Privacy Policy for Michele Botelho for Congress

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Introduction

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Michele Botelho for Congress ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy ("Policy"). This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from users ("you") or that you may provide when you visit our website (the "Site") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. 

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By visiting and interacting with our website, you're agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

 

This Policy applies to information we collect:

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• On this Site.

• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Site.

• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Site, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Site.

• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.

 

It does not apply to information collected by:

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• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party; or

• Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Site.

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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 use our Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

 

In addition, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) may require us to collect personal information from donors. For example, the FEC requires us to collect (and disclose) the name, mailing address, occupation, and employer of all individuals whose donations exceed $200 per calendar year. We comply with all applicable FEC regulations regarding campaign contributions and reporting.

As a campaign based in Connecticut, we also comply with the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), which provides Connecticut residents with specific rights regarding their personal data.

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Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

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We collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including information:

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• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, occupation, employer, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");

• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as demographic information; and/or

• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Site, and usage details.

• Text Message Opt-In Information: If you decide to receive text messages from us, we might gather your phone number and necessary data for the text messaging services.

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We collect this information:

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• Directly from you when you provide it to us.

• Automatically as you navigate through the Site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

• From third parties, for example, our business partners or voter databases.

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Information You Provide to Us

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The information we collect on or through our Site may include:

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• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site, subscribing to our service, posting material, making a donation, signing up for volunteer opportunities, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Site.

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

• Details of transactions you carry out through our Site and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Site.

• Your search queries on the Site.​

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Information Sharing

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• We will not distribute, sell, rent, or expose your personal data to any third parties, except as stipulated in this Privacy Policy or when necessitated by law.

• Text Message Opt-In Information: We will not share or sell your text messaging opt-in data, consent, or associated personal information with any third parties, unless mandated by law.

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Utilization of Information

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We might use the personal details you provide for various purposes such as:

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• Communicating with you, responding to your queries, and offering information about our campaign.

• Sending you campaign updates, newsletters, and other relevant details.

• Analyzing and enhancing our website's functionality, content, and user experience.

• Fulfilling legal obligations and defending our rights and agreements.

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Text Message Opt-In Information: Your phone number and related details collected for text messaging services will solely be used to deliver you campaign-related text messages and updates.

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Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

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As you navigate through and interact with our Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

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• Details of your visits to our Site, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

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The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

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• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Site according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our Site.

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The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

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• 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 Site. 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 Site.

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Site and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, 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).

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How We Use Your Information

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We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

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• To present our Site and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

• To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

• To notify you about changes to our Site or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Site.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• To fulfill any other purpose with your consent.

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We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or adjust your user preferences in your account profile.

 

We comply with the CTDPA by limiting the collection of personal data to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary for the purposes disclosed. We will not process personal data for purposes beyond those disclosed unless we obtain your consent.

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Disclosure of Your Information

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We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

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We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

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• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them (e.g., email service providers, payment processors).

• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users is among the assets transferred.

• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

• With your consent.

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We may also disclose your personal information:

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• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, such as FEC reporting requirements for contributions.

• 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 us, our customers, or others.

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Under the CTDPA, we must disclose the categories of personal data shared with third parties and the categories of those third parties in this Policy. Categories of personal data we may share include identifiers (e.g., name, email), commercial information (e.g., donation history), and internet activity. Categories of third parties include service providers, political affiliates, and government entities as required by law.

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Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

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We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

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• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or by sending us an email with your request to makeconnecticutred@gmail.com.

• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by us to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to makeconnecticutred@gmail.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.

• Targeted Advertising. If we, or a third party, have sent you a targeted advertisement, you may opt-out of receiving such advertisements by following the instructions provided in the advertisement or by contacting us at makeconnecticutred@gmail.com.

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Under the CTDPA, Connecticut residents have the right to:

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• Confirm whether we process their personal data and access such data.

• Correct inaccuracies in their personal data.

• Delete their personal data.

• Obtain a copy of their personal data in a portable format.

• Opt-out of the processing of personal data for targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

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To exercise these rights, please contact us at makeconnecticutred@gmail.com or through the "Privacy Rights Request" link on our homepage. We will respond within 45 days (with possible extension). You may appeal any denial by emailing us within 30 days of the decision.

 

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.

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Accessing and Correcting Your Information

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You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Site and visiting your account profile page.

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You may also send us an email at makeconnecticutred@gmail.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. 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.

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Data Security

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We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

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The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

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Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

 

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical data security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of personal data, as required by the CTDPA.

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Children's Privacy

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Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Site or through any of its features, register on the Site, make any purchases through the Site, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. 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 makeconnecticutred@gmail.com.

 

We do not process sensitive data concerning a known child without processing such data in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

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Changes to Our Privacy Policy

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It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Policy on this page with a notice that the Policy has been updated on the Site home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Site home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this Policy to check for any changes.

If we make any retroactive material changes, we will notify you and provide an opportunity to withdraw consent for previously collected data, as required by CTDPA amendments.

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Contact Information

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To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

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Michele Botelho for Congress

P.O. Box 2066

Danbury, CT 06813-2066

​Email: makeconnecticutred@gmail.com

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For CTDPA-related inquiries, use the contact methods above. We provide an active email address for such requests.

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Disclaimer: This Privacy Policy is provided for informational purposes and is not intended as legal advice. We recommend consulting with legal counsel to ensure full compliance with all applicable laws, including FEC regulations and the CTDPA.