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The Catawba County GOP has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our website, www.catawbagop.org .
From time to time The Catawba County GOP will offer a survey in regards to a current news topic. We may request your email address, but this is only used to limit multiple same user entries. These email addresses are not utilized in any other way nor can your vote be matched with your email address or any other user data.
The Catawba County GOP gathers information about users from data that is provided through optional, voluntary registrations, order forms, occasional online surveys, and data The Catawba County GOP gathers through aggregating tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views and hits throughout our site. Such information enables us to better tailor our content to voter needs and to help our web master better understand the demographics of our audience.
The Catawba County GOP does not rent to third parties our opt-in email lists. These lists are comprised of both online and offline customers of The Catawba County GOP products. Customers may opt-out of such list.
This site contains links to other sites. The Catawba County GOP is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects your personally identifiable information.
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good -faith that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
The Catawba County GOP gathers user information in the following processes:
* Order forms
o Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products, and services. We collect visitor contact information.
* Online surveys
o Our occasional online surveys may ask visitors for contact information (i.e. email address) and demographic information (i.e. zip codes, age, income level, etc.) to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information with our advertisers and partners.
* Email alerts
o The Catawba County GOP offers electronic newsletters to users. The Catawba County GOP gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. You may opt-out of receiving future electronic newsletters by sending an email to the address provided in each mailer.
o The Catawba County GOP delivers newsletters,via email to registered recipients from our subscription center.
All of our customers' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform their job are granted access to your information.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to our Webmaster.
* Usage tracking
o The Catawba County GOP tracks user traffic patterns throughout our entire site.
* Cookies
o The Catawba County GOP uses cookies in some areas to allow access to registered users. The cookies are used only to store information to identify the user. Information is not web accessible and access to the information is restricted. If the user has cookies disabled in their browser, will we identify that user by their IP number.
o The Catawba County GOP uses cookies as "shopping carts" in its online store at http://www.The Catawba County GOPstore.com. These cookies are used strictly to keep track of items selected for purchase. Without cookies enabled users will not be able to keep track of multiple purchases but may purchase items individually. These cookies are not tied to a user's personally identifiable information.
o We use third-party advertising companies to serve our ads on our Web site. These third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1x1 pixel .gifs or web beacons to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our website and other websites. This information can include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, the IP address. This information can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.
If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently you may either visit each ad network's web site individually and opt out or visit the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising cookies. Click here for the NAI gateway opt-out site. This site will also allow you to review the third-party advertising companies' privacy policies.
o The Catawba County GOP works with various third parties to serve ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. This policy only covers the use of cookies by The Catawba County GOP and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. The Catawba County GOP does not have control over, nor access to the information contained in its advertisers' cookies To find out more about how our ad agencies manage the privacy of information in conjunction with serving ads on this site go to.
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* Choice / Opt-out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving direct mail and/or electronic communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. This site gives the users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future electronic communications:
o Follow the unsubscribe instructions included with each e-mail or go here and enter your email address to pull up your account info. You can then modify your settings or unsubscribe.
o To modify or unsubscribe from paid subscriptions, please contact our Customer Service Department by using the link in the email or go here. We ask that these requests go through Customer Service to ensure that we also cancel your billing.
* Correct / Update
o This site gives users the option for changing and modifying information previously provided. To do so, send an email to our Webmaster.
* Notification of Changes
o This policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the web site. We will post those material changes prominently on our Web site so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. If we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will provide users with a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. Please check this site for information about revisions to our privacy policy.
* Contacting the Website
o If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact: Ed Readling or Cliff Issac