NEW HANOVER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The New Hanover Democratic Party (NHDP) 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.
The Democratic Party 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.
Our privacy policy explains the information practices we use at newhanoverdems.org:
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How we use your information |
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How to correct information you provided |
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How to contact us about privacy |
Our site links to a limited number of other websites. NHDP is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these websites.
This privacy policy may be amended by the NHDP at any time without notice other than posting of such amendments on this site.
How do we protect your information?
Our website has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our servers are located in a locked, secure environment.
When you contribute online, the NHDP uses PayPal for secure transactions. For more information on PayPal, or to set up your own PayPal account, go to
http://www.paypal.com.
How do we use the information you provide the NHDP?
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Our volunteer forms ask you to give us contact information (such as your name and email address) and geographic information (such as your zip code and state). We use this information to send you customized content about campaigns and to help match your interests to campaign activities. If you provide your phone number, we may call you. If you choose to subscribe to an email newsletter, we use your email address to send you that newsletter. You may remove your email address from that subscriber list by visiting the unsubscribe page for that list. |
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When you contribute money online: |
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We are required by federal law to collect and report to the Federal Election Commission the name, mailing address, occupation and name of employers of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in a calendar year. These records are available to the public. However, they cannot be used by other organizations for fund raising. For additional information, visit the FEC website at http://www.fec.gov. We also make a note of your telephone number and email address, which helps us to contact you quickly if follow-up on your contribution is necessary under Federal election law. |
| When you sign up for one of our mailing lists: |
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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.
The NHDP respects your privacy. We will not give, sell or rent your email address to any other organization unless you specifically authorize us.
The NHDP will not sell, rent, or disclose email addresses or other information about persons obtained solely from members of the online team program when creating their teams. |
| When you fill out one of our surveys: |
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Your opinion matters to the Democratic Party and we want your input. As a result, we use surveys to help us understand which issues you are interested in. These aggregate survey results are used to help inform lawmakers, while individual survey results help us deliver to you customized web content.
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: |
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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 age-related information is requested. |
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:
webmaster@newhanoverdems.org.
You can also reach us via US Mail at:
New Hanover Democratic Party
P.O. Box 3416
Wilmington, NC 28406-3416
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