Privacy Policy
Who we are
This website is for Mike Schaeffer’s Campaign for Allen City Council – Place 1. Our website address is: https://www.mike4allen.com.
Summary
We collect your data (specifically outlined below, but generally basic information about you in a professional context, such as email, company name, etc) strictly to provide you with access to our editorial, events and other content. We will not share this data with anyone unless you explicitly consent to us doing so. We honor your right to privacy and will comply with your wishes to remove your data from our system.
The Data We Collect
While using our website you may be asked to provide us with certain personal data to enable us to send you newsletters, register for our events, become a member of the C&E Community, and more. Such personal data may include, but is not limited to:
- Name
- Email Address
- Location
- Billing or mailing address
- Phone number
- Pictures you submit
- Credit/debit card information (note: we do not save or store this information, and it will only be shared with our payment processors in order to complete the transaction in which you are engaging)
We may also append other data to your record in order to serve you better. For example, this may include events you have attended, topics you are interested in and more. As with all data we collect, this information will be kept private and will be used for our business purposes only.
How We Use Your Information
We may use information that we collect about you to:
Communicate with you:
- Promotional. We may send you emails about services and news about us. You may opt-out of these at any time.
- Responding to your requests. We will also use your information to respond to your questions or comments.
- Administrative. We may contact you to inform you about changes in our services, our service offerings, and other important service-related notices such as changes to the privacy policy or about security or fraud notices.
Other:
- We also may use your information to manage our business, to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, or perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
Analyze profile or behavioral data to help us improve the services we offer to you. - In specific cases, we will be contractually obligated to share your data with one of our third-party advertisers or partners (for example, event sponsors). In these instances, we will make it clear that the data you share will be transferred to the third party and you will have the option to opt-out.
Links to Other Sites
We may have links on our site to other sites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be taken directly to that site which is governed by its own privacy notice. We strongly encourage you to read that privacy notice. We do not control that site and assume no responsibility for the content, policies, or its practices.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical, and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, and modification. Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.
Sensitive Data
We request that you do not send us any sensitive data such as social security or national identification numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health data, biometrics or genetic, criminal background or trade union membership information. If you do send us this information, then you are consenting to its processing in accordance with this privacy notice. To avoid processing of sensitive data, do not submit it.
Changes to the Policy
We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we’ll post any changes on this page. If you continue to visit our site after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or get your consent on the new policy.
How to Ask Us to Delete Your Data
If you would like to unsubscribe from our communications at any time, you may do so in the footer of any of our emails. If you would like us to delete your information entirely please email us at mike@mike4allen.com. Otherwise, by continuing to interact with our emails and programs, you provide us with permission to manage and use your data as described above.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please contact us at mike@mike4allen.com
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.