Short version: FedCite is a reference site. You can read every clause, form and tool page without giving us anything. We run Google Analytics, which sets two cookies. We show no ads, we have no advertising trackers, and we do not sell anything about you. The only data you can hand us is what you type into the contact form.
Cookies this site sets
Two, both from Google Analytics, both first-party on fedcite.com:
_ga— distinguishes one browser from another. Persistent._ga_NS4YWYKG9Y— keeps analytics session state for this property. Persistent.
That is the complete list. The tools on this site run entirely in your browser and store nothing; the clause, form and SAM.gov pages are static files.
What analytics records
Measurement ID G-NS4YWYKG9Y. The page sends three kinds of event:
page_view— which page, referrer, and the coarse location/device/browser Google derives from the request.scroll_depth— how far down a page you got (25/50/75/100%).engaged_time— seconds the tab was visible and you were active.
We added the last two so we can tell "read the clause and left satisfied" from "bounced off the top". They carry the page path and a number — nothing you typed.
Who else your browser talks to
Loading a page on this site contacts exactly three hosts:
fedcite.com, www.googletagmanager.com and
www.google-analytics.com. There are no ad networks, no social widgets, no
session recorders, no A/B tools and no fonts or scripts from anyone else.
The contact and licensing forms
If you submit the form on /contact/ — or the licensing form on the GIBillClock pages — we receive and store the name, email, organization and message you typed, plus the path of the page you sent it from. It is held in our leads database (hosted by Supabase) and used to reply to you. It is not sold, rented, or used for advertising, and we do not add you to a mailing list.
Your IP address is used two ways when you submit: held briefly in server memory to enforce a five-submissions-per-hour limit, and written to the server log alongside your email and the page. Ordinary web-server request logging also applies at our host.
Want it deleted? Ask via the contact form and we will remove it.
Opting out of analytics
Blocking www.google-analytics.com and
www.googletagmanager.com — with a content blocker, a privacy-focused browser,
or your own hosts file — costs you nothing on this site. Every page is static HTML and
works fully with analytics blocked. Google also publishes a browser add-on for opting out
of Analytics.
Children
This is a federal-contracting reference. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
Who publishes this
FedCite is published by Nightshift Labs LLC, a Nevada limited liability
company, which is also the registrant of fedcite.com. Reach us through the
contact form.
FedCite is a private publication and is not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the U.S. Government, the General Services Administration, or any federal agency. The official FAR text is published at acquisition.gov and ecfr.gov; the official text controls. Nothing here is legal advice.
Changes
If what we collect changes, this page changes in the same release. It describes the site as deployed, not as intended.