At Stephen Lynch for Congress, we are putting forth every effort to ensure the privacy and security of information that you share with us online. In addition, we urge you to take steps to protect the privacy of your personal information, such as safeguarding your passwords and logging off of the website after submitting personal information. If you have broadband access to the Internet, it is strongly advised that you use a firewall.

Our privacy policy explains the information practices we use at www.stephenflynch.com related to:

How we protect your information
How we use your information
How to contact us about privacy

Our site links to a limited number of other websites. Stephen Lynch for Congress is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements for each website you visit. Stephen Lynch for Congress will occasionally update this privacy policy as changes to the site necessitate it. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

How do we protect your information?

Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Computer systems have restricted access limited only to those persons and organizations necessary to its proper functioning. This access applies to all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data including credit card information is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Our servers are located in a locked, secure environment.

How do we use the information you provide?

On registration, sign-up and contribution forms on www.stephenflynch.com, we may ask for your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, as well as who, if anyone, referred you to the site in order to credit those who are organizing volunteer support or fundraising for Stephen Lynch for Congress.

We will use your email address to provide you news and information about Stephen Lynch for Congress. We may also use your zip code and state to send you e-mail messages about upcoming campaign events or activities in your area.

We may also use the information that you provide online to contact you for other purposes or to solicit you for contributions. When you register or sign-up online, we may share your contact information with successor organizations and other like-minded Democratic candidates and organizations, and they may contact you. When you make a contribution to us, we may also exchange your contributor information with successor organizations and other like-minded Democratic candidates and organizations, and they may solicit you (see below for additional information regarding your contributor information). Before we share or exchange your contact information or contributor information with successor organizations and other like-minded Democratic candidates and organizations, we will first ask whether you want your information shared or exchanged, and provide you with an opportunity to choose to not have your information shared or exchanged. Under no circumstances will we sell or exchange your credit card information to any other third party.

When you contribute money online:

We are required by federal law to collect and report to the Federal Election Commission the name, mailing address, occupation and employer of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in an election cycle. These records are available to the public. However, they cannot be used by other organizations for fundraising. 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 one of our petitions:

We treat your name, city, state, and any comments as public information. We may, for example, provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to national leaders, without disclosing email addresses. We may also make comments along with your city and state available to the press and public online.

When you schedule online events:

When you schedule an event and choose to post it on www.stephenflynch.com you have the choice of making your event public or semi-public. Public events will display your name and the address of the event to any visitor browsing the system and allow those users to RSVP. Semi-public events will display your name and the general area that you define (e.g.”1st & Main”, or “downtown”), but will not display the specific address. Visitors can request invitations, and only after those requests are approved by you can they see the address.

Cookies:

A cookie is a tiny text file that is stored on your computer by www.stephenflynch.com. We use cookies to tailor your experience on our site according to the preferences you have specified. When you visit www.stephenflynch.com, we only access the cookie file that we have stored on your computer. We cannot and do not access any information stored in a cookie by other websites. Our cookies do not contain any personal identifiable information.

IP Addresses and Log File Data:

We log IP addresses, 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:

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.

Parents with questions may e-mail us here.

Unsubscribing from Email Communications:

If you wish to unsubscribe from our communications, please email us here. We will regularly process these requests. To comply with federal election law, however, our contributor records will be continuously maintained in a separate secure database.

Contacting us about privacy:

Stephen Lynch for Congress Committee

PO Box 1

Hyde Park, MA 02137

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, corrections to the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this site or your interaction with this website, please contact us here.

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