Privacy Policy

Jury Day helps you pass the time during jury service — find lunch, plan your days, and play case-free games with the jurors around you. You don’t create an account, and you never have to give us your name, your summons number, or anything about your case. Neua Labs LLC operates the app for the participating court.

Your randomly generated handle (e.g. “Amicable Albatross”), your courthouse choice, your plan, and your game progress are stored only in your browser. Clearing your browser’s site data removes them; checking out resets your handle and signs out of any saved login on this device, but leaves your saved plan on the device. We don’t need your real identity to give you a handle.

These are tied to a random per-device id, never to your real identity:

• Aggregate signals: venue ratings, poll votes, game scores, and a live “who’s around” presence heartbeat (your handle + courthouse only — no case information).
• A jury-room contact card — only if you choose to share one. If you opt in, you can share an optional name and up to three ways to reach you (e.g. email, phone, a social handle) with your panel. We store just that, only at your request; you can edit or delete it anytime, and we remove it when you leave the room. See “Connecting with other jurors” below.
• Feedback you send: your message, an optional reply-to email if you add one, and any screenshot you attach. Screenshots are automatically deleted after 90 days.
• Anonymous usage analytics (Google Analytics): which features are used and your courthouse — never case content, names, or anything you type.
• Error reports: technical error details and a coarse browser type, so we can fix bugs. No personal information is captured.
• Abuse reports: if you report a contact or recommendation, we store what was reported, the room code, an optional reason, the anonymous ids involved, and a coarse browser type, so the court can act on a genuine problem. Never case content.
• A verified-attendance token — only if you opt in. If you enter your summons number at check-in, your device hashes it (see “Verified attendance” below) and sends only the resulting token. We never receive or store the number itself.

We don’t ask for your legal name (though you may choose to add one to a contact card — see above), and we never receive your summons number (if you opt into the attendance count, it’s hashed on your device — see below). We don’t collect case details, your precise location, or tracking across other websites. Jury Day has no case-discussion feature on purpose — please keep conversations case-free here, at lunch, and online.

In a jury room you can optionally exchange contact cards with your panel and keep in touch after the trial. It’s entirely opt-in and visible only to people in that room. You can save the panel’s shared contacts to your own device (and export them as a contact card) — that saved copy lives on your device, not on our servers, while your shared card is removed when you leave the room and you can delete it yourself at any time.

If someone shares something inappropriate, you can block them (kept entirely on your device) or report them to the court. Court staff can also turn juror contact exchange off for a courthouse. There is still no messaging or free-text chat between jurors, by design.

You may optionally enter your summons number at check-in so your court can see a count of verified jurors. Your device hashes the number (scoped to your courthouse and the day) and sends only that token — the number itself never leaves your browser and is never stored. The token carries no name or identity — we keep only your courthouse and the day alongside it, never a uid or anything else that points to you — and because it’s scoped to a single day we don’t link tokens across days. It’s used only to tally a count, is deleted after 30 days, and the court sees only an aggregate total. Skipping it changes nothing.

You can optionally create a username + PIN so your plan follows you to another device. On our servers, the PIN is stored only as a salted cryptographic hash — never in plain text. To keep you signed in for syncing, your username and PIN are also kept in this browser’s local storage on this device until you sign out — so sign out on a shared or public device. A saved login left unused for two weeks is automatically deleted from our servers.

Jury Day runs on Google Firebase (hosting, database, anonymous sign-in, and analytics). Map and venue data comes from OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. We query them server-side — through Jury Day’s own server or Neua’s shared platform service, both operated by us — so your device never contacts OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia directly for place data. Some venue and courthouse photos, however, load directly from their hosts (such as Wikimedia Commons and Unsplash), so your device does request those images from them.

Use the whole app without sharing anything about yourself. Remove a contact card whenever you like. Clear your local data by clearing your browser’s site data (checking out resets your handle but keeps your saved plan on the device). To ask about data we hold, email privacy@neua.llc.

Jury Day is intended for adults performing jury service and is not directed to children.

If we change this policy we’ll update the date above. This covers the Jury Day app only — the court’s own privacy and public-records practices for jury service are separate, so always follow your summons and the court’s instructions.

Questions about your privacy on Jury Day? Email privacy@neua.llc and we’ll help.