NYC Politics

NYC Politics Terms of Use

Last modified: October 22, 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Matics Lab INC, a Delaware corporation ("Matics Lab INC," "we," "us" or "our"), which operates the website at www.nycpolitics.org (the "Site") (together, the "Services"). Please read them carefully. This page is in English, and the English version controls if a translation of any page of the Site says something different.

1. Accepting these Terms

By using the Services, or by creating an account, posting a comment or sending us a message, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is part of them. If you use the Services for an organization, you agree for that organization and confirm you may do so. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

2. What the Services are

NYC Politics brings together public records about a city legislature: its members, votes, legislation, committees and meetings, with tools to search and follow them. The Services are for information. They are not legal, financial or voting advice, and nothing on the Site is an endorsement of any candidate, official or position.

We may change, add or remove features, or suspend or end any part of the Services, at any time. We will try to give notice of a significant change where we reasonably can.

3. Public records and accuracy

  • Where the data comes from. Records come from official sources (the city clerk, election authorities, ethics boards, meeting video and others named on the About page), copied and processed by us. Official sources have errors and delays, and so can our copies and calculations.
  • Provided "as is". The data, counts, rankings, maps and summaries are provided as is, without any promise that they are complete, current or error-free. Check the official record before relying on anything for a decision that matters. Links to the official documents are on the pages.
  • AI-written text. Some summaries, notes and answers are written by AI models from public documents, and are labeled. They can be wrong. The source document always wins.
  • Connections are not accusations. Where the Site shows money, lobbying or votes near each other, that shows a connection in the public record, not that one caused the other.
  • Corrections. If you find an error, tell us through the contact form or email hello@nycpolitics.org with the page's link and, if you can, a link to the official record. We check every report and correct what is wrong; see our corrections policy. We do not remove accurate public records on request.

4. Accounts

Reader comments need a sign-in with your email address. You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to agree to these Terms where you live. Keep access to your email account secure, and tell us if you think someone else has used your account. The same account works on the other sites operated by Matics Lab INC.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • break any law, or use the Services to harass, threaten, defame, impersonate or invade the privacy of anyone;
  • use information from the Site to harass, threaten or stalk any person, including public officials, donors or lobbyists named in public records, or to contact people in ways the law prohibits;
  • send spam or unsolicited messages through any part of the Services;
  • try to get into accounts, systems or data you are not allowed to reach, probe or test our security without our written permission, or get around rate limits, access controls or the honeypot and other abuse protections;
  • interfere with the Services, overload them, or introduce malware;
  • scrape or crawl the Site in a way that puts a heavy load on it, or ignore our robots.txt;
  • misrepresent your affiliation with anyone, or suggest that we, any official or any government endorse you;
  • remove or hide our notices, attributions or the labels on AI-written text when you reuse our material.

5.1 Comment rules

Comments on On My Block articles are for discussing the article and the issues in it. When you comment:

  • be civil: no personal attacks, slurs, hate speech or threats, and nothing that targets anyone for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age;
  • stay on topic, and no advertising, spam or repeated posts;
  • do not post anyone's private information (home address, phone number, email, ID numbers) or anything you have no right to share;
  • do not impersonate anyone, or claim to speak for an office or organization you do not;
  • do not post anything illegal, sexually explicit, or that encourages violence or self-harm.

Comments are limited in length and in how many you can post in a period. Readers can report comments; a comment reported by several readers is held until our staff review it. We may hide or remove any comment, and suspend anyone who breaks these rules, at our discretion.

6. Your content

"Your content" means what you submit: comments, messages to us. You keep ownership of it. You give Matics Lab INC a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, publish (where the feature is public, such as comments) and process your content to provide and improve the Services. This license ends when you delete your content or account, except for copies in backups for a limited time, content others have quoted or replied to, and what we must keep by law.

You promise that you have the right to submit your content and that it does not break these Terms or anyone's rights. We do not review all content before it appears, are not responsible for what users post, and may remove or refuse any content at our discretion. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without any obligation to you.

7. Our content and how you may reuse it

The Site's design, software, logos and names, and the text we write, are owned by Matics Lab INC or its licensors. Public records themselves are not ours, and you may use them as the law allows.

You may quote and link to pages of the Site with credit to NYC Politics. Do not present AI-written summaries as official text.

Using NYC Politics is free. If paid features are offered in the future, their terms will be shown before you buy them.

9. Third-party links and services

The Services link to and embed other websites and services, such as official record systems, video players and ads. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, policies or practices. Your use of them is between you and them, under their terms.

We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe something on the Services infringes your copyright, send us a notice through the contact form or email hello@nycpolitics.org with: your signature (typed is fine); a description of the copyrighted work; where the material is on the Services; your contact information; a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. We may remove the material and, in appropriate cases, end the accounts of repeat infringers.

11. Disclaimers

THE SERVICES AND EVERYTHING ON THEM ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, MATICS LAB INC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY AND AVAILABILITY. WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT THE SERVICES OR ANY DATA, SUMMARY OR ANSWER ON THEM WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, CURRENT, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE. YOU USE THE SERVICES, AND RELY ON ANYTHING ON THEM, AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT OTHER USERS POST OR DO.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, MATICS LAB INC AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL OR OPPORTUNITY, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF WE WERE TOLD THEY WERE POSSIBLE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICES IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW SOME OF THESE LIMITS, SO THEY MAY NOT ALL APPLY TO YOU; IN THAT CASE OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS.

13. Indemnity

To the extent the law allows, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Matics Lab INC and its officers, directors, employees and contractors from any claims, losses, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your content, your use of the Services in breach of these Terms, or your violation of the law or anyone's rights.

14. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time. We may suspend or end your access, remove your content, or disable your account at any time if you break these Terms, if the law requires it, or to protect the Services or other people; where reasonable, we will tell you why. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16) survive the end of these Terms.

15. Disputes and governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Before filing any claim, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by writing to us through the contact form or email hello@nycpolitics.org and giving us 60 days to work it out with you. If we cannot resolve it, any claim must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction, except that either of us may bring a claim in small-claims court where it qualifies, and either of us may ask any court for an injunction to protect intellectual property. To the extent the law allows, you and we each waive any right to a jury trial, and claims may be brought only individually, not as part of a class or representative action.

16. General

These Terms, the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and Matics Lab INC about the Services. If any part of them is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our failure to enforce a part is not a waiver. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without our written consent; we may transfer ours in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. There are no third-party beneficiaries. Notices to you may be given on the Site or by email to the address on your account; notices to us go through the contact details below.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms. We will post the new version on this page and update the "Last modified" date, and for a material change we will give notice on the Site before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Services after the change takes effect means you accept the new Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Services.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms: use the contact form or email hello@nycpolitics.org. The operator of NYC Politics is Matics Lab INC.