Privacy Policy for VoteOnCongress.com

 

Your privacy is very important to VoteOnCongress.com. To help protect your privacy, we adhere to the following guidelines:

This web site will explicitly ask when it needs information that personally identifies our customers or allows it to contact our customers (“Personal Information”). When possible, this web site will provide our customers with the means to make sure that Personal Information is correct and current.

This web site uses Personal Information to operate the site, provide services, and to inform our customers of updated information, new features, and services.

VoteOnCongress.com will never sell, rent, license, exchange, or share any customer data without permission except under the following limited circumstances: (a) if VoteOnCongress.com is required to do so by law, or (b) VoteOnCongress.com has the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to applicable laws or comply with legal process served on VoteOnCongress.com, or to protect and defend the rights or property of VoteOnCongress.com or to enforce the Terms of Use.

Information Collection and Use
Ascendview LLC is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. This information will not be sold, shared, or rented to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Ascendview LLC collects information from users at several different points on the website.

Personal Information
Contact information necessary to identify the user includes email address and state. This email address is required in order to validate users by sending an account activate link to the user's email address. State information is collected to help collect votes based on where a user resides, in an effort to provide meaningful voting results to members of Congress.

IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by computers every time a user is connected to the Internet. The IP address serves as a unique identifier, allowing computers to read and identify other computers on the network. VoteOnCongress.com web sites automatically collect IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information about web site use.

Sharing of Information
VoteOnCongress.com will never sell, rent, license, exchange, or share any customer data without permission except under the following limited circumstances: (i) if VoteOnCongress.com is required to do so by law, or (ii) VoteOnCongress.com has the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to applicable laws or comply with legal process served on VoteOnCongress.com, or to protect and defend the rights or property of VoteOnCongress.com or to enforce the Terms of Use

Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to a visiting computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies by themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies. If preferred, VoteOnCongress.com customers can set their browser to refuse cookies, in which case the customer might not be able to register and participate in voting on the web site. Enabled session cookies allow VoteOnCongress.com to manage the status of each user and collect their votes.