We are committed to protecting your privacy. While using our websites, you do not have to identify yourself or divulge personal information. If you should choose to give us your personal information, you decide the amount of information you provide. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement. Other web sites linked to from HarryTaylorForCongress.com have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the links.

Collection of your Personal Information

When you sign up on our websites, we may ask for your name, address, telephone number, email address, and other information. We use the information you provide to send you the latest news and updates from Harry Taylor For Congress. We work closely with progressive candidates, parties and allied organizations and may share some basic contact information with them, and they may contact you. Users can change their data in the database or unsubscribe at any point.

Use of your Personal Information

When you sign one of our petitions: We treat your name, city, state, and any comments as public information. We may, for example, provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to national leaders, without disclosing email addresses. We may also make comments along with your city and state available to the press and public online.

We are required to make periodic federal filings that provide the information on each contributor: name, address, amount of contribution, date of contribution, employer and occupation.

Collection and Use of Children’s Personal Information

We care about the safety and privacy of children online, and we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 18. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 18, and we have designed our sites to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 18 whenever age-related information is requested.

How do we protect your information?

Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Computer systems have restricted access limited only to those persons and organizations necessary to the proper functioning of our websites. This access applies to all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data including credit card information is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Use of Cookies

Unless you voluntarily provide us with any personal information, such as your e-mail address, this site does not place “cookies” to collect personal information about you without your knowledge. When you visit our site, we collect the following information: The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account). The date and time you access our site. The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site or the Internet address of the computer used to link to our site. This information is used for Site Management purposes only. Our computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics using this information so we know, for instance, the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest to viewers, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience all features of our website.

IP Addresses and Log File Data

We log IP address, which is the location of your computer or network on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We also use page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit in order to improve the quality of the site. There is no personal identifiable information collected in our log files.

Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should contact Harry Taylor For Congress via e-mail on the contact form. We welcome your comments regarding this Privacy Statement.