...Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Statement

The Steve Clark for Congress respects your right to privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to our website. Outlined below is our online privacy policy for information collected through our website and email lists. If you have questions about these policies, please contact us by e-mail at info@votesteveclark.com.

Sharing or Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not share or otherwise disclose any personal information you provide to us online, including your name, address, phone number or email address, with other organizations without your consent unless required by law (for example, as explained below, federal law requires us to use best efforts to collect and report to the Federal Election Commission campaign contributors' names, addresses, employers, and occupations), or as needed to respond to legal process or court orders, or as needed to demonstrate our compliance with federal election law. We will not sell your email address or other personal information to an outside, unaffiliated organization or any unauthorized third parties. With the exception of federally required reporting, only the Steve Clark for Congress staff and our authorized agents have access to personally identifiable information provided by visitors to our site.

Federal Reporting Requirements

Federal law requires us to collect and report your name, address, employer, occupation, and amount of your contribution when you contribute online. For additional information on reporting requirements, please visit the Federal Election Commission's website at FEC.gov. We also retain your telephone number and e-mail so that we can contact you if we need additional information to ensure compliance with federal laws governing campaign contributions and reporting. Any outside vendors that may process your online contribution are not permitted to use information about you for any other purpose.

Email Lists

If you choose to join Team Steve Clark, please know that you are opting to receive email updates or newsletters if you so indicate by leaving the box checked when if you provide your email address. We use your email address to send you those updates or newsletters. We use industry-standard encryption information to protect any subscription information, including your email address, that you may send to our website. If you wish to remove your email address from our list of subscribers who receive e-mail updates or newsletters, please send your request to info@votesteveclark.com. We attempt to make opting out of receiving email updates and newsletters easy and prompt. We will use our best efforts to process unsubscribe requests weekly.

Cookies and IP Addresses

This site may use cookies - tiny text files that are stored on your computer - to tailor your experience on our site according to preferences you have specified. When you visit this site, we can access only the information that we stored in your cookie file. We cannot access any information stored in a cookie by other websites. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information. We may also log IP addresses - the location of your computer or network on the Internet - for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes.

We may also use IP addresses in the aggregate to track which pages people visit in order to improve the quality of the site. We do not use these data to develop profiles of individual visitors to our website. There is no personally identifiable information collected in our log files. Unless you choose to give us information, your identity remains unknown to us.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)

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 Federal Trade Commission regulations protect 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.

Protection of Personal and Financial Information

The Steve Clark for Congress has put in place appropriate security measures to protect your personal and financial information. We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving financial data from our site. In addition, our physical facilities are protected against the loss or misuse of information that we have collected from you at our site. When you contribute online, we use a secure server and Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") to protect your credit card number and other personal information during transmission. SSL is a protocol developed by Netscape for secure transmission of private information over the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that are transmitted over the SSL connection. All recently-released web browsers support SSL. Web pages that require an SSL connection begin with "https" rather than "http." SSL uses 128-bit encryption within the U.S. and 64-bit encryption internationally. For more information on SSL,
please visit Netscape's website.