Effective date: July 10, 2024
Americans for a Balanced Budget, Inc. (“Organization”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines the type of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use https://www.abbonline.org (or our other websites) and how we use that information, as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, and disclosing various information.
This Policy applies to information we collect:
- On our Websites
- On any of our social media platforms
- In electronic communications, such as e-mail and any other messages, between you and the Organization
- Through any third-party application by which you access data on our Websites
- Through any third-party application by which you submit media, a User Contribution (as defined in our Terms of Use), or other data on the Website or any of our social media platforms
It 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 the Website or a social media platform, any website that does not reference this Privacy Policy, or any information we may collect offline.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to interact with us or use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, or interacting with us in any way, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website and/or interaction with us after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy prior to interreacting with us for updates.
Information We Collect. We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- 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 individually does not identify you
- Information that you provide by filling in forms, surveys, questionnaires, polls or other data entry on our Website, with our Affiliates or that you communicate to us.
- About your computer, phone, or tablet; internet connection and IP address; operating system; browser; and usage details (“Device Information”)
We collect this 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 as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
- From third parties, including our service providers, contractors, and affiliates
- Automatically when you respond to communications from us
We may use automatic data collection technologies, which may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Organization, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
- Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Platform are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
- We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Disclosure of Your Information.
Use of Your Information. The information we collect helps us to:
- 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
- Facilitate political communications
- Facilitate marketing communications
- Comply with campaign finance laws and other local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations
- 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
- For any other purpose permitted by law or, if required by an applicable law, rule, or regulation, with your consent
Disclosure of Your Information. We may disclose anonymized, aggregated information about our users in general, and information which does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose Personal Information, Political Information, Social Media Information, Voting Information, Contribution Information, and Device Information that we collect or that you provide to us as described in this Policy:
- To our affiliates
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our ventures, including for meaningful consideration
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, and to satisfy our reporting requirements under applicable campaign finance laws
- To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our stakeholders or any other individual or entity
- To any successor entity in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring or other sale or transfer of all or some of Organization’s assets.
- With your consent
Policy Towards Minors. Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. No one under the age of 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. 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 learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@abbonline.org or write us at: 1120 Connecticut Avenue, NW 5th Floor Washington, DC 20036.
Your State Privacy Rights. 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. If you would like more details on our storage and use of your Personal Information, if you would like to confirm and/or correct your Personal Information submitted to use via the Website or otherwise, or if you have another inquiry regarding your Personal Information, please send an e-mail to: info@abbonline.org.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
If you are a resident of some states, you may send us an email at info@abbonline.org to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Your Colorado and California Privacy Rights
If you are a Colorado or California resident, your state’s law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa. To learn more about your Colorado privacy rights, visit, https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-190.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@abbonline.org (with a reference to California Disclosure Information).
We will respond to such requests for information access within 30 days following receipt at the e-mail or mailing address stated above. If we receive your request at a different e-mail or mailing address, we will respond within a reasonable period of time, but not to exceed 150 days from the date received. Please note that we are only required to respond to each customer once per calendar year.
Opt Out
Overview: We may use non-personally identifiable information to provide more relevant advertising and content. If you’d like to stop this Site from collecting certain types of information that provide more tailored online ads and messages to you, please click here. If you elect to opt out of this type of advertising, we will place a cookie on your browser computer to flag that we should not collect data to tailor advertising to your browser. If you delete your cookies, install a new browser, or use a different computer, you may need to revisit this page to opt out.
These Terms of Use and Privacy Policy constitute the entire and exclusive agreement between us and you regarding the Website, and supersede and replace any prior agreements between us and you regarding the Website and its Service.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices or register a complaint or concern, contact us at: info@abbonline.org
