This policy has two parts: a plain-language summary of how we treat your information, and the detailed disclosures that privacy laws require. If the two ever seem to differ, the detailed disclosures in Part 2 govern.
Part 1 — The plain-language version
Synedi.ai ("Synedi," "we") is operated by Capitol Labs Consulting LLC ("Capitol Labs"). This policy explains what personal information we collect when you use Synedi and what we do with it. It does not cover the public congressional hearing content on the site — that isn't personal information about you.
This policy covers Synedi.ai and the subdomains we use to deliver the Synedi service. Separate interfaces — such as a developer API — may have their own terms.
We built Synedi to be genuinely useful without being invasive. We use your information to run the service, keep it secure, and make it better for you. We don't sell your personal information, and we don't track your behavior to target ads at you. Where advertising helps fund a free service, it's shown by us and aimed — at most — by the professional role you tell us about, never by watching what you read.
Part 2 — Detailed disclosures
Capitol Labs Consulting LLC is the controller/business responsible for the personal information described here. This policy applies to personal information we process about visitors and account holders of Synedi.ai. It does not apply to the public congressional-hearing record, to separate Capitol Labs products with their own policies, or to third-party sites we link to.
Over the past 12 months we collect, or may collect, the following categories of personal information (using the categories defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended):
| Category (CCPA) | What it includes for Synedi | Collected? |
|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, email, account ID, IP address | Yes |
| Customer records | Organization, job title, billing contact | Yes |
| Commercial information | Subscription tier, purchases, referral activity | Yes |
| Internet/network activity | Pages viewed, searches, features used, email engagement (with consent for analytics) | Yes |
| Geolocation (coarse) | General location inferred from IP for security | Limited |
| Professional/employment information | Employer, role, seniority (from you or a business-data provider) | Yes |
| Sensitive personal information | We do not collect or use SPI (e.g., precise geolocation, government IDs, race, health, political affiliation) | No |
| Biometric information | We do not collect biometric identifiers about you | No |
(The public hearing corpus includes speaker voice and attribution of public officials acting in their official capacity; that is public-record content, not consumer personal information about Synedi users.)
We obtain personal information (1) directly from you (signup, preferences, purchases), (2) automatically from your use of the service (device, IP, usage events, email engagement), and (3) from third-party business-data providers who supply or confirm professional details such as organization and job title. We do not obtain sensitive personal information from these providers.
To provide, secure, and operate the service; authenticate accounts and enforce plan entitlements; personalize the service to interests you choose; process payments and prevent fraud; send transactional messages and, with appropriate consent, alerts, digests, and marketing; measure and improve the product; show first-party advertising aimed at most by professional role; comply with law and enforce our terms; and record your consent to billing terms. We do not use your activity to build an advertising profile of you, and we do not make legally or similarly significant decisions about you by automated means.
We disclose personal information to service providers/processors who act on our behalf and may use it only to provide services to us, in these categories: cloud hosting, database storage, email delivery, payment processing, and professional-data verification. We also disclose information (a) to comply with law or legal process, (b) to protect rights, safety, and security, and (c) in connection with a business transfer (merger, acquisition, financing), subject to this policy. Beyond these, we do not disclose personal information that identifies you to third parties for their own purposes unless you opt in.
We do not sell your personal information for money. We do not "share" your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as that term is defined under California law — our advertising is first-party and is not based on tracking your behavior across sites or services. The only circumstance that could constitute a "sale" or "share" is the optional, opt-in arrangement in which you expressly choose to have information that identifies you provided to a third party (for example, in exchange for a benefit); we will not do this without your separate, affirmative opt-in, and you can withdraw it at any time. Where required, we honor opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC). To opt out at any time, contact privacy@synedi.ai or use the controls in your account.
We do not collect sensitive personal information, do not use it to infer characteristics about you, and do not need the "limit the use of my sensitive personal information" mechanism. If this changes, we will update this policy and provide the required controls.
We retain each category of personal information only as long as needed for the purpose it was collected, then delete or de-identify it:
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights. As a matter of practice we extend the core rights to all users where the law permits:
Submit a request to privacy@synedi.ai or through your account settings. We will:
We honor recognized universal opt-out mechanisms (such as Global Privacy Control) in states that require it.
Comprehensive state privacy laws give residents of the following states privacy rights; where a law applies to us, we honor its requirements. Whether a given law currently applies depends on statutory thresholds (revenue and/or number of residents); several — for example, Texas — have no numeric threshold and can apply from the first resident user.
| State | Law | Core rights provided |
|---|---|---|
| California | CCPA/CPRA | Know, delete, correct, portability, opt-out of sale/share/targeted ads, limit SPI, non-discrimination |
| Virginia | VCDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out (targeted ads/sale/profiling), appeal |
| Colorado | CPA | Same as VCDPA + universal opt-out honored |
| Connecticut | CTDPA | Same as VCDPA + universal opt-out honored |
| Utah | UCPA | Access, delete, portability, opt-out (targeted ads/sale) |
| Texas | TDPSA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out; no numeric threshold |
| Oregon | OCPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out + universal opt-out |
| Montana | MCDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out + universal opt-out |
| Iowa | ICDPA | Access, delete, portability, opt-out |
| Indiana | IDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out |
| Tennessee | TIPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out |
| Delaware | DPDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out + universal opt-out |
| New Hampshire | NHDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out + universal opt-out |
| New Jersey | NJDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out + universal opt-out |
| Kentucky | KCDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out |
| Maryland | MODPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out; strict data-minimization |
| Minnesota | MCDPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out; profiling transparency |
| Rhode Island | RIDTPPA | Access, delete, correct, portability, opt-out |
California "Shine the Light": California residents may request information about disclosures of personal information to third parties for their direct-marketing purposes; because we do not disclose personal information for third-party direct marketing without opt-in, this generally does not apply. California minors: we do not knowingly permit users under 18 to register.
We use strictly necessary cookies to run the site and, only with your consent, analytics cookies to understand usage. You control analytics via our consent banner and the _tracking_consent setting; declining does not affect access to the service. We do not use third-party advertising trackers or cross-site tracking pixels. For email, we may use standard first-party engagement measurement (whether messages are opened or links clicked) to improve our communications; every marketing email includes one-click unsubscribe.
We personalize your experience based on the preferences you set. We do not use automated processing to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you, and we do not profile you for behavioral advertising.
We hash passwords, encrypt data in transit and at rest, restrict access on a need-to-know basis, and maintain reasonable administrative and technical safeguards. If a breach affects your personal information, we will notify you and regulators as required by law.
Synedi is a professional research tool and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.
Synedi is operated from, and processes personal information in, the United States. We do not target the service to individuals in the EU or UK. If you access Synedi from outside the United States, you consent to processing in the United States.
Synedi may link to third-party sites, such as official government sources. Their privacy practices are their own; this policy does not cover them.
We may update this policy at any time, and from time to time. We will post changes here with a new effective date and, for material changes, provide additional notice.
Capitol Labs Consulting LLC (operator of Synedi.ai)
Privacy requests and questions: privacy@synedi.ai
Mailing address: 4400 Willard Ave, Apt 1202, Chevy Chase, MD 20815