Terms of use
This is the English version of Términos de uso, which is the authoritative text.
What these terms are
They describe what we publish, what you may do with it, and what material is not ours. There are no accounts and no registration: reading the site obliges you to nothing, and these terms are mostly about what happens when you reuse something from here.
Who is responsible
Daniel Palafox, who makes and publishes Observatorium, answers for what is published here. He can be reached at contacto@observatorium.mx.
The original material is not ours
The video clips are cut from recordings of public events that others record and distribute: the government, Congress, news organisations. That material still belongs to whoever recorded it. Here it is quoted, cut to the relevant fragment, and always linked to the exact second of the original broadcast, so that anyone can check the context at the source.
We do not claim rights over those recordings and we grant no permission over them. If you intend to reuse a clip, the question that matters is the broadcaster’s, not ours.
What is ours
The text we write — summaries, key facts, articles, headlines — and the selection and editing that turns hours of broadcast into moments. You may quote it freely if you say where it came from and link to the page you took it from.
What we ask you not to do: republish a whole piece as though it were yours, or present a summary from here without its source. The value of this work is that every claim can be traced.
Clips on other platforms
The videos are hosted on third-party platforms and shown here embedded. When you open one, or find it directly on that platform, that platform’s terms apply as well, and we do not control them.
Voting for a favourite
In the directory’s contests you can name your favourite candidacy, with no account and without giving any data; reading the site still asks nothing of you. A vote keeps the contest, the candidacy, an encrypted fingerprint of the voting token your browser keeps, and the time, and nothing that identifies you. It is deleted on the date the newsroom sets for each election, shown beside the vote, after which only the counts remain.
A vote request carries only that and the answer to a verification task your browser solves; the site reads neither your IP address nor any trait of your device. No third party sees your vote or the task, apart from the handling every request receives from the services that host the site, Cloudflare and Hetzner. The details are in the privacy page.
The counts are of this site’s readers who chose to vote, counted once per browser as far as the site can tell: they are not a representative poll and not a forecast. By law they are not shown from the third day before the election until the official closing of the polls, and the newsroom can suspend a contest’s counts, saying why. Votes that reach a contest above the rate voting admits are refused.
Posting from the editorial desk
The desk is an internal Observatorium tool. Connecting TikTok does not establish permission to publish or TikTok approval. Every Direct Post requires reviewing the actual file, holding the necessary rights, choosing visibility and interaction settings, and expressly consenting to that post. Files with promotional material added by the tool are unsuitable for this flow.
Posting accepts the applicable TikTok conditions, including its Music Usage Confirmation and, where applicable, its Branded Content Policy. The desk cannot grant rights to third-party recordings. A post may still be processing when its response is lost; check its existing status before trying again.
Errors
They are corrected and published at Correcciones. If you see one, write to us: it is the fastest route and the one that leaves a record.
Rights claims
If you hold the rights to a broadcast a clip was cut from and believe it should not have been published, write to us naming the page, the clip and the basis of your claim. We answer every claim, and we withdraw the material while we review it where the case warrants.
No warranty
The site is published as is. We take care that every claim is checkable at its source — that is what the link to the exact second is for — but we do not warrant that it is free of errors or uninterrupted. A link to an original broadcast can stop working if whoever hosts it takes it down.
Applicable law
Outstanding: the jurisdiction and the law under which this is published. It depends on who is responsible, above.
Changes
These terms may change. The version in force is always the one on this page. Last updated: 30 October 2026.