Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Politivate (the "Site"). Your privacy is important to us. Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures of Politivate ("we", "our" or "us") on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information on the Site and the products, services, features, content, or applications we offer (the "Services"). When you use the Services, you are consenting to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure, and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

What does this Privacy Policy cover?

This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") gathered when you are using or accessing the Site and Services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to Google, Facebook, or Twitter.

What Information Do We Collect?

We receive information about you from various sources, including the information you grant us via your login provider (Google, Facebook, Twitter), your Site and Service usage history, and any information you choose to provide us directly.

Your personally identifiable information may be required to identify your user account, ascertain geographic distance to certain events and locations, and identify your elected representatives. Personally identifiable information may include but is not limited to: name, social media account ID, physical address, GPS location, and e-mail address. You acknowledge that this information may be personal to you, and by providing Personal Information to us, you allow others, including us, to identify you and therefore you may not be anonymous.

IP Address Information and Other Information Collected Automatically:

Finally, we may collect non-personally identifiable information when you visit our Site, such as your IP address.

IP Address Information:

While we collect and store IP address information, that information is not made public.

Information Collected Using Cookies:

Cookies are pieces of text that may be provided to your computer through your web browser when you access a website. We use cookies to enable our servers to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit the Site and otherwise use the Services through the Internet. When logged in, our cookies also allow us to identify your user account and distinguish your actions from others.

Information You Elect to Share:

We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these Third-Party Services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those Third-Party Services' privacy policies. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Services.

Aggregate Information:

We share Aggregate Information with Google and any other hosting providers.

Email Communications with Us:

As part of the Services, you may occasionally receive email and other communications from us, such as communications relating to your Account. We may use your contact information to send you these communications.

How Do We Use The Personal Information?

We may use the information you provide about yourself or others for purposes such as:

  • Identify who your elected representatives are.
  • Identify what events you may be able to attend.
  • Allow you to host a "profile" page detailing actions you've completed using the Site and Services.

Please note that if the Company is acquired, sold, or dissolved, its assets, including personally identifiable information we may possess about you, may, in whole or in part, be sold, disposed of, transferred, divested, or otherwise disclosed as part of the transaction or proceeding. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and any acquirer may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Information Disclosed for Our Protection and the Protection of Others:

We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, (ii) enforce this Privacy Policy, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support requests, or (v) protect our rights, property, or safety, our users and the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention.

Information We Share With Your Consent:

Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your Personal Information may be shared with third parties, and will be able to prevent the sharing of this information.

Is Information About Me Secure?

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee that personally identifiable information in our possession will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time. We otherwise store all of our information, including your IP address information, using industry-standard techniques. We do not guarantee or warrant that such techniques will prevent unauthorized access to information about you that we store, Personal Information or otherwise.

What Are My Privacy Options?

The Company will retain your Personal Information that we have collected as long we need it for purposes not prohibited by law.

Will We Update this Privacy Policy?

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time.

Contact Us.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation please contact us at legal@politivate.org.