Privacy policy
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Cite Filings (citefilings.com) is made with love by Van. This policy explains what information the site collects and what happens to it. It is part of the Terms of Service.
At a glance, from the sections below (which are the policy):
| What | What's kept | How long, or your choice |
|---|---|---|
| Your account | Your email address, watched companies and alert choices, only if you create an account | Remove watched companies yourself; email us to delete the account |
| Cookies | Only those the site needs to work | Each one's own, in the Cookie Policy |
| Server logs | Each request's method, path, status, timing and a random ID | Only as long as needed to run the site and fix errors |
| What you type in search | Nothing: used to find results, then dropped | Not stored |
| Company views | A daily count per company; your visit as a code that can't be reversed | The code until midnight UTC, in memory only |
| Summaries | The filing's text goes to the AI model's provider, nothing about you | The provider may keep it |
What we collect #
There are no analytics tools or advertising trackers. The site collects only the following.
Your account
An account is optional. If you create one, we store your email address, the companies you watch, which kinds of filings you get emails about, when you last opened your watchlist, which filing alerts we've sent you, and a password only if you set one (stored as a one-way hash). Sign-in links and filing alerts are sent through our email provider, Resend, which receives your email address and the message. You can delete your watched companies at any time from your watchlist; to delete your account, email [email protected].
Cookies
Cookies the site needs to work: one holds a security token (and your sign-in, when you're signed in), one keeps you signed in if you choose to stay signed in, one remembers your light or dark theme, and one keeps keyboard shortcuts off if you turn them off. The Cookie Policy explains each one, how long it lasts and how to block it.
Server logs
For each request, our application logs the method, the page path, the response status, how long the response took and a random request ID. The path does not include what you type in search. We use these logs only to keep the site running and to fix errors. We keep them only as long as we need them for that, and then delete them.
Our hosting provider, Hetzner Online GmbH, may keep its own network logs, such as IP addresses, under the Hetzner privacy policy (opens in new tab) .
What you type in search
Search text is sent to our server to find matching companies and is not stored by us. The
search results page puts your search in its address, for example /search?q=apple, so it can appear in your browser history.
Company views
We count how many people open each company and its filings each day, to rank the home page's Most viewed list. To count each person once a day, your IP address is combined with a random value that changes every day and turned into a code that can't be reversed. That code is kept in memory for the rest of the day, never written to disk, and deleted at midnight UTC. The database stores only a count per company per day.
Summaries, searches and claim checks
When a reader asks for a filing summary, the text of that filing document is sent through OpenRouter to the model that writes it, whose provider may keep it. Nothing about you is sent with it. What you type into filing search and claim checks is used to find passages and is not stored; like search, it appears in the page's address.
The SEC #
Our server fetches company details and filings from the SEC's EDGAR system, and those requests contain nothing about you. When you open a filing document, the document comes through our server, but images and styles inside it load directly from sec.gov. The SEC therefore receives your IP address and browser details for those requests, under the SEC privacy policy (opens in new tab) .
Sharing #
We do not sell or rent personal information. We share information only when the law requires it, for example in response to a valid court order.
Children #
Cite Filings is not directed at children under 13.
Changes to this policy #
When this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it, and material changes are noted here.
Contact #
Questions about your information go to [email protected].