Privacy Statement

Online Privacy Statement

 

This Online Privacy Statement describes how we treat user data collected during your visit to the ACLU People Power Washington site. The ACLU People Power Washington site is https://www.wethepeoplepower.org, and includes all web pages whose domain name contains  https://www.wethepeoplepower.org. This is not the online privacy statement for other ACLU People Power websites that don’t contain these domain names unless those websites link directly to this Online Privacy Statement. Neither is it the online privacy statement for other websites (e.g. blogs or social networking sites) where ACLU People Power Washington has a presence, such as ACLU People Power Washington pages on Facebook. Finally, this is not the online privacy statement for the websites of any ACLU People Power Washington affiliate organizations. In all of those cases, site-specific privacy terms apply, and are posted accordingly.

Privacy and the Internet

The Internet, generally speaking, is not currently a private place. As you visit websites, use search engines, and conduct business on the Internet, many different companies and organizations are gathering information about your online behavior by tracking your searches, visits, and transactions, and then by matching that data with other information about you. There are some things you can do to prevent your information from being collected.  We encourage you to read our Easy Steps Everyone Can Take to Protect Their Digital Privacy to help protect your privacy online.

Our Collection and Use of Information About You

Passively Collected Data

Like most websites, we may automatically receive and record information in our server logs from your browser when you visit https://www.wethepeoplepower.org/. The information that we collect with these automated methods may include your IP address, cookie information, browser type, system type, and the referring URL.

We use this type of information to measure and improve the performance of our site.  On occasion we also access this type of information to investigate or maintain the stability and security of our site.

Voluntarily Submitted Data

Certain pages on the ACLU People Power Washington site may invite you to share personally identifying information, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number.  Sharing that information will allow you to join our email list, sign a petition, or participate in other similar online activities.

We may use that voluntarily submitted data to:

  • Contact you about other ACLU People Power Washington activities or news, or about opportunities to support the ACLU.

  • Deliver content to you on platforms such as social media, other websites, search results pages and mobile apps.

  • If you have joined People Power, share your name and contact information with other volunteers, and acknowledge your participation in specific volunteer activities. 

Our Email List

If you sign up for our email list, we may collect data by using an embedded image to track whether you open our email and by using a URL that enables us to identify that you have taken an action, such as clicking a link in an email or signing an online petition.

 This allows us to build a more effective advocacy program, to inform you about the ACLU People Power Washington issues you care about most, and to make it simpler for you to sign petitions and fill out surveys.

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies to improve website performance, to remember user preferences and settings, and to collect analytic data. By “cookies” we mean small text files placed on to your computer by websites you visit. “Cookies” may also refer to local storage, which is a mechanism similar to cookies where the information is stored within your web browser. In some instances we place these cookies ourselves.  In other instances we allow outside service providers to place these cookies, but only if those providers agree to the terms described above under “How We Work with Third-Party Vendors.” We use cookies as follows:

Website Performance

Website performance cookies allow us to make the website easier and more pleasant to use. For example, they may enable us to:

  • Determine how often and where you see our “breaking news” alerts or promotions.

  • Save you time when filling out a form by populating it with information you provided in previous visits.

 Analytics

 We use analytics tools that place cookies, in order to give us a better understanding of how people engage with our website.  That in turn allows us to gauge the current performance of Website features, and to develop better content. Analytics cookies provide us with information like:

  • How many individual visitors we have

  • How many visitors are new or returning

  • How often visitors come to the website

  • What content they’ve visited

  • How visitors interact with particular pages or content

In addition, if you click on a link in an email we send to you — for example, to sign a petition — a cookie may be generated that enables us to identify that you have signed the petition.

How Certain Content Hosts May Place Cookies and Gather Information About You

Our site is connected in a variety of ways to content residing on other platforms.  We provide links to content on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, and to content on other sites, such as articles posted on the sites of news organizations.  Our site also features embedded media, such as videos, that are hosted on other platforms (such as YouTube) but viewable directly through the buttons we provide.  When you click on links or buttons for any of these types of external content, the providers of that content may place their own cookies on your computer, access existing cookies that were set when you previously visited other websites, or otherwise gather information about you as you access their content.  

To learn about how those content hosts treat the data they collect through cookies and otherwise, see their respective online privacy policies and other posted guidance. 

To learn how you can minimize the information about you collected by these types of content hosts, please see our Easy Steps Everyone Can Take to Protect Their Digital Privacy.

Procedure When We Update This Statement

Our privacy statement may change from time to time. We will post privacy statement changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice on our website. We will also keep prior versions of the Online Privacy Statement available for your review in this section.

Procedure for Updating Your Personal Information or Preferences

If you wish to withdraw or change personal information you shared with us previously or adjust personal preferences — such as your preferences regarding email lists — you may contact us to update our records. You have the following options to do this:

  • Click on the link in the footer of any email you receive from the ACLU People Power Washington and use our preference center

  • Send e-mail to: wapeoplepower@gmail.com