Local Electors Privacy Policy

Introduction

The Local Electors is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your online information. Some information is collected automatically when you visit us online to maintain the safety and security of our websites and to help improve their contents. You may choose to share other information with us through our various interactive applications. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about what information we collect on our website. If you still have further questions about our privacy practices, we encourage you to contact us:

Local Electors
Attn: Privacy
415 1st Ave N. #19835
Seattle, WA 98109

Information We Collect Automatically (Non-Personally Identifiable Information)

What Do We Collect?

There are certain types of information a website automatically collects as users browse its pages. Like most organizations, Local Electors maintains logs of website activity for administrative purposes, to ensure the safety and security of the site and its users, and for use in improving its sites. Local Electors collects non-personally identifiable data in an aggregated and/or anonymous form. “Aggregated data” refers to general, abstracted information regarding visitors and users of our website. This may include:

• Traffic patterns – information about what pages you visit on our websites and when, how long you remain on each page, the order in which you view pages, and the website or search engine that lead you to our page.
• Which links on our website you click on
• Information about your web browser – the name and version of the browser you use to visit our sites, the capabilities of the browser (e.g., what technologies it supports such as Java or Adobe Flash).
• Information about your computer – many web browsers report the operating system and screen size of the computer that you are using. This information helps the browser and the website communicate to better display the website.
• Internet Protocol (IP) address – this is the address of your computer on the Internet at the time it communicates with our website. This number may or may not be unique. It is sent anytime you connect to another computer on the Internet, including when you browse the Web.
• Some browsers report whether or not you have bookmarked any of the pages of our websites.

Use of Cookies

Several features of our websites use a technology known as “cookies.” Cookies are small files your web browser stores on your computer. They are primarily used to allow websites to “recognize” you when you return, such as when a website “remembers” you so you need not login each time you visit that website. Most web browsers can be set to reject cookies. However, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to experience the full functionality of our website.

If a visitor does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the visitor to deny or accept the cookie feature. You can choose to prevent Local Electors from establishing a unique user-ID. Local Electors recommends that you visit any of the commonly available Cookie FAQs on the Internet to learn more about this.

Information You May Choose to Share with Us (Including Personally Identifiable Information)

Our website has several features that allow you to interact with us and other members of our online community. Local Electors does not automatically collect personally identifiable information of users of our website without their consent, which is provided by use and submission of personal information. Whether or not you use these features is completely your choice. If you choose to use some or all of these features, we may need to collect information about you, some of which may personally identify you. In most cases, we collect this information to distinguish you from other users  of our website. In some cases, we need this information either to comply with the law (e.g., when collecting payment information for online donations) or to provide the service you request (e.g., processing donation transactions or if you subscribe to one of our newsletters). Many of our interactive services are hosted through third-party service providers. In most cases, we control the information, and our Privacy Policy applies to how that information will be used. Our  contracts with these vendors provide that they will abide by our requirements. The following contains information about various services we offer as well as information about and links to, some of our vendors’ privacy policies for your reference.

Our Blog

Local Electors maintains a blog on issues related to our cause. The blog has the ability to allow visitors to post replies using the commenting service Disqus. You can learn more about Disqus practices by visiting its Privacy Policy at http://docs.disqus.com/help/30/ However, the Disqus privacy policy will only apply to information collected directly by Disqus and not information collected by Local Electors.

Online Contributions

Data collected: name, email

Contribution payments through PayFlow (https://www.paypal.com/payflow), a secure, PCI-compliant product offered by PayPal. PayPal’s privacy policy is located at http://www.paypal.com/privacy. PayPal stores and processes transactions using industry-standard security measures including physical, technical, and administrative safeguards consistent with applicable U.S. state and Federal regulations.

Although we cannot do so online, we are always happy to accept fully anonymous donations. You may mail such donations to:

Local Electors
Attn: Development
415 1st Ave N. #19835
Seattle, WA 98109

Contact Us

Data collected: name, email address, subject, text message

Our website has an online form through which you can contact us with questions, concerns, to report problems with our website, and other issues. In order to respond to you, we need your name and email address.

Other Interactive Services

We may provide additional interactive services on our websites. Your use of such services is always optional. If you have a question about any of our privacy practices that is not covered in this policy, please contact us at the address listed in the introduction.

Special Note About Your Provision of Information to Interactive Services

You should be aware that profile information in interactive features may be viewable by other users or participants of such services. Similarly, any communications you submit or post to a blog or other interactive feature may be viewable by other participants or users of the service. Therefore, you acknowledge and understand that you have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality in the content you submit for profiles or to such interactive features, whether or not it contains personally identifiable information about you. If you make your profile available to other users or if you display your personal information in any communication submitted to any such interactive features, other individuals may collect and use your personal information. We are not responsible for, nor can we guarantee the protection of, any personal information you make available in a profile, that you disclose in a communication submitted to such interactive features for  posting, or contained in an email submitted to us for posting, and thus, you acknowledge that if you disclose personal information in any such material, you do so at your own risk.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Local Electors will not sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use the information we gather from you without your permission. When you submit information through our website, the use of that information will governed by this Policy.  However, if you submit information through a third party’s website (such as following a link to our Facebook page and then submitting information on Facebook), the privacy policies of that third party will govern how they can use your information.

Links to Other Websites and Social Networking Services

On the web, it can be easy to move from one organization’s web sites to another without realizing it. Our websites contain links to third-party websites that are provided for your convenience. These include social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, which we use both to communicate with our supporters and to advance our agenda. While we supply the content for our pages on some sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr, information you provide while using those services will be subject to the privacy policies of each respective social networking  service. We strongly encourage you to review their privacy policies:

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/privacy
• YouTube http://www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube
• Flickr http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/flickr/details.html

Local Electors does not endorse nor is it responsible for the privacy practices or the content of social networking sites or other third party websites to which we link. We encourage you to pay close attention to which organization’s website you are visiting. If there is not a link to this privacy policy on a website you are visiting, then you are on a non-Local Electors website. We recommend that you review the privacy policies, terms of use, and other policies that govern those websites if you choose to visit them.

Security Statement

Local Electors has in place administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the information that is under our control. We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving sensitive personal and financial data from our site. Please note, however, that security breaches can occur even if reasonable steps are taken to prevent such breaches; for example, we cannot guarantee that information provided through our sites will not be accessed without authorization on our servers or intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Please  contact us if you believe there has been any breach of the security of our sites.

Children’s Privacy

We do not intentionally collect any personally identifiable information from individuals under the age of 13 and we will make every effort to delete any details of such users where a parent or guardian has informed us that these details have been collected.

Problem Resolution

If you have a question, concern, or other issue with our Privacy Policy, or if you think our Policy is being violated, we urge you to contact us. You may use the contact us form or the contact information provided in the introduction. If you want to know what information we have collected about you, or wish to correct information you believe we have about you, please use the contact information provided in the Local Electors Introduction to this policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will provide and/or revise a “last updated” date at the bottom of this policy. We will also provide a link to our previous privacy policy, so you can see what’s changed.

Last updated: January 2012