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  <h2>PRIVACY POLICY</h2>

<p>The coalition of organizations behind StandUpForTheNet.org takes your privacy seriously. Among our fundemental principles:</p>

<ul>
  <li>We do not sell our email list. We do not share or distribute your contact information unless specifically stated so.</li>
  <li>We don't ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.</li>
  <li>We don't share your personal information with anyone except when absolutely necessary for the functionality of the site, to comply with the law, or protect our rights.</li>
  <li>We don't store personal information on our servers unless required for a specific organizational effort, such as delivering a message to congress or in order to communicate with you about an upcoming effort.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Website Visitors</h3>

<p>Like most website operators, StandUpForTheNet.org collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. StandUpForTheNet.org's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how StandUpForTheNet.org's visitors use its website. From time to time, StandUpForTheNet.org may share non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate with organizations and employees of organizations that are members of the coalition, e.g., for example the number of visitors or signups during a particular period.</p>

<p>StandUpForTheNet.org also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users who sign the petition. StandUpForTheNet.org only discloses IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.</p>

<h3>Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information</h3>

<p>Certain visitors to StandUpForTheNet.org's websites choose to interact with StandUpForTheNet.org in ways that require StandUpForTheNet.org to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that StandUpForTheNet.org gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who wish to sign our petition to provide their first and last name, zip code and email address, as these are necessary to register a signature on the <a href="https://petitions.whitehouse.gov">petitions.whitehouse.gov</a> site. Those who engage in actions with StandUpForTheNet.org - by signing a petition, for example - may be asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal information required to process those actions. In each case, StandUpForTheNet.org collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with StandUpForTheNet.org. StandUpForTheNet.org does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.</p>

<h3>Third-party services</h3>

<p>Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and may be shared with the following services:

<ul>
  <li>CloudFlare, Inc. (<a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/security-policy">privacy policy</a>) - Cloudflare's Content Distribution Network is used for the purpose of serving our site more quickly and to reduce server load.</li>
  <li>Github, Inc. (<a href="https://help.github.com/articles/github-privacy-policy/">privacy policy</a>) - Static resources are hosted on Github using the Github Pages service. In a majority of cases, our Cloudflare CDN should mean that content is not directly served to you via Github.</li>
  <li>Heroku, Inc. (<a href="https://www.heroku.com/policy/privacy">privacy policy</a>) - Petitions to the WhiteHouse.gov We The People service are submitted via a service hosted on Heroku's PaaS.</li>
  <li>The White House (<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/privacy">privacy policy</a>) - Signatures to the petition on this site are transmitted securely to the WhiteHouse.gov "We the People" petition service via their API.</li>
  <li>Heroku, Inc. (<a href="https://www.heroku.com/policy/privacy">privacy policy</a>) - Petitions to the WhiteHouse.gov We The People service are submitted via a service hosted on Heroku's PaaS.</li>
  <li>Youtube, by Google, Inc. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=privacy_guidelines">privacy policy</a>) - For the purpose of storing and serving the videos used on the site.</li>
  <li><a href="https://Taskforce.is">Taskforce.is</a> - Taskforce.is runs a Piwik analytics server that tracks visits to this website and provides analytics to the coalition.</li>
</ul>
</ul>

<p>In order the use particular features of the site, you may be required to share your personally-identifying information with these third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling the functionality of the site, and in some instances, for example signing the petition, we may give one or more of these service providers limited access to the personally-identifying information that is reasonably necessary to deliver the service.</p>

<h3>Aggregated Statistics</h3>

<p>StandUpForTheNet.org may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, StandUpForTheNet.org may monitor the number of users who've signed up for an event or who've visited a particular page on the website. StandUpForTheNet.org may display the agregrated statistics with members of the coalition or make them available publicly. However, StandUpForTheNet.org does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.</p>

<h3>Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information</h3>

<p>StandUpForTheNet.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to members of the coalition, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on StandUpForTheNet.org's behalf or to provide services available at StandUpForTheNet.org's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using StandUpForTheNet.org's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. </p>

<p>StandUpForTheNet.org will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to to coalition members, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, StandUpForTheNet.org discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena or court order, or when StandUpForTheNet.org believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of StandUpForTheNet.org, third parties or the public at large.</p>

<p>If we are required by law to disclose the information that you have submitted, we will attempt to provide you with notice (unless we are prohibited) that a request for your information has been made in order to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure. We will attempt to provide this notice by email, if you have given us an email address, or by postal mail if you have entered a postal address. If you do not challenge the disclosure request, we may be legally required to turn over your information.</p>

<p>If you are a registered user of an StandUpForTheNet.org website and have supplied your email address, StandUpForTheNet.org may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new actions or events, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with StandUpForTheNet.org and our efforts. We primarily use the site to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.  StandUpForTheNet.org takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.</p>

<h3>Cookies</h3>

<p>A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. StandUpForTheNet.org uses cookies to help StandUpForTheNet.org identify and track visitors, their usage of StandUpForTheNet.org website, and their website access preferences. StandUpForTheNet.org visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using StandUpForTheNet.org's websites.</p>

<h3>End of life personal data usage</h3>

<p>If the StandUpForTheNet.org coalition is at some point disbanded, user information would not be transferred or acquired by a third party.</p>

<h3>Privacy Policy Changes</h3>

<p>Although most changes are likely to be minor, StandUpForTheNet.org may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in StandUpForTheNet.org's sole discretion. StandUpForTheNet.org encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.</p>

<p>Last modified: November 9th, 2014</p>
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<p style="font-size:12px">We'd very much like to thank the people at <a href="http://www.wordpress.com/">Automattic Inc.</a> who were kind enough to offer their Privacy Policy to the world under the Creative Commons Sharealike license. Our privacy policy is a close derivative of their work. We're therefore pleased to make our policy available under the same terms.<p>