Tom Casey for Judge of the Circuit Court

Privacy Policy

Tom Casey For Judge
PRIVACY POLICY

LAST UPDATED DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 2024

INTRODUCTION

This official website (the “Website” or “Site”), Tom Casey for Judge TomCaseyForJudge.com (“Tom Casey”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”), welcomes you! Tom Casey for Judge is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt political campaign organization established under the Internal Revenue Code Section 527 and is primarily organized for the purpose of directly or indirectly accepting contributions and making expenditures. Tom Casey for Judge is Tom Casey’s principal campaign committee as defined by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. As a political campaign organization that is not operated for the profit or financial benefit of shareholders or other owners, we are exempt from certain laws that regulate how businesses collect, sell, disclose, use, and transfer personal information, and what information businesses must provide to data subjects about the use of their personal information. As Tom Casey for Judge engages in its political activities, it respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines the type of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when you use this Website. It also explains how we use that information, as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, and disclosing various information. Capitalized terms are defined herein, and all other words used in this Privacy Policy have the meanings commonly ascribed to them in American English in the context that they appear. If you have additional questions or concerns, please contact us at: FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com.

INFORMATION THAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES TO

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:

  • On our Website
  • On any of our social media platforms
  • In any of our electronic communications (such as e-mail messages and text messages) and direct mail;
  • In any of our call centers and face-to-face interactions at our in-person events
  • In any other communications between you and Tom Casey for Judge
  • Through any third-party application by which you access data on this Website
  • Through any third-party application by which you submit media, a contribution, or other data on our Website or any of our social media platforms

We follow this Privacy Policy in accordance with applicable laws. We value your privacy and the information you consent to share in relation to our SMS marketing service. We use this information to send you text notifications such as communications, transactional texts, etc. Opt-in data and consent for text messaging will not be shared with any third parties except for messaging partners, for the purpose of enabling and operating our text messaging program. For more information, please review our TERMS OF USE, which governs your use of our Website.

This Privacy Policy DOES NOT APPLY to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from our Website or any of our social media platforms.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using our Website, or interacting with us in any way, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Website and/or interaction with us after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy prior to interacting with us for any updates.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The following are the types of information that we collect:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, likeness, postal address, e-mail address, social media usernames and/or accounts, and/or telephone number (“Personal Information”)
  • About your voting history, beliefs, and opinions relating to candidates and public policy issues (“Political Information”)
  • That you make available on social media platforms (“Social Media Information”)
  • About your voting history, including where you are registered to vote, when you vote, and other information about elections in which you have voted (“Voting Information”)
  • About candidates, committees, and causes to which you have contributed, including the dates and amounts of your contributions (“Contribution Information”)
  • That is about you but does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, you as an individual (“Anonymous Information”)
  • About your computer, phone, or tablet; internet connection and IP address; operating system; browser; and usage details (“Device Information”)

HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

The following are the ways in which we collect your information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us or an affiliate, interact directly with us or an affiliate, engage with us or an affiliate on social media, or provide it to a candidate or committee with whom we interact directly or indirectly.
    Indirectly when you make it publicly available, such as via social media; making a contribution to a candidate or committee that is publicly reportable; or take any other action where the information you provide is available to third parties.
  • Automatically by us or our third-party service providers (such as a site of platform provider) as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include, but is not limited to, usage and location details, IP addresses, viewing, technical, and device data, browser or device type, unique device identifier, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies (such as flash cookies and web beacons), where we are permitted by law to process this information.
  • Transactionally when you provide it as:
    • Registration information provided to Tom Casey for Judge or to its third-party service providers in order to access and participate in certain Tom Casey for Judge activities, including but limited to, surveys or polls, raffles, contests, sweepstakes, promotions, newsletters and other communications or in-person events. Personal Information may include, without limitation, your name, username, password, e-mail, date of birth, gender, and other descriptive information.
    • Contribution information provided to Tom Casey for Judge or to its third-party service providers, including the purchase of goods, to support Tom Casey for Judge, your payment information and related information, such as postal address and telephone number may be collected by us or our third-party service providers. We do not, ourselves, process or store payment card information. Federal election law and the regulations of the Federal Election Commission require us to make our best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation, and name of employer of individuals as consistent with applicable law.
  • Through public forums provided by Tom Casey for Judge or by its third-party service providers such as, but not limited to, message boards, conversation pages, blogs, chat rooms, social community environments, profile pages, and other forums that do not have a restricted audience. If you provide Personal Information when you participate in such public forums, the Personal Information may be publicly posted and otherwise disclosed without limitation on use by us or by our third-party service providers.
  • Still or video images and pictures captured by cameras on or around the location of our in-person events collected by Tom Casey for Judge or by our third-party service providers.
  • Recordings and collected information if Tom Casey for Judge or our third-party service providers speak with you over the telephone.
  • From third parties, including our third-party service providers, contractors, and affiliates which may collect any other information you choose to provide to them in connection with the activities of Tom Casey for Judge.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

Consistent with applicable law and choices and controls that may be available to you, we may or our third-party service providers may use the information we collect from you, or from devices associated with you, to:

  • Allow you to participate in our political activities, including information you request, view, or engage with;
    Communicate with you about your account or transactions with us or our third-party service providers and send you information or request feedback about features on our sites and applications, or changes to our policies;
  • Facilitate contributions to, including the sale of goods by, us;
  • Send messages, text messages, surveys, polls, correspondence, and notifications to you regarding our political activities;
  • Personalize content and experiences;
  • Facilitate your requests to opt-out of selling your information or your requests to correct, update or delete your information;
  • Provide you with targeted advertising based on your activity on our site and on third-party platforms;
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies, pose safety issues, or be fraudulent or illegal;
  • Operate, understand, optimize, develop, or improve our operations and political activities;
  • Comply with applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations, including campaign finance laws;
  • Develop and improve, independently or in collaboration with others, data and analysis of data used by us, including analysis regarding your interests;
  • Improve the services we provide to you and others;
  • Communicate with you about your account or transactions with us or our third-party service providers and send you information or request feedback about features on our sites and applications, or changes to our policies;
  • Personalize content and experiences;
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies, pose safety issues, or be fraudulent or illegal;
  • Facilitate political communications;
  • Facilitate marketing communications;
  • Facilitate contributions to, including the sale of goods by, us;
  • Recognize you when you return to the Website;
  • Carry out any obligations and enforce any rights arising from any agreements to which we are a party;
  • Notify you about any changes to how we interact with you;
  • Take other actions which we may describe when you provide the pertinent information; and
  • For any other purpose permitted by law or, if required by an applicable law, rule, or regulation, with your consent.

HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

We will not share your Personal Information with a third party except as provided in this Privacy Policy. Subject to applicable law and choices and controls that may be available to you under applicable law, we may, without additional notice to you, share your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

  • When we, or third-party service providers on our behalf, file reports with federal or state regulators to comply with applicable campaign finance laws and regulations;
  • When you expressly allow us to share your Personal Information with another organization so that they can send you offers and promotions about their political activities, products, or services;
  • When third parties perform services on our behalf, such as package delivery, door-knocking, marketing and advertising, solicitation of contributions, web design and maintenance, donor service, payment processing, and survey, polling, phone calls, and research;
  • When we transfer, sell or license, directly or indirectly, in connection with any reorganization, formation of new committee or successor organization, asset sale, license, or other transfer, financing or lending transaction, or in any other situation where your Personal Information may be disclosed, licensed, pledged, or transferred as one of our assets;
  • When we transfer, sell, or license Personal Information to a broker, another political committee, or other like-minded organization in connection with exercising our rights to free speech or ensuring another’s exercise of free speech; and
  • When we share your Personal Information with third parties to enforce our TERMS OF USE, to ensure the safety and security of third parties, to protect our rights and property and the rights and property of third parties, to comply with legal process, or in other cases if we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law.

YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We provide you the ability to exercise certain choices and controls regarding our collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information. As a political organization that is not operated for the profit or benefit of shareholders or other owners, we are exempt from certain laws and rules that may otherwise provide you with additional rights. Subject to laws applicable to us and you, your choices and controls may include:

  • Correcting, updating, and deleting your user account;
  • Choosing or changing your choices for subscriptions, newsletters, and alerts;
  • Opting out of receiving messages from us containing information about our political activities or soliciting contributions to support our political activities;
  • Disabling tracking technologies on your web browser;
  • Opting out of a sale of your Personal Information;
  • Requesting removal of your Personal Information from a public forum run on one of our sites; and
  • Requesting access to the Personal Information we hold about you and that we amend or delete it.

PRIVACY REGARDING CHILDREN

Our website does not intend for children to be our primary audience and we do not knowingly contact or collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without appropriate notice and consent of a parent or legal guardian. If you are under the age of 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website. If we are informed that we have unintentionally received Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete it. If you want to notify us of our possible receipt of Personal Information by children under the age of 13, please contact us at FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com with “CHILDREN’S PRIVACY REQUEST” in the subject line.

PRIVACY RIGHTS FOR RESIDENTS OF CERTAIN STATES

Certain states permit users of our Website that are residents of those states to request certain information regarding our storage and use of those users’ Personal Information. Those state laws include, but may not be limited to, the following:
Privacy Rights for California Residents. If you are a California Resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information, as defined under this law, to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To submit such a request, please contact us at FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com with “CALIFORNIA PRIVACY REQUEST” in the subject line.

Privacy Rights for Colorado Residents. If you are a Colorado Resident, SB21-190 permits you to request to opt out of targeted ads, the sale of your personal data, or being profiled; the right to access the data we have collected about you; the right to correct data that's been collected about you; the right to request the data collected about you is deleted; and the right to data portability (that is, the right to access data in an easily accessible and transportable format). To submit such a request, please contact us at FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com with “COLORADO PRIVACY REQUEST” in the subject line.

Privacy Rights for Connecticut Residents. If you are a Connecticut Resident, Public Act No. 22-15 provides the following rights: the right to access personal data that a controller has collected about them; the right to correct inaccuracies in their personal data; the right to delete their personal data, including personal data that a controller collected through third parties; the right to obtain a copy of their personal data in a portable and readily usable format that allows them to transfer the data to another controller with ease; and the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal data, the processing of personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, and profiling that may have a legal or other significant impact. To submit such a request, please contact us at FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com with “CONNECTICUT PRIVACY REQUEST” in the subject line.

Privacy Rights for Nevada Residents. If you are a Nevada resident, Nevada Revised Statutes Section 603A gives you the right to submit a verified request to us, directing us not to make any sale of certain personal information, as defined under this law, that we have collected or may collect about you. To submit such a request, Nevada residents can email us at FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com with “NEVADA PRIVACY REQUEST” in the subject line.

Privacy Rights for Virginia Residents. If you are a Virginia Resident, Va. Code §§ 59.1-575 – 59.1-585 provides the following rights: the right to confirm whether a controller is processing the consumer’s personal data; the right to access the personal data processed by a controller; the right to correct inaccuracies in the consumer’s personal data; the right to delete personal data provided by or obtained about the consumer; the right to obtain a copy of the personal data that the consumer previously provided to the controller in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format; and the right to opt out of the processing of personal data for purposes of (i) targeted advertising, (ii) the sale of personal data, or (iii) profiling. To submit such a request, please contact us at FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com with “VIRGINIA PRIVACY REQUEST” in the subject line.

PRACTICES REGARDING DATA SECURITY
The security, integrity, and protection of your Personal Information are extremely important to us. We have implemented technical, administrative, and physical security measures that are designed to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, and modification. Please be aware that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We and our third-party service providers will retain your Personal Information for the length of time needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

THIRD-PARTY PLATFORMS AND SERVICES INTEGRATION
Our political activities may be linked to, rely on, and/or be integrated with websites, applications, interfaces, services, and/or platforms operated by third-parties including, without limitation, service providers. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any website, application, interface, service, or platform operated by a third party. Once you leave our site via a link, access a third-party application, interface, service, or platform, including websites operated by service providers, you should check the applicable privacy policy of such third party to determine, among other things, how they will handle any information they may collect from you.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

ANY INFORMATION THAT IS COLLECTED VIA OUR POLITICAL ACTIVITIES IS COVERED BY THE PRIVACY POLICY IN EFFECT AT THE TIME SUCH INFORMATION IS COLLECTED. WE MAY REVISE THIS PRIVACY POLICY FROM TIME TO TIME. IF WE MAKE ANY MATERIAL CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, INCLUDING ANY CHANGE THAT WE PROPOSE THAT WILL HAVE RETROACTIVE EFFECT, WE WILL NOTIFY YOU OF THOSE CHANGES BY POSTING THEM ON OUR SITES OR BY SENDING YOU AN EMAIL OR OTHER NOTIFICATION, AND WE WILL UPDATE THE “LAST UPDATED DATE” ABOVE TO INDICATE WHEN THOSE CHANGES WERE MADE.

PARTICIPATION IN OUR POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE U.S.

Our political activities are controlled, operated, and administered entirely within the United States, and intended for adult United States citizens and permanent residents only. If you visit, access, interact with, and/or otherwise participate in our political activities from a location outside the United States, please be advised that any information you provide in connection with any such activity may be processed in and/or transferred to the United States of America and/or other territories and locations, where privacy protections may not be as comprehensive as those in the territory or location where you are located. By participating in our political activities or accessing any of our sites or applications, you affirmatively consent to the transfer, use, disclosure, provision, and other administration of your information as described herein.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy or if you would like to confirm and/or correct your Personal Information submitted to use via our Website or otherwise, or if you have another inquiry regarding your Personal Information, please contact us at:

Email: FriendsOfTomCasey@Yahoo.com
OR
Mail:
212 Spring Race Ct
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

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