Privacy Policy

Welcome to www.nc.gop, the website and online service of The North Carolina Republican Party. The North Carolina Republican Party knows that you care how information about you is used and shared. This Privacy Policy explains what information of yours will be collected by The North Carolina Republican Party when you use our online services, how the information will be used, and how you can control the collection, correction and/or deletion of information. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources.

Information We Collect

User-Provided Information: You provide us information about yourself, such as your name and e-mail address, if you register for a www.nc.gop (including by “following,” “liking,” linking your account to www.nc.gop, etc., on a third party website or network). If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our responses. We may also retain any messages you send through www.nc.gop. You may provide us information in user content you post to www.nc.gop.

Third Party Services

The North Carolina Republican Party uses the NationBuilder platform to organize our community of members, supporters and prospects. You can read more about that company and its features and polices at NationBuilder.com. When you visit www.nc.gop, NationBuilder may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets NationBuilder help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through www.nc.gop. A cookie does not collect personal information about you. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of www.nc.gop may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled. You can read more about how the NationBuilder service interacts with and protects your information at nationbuilder.com/privacy and nationbuilder.com/confidentiality.

The North Carolina Republican Party uses Google Analytics to help understand use of www.nc.gop. This service collects the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address, and their use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy.

How We Use Your Information

We use the personal information you submit to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of www.nc.gop.

By providing www.nc.gop your email address (including by “following,” “liking,” linking your account to www.nc.gop, etc., on a third party website or network), you consent to our using the email address to send you www.nc.gop-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. You also agree that we may send you notifications of activity on www.nc.gop to the email address you give us, in accordance with any applicable privacy settings. We may use your email address to send you other messages, such as newsletters, changes to features of www.nc.gop, or other information. If you do not want to receive such email messages, you may opt out at The North Carolina Republican Party’s unsubscribe page here: http://ncgop.nationbuilder.com/unsubscribe .

Following termination or deactivation of your The North Carolina Republican Party account, The North Carolina Republican Party may retain your profile information and user content for a reasonable time for archival purposes. Furthermore, The North Carolina Republican Party may retain and continue to use indefinitely all information (including user content) contained in your communications to other users or posted to public or semi-public areas of www.nc.gop after termination or deactivation of your account.

The North Carolina Republican Party reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the user content you post on www.nc.gop. We reserve the right to remove any such information or material for any reason or no reason, including without limitation if in our sole opinion such information or material violates, or may violate, any applicable law or to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any third party. The North Carolina Republican Party also reserves the right to remove information upon the request of any third party.

How We Share Your Information

Personally Identifiable Information: The North Carolina Republican Party may share your personally identifiable information with third parties for the purpose of providing www.nc.gop services to you. If we do this, such third parties’ use of your information will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of The North Carolina Republican Party (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).

Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to www.nc.gop, such as user content, becomes available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy or website customization settings. If you remove information that you posted to www.nc.gop, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or if other users have copied or saved that information.

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, The North Carolina Republican Party will not disclose personal information to any third party unless required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to enforce this policy, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; and (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of www.nc.gop, our users or others.

How We Protect Your Information

The North Carolina Republican Party cares about the integrity and security of your personal 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 the proper functioning of The North Carolina Republican Party. 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.

We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to The North Carolina Republican Party or guarantee that your information on the service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes to the functionality of third-party providers, such as social networks. The North Carolina Republican Party is not responsible for the functionality or security measures of any third party.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email communications from The North Carolina Republican Party, at all times.

Privacy Precaution Warning

Please note that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of the information that you transmit via our online services.

Compromise of Personal Information

In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, The North Carolina Republican Party will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.

Your Choices About Your Information

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through www.nc.gop, in which case The North Carolina Republican Party may not be able to provide certain services to you. You can review and correct the information about you that The North Carolina Republican Party keeps on file by contacting us directly at [email protected].

Collection and use of children’s personal information

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, 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. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].

Links to Other Web Sites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from www.nc.gop, nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from www.nc.gop to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Notification Procedures

It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on www.nc.gop, as determined by The North Carolina Republican Party in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on www.nc.gop to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

We welcome your feedback about this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us at [email protected].