Data Protection Pledge
This page is our whole business model, stated plainly. Kelity is a two-sided company: Ohio townships, villages, and cities get free tools, and vetted Ohio contractors pay for opportunity intelligence built from public records. The free tools exist because of the paid side. You should not have to dig to learn that — so here it is, on its own page, in plain language.
The three commitments
1. We never sell a township’s specific compliance gaps, vulnerabilities, or failures. Full stop. If we identify a gap, you hear about it first — privately, in your portal. If you want help fixing it, you ask us — nobody gets introduced to you otherwise. Nobody buys a list of what’s wrong with your township from us, at any price.
2. Forward-looking opportunity signals from the public record may be shared with vetted Ohio contractors. An RFP issued, a contract expiring, a capital project approved — opportunities, not weaknesses. A township benefits when qualified vendors know it’s in the market. This is what makes the free township tools possible, and we say it here and in our homepage hero rather than burying it in a footnote.
3. No public dashboard. No self-serve API exposing any entity’s specific compliance status. Ever. What’s behind your portal login stays there.
The legal basis
Ohio law exempts a political subdivision’s cybersecurity-program records and related vendor information from mandatory public disclosure — ORC §§ 9.64(E)–(F), 149.43, and 149.433. That exemption attaches to records held by the public office itself, so our service agreements are structured accordingly: the township remains the record-holder, and Kelity acts as its processor, with the express-statement language § 149.433 calls for.
This is general information about how we structure our agreements, not legal advice. Consult your own counsel.