VoterWatch Privacy Notice

Personal Information

  • Activity Related to VoterWatch Accounts. To utilize VoterWatch for annotation purposes, you must have a VoterWatch Account. We ask for some personal information when you create an account with us, including your name, organization, telephone number, email address and a password. These elements are important to our contact with you and they protect your account from unauthorized access.
  • Annotations/Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information, links, commentary or other annotations that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within the text pane, on profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.
  • No Information about Children. Our Site is not intended to be used by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly, directly or passively, collect information from children under the age of 13. If we create offers and products that make it appropriate to collect information from children under the age of 13, we will notify you of the change in this Policy.

Uses

  • Your account name (not your email address) may be displayed/viewable to other VoterWatch Users when you annotate videos. Any video that you annotate on the VoterWatch Site or with the VoterWatch Player may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public (an HTML code enables individuals to post your annotated video on external blogs or web sites).
  • We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing content without your consent. If, indeed, this content is sent, it will be part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to accept or decline. We may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major VoterWatch Site or Service changes, to inform you about other information, events, promotions, products or services we think will be of interest to you, to facilitate your use of, and our administration and operation of, the Site and Service, and to request feedback and otherwise serve you and enable you to take maximum advantage of our Site).
  • We may also use cookie technology to collect information.  Among other things, the use of cookies enables us to improve our Site by seeing which areas and features are most popular; to count the number of computers accessing the Site; to personalize the Site and improve the Site experience; to record your preferences; and to allow you to visit the Site without re-entering your member ID and/or password. A cookie is a small amount of data, often including an anonymous unique identifier, which is sent to your browser from a web site’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Most browsers automatically accept cookies as the default setting. You can modify the setting to reject cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the sites you visit by editing browser options.  However, if a browser is set not to accept cookies or if a user rejects a cookie, some portions of the Site may not function properly.  For example, you may not be able to access certain Site features.
  • We do not use cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc. to monitor user activity and communications on second or third-party web sites. Also, the VoterWatch player does not insert cookies on second or third-party web sites. VoterWatch will not monitor users based on I.P. addresses or other collected information. I.P. addresses and/or other means of contact and communications will not be shared with third parties.
  • We will not give, sell, rent, share, or trade any of your personally identifiable information, or the data that you store using our service to any third party, except as outlined in our Terms of Service and in this privacy policy. We reserve the right to disclose such information to a third party only if (a) we have your express written consent, (b) we reasonably believe we are compelled by applicable state and federal laws, or (c) we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person, or other irreparable injury, including economic interests of a third party, requires disclosure of the information without delay.

Information That is Publicly Available

  • When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and its associated activity will be provided to other Users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, your organization, the issues you advocate for, and the number of videos you have annotated.
  • Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users.
  • Any videos that you annotate on the VoterWatch Site and/or in the VoterWatch Media Player may be redistributed through the Internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

Choices and Usage


Network and Information Security

Our records are stored indefinitely, as are our archival backup copies. Reasonable effort will be taken to prevent unauthorized release, corruption, or loss of your personal data. For example, access to your personal information is limited to specific employees. While we have taken efforts to guard your personal information, we cannot guarantee that your information will not be disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others.

Your account information and access to our Service is accessible only through the use of an individual user ID and password. To protect the confidentiality of personal information, you must keep your password confidential and not disclose it to any other person. You are responsible for all uses of our Site by any person using your account user ID and password. Please advise us immediately if you believe your account user ID and password have been misused. In addition, always logout and close your browser when you finish your session. Please note that we will never ask you to disclose your password in an unsolicited phone call or email.

More Information

For questions concerning the product and services, please check out the How it Works page.

For more information about our privacy practices, write to us at:

VoterWatch

695 Arkansas Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

By phone: (914) 231-6628

By email: