This privacy policy was adapted from ActBlue.com

This privacy policy describes how we use your personal information. It applies to activity on our site related to democracyGPS and its associated entities (including democracyGPS Action and democracyGPS Research). As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that can be directly associated with an individual and includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, etc.

E-mail addresses

When you donate, we require your email address to email you a receipt. We may add your email address to our email list, where we send email updates and donation requests. You can unsubscribe anytime by submitting a request with our contact form, but please allow a week for processing.

Information Collected by democracyGPS

Credit Card Information

We securely transmit your credit card information to one of our payment processors, such as Stripe, for current and future payments. All credit card information is handled following current PCI standards.

Use of third-party vendors

Payment processing on democracyGPS is provided by donorbox. democracyGPS may share your personal data with these and other third parties to process your contributions or other services we offer. Any such third parties shall be required to maintain and use your information following our privacy policy. Personal information may be shared between the various legal entities that make up democracyGPS for democracyGPS's purposes alone.

Other than as described above, we will not use your personal information nor release it to any other party without your permission unless we believe it is necessary to share information to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we will use or share only as much of your personal information as is required.

Cookies

Some parts of the democracyGPS site use (or will use) cookies. A “cookie” is a tiny text file stored on your computer and enables you to return to password-protected areas on our website without re-entering your password. We also facilitate cookies for tracking systems such as Google ads. You can disable these cookies by modifying your web browser preferences.

IP Addresses

We may log IP addresses, which are the locations of computers or networks on the Internet, and analyze them for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We also aggregate the number of page hits to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the quality of our site.

Children

democracyGPS does not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13. democracyGPS does not permit contributions from minors under the age of 18.

Questions? Contact us.