Where I Stand · Boilerplate LLC
Disclaimer
General guidelines, disclosures, and terms of your use of the Where I Stand mobile application and its related products and services.
Last updated September 29, 2026Where I Stand shows which elected officials represent a location, and information about them and the places they serve. We work to keep it accurate, but it is built from public data that changes, and it can be wrong. Please read this before relying on anything the app shows.
This Disclaimer forms part of the app’s Terms and Conditions.
Not an official source
Where I Stand is published by Boilerplate LLC, a private company. It is not a government service, and it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by any government, election authority, political party, candidate or official. It is not legal advice, and it is not election or voting guidance. For anything that matters (where and how to vote, who is on your ballot, or who represents you for an official purpose), check with your state or local election office, or the official’s own office.
Nonpartisan
The app does not support or oppose any party, candidate or official. It shows the same kinds of information for every official it covers, drawn from the same public sources. An official appearing in the app, or the order in which officials appear, is not an endorsement.
What can be wrong, and why
- Districts and boundaries. The app matches a point to districts using official boundary files, simplified so they fit on a phone. Near a boundary, the app can place a point in the wrong district. Boundaries also change after redistricting, and the app’s copy may lag behind.
- Your location. Your device’s reported location can be off by tens of meters or more, especially indoors. The district shown is for the point the app was given, which may not be where you are.
- Who holds office. Officials change through elections, resignations, appointments and deaths. The app’s lists are updated from public sources, and the About screen shows when the data was last updated. A change can take time to reach the app, and an office shown as vacant or held may already have changed.
- Contact details. Offices change phone numbers, addresses and websites without notice.
- Votes. The app shows how officials voted on a selected set of laws. It is not a complete voting record. A member elected after a vote has no position on it, which is different from not voting.
- Federal spending. Spending figures are the federal money obligated to a place, as reported to USAspending.gov. They are not the same as money spent, and they say nothing about who asked for the money. Some awards cannot be placed in any one district, and the current fiscal year is incomplete until it ends.
- Place descriptions. Short descriptions of places are excerpts from Wikipedia, written by its volunteer contributors, and they can be inaccurate.
- Population and other figures. Population and median age are Census Bureau estimates, with the margins of error that come with them.
No liability for decisions
All information in the app is provided “as is”, with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy or timeliness, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Boilerplate LLC is not responsible for errors or omissions. To the fullest extent the law allows, neither Boilerplate LLC nor its partners, employees or agents will be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the app. That includes any consequential, special or similar damages, even if we were told they were possible. Information in the app can change at any time without notice.
Sources and licenses
The app credits every data source on its About screen. In summary:
| Information | Source | License |
|---|---|---|
| State, county, place and congressional district boundaries; population and median age | U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER/Line, American Community Survey) | U.S. government work, not subject to copyright |
| Members of Congress and their offices; official portraits | The unitedstates project | Public domain (CC0) |
| State legislators | Open States (Plural Policy) | Public domain (CC0) |
| Governors and big-city mayors | Wikidata | Public domain (CC0) |
| City council and ward boundaries | City open-data portals | Each city’s open-data terms |
| Roll-call votes | U.S. House Clerk, U.S. Senate, Congress.gov | U.S. government work |
| Federal spending | USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury) | U.S. government work |
| Place descriptions | Wikipedia contributors | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Wikipedia excerpts are shortened and lightly tidied, and are shown under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. The app marks each one as an excerpt and links it to its article. You may reuse the excerpts under that license.
Advertising
The app is paid for by advertising, and ads are always labeled as such. An ad is not an endorsement by us or by any official the app shows, and we are not responsible for an advertiser’s products or claims.
Reporting a mistake
If you find something wrong, tell us, using “Give feedback” in the app or the contact details below. Corrections to officials, votes, spending and place descriptions usually reach the app in its next data update, without an app-store update. Corrections to boundaries and population figures come with an app update.