November 11th, 2019
Politicking, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Politicking” or “We”), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes:
This policy applies to information you provide to us through the App, information we collect through the App, information you permit us to use and publicly available voter information.
This policy DOES NOT apply to information that you provide to or is collected by any third party.
Third parties may have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read before providing information to or through them.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not download, register with, or use this App. By downloading, registering with, or using this App, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this App after we revise this policy means you accept those changes, so please check this policy periodically for updates.
The App is not intended for children under 18 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@politickingapp.com.
We collect information from and about users of our App:
When you download, register with, or use this App, we may ask you provide information:
This information includes:
You may also provide information for publication or display (“Posted”) on the App (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are Posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of third parties with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
We will ask for your permission to collect or use certain data from your mobile device or third parties including:
You may choose whether to grant the App access to this information. You may opt out of sharing your contacts, geolocation information, or photos by selecting “No” when prompted by your mobile device or through your mobile device settings. You may opt out of sharing information through a federated log-in by creating your own log-in account.
Note, however, that opting out of the App’s collection of your contacts, geolocation information, and photographs will cause features associated with that information to be not fully functional or disabled.
When you download, access, and use the App, it may use technology to automatically collect:
If you do not want us to collect this information, do not download the App or, if you have already downloaded the App, delete it from your device.
The technologies we use for automatic information collection may include but is not
restricted to:
Voter registration lists and files are available to the public. We have acquired publicly available voter records (“Public Voter Records”) and organized that information. We have chosen to protect our users’ privacy by not including all information from Public Voter Records in the voter information accessible on the App. When you use the app or create a log-in account, you may match your log-in to your voter information available on the app (“Politicking Profile”), which includes, among others:
You may choose not to associate your log-in with your Politicking Profile. However, doing so will cause features associated with that information to be unavailable.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, to:
We use your contacts to enable you to invite friends to check out the App and engage
with them regarding the App. We will not provide them to any third party for advertising
or any purpose unrelated to the App. If you provide access to your contacts and
initiate a text message to one or more of your contacts, you represent and
warrant that each of those individuals has expressly consented to receive such
message from you and to receive them from you through the App.
We may disclose aggregated information and analytics about our user populations without restriction. When we do this, we won’t share your personal information. Aggregated information and analytics about our users will never be traceable to you
individually.
In addition, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. This section describes mechanisms we provide for you to control certain uses and disclosures of your information.
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the App and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at info@politickingapp.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.
In particular, California permits users of our App that are California residents to request, once each calendar year, information regarding the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, if any. Politicking does not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, to make such a request, please send an email to info@politickingapp.com.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers and is encrypted in-transit.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our App, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the App and in the messages you may send through the App. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the App.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted through our App.
Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures we provide.
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. If we make retroactive or material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will post the new privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated and notify you by an in-App alert the first time you use the App after we make the change.
The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. If we make retroactive and material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we may contact you in other ways as required by law. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address and/or phone number for you and for periodically visiting this privacy policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices,
contact us at: info@politickingapp.com