Get Out the Vote » Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Get Out The Vote to Win we have a few fundamental principles:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

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(Note, we’ve decided to make this privacy policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license, which means you’re more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link to our site somewhere on your site. We spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn’t need to do the same.)
Get Out The Vote to Win is operated by New Arbor Enterprise. It is Get Out The Vote to Win’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Get Out The Vote to Win collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Get Out The Vote to Win’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Get Out The Vote to Win’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Get Out The Vote to Win may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Get Out The Vote to Win also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Get Out The Vote to Win does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Get Out The Vote to Win’ websites choose to interact with Get Out The Vote to Win in ways that require Get Out The Vote to Win to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Get Out The Vote to Win gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a newsletter to provide an email address. Those who engage in transactions with Get Out The Vote to Win are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Get Out The Vote to Win collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Get Out The Vote to Win. Get Out The Vote to Win does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Get Out The Vote to Win may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Get Out The Vote to Win may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Get Out The Vote to Win does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Get Out The Vote to Win discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Get Out The Vote to Win’ behalf or to provide services available at Get Out The Vote to Win’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Get Out The Vote to Win’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Get Out The Vote to Win will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Get Out The Vote to Win discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Get Out The Vote to Win believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Get Out The Vote to Win’, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Get Out The Vote to Win website and have supplied your email address, Get Out The Vote to Win may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Get Out The Vote to Win and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Get Out The Vote to Win takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Get Out The Vote to Win uses cookies to help Get Out The Vote to Win identify and track visitors, their usage of Get Out The Vote to Win website, and their website access preferences. Get Out The Vote to Win visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Get Out The Vote to Win’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Get Out The Vote to Win’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Get Out The Vote to Win’ and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Get Out The Vote to Win may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Get Out The Vote to Win’ sole discretion. Get Out The Vote to Win encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Last updated: 07/2011

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