The People’s Party of Washington is committed to protecting your privacy. While using our website, you do not have to identify yourself or divulge personal information. If you should choose to give us your personal information, you decide the amount of information you provide. This Privacy Statement applies to data collection and usage on peoplespartywa.org; it does not apply to other websites.
Personal information of all users is collected, used, and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement. Other websites linked to peoplespartywa.org have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on the links.
Collection of your Personal Information
When you sign up on peoplespartywa.org, we may ask for your name, address, telephone number, email address, and other information. We use the information you provide to send you the latest news and updates from the People’s Party of Washington. We work closely with People’s Party candidates, parties, and allied organizations and may share some basic contact information with them, and they may contact you.
When you leave a comment on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
When you sign one of our petitions: We treat your name, city, state, and any comments as public information. We may, for example, provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to national leaders, without disclosing email addresses. We may also make comments along with your city and state, but not your name, contact information, or any information that would help identify you, available to the press and public online.
When you contribute money: Under state election law, we are required to make periodic filings that provide the Public Disclosure Commission with the following information on each contributor: name, address, amount of contribution, date of the contribution, employer, and occupation. For more information on the PDC, visit their website at www.pdc.wa.gov.
Federal law requires us to collect and report your name, address, employer, occupation, and the amount of your contribution. We are required by federal law to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation, and name of employers of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in a calendar year to the Federal Election Commission. These records are available to the public. However, they cannot be used by other organizations for fundraising. For additional information, visit the FEC website at http://www.fec.gov.
Use of your Personal Information
Peoplespartywa.org collects and uses your personal information to operate peoplespartywa.org and deliver the services you have requested. These services may include the display of customized content based upon the information peoplespartywa.org has collected.
We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
We will not sell your personal information to third parties or use it for any purpose not related to political organizing by the People’s Party of Washington.
Control of your Personal Information
To contact us or unsubscribe via U.S. Mail: Send a letter with your full name and email address to People’s Party of Washington, 26910 92nd Avenue NW, Ste C5-148 Stanwood, WA 98292
Collection and Use of Children’s Personal Information
We care about the safety and privacy of children online, and we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13, and we have designed our sites to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested.
How do we protect your information?
Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. Computer systems have restricted access limited only to those persons and organizations necessary to the proper functioning of peoplespartywa.org. This access applies to all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data including credit card information is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Use of Cookies
We use cookies to tailor your experience on our site according to the preferences you have specified. When you visit peoplespartywa.org, your browser saves a tiny piece of information on your computer. This information personalizes and improves your experience online. peoplespartywa.org only accesses information set by peoplespartywa.org.
It is not possible and we do not attempt to access information from other websites. Our cookies do not contain any personal identifiable information.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience all features of the peoplespartywa.org site.
IP Addresses and Log File Data
We log your IP address, which is the location of your computer or network on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We also use page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit in order to improve the quality of the site. There is no personal identifiable information collected in our log files.
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact by mail to People’s Party of Washington, 26910 92nd Avenue NW, Ste C5-148 Stanwood, WA 98292
Changes to this Statement
Peoplespartywa.org will occasionally update this Privacy Statement. When peoplespartywa.org posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word “updated” next to the Privacy Statement link in the footer of every page on peoplespartywa.org. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how we will use your personal information, peoplespartywa.org will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We encourage you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how peoplespartywa.org is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Peoplespartywa.org welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you believe that peoplespartywa.org has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us by postal mail.
People’s Party of Washington
26910 92nd Avenue NW, Ste C5-148
Stanwood, WA 98292