Last modified: March 13 2024
NOTICE: This website does not sell your personal data.
Introduction
The Alabama Republican Party (“Party” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://algop.org (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Party or any third party; or
- Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website, register on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at contact@algop.org.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, usernames, postal address, email address, telephone number, credit card or financial numbers, and occupation or employment status (“personal information”);
- That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as amounts of donations made with our third party fundraising platform partners; and/or
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include IP addresses, your usage of the Website, and the fact you visited the Website for purposes of maintained a view count.
- From third parties, for example, donation platforms that may be linked on our Website or our Newsletters, such as Anedot or WinRed.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our Newsletter, posting material, or requesting further information from us. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate and interact with our Website, we, through our website service provider and Google Analytics, may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website, including by enabling us to estimate our audience’s size and usage patterns.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, and we do not tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some Newsletters may include links to third parties, including third party fundraising platforms. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any services we offer or provide though it.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address or phone number to subscribe to our Newsletter or otherwise receive information about the Party or issues relevant to the Party, we may transmit your email address or phone number to third parties who may provide your information regarding such information or issues.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request. Without limiting the previous sentence, such disclosures include those related to campaign finance.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Website users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
The categories of personal information we may disclose include:
- For purposes of compliance with campaign finance obligations, last four digits of credit card number, donation amount, occupation or employment, status, email address, address, name, and phone number. These categories of information are provided to us by third party fundraising platforms when, after clicking on a link to those platforms in our Newsletter, you make a donation on those platforms’ websites.
While the Party may disclose information as described in this section, it does not sell any personal information.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Communications from the Party and our Newsletter. If you do not wish to have your email address or telephone number used by the Party to send you our Newsletter or other communications, you can opt-out by clicking unsubscribe in the communications or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to contact@algop.org. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Party as a result of a donation on a third party platform where the Party is obligated to then make disclosures under, for example, campaign finance laws and regulations.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way by them. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may send us an email at contact@algop.org to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. Deleting your personal information may result in you no longer receiving the Newsletter or communications from us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Transactions you make through third parties linked on the Website, the Newsletter, or other communications from us may or may not use encryption, including encryption with TLS technology. If you have questions regarding whether third parties use encryption technology for payments, you should contact them directly.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.’
Newsletter, Text, and other Communications
By subscribing to the Newsletter or otherwise providing the Party your email address or telephone number you consent to and agree that we may: (1) record, retain and/or monitor any communications between you and us, without further notice; (2) call you using an automated telephone dialing system or otherwise, leave you a voice, prerecorded, or artificial voice message, or send you a text, e-mail, or other electronic message for any purposes, including telemarketing and information purposes; (3) call or text you at any telephone number that you provide in connection to us, including cellular telephone numbers. You are not required to provide this consent with respect to communications made to a cellular telephone number. If you wish to revoke your consent to be contacted at a cellular telephone number using an automatic telephone dialing system and/or an artificial or prerecorded message or otherwise wish to no longer receive e-mails, in addition to the opt-opt out mechanisms available in e-mail and text communications, you may contact us at contact@algop.org or (205) 212-5900 and provide such information as we may request in order to process the revocation of your consent.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address you have provided us. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
3505 Lorna Rd.
Birmingham, AL 335126
contact@algop.org