Privacy Statement
Privacy Policy
Information Collection
Registration:
In order to become a Mypoliticalworld.com user, you must first create an account on this web site. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information: name, email and, ZIP/postal code, and choose a password.
Profile Information:
Once a user, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your political affiliation, your cell phone, your personal picture, and other items about yourself. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and find new opportunities in the Mypoliticalworld.com system.
Information about your Contacts
In order to invite others to connect with you directly in Mypoliticalworld.com, you will enter their email addresses. This information will be used by Mypoliticalworld.com to send your invitation including a message that you write. The email addresses of people that you invite will be used only to send your invitation and reminders.
All information entered there will only be viewable by you and will not be searchable by others in the Mypoliticalworld.com network without your permission. All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your own personally identifiable information.
Cookies & Log Files:
Mypoliticalworld.com uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows Mypoliticalworld.com to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. If your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website.
One type of cookie, known as a “persistent” cookie, is set once you’ve logged in to your Mypoliticalworld.com account. The next time you visit the Mypoliticalworld.com web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to log in before using the service. In order to access or change any of your private information (like a credit card number), however, you must log in securely again with your password even if your computer contains your persistent cookie. Additionally, if you log out of the Mypoliticalworld.com site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account.
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Mypoliticalworld.com web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave Mypoliticalworld.com. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the Mypoliticalworld.com service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.
Children:
Children are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service.
Information Use
Mypoliticalworld.com is an online web service dedicated to helping people in politics connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this site is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Other information, that does not personally identify you as an individual, is collected by Mypoliticalworld.com (such as, by way of example, patterns of utilization) and is exclusively owned by Mypoliticalworld.com. This information can be utilized by Mypoliticalworld.com in such manner as Mypoliticalworld.com, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.
Mypoliticalworld.com Communications:
Mypoliticalworld.com will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. These include a series of welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from Mypoliticalworld.com related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another user in your network sends you an opportunity. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please send a request to info@mypoliticalworld.com
Customized Content:
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we will display the user names of new users who have recently joined your network.
Information Sharing
Sharing Information With Third Parties:
Mypoliticalworld.com may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. We may segment our users by role (i.e. product managers, vice presidents), industry, geographic location, company. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users’ activities on the site, please email us at info@mypoliticalworld.com
Communications Between Users:
Many emails you initiate through Mypoliticalworld.com, an invitation sent to a non-user for instance, will list your email address and name in the header of the message. Emails you initiate may also provide aggregate information about your network (for instance how many people are in your network), but will never list the people to whom you’re directly connected. Other communications that you initiate through the Mypoliticalworld.com website, like a request for contact, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal contact information. Your contact information will only be shared with another user if both of you have indicated that you would like to establish contact with each other.
Legal Disclaimer:
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
Accessing and Changing Your Account Information
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your Mypoliticalworld.com account, at any time by logging in to your account on the Mypoliticalworld.com website and editing the information on your Profile page.
If you close your Mypoliticalworld.com account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data; To request that we close your account and remove your information from the Mypoliticalworld.com service, please send your request to info@mypoliticalworld.com
We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the Mypoliticalworld.com Privacy Policy that you have previously agree to.
Security
In order to secure your personal information, access to your data on Mypoliticalworld.com is password-protected, and sensitive data is protected by our staff. To protect any data you store on our servers we also regularly audit our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and we use a tier-one secured-access data center.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Mypoliticalworld.com may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display the date of this change on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Questions or Comments
If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at info@mypoliticalworld.com
