Democratic National Committee

Privacy Policy

At the democraticnationalcommittee.org, we are committed to protecting your privacy online. While using our website, 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.

DemocraticNationalCommittee.org maintains several interconnected websites at any given time. The principal website, democraticnationalcommittee.org is permanent. Other information websites are created and removed as needed to showcase more current issues and events. All websites owned and operated by DemocraticNationalCommittee.org are identified by the text: Paid for by the DemocraticNationalCommittee.org

Our privacy policy explains the information practices we use at democraticnationalcommittee.org and other information websites related.

Our site links to a limited number of other websites. DemocraticNationalCommittee.org is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these websites.

This privacy policy may be amended by DemocraticNationalCommittee.org at any time without notice other than posting of such amendments on this site.

How do we protect your information?

Our website has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our servers are located in a locked, secure environment.

When you contribute online, DemocraticNationalCommittee.org uses state-of-the-art security protocols to protect sensitive data, such as personal information and credit card numbers. The privacy of this data is ensured with a keyed symmetric encryption algorithm. While this data is being transferred, it is protected by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) using a 128-bit signed certificate. Encryption keys are secured by Verisign. For more information on SSL and web security, see http://www.verisign.com/.

How do we use the information you provide DemocraticNationalCommittee.org?

When you contribute money online:

DemocraticNationalCommittee.org does not financially support any candidate or candidate's election campaign. The sole purpose of the DemocraticNationalCommittee.org is to provide you the public with current and relevant information. Your financial donations are for the sole purpose of maintaining this and other information websites.

When you sign up for one of our mailing lists:

We collect your name, contact information, and email address, and certain other information. We use your email address to send you the email newsletter to which you subscribed. You may remove your email address from that subscriber list by visiting the unsubscribe page for that list.

DemocraticNationalCommittee.org respects your privacy. We will not give, sell or rent your email address to any other organization.

Cookies:

A cookie is a tiny text file that is stored on your computer by democraticnationalcommittee.org. We use cookies to tailor your experience on our site according to the preferences you have specified. When you visit democraticnationalcommittee.org and other related websites, we only access the cookie file that we have stored on your computer. We cannot and do not access any information stored in a cookie by other websites. Our cookies do not contain any personal identifiable information.

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.

Information on Children:

Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, 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 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13, and we have designed our sites to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested.

Contacting us about Privacy:

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this site or your interaction with this website, send email to: webmaster@democraticnationalcommittee.org

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