Terms of Service — Capitol Tape

Last updated: October 17, 2026

These terms cover the Capitol Tape browser extension and this website (together, "Capitol Tape"). By installing the extension or using the website, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use Capitol Tape.

1. What Capitol Tape is

Capitol Tape shows publicly available U.S. congressional stock trade disclosures, filed under the STOCK Act, next to stock charts on supported websites. It reads only the ticker symbol from the page you are viewing. It cannot see your brokerage account, place trades, or move money.

2. Information only. Not advice.

Everything Capitol Tape shows is for information only. It is not financial, investment, tax, legal or trading advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security. The Quiet, Watch and Hot levels count filing activity; they do not predict prices. A member of Congress trading a stock says nothing reliable about how that stock will perform. Make your own decisions and, if you need advice, ask a licensed professional.

3. The data is public and provided "as is"

• Disclosure data comes from third parties, currently the Bargo Congress Trades API, which compiles the official House and Senate filings. Read Data & Disclaimers for details.
• Members may file up to 45 days after a trade, so data is always delayed. Filings can be late, missing, amended, incomplete or wrong. Amounts are ranges, not exact figures.
• We do not check, correct or guarantee the data, and we are not responsible for errors, omissions, delays or outages in it or in the services that supply it. Always check the official filings before relying on anything.

4. How you may use Capitol Tape

You may use Capitol Tape for your own personal, non-commercial information. You agree not to:

• use disclosure data obtained through Capitol Tape for any purpose that federal law forbids, including any unlawful purpose, any commercial purpose other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public, determining anyone's credit rating, or soliciting money (see 5 U.S.C. § 13107(c));
• copy, resell, scrape or redistribute the data or the extension in bulk;
• use Capitol Tape in a way that breaks the terms of the websites you use it on, or the terms of the data provider;
• try to break, overload, reverse-engineer for misuse, or get around the limits of Capitol Tape or the services it relies on.

5. Websites you use it on

Capitol Tape draws its own small panel on TradingView, Robinhood, Webull and Schwab pages. Those sites have their own terms, and you are responsible for following them. Capitol Tape is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them, and they may change their pages in ways that stop Capitol Tape from working.

6. Pro subscription

• Pro costs the price shown in the extension at checkout, billed monthly until you cancel.
• Payment is handled by ExtensionPay and Stripe on their own pages, under their terms. Capitol Tape never sees your card details.
• You can cancel any time from the extension popup (Plan tab, Manage subscription). Cancelling stops future charges; Pro stays on until the end of the period you already paid for.
• We may change the price or the features of Pro. A price change applies from your next billing period after we tell you, and you can cancel before it does.

7. Website account

An account on this website is optional and separate from the extension. If you create one with Google or GitHub, keep that account secure; you are responsible for what happens through it. The Privacy Policy explains what we keep.

8. Ownership

The Capitol Tape name, logo, code and website are ours. The disclosure filings are public records. Other names and logos belong to their owners and appear only to say which websites Capitol Tape works with.

9. No warranty

Capitol Tape is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation, to the fullest extent the law allows.

10. Limit of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Capitol Tape and its makers are not liable for any trading or investment loss, or for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, arising from your use of Capitol Tape or the data it shows. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for Pro in the 12 months before the claim. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.

11. Stopping or changing the service

We may change, pause or stop Capitol Tape, or end access for anyone who breaks these terms. You can stop using it at any time by removing the extension.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we will say so on this website or in the extension before it takes effect. Using Capitol Tape after a change means you accept it.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: hello@example.com.