado) and other U.S. laws that may apply to you. Privacy laws and regulations vary by state and change over time. If you need legal advice for your situation, then always consult a qualified attorney. We will update this Policy when we materially change our practices.
1. Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we process in connection with the Service. It does not apply to information that is de-identified, aggregated, or excluded from "personal data" / "personal information" definitions under applicable law. If you interact with us only as an employee or representative of a business customer, additional terms in your agreement may apply.
2. Personal information we collect
Depending on how you use the Service, we may collect:
- Identifiers — such as name, email address, IP address, device identifiers, and account credentials.
- Commercial information — such as records of services purchased or considered.
- Payment verification data — when you add a payment method to the Service (for example before your trial ends or when starting a paid subscription), we may receive from our payment processor (Stripe) a tokenized card fingerprint associated with your payment method. This fingerprint is a non-reversible identifier that allows us to determine whether a payment card has previously been used to activate a free trial on the Service. We do not receive or store your full card number, CVV, or expiration date.
- Internet or network activity — such as browsing or search activity on our Service, referring/exit pages, and interaction with our emails or pages.
- Geolocation data — coarse location inferred from IP address.
- Professional or employment-related information — if you provide it (e.g., law firm affiliation).
- Communications content — messages you send via contact forms or email, including support inquiries and privacy requests.
- Inferences — derived from the above (e.g., product interests), where permitted.
We do not use the Service to knowingly collect sensitive personal information within the meaning of state laws (such as government ID numbers, precise geolocation, or health data) except where you voluntarily submit it in a message. Always avoid sending unnecessary sensitive data.
We may store and display public news headlines and excerpts from third party publishers (for example the AP News) for editorial context. That content is not "your" personal information, but it may be processed on our servers in the ordinary course of operating the Service.
3. Sources
- Directly from you (e.g., forms, account registration, email).
- Automatically through cookies, logs, and similar technologies.
- From service providers that assist us (e.g., hosting, analytics, email delivery).
3.1 Subprocessors
Depending on configuration, we use infrastructure and service providers that process information on our behalf, including for example Supabase (database and authentication infrastructure), Vercel (hosting and serverless functions), Resend (delivery of contact form messages), Stripe (payment processing and trial eligibility verification), and ScrapingBee (proxied fetching of public government legal sources). Their use of data is governed by our agreements with them and their own privacy notices.
3.2 AI-assisted processing
For internal classification, semantic relevance scoring, summarization, and verification workflows, we send public corpus content — such as bill text, court opinions, titles, and citations — to external model providers (Anthropic for language-model tasks and OpenAI for embedding-based relevance scoring) and to models we run locally. Section 5 describes this processing in detail. These requests are not intended to include your personal information. Do not paste unnecessary personal data into contact forms or other fields.
4. Purposes of processing
- Provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Service.
- Communicate with you, including support and legal notices.
- Process payments and fulfill subscriptions where applicable.
- Detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, or security issues.
- Verify free trial eligibility and prevent unauthorized circumvention of trial offer limits, including by checking whether a payment card has previously been associated with a free trial on the Service.
- Comply with law and enforce our Terms of Service.
- Analytics to understand how the Service is used (where permitted).
- Operate optional news headline features and other editorial content derived from public sources.
5. Artificial Intelligence Processing
Docket Daily uses artificial intelligence to classify, score, summarize, and verify public legal materials. Some processing uses external model providers; some runs on infrastructure we control.
External processing — language models. We transmit public legal source content — including instrument text, court opinion documents, titles, citations, publication dates, categories, and matched legal terms — to Anthropic, Inc. (Claude) for topic classification (where LLM classification is used), summarization (when enabled), and automated accuracy verification. Anthropic processes this content under its commercial API terms at anthropic.com. Under those terms, API inputs are not used to train Anthropic's models.
External processing — semantic relevance scoring. We transmit public instrument and opinion text to OpenAI for embedding-based semantic relevance scoring using the text-embedding-3-small model. Each embedding request is capped at 8,000 characters. For long documents, we may send sequential segments until a relevance threshold is met: up to ten segments for court opinions (roughly 80,000 characters total) and up to fourteen segments for discovery title-nexus body confirmation (roughly 112,000 characters total). OpenAI processes this content under its API terms at openai.com. We do not authorize OpenAI to use API inputs to train its models.
Local processing. We may also run language models locally using Ollama on infrastructure we control. When local models are used, that LLM content is not transmitted to Anthropic or any other third-party language-model provider. Local processing does not replace OpenAI embedding calls when those are enabled.
The following subscriber data is NOT transmitted to any AI service, external or local:
- Your name or email address
- Your account credentials
- Your payment or billing information
- Your law firm or organization name
- Your usage history or preferences
AI-generated summaries are stored in our database and associated with the relevant legal development record. They are not associated with individual subscriber accounts or identities.
All AI-generated content is labeled as such, is reviewed by an attorney editor before publication, and is intended for informational purposes only.
6. Disclosure of personal information
We may disclose personal information to:
- Service providers and processors bound by contractual obligations (e.g., hosting, email, analytics, security).
- Professional advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants) under confidentiality duties.
- Authorities when required by law, legal process, or to protect rights and safety.
- Business transfers in connection with a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, with notice where required.
7. “Sale,” “sharing,” and targeted advertising
We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration. Some laws treat certain disclosures of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as "sharing" or non-monetary sales. We configure analytics and marketing tools to minimize such use; where a state law applies and you have a right to opt out of sale/sharing or targeted advertising, you may exercise it as described in Section 9. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of consumers under 16 without affirmative authorization where required.
8. Retention
We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes above, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law (for example, tax or litigation holds). Criteria include the nature of the data, operational needs, and legal obligations.
9. Your U.S. privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, delete, correct, port, or opt out of certain processing, and to appeal our decisions. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights, except as permitted by law (e.g., certain loyalty differences tied to reasonably expected value).
9.1 How to submit a request
Email brad@docketdaily.ai with "Privacy Request" in the subject line. We may need to verify your identity (and, for California, authorized agent documentation) before fulfilling requests. We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law (typically 45 days, with one extension where permitted).
9.2 California residents (CCPA / CPRA)
If you are a California resident, you may have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and retain (right to know).
- Delete personal information we collected from you, subject to exceptions.
- Correct inaccurate personal information.
- Opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information and of certain uses of sensitive personal information, where applicable.
- Receive a portable copy of certain personal information.
- Limit use of sensitive personal information to permitted purposes, where applicable.
- Not be discriminated against for exercising CPRA rights.
California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code § 1798.83) permits California residents to request certain information about disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes as traditionally defined by that statute; you may still contact us with questions.
9.3 Virginia residents (VCDPA)
Virginia consumers may have rights to confirm processing, access, delete, correct, obtain a copy, and opt out of processing for targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. If we deny a request, you may appeal by replying to our decision email within the period specified by law.
9.4 Other U.S. states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws
Many states have enacted or are enacting consumer privacy laws with rights such as access, deletion, correction, portability, and opt-out of certain advertising or sale practices, plus appeal rights. Examples include laws commonly referred to as the Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and similar statutes enacted in other states. The exact scope of rights depends on the law in effect when you make a request and your residency status. Submit requests through Section 9.1. We will respond consistent with applicable law after verification.
9.5 Nevada residents
Nevada residents may submit a verified request directing us not to sell certain covered information we have sold or might sell, as defined by Nevada law (Chapter 603A). We do not currently sell covered information as defined there; you may still contact us to record your preference.
9.6 Other states
Privacy laws continue to evolve. If your state grants rights not listed here, contact us using Section 9.1 and we will respond consistent with applicable law. Nothing in this Policy limits non-waivable rights under your state's consumer protection statutes.
10. Cookies and similar technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies for operation, security, preferences, and analytics. You can control cookies through browser settings. Some features may not function if you disable cookies.
11. Security
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. Thus, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
12. Children’s privacy
The Service is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 where a higher age applies under state law for certain services). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have collected information from a child, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.
13. International users
If you access the Service from outside the United States, you understand that information may be processed in the United States and other countries where we or our providers operate, which may have different data protection laws. Where required, we implement appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers.
14. Automated decision-making
We do not use personal information to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about consumers, as described in laws like the VCDPA, without human oversight appropriate to the context. Internal tools may assist with content classification or summarization of public legal materials; final publication remains subject to our editorial and technical controls.
15. Financial incentives
We do not offer financial incentives in exchange for personal information at this time.
16. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy by posting a new version and revising the effective date. For material changes, we will provide additional notice as required by law (for example, a banner or email).
Revision history
July 10, 2026 — Privacy Policy updated
We audited our AI processing against our production code and found that Section 5 described it incompletely. We corrected the following:
- Ollama. It was listed as an external AI provider with a link to its privacy policy. Ollama runs on infrastructure we control. Content processed locally is not transmitted to any third party. It is no longer described as an external processor.
- OpenAI embeddings. Our use of OpenAI for embedding-based semantic relevance scoring was not disclosed. We have added it, including the size limits on transmitted document text.
- Verification and QA. Automated verification and quality-assurance processing were not described. Section 5 now covers classification, relevance scoring, summarization, and verification.
- Provider consistency. Section 3.2 and Section 5 previously listed different AI providers. They now agree.
No subscriber personal information is transmitted to any AI service, external or local, and none was at any point. These changes correct our description of processing that involves only public legal materials.
17. Governing law
This Policy is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles that would require the application of another jurisdiction's laws, except where preempted by U.S. federal law or mandatory consumer privacy protections in your home state. Subject to applicable law and any non-waivable rights you may have to bring claims in your local courts, you agree that exclusive jurisdiction and venue for disputes arising from this Policy or our processing of personal information in connection with the Service shall be in the state or federal courts located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. If you are a consumer, you may also have rights to sue in your state of residence where required by law.
18. Contact
Privacy inquiries and requests email: brad@docketdaily.ai