Privacy, in plain language

You’re a litigator; matter information is sensitive. Here is everything we store, everything we don’t, and how to make all of it disappear.

If you just use the calculators

Nothing you type into the calculators leaves your browser. The math runs on your device, and we never see your dates. For traffic measurement the site uses Vercel Analytics and Google Analytics: Vercel’s is cookieless, and Google Analytics sets a first-party cookie so it can tell a returning visitor from a new one. Neither one receives anything you enter into a calculator. We see which pages are read, which search queries lead here, and that somebody did one of a short list of things: ran a calculation, printed a sheet, downloaded a calendar file, copied a result, or asked for a sign-in link. What we record about each of those is that it happened, the page it happened on, and at most a count of deadlines or a file type. Not who you are, and not what you are calculating.

You can switch all of that off. Open this page with analytics turned off and this browser stops reporting to any of them, on this site, until you turn it back on with analytics on. The setting is one word kept in your browser’s local storage. It is not a cookie, it is not an identifier, and it is never sent anywhere; it exists only to stop other things being sent. Clearing your site data clears it, and you will need to set it again on each browser you use.

The old Pro waitlist

Until July 2026 this site offered a signup form for a forthcoming paid tier, which sent the email address you entered, along with a county if you selected one, to a third-party form service called Formspree. Accounts have since shipped, the form has been removed, and the site no longer sends anything to Formspree. If you signed up, that entry still exists in the old Formspree list; use the contact address below and we will delete it.

If you create an account

We store these things and no others:

Your email address, used to sign you in by magic link and, only if you turn them on, to send deadline reminders.
Matter names you choose. A name can be as uninformative as you like; it only has to mean something to you.
The county and trigger dates you entered (a trial date, a service date, a service method).
The calculated deadlines, frozen with the rules-engine version used to compute them.
Any dates you add yourself, such as a mediation or a case management conference, with whatever description and note you give them.
Case detail, only if you choose to add it. See the section below, because this one changed.
Your reminder settings and history, meaning the on/off toggle and a log of which reminders were already sent, so that none are duplicated.

That is the whole list. No documents, no billing data, no browsing profile.

Case detail, and a change worth flagging

This site used to have no field anywhere for a case number, a court, or a party name. That was deliberate, and it is worth saying plainly that it is no longer true. As of 27 August 2026 a saved matter can hold a case number, court, department, judge, party names and free-text notes.

The reason for the change is that a matter organiser which cannot record which case a date belongs to is a list of orphan dates. The reason for flagging it is that a case number identifies the parties to anyone who can search a court index, so this is a real change in what the database holds.

The change is bounded three ways, and those bounds are the commitment:

It is off until you open it. The fields are collapsed behind an “Add case detail” button. A matter saved without touching it stores nothing, not an empty record.
Nothing in it is ever used to compute anything, or to personalise anything, or sent anywhere. It is storage, and only for you.
You can clear it at any time, field by field or all at once, without deleting the matter or its deadlines.

Everything under “What we never do” applies to it in full, including row-level security. If you would rather this site held none of it, leave the panel closed and name the matter something only you would recognise. The calculators behave identically either way, and they still require no account at all.

Calendar subscription links

Your deadlines can be handed to Outlook, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar as a subscription, so the entries update when you recalculate instead of going stale the way a downloaded file does. There are two of these links and they work differently from everything else on this page, so the difference is worth stating rather than burying.

The docket link, on your account page, carries every matter you have saved, and every matter you save later joins it on its own. That is the one worth setting up, and it is also the more sensitive of the two: it discloses the list of matters you are working, not just their dates. For a litigator that list is a client list. The per-matter link, on a matter’s own page, carries that one case and nothing else.

A calendar program sends no login when it polls, so the link itself is the credential. Anyone holding one can read what it covers without signing in. Treat both like passwords: do not paste either into a shared channel, a ticket, a calendar somebody else administers, or an email you would not send the deadlines themselves. It is the same arrangement Google publishes as a “secret address in iCal format” and it carries the same warning.

What is true about both of them:

They carry the deadlines and nothing else. Names, dates, authorities and the notes you typed on a deadline, plus the matter names on the docket link. Nothing from case detail, so no case number, court, department, judge or party name is ever in either one.
They are unguessable, not merely unlisted. Each link is signed with a server secret, so it cannot be derived from a matter’s address or from your account, and it cannot be found by trying. A wrong link is indistinguishable from one that does not exist. The two kinds are signed separately, so a per-matter link can never be turned into a docket link.
They are never indexed and never cached. Every response, hit or miss, is marked private and no-store, crawlers are told to skip both addresses, and neither is in the sitemap.
Deleting the matter kills its link, and deleting your account kills the docket link. There is no separate per-link revoke yet, so if a link has been exposed and the matter has to stay, email us and the site secret gets rotated, which retires every link at once for everybody.

What we never do

We never sell your data. Not to anyone, not in aggregate.
We never share it, except with the processors that run the service (our database host and email sender), who are bound to use it only for that.
Reminder emails contain only the matter name you chose and the deadline name and date. Nothing from case detail is ever put in an email.
Your matters are protected by database row-level security: every query is checked against your login, so an account can only ever read its own matters. The one exception is a calendar subscription link you created yourself, which is authorised by the signed link instead of by a login, because a calendar program cannot sign in. That is the section above, and it is the only route into this database that does not go through your account.

Deleting your account

Go to Account → “Delete my account and all matters.” It works immediately: your email, profile, saved matters, and reminder history are permanently deleted from the live database. There is no retention period and no “deactivated” state.

Questions

Email privacy@calcourtdeadlines.com and a person will answer. This page is the operative policy. If a more formal document becomes necessary, it will state the same terms at greater length.

And the standing reminder: nothing on this site is legal advice; verify every date against the operative code sections and your court’s rules.