Effective Date: October 1, 2024

At Save American Democracy, we strongly believe that privacy is a fundamental right, and we’ve written this Privacy Policy to make it easy to understand how our organization collects, uses, and shares personal information in furtherance of our mission.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect about you depends on how you use our services. When you visit our website, create a Save American Democracy account, save your payment information, make a contribution, contact us, or otherwise interact with Save American Democracy and our services, we may collect information that identifies you, relates to you, or could reasonably be linked to you, including:

• Contact Information: Your name, email address, phone number, and other information that we and the recipient of your contribution may need for compliance purposes, including your address, occupation, or information about your employer, if applicable.
• Account Information: Your account credentials and related account details.
• Integrity Information: Data that we use to help identify and prevent fraud and other violations of our terms and policies, or to defend against security threats and other malicious or deceptive activities.
• Usage Information: Data about your use of Save American Democracy, such as your activity on our website, content you create or interact with, dates and times of access, and performance and other diagnostic data. See “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” below for more information about how we collect and use some of this information.
• Other Information You Provide: Other information you provide through your interactions with Save American Democracy, including your communications with Save American Democracy and our social media accounts.

Save American Democracy may also receive information about you from other lawful sources, such as other users, our affiliates, service providers, and partners, including those that assist us in legal compliance, security and fraud prevention, and enforcing our Terms of Service.

2. Why We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• Providing Our Services: Save American Democracy uses information that is necessary to develop, operate, deliver, maintain, improve upon, and protect our services. This includes processing contributions, troubleshooting, auditing, testing, conducting internal research, analyzing data, and providing technical support.
• Protecting You, Others, and Save American Democracy:To protect our users, employees, other individuals, and our services, we use information to secure and strengthen the integrity of our services and to establish, exercise, and defend our legal rights. This includes preventing, detecting, and responding to security and safety threats, fraud, violations of our Terms of Service, or illegal activities.
• Personalizing Your Experience: Certain Save American Democracy features may use information to provide you with more relevant choices, experiences, or communications.
• Communicating With You: We use information, such as your email address, to communicate with you directly, including when you contact us. For example, we may reach out if we detect suspicious activity involving your account or provide notices about services, terms, and policies. We may also send information, tips, and offers about our services, and you can opt out of receiving non-transactional messages.
• Complying with the Law: We use information to comply with applicable laws, such as satisfying regulatory reporting obligations or answering governmental requests.

3. When We Share Your Information

We may share your information with service providers who act on our behalf, entities that we’ve partnered with, or others at your direction.

• Service Providers: Save American Democracy shares information with vendors and other firms who perform services on our behalf, including payment processors, cloud computing services, analytics providers, legal counsel, and tax and compliance auditors.
• Partners: At times, Save American Democracy may partner with others to provide specific services or features, such as integrating a third-party payment service.
• To the Candidate: We may share information with others when you have clearly intended for us to do so, or at your direction, or with your consent. For example, when you endorse a candidate using Save American Democracy, the candidate will receive a report about your endorsement.
• When Required: We may also disclose your information to comply with legal obligations or respond to legal processes, such as government requests. For example, we are required to report information about each federal contribution made through our platform to the Federal Election Commission.
• Other Circumstances: We may disclose your information when we have a lawful basis to do so, if we determine in good faith it is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and policies, protect users and services, or in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale.

Save American Democracy does not sell your contact information to third parties. If you receive unwanted solicitations from organizations or campaigns, or have concerns about their data practices, we encourage you to contact them directly.

4. Privacy Questions & Data Requests

Save American Democracy takes your privacy questions seriously. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or Save American Democracy's data practices, or if you wish to exercise your data rights under applicable laws, you can contact us. Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights with respect to your information, including the ability to request:

• Access to and/or a copy of certain personal information we hold about you.
• Correction of inaccurate information we have about you.
• Deletion of certain personal information we have collected from you.

Please note that your rights and our responses may vary based on your state or country of residency. For example, you may be located in a jurisdiction where we are not obligated or unable to fulfill a specific request.

We will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity when you make a request. Certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law, such as information we retain for legal compliance and to secure our services. We may need certain information to provide our services to you; accordingly, if you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to use our services.

5. How We Protect Your Information

Securing the Save American Democracy platform is a vital part of respecting your privacy, and we take appropriate steps to secure your information, including administrative and technical safeguards. These safeguards take into account the nature of the information, how it is processed, and the potential threats.

We use insights gained from providing our services to help detect and respond to security threats, including unauthorized access, disclosure, or destruction of data.

If you believe your account or other information we hold may be compromised, please contact us immediately.

6. Cookies and Other Technologies

Save American Democracy's website and services may use “cookies” or other technologies. Some of these tools are necessary to provide a specific service or feature that you accessed or requested, or to store your preferences, such as authenticating your account, verifying your contribution, or remembering your preferred settings.

We may also use these technologies to understand how people interact with our brand and services, and to advertise our services to you, including measuring the effectiveness of our communications or advertisements. You can usually influence or decline certain of these technologies through your web browser, but removing or disabling cookies and other technologies could affect the availability and functionality of our services.

To disable Google analytics and advertising cookies, you can use their individual analytics opt-out mechanism and adjust your Google advertising settings.

You can also make choices about interest-based ads through the  Digital Advertising Alliance.

Please note, you must take this action on each device or browser where you want your choices to apply.

7. Minors

Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—minors under the age of 18 or anyone under the age of majority under applicable law. If we become aware that a minor is using our platform, we will suspend their use of our services and delete their account in accordance with our Terms of Service.

8. Updates to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the date at the top of the Privacy Policy. In some cases, we may provide additional notice on our website or send you an email, if you have provided us with your contact information.