Citizens Behind the Badge

Privacy and Security Policy

We want you to continue to participate in the important work of our movement. We take special efforts to protect any personal information you may provide us. We are concerned about our online privacy when we visit other sites, so we want your experience to be as safe and comfortable as we expect from others.

Collection of Personal Information from Site Users

BehindBadge.org (the “Site”) may collect and/or track (1) the home server domain names, e-mail addresses, type of computer, and type of Web browser of visitors to the Site, (2) the e-mail addresses of visitors that communicate with the Site via e-mail, (3) information knowingly provided by the visitor in online forms, registration forms and surveys, (including name, address, e-mail and other personal profile data), and (4) aggregate and user-specific information regarding page views.

Use of Personal Data Collected

BehindBadge.org may use personally identifiable information in a number of ways, including but not limited to:

a) To communicate with you about your account, or to communicate information about the Site.

b) To build higher-quality, more useful services, such as by analyzing usage trends, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Site.

c) To support the operation of the Site, troubleshoot problems, resolve disputes, and to enforce our Terms and Conditions;

d) To inform you about products, activities and services. You will have the option of opting out of further communications of this type by sending an email to Privacy@BehindBadge.org.

Cookies and Traffic Tracking

To enhance the convenience of visitors to BehindBadge.org and its affiliated sites, we use cookies and we track and analyze traffic patterns to improve the user experience. In some areas we use cookies to allow access to registered users and to pre-populate forms. 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, we will identify that user by their IP number.

We may also use cookies as "shopping carts" in online stores. 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.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve our ads on our Web sites. 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.

Links

The Site may offer links to non-affiliated websites. Those non-affiliated sites may employ their own privacy policies. We encourage our visitors to visit the sites that link to our site, but please review the privacy policies of those other websites as we are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or advertising of such third-party websites.

Petitions, Surveys, Polls, News Alerts, etc.

The Site frequently invites visitors to register to participate in a variety of grassroots actions. These initiatives often require us to capture personal information such as name, email address, postal address and other data related to the particular initiative. How such data will be used will be stated on the data capture form. Your permission to use such data is implied by your participation in the initiative under those stated terms but your email address will never be shared with a 3rd party. We will share such information with our affiliated sites in order to more effectively communicate with you about the important issues we think are of concern to you and to send you information on behalf of our partners and sponsors. We reserve the right to share your postal address and aggregated demographic information with advertisers, sponsors and partners.

If you wish to unsubscribe from our any of our email lists, simply unsubscribe here or click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email you receive from this or any other site affiliated the Site.

Credit Card Transactions

We do not share or store your credit card information even with our own websites or affiliates, or with third parties except our merchant account established expressly to process your transactions in a secured manner.

Those who make donations using their credit card are directed to a secure server. Information such as your email or postal address and other confirming information will be used for processing your transaction.

Collection of Personal Data from Children

To the extent that The Site is able to determine the age of users by their submissions to, or communications with, the Site, the Site will not knowingly (a) collect or post information from individuals under thirteen years of age (“Children” or “Child”) without their parent’s or guardian’s consent, or (b) provide any personally identifying information collected from Children, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.

Third Party Web Sites

The Site may contain links to other Internet web sites. Unless we explicitly state otherwise, we have no control over these third party sites and their privacy practices, and this Privacy Policy applies only to information you supply (or that we collect) in connection with use of the Site. You should review third party privacy policies in connection with visiting those sites.

Changes in Privacy Policy

We may revise this Policy at any time. We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on this page, and any changes that we deem are more than minor in significance will be posted as an alert on our home page. Again, should you wish, you may always Unsubscribe.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at Privacy@BehindBadge.org or write to us at:

Citizens Behind the Badge,

1360 Beverly Road, Suite 305,

McLean, Virginia 22101.