ASDC WEBSITE
PRIVACY POLICY

This website is operated by the Association of State Democratic Committees, a federal political committee (“ASDC”, “we” or “us”).

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is intended to provide you with information about our approach to personal data. It covers this website, , and the related content, platforms, services, products, and other functionalities offered on or through our services, (collectively referred to as the “Site”).

Your privacy is important to us. Please take a moment to review the practices described in this Privacy Policy and any updates posted here from time to time. To make sure you stay informed of all changes, we encourage you to check this Privacy Policy periodically. Updates will be referenced by the “Last updated” date shown above. 

1.     Our Collection and Use of Personal Information

“Personal Information” or “Personal Data” is data or information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular person, including but not limited to:

• Name

• Postal address 

• Telephone number

• Email address 

• IP address

Personal information does not include information considered de-identified or publicly available information under applicable law.

Donations to ASDC through the Site are made through ActBlue.  ASDC does not collect or store any credit card information of any kind, from you.

We collect personal information through the methods described below:

• When you sign up for email communications from us or reach out to us;

• When you fill out forms on the Site; including signing up to volunteer for anyu ASDC program

• When you make donations to us through ActBlue.

We may also receive information from third parties,  including but not limited to the following:

• The State Democratic Parties who are our members;

• Service providers performing services on our behalf, such as communications and marketing providers that may collect personal information on our behalf and  share some or all of this information with us

• Other sources, such as publicly available sources, third-party service providers, or other activities consistent with our mission.

 We may collect information automatically when you access the Site, , read our emails and/or texts, or otherwise interact with us. This information may be collected through tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, pixels, or other related technologies. This may include:

• Information about your device, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, device manufacturer, type or model, operating system, date and time of access, and unique IDs that allow us to identify you when you engage with our Site;

• Information about how you access and use our Site, such as how you got to our Site, which pages you visited, what links you clicked, the frequency of your visits, and other browsing behavior; 

• Location information, such as a general geographic location that we or our third-party providers may derive from your IP address or other relevant information;

• Analytics information that our third-party providers may use to help us understand how our Site are being accessed and used.

If you would like to disable cookies or prevent the collection of cookies, you may consult your browser’s settings and options. You may find your browser type below to go directly to the browser user guide to learn how to disable or erase cookies.

• Chrome

• Firefox

• Internet Explorer

• Microsoft Edge

• Opera

• Safari

However, blocking all cookies may negatively impact the functionality of some websites. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

2.     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 about ASDC and things that may be relevant to your interactions with us. For example, we may communicate with you regarding upcoming events, activities and programs.    If you sign up to volunteer for or participate in an ASDC program we will use your Personal Information to inform you about how to participate in that program.

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

• To send you communications from State Parties or the Democratic National Committee. 

• For our business purposes, such as data analysis, enhancing our website, improving our services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our programs.

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

   

3.     How Personal Information is Disclosed

Your Personal Information may be disclosed to the following third parties in the following ways: 

• We may share information you voluntarily provide us with State Democratic Parties and the Democratic National Committee.

• We may share your information with our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, the AI chatbot, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, and other similar services to enable them to provide services. 

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

Other than as set forth above, we will not sell, exchange or transfer your Personal Information to any other person or entity.

4.     Security

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. 

However, no security system is impenetrable. As such, we are not able to nor do we guarantee that our security systems are 100% safe. If we become aware of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the incident and where appropriate, notify the relevant parties regarding what information may have been compromised, and take other steps in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

5.     Your Choices

• Email. ASDC  may, from time to time, send you emails for a variety of purposes.   If you do not want to receive such emails, you may unsubscribe from our emails using the “Unsubscribe” link contained in such emails. 

• Cookies. You may opt out of the use of new Cookies, disable Cookies and delete Cookies by changing the settings on your browsers on your computer(s).  You may opt out of the use of Cookies on your mobile device by changing your device’s settings.  Please note that rejecting cookies will limit your ability to use various features of our website.   

• Access, Correction or Deletion. You may ask to access, correct, or delete your personal information with our Site and communications systems at any time by contacting us at [INSERT EMAIL

6.     Your Privacy Rights

You may have certain rights under state consumer privacy laws. If you believe any of these rights apply to you and you would like to exercise them, please email us at info@democraticstateparties.com.

7.     Third-Party Site

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 our affiliates. To learn more about the privacy practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices.

8.     Use of Site by Minors

The Site are not intended for children under the age of thirteen (13).

We do not knowingly, directly or passively, collect information from children under the age of thirteen (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 our Site. 

If you believe that we may have collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen, please contact us at info@democraticstateparties.com to request deletion of that information.

9.     Contacting Us

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

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