Privacy

What we store

If you create an account: your email address and the handle you chose. That's it — never your real name, military branch, rank, unit, or anything about a case.

If you post a tip: it goes public right away, under your handle, the moment you post it — see community rules. We also store when you posted it and, only internally, which account posted it (never shown publicly).

If you save a court, we store which court you saved.

If you use My Case: the court, phase, start date, and checklist items you type in; any hearing/appointment/testing reminders you add; any milestones you mark (private unless you tap "share," and even then no handle is attached unless you explicitly choose to show it); and any files you upload to your private vault.

Your private case vault

Files you upload (orders, handbooks, certificates, attendance sheets) are private to you. We never share them with any court, probation office, the VA, or anyone else, and we never use them for anything except showing them back to you and, if you choose, having an AI explain them to you (see below). Each file lives in its own private storage location that only your logged-in account can reach; we never generate a public link to it.

One honest caveat: records you store here could be requested from us by a court or law enforcement with legal process, like anything stored online anywhere. Don't upload anything you wouldn't want seen that way.

Deleting your account deletes every file in your vault. You can also export everything as a ZIP, or delete one file at a time, whenever you want.

AI features (VTC Plus)

Free accounts: your files are never sent to any AI. Plus members: a file is sent to Anthropic's Claude only when you choose it and ask for help, after a one-time consent; it isn't used to train models.

If you choose to, VTC Plus can have Claude read a file you pick and explain it in plain language, answer your questions about it, or draft a progress-report summary — always citing which page it's drawing from, and always labeled "AI-generated, may be wrong, check your actual documents and your attorney."

Nothing is ever sent to Claude unless you choose to send it: the first time you use any AI feature, we show you exactly what's about to happen and ask you to say yes. Only the specific file(s) you pick for that one request are sent — never your whole vault, and never anything from another user. This is a one-way read: Claude answers back to you and nothing else happens on its own. Any dates or deadlines it finds are shown to you as suggestions you confirm or edit yourself before they're added to My Case — nothing is ever added automatically. The vault itself stays private either way, and is never shared with any court, probation office, or the VA.

What we never ask for or store

Your real name, a case number, a judge's or probation officer's name, or any health information. A free, automatic check rejects posts containing a phone number, email, street address, case/docket number, Social Security number, more than 2 links, or a slur, and tells you what to remove. A post naming a specific official by title is held for a quick human check instead of publishing, to avoid doxxing or defamation.

Who sees it

We never share anything you submit with any court, the VA, law enforcement, or any other agency. This site is not affiliated with, run by, or in contact with any of them. Published tips are public to anyone visiting the site; they're attributed only to your handle. Any logged-in user can report a tip; 3 reports auto-hide it pending a quick admin look.

Delete your account

You can delete your account and your data yourself, any time, from My courts — no need to ask anyone. This removes your saved courts, your My Case data, your reminders and milestones, and every file in your private vault. It also removes any tip or comment still held for a check. A post you already had published stays up (it's already public and no longer tied to your account), but everything else about you is gone.