Alliance for a Better Minnesota

This Privacy Policy will inform you about the types of information the Alliance for a Better Minnesota gathers about you online when you visit www.allinaceminnesota.org, how we may use and disclose that information. 

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. 

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 the Alliance for a Better Minnesota online, we request credit card information which we maintain in an encrypted form on secure servers. 

We may collect aggregate information in connection with petitions, surveys, or other online activities that allow you to voice your support or opposition to an issue.  The compilation of petitions and surveys may require the collection of individually identifying information. 

Upon your first visit to www.allianceminnesota.org, a cookie is 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 use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with use.  We 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.  However, some www.allianceminnesota.org features or services may not function properly without cookies. 

We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies, organizations, or individuals.  We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances: 

1.      We may disclose personally identifying information if we have your consent. 

2.      We may disclose personally identifying information to trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing personally identifying 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. 

3.      We may disclose personally identifying information if 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 www.allianceminnesota.org, our members, or the public. 

4.      We may share aggregated information with others, such as the number of members who are participating in local groups. 

5.      In the event that substantially all of the assets related to www.allianceminnesota.org are transferred or sold to another entity, all information, including personally identifiable information would be transferred to that entity. 

6.      For petitions and surveys signed or completed by Members, ABM may treat a Member’s name, city, state, and comments as public information.  For example, ABM may provide compilations of petitions, with Member’s comments, to public officials in order to validate a petition.  ABM may also make Member’s comments, along with Member’s first name, city, state, and country, available to the press and public online. 

7.      We may disclose personally identifying information through the process of updating Member information in the publicly accessible Voter File. 

8.      We may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with court orders or with requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms of Use, or to protect the rights, property, safety of our websites and other users of the site. 

9.      ABM will enable Members to send individual emails through the Site in the Member’s name, and in connection with such emails, ABM may disclose a Member’s email address as the return address to public officials or law enforcement agencies.  If a Member writes letters or emails to newspapers or other print or online publications using the Site, ABM may disclose that Member’s email address and full name and contact information as part of the submission. 

From time to time, ABM may periodically analyze web logs in order to understand traffic patterns and determine whether there are problems with the Site.  ABM may also use embedded images in email to track open rates for mailings, so that ABM can tell which mailings appeal most to ABM members.  ABM may also use URLs in emails that contain an id enabling ABM to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a webpage.  ABM may use those URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys.  ABM may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL which contains an id in order to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs which do not handle long URLs.  If ABM displays a shortened URL in an email, Member may see the full ABM URL in the browsers address bar when member accesses the page. 

THIS PRIVACY POLICY WAS LAST UPDATED ON November 14, 2007 Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time.  The online experiences and activities described in this web site may be available now or planned for  the future, and this version reflects our current policies on information collection, use, and disclosure.  We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, and will post any changes to this policy as soon as they go into effect on this site.