Privacy Policy
Rebecca Kaplan for Mayor of Oakland 2010 (FPPC ID#1326919) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your visits to this website. While using our website, you do not have to identify yourself or disclose any personal information. Any personal information that is collected is used and disclosed as described in this Privacy Statement. Outlined below is our online privacy policy. If you have questions about this policy, please let us know.
Collection and disclosure of information:
The Campaign wants to provide its supporters with Campaign-related information in a timely manner, and enable those individuals to provide volunteer services or make donations to the Campaign over the internet. For this reason, we collect some information that can be directly associated with a specific person. We call this "Personal Information," and it includes, by way of illustration, names, addresses, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. We collect Personal Information from individuals who affirmatively request to receive e-mails, newsletters or other services. We collect this Personal Information in order to provide these eligible individuals with timely information via e-mail regarding Campaign-related events, resources and issues.
When you agree to be listed as an “Endorser,” you agree that we may use your name in advertisements, press releases, and other public communications.
In addition, we collect Personal Information from a donor on our contribution form. A donor must provide contact information (such as name and email) and financial information (such as credit card number). In the event we have trouble processing a donation, that Personal Information may be used to contact the donor. Also, we use an outside credit card processing company to bill users for contributions. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. The Candidate Campaign Office will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. The Candidate Campaign Office stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.
It is our general policy not to make Personal Information available to anyone other than the Campaign's employees, staff, and agents. We do not sell or exchange Personal Information with third parties not related to the Campaign.
In addition to the foregoing, we may disclose Personal Information when required by law or where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding or a court order or legal process served on Campaign.
When you contribute money online: under California campaign laws, we are required to make periodic filings that provide governmental entities with information on each contributor: name, address, amount of contribution, date of contribution, employer and occupation. To make a contribution online, we also ask for your credit card number and its expiration date.
Opting out and modifying information:
Subscribers to the Campaign's e-mail or newsletter list may terminate their subscription by visiting the mailing list unsubscribe page. They may correct their Personal Information by contacting the Campaign Office using the contact information listed at the bottom of this policy.
How We Use Your Personal Information
KaplanforMayor.org collects and uses your personal information to deliver communications to you. We may also use this information in the course of regular campaign activities, such as reminding voters to vote on Election Day.
IP Addresses and Log File Data
We log IP addresses, which are the locations of computers or networks on the Internet, and analyze them in order to improve the value of our site. We also collect aggregate numbers of page hits in order to track the popularity of certain pages and improve the value of our site. We do not gather, request, record, require, collect or track any Internet users' Personal Information through these processes.
Privacy of our email lists:
As noted above, the Campaign maintains e-mail lists to keep Campaign and other eligible, interested individuals informed about important topics, and individuals must affirmatively request to join them. We configure our list server software to refuse to divulge the email addresses of our list subscribers to anyone other than those whom we authorize. However, the Campaign is not the author of this software, and is not responsible for any failures in the software to preserve subscriber anonymity.
Children's privacy:
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 regulation established 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 site to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested. We would remind parents that they have a duty to supervise the Internet activities of their children.
It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by emailing us using the contact information listed at the bottom of this policy.
Changes to this policy:
If you have questions regarding this statement or if you feel that KaplanforMayor.org has not adhered to this Statement, contact KaplanforMayor.org via e-mail at campaign@kaplanformayor.org or by mail to Rebecca Kaplan for Mayor of Oakland 2010, PO Box #3106, Oakland, CA 94609.
