The Official Massachusetts Republicans For Truth Web Site

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This Web site, http://www.MassRepublicansForTruth.com is directed to users in the United States alone and is operated solely by Massachusetts Republicans For Truth. We treat your information and privacy as we would our own. This privacy policy was written to inform you of how we treat your personal information and to define the many ways we strive to keep that information both safe and private.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so by clicking this email link and providing us with your name and the email address you would like removed from our records.

Massachusetts Republicans For Truth will send you periodic updates by e-mail. You may also receive updates from one of our staff from time to time as well. You can remove yourself from our emailing list at any time. If provided, your phone number will be visible only to our staff. You may be contacted by phone to coordinate your participation in one of our local events.

We do not share the information you have given us with any unaffiliated groups without your explicit permission. We may share some of your personal information with the following affiliated third parties and administrators such as; outside consulting firms, database administrators, grass roots mobilization groups. Such outside affiliates sole purpose would be of helping MassRepublicansForTruth.com perform our outreach work. These in-house or outside groups do not have direct access to your personally identifiable information nor will they share your personal information or use it for any purpose other than as directly instructed by us.

Additionally, with your explicit permission, we may pass along certain personal information or messages when you sign petitions or complete surveys to the following groups; The President of the United States, Members of Congress, Governors, State Legislators, Candidates for Public Office, News Publications, the General Public and other targeted groups (as is standard practice) when you indicate that you want MassRepublicansForTruth to contact them about a particular issues.

Under circumstances where we determine that our members may be misusing our Web site and its promotional tools for malicious purposes (for example, a member using the numbers we provide to make harassing phone calls), such activities will be reported to law enforcement agencies and in those cases, Massachusetts Republicans For Truth may release personally identifiable information such as email, name and address, to those law enforcement agencies.

Please periodically review this privacy policy as it is modified from time to time. Our privacy policy was last revised on March 8, 2007. Each time you visit this site or provide us with information through the site, by doing so, you are accepting practices described in the privacy policy in effect at that time. You are also accepting our specific rules or terms of use which may be posted on specific sections of the site, including areas for organizing rallies, making donations, signing petitions, hosting special events, posting photographs, sending emails, and participating in projects or contests.

This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities in which you engage and data gathered only on this site. This privacy policy neither pertains to nor applies to any other Web site or any offline contact between Massachusetts Republicans for Truth and any other entity or offline contact between you and Massachusetts Republicans For Truth.

Petitions and Surveys

For petitions and surveys you have signed or completed, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information—for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to the President and legislators, other targets, or to the press. We will not make your street address publicly available, but we may transmit it to members of Congress and to the President as part of a petition. This is a standard industry practice in such situations. In no such case will we disclose your email address or phone number, without your permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city and state available to the press and public online.

Sending Emails Via MassRepublicansForTruth.com

In certain cases, we enable you to send individual e-mails to the President, legislators, and other targets as well as Letters-to-the-Editor to various news publications, through our Web site. These messages are sent in your name, with your e-mail address as the return address and your full name and contact information is provided as part of the submission. These messages will only be sent out under your name as you approve them on an individual basis using our email tool. You are solely responsible for the specific message(s) you send using our email tool.

Financial Donations

If you choose to make a donation to MassRepublicansForTruth.com, your credit card information will be used only for this transaction through our secure online payment system. MassRepublicansForTruth.com does not retain credit card information or transmit credit card information to candidate committees. However, federal law requires us to report to the Federal Election Commission the name, address, occupation, and employer for each MassRepublicansForTruth.com contributor who gives more than $200 during each calendar year.

Phone Campaigns

From time to time, the MassRepublicansForTruth.com staff members and MassRepublicansForTruth.com volunteers may contact you by telephone about urgent campaigns. If you have provided your telephone number to us through our Web site then you may be contacted by one of our volunteers or staff members (each of whom are bound by the terms of the MassRepublicansForTruth.com privacy policy and will not use your personal information for any other purpose). If you would like to be removed permanently from our phone list, please use this email link and provide us with your name and the phone number you would like removed from our records.. Please allow 7-14 business days for your information to be removed.

Children

MassRepublicansForTruth.com does not solicit personally identifying information from children. Visitors who are under 13 years of age should ask their parent or legal guardian for assistance when using the site and should not submit any personally identifying information to the site. For example, visitors under 13 years of age should not make donations or use the MassRepublicansForTruth.com email tool.

Cookies

Some parts of the site are password-protected. If you check "Remember Me" upon log-in, we will use a cookie (cookies reside on your computer and are under the control of your browser) to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the Web site without having to re-enter your password. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the tool bar on most browsers will tell you how do that. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this site.

Data Tracking

In order to better serve our members, we use cookies and periodically analyze web logs. We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics or SiteMeter.com. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our Web site. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to MassRepublicansForTruth.com members.

URLs contained in emails may contain an ID that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL which contains an id—we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs which do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser's address bar when you access the page.

Links to Other Web sites

MassRepublicansForTruth.com may provide links to third party web sites, and other web sites may provide links to the site. Third party web sites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. MassRepublicansForTruth.com has no control over such third party web sites, and by using this site, you acknowledge and agree that MassRepublicansForTruth.com is not responsible for the availability of such third party sites, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites. You further acknowledge and agree that MassRepublicansForTruth.com will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

MassRepublicansForTruth.com may revise or amend this policy at any time at our sole discretion. If we make any substantive changes in the way we collect or use personally identifying information provided by users, we will post a prominent announcement on our web site home page and post the changes on this page. We will never change our policies and practices to make them less protective of user information collected prior to the effective date of any changes without the consent of affected users. We encourage users to visit this page periodically to review our current policy.

Note of Thanks

The framework for our draft Privacy Policy was inspired by MoveOn.org Political Action.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, your personal information, or the practices of this site, you can contact us.

Email from MassRepublicansForTruth.com

Massachusetts Republicans For Truth will send you updates on this and other important campaigns by email. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our email list, you may do so by clicking this email link and providing us with your name and the email address you would like removed from our records.

MassRepublicansForTruth.com is comprised of local activists around the United States whose focus is on nonpartisan education and advocacy on important national issues. As an issue advocacy organization our work is focused primarily on nonpartisan civic engagement projects and a variety of activities aimed at educating voters about issues before them in the next election.