Privacy Policy
MOVote.org, a project of Show Me Integrity Education Fund, a Missouri nonprofit organization exempt from tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, has created this privacy policy to explain how we use information that you may provide while visiting the MOVote.org and Show Me Integrity Education Fund website and to demonstrate our firm commitment to Internet privacy. Hereafter, MOVote.org and Show Me Integrity Education Fund shall be known as “the organizations.”
The organizations may modify this policy from time to time so we encourage you to check this page when revisiting this website. By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and of the Terms of Use for this site. This policy has been updated, effective August 11, 2020.
How We Use Your Information
When you request an absentee ballot, register, donate, sign up to volunteer, or take any other action on our site, we may ask you to give us contact information, including your name, address, occupation, employer, telephone number and/or e-mail address. By providing a mobile phone number, you agree to receive occasional text messages and/or calls from the organizations. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies. Text STOP to cancel or HELP for help. We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this site. We use this information to operate this site, follow-up to help you vote, send news and information to you about the organizations, solicit your participation in programs, events and activities, and obtain and confirm RSVP’s to events and programs. We use your e-mail address to send such information by e-mail and may use your telephone number to call you and/or send you text messages for these purposes.
The organizations will not provide your e-mail address or phone number to any other person or organization, for any purpose, except:
to companies that assist us in maintaining this site or with the organizations’ activities, but only for purposes of providing services to the organizations and with the strict requirement that any such company will never itself have the right to contact you for any reason; to programs or campaigns that explicitly further the mission of the organizations, which may or may not be housed within the organizations’ legal entities;
or to comply with applicable law or legal requirements (for example, a lawful subpoena), to protect our rights or property, or to protect our supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct, or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records.
Submitting your personal information including e-mail address on this website will sign you up to receive e-mails from the organizations.
The organizations believe strongly in public disclosure of the financing of organizations participating in the political process. For that reason, we voluntarily disclose the names of all donors to the organizations. If you have any concerns or questions about our disclosure policy, please email Team (AT) ShowMeIntegrity.org.
We may also use your first name to indicate the latest actions taken on this site.
Children
The organizations comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The organizations do not solicit and do not accept personally identifying information from any person under 13 years of age. Visitors to this site who are under 13 years of age should not use this site except under the supervision and with the assistance of their parent or legal guardian, and should never submit any personally identifying information to the site. For example, visitors under 13 years of age should not make donations or take any actions on or through this site.
Credit Card Information; Protection of Personal Information
When you make a donation to the organizations, or purchase merchandise, materials or other items through this website, we collect credit card information from you. That information is used solely for processing your contribution; is not maintained by the organizations; and is never disclosed to anyone, for any other purpose other than for processing your contribution, under any circumstances.
The organizations use industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our server is located in a locked, secure environment. All supplied credit card information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment processing provider’s database. Permission to access your information is granted only to you and the organizations’ employees or contractors who need to know that information to provide services to you and who are required to keep the information confidential. Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by this website in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security.
Cookies and Data Tracking
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Some parts of this site may be password-protected. We may use a cookie (cookies reside on your computer and are under the control of your browser) to help us remember and process items that you purchase through this site; and/or to compile aggregate data about visitors to the site and their interaction with the site for the purposes of improving the operation of the site and/or offering better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use cookies to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the website without having to re-enter your password. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the tool-bar on most browsers will tell you how do that. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this site.
We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our website. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to the organizations supporters.
URLs contained in emails may contain an ID that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL which contains an id—we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs which do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser’s address bar when you access the page.
Advertising
We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including Google, which will be shown on other sites on the internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to the site. At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with us be shared with those third-party vendors. If you prefer to opt out of the use of these third-party cookies on the site, you can do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.
Links to Other Sites
The privacy policies and practices contained in this Privacy Statement do not apply to ANY external links. This Privacy Statement only applies to our site or any future sites that the organizations may develop. It does not cover sites that are linked to by this site or sites for which we are not responsible (“linked-sites”). These linked-sites will have their own policies and practices which may be different from ours. We therefore encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies and practices of the linked-sites, especially if you provide personal information to them.
Changes to Policy
We retain the right to amend or otherwise update this Privacy Statement at any time. By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of the information as we have described. If we change our policies and practices, we will post the changes in our Privacy Statement so that you are always aware of them. With this knowledge, you can make an informed decision about whether you wish to provide personal information to us.
For any questions, please contact us at Team (AT) ShowMeIntegrity.org