This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Beyond Bernie collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from users (“You” or “Users”) of its website currently located at https://www.beyondbernie.org (the “Website”).  

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The Types of Information Beyond Bernie Collects

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• Non-personally identifiable information

Beyond Bernie collects non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you visit the Website. Such information may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you used, the type of browser and operating system you used, the date and time you visited the Website, the Internet address of the site from which you linked to the Website, and which pages you viewed on the Website.

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• Cookies

Beyond Bernie uses Google Analytics to serve “cookies” to enhance your experience with the Website. A cookie is a small text file that is stored in your computer so that the Website can recognize you and keep track of your preferences. Use of cookies help measure aggregate web statistics, such as collecting the number of Users to the Website, the number of repeat Users and the most popular webpages. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, however, some parts of the Website may not function properly.

Information about how Google uses information collected from sites like ours (i.e. sites that use its services)is located at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may opt out of participating with Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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• California Do Not Track Disclosure

This Website does not respond to DNT signals. You can read more about DNT signals and how to enable/disable them at https://allaboutdnt.com/.

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• Personally identifiable information

Beyond Bernie collects personally identifiable information from Users when they voluntarily provide such information, for example, when a User signs up to join our mailing list; when a User signs up to our Slack; when a User signs up to for an event; or when a User donates money via the Website. The kind of information that Beyond Bernie collects may include name, email address, phone number, zip code and other demographic information about you.

 

How Beyond Bernie Uses the Information that it Collects

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Beyond Bernie uses Users’ personal information to better understand how Users use the Website so that it can improve the Website and Beyond Bernie's offerings. In addition, Beyond Bernie uses Users’ personal information for the purpose for which the Users provided the information for example, to add you to our mailing list, to contact you about joining our communications lines (Example Slack), or to register you for an event, or to process a donation.

If you provide Beyond Bernie with your email address, you will be added to Beyond Bernie'semail list and you will start receiving email communications from Beyond Bernie, unless you opt out. If at any time you wish to stop receiving email communications from Beyond Bernie, please follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email Beyond Bernie sends you, or send Beyond Bernie a text at 213-900-8043 and ask to be removed from Beyond Bernie's email list. If you provide Beyond Bernie with your phone number, you consent to receiving phone calls and text messages from Beyond Bernie. If you wish to be removed from Beyond Bernie's phone list, reply STOP to any text message from Beyond Bernie. We may share some of your personally identifiable information with Facebook and if Facebook finds you as a match, Facebook may send you targeted advertisements via its social media platforms and elsewhere on the Internet.

 

How Beyond Bernie Protects User Information

Beyond Bernie adopts appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to help protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission or storage system is guaranteed to be 100% secure.

 

Sharing Personal Information

Beyond Bernie uses third party service providers, including, for example, Squarespace, Action Network, Salesforce, Relay, Mapbox, and New/Mode, to help it operate the Website and administer activities on its behalf, such as registering Users for events, sending emails and text messages on our behalf, collecting donations online and selling merchandise online. These third party vendors may have access to Users’ personal information, which becomes subject to their individual privacy policies.  

In addition, Beyond Bernie may share personal information about Users with groups of volunteers that are recognized by Beyond Bernie that work within their local communities in accordance with Beyond Bernie's principles and in pursuit of Beyond Bernie's mission. Beyond Bernie may also share names and email addresses, but no other personal information, with other like-minded organizations. Moreover, if you sign a petition on the Website that is not solely sponsored by Beyond Bernie, the information you provide when you sign the petition will be shared with all the sponsors of the petition, and what is then done with your information is subject to the privacy policies of the sponsors and the campaign. Furthermore, when you sign a Beyond Bernie petition, some of your information, including your name, city, country, and postal code may be sent to the party that the petition targets.

In addition, Beyond Bernie will share personally identifiable information about Users when required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws or to respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant. Beyond Bernie will also share personally identifiable information if it believes it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Beyond Bernie or others.

Beyond Bernie may also share personally identifiable information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of its business to another company. Moreover, Beyond Bernie may share personally identifiable information about a User upon the User’s consent.

Beyond Bernie may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personally identifiable information regarding Users with third parties.

 

Third Party Websites

Beyond Bernie may provide links from the Website to other websites. A link to a third party site does not constitute an endorsement of the linked site or its service. Moreover, it is important to understand that Beyond Bernie does not control the content or links that appear on these third party websites and is not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Website. These websites and services have their own privacy policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link to or from Beyond Bernie's Website, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies. This Privacy Policy covers only information collected through the use of Beyond Bernie's Website.

 

California Privacy Rights

If you reside in California and have provided your personally identifiable information to Beyond Bernie, you may request information once per calendar year about Beyond Bernie's disclosures of certain categories of your personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to Beyond Bernie by email addressed to amaya@beyondbernie.org.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Beyond Bernie may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion. The date at the bottom of this page indicates when the Privacy Policy was last updated. Changes become effective upon posting. Your continued use of the Website after the Privacy Policy has been modified means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy. Beyond Bernie encourages Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about what information Beyond Bernie collects and how it uses that information. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of any modifications since your last visit.

 

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using Beyond Bernie's Website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

 

Contacting Beyond Bernie

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or anything relating to the Website, please contact Beyond Bernie at amaya@beyondbernie.org.

May 1st, 2020