Privacy
Blockparty asks you for one thing: a street address. This page says where that address goes, what comes back, and what is kept.
Your address goes to the state, not to us
When you look up a ballot, your browser sends the address you typed straight to the Utah Geospatial Resource Center. That is the state agency that runs Utah’s official address and boundary maps. Your address does not pass through a Blockparty computer on the way.
The center is part of the state of Utah, and the Utah.gov privacy policy (opens in a new tab) covers what the state does with what it receives.
What comes back to Blockparty
The state answers with the voting precinct your address sits in, and with the districts that cover it. Those are the only things your browser passes on to Blockparty. Your street address is not among them, and neither is the point on the map the state matched it to.
A precinct covers a neighborhood — usually several hundred to a few thousand people. A district covers many more. Neither one is your house.
What Blockparty keeps
Nothing. No lookup is written down. Your address is not saved, and neither is the precinct or the districts it resolved to.
There is no account to create and no sign-in. The lookup asks for nothing about you beyond the address, and no page on this site asks for your name, your email, or your phone number.
Blockparty sets no cookies on the pages a voter uses. Signing in sets one, and only the people who run the site can sign in.
What the company that hosts the site records
This site runs on Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel records each request made to the site: what was asked for, when, and the network address of the computer that asked.
For an address lookup, what was asked for is the precinct and the districts. Your street address never reaches Vercel, so it cannot appear in that record. The precinct can.
Those records are Vercel’s, kept under Vercel’s privacy notice (opens in a new tab).
Counting visits
Blockparty counts page views using a tool Vercel provides. It sets no cookie and keeps no identifier that follows you between visits.
The same tool counts clicks on a candidate’s “Report a problem” link. Each click records the candidate’s name and a random reference number made for that one click. The number is also written into the email the link opens, so the party can match an email to its click. It says nothing about you, and the next click gets a new one.
Another tool from Vercel measures how quickly pages load, so the site can be made faster. It records the timings and nothing about you.
Reporting a problem with a candidate
A “Report a problem” link opens an email in your own mail program, addressed to the Utah Democratic Party. Nothing is sent until you press send.
If you send it, the party receives your email address and anything you wrote, like any email. The message already names the candidate and the race, plus the reference number described above. It does not include your street address or the page you were on.
As the site changes
Blockparty is still being built. This page describes the site as it is today, and it will be updated as the site changes.
Where the maps and boundary data come from is a separate question, answered on data sources.