Privacy policy

Confidentiality and Disclosure

Friendsofdavidedwards.com will treat your contact information as private and confidential. We will not provide your contact information to any other organization except Friendsofdavidedwards.com, unless you specifically authorize us to do so.

In certain cases, but only with your authorization, we will enable you to send individual e-mails through our Web site in your name, and with your e-mail address as the return address. When you write Letters-to-the-Editor to newspapers using our tool, your email address is used and your full name and contact information is provided as part of the submission.

Friendsofdavidedwards.com enables users to contribute to Friends of David Edwards. In so doing, Friendsofdavidedwards.com collects information necessary to process transactions securely and to comply with election contribution reporting requirements dictated by Oregon law. In accordance with state law, we report to the State Election Commission the name, address, occupation, employer, and employer’s address (city and state only) for each contributor. (Note: In accordance with state law Friends of David Edwards will not be accepting donations while the House of Representatives is in session.)

Information collected by Friendsofdavidedwards.com will be held for campaign purposes only and will be held securely by the campaign. Friendsofdavidedwards.com will not collect any individual information without your knowledge.

Friendsofdavidedwards.com analyzes log activity on our Web site for the sole purpose of obtaining aggregate information to provide a better experience for those accessing our site. The information obtained through our logs contains the following aggregate information. Unless you opt to give us specific information, your identity remains anonymous.

Children’s Information

Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13.  It is possible that we may receive information pertaining to children under 13 without our knowledge. If we are notified of this, once verified, we will obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us that we have received information from a child under 13, please email us at info@friendsofdavidedwards.com.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Friendsofdavidedwards.com may use cookies to identify what pages are being used and which ones aren't. This helps us analyze the Web page traffic and improve our site. We want to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share with us. If you are uncomfortable with cookie technology, you may adjust your Web browser accordingly.

Data Tracking

In order to better serve our members, we periodically analyze web logs. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our Web site. 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

Friendsofdavidedwards.com. In no case, however, do we disclose data about individual members' behavior to any organization.

Links

Friendsofdavidedwards.com may provide links to third party Web sites, and other Web sites may provide links to the Friendsofdavidedwards.com Web site. Third party Web sites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. Friendsofdavidedwards.com has no control over such third party Web sites, and by using the Friendsofdavidedwards.com Web site users acknowledge and agree that Friendsofdavidedwards.com 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. Users further acknowledge and agree that Friendsofdavidedwards.com 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

Friendsofdavidedwards.com 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 Web site 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.

Emails

We will do our best to respect your time and attention. You can remove yourself from our mailing list at any time.

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