Privacy Policy

Welcome to www.WeGov.com (the “Site”), a website operated by WeGov, LLC (“WeGov”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We provide our users (collectively, “you” or “your”) with services to facilitate civic engagement, political participation, and organizational activism, as well as a number of related services, including website hosting, email support and customer relationship management support services (collectively, the “Services”).

We know you are concerned about your privacy, so we developed this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, and disclose information from and/or about you. This Privacy Policy describes our practices for all users of the Site and the Services (“Users”). We only provide certain services to Users who have established an account on the Site (such account, your “Account”).

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE PROCESSED BY US IN THE COUNTRY WHERE IT WAS COLLECTED AS WELL AS OTHER COUNTRIES (INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES) WHERE LAWS REGARDING PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE LESS STRINGENT THAN THE LAWS IN YOUR COUNTRY. BY USING THIS SITE AND PROVIDING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE TRANSFER OF DATA FROM YOUR COUNTRY TO A COUNTRY THAT HAS LESS STRINGENT LAWS, AND THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CONFORMANCE WITH THIS POLICY.

So we are clear about the terminology we are using, when we use the phrase “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we mean contact information (e.g., name, address, email address, or telephone number) and any other non-public information that is used or intended to be used to personally identify an individual. When we use the phrase “Anonymous Information” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information that is neither used nor intended to be used to personally identify an individual.

The Site is not directed to children and children are not eligible to use our Services. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. We do not collect or maintain Personal Information from people we actually know are under 13 years of age, and no part of our Site or Services is designed to attract people under 13 years of age. When the Site does collect age information, and users identify themselves as under 13, we will take steps to remove that user's Personal Information from our databases and to prevent the user from utilizing the Site and the Services.

Personal Information

In general, the Personal Information we gather enables us to provide the Services to you and helps us learn more about the use of the Site and/or Services. We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily when you register or order certain Services. To create an Account with a user name, we require that you provide certain Personal Information, including your name, email address, address where you are registered to vote and phone number. We may also ask you to provide certain other Personal Information, such as your age, ethnicity and gender, to help us learn more about the use of the Site and/or Services

One type of Personal Information we collect when you purchase certain Services through the Site is “Payment Information”, which means the information necessary to process a payment from you, including the following: (i) your name as it appears on the card, (ii) the credit card type (VISA, MasterCard, American Express or any other issuer then accepted by WeGov), (iii) a valid credit card number; (iv) the date of expiration of your credit card, (v) your billing address, and (vi) any activation numbers or codes needed to charge your card. If you have an Account, we will store this information, unless you request us not to do so (for information about making this request, please see the section below regarding deleting and changing your information).

When you communicate with us through our Site, by responding to our polls or surveys, by participating in our contests or by sending us an email, we may collect and store any information that is contained in your communications with us. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but this may limit the features of the Site or Services you are able to use.

Anonymous Information

As you use the Site or Services, certain Anonymous Information may be passively collected and stored, such as your Internet protocol address, browser type, domain names and access times. We may also use Cookies (as defined below) and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your browser while you are viewing a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting Cookies or to prompt you before accepting a Cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept Cookies, however, you will not be able to purchase any Services through the Site.

Personal Information

We will use your Personal Information to:

• Administer your Account and verify whether you are a registered voter;
• Process your payments and fulfill your orders;
• Provide you with Services and customer support;
• Tailor the features, performance and support of the Site or Services to you;
• Market our products and services to you and those of third parties we believe may be of interest to you;
• Respond to your requests, resolve disputes and/or troubleshoot problems;
• Improve the quality of the Site and the Services; and
• Communicate with you about the Site and the Services.

We may also use your Personal Information to create Anonymous Information records by excluding information that makes the information personally identifiable to you. You can opt out of receiving certain communications from the Site such as our newsletter by (i) clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email. Please note that even if you unsubscribe or opt-out, we may still send you order, Site and Service related communications (e.g., emails related to your orders or comments).

Anonymous Information

We may, through our use of Cookies, keep you logged into our Site, track your session history, and tailor content and advertisements to you. We may use your Anonymous Information to analyze usage patterns so that we may enhance the Site or Services and improve our internal operations and the content of our software. With your consent, we may combine such data with certain of your Personal Information. We may also de-identify or anonymize your Personal Information (thereby creating Anonymous Information). We may use your Anonymous Information to analyze usage patterns so that we may enhance the Site or Services, improve our internal operations and the content of our software, notify visitors about updates to our Site or Services, and improve the efficacy of our content and advertisements that appear on the Site.

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose Personal Information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by us, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Terms of Service or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety or rights of members of the public or users of the Services. We also reserve the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of WeGov or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution..

Personal Information

We may disclose certain Personal Information:

• To third party vendors who help us provide the Services or the Site, including vendors that help us verify your registered voter status, and vendors that process purchases for us;
• To third parties to whom you ask or authorize us to send Personal Information (including other Users);
• To any subsidiary organizations, joint ventures, or other organizations under our control (collectively, “Affiliates”), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy;
• To a company that merges with us, acquires us, or purchases our assets, in which case such company may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy; or
• If we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (i) resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use; (ii) comply with relevant laws or to respond to requests from law enforcement or other government officials relating to investigations or alleged illegal activity, in which case we can (and you authorize us to) disclose Personal Information without subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (iii) protect and defend our rights or property or the rights and property of you or third parties.

Anonymous Information

We reserve the right to disclose Anonymous Information publicly without restriction, including to third party vendors who may help us enhance or provide the Site or Services or to third parties to whom you ask us to send Personal Information.

This Privacy Policy addresses our use and disclosure of information we collect from and/or about you on the Site or through the Services. If you disclose information to others, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. The use and disclosure restrictions contained in this Privacy Policy will not apply to any third party. We do not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable.

The Site may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us, including our partner sites. We have no control over, do not review and are not responsible for the privacy policies of or content displayed on such other websites. When you click on such a link, you will leave our Site and go to another site. During this process, another entity may collect Personal Information or Anonymous Information from you. The Site may also contain links to other websites controlled by us but which operates under different privacy policies. Please review the privacy policy of any new website you visit.

We may allow third-party companies to collect certain anonymous information when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a Cookie or a third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org or http://www.addthis.com/privacy.

We may contract with third party service providers to help manage and optimize our Internet business and communications. For example, we may use the services of a marketing company to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our Site. The information collected helps us learn things like what kinds of customers our Site attracts and what kinds of offers our customers like to see.

We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third-party products and/or services by placing advertisements on the Site. These advertisers and ad servers may use Cookies and/or web bugs (which are usually small, transparent graphic images) in order to monitor information related to served advertisements and to serve advertisements to you based on your behavior on this or other sites. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third-party and the advertiser. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of any advertisers or ad servers.

If you have an Account with us, you may update or correct certain of your Personal Information on our Site by logging into the Site and/or accessing your Account. You must promptly update any information that you have provided to us if it changes or becomes false or inaccurate. You authorize us to use and disclose any new or modified information that you provide in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by us. If we delete Personal Information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives and we may also retain Anonymous Information about your use of our Services. To the extent your Personal Information is disclosed to third parties through our Site or Services (i.e., because you participated in an activity that identified who you are through our site), we cannot access that Personal Information any longer and cannot force the deletion or modification of any such information by the parties to whom those disclosures have been made.

As part of the Services, we host certain websites for third parties (“Hosted Sites”). While we do not collect Personal Information on the Hosted Sites, the individual owners and operators of those Hosted Sites (the “Hosted Site Operators”) may collect information about you. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the privacy settings of your account, as well as the settings and policies of the Hosted Sites that you visit.

Here are some specific things to remember:

• By visiting or becoming a member of a Hosted Website, the content and information you provide during the registration process (including your email address) and other interactions with the Hosted Website may be accessed by the website creator and their authorized representatives and administrators.
• The information you provide in the interactions with a Hosted Website may be accessed by the Hosted Site Operators, affiliate or business partner and their authorized representatives.
• Although certain categories of profile information may have privacy settings, others (such as your name, gender, profile photo, geographic region) are considered publicly available and have no privacy settings associated with them.
• Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings or privacy settings of the Site or a Hosted Site you used, or it was copied or stored by other users.
• Certain types of communications you send to other users cannot be removed, such as messages.
• When you post information on a website, that information is subject to that website’s privacy settings and privacy policy, which may change from time to time.
• Publicly available information may be accessed by everyone on the Internet, including third-party search engines that may index, cache and store that information.
• You should always review the policies of third party websites, applications and services to make sure you are comfortable with the ways in which they use information you share with them. Any information you share with them is at your own risk.

This Privacy Policy is subject to revision from time to time on a going-forward basis. We will post any revised version of the Privacy Policy on this page. If we make any material changes to it, we will also send you notice to the last email address you have provided to us. Continued use of the Site or our Services following notice of such changes will indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

• WeGov LLC
• 894 Main Street
• Waltham, MA 02451
• US
• info@wegov.com

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This Policy was last revised: October 29th, 2010