Privacy Policy
This website, http://political.moveon.org (the “Site”) is operated by MoveOn.org Political Action (“We” or “Us”). We work hard to protect your privacy. We’re members too, and we treat your privacy as we do our own. We wrote this privacy policy to let you know how we treat your personal information – and to show you all the ways we work to keep it safe and private.
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We do not share the information you’ve given us with unaffiliated groups without your explicit permission. We may share some of your personal information with the following affiliated groups:
- MoveOn.org Civic Action, our non-profit sister organization;
- Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., the organization that provides staff for some of our campaigns.
- Catalist LLC, the organization that provides voter file data for our campaigns, for the purposes of GOTV work.
- Affiliated Third Parties – for example, our database administrators – for the sole purpose of helping Us do our work. These groups do not share your personal information or use it for any purpose other than as instructed by Us.
- Third Party Administrators, such as organizations we engage to facilitate large distribution of messages. The content of these emails will be from MoveOn.org Political Action and these third parties do not have direct access to your personally identifiable information.
In addition, with your explicit permission, we pass along certain of your information to the following groups (as is standard practice):
- The President, legislators and news publications and other targets when you choose to use our email tool to send them messages;
- With the President, legislators, news publications, and the general public when you sign petitions or complete surveys;
Under circumstances where we determine that members may be misusing our systems for malicious purposes (for example, using the numbers we provide to make harassing phone calls), such activities may be reported to law enforcement agencies. In such cases, MoveOn may release personally identifiable information, including name and address, to those agencies.
Please review this privacy policy periodically because we modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on February 21, 2006. Each time you visit this Site or provide us with information through the Site, by doing so you are accepting practices described in the privacy policy in effect at that time. You are also accepting our specific rules or terms of use which may be posted on specific sections of the Site, including areas for making donations, signing petitions or sending emails, and taking part in our photo campaigns.
This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities in which you engage and data gathered only on the Site. This privacy policy does not apply to any other website or any offline contact between MoveOn.org Political Action and any other entity or offline contact between you and MoveOn.org Political Action.
Sharing of Information Between MoveOn.org Political Action and MoveOn.org Civic Action
MoveOn.org Civic Action is a 501(c)(4) organization that primarily focuses on nonpartisan education and advocacy on important national issues. MoveOn.org Political Action is a federal political committee that primarily helps members elect candidates who reflect our values through a variety of activities aimed at influencing the outcome of the next election. MoveOn.org Political Action and MoveOn.org Civic Action are separate organizations. However, they’re both interested in promoting your participation in the democratic process. As such, when you provide your personal information to MoveOn.org Political Action , we share it with MoveOn.org Civic Action , with the exception of credit card information with which you may provide us in order to make a donation. Please see the Financial Donations section, below, for more information about donations.
Petitions and Surveys
For petitions and surveys you've signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information - for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to the President and legislators, other targets, or to the press. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to members of Congress and to the President as part of a petition. This is a standard industry practice in such situations. In no such case will we disclose your email address or phone number without your permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city and state available to the press and public online.
Sending Emails Via MoveOn.org Political Action
In certain cases, we enable you to send individual e-mails to the President, legislators, and other targets as well as Letters-to-the-Editor to various news publications, through our website. These messages are sent in your name, with your e-mail address as the return address and your full name and contact information is provided as part of the submission. These messages will only be sent out under your name as you approve them on an individual basis using our email tool. You are solely responsible for the specific message(s) you send using our email tool.
Financial Donations
If you choose to make a donation to MoveOn.org Political Action, your credit card information will be used only for this transaction through our secure online payment system. MoveOn.org Political Action does not retain credit card information or transmit credit card information to candidate committees.
Operation Democracy
Operation Democracy is our network of committed volunteers who help organize high-impact, in-person local events like vigils and rallies and other local campaign activities. Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. (GCI), our close affiliate in the Operation Democracy effort, provides staff organizers to support our volunteers.
GCI organizers may send MoveOn members emails to coordinate their participation in Operation Democracy events. These emails will be sent using the MoveOn.org Political Action system, and GCI organizers will not have direct access to your email address.
Members who participate in events run by Operation Democracy volunteers, or who join the Operation Democracy list may be contacted by GCI about other progressive campaigns. Prior to being contacted by GCI, you will first receive an email from MoveOn.org Political Action advising you that GCI would like to contact you, and can decline the invitation by responding to the email. If you do not opt out in response to the email, GCI will contact you. If you become a member of GCI, any information you provide to GCI will be subject to GCI’s privacy policy, which is located on their website at http://www.grassrootscampaigns.com/.
Phone Campaigns
From time to time, the MoveOn.org Political Action staff members, MoveOn.org Political Action volunteers, and Grassroots Campaigns employees may contact you by telephone about urgent campaigns. If you have provided your telephone number to us through our website then you may be contacted by one of our volunteers or staff members (each of whom is bound by the terms of the MoveOn.org Political Action privacy policy and will not use your personal information for any other purpose). If you would like to be removed permanently from our phone list, please click here. Please allow 8-10 business days for your information to be removed.
Children
MoveOn.org Political Action does not solicit personally identifying information from children. Visitors who are under 13 years of age should ask their parent or legal guardian for assistance when using the Site and should not submit any personally identifying information to the Site. For example, visitors under 13 years of age should not make donations or use the MoveOn.org Political Action email tool.
Data Tracking
In order to better serve our members, we use cookies and periodically analyze web logs. We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our website. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to MoveOn.org Political Action members.
URLs contained in emails may contain an ID that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL which contains an id—we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs which do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser's address bar when you access the page.
Links to Other Websites
MoveOn.org Political Action may provide links to third party websites, and other websites may provide links to the Site. Third party websites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. MoveOn.org Political Action has no control over such third party websites, and by using this Site, you acknowledge and agree that MoveOn.org Political Action is not responsible for the availability of such third party sites, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites. You further acknowledge and agree that MoveOn.org Political Action will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
MoveOn.org Political Action may revise or amend this policy at any time at our sole discretion. If we make any substantive changes in the way we collect or use personally identifying information provided by users, we will post a prominent announcement on our website home page and post the changes on this page. We will never change our policies and practices to make them less protective of user information collected prior to the effective date of any changes without the consent of affected users. We encourage users to visit this page periodically to review our current policy.
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