Our Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to provide the highest quality information to Republicans in the Third Congressional District. The Policy should assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. This statement will be periodically reviewed to take account of new technologies and new content on our site as well as our users’ needs.
Cookies Are Not Used By This Web site
The use of technology known as “Cookies” to gather information about the visitor to a site without their knowledge will not be employed.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site, we will receive only the personal information you knowingly choose to provide.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Credit Card Information
Currently, the website does not offer the possibility to purchase items, pay fees, or contribute money to the Third Congressional District Republicans by credit card. If, in the future, this opportunity is offered, you may be asked to give personal information and authorization for us to obtain information from various credit services. For example, you may be asked to provide the following information:
- Name
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Credit card number
- Home and business phone number
Email Information
In addition to providing the foregoing information, if you choose to correspond further with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
We use personal information for purposes of administering the activities of the Third Congressional District Republicans such as maintaining lists of volunteers, contributors and newsletter subscribers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special events we think you will find valuable. The lists used to provide these services to the Third Congressional District Republicans are developed and managed under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of your personal information.
Sharing Information with Other Republican Party Entities
We may enter into data sharing arrangements with other Republican Party entities in the State of Minnesota such as the Republican Party of Minnesota, BPOU’s within the Third Congressional District and others who may be given access to personal information including your name, address, telephone number and email address for the purpose of providing you information regarding party activities that we think will be of interest to you.
Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new party events and special offers we think you will find valuable. As an interested Republican, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these messages by sending an email message to the Third Congressional District at its published email address on this site.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
In the future, if transactions by credit card are offered, all sensitive personal information will be sent to secure server software, which will encrypt all information. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send sensitive personal information such as Social Security or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
Access and Expectations
Our values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of your information. In general, our practices limit access to sensitive personal information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing the Third Congressional District Republicans at the email address posted on this site.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we do not provide personal information provided to us to outside parties.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose any information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.