Privacy Policy

The Committee to Elect Allen Caruso (“Committee,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, maintain, protect, and disclose information obtained through our website, online forms, campaign activities, email communications, text-messaging program, events, and other interactions with the Committee.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

  • Your name;

  • Mailing or residential address;

  • Email address;

  • Telephone or mobile phone number;

  • Username or similar account information;

  • Volunteer interests and availability;

  • Event registration information;

  • Responses to petitions, surveys, or campaign forms;

  • Donation-related information;

  • Communications you send to the Committee; and

  • Other information you choose to provide.

When you visit our website, we may also automatically collect limited technical information, including your Internet Protocol address, browser type, device type, pages visited, referring website, and general interaction with our website.

Payment card and financial information used to make a campaign contribution may be collected and processed directly by a third-party payment processor. The Committee may receive transaction records and information necessary to comply with campaign-finance reporting requirements.

2. How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect to:

  • Send campaign news and candidate updates;

  • Provide information about campaign events;

  • Communicate volunteer opportunities;

  • Conduct lawful voter outreach;

  • Send fundraising requests and contribution reminders;

  • Respond to questions and requests;

  • Process event registrations and campaign contributions;

  • Administer petitions, surveys, and campaign programs;

  • Maintain and improve our website and communications;

  • Protect against fraud, misuse, or unauthorized activity;

  • Comply with election, campaign-finance, legal, and regulatory obligations; and

  • Carry out other lawful activities of the Committee.

3. Text-Messaging Privacy

When you sign up to receive text messages from the Committee to Elect Allen Caruso, we will use your mobile phone number to send you text-message updates from the Committee.

Messages may include campaign announcements, candidate updates, event information, volunteer opportunities, voter-engagement messages, fundraising solicitations, donation reminders, election information, and other campaign-related communications.

We may collect and store your mobile phone number and associated text-messaging consent records in order to operate the Committee’s text-messaging program, document your consent, respond to requests, and honor opt-out instructions.

The Committee does not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise provide your mobile phone number, text-messaging opt-in information, or messaging consent to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

No mobile opt-in information will be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.

Text-messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any non-associated or unrelated third-party individual, brand, entity, affiliate, or lead generator for marketing or promotional purposes.

We may provide limited access to mobile information to vendors, consultants, telecommunications providers, technology providers, and other service providers that need the information solely to perform services on our behalf. These providers are not permitted to use mobile information or messaging consent for their own marketing purposes.

We may also disclose information when required by law, court order, subpoena, government request, campaign-finance requirement, or when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, and security of the Committee or others.

4. Sharing of Other Information

We may share personal information other than mobile opt-in data:

  • With vendors and service providers performing work on our behalf;

  • With affiliated political committees, campaign partners, or organizations for lawful campaign purposes;

  • With government agencies when required for campaign-finance or election-law compliance;

  • To comply with applicable laws, regulations, subpoenas, court orders, or legal proceedings; or

  • To prevent fraud, address security concerns, enforce our policies, or protect legal rights.

The exclusions and limitations described in the Text-Messaging Privacy section apply regardless of anything else stated in this Privacy Policy.

The Committee does not sell user data or personal information to third parties.

5. Cookies and Website Technology

Our website and service providers may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies to operate the website, understand website traffic, measure campaign communications, improve performance, and protect against fraud.

You may be able to limit cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the operation of certain website features.

6. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may contain links to contribution platforms, social-media websites, event-registration platforms, or other third-party services. Those services operate under their own privacy policies and terms. The Committee is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.

7. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no website, electronic transmission, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

8. Data Retention

We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to conduct campaign activities, provide requested communications, comply with election and campaign-finance laws, resolve disputes, maintain appropriate records, and enforce our agreements.

Text-messaging opt-out records may be retained so that we can continue honoring requests not to receive future messages.

9. Your Choices

You may unsubscribe from campaign emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in an email.

You may stop campaign text messages at any time by replying STOP. You may request additional text-messaging assistance by replying HELP.

You may also contact the Committee to request that we update or correct information you previously provided, subject to legal recordkeeping requirements.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our website and communications are not directed toward children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Any updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Your continued use of our website or services following an update constitutes acknowledgment of the updated policy.

12. Contact Us

Questions concerning this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Committee to Elect Allen Caruso
PO Box 112, Saratoga Springs NY 12866