PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use services provided on a Half Court Political Fund website (“website”),as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the user of this website or as someone who has provided your information to communicate with via text message, and “we” “us” and “our” means Half Court Political Fund.

By using this website, you agree to our collection and use of your information under this Privacy Policy.

Data collection

When we require you to provide us with personal information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal information with us.

  • Information you provide to us directly. Some of our services require you to register for an account. We ask you for some personal information in order to create an account (such as your name, email address, mailing address, and a password for your account) and we will use that information to provide the service. In the event you choose to make a donation online to Half Court Political Fund, we may request credit card information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.

  • Information we collect automatically. We collect limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.

Data use

We use your information for a variety of reasons, including this information to operate, develop, administer, and improve our services and website, communicate with you, and for any other reasons you provide the information to us, or offer your consent for our actions.

Cookies

Upon your first visit to a Half Court Political Fund website, a cookie may be sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A “cookie” is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. We may use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with us, by collecting information about the pages you view, links you click, or other business and marketing purposes. We may do this by storing user preferences in cookies and by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, but rejecting cookies may affect the website functionality without cookies.

Information sharing

We do not rent, sell, or share your personally identifying information with other companies, organizations or individuals, except in the following limited circumstances:

  • We have your consent.

  • We provide such information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. When this is done, it is subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

  • We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Half Court Political Fund, our members or the public.

In the event of a transfer of ownership of Half Court Political Fund such as acquisition by or merger with another organization, we will provide notice before any personally identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. We may share aggregated information with others, such as the number of supporters who sign a petition. We may also provide this information to groups in our public interest network, but we will never sell your personal information or share it with outside organizations unless expressly noted.

We never sell or share personal information obtained for text-message opt-in with third parties for their marketing purposes.

Opt Out

We may send you text messages related to elections, our mission, or other informational reasons. Please be aware that if you no longer wish to receive messages from us, you may at any time opt out of receiving those messages by [replying UNSUBSCRIBE/STOP] to the number that you receive our text message from. We will then remove you from our messaging lists.

Information security and retention

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of your data. We restrict access to your personal information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect, and we cannot guarantee “perfect information security.”

How long we retain your personal information depends on different factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account or provide the services or website to you, or to comply with legal obligations

Links to other websites

When you use one of our Half Court Political Fund websites, you may encounter links to other sites maintained and operated by third parties. If you choose to visit those third party sites, you will be subject to the terms and policies of those sites. We are not responsible for any privacy, security, terms, accuracy, reliability, or other information found on those sites, and your access is at your own risk.

Changes to this Policy

Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect most such changes to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Regardless, we will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page, and the “Effective Date” will represent the most recent date those changes were made. Prior version of this policy will be kept in an archive for you to view.

Effective Date: March 10, 2025