Privacy Policy

Northeast Travis County Democrats

This policy tells you what information we collect about you and what we do with it

The website NETCoDems.com is maintained by administrators under the supervision of the Executive Committee (referred to in this policy as “we”, “our”, or “us”) of the Northeast Travis County Democrats (NETCo Dems).

NETCo Dems is a membership political action committee registered in the State of Texas. The website administrators are NETCo Dems members.

Note: Subscribing to the discussion group “Forum” on this website does not provide membership in the NETCo Dems club or subscription to other groups owned by NETCo Dems, including the closed discussion group on Facebook and the email notification group on groups.io.

You do not have to be a NETCo Dems club member to subscribe to the Forum, but we encourage you to become a member.

If you are not a NETCo Dems member, we may use information you provide to invite you to become a member.

SECTION I: INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect no information about people who only visit and read the website.

Our website is generally intended for persons of voting age, but it may be of interest to persons younger than that. We recommend that persons under voting age use the site under supervision of responsible persons of voting age. If you are under 13 years old, please do not provide any information on this website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 years.

We collect the name and email address provided by persons who administer the website. The site application collects associated passwords and a history of actions taken by those persons. We cannot access the stored passwords. We use the information to manage access accounts of those individuals and control the configuration of the website. We do not share their information.

We collect the name and email address provided by persons authorized to post in the NETCo Dems News blog. The blog application collects associated passwords and we cannot access them. We use the information to manage access accounts of those individuals. The names of people who post on the blog are public; otherwise, we do not share their information.

We collect the name, email address, and, if offered, the telephone number and physical address along with information provided in the subject and message fields provided by persons completing the Contact us form. We use this information to reply to those persons and may use it to contact them about other activities of the Northeast Travis County Democrats. We do not share the information with others.

We collect the name, email address, voting county name, and voting precinct number provided by persons applying to subscribe to the website’s discussion group Forum. The forum application collects associated passwords and we cannot access them. We use this information to assess the application, manage subscriber accounts, and correspond with subscribers. We may use this information to contact them about other activities of Northeast Travis County Democrats. We do not share the information with others.

SECTION II: COOKIES

Note: A “cookie” is a data file stored on your computer by a website to do one of a wide variety of tasks. Essential cookies help maintain connection between your computer and website server, prevent other websites from hijacking the connection, remember if you are signed in, and similar tasks. Most of these are called session cookies and disappear when you sign out. Other cookies remember text that you entered in a form on the site either for just the duration of the session or for hours, days, or years after you leave the site. Some cookies keep track of how users interact with the website; these cookies are generally used to refine the website to better meet its purpose. Still other cookies do complicated tasks for marketing like tracking you as you move around the Internet and gather information about your habits and preferences. Get additional information about cookies at www.termsfeed.com/blog/cookies/.

We use session cookies to maintain and protect your connection and to enable the security and functionality of our ‘Contact us’, ‘News’, and ‘Forum’ services.

We do not knowingly employ tracking cookies.

Some external services listed in the next section may use analytical cookies to improve the functionality of those services and tracking cookies for marketing and monetization.

SECTION III: POLICIES OF THE SERVICES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

Wix.com

This website is hosted on the Wix.com platform that allows us to provide our services to you. Information you provide us on this website may be stored in Wix.com’s data storage, databases and general Wix.com applications. They store that data on secure servers behind a firewall.

Wix.com as a hosting provider has capabilities to collect the Internet protocol address used to connect your computer to the Internet and other computer and connection information. They may use software tools to measure, collect and analyze session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.

Wix.com may collect, store and process certain personal information provided by you but solely on our behalf and at our direction. For example, information on subscribers to Forum is collected, compiled, and stored by the wix.com platform and displayed as a list of members with information like date of joining, number of posts, etc.

Information on wix.com policies can be found at:

https://www.wix.com/about/privacy

https://www.wix.com/about/cookie-policy

ActBlue.com

We use the ActBlue platform to manage and collect NETCo Dem membership dues, operate the NETCo Dems merchandize store, and accept donations to NETCo Dems. Links to these tasks are represented on the netcodem.com website and executed on the ActBlue platform.

The ActBlue platform may collect your personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

Information on the ActBlue platform privacy policy can be found at:

https://secure.actblue.com/privacy

Google.com

Google Mail. Information you provide in our ‘Contact us’ form on this website is transmitted by the Wix.com platform to the NETCo Dems Executive Committee’s closed discussion group on groups.io using Google Mail account. Information you provide is contained in the body of an email message (not as part of the message header) and stored on secure servers.1.511

Google Calendar. NETCo Dems calendar on this website is hosted on the Google Calendar platform. As on any Google Calendar, personal information of persons authorized to post information on this calendar and those who subscribe to the calendar on may be collected, processed, and stored by Google.

YouTube. NETCo Dems Meetings videos are hosted on the YouTube channel NETCo Dems Videos. One or more of these videos may be embedded in this website. We also includes links to NETCo Dems videos on YouTube, including one in the website header. These links will bring you into the Google domain governed by their privacy policies. Individually identifiable information of YouTube users may be collected and used by Google.com.

Information on the Google privacy policy can be found at:

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Groups.io

Information you provide on our ‘Contact us’ form is transmitted to the NETCo Dems Executive Committee’s closed discussion group hosted on the groups.io platform. There it is shared among members of the Executive Committee for review and reply. Your information is kept in the body of a post and designated as User Content. Groups.io documents state that it does not use User Content for any purpose other than to provide, operate, and improve or enhance their services.

Information on the groups.io privacy and use policies can be found at:

https://groups.io/static/privacy

https://groups.io/static/tos

Facebook.com

In the website header, we provide a link to the NETCoDems Facebook Page. Using that link will bring you into the Facebook domain governed by their privacy policies. Information on those policies can be found at:

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Twitter.com

In the website header, we provide a link to the NETCoDems Twitter page. Using that link will bring you into the Twitter domain governed by their privacy policies. Information on those policies can be found at:

https://www.twitter.com/en/privacy

SECTION IV: FUTURE CHANGES

Over time we may change or update services on the website which may require changes to this policy. We will notify users of changes to the policy with notices on the website.

This policy was last undated on April 29th, 2021.

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