Disclaimer

Not financial, investment, legal, or tax advice

ConflictScore is an informational and research tool. Nothing on the Service — scores, reasoning, alerts, watchlists, backtests, or any other content — is financial, investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security or to take or refrain from any action.

No fiduciary, advisory, or agency relationship is created between you and ConflictScore by your use of the Service. We are not your broker, dealer, investment adviser, or lawyer. You should consult qualified, licensed professionals before making any decision that could affect your finances or legal position, and you alone are responsible for your decisions.

Data sources, delays, and accuracy

Our analysis is built from public government disclosures — principally Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) filed with the U.S. House Clerk, Senate eFD filings, SEC EDGAR records, and material published on congress.gov. That data has structural limits you should understand:

• Filing delay is built into the system: by law, members generally have up to 45 days after a transaction to disclose it, so our data can lag reality by more than a month.
• The underlying disclosures may be incomplete, contain errors, be amended, or be corrected over time — by the filer or the filing agency.
• Our pipeline extracts structured data from documents that were designed for humans, not machines; parsing can misread and we can map issuers incorrectly.
• Where a trade cannot be reliably analyzed, we mark it "insufficient_data" and name the missing input rather than guessing. A marked gap is not a zero, and an unmarked number is not a guarantee.

We take reasonable care — checksums, provenance on every trade, links to the original filing — but we do not guarantee that the Service is accurate, complete, timely, or uninterrupted. Scores and data may change as sources change. Always verify against the linked official filing before relying on anything you see here.

What the Conflict Score is — and what it is not

The Conflict Score is our own analytical opinion, produced by a published, transparent methodology: it measures the documented overlap between (a) the committee and subcommittee assignments a member of Congress publicly holds and (b) the industries touched by securities the same member disclosed trading. Every score links back to the original public filing so anyone can verify the inputs independently.

It is critical to understand what that number is not:

• It is not an accusation. A high score does not allege, imply, or suggest that the named member committed a crime, violated securities laws or congressional ethics rules, or engaged in insider trading.
• It is not a factual finding about anyone’s conduct. The Score does not evaluate intent, knowledge, materiality, or timing relative to any legislative action; it measures documented overlap and nothing else.
• It is not a judgment about why a trade occurred. Overlap can have many legitimate explanations — broad committee jurisdiction, diversified portfolios, professionally managed or blind trusts, or pure coincidence.
• It is not a determination of wrongdoing by us or by anyone else. It is a research signal intended to make public records easier to scrutinize — scrutiny anyone can perform from the linked filings.

Our methodology is nonpartisan by construction: party affiliation is displayed, if at all, for identification only; the scoring engine never reads it; and identical rules are applied to every member, every time.

If you are a named official (or acting for one) and believe an entry is inaccurate or misleading, contact us through the form — we review documented corrections, and our Terms explain how submissions are handled.

Backtesting and hypothetical performance

Any backtesting or hypothetical historical analysis shown — including replaying disclosed trades as if they were traded — is informational and hypothetical in nature. It does not guarantee — and does not suggest — that replicating or evaluating congressional trades produces any particular investment result. Past performance, whether by members of Congress or by any backtest, does not predict future results.

Disclosed trades become public weeks after they occur; any replication of them is inherently delayed and may bear no relation to current market conditions. Nothing in these tools is a trading signal, and references to specific tickers or issuers are not endorsements or recommendations. Any investment decision you make is solely yours, at your sole risk.

Nonpartisan by construction

ConflictScore applies the same published rules to every member of Congress, every time. Party affiliation is stored and displayed, where shown, for identification only — the scoring engine never reads it, no scoring rule branches on it, and no editorial position is expressed about any party or member. Our one rule: every score links back to the original filing.

Third-party data sources

ConflictScore is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any government body whose data we use — including the U.S. House Clerk, the U.S. Senate, the Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR), or congress.gov. Those sources’ own terms, availability, and accuracy apply to their data; we are not responsible for their errors, revisions, or downtime.

Where we display Filing Data or Analysis, we link to the underlying official filing. That link is the authoritative record — if anything here and the official filing disagree, the filing wins.

Changes to this disclaimer

We may update this Disclaimer as the Service evolves; the "Last updated" date reflects the current version. Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Disclaimer.

Corrections, questions, or concerns — especially from a named official: use the contact form.