Legal & privacy

Every date OutDate produces is an estimate computed from the information you provide and our reading of current law and policy — 18 U.S.C. §§3585, 3621, 3624, and 3632, the First Step Act, and the Second Chance Act. Projections depend on assumptions (listed with every calculation) that may not hold. The Federal Bureau of Prisons makes all final sentence-computation, placement, and release determinations. Never treat an OutDate projection as a promise of a release date.

OutDate is not a law firm, provides no legal advice, and no attorney–client relationship is created by using it. Documents the app generates are templates and drafts for you to review, edit, and send yourself — OutDate never files or transmits anything to BOP or any court on your behalf. We strongly encourage having a licensed attorney review anything before you file it, and deadlines in the administrative remedy process are strict — verify them against current BOP program statements.

Statutes, BOP program statements, and court decisions change. Calculations are stamped with the rules version used. When we ship a rules update, saved cases are recalculated and you are notified if dates moved. Rules parameters we have implemented from secondary sources are flagged for verification in each calculation's assumptions.

• Names and register numbers are encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM).
• A real name is never required — aliases work everywhere.
• The anonymous calculator stores nothing server-side.
• We run no analytics on case content — only anonymous feature counters.
• Deleting a case permanently removes every associated record: sentence facts, ledger history, and advocacy documents.

A discrepancy between our calculation and BOP paperwork does not mean BOP is wrong — BOP may have information not entered here. The discrepancy report exists to make the comparison precise so it can be reviewed and, if warranted, corrected through proper channels.