Last updated: February, 2022
Welcome to the campaign website for Chris Hollins’ campaign for Houston Controller (“the campaign”). We put forth every effort to ensure the privacy and security of the information you share with us online. This privacy policy explains the information practices we use at ChrisHollins.com. By using this website, you agree that this privacy policy governs your use of the website.
UPDATES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, we may update this privacy policy if we make changes to our practices or to our website. Anytime we revise this policy, we will update the contents of this page and the date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the website following such changes affirms your agreement to any changes we make to this privacy policy with regard to information collected from you in the past and in the future.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
When you sign up on our website: we may ask you to provide contact information including your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. We may use your email address to send you information about the campaign as well as respond to your requests for information or services. We may use your email address, phone number, and/or mailing address to invite you to events and activities, ask you for contributions, or contact you for other purposes.
When you make a request through the website: we may be required to disclose personal information in order to carry out your requests when you use the site. For example, we may share personal information with third parties as necessary to complete a donation transaction, to deliver an e-mail to someone you have identified, or to deliver information, products or other materials to you.
We may use your information to maintain and improve this website. We may combine it with information from third-party sources in order to provide you with more relevant content on our website and other websites you visit. We may also combine your information with the information of others and disclose it in aggregate form for marketing and promotional purposes in a way that does not personally identify you.
We may also share your information with third-party entities that perform marketing services on our behalf. On occasion, we may share your contact information with successor organizations and other like-minded organizations, who may contact you. For information on our third-party service providers and partners and their data practices, please contact the campaign at [email protected].
In addition, we may release personal information when it is necessary for us to provide it to our attorneys, accountants, regulators, auditors or other advisors; or when we believe release is necessary to comply with the law (e.g., a lawful subpoena); to protect our rights or property; to protect our donors and supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.
We may also share your information outside of our campaign for other purposes if you authorize us to do so.
The above excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
NETWORK AND INFORMATION SECURITY
Our campaign uses a variety of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. For example, we use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems. We work to protect the security of your personal information by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input and allows you to view your information securely. We store the personal information we collect from you behind a secure firewall and place the transaction site on a secure server. Our servers are located in a locked, secure environment. Also, we restrict access to personal information about you to those employees and contractors who need to know that information to provide services to you.
Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by this website in a secure operating environment, no data sent over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to us or receive from us online. We have no control over the security of other sites on the Internet you might visit, interact with, or from which you buy products or services. We encourage all website visitors to use secure data practices, including using strong passwords, storing passwords securely, maintaining up-to-date software, and using a firewall. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on this website.
COOKIES, WEB BEACONS, IP ADDRESSES AND LOG FILES
Cookies
A “cookie” is a tiny text file that is stored on your computer by a website. Our website uses a cookie for measuring aggregate web statistics, including number of monthly visitors, number of repeat visitors, most popular webpages and other information. We may use cookies to tailor your experience on our site according to the preferences you have specified, and/or to maintain data that you provide for online activities so you will not need to resubmit certain information. When you visit our website, we only access the cookie file that we have stored on your computer. We cannot and do not access any information stored in a cookie by other websites. For information on your choices about cookies, please see the “Your choices” section below.
Web beacons
We may collect information using “web beacons” (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our sites or in our emails. We use web beacons to deliver cookies, count visits to pages on our website, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon.
Analytics tools
This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how users interact with our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for ChrisHollins.com. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither ChrisHollins.com nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website. Google Analytics reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site; see the “Your choices” section below for more information.
This website uses Squarespace Analytics to help analyze how users interact with our website. Squarespace Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your use of the website, including your IP address; information about your browser, network, and device; web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; and details about your use of this website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our hosting platform and website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Squarespace analyzes this data in a de-personalized form.
IP Addresses and log files
We log your IP address, which is the location of your computer or network on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We also use page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit in order to improve the quality of the site. There is no personal identifiable information collected in our log files.
ADVERTISING
We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, such as Google, which will be shown on other sites on the Internet. Those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to our website. They do this using cookies, clear gifs or other technologies. Information collected may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of our site and other websites tracked by these third parties.
At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the personal information you share with us be shared with those third-party vendors. If you prefer to opt out of the use of these third-party cookies on our website, you can do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.
This policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, cookies or clear gifs in third-party ads or on third-party websites, and we encourage you to check the privacy policies of advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may link to third-party websites and/or third-party products and services. These third parties may use cookies or other technologies on this website and serve ads based on your visit to this website and other websites on the Internet. Our campaign is not responsible for the content of any third-party websites or the information collection practices of any third parties. Please note that these third parties’ privacy policies may differ from ours; we encourage you to read the privacy policies and review the practices of all websites you visit before providing them with information.
Our campaign does not endorse any third-party websites or pages, the services or products they describe or offer, or any of the content they contain. At all times, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and we welcome any feedback about ChrisHollins.com and websites and services linked to it.
YOUR CHOICES
Email subscription: If you submit your email address anywhere on this website, your email address may be added to the campaign email list and our service providers’ or partners’ email list(s). You will receive periodic updates from the campaign by email. You may opt out of receiving future information via email by using the “unsubscribe” link included in each email. Please allow us a reasonable period of time to fulfill your request to unsubscribe, as some planned emails may already be in process.
Disabling Cookies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. The “Help” tab of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive cookies, and how to disable cookies. Please note that if you reject or block cookies, it may affect your ability to access some of the features and content of our website. For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser’s documentation:
Web beacons: Unlike cookies, you cannot decline web beacons. However, setting your browser to decline cookies or to prompt you for a response will keep web beacons from tracking your activity.
Google Analytics: You may opt out of use of your information by Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-On.
Advertising: We, along with our third party service providers, may use non-personally identifiable information to provide more relevant advertising and content. If you prefer to opt out of the use of third-party cookies on our website that may be used to obtain this information, you can do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page.
NOTICE FOR PARENTS
We strongly encourage parents and guardians to supervise their children’s online activities and talk to their children about keeping their personal information safe and secure.
Our campaign does not knowingly collect, use or distribute personally identifiable information from children under age 13. To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of 13 should not provide any personal information on our website.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information as soon as reasonably possible. If you have questions or concerns about your child’s information, or if you believe we might have collected any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected].
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 allows website visitors who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to [email protected]
Like many other websites and online services, ChrisHollins.com does not currently alter its practices when it receives Do Not Track signals because there is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Learn more at the “Do Not Track” website.
VISITING OUR SITE FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
If you are visiting our website from outside of the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored or processed in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. United States data protection laws may differ from those in your country. By using our site, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this privacy policy.
CONTACTING US ABOUT PRIVACY
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy policy or our data practices, or if you have corrections to the information we have collected from you online, please send us an email at [email protected].
