 privacy policy is committed to protecting your privacy online while using our website you do not have to identify yourself or divulge personal information if you should choose to give us your personal information you decide the amount of information you provide our campaign is continually trying to expand online activism and to give voters the information they need in a timely manner as a result we may periodically ask you to provide information such as your name address phone number and email address in an effort to enhance our ability to work with you as an online activist if you choose not to give us any information we may not be able to provide you with timely information regarding events and issues important to you as a politically interested and active citizen maintain several interconnected websites at any given time the principal website is permanent other issuespecific websites may be created and removed as needed to highlight important issues and events all websites owned and operated by are identified by the text paid for by our privacy policy explains the information practices we use at our site may link to a limited number of other websites is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these websites this privacy policy may be amended by at any time without notice other than posting of such amendments on this site will not sell your email address or other personal information to an outside unaffiliated organization or any unauthorized third parties when you contribute money online  when you contribute online uses stateoftheart security protocols through verisign to protect sensitive data such as personal information and credit card numbers while this data is being transferred it is protected by the secure sockets layer ssl using a 128bit signed certificate the highest level commercially available before you even register or log in to verisign the verisign server checks that you re using an approved browser one that uses ssl 30 or higher once your information reaches verisign it resides on a server that is heavily guarded both physically and electronically the verisign servers sit behind an electronic firewall and are not directly connected to the internet so your private information is available only to authorized computers when you sign up for one of our mailing lists  we collect your name contact information and email address and certain other information we use your email address to send you the email newsletter to which you subscribed you may remove your email address from that subscriber list by visiting the unsubscribe page for that list when you fill out one of our surveys  your opinion matters to and we want your input as a result we may sometimes use surveys to help us understand which issues you are interested in ip addresses and log file data  we log ip address which is the location of your computer or network on the internet for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes we also use page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit in order to improve the quality of the site there is no personal identifiable information collected in our log files information on children  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 ftc regulations establish united states federal law that protects 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 and we have designed our sites to block our knowing acceptance of information from children under 13 whenever agerelated information is requested contacting us about privacy  if you have any questions about our privacy policy the information we have collected from you online the practices of this site or your interaction with this website send email to  