privacy AND TERMS

Last updated: May 4, 2024

1.     INTRODUCTION                 

This website, www.consensusdemocrats.com (the “Site”) is operated by Consensus Democrats PAC (“We” or “Us”).

 We are committed to protecting your privacy online. By providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. 

2.     UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Please review this privacy policy periodically because we modify it from time to time. Please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. 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. 

3.     YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual, such as:

·     Name

 ·     Postal address

 ·     Telephone number

·      Email address

·      Credit and debit card number

We collect information you give us when you register on our site, contact us, or make an online contribution. For example, when making a contribution to our organization, in addition to providing us your name, address, occupation and name of employer, you will need to provide us a billing address and credit card or bank account information, and answer a series of brief questions to make sure we may legally accept your contribution.

4.     HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION 

We may use Personal Information:

·      To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you updates by e-mail.  For information about how to unsubscribe from certain e-mails, please see the “Choices and Access” section below.

·      To communicate with you.  For information about how to unsubscribe from campaign-related telephone contacts, please see the “Choices and Access” section below.

·      To send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information.

·      To process your donation or payment.

·      To comply with campaign finance laws.  We are often required to disclose information regarding contributions to our committee to comply with federal, state, or local campaign finance laws.

·      To send you communications from partners of our organization. 

·      For our own purposes, such as data analysis, enhancing our website, improving our work, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our efforts.

·      As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. 

5.     HOW PERSONAL INFORMATION IS DISCLOSED 

Your Personal Information may be disclosed:

·      To third parties when you voluntarily provide such information, or when you use certain services available on the Site (for example, signing petitions). We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the Site. 

·      To our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, donation and payment processing, order fulfillment, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, credit card processing, auditing services and other similar services to enable them to provide services. 

·      As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

6.     OTHER INFORMATION

a.     OTHER INFORMATION WE COLLECT

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as: 

·      Browser information 

·      Server log files 

·      Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies

·      Demographic information and other information provided by you 

·      Aggregated information

b.    HOW WE COLLECT OTHER INFORMATION

We and our third party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

·      Through your browser: Certain information is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system version and Internet browser type and version.

·      Through server log files: An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), and is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the Site, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating Site usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Site. 

·      Using cookies: Cookies allow a web server to transfer data to a computer for record keeping and other purposes. We and our service providers use cookies and other technologies to, among other things, better serve you with more tailored information and facilitate your ongoing access to and use of the Site, as well as for online tracking purposes.

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/. If you choose to decline cookies, some or all of the features and functionality of the Site may not be available to you. 

·      Using embedded images, pixel tags and other similar technologies: We may use embedded images or pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) in connection with some Site pages and email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Site users and email recipients, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about Site usage and response rates.  

URLs contained in emails contain an ID that enables us to identify Site users who take an action using a page from the Site, and we may use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and completing surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL that 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 that 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. 

·      From you: We may collect demographic information such as your location, as well as other information, such as your preferred means of communication, when you voluntarily provide this information to us. Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site. 

·      By aggregating information: We may aggregate Personal Information so that the end-product does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site, for example, by using Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code. Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site.

c.     HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE OTHER INFORMATION

Because Other Information does not personally identify you, we may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose.  In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your zip code). If we combine any Other Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be treated by us as Personal Information as long as it is combined. 

7.     SECURITY 

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the issue by contacting us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

8.     ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION

We comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act.  As part of that Act, all users of our Site may make any changes to their information at any time contacting us as described below.  Changes to billing and/or credit card information must be made through our staff, or through our payment processor.  Please contact us as described below with any questions. 

9.     CHOICES AND ACCESS

a.     YOUR CHOICES REGARDING OUR USE AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We give you many choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information. You may opt out from:

·      Receiving campaign or marketing-related emails from us: If you no longer want to receive campaign or marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may email info@consensusdemocrats.com

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that if you opt out as described above, we will not be able to remove your Personal Information from the databases of unaffiliated third parties with which your Personal Information has already been shared (i.e., to which were already provided your Personal Information as of the date that we implement your opt out request).

Please also note that if you do opt out of receiving marketing-related messages from us, we may still send important administrative messages to you, and you cannot opt out from receiving administrative messages.

b.    HOW YOU MAY ACCESS OR CHANGE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you would like to review or update your Personal Information that has been previously provided to us, you may contact us at info@consensusdemocrats.com

In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. We are not responsible for changing information from the databases of third parties with whom we have already shared your Personal Information

10.  MOBILE MESSAGING POLICY

a.     User Opt In: Our organization allows users to receive mobile messages by affirmatively opting in.  Regardless of the opt-in method you utilized to join our organization, you agree that these Terms apply to your participation.

By participating in our organization’s activities, you agree to receive autodialed or prerecorded marketing mobile messages at the phone number associated with your opt-in.  While you consent to receive messages sent using an autodialer, not all of Our mobile messages are sent using an automatic telephone dialing system.  Message and data rates may apply.

b.    User Opt Out: If you do not wish to continue participating in our organization or no longer agree to these Terms, you agree to reply “STOP,” “QUIT,” “END,” “CANCEL,” “UNSUBSCRIBE,” or “STOP ALL” to any mobile message from Us in order to opt out.  You may receive an additional mobile message confirming your decision to opt out. 

T-Mobile and AT&T provide daily files for phone numbers that have deactivated from their network or been ported from one carrier to another. We proactively opt-out deactivated numbers from our subscription list. 

c.     We will not be liable for any delays or failures in the receipt of any mobile messages connected with this Program. Delivery of mobile messages is subject to effective transmission from your wireless service provider/network operator, and is outside of Our control.  T-Mobile is not liable for delayed or undelivered mobile messages.

d.    MMS Disclosure: We will send SMS TMs (terminating messages) if your mobile device does not support MMS messaging.

e.     Support Instructions: For support, email us at info@consensusdemocrats.com

Please note that the use of this email address is not an acceptable method of opting out.  Opt outs must be submitted in accordance with the User Opt Out procedures set forth above. 

11.  THIRD-PARTY SITES

 This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which this Site contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by any related organization.

12.  DONATIONS

We use a third-party service provider (the “Payment Service”) to process your donations. If you wish to make a donation using the Site, you will be directed to a webpage that is hosted by the Payment Service (or its service providers) and not by us (the “Payment Service Page”).

Any Personal Information that you provide through the Payment Service Page will be collected by the Payment Service rather than by us, and will be subject to the Payment Service’s privacy policy rather than this Privacy Policy.

Please note that this policy does not address the collection and use of information through the Payment Service Page or the privacy or information practices of the Payment Service. We have no control over, and shall not be responsible for, the Payment Service’s use of information collected through the Payment Service Page.

13.  USE OF SITE BY MINORS

The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen, and we request that these individuals do not provide Personal Information through the Site.

We do not knowingly, directly or passively, collect information from children under the age of 13. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of 13 should not provide any Personal Information on this Site. We ask that parents supervise their children while online.

14.  JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES

The Site is controlled and operated by us from the United States and is not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other than that of the United States.  This website is intended for United States individuals only. 

15.  CONTACTING US 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@consensusdemocrats.com

Please note that email communications are not always secure, so please do not include sensitive information in your messages to us.

16.  TERMS AND CONDITIONS

You agree to receive recurring automated marketing and informational text (e.g., SMS and MMS) messages from Consensus Democrats, including text messages that may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system, to the mobile telephone number you provided when signing up or any other number that you designate. 

All the different types of messages you may receive, informational messages, fundraising and on-demand reply messages, shall be known collectively as the "Programs." 

Consent to receive automated marketing text messages is not a condition of any purchase. 

Cost 

Msg & Data rates may apply. Please consult with your carrier for rate information. 

Message Frequency 

Message frequency will vary. Consensus Democrats reserves the right to alter the frequency of messages sent at any time, so as to increase or decrease the total number of sent messages. Consensus Democrats also reserves the right to change the phone number from which messages are sent.

Not all mobile devices or handsets may be supported and our messages may not be deliverable in all areas. Consensus Democrats, its service providers and the mobile carriers supported by the program are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. 

Cancellation 

If you do not wish to continue participating in any Program or no longer agree to these Terms, you agree to directly reply to any mobile message received from a Program with STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, or QUIT in order to opt out of that Program at any time. You may receive an additional mobile message confirming your decision to opt out.  

You understand and agree that the foregoing options are the only reasonable and exclusive methods of opting out. You also understand and agree that any other method of opting out, including, but not limited to, texting words or phrases other than those set forth above or verbally requesting Consensus Democrats to remove you from our list, is not a reasonable means of opting out. You may be subscribed to multiple Programs across different Short Codes or regular long code phone numbers, and therefore you must separately text or reply STOP to each Short Code or long code phone number from which you wish to unsubscribe. 

Support 

For support regarding the Program, text “HELP” to the applicable Program’s Short Code or long code, or email us at info@consensusdemocrats.com. Please note that the use of this email address, or texting “HELP” to the Program’s Short or long Code is not an acceptable method of opting out of the program. Opt outs must be submitted in accordance with the procedures set forth above. 

Our Disclaimer of Warranty 

The Programs are offered on an "as-is" basis and may not be available in all areas at all times and may not continue to work in the event of product, software, coverage or other changes made by your wireless carrier. We will not be liable for any delays or failures in the receipt of any mobile messages connected with any Program. Delivery of mobile messages is subject to effective transmission from your wireless service provider/network operator, and is outside of our control. We are not liable for delayed or undelivered mobile messages.