Who we are, where the data comes from, and how to reach us.

Publisher

CivicStack is published by Civic Pulse LLC, a New York limited liability company, at civicstack.co. Contact: hello@civicstack.co. The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy govern the site; the Accessibility statement says how it is built to be used by everyone.

Not a government site

CivicStack is independent. It is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by the City of New York, the State of New York, or any agency of either. Agency names appear only to identify the public bodies whose records we reproduce. Civic Pulse is nonpartisan and independently funded.

Public sources and their terms

The figures on the site are reproduced from public records, as published, with the source and the as-of date beside them:

• Checkbook NYC
• PASSPort
• NYS Contract Reporter
• NYC Open Data (the City’s open-data portal, under its published terms of use)

We reconcile these records across sources, classify contracts as technology or not by rules we publish in our methodology, and compute totals and growth from the published values. The records are the sources’ work; the reconciliation and classification are ours, and any error in them is ours to fix.

Corrections

If a figure on the site is wrong, tell us at hello@civicstack.co with the page, the figure, and what you believe is correct. We check it against the source. If the source has changed, we update at the next data refresh and the as-of date moves. If our reconciliation or classification was wrong, we correct it, note the correction here with the date, and tell you. We do not alter what a source says; if we believe a source is wrong, we say so beside the figure.

Comparisons

Where the site compares CivicStack with other products, the statements reflect those products’ public materials as of the effective date above. Their names and marks belong to their owners, and nothing on the site implies their endorsement. If you represent one of them and believe a statement is out of date, write to us and we will review it.

Trademarks and copyright

CivicStack, Civic Pulse, and the associated marks belong to Civic Pulse LLC. The text, design, and code of this site are © Civic Pulse LLC, all rights reserved, except as stated below. Public-record data is not ours and you may use the figures we show for any lawful purpose, with attribution to the source and the date.

Licences

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• The site is built with open-source software used under its respective licences, including the MIT, Apache 2.0, and BSD licences.

Reporting a security issue

If you find a vulnerability in this site, email hello@civicstack.co with enough detail for us to reproduce it. We acknowledge reports within five business days and tell you when the issue is fixed. Please do not access, change, or keep data that is not yours, do not disrupt the service, and give us a reasonable time to fix the problem before publishing. We do not run a paid bounty program. The same contact is published at /.well-known/security.txt.

Contact

Civic Pulse LLC, hello@civicstack.co.