The Patients Union, The Patients Vote, and The Patients Hub (which, unless context otherwise requires, are referred to in this policy collectively as “The Patients Union” or “We”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors online. Outlined below is our online Privacy Policy for information collected through our website, applications, and email lists. It describes our obligations and practices of how we collect and use customer consent and opt-ins for our texting and/or email services
This Privacy Policy applies to SMS and MMS texts from Scale to Win, Ascend (fka Strive), and DaisyChain, along with emails from ActionNetwork and similar services.
Categories of information collected:
We will collect your name, phone number, email address, physical address, and your consent to receive text (SMS and MMS) and email communications.
Privacy of our email list:
We will email you with occasional updates and opportunities for action. We will do our best to respect your time and attention. By providing your contact information to us, you consent to receive SMS, MMS, and email communications from us. You can remove yourself from our email lists at any time, and simple instructions on how to remove yourself will be included in any email you receive.
What information do we share with third parties?
We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
- With vendors, consultants, our affiliates, and other service providers or volunteers who are engaged by or working with us and who need access to such information to carry out their work for us
- To report required information to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) or other regulators, such as name, mailing address, occupation, and name of employers of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in a calendar year (for additional information, visit the FEC website at http://www.fec.gov)
- With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you through our Services that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information
- When we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so or that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to comply with the law or legal processes or respond to lawful requests, claims or legal authorities, including responding to lawful subpoenas, warrants, or court orders
- When we believe in good faith that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to respond to claims or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Patients Union, our users, our employees, our volunteers, copyright owners, third parties or the public, including without limitation to protect such parties from fraudulent, abusive, inappropriate, or unlawful activity or use of our Site
- To enforce or apply this Policy, our Terms of Use, or our other policies or agreements; in aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you; and/or in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, reorganization, acquisition, asset sale, financing or lending transaction or in any other situation where personal information may be disclosed or transferred as one of the assets of The Patients Union.
Mobile and email information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.
Browser information collected on our websites:
The Patients Union analyzes our website logs to constantly improve the value of our website. We use an external service to provide real-time reporting to us and our authorized agents of browser access to our site. This reporting includes page views, unique views, unique visitors, repeat visitors, frequency of visits, and peak-volume traffic periods.
Personalization of content:
We use cookies on our site to personalize and customize the experience of our visitors and to support some necessary functions. We also use cookies to better understand how our visitors use our site. You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, see http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/.
However, please note that if you reject some or all cookies, your experience at this and on other sites throughout the Internet may not be complete. In addition, if you do not allow cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of personalized content delivery offered by other Internet sites or by us.
Security:
We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving financial data from our site. In addition, we have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss or misuse of information at our site that we have collected from you.
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices and applicable law. We suggest that you periodically review the Privacy Policy for amendments.
How to contact us:
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be emailed to The Patients Union at info@patients.org