Privacy Policy

CIVIC Concern is a leader in the fight to protect your privacy on the Internet. CIVICConcern.org, the website for the CIVIC Concern, is a forum for sharing news, information and resources about CIVIC Concern. Its Privacy Policy reflects its strong commitment to protecting your online privacy and any information you choose to share with us when you log on (we will track people who do not log on). Our Privacy Policy explains:

  1. How we use information you provide
  2. How we protect information you provide
  3. How we personalize CIVICConcern.org for you
  4. How to unsubscribe, opt out, or correct your information
  5. How we notify you about privacy policy changes
  6. How to contact us

1. How We Use Information You Provide

We collect a variety of personal information, such as a name, address, telephone number, credit card information, bank account information, email address and/or IM address, or other information about those who register on our site, make contributions through our site or use other functions or features on the site. We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this site. We use this information to operate this site, support CIVIC Concern's mission, send you news and information about CIVIC Concern, and to credit those who are organizing support for CIVIC Concern. We will not sell this information to any third party, under any circumstances. We work closely with allied like-minded organizations and individuals and may disclose selected user information to other organizations for their use in activities related to CIVIC's mission.

Online Contributions

Because your contribution to CIVIC Concern is tax-deductible, we collect your contact information in order to send you a letter confirming the amount of your contribution for tax purposes. To make a contribution online, we also ask for your credit card number and its expiration date.

"Send to a Friend" Feature

CIVICConcern.org makes it easy for you to spread the word about CIVIC Concern with its "Send to a Friend" feature. When you use "Send to a Friend", we may store email addresses or any information about the people you contact.

The CIVICConcern.org Blog

We provide a blog on which you can post comments and messages for others to read. We may collect technical information about your post, such as the IP address from which you posted, and associate this information with your messages. Even if messages are deleted, we may retain copies and attendant information indefinitely. When you post messages to the blog, certain registration information, such as your email address, may be available to the public. Also note that any personal information you include in the body of your message will be available to the public.

Children's Information

We believe every precaution must be taken to protect children online. In accordance with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not ask children under 18 for any information, nor do we knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18.

2. How We Protect Information You Provide

CIVICConcern.org uses industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under our control. Our server is located in a locked, secure environment, with a guard posted 24 hours a day. For legal and accounting purposes, contribution records and other user information may remain in our database indefinitely. Permission to access your information is granted only to you and persons who need to know that information to provide services to you. Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by CIVICConcern.org in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security.

Links To Other Websites

This Privacy Policy covers CIVICConcern.org, and its subdomains. These sites may link to third-party websites. Should you choose to visit those websites, please remember that we are not responsible for their content or privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and review the practices of all websites you visit.

Other Disclosure of Your Information

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when we have a good-faith belief release is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena), to protect our rights or property, or 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.

3. How We Personalize CIVICConcern.org For You

Cookies

CIVICConcern.org uses cookies to administer our site and provide a more tailored and user-friendly service to you. The cookie a tiny text file does not store passwords, credit card numbers or any type of personally identifiable information whatsoever. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses, or capture your email address or any other personally identifiable information.

Server Log Files

CIVICConcern.org logs standard technical information, such as your IP address and the kind of browser you use. We log this information for troubleshooting purposes and to track which pages people visit in order to improve the site. We do not use log files to track a particular individual's use of CIVICConcern.org.

4. How to Unsubscribe, Opt Out, Or Correct Your Information

If you want to unsubscribe from mailing lists or opt out, review, update, or correct your information, you can do so at any time quickly and easily by logging on to CIVICConcern.org, or by contacting us through any of the following methods:

By postal mail, send a letter with your full name and email address to:

CIVIC Concern
ATTN: Unsubscribe
104 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32301

5. How We Notify You About Privacy Policy Changes

We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if we change our practices, add new site features, or change existing site features. We will notify registered users by email and post notice to CIVICConcern.org of any substantive changes to our Privacy Policy. Your use of CIVICConcern.org following such changes constitutes your agreement with regard to information collected from you in the past and in the future.

6. How To Contact Us

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be sent via postal mail to:

CIVIC Concern
ATTN: Privacy
104 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32301

For general questions or comments, please complete our online contact form or call 850-907-9885 between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. EST, Monday through Friday.

Last Revised: January 2007