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PRIVACY POLICY

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WHO WE ARE

Welcome to the official website of Bethel Park Republican Committee. From this point forward, our policy may refer to the Bethel Park Republican Committee as “[the/our] organization,” “[the] BPRC,” or “[the] BPGOP.” Our organization currently owns the rights to and maintains the bpgop.org domain as its primary web address. The organization owns and maintains a number of similar domain variations on this address as well, and may redirect traffic from these addresses to our main website. While our officially-recognized web address will remain bpgop.org for the foreseeable future, we do hereby reserve the right to change this address at any time without notice to users and customers. All associated subdomains such as shop.bpgop.org are included beneath our officially-recognized site naming umbrella.

The operation of this website is supervised by Committee Chairwoman Rachael Armstrong of Bethel Park Pennsylvania. To contact Rachael directly, you can visit this website’s contact us web page.

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WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT AND WHY DO WE COLLECT IT?

NON-PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING DATA

This site may collect some non-personally-identifying information which is typically made available at the client side by browsers and web servers such as the browser type, user language preference, referring site, and timestamp data for user requests. Generally speaking, our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors and potential customers make use of our web site and associated services. The BPRC reserves the right to publicly release non-personally-identifying information in aggregate, for example, by publishing a report on trends in the usage of this site or its associated subdomains and services.

PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING DATA

Our organization may also collect personally-identifying information such as Location Data and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We do not use Location Data or IP addresses to identify visitors in ways unrelated to the functionality of our services or in cases or outside those described below.

Further, certain visitors may choose to interact with our site in ways that require our site to gather and store personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that our site gathers depends on the nature of said interaction(s). For example, when signing up for an account on our site, we request that users provide their name, create a username and password, and provide us with a valid email address.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for various purposes such as:

  • Sending you information about your account and communications

  • Responding to your requests, including complaints

  • Processing payments and donations

  • Setting up your account with our site

  • Complying with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes

  • Improving our committee outreach

  • Sending you updates, notifications and other relevant messages, should you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we must store your name, address, email and phone number as part of our shopping service. This data can be used to populate checkout fields in future orders.

BPRC collects personally-identifying information only if doing so is necessary to or appropriate in the fulfilling of said user’s interaction with our website. The organization does not disclose personally-identifying information to third parties other than as described below. Visitors may refuse to supply personally-identifying information, but do so at the risk that their user experience may be limited as a result.

WHO CAN SEE MY PERSONAL DATA?

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. Members of our team have access to this information in order to to help carry out effective campaigns and provide users with support. For example, site administrators will be able to access:

  • Communication data such as the content of messages sent to us through our contact us page

  • User information such as names, email addresses, and addresses

Additionally, our site may provide relevant third parties access to certain personal information insofar as it is required for legitimate functional purposes. For example, personally-identifying information may be disclosed by our site as part of analytics or a web store checkout process. We do our best to ensure that the third parties who may have access to our users’ personal data are both reputable and secure in their handling of said data, but we cannot reasonably assume responsibility for the safekeeping of this data once it has left a user’s computer.

ANALYTICS

Because of the potential diversity of our users’ browsing preferences, the BPRC may make use of several third party toolkits for examining traffic patterns and browsing habits on our website. Among these toolkits are services such as Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. These third party services are used in conjunction with internal monitoring features such as those provided by our publishing software.

The above mentioned third party services provide traffic analysis by recording user data and manipulating it outside of our web servers. BPRC cannot testify to the safe handling of any data which leaves the site for processing by these analytics services. For more information, you may wish to refer to the relevant privacy policies for our analytics services.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH?

We reserve the right to share your data with our analytics services (we primarily use Google Analytics), our donation processor WinRed, and any party involved in the delivery of personalized services. When you request a password reset from us, your IP address will be included in the reset request email.

Our organization will also share personally-identifying user information in order to comply with local, state, or federal law.

HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR DATA?

We store information about our users for as long as we need said information to ensure the user experience is not interrupted and that our duties as a political committee may be fulfilled. The BPRC is not legally required to store or maintain this data for any period of time, and is conversely not required to delete anonymous records of site usage from its databases, even upon the request of a site user to delete his or her account.

WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA?

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personally-identifiable data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

WHERE DO WE SEND YOUR DATA?

Visitor comments and contact requests may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, it should be noted that our analytics services and payment processing network are based in the United States of America. Because European Data Protection Law requires data transported outside of the EU to be protected as though it were processed within the EU, we suggest users have a look at Sucuri’s privacy policy.

COMMENTS AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES

When visitors leave comments on this website, we collect the data shown in the all relevant comment forms. We also may also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid us in spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are a Gravatar user. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/, and applies certain sections of our website. After the approval of any of your posted comments, your profile picture will be made visible to the public as part of the displayed comment.

Users who post comments containing personally-identifiable and/or otherwise compromising information do so at the risk of their data being made publicly available thorough our comment sections and/or other public-facing information services. The BPRC and associated organizations cannot take responsibility for the unsafe or irresponsible use of this website’s communication services. Our organization waives responsibility for data leakage caused by irresponsible disclosure of information by customers through this site’s communication services.

Additionally, we reserve the right to remove content which we deem to be inappropriate for our users – this content includes but is not necessarily limited to:

  • Content deemed to be spam or solely promotional in nature

  • Content including profane, vulgar, or violent language

  • Content which which may be reasonably deemed offensive to other users such as abusive and or harassing language, sexually explicit language or imagery, and libelous statements

  • False news or intentionally misleading information

At BPRC, we take compliance with the law very seriously. It should be noted that our organization has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal, terroristic, and exploitative content. If you use our services to break the law, we will work with authorities to ensure that you are brought to justice.

MEDIA

If you upload images or other files to our website, you should avoid uploading files with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) or other personally-identifiable information included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from any and all files delivered to them as part of the site browsing experience.

Users who upload files containing personally-identifiable and/or otherwise compromising information do so at the risk of their data being exposed in the event of a security breach. As is the case with our communication services, the BPRC and associated organizations cannot take responsibility for the unsafe use of this website’s communication services. Our organization waives responsibility for data leakage caused by irresponsible disclosure of information by customers through media and file uploads.

SITE CONTACT FORMS AND MESSAGING

As part of our communication services, our site makes use of form submission and archival technology from Rock Lobster, LLC. As part of our customer communication process, we store user input data sent through the contact forms on this website along with meta information about the submissions including the time stamp, origin IP address, and the user agent (browser) information. Third party services, including Google Analytics, may also collect information about our website visitors.

All information submitted via our contact forms are sent as email messages that only site administrators are provided access to. As was mentioned earlier, submitted information may also be stored in our databases on for backup and reference purposes.

COOKIES

Cookies are files containing a small amount of data which may include anonymous unique identifiers. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. The BPRC uses “cookies” to collect information about users, typically to ensure a consistent user experience or as a security feature of our website.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Users may instruct their browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if a user does not accept cookies, he or she may not be able to use some of our services, including online shopping.

CONTACT INFORMATION

For all concerns involving privacy, you may send an email to info@bpgop.org or call us at (443) 695-1840. This website is maintained and operated in part by a non-affiliate of the BPRC.

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR DATA?

The security of your personal information is extremely important to us. When you visit https://bpgop.org or any of its affiliated subdomains, you are being protected by a technology called SSL. SSL uses encryption to secure user data as it is transported to and from our servers.

Our site is designed such that requests cannot be processed without SSL encryption protection. Users who actively attempt to avoid this feature do so at their own risk.

BPRC also makes use of a firewall-equipped Content Delivery Network, or CDN. A CDN works by storing copies of our website of servers throughout the world and processing requests to our site first as requests to these servers, which monitor for malicious software, cross-site requests, and other unsafe activity. Users who engage in activity that our CDN provider deems to be suspicious may be blocked from using our website until we can determine the legitimacy of their requests.

WHAT DATA BREACH PROCEDURES DO WE HAVE IN PLACE?

In the event of a data breach, the BPRC will attempt to notify all potentially affected by whichever means are available. Users may receive emails, calls, or mail from the organization warning them of the breach and its potential ramifications, and will further suggest a number of options to assist in mitigating the effects of said breach.

It is important for users to protect themselves against social engineering scams such as phishing attacks. A phishing attack occurs when a cyber criminal impersonates an individual or organization in an effort to make unsuspecting victims disclose personally identifying or sensitive information.

Data breach notifications from our organization will never ask users to disclose information such as usernames, passwords or other sensitive information. The BPRC also will not redirect you to any username or password reset web pages by way of electronic message unless you have specifically requested such a service from our official website. If you have been the recipient of any suspicious email claiming that a data breach has occurred within our service, notify us at once.

WHAT THIRD PARTIES DO WE RECEIVE DATA FROM?

At present, our organization does not receive data about users from third parties. We reserve the right to change this at any time without notifying users. However, changes to this policy will be reflected immediately within his policy.

WHAT AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING AND/OR PROFILING DO WE CARRY OUT WITH USER DATA?

At present, our organization does not utilize any automated decision-making or profiling service to adjust the user experience. We reserve the right to change this at any time without notifying users or customers. However, changes to this policy will be reflected immediately within his document.

CHANGES TO OUR POLICIES

The BPRC reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time without notice, unless notice of changes to this policy are required by applicable law. If you do not agree to the changes we have made, please refrain from using this website. Your use of this site after the effective date of any such change constitutes your acceptance of the applicable changes.

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