PRIVACY
POLICY
OF
WWW.COBURNFORSENATE.COM
and all related Websites.
Last
updated: 5/29/2009
This
policy describes the information collection, use, and dissemination
practices of the COBURN FOR SENATE 2010 COMMITTEE INC
(“COMMITTEE” or “we”) and applies
to COMMITTEE’s collection, use, storage and disclosure of
information by COMMITTEE on its (a) websites, including all its
divisions, subsidiaries and related companies and websites
(collectively, the “Websites”), (b) on various Third Party
websites, and (c) to COMMITTEE’S other information collection,
including the purchase of customer lists from Third
Parties. COMMITTEE is not responsible for the information
collection or privacy practices of Third Party websites or
applications.
BY
VISITING THIS WEBSITE AND REQUESTING INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR
SERVICES THERON, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS
PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION OR USE ANY OF
THE SERVICES, INFORMATION OR PRODUCTS OFFERED OR PROVIDED ON ANY OF
THE WEBSITES REFERRED TO IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
PLEASE
NOTE: COMMITTEE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THIS PRIVACY
POLICY FROM TIME TO TIME AND CHANGES ARE EFFECTIVE UPON POSTING.
PLEASE CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY FOR UPDATES AS IT IS YOUR SOLE
RESPONSIBILITY TO BE AWARE OF CHANGES. when we do
make changes, we will also revise the “last update” date at the
bottom of this privacy policy. For changes to this privacy policy
that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of
personal information you have provided to us, we will attempt to
obtain your consent before implementing the change by sending a
notice to the primary email address specified in your account or by
placing a prominent notice on the Sites.
YOUR
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Companies
that collect personally identifiable information (“PII”) from
California residents and disclose such information to Third Parties
(including affiliated entities) for marketing purposes must, in
response to a request by a consumer, either (1) provide a list
detailing the categories of information shared and the entities to
which such information was provided, or (2) provide a mechanism by
which a consumer may opt-out of having their information shared with
Third Parties. We have elected the second option and you may
request that your PII not be shared with Third Parties by sending
your request, including your full name, email address and postal
address to: team@coburnforsenate.com.
In accordance with California Civil Code Sec. 1789.3, California
resident users are entitled to know that they may file grievances and
complaints with California Department of Consumer Affairs, 400 R
Street, Suite 1080, Sacramento, CA 95814; or by phone at 916-445-1254
or 800-952-5210; or by email to dca@dca.ca.gov.
THE
INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE AND DISSEMINATION PRACTICES OF COMMITTEE.
1.
Collection of Information.
1.1
Survey Information.
COMMITTEE
collects information from individuals by various methods, including,
but not limited to, when an individual voluntarily completes a
survey, order form, or a registration page either online or offline,
or by means of online or offline surveys, order forms, or
registration pages operated by Third Parties (collectively, a
“Survey”). (As used herein, "online" means using the
Internet, including the Websites, and related technologies, and
"offline" means by methods other than online, including in
person, in the postal mail, using telephones and cell phones, and
other similar means.) In the Surveys, COMMITTEE or a Third Party (a
“Third Party”) may ask an individual to provide various
information to COMMITTEE, which may include his or her name, email
address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell
phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range,
education and marital status, occupation, social security number,
employment information, personal and online interests, and such other
information as may be requested from time to time (together, "Survey
Information"). COMMITTEE may also collect information concerning
an individual from another source and uses that information in
combination with information provided from this web site. Completing
the Surveys is completely voluntary, and individuals are under no
obligation to provide Survey Information to COMMITTEE or Third Party,
but an individual may receive incentives from COMMITTEE or a Third
Party in exchange for providing Survey Information to COMMITTEE.
1.2
Site Membership or Registration.
To
the extent registration is required to receive email and possibly
postal communications from COMMITTEE, this Privacy Policy also
applies to consumers that have agreed to receive e-mail marketing
from COMMITTEE, whether at our Website, via email, on Third Party
websites or otherwise. We may collect information in certain
portions of our Website, where guests provide content submissions and
suggestions or participate in interactive online activities (i.e., by
way of responding to questions and surveys, community listings,
ratings, searches and comparison searches, bidding, purchasing, chat,
games, or bulletin boards, etc.). The personal profile information
you submit to COMMITTEE remains your property, but by submitting that
information to COMMITTEE, you grant COMMITTEE, the right to use that
information for marketing purposes. COMMITTEE may also use such
information for content improvement and feedback purposes. We
may share the personal information that you supply to us and we may
join together with other organizations or businesses to bring
selected information and retail opportunities to our members. These
businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and
applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement,
suppression and validation. In addition, COMMITTEE reserves the right
to release current or past member information in the event COMMITTEE
believes that the membership is being or has been used in violation
of our rules or to commit unlawful acts, if the information is
subpoenaed, if COMMITTEE is sold or acquired, or when COMMITTEE deems
it necessary or appropriate. By agreeing to these terms, you
hereby consent to disclosure of any record or communication to any
Third Party when COMMITTEE, in its sole discretion, determines the
disclosure to be appropriate.
"Subscription"
occurs when an end-user registers for COMMITTEE’s information,
services, or offers either via registration at our website, via
co-registration at a marketing partner's website, or via a permission
pass / opt-out / no-opt mailing. COMMITTEE collects personally
identifiable information about our subscribers, based on: information
gathered at the time of registration, subscriber interaction and
response to subsequent electronic mailings and website use,
information provided by marketing partners, and information appended
from data aggregators. Information collected may include, but is not
necessarily limited to: name, email address, postal address, gender,
birth date, telephone number, activity, interests, user behavior and
other demographic information. This information enables us to better
tailor our content to subscribers' needs and to help our clients to
promote and sell their products and services.
1.3
Third Party List Information.
COMMITTEE
collects information from individuals when an individual provides
information to a Third Party and COMMITTEE subsequently purchases,
licenses, or otherwise acquires the information from the Third Party
(the "Seller"). Such purchased information may
include, but is not limited to, an individual's name, email address,
street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone
numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education
and marital status, occupation, industry of employment, personal and
online interests, and such other information as the individual may
have provided to the Seller (together, "Third Party List
Information"). When acquiring Third Party List Information,
COMMITTEE seeks assurances from the Seller that the Seller has a
right to transfer the Third Party List Information to COMMITTEE and
that the Seller has a right to provide offers from Advertisers to the
individuals whose personal information is included on the Seller's
list.
1.4
Other Information.
Other
occasions when COMMITTEE obtains information from individuals include
(1) when an individual is making a claim for a prize or seeking to
redeem an incentive offered by COMMITTEE or by a Third Party, (2)
when an individual requests assistance through COMMITTEE’s customer
service department, and (3) when an individual voluntarily subscribes
to a COMMITTEE service or newsletter (together, "Other
Information").
1.5
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Info Collected Using Technology.
COMMITTEE
may use cookie and web beacon technology to associate certain
Internet-related information about an individual with information
about the individual in our database. Additionally, COMMITTEE may use
other new and evolving sources of information in the future
(together, "Technology Information").
(a)
Cookies.
A
cookie is a small amount of data stored on the hard drive of the
individual's computer that allows COMMITTEE to identify the
individual with his or her corresponding data that resides in
COMMITTEE’s database. You may read more about cookies at
http://cookiecentral.com. Individuals who use the Websites need
to accept cookies in order to use all of the features and
functionality of the Websites.
(b)
Web Beacons.
A
web beacon is programming code that can be used to display an image
on a web page (by using an <img src="x"> programming
function -- see http://truste.org for more information), but can also
be used to transfer an individual's unique user identification (often
in the form of a cookie) to a database and associate the individual
with previously acquired information about an individual in a
database. This allows COMMITTEE to track certain websites an
individual visits online. Web beacons are used to determine
products or services an individual may be interested in, and to track
online behavioral habits for marketing purposes. For example,
COMMITTEE might place, with the consent of a Third Party website, a
web beacon on the Third Party's website where cosmetics are sold.
When Jane, an individual listed in COMMITTEE’s database,
visits the cosmetic website, COMMITTEE receives notice by means of
the web beacon that Jane visited the cosmetics site, and COMMITTEE
would then update Jane s profile with the information that Jane is
interested in cosmetics. COMMITTEE may thereafter present
offers of cosmetic related products and services to Jane. In
addition to using web beacons on web pages, COMMITTEE also uses web
beacons in email messages sent to individuals listed in COMMITTEE’S
database.
(c)
New Technology.
The
use of technology on the Internet, including cookies and web beacons,
is rapidly evolving, as is COMMITTEE’S use of new and evolving
technology. As a result, COMMITTEE strongly encourages
individuals to revisit this policy for any updates regarding its use
of technology.
(d)
Usage Tracking.
COMMITTEE
tracks information related
to the electronic mailings and web pages viewed by users and
subscribers, as well as the hyperlinks clicked by subscribers, while
viewing our emails or visiting our websites.
(e)
Log Files.
Log
files are used to track and monitor subscriber usage.
(f)
Optional Registration.
COMMITTEE
may offer free voluntary
registration to potential subscribers. During such
registration, the subscriber is required to supply an email address
and other personal information. This information is required if
the subscriber wants to participate in COMMITTEE services or receive
COMMITTEE information.
(g)
Feedback and Inquiries.
You
have the ability to contact COMMITTEE to
provide us with their feedback. COMMITTEE uses this information to
respond to you and analyze customer service issues.
1.6
Outside Information.
COMMITTEE
may receive information about individuals from Third Parties or from
other sources of information outside of COMMITTEE including
information located in public databases ("Outside Information").
1.7
Individual Information.
As
used herein, Individual Information means Survey Information, Third
Party List Information, Other Information, Technology Information,
and Outside Information, and any other information COMMITTEE gathers
or receives about individuals.
1.8
No Information Collected from Children.
COMMITTEE
will never knowingly collect any personal information about children
under the age of 18. If COMMITTEE obtains actual knowledge that
it has collected personal information about a child under the age of
18, that information will be immediately deleted from our database.
Because it does not collect such information, COMMITTEE has no
such information to use or to disclose to Third Parties. COMMITTEE
has designed this policy in order to comply with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA").
1.9
Credit Card Information.
COMMITTEE
may in certain cases collect credit card numbers and related
information, such as the expiration date of the card ("Credit
Card Information") when an individual places an order from
COMMITTEE. When the Credit Card Information is submitted to
COMMITTEE, such information is encrypted and is protected with SSL
encryption software. COMMITTEE will use the Credit Card Information
for purposes of processing and completing the purchase transaction,
and the Credit Card Information will be disclosed to Third Parties
only as necessary to complete the purchase transaction.
1.10
Links to External Websites.
COMMITTEE’S
emails and websites may contain links to external websites. You
will be taken to external websites if you click on these links. Your
information may be passed from COMMITTEE’S database to the external
website, and/or external database, for your convenience (e.g. your
information may be used to pre-fill a form at a destination website).
COMMITTEE is not responsible for the privacy practices or
content of any external website owner. We encourage you to
review the privacy policy of any website you visit.
2.
Use of Individual Information.
2.1
Discretion to Use Information.
COMMITTEE
MAY USE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN
COMMITTEE'S SOLE DISCRETION.
The
following paragraphs in Section 2 describe how COMMITTEE currently
uses Individual Information, but COMMITTEE may change or broaden its
use at any time. As noted above, COMMITTEE may update this
policy from time to time. COMMITTEE may use Individual Information to
provide promotional offers to individuals by means of email
advertising, telephone marketing, direct mail marketing, online
banner advertising, and package stuffers, among other possible uses.
2.2
Email and Unsubscribe Policy.
COMMITTEE
uses Individual Information to provide promotional offers by email to
individuals. COMMITTEE may maintain separate email lists for
different purposes. If email recipients wish to end their email
subscription from a particular list, they need to follow the
instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from the
particular list. To unsubscribe from all COMMITTEE’S email
lists, a person must send an email to team@coburnforsenate.com.
COMMITTEE’S
unsubscribe process impacts only the future delivery of electronic
mailings disseminated by COMMITTEE on its own behalf. You may
still receive electronic mailings sent on behalf of Third Parties and
your personal information may still be shared with Third Parties for
use in offline marketing and data appends, including email appends.
You
should also note that unsubscribing from COMMITTEE’S electronic
mailings will not automatically unsubscribe the subscriber s
information from any Third Party associates and licensees of the
data. Since Third Party associates and licensee partners
maintain separate databases from COMMITTEE, and you will need to
unsubscribe from each source individually, if desired. This
allows you the freedom to pick and choose which subscriptions to
maintain and which to discontinue.
2.3
Content of Email Messages.
In
certain commercial email messages sent by or for COMMITTEE, an
Advertiser's name will appear in the "From:" line, and
hitting the "Reply" button will not cause a reply email to
be sent to COMMITTEE. The "Subject:" line of
COMMITTEE email messages will usually contain a line provided from
the Advertiser to COMMITTEE.
2.4
Solicited Email.
COMMITTEE
only sends email to individuals who have agreed on the Websites to
receive email from COMMITTEE or to individuals who have agreed on
Third Party websites to receive email from Third Parties such as
COMMITTEE. COMMITTEE does not send unsolicited email messages.
As a result, statutes requiring certain formatting for
unsolicited email are not applicable to COMMITTEE’s email messages.
2.5
Targeted Advertising.
COMMITTEE
may use Individual Information to target advertising to an
individual. When an individual is using the Internet, COMMITTEE
may use Technology Information (see also Section 2.7 below) to
associate an individual with that person's Individual Information,
and COMMITTEE may attempt to show advertising for products and
services in which the person has expressed an interest in the
Surveys, indicated an interest by means of Technology Information,
and otherwise. COMMITTEE may, at its discretion, target advertising
by using email, direct mail, telephones, cell phones, and other means
of communication to provide promotional offers.
2.6
Direct Mail and Telemarketing.
COMMITTEE
may use Individual Information to advertise, directly or indirectly,
to individuals using direct mail marketing or telemarketing using
telephones and cell phones and such contact shall be deemed to be
with the permission of individuals covered by this Privacy Policy.
2.7
Use of Technology Information.
COMMITTEE
may use Technology Information (1) to match a person's Survey
Information and Third Party List Information to other categories of
Individual Information to make and improve profiles of individuals,
(2) to track a person's online browsing habits on the Internet, (3)
to determine which areas of COMMITTEE’S websites are most
frequently visited. This information helps COMMITTEE to better
understand the online habits of individuals so that COMMITTEE can
target advertising and promotions to them.
2.8
Profiles of Individuals.
COMMITTEE
uses Individual Information to make a profile of an individual. A
profile can be created by combining Survey Information and Third
Party List Information with other sources of Individual Information
such as information obtained from public databases.
2.9
Storage of Individual Information.
COMMITTEE
stores the Individual Information in a database on its own computers,
or licensed third party computers. Our computers have security
measures (such as a firewall) in place to protect against the loss,
misuse, and alteration of the information under COMMITTEE’s
control. Not withstanding such measures, COMMITTEE cannot
guarantee that its security measures will prevent its computers from
being illegally accessed, and the Individual Information on them
stolen or altered.
3.
Dissemination of Individual Information.
3.1
Sale or Transfer to Third Parties.
COMMITTEE
MAY SELL OR TRANSFER INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY
PURPOSE IN COMMITTEE’S SOLE DISCRETION.
3.2
Order Fulfillment.
COMMITTEE
will transfer Individual Information to Third Parties when necessary
to provide a product or service that a person orders from such Third
Party while using COMMITTEE’S websites or when responding to offers
provided by COMMITTEE.
3.3
Legal Process.
COMMITTEE
may disclose Individual Information to respond to subpoenas, court
orders, and other legal processes.
3.4
Summary Data.
COMMITTEE
may sell or transfer non-individualized information, such as summary
or aggregated anonymous information about all persons or sub-groups
of persons.
3.5
Access.
Individuals
have access to their Individual Information collected to provide an
opportunity for an individual to correct, amend, or delete such
information. Access can be obtained by contacting
team@coburnforsenate.com.
COMMITTEE may also grant advertising clients and email services
providers access to an individual's email address to verify the
origin of the Individual Information collected.
3.6
Do Not Call Registry Waiver. Even
though you may be on a National or State DO NOT CALL list, by
submitting your contact information which may include your telephone
number, you are expressly authorizing us and our advertising
businesses and affiliates to contact you by telephone at the number
you have used regarding the information you have expressed.
4.
Privacy Practices of Third Parties.
4.1
Advertiser cookies and web beacons.
Advertising
agencies, advertising networks, and other companies (together,
"Advertisers") who place advertisements on the Websites and
on the Internet generally may use their own cookies, web beacons, and
other technology to collect information about individuals.
COMMITTEE does not control Advertisers' use of such technology and
COMMITTEE has no responsibility for the use of such technology to
gather information about individuals.
4.2
Links.
The
Websites and email messages sometimes contain hypertext links to the
websites of Third Parties. COMMITTEE is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such other websites. Linked
websites may contain links to websites maintained by Third Parties.
Such links are provided for your convenience and reference
only. COMMITTEE does not operate or control in any respect any
information, software, products or services available on such Third
Party websites. The inclusion of a link to a web site does not
imply any endorsement of the services or the site, its contents, or
its sponsoring organization.
4.3
Affiliated Companies.
COMMITTEE
may disclose, transfer, and sell Individual Information to entities
affiliated with COMMITTEE in COMMITTEE’S discretion.
5.
Unsubscribe Procedures.
If
you wish to discontinue receiving email messages from COMMITTEE, you
have several options:
(a)
Unsubscribe from one email list.
To
unsubscribe from a particular list, either (1) send an email to
team@coburnforsenate.com
or (2) follow the instructions in each promotional email message sent
by COMMITTEE.
(b)
Unsubscribe from all of COMMITTEE’S email lists.
We
reserve the right to add Individual Information to multiple lists
maintained by COMMITTEE. To globally unsubscribe from all of
COMMITTEE’S lists, send an email to team@coburnforsenate.com
For more information about protecting
your privacy, you may wish to visit: www.ftc.gov.
If
you have questions about this policy, please contact us at
team@coburnforsenate.com
Effective
as of: 5/29/2009
Last
Updated On: 5/29/2009