privacy policy
Samir Bitar and the Samir Bitar for City Council 2024 Committee (“We”) take your privacy very seriously, and make every reasonable effort to safeguard your personal data and to comply with all applicable laws, policies, and regulations related to the collection, storage and processing of personal information.
This privacy policy is intended to inform you of what information we collect, how this information is used, and what steps we take to protect this information. This policy covers our websites, web applications and is applicable worldwide. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy and protections, please contact us at ideas@samir.la.
This policy outlines our data handling practices and how we collect and use the Personal Data you provide during your online and offline interactions with us. As used in this Privacy Policy, “Personal Data” means any information that can be used to individually identify a person, and may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, postal or other physical address, credit or debit card number, title, and other personally identifiable information.
This policy is effective as of September 1, 2023 and may be updated from time to time for reasons such as operational practices or regulatory changes, so we recommend that you review our Privacy Policy when returning to our website. When our privacy policy changes, we will post a notice at the home page for our websites and applications. If you object to any changes of our privacy policy, you may discontinue visiting the website and suspend usage of any of our applications.
Data We May Collect:
Device, browser and platform information, visitor behavior data, identifier information, donor contact data, information regarding application usage and user behavior, and information about survey responses.
This data is received from you our supporter/donor, our processing platform, and or our data analytics service and used to facilitate texting, email, or calling campaigns or information dissemination
We do not share this information with third-parties, other than with third-party processors as part of supplying our application or service. In addition, we may transfer to a third-party processor standard personal information for the purposes of processing transactions. For example, if we took credit card information online to process a transaction for our service, we would transfer that information to a credit card processor to complete the transaction. In these cases, we only use the information to complete the transaction you request, and we reasonably determine that the third-party and processes the information only within the confines of our instruction and agreement..
Google Analytics does not allow the collection of Personal Identifiable Information; therefore, we do not link the Personable Identifiable Data mentioned above to the data collected by Google Analytics.
We are committed to protecting the Personal Data you share with us or that we otherwise receive or collect. We utilize secure platforms with security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Please note that no method of data protection is 100% secure.
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Opting Out
SMS Opt-Out: If you are receiving text messages from us and wish to stop receiving them, simply respond with either “STOP” or “UNSUBSCRIBE” to the number from which you received the message. Once we receive your message, you will no longer receive further text messages from us."
Visitors and supporters may stop communications by responding to a text or call requesting an opt-out from further communications. A visitor or supporter may request access or deletion of personal data through us (using the mechanisms defined in this policy). Please note that we do not have the ability under the current regulations to maintain suppression records when we receive a deletion request of personal data. We will diligently handle any opt-out request in a timely fashion from each request.
You can request access or deletion of personal data, including your email address and all profile information by emailing ideas@samir.la. We will respond with an acknowledgment that your information has been removed or deleted.
Changes to This Policy
This privacy policy may be amended from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. We will notify you of any significant or material changes in the way we treat your information by placing a prominent notice on our site and/or, sending a notice to your primary email address.
California Privacy Rights: Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice identifying the categories of personal customer information which we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties.
If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a formal request to ideas@samir.la.
For More Information
To address your individual rights, make a request for access or deletion of personal data, or if you have any privacy-related questions or comments related to this privacy policy, please send an email to ideas@samir.la, or by writing to:
Samir Bitar for City Council 2024
P.O. Box 13466
Los Angeles, California 90013
In addition, if you or someone you know is disabled and would like to receive an alternative form of this Policy, please write to us at the above address and we will do our best to accommodate.
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