Last updated: June 20, 2020
This Privacy Policy describes how Mailthevote.us (“Mail The Vote“, “We“, “Us“, or “Our“) protects your privacy when you use Mailthevote.us (the “the Service“) which includes the Web site located at Mailthevote.us (the “Site“) and all Mailthevote.us mobile phone applications (“Mobile“).
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy are effective as of June 19, 2020 and applies to the Services and governs data collection and usage.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW, YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE.
Use of this Website
By using the Services provided by Mailthevote.com you understand and accept to the following disclaimers:
- While we do our best to keep Our information current, We do not guarantee the accuracy of information provided through Mail The Vote Content and Services.
- Please check with your voting official, such as your Secretary of State, for the most current and accurate information.
- Mail The Vote does not provide legal, medical, or financial advice.
- Mail The Vote is not official government information. We do our best to summarize information from the best and most trusted 3rd party resources.
- Mail The Vote does not create, administer or manage voting forms, applications, or any voting process. Please contact your voting official for help.
- Mail The Vote does not require users to vote a certain way and does not cast ballots or help fill out forms for anyone.
- The purpose of this Service is to help users register to mail vote by making information available and linking to 3rd party resources.
Intellectual Property; Limited License to Users
Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, any applicable license agreement with Mail The Vote, and the law, you may access and use the Site. Mail The Vote remains the sole owner of all right, title, and interest in the Site and reserves all rights not expressly granted under these Terms of Use. Mail The Vote may modify, replace, or discontinue the Site or any part thereof at any time, for any reason, with or without notice, in Mail The Vote’s sole discretion. Mail The Vote provides the Site on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
All content on this Site, including but not limited to Images, Footage, Music, and related metadata (collectively the “Content”), as well as the selection and arrangement of the Content, are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property laws and treaties. Any unauthorized use of any Content violates such laws and this Terms of Use. Except as expressly provided herein or in a separate license agreement between you and Mail The Vote, Mail The Vote does not grant any express or implied permission to use the Site or any Mail The Vote Content. You agree not to copy, republish, frame, download, transmit, modify, adapt, create derivative works based on, rent, lease, loan, sell, assign, distribute, display, perform, license, sublicense or reverse engineer the Site or any of Mail The Vote Content. In addition, you agree not to use any data mining, robots or similar data and/or image gathering and extraction methods in connection with the Site or Mail The Vote Content.
Unless you enter into a license agreement with Mail The Vote you may not download, distribute, display and/or copy any Mail The Vote Content unless otherwise specified for public use under Creative Commons license.
You may not remove any watermarks or copyright notices contained in the Mail The Vote Content.
Sharing and re-sharing links to Mail The Vote website and its content is permitted by social media and individual’s emails for the purpose of word-of-mouth about mail voting.
Infringement Claims / DMCA Notices
If you believe that any Image or other material made available by Mail The Vote infringes upon any copyright that you own or control, you may notify us by using our contact form.
Limitations
You agree that you shall not:
Engage in any conduct that shall constitute a violation of any law or that infringes the rights of Mail The Vote or any third party.
Violate any applicable laws or regulations related to the access to or use of the Site, or engage in any activity prohibited by these Terms of Use.
Violate the rights of Mail The Vote or any third party (including rights of privacy and publicity) or abuse, defame, harass, stalk or threaten another.
Restriction and Termination of Use
Mail The Vote may block, restrict, disable, suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Site and/or its Content at any time at Our discretion, without prior notice or liability to you. Any conduct by you that, in Our sole discretion, restricts or inhibits any other person or entity from using or enjoying the Site is strictly prohibited and may result in the termination of your access to the Site without further notice.
Links to Third Party Sites
In the event that the Site is available through any third-party platform, or if Mail The Vote provides links from the Site to any third-party platform or permits any third party to link from its platform to the Site, you understand and agree that Mail The Vote makes no warranty of any kind, express or implied, and accepts no responsibility for any content or practices of such third parties or their platforms. Such platforms are not under the control of Mail The Vote, and Mail The Vote provides and/or permits these links only as a convenience to you. The inclusion of any link does not imply affiliation, endorsement, or adoption by Mail The Vote.
11. Warranties and Disclaimers
- Your use of the Site is at your own risk. The Site is provided by TCA under these terms of use “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express, implied, statutory or otherwise. TCA expressly disclaims any and all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to each and any service available from the Site, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and any other warranty that might arise under any law. Without limiting the foregoing, TCA makes no warranty that: (i) the Site will meet your requirements; (ii) access to the Site will be uninterrupted; (iii) the quality of the Site will meet your expectations; and (iv) any errors or defects in the site, services or materials will be corrected. TCA makes no representations or warranties that the Site will be permitted in your jurisdiction, that any of Your Content submitted by you will be available through the Site or will be stored by the Site, that the Site will meet your needs, or that TCA will continue to support any particular feature of the Site. To the extent any disclaimer or limitation of liability does not apply, all applicable express, implied, and statutory warranties will be limited in duration to a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which you first used the Site, and no warranties shall apply after such period.
12. Indemnification
- You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless TCA, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, employees, agents, third party information providers, Submitters and independent contractors against any claims, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to your conduct, your use or inability to use Site, your breach or alleged breach of the Website Terms of Use or of any representation or warranty contained here
Collection Of Your Personal Information
We DO NOT collect or store your personal information on this website. In order to operate the full features offered on our Site, in some instances we may collect information that you (the “User” or “Users”) voluntarily provide to us. For example, we collect your email address and other information you provide us when you contact us by email or use our contact form. We do not obtain information about our visitors from other companies.
Use Of Your Information
We use information collected through the Service:
- to communicate with you;
- to process your requests
Sharing Information With Third Parties
Mail The Vote does NOT sell, rent or lease its User data to third parties.
Information collected through the Service may be shared with companies and organizations that perform services on our behalf (for example, companies that provide data management or other support services to us such as Web hosting services). We do NOT share your information with third parties to serve you advertising and market any products or solicit political donations.
Mail The Vote may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Services; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Mail The Vote; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Users of Mail The Vote, or the public. If we are going to release your information in response to legal process, our policy is to provide you with reasonable advance notice under the circumstances unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or court order (e.g., an order under 18 U.S.C. § 2705(b)). We may disclose your information without giving you prior notice if we believe it is necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person. Nothing in this privacy policy is intended to limit any legal objections or defenses you might have to efforts by third parties to compel disclosure of your information, including legal orders from the government.
Tracking User Behavior
Mail The Vote may keep track of the websites and pages our Users visit within Mailthevote.com, in order to determine what content is the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content within Mail The Vote to Users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit the Site, we or services we use automatically collect some anonymized information. For example, it is standard for your Web browser to automatically send information to every Web site you visit, including ours. Such information can include your computer’s hardware, Internet Protocol (“IP“) address, access times, browser type and language, and referring Web site addresses. We also collect and combine information about devices you use to access the Services, and information about your usage and activity on the Site. This can also include anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as age, gender and other demographics.
This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Mail The Vote website.
Use Of Cookies
Mail The Vote collects certain information through web browser “cookies”. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive by your web browser, if configured to allow it. You can choose to disable the setting of third-party cookies, or any cookies at all, within your web browser settings. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We use cookies to see which content and features of the Site are most popular, to count the number of devices accessing the Site, to personalize your experience and to remember your preferences.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you select an option on Mail The Vote pages a cookie helps Mail The Vote to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information. When you return to the same Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the features of the Mail The Vote Services or websites you visit.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security Of Your Personal Information
Mail The Vote secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Mail The Vote uses the following methods for this purpose: SSL Protocol. When personal information is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Email Communications
Mail The Vote will only contact you via email if you’ve opted into an email list when we make one available, or for the purpose of answering contact requests initiated to us first by using email or our contact form.
Controlling And Modifying Your Information Or To Opt-out
We respect your right to make choices about your information. You may request Mail The Vote to:
- delete your personal information (please see below for more details on deletion)
- update, edit or modify your information or
- change your privacy preferences at any time
Your request can be made by emailing us using our contact form.
We believe that you proceed to use our Mail The Vote Services upon accepting all the terms of this Privacy Policy. And as such we have your consent in processing and using your data as defined above. However, you are also free to choose to withdraw your consent and request us to cease processing your information by sending us a notice. In such case your withdrawal will not affect the legitimacy of the prior data processing.
Mail The Vote does NOT send marketing or promotional communications via email. If you have opted into an email list, should we make this option available, please click “unsubscribe” or “update preferences” from the email footer to opt-out.
General Note: Transactional service communications (such as messages about your registration) are not subject to the foregoing opt-out procedures.
Notice To California Residents
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 “Shine The Light Law” permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information (if any) by Mail The Vote to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make this request, please use our contact form.
If you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of any site where this policy is posted, California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted. To make such a request, please send an email with a detailed description of the specific content or information using our contact form. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.
Regarding California’s CCPA: The California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA does not apply to or impact Mail The Vote Services. Mail The Vote does make any revenue in California or any other state from this website or the Services, does not gather data on more than 50,000 users, and does not make any money off of user data.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Mail The Vote reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, then we will change the “Last Updated” date above. The most current version of the Policy will supersede all previous versions. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy whenever you visit the Service to understand how your information is used. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy posted on the Site at the time of such use.
Contact Information
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