How Judges Rule is a research tool built on public court records. This page says exactly what we collect from the people who use it, why, and how to make us delete it.
Effective August 31, 2026 · Last updated August 31, 2026
Your name and email so you can have an account, the research questions you save, and ordinary sign-in records. Nothing else.
We do not sell, rent, or share personal information for advertising, and we run no advertising, analytics, or third-party tracking on this site.
Saved questions are scoped to your account and are matched inside our own database. They are never sent to any outside service.
How Judges Rule is operated from Savannah, Georgia, United States. We are the data controller for everything described below. Write to contact@romanhood.com about anything on this page — access, correction, deletion, or a question you would rather ask a human.
This table is the whole list. If a category is not here, we do not collect it.
| What | Why we have it | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Account details — your name, email address, and a hashed password | To create your seat, sign you in, and reach you about the account. | Until you close the account or ask us to delete it. |
| Saved research questions — the judge, filters, and wording of each question | They are the product: a saved question is re-runnable and surfaces new matches as the corpus grows. | Until you delete the question or the account. |
| Sign-in records — IP address and browser user agent, per session | Security: so you and we can tell a real session from a stolen one. | For the life of the session; deleted when you sign out. |
| Device push tokens — an opaque identifier issued by Apple or Google | Only if you allow notifications on a phone: it is the address a “your harvest is ready” push is sent to. | Until the device revokes it, the gateway rejects it, or you ask us to remove it. |
| Server logs — ordinary web-server request records | Operating and debugging the service. Passwords and session cookies are filtered out before anything is written. | Rotated and discarded on a short cycle. |
We do not collect payment card numbers on this site, we do not use advertising or analytics trackers, and we do not build behavioural profiles.
Cases, dockets, filings, orders and decrees in this system come from public court records published by the courts themselves. They name the parties, judges and attorneys in those cases, because the public record does. That material is not gathered from the people who use this product, and nothing you do here adds you to it.
Sealed and hidden documents are never fetched. Where a court makes a document available only for purchase, we buy it at the court’s published price through a queue a human approves.
If you are named in a court record we hold and you believe it should not be public, the record itself is the court’s to seal, not ours — the remedy is with the clerk or the court that issued it. Once a document is sealed or withdrawn at the source we stop showing it.
Write to contact@romanhood.com and we will look at any specific record you raise.
Court documents are read by a large language model — the Anthropic API — to extract findings, awards and citations. What is sent is the page image of a public court document. Your account details and the wording of your saved questions are not sent: questions are matched against extractions inside our own database.
Every AI-derived fact is labelled as such, carries its verbatim quote and page citation, and can be checked against the page it came from. This is a research tool, not legal advice.
One cookie, and it is the signed session cookie that keeps you logged in. It is HTTP-only and, in production, sent only over HTTPS. There are no advertising, analytics, or cross-site tracking cookies, so there is no consent banner to dismiss.
Opt-in, on the device, through the operating system’s own prompt. If you allow them we store the token that device’s push gateway issues, and use it only to tell you a harvest you asked for has finished. Turn notifications off in your device settings and the token is discarded the next time it is used.
Typefaces are served by Google Fonts, so loading a page tells Google’s font servers your IP address and browser, as any font host would. Nothing about your account or your questions travels with that request.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for advertising or for anyone else’s marketing. Personal information leaves our servers in only three circumstances: to the infrastructure providers that host the application and its database; to Apple and Google, which carry a push notification to your device if you have asked for one; and where the law compels disclosure, in which case we will tell you unless we are forbidden to.
Within your own account, the people who hold a seat can see the account’s saved questions. Staff administration screens show counts and recency only — never the text of a question, its results, or its extractions.
Email contact@romanhood.com from your account address and ask us to delete your account, correct something, or send you a copy of what we hold. We do it by hand, and we aim to finish within 30 days. Deleting an account removes its users, its saved questions, and its push tokens.
The public court records in the corpus are not deleted by an account deletion — they were never your data, and they remain part of the public record whether or not you have a seat here.
Traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS. Passwords are stored only as salted hashes and cannot be read back, by us or anyone else. Access to the production database is limited to the operator of the service. No system is perfect; if we ever learn of a breach affecting your information we will tell you.
The service is operated from, and its data is stored in, the United States. It is intended for legal professionals in the United States and is not directed to children. This policy is governed by the laws of the State of Georgia and the United States, and disputes belong to the courts of Chatham County, Georgia.
If we change this policy we will move the “last updated” date above, and we will email account holders before any change that materially affects them.
Questions, deletion requests, or anything else about this policy:
contact@romanhood.com