Terms of use

Last updated: November 9, 2026

These terms cover all of Polling Desk: the website, accounts, personal dashboards, alerts, and the widgets other sites embed. By using Polling Desk you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

What Polling Desk is

Polling Desk is an independent, nonpartisan site that brings together polls, prediction-market odds, election results, congressional data and campaign-finance data from public sources. It's free. It may show ads.

The data: for information, not guaranteed

We work to keep the data accurate and current, but it comes from others (pollsters, markets, election officials, the FEC, Congress) and can have errors, delays or gaps. Polls and odds aren't certain predictions. Election-night results aren't official until they're certified. Nothing on Polling Desk is legal, financial or investment advice, or a recommendation on how to vote. If you spot a mistake, tell us: we correct errors promptly.

Accounts and dashboards

• You can create an account with your email and a password, or with Google. You must be at least 13.
• An account is for one person. Give accurate details and keep your password safe; you're responsible for what happens under your account.
• Your dashboard and what you follow are private. We only email you or send notifications if you ask for them, and you can stop them at any time.
• You can delete your account at any time from your account settings. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.
• The privacy policy explains what we keep and why.

Acceptable use

Please don't use Polling Desk to:

• try to get into other people's accounts, get around security checks (like Turnstile) or harm the site;
• create accounts in bulk, submit forms automatically, or download pages fast enough to affect the service (for the data, use the CSV downloads);
• post illegal content, harassment, threats, spam or other people's personal information in the chat or forms;
• pretend to be Polling Desk or pass off our work as your own.

Our content, and other people's data

The writing, charts and design of Polling Desk are ours. You're welcome to quote and link to them with credit to Polling Desk. Data from others stays under its own license (for example, VoteHub's poll data under CC BY 4.0); sources are listed at the foot of each page. The widgets under /embed are free to put on other sites as long as they keep their link back to Polling Desk.

Links to other sites

We link to news outlets, pollsters and official sources. We don't control those sites and aren't responsible for what's on them.

Availability and changes

We may change, pause or remove parts of the site at any time, especially on busy election nights. We don't promise the site will always be available or error-free.

Limits on our responsibility

Polling Desk is provided "as is." To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for losses or damage from using the site or relying on its data.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we'll update the date above, and for significant changes we'll post a notice on the site. Using Polling Desk after a change means you accept the new terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Contact us or email polling-desk.support@karoshi-llc.com.