StickyVote takes your privacy very seriously.  If questions about our privacy policy that you are not able to find on this page, please contact us at:

contact [at] innovoter [dot] com.

Effective March 31, 2008

Privacy Summary

• StickyVote facilitates communication between citizens and lawmakers.
  
• This process requires collecting data from citizens, much of it personal, and passing it on to legislators.  Transmission of this personal data to your legislators is necessary for validation of your identity by the legislator, so that your preference can be given weight prior to a vote.
• Privacy Promise: We will never sell your identity or contact information to any third party for any reason, nor will any third party be allowed to contact you unless you explicitly request that they be able to do so. All of your information is and will continue to be protected against unauthorized access by web encryption and security. 
  

Definitions

• "Personal information" is defined here as any information that can be associated with a specific person and thus can be used to identify that person.
• "Aggregate information" is information that has been anonymized so that it is completely detached from a person's identity and thus is impossible to use for personal identification.
  

Email
Your email address is necessary for account administration, such as resetting your password. We will never sell or share your email address, except in the case that you explicitly request that it be provided to a third party in whom you are interested. Cases where you would choose to provide your email to a third party include but are not limited to: requesting a response from a representative by email, requesting that an organization contact you by email, or sending a 'Tell a Friend' email.

Information we collect
When you register, we collect some basic personal information including your name, email, and physical address (for assessing your voting district). Once you have an account with us, we track your voting history as well as site activity and preferences. Additionally, we offer the option to provide additional information including but not limited to: voter registration information, personal political priorities, and demographic data such as your age, gender, political party affiliation, and ethnicity. This sort of sensitive data is kept separate from your personal information and is only used in aggregate.

How we use the information
We collect information with the purpose of passing voter opinions on to legislators. We also allow other users of the site, such as other members and advocacy organizations, access to aggregate information, often in the form of charts of votes on a particular issue. We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United States or any other country in which InnoVoter Inc. or its agents maintain facilities. Therefore, by using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.  While this is the case, each of these transmissions is secure and used for purposes internal to StickyVote alone.

Who we give information to
As stated before, a vote on innovoter is an explicit request that we send a message to your elected officials. This message contains your stance on a political issue, your name, and your address. In this way, using StickyVote is very similar to signing a petition. Outside of these messages, we divulge only aggregate information about our users and will not share personal information with any third party without your express consent.

By providing information to InnoVoter, you are explicitly requesting us to pass aggregates of that information on to your legislators. However, your votes, vote history, demographic data and district information will be connected with your name only if you give us permission to do so. Demographic data is only used in aggregate and will not be shared with any third party in connection with your name. Providing information to the StickyVote implicitly allows innovoter members and third parties to view aggregates of that information, for example, charts of votes yes and no for each issue.

Cookies
When you visit InnoVoter, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer. We use cookies to store preferences and for security tracking. InnoVoter can be used with cookies disabled with only minor loss of functionality.

Changes in Policy
Future additions to this privacy policy will be posted on the StickyVote website.

Please contact us with any further questions or concerns.