Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October, 2007
A user account is required to comment, debate, create issues, create groups or give opinions. When you sign up for a user account, you are required to provide: User name and password - we use this information to create and manage your user account; email address - we will use this address to communicate service announcements; State and region to provide you with information relevant to your location.
If you are logged in when you post content on the site, the content will be identified under your user name. If you are not logged in, it will be identified as anonymous.
Community Features
User Profiles
Once you have a user account, you may voluntarily provide other information to enhance your profile, including a photo or image, your name, city, date of birth, gender and political views. This information will be disclosed publicly on the site under your profile. You are not required to provide this information. We offer users the opportunity to provide this profile information in order to enhance the richness of our online community. User Profile information including members' pictures and usernames are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the ElectionU.com social networking community.
Network Feature
Our site includes a Network feature. You have the ability to network with other members of the site. If your friend accepts, he or she will be provided your user name and you will be linked as friends on the site. If you elect to accept the invitation, your network will be given your ElectionU.com user name and you will be linked as Networked on the site. If you deny accepting the invitation, your friend will not be provided your user name.
We will not use any of the information that you provide for any other purpose.
Your Opinions and Comments
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Blogs, Comment Boards, opinions or any other Public Forums that the information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Private Messaging
If you want to contact another ElectionU.com registered user, you may send a message through the site. You will be identified to that user only by your user name, and Picture. We will not disclose your email address to that member or theirs to you.
Cookies, Web Beacons and Web Logs
We set a temporary session cookie whenever you visit the site. It will be deleted when you close your browser. If you merely read the site without logging in, you may instruct your browser to deny this cookie.
When you log into the site, we may set a persistent cookie, which will allow us to recognize you as an existing registered user and avoid the need to log into the site again. These cookies may last for up to 30 days. You may clear these cookies in your browser after a session in which you have logged in.
Our web pages may also contain an electronic file called a web beacon that allows us to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies.
We log non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. None of the data collected through web beacons, cookies or web log data provides us with any personal information about you. We use this data on an aggregated basis to analyze how our users are interacting with the site and to customize your experience. If you are logged in to the site, we could associate information about your site usage that is collected by cookies, web beacons and web logs with your user account. However, we do not do this on an individual basis other than in cases of suspected abuse or illegal behavior. See our policy below about Investigating Abuse.
Advertisers' Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by electionU.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by electionU.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Special Rules for Children
Children under the age of 13 are not eligible to become registered users. If you are under 18, we also ask that you not include any personal information in your user profile (such as your name, city or date of birth) or in your posts on the site.
Third Parties
We will never provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties without your consent, except as described under Our Service Providers and Investigating Abuse. We may provide third parties with aggregated or anonymous data about our users and their usage of our services that do not contain any individual's personally identifiable information.
Our Service Providers
We may hire third-parties to help us provide our services to you. These services may include technical services, customer support, email message deployment, data processing and other services. It may be necessary for us to provide these third parties with some of you personal information in order for them to fulfill their services. For example, we use a third party to send our e-mail newsletters, so if you sign up for a newsletter, we will provide them your email address and your first and last name as necessary to provide you with the newsletter. These third parties do no retain, share or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information to providing services to us.
Links to Other Sites
electionU.com contains links to sites. electionU.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on electionU.com. Investigating Potential Abuse
We may use any information provided to us by a user, including personally identifiable information, along with any data gathered from our web logs and from third parties to conduct investigations, and we may disclose this information to third parties, including law enforcement officials, investigators, or private parties seeking to protect and enforce their rights; If we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, judicial proceeding, legal process, subpoena or warrant; we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or we believe that your actions violate the law or our Terms of Use or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.
Business Transfer
If we sell all or a portion of our business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale.
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information.
You can review your personal information and make any desired changes at any time by logging in to your account and editing the information on your profile page.
Security
In order to secure your personal information, access to your user account from the website is password-protected. While we take security very seriously, no data transmission over the Internet or information storage technology is 100% secure. If you suspect that your Political Base account has been compromised, please email us at security@electionU.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
If we make a material change in the way we use the personal data of our users, we will modify our privacy policy and will describe the changes under Changes to the Privacy Policy. Your use of the website after any published change signifies your consent to the application of the revised policy to all information contributed before or after the date of those changes.
Recent Updates.
There are no recent updates at this time
Last Updated: October, 2007
A user account is required to comment, debate, create issues, create groups or give opinions. When you sign up for a user account, you are required to provide: User name and password - we use this information to create and manage your user account; email address - we will use this address to communicate service announcements; State and region to provide you with information relevant to your location.
If you are logged in when you post content on the site, the content will be identified under your user name. If you are not logged in, it will be identified as anonymous.
Community Features
User Profiles
Once you have a user account, you may voluntarily provide other information to enhance your profile, including a photo or image, your name, city, date of birth, gender and political views. This information will be disclosed publicly on the site under your profile. You are not required to provide this information. We offer users the opportunity to provide this profile information in order to enhance the richness of our online community. User Profile information including members' pictures and usernames are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the ElectionU.com social networking community.
Network Feature
Our site includes a Network feature. You have the ability to network with other members of the site. If your friend accepts, he or she will be provided your user name and you will be linked as friends on the site. If you elect to accept the invitation, your network will be given your ElectionU.com user name and you will be linked as Networked on the site. If you deny accepting the invitation, your friend will not be provided your user name.
We will not use any of the information that you provide for any other purpose.
Your Opinions and Comments
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Blogs, Comment Boards, opinions or any other Public Forums that the information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Private Messaging
If you want to contact another ElectionU.com registered user, you may send a message through the site. You will be identified to that user only by your user name, and Picture. We will not disclose your email address to that member or theirs to you.
Cookies, Web Beacons and Web Logs
We set a temporary session cookie whenever you visit the site. It will be deleted when you close your browser. If you merely read the site without logging in, you may instruct your browser to deny this cookie.
When you log into the site, we may set a persistent cookie, which will allow us to recognize you as an existing registered user and avoid the need to log into the site again. These cookies may last for up to 30 days. You may clear these cookies in your browser after a session in which you have logged in.
Our web pages may also contain an electronic file called a web beacon that allows us to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies.
We log non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. None of the data collected through web beacons, cookies or web log data provides us with any personal information about you. We use this data on an aggregated basis to analyze how our users are interacting with the site and to customize your experience. If you are logged in to the site, we could associate information about your site usage that is collected by cookies, web beacons and web logs with your user account. However, we do not do this on an individual basis other than in cases of suspected abuse or illegal behavior. See our policy below about Investigating Abuse.
Advertisers' Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by electionU.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by electionU.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Special Rules for Children
Children under the age of 13 are not eligible to become registered users. If you are under 18, we also ask that you not include any personal information in your user profile (such as your name, city or date of birth) or in your posts on the site.
Third Parties
We will never provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties without your consent, except as described under Our Service Providers and Investigating Abuse. We may provide third parties with aggregated or anonymous data about our users and their usage of our services that do not contain any individual's personally identifiable information.
Our Service Providers
We may hire third-parties to help us provide our services to you. These services may include technical services, customer support, email message deployment, data processing and other services. It may be necessary for us to provide these third parties with some of you personal information in order for them to fulfill their services. For example, we use a third party to send our e-mail newsletters, so if you sign up for a newsletter, we will provide them your email address and your first and last name as necessary to provide you with the newsletter. These third parties do no retain, share or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information to providing services to us.
Links to Other Sites
electionU.com contains links to sites. electionU.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on electionU.com. Investigating Potential Abuse
We may use any information provided to us by a user, including personally identifiable information, along with any data gathered from our web logs and from third parties to conduct investigations, and we may disclose this information to third parties, including law enforcement officials, investigators, or private parties seeking to protect and enforce their rights; If we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, judicial proceeding, legal process, subpoena or warrant; we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; or we believe that your actions violate the law or our Terms of Use or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others.
Business Transfer
If we sell all or a portion of our business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale.
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information.
You can review your personal information and make any desired changes at any time by logging in to your account and editing the information on your profile page.
Security
In order to secure your personal information, access to your user account from the website is password-protected. While we take security very seriously, no data transmission over the Internet or information storage technology is 100% secure. If you suspect that your Political Base account has been compromised, please email us at security@electionU.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
If we make a material change in the way we use the personal data of our users, we will modify our privacy policy and will describe the changes under Changes to the Privacy Policy. Your use of the website after any published change signifies your consent to the application of the revised policy to all information contributed before or after the date of those changes.
Recent Updates.
There are no recent updates at this time