Privacy Policy
June 10, 2009
The Committee To Elect Robin L Titus MD To The US Senate (hereinafter "we" or "us") is committed to protecting the privacy of Personal Information that you submit to us online. We have created this privacy policy to help you understand when and how Personal Information is collected, used, disclosed, and protected when you use the Robin L. Titus, M.D. For U.S. Senate From Nevada Web site (hereinafter the "Site"). Outlined below is our online privacy policy. If you have questions about this policy, please contact us.
Collection of Personal Information
We collect a variety of Personal Information from supporters and other users of our internet resources. Personal Information is information that can be directly associated with a specific person or entity such as a name, address, telephone number, email address or information about activities directly linked to that person. For example, we collect Personal Information about you when you ask to join our mailing list or make a donation.
We collect Personal Information from eligible individuals who affirmatively request to receive e-mail or other services from us. We collect this Personal Information in order to provide these eligible individuals with timely information via e-mail regarding political events, resources and issues.
We also collect Personal Information from those who make online contributions to the campaign, in order to process the contributions and to comply with federal law. To comply with federal law we ask for your name, address, employer, and occupation. We also require you to affirm compliance to a series of statements about your contribution so we can ensure that it is legal to accept it. We are required to disclose certain information about your contribution to the Federal Election Commission, which in turn makes certain information available to the general public. To learn more about the Federal Election Commission, please visit www.fec.gov.
Online contributions are processed by PayPal or Google using a secure connection. Your internet connection to our Site is ended and you are transferred to PayPal or Google. Credit card and bank account numbers are not provided or available to us.
Collection of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
Your IP address usually identifies your physical connection to the Internet through a certain Internet Service Provider (ISP). It also may provide a means of identifying the city, community and/or business from which you are connecting. In cases where you have a “static” IP address (which does not change, and which you would generally specifically have requested from your ISP) your IP address may uniquely identify your specific physical Internet connection. A static IP address may provide a means of specifically identifying you (or people on your local network, if you share one external IP address) on a future visit to the Site.
The standard logging mechanisms of our Site server log IP addresses and we analyze them in order to improve the value of our site. We also collect aggregate numbers of page hits in order to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the value of our site. We do not gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users’ Personal Information through these logging and analysis processes.
Email Communications
We maintain e-mail lists to keep interested individuals informed about important topics, and individuals must affirmatively request to join them. We configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the email addresses of our list subscribers to anyone other than those whom we authorize. However, we are neither the author of this software nor in control of the servers, and are not responsible for any failures in the software or servers to preserve subscriber anonymity.
Subscribers to our e-mail lists may terminate their subscription by following the unsubscribe instructions which are included in every email. Alternatively, you may send an email to unsubscribe@robintitus.com with the email address you want removed in the body of the message.
Web Cookies
Our Site does not use Web cookies.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
In general, we use the personal information that you give us to process your donations, to fulfill your email notification requests, and to comply with applicable Federal Election Committee regulations. We may contact you by email and/or telephone in order to acknowledge a contribution. Since this is a political campaign, committee staff, a volunteer or a representative of a separate company engaged by us may contact you by email or telephone to ask you to participate in campaign, organizing or fundraising activities, to solicit contributions, or to provide you with information regarding events, resources, and issues that we have reason to believe may interest you. In cases where we supply your contact information to a third party for purposes of such contacts, we will first require the third party to agree to non-disclosure of your personal information, and to agree not to use it for any purpose other than that for which we supplied it.
For legal and accounting purposes, we will keep contribution records for (at least) the period required by law or for the period required for us to fulfill our legal reporting requirements, whichever is longer.
We will only disclose personal information with your consent or as described in this policy.
Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not operated as a commercial Web site or an online service directed to children under 13; however, because we care about the safety and privacy of children online 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 site to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested. It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by contacting us.
Security
We recognize the importance of security for all Personal Information collected through our Site. We take steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of Personal Information collected through this Site. We restrict access to personal information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.
To best protect your credit card information we do not collect or store financial information on our Site servers. Rather, they are stored only on systems operated by the financial institutions and payment processing companies through whom the transactions are conducted and even in these instances we do not have access to nor are we provide this sensitive information.
Links to Other Sites
Our Site may contain links to other Web sites and servers. We do not bear responsibility for privacy policies or content on linked Web sites. Accordingly, you also agree and acknowledge that we 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 such content, services on or through any such site or resource or goods. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on each Web site you visit. We provide links to original articles written and maintained by third parties. These links are provided as a convenience and do not imply a claim of ownership of that content.
Contacting Us
You can contact us via email, written letter – both contact methods are listed on our Site.
Changes to this Policy
We will revise or update this policy if our practices or legal requirements change, or as we develop better ways to keep you informed about them. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information and the effective date of any changes. If we decide to change this policy, we will post a new policy on our Site and change the date at the top. Changes to the policy shall not apply retroactively. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.