Terms of Use

They apply to everyone who reads this site, and reading it means accepting them. There is nothing to sign and nothing to sign up for; if you do not accept them, stop using the site.

They cover ourelectedportfolios.com and the pages served from it. They do not cover anywhere we link to — government filing systems and news sites have their own terms, and we do not control what they publish.

What this site does and does not collect about you is a separate document: the privacy policy. Security research has its own too, and section 5 points at it.

Our Elected Portfolios is being built to publish the stock trades that members of the United States Congress disclose under the STOCK Act, next to the committees each member sits on, with every figure traceable back to the filing it came from. That is the intent. Section 3 is honest about how much of it exists today.

Everything published here is for information and for the public record. Nothing on this site is investment advice. We are not a broker, an investment adviser, a research firm, or a financial planner. We do not recommend buying or selling anything, we know nothing about your circumstances, and the fact that a member of Congress disclosed a trade is not a reason for you to make one.

Nothing here is legal, tax, or accounting advice either, and reading it creates no professional or advisory relationship of any kind. If you are making a decision that matters, make it with a licensed professional who is accountable to you.

As of 22 August 2026, no congressional filing has been ingested. There is no member directory, no trade history, and no filing archive behind this site yet.

The one page that shows figures — the sector grid — shows illustrative sample data. Every count on it is invented. It exists so the page could be built and reviewed against a complete twelve-month window, it says so on the page itself, and it must not be cited, quoted, republished, or acted on. A figure taken from it and repeated elsewhere is a false claim about Congress, not a statistic.

When real filings do land, two limits come with them and neither is ours to fix. Disclosure reports give a dollar range, never an amount, so this site reports ranges and will not estimate a portfolio value or a return. And filings can be late, incomplete, amended, hand-written, or simply wrong at the source — where the source document is wrong, we will faithfully reproduce a wrong figure. The filing is always the authority, never this site.

The underlying documents are disclosure filings published by the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives and by the Senate’s Electronic Financial Disclosure system under the STOCK Act of 2012. They are United States government public records. We claim no ownership of those documents and no ownership of the facts inside them.

This site is not affiliated with any government body. Not the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Clerk of the House, the Secretary of the Senate, any committee, any member of Congress or their staff, any federal agency, and no government anywhere. Nothing here is an official record, and nothing here is endorsed by anyone we write about. The official record is the filing, at its source.

Read it, link to it, quote it, argue with it, use it in your reporting — that is what a public record site is for. What we ask you not to do is short:

• Do not attack, probe, or attempt to degrade the site, its infrastructure, or anyone else’s use of it. Good-faith security research is the exception to that, with its own rules and its own safe harbour — read the vulnerability disclosure policy before you start, and send what you find to the address in section 10.
• Do not hammer it with automated traffic. There is no public API and no bulk download today; if you crawl, crawl gently. We reserve the right to rate-limit or block traffic that does not, without warning you first.
• Do not present anything from this site as something it is not — in particular, do not present an illustrative sample figure as a real disclosure, and do not present the site as an official or government source.
• Do not use anything published here to harass, threaten, dox, or target any person, including members of Congress, their families, and their staff. Public disclosures are a record of public duties, not an invitation.
• Do not use the site to do anything unlawful, or to help anyone else do so.

The filings are public records and the facts in them belong to everyone. What is ours is the presentation built around them: the writing, the design system, the page layouts and typography, the sector groupings and editorial judgements, and the name Our Elected Portfolios. We reserve our rights in that material, and nothing on this page grants a licence to it or to the software behind it.

Quoting a passage with attribution and a link back is welcome and always will be. Reproducing the site’s presentation wholesale is not. For anything more substantial, see section 10 — and read what it says about how little of a mailbox exists today.

The site is provided as is and as available, free of charge, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied — including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, or non-infringement.

We do not promise that the site will be available, current, complete, uninterrupted, or free of error, and while the figures are illustrative we are telling you outright that they are not accurate. We may change, break, or take down any part of it, including all of it, at any time and without notice.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising out of your use of this site or of anything you did or did not do because of something you read here. That includes trading and investment losses, lost profits, lost data, and indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, whether or not we were told such damage was possible.

The usual cap on a clause like this — no more than what you paid us — is zero here in any case: the site is free and there is nothing on it to buy. Some jurisdictions do not allow parts of these exclusions; where that is so, they apply only as far as the law there allows, and nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

These terms will change, and they should. They describe a site that is mostly not built yet, and most of what is above will need rewriting as real pages land — section 3 first.

When they change, the effective date at the top of this page changes with them. There are no accounts here and therefore no mailing list to notify, so a change that materially affects readers will be flagged on the site itself. Continuing to use the site after a revision means accepting the revised terms.

Plainly: there is no general contact address yet. The only mailbox that exists is security@ourelectedportfolios.com, and it is a security-report inbox — vulnerabilities in this site, and nothing else. Corrections, press questions, licensing requests, and legal notices sent there may not reach anyone, so please do not use it for them.

The contact page goes through that request by request and says which ones have a route today. It carries no form, for the same reason this section names no support address: there is nowhere for a submission to go.

The address that matters most for a site like this one — a corrections route for a figure that disagrees with the filing it claims to come from — does not exist yet either. It ships when ingest does. Until then no figure here is sourced to a filing at all, so there is nothing yet to correct.