</p> Publishing on Ballotpedia and public data <p>Simply visiting Ballotpedia does not expose your identity publicly (but see private logging below). </p> Private logging <p>Every time you visit a web page, you send a lot of information to the web server. Most web servers routinely maintain access logs with a portion of this information, which can be used to get an overall picture of what pages are popular, what other sites link to this one, and what web browsers people are using. </p> <p>These logs are used to produce the site statistics pages. the raw log data is not made public, and is normally discarded after about two weeks