Privacy policy

At the St. Croix County Democratic Party, we are putting forth every effort to ensure the privacy and security of information that you share with us online. We urge you to also take steps to protect the privacy of your personal information, such as safeguarding your passwords and logging off of websites after submitting personal information. If you have broadband access to the Internet, we strongly advise you to use a firewall.

Our privacy policy explains the information practices we use at stcroixcountydemocrats.org:

How do we protect your information?

Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. Our computer systems have restricted access limited only to those persons and organizations necessary to ensure their proper functioning. This access applies to all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data, including credit card information, is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Our servers are located in a locked, secure environment.

How do we use the information you provide?

On registration, sign-up, and contribution forms on stcroixcountydemocrats.org, we may ask for your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. We may also ask who, if anyone, referred you to the site so that we can credit those who are organizing volunteer support or fundraising for St. Croix County Democrats.

We will use your e-mail address to provide you news and information about St. Croix County Democrats. We may also use your zip code and state to send you e-mail messages about upcoming campaign events or activities in your area.

On occasion, we may also use the information that you provide online to contact you for other purposes or to solicit you for contributions. When you register or sign-up online, we may share your contact information with successor organizations and other like-minded candidates and organizations, and they may contact you. When you make a contribution to us, we may also exchange your contributor information with successor organizations and other like-minded candidates and organizations, and they may solicit you (see below for additional information regarding your contributor information). However, we will not sell or exchange your credit card information to any other party under any circumstances.

In addition, we may release personal information when we believe release is necessary to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena); to protect our rights or property; to protect our donors and supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.

When you contribute money online

We are required by federal law to collect and report to the Federal Election Commission the name, mailing address, occupation and employer of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 per election cycle. These records are available to the public. However, they cannot be used by other organizations for fundraising. We also make a note of your telephone number and email address, which helps us to contact you quickly if follow-up on your contribution is necessary under federal election law. For additional information, visit the FEC website at https://www.fec.gov.

When you sign one of our petitions

When you sign one of our petitions, we treat your name, city, state, and any comments as public information. We may, for example, provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to national leaders, without disclosing email addresses. We may also make comments available to the press and public online, identifying only your city and state.

Cookies

A cookie is a tiny text file that is stored on your computer by stcroixcountydemocrats.org. We use cookies to tailor your experience on our site according to the preferences you have specified. When you visit stcroixcountydemocrats.org, 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 your 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

We do not knowingly, directly or passively, collect information from children under the age of 13. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of 13 should not provide any Personal Information on this Site. We ask that parents supervise their children while online.

Parents with questions may contact us.

Unsubscribing from email communications

If you wish to unsubscribe from our communications, please contact us. We will regularly process these requests. To comply with federal election law, however, our contributor records will be continuously maintained in a separate secure database.

Contacting us about privacy

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, corrections to the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this site or your interaction with this website, contact us.

Our site links to a limited number of other websites. St. Croix County Democrats is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements for each website you visit.

We will occasionally update this privacy policy as changes to the site necessitate it. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

You can also reach us via U.S. Mail at:

911 4th Street, Hudson, WI 54016