Privacy Policy
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING THIRD PARTIES:
This Privacy Policy pertains to both information collected on www.oneclickpolitics.com and information collected via OCP widgets, forms, iframes, and similar tools found on third party websites and mobile apps, pages administered by third parties, and links or tools included in third party emails. We strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of those third parties before using any OCP tools which may be hosted or promoted by them. Third party branded pages on the OCP site may have unique privacy policies; if so, the page will display a note or notification that the privacy policies of that organization prevail over the OCP Privacy Policy. In any case, OCP is not liable for any loss of privacy or damages resulting from the use of OCP tools hosted on third party sites, mobile apps, emails, or branded pages.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any revisions will be effective upon posting the new Privacy Policy on the OCP website www.oneclickpolitics.com. Your visit to, or use of, OneClickPolitics constitutes your acceptance of the terms of our Privacy Policy. You are advised to consult the OCP Privacy Policy regularly for any changes (revisions will be reflected by the “last update” notation below).
If you have any questions or concerns regarding OCP’s policies or practices relating to privacy, please direct them to outreach@oneclickpolitics.com.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on January 8th, 2014.
Collection of Information
While using OneClickPolitics or its services you may send messages to elected or appointed officials and leadership of certain organizations. OneClickPolitics routes your messages to the individuals and groups that you select, and delivers the messages using (but not restricted to) the following methods: email, fax, and web form submission. In doing so, we may collect certain information about you.
We may automatically collect certain aggregated data regarding use of OneClickPolitics, such as the number of users and frequency and manner of usage of OneClickPolitics. We may also collect aggregated information regarding the use of our services such as the extent to which certain features are used, basic demographic information of users, or locational data such as zip code. Aggregated information is anonymous, statistical information that reflects the scope of our user base, sales, customer patterns and related site information. In addition, certain non-personally identifiable information may be collected by OCP and our third-party advertising providers during your use of OneClickPolitics and in serving advertisements to the OCP website, including, for example, the number of times you have viewed an advertisement (but not your name, address, or other personal information).
We may also use cookies to track and understand the traffic on the OCP website. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that may be placed onto your computer’s hard drive. Cookies identify your computer hard drive so that it can be recognized during future visits. We use cookies to collect and store some information, such as a user’s name of the domain and host from which he or she accesses the Internet, the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer a user is using, the date and time a user accesses our website and the Internet address of the website from which a user linked directly to our website. This information does not contain a user’s name or physical address.
Third party advertisements displayed on or in connection with the OneClickPolitics website may also contain cookies set by such advertisers. We do not control these cookies and users of OneClickPolitics should check the privacy policy of such advertisers to understand whether and how it uses cookies.
When you create an OCP membership or send a message or sign a petition via OCP or one of its services, we require some or all of the following information:
(i) Your Name
(ii) Your Physical Address, Including Your US zip code
(iii) Your Email Address
OCP may enable its members to choose to publish messages on their profiles. When we do so, we will not disclose your physical address or your phone number but we may disclose a portion of your name and Congressional District, e.g., “John S. in Virginia’s 1st Congressional District”.
Use of Information
Use of Information
Disclosure of Information
If you access any third-party applications, follow links from the OneClickPolitics website to another website, or view OneClickPolitics from another website, the information you disclose may no longer be covered by this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to check whether other privacy policies will govern before you release any personal information.
Security
OCP is committed to taking appropriate measures to protect your privacy against unintended disclosures. OCP uses a variety of secure techniques designed to protect your information. While we have implemented safeguards, you should be aware that Internet security technology rapidly changes. As such, we cannot guarantee that the safeguards we employ today can protect your personal information from the threats of tomorrow, or that our security measures are failsafe and not subject to circumvention or unauthorized intrusion. You should also be aware that, despite our best efforts, factors beyond OCP’s control may result in disclosure of data.
Young Children
Opt-Out
OCP may provide users the opportunity to opt-out of providing personal information to third parties sponsoring messages sent by the user when sending via a non-third party branded page on the OCP site. Please see note above regarding priority being given to the privacy policies of third parties hosting OCP tools on third party branded pages, platforms, mobile apps, or emails.
We reserve the right to send you administrative messages, service announcements, verification emails, and other similar communications without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them.
Notice for Users Outside of the United States
You should be aware that the United States and other countries have not harmonized their privacy regulations. Because OneClickPolitics is intended specifically for users in the United States, we have written our Privacy Policy to satisfy United States regulations and make no representations regarding the laws and regulations of other jurisdictions.
Please note: The role of American government officials is to represent and serve their fellow Americans. In order to preserve the value of OneClickPolitics to U.S. government officials, non-Americans are strongly urged not to send messages using OCP, unless or until OCP has created tools to reach their own government officials.
By using OneClickPolitics or any OCP services hosted by third-party branded websites or mobile apps, you agree to the level of privacy protection set out in our Privacy Policy.