MWPolitical Privacy Policy (updated 2022)
This privacy policy describes how MWPolitical Inc. ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects the information you provide when you use our websites, mobile applications, software, subscriptions, SMS text messaging platform (the "SMS Platform"), and/or other goods or services ("Services"). We protect your privacy. If we request personally identifiable information from you on this website, we will use it solely in line with this privacy policy, as amended from time to time. Our Terms of Use, Acceptable Usage Policy, and other policies must be followed.
Web, App, and Service Links
Our Services may link to third-party websites, applications, and services of interest. After you leave our site via these links, we have no control over third-party services. So, this privacy statement does not apply to such sites and services, and we are not responsible for their protection of privacy. Be cautious and read the privacy statements of third-party sites and services.
Data Collection
We record your interactions with us. Information about you may include:
registration-related information (such as name, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, occupation, and information imported from social log in permissions provided to us); information about the Services you use, how often you use them, and your reactions to our offers and ads;
metadata we collect from or about any message(s) received over our SMS Platform, including phone numbers each message was sent to and from; information about the searches you do on our websites or in our other Services and how you utilize the results of such searches;
transaction-related information (such as credit card or other preferred means of payment, billing information, credit card number, expiration date, billing address, and/or a history of purchases through our Services); customer service information about you as a user of our Services; location data; information about any devices, connections, and methods used to access and interact with us; and other information specifically related to your use of Services, including We collect personal information from all Service end users' communications, including text messages, faxes, phone calls, and "snail mail," as well as from third-party outside sources like database vendors. Usage Data may be anonymous when collected, but it could be used to indirectly identify a person.
Your phone number may be collected in these ways:
We gather your phone number when you send a keyword to a Short Code (if applicable) or call or text a Long Code handled by one of our customers.
When a customer links their database to us, we acquire your phone number if you have already given it to them.
Your information may be augmented with other firms' publicly accessible, household, and other data.
We may add:
Data you sent using our Short Code Service (if applicable). When texting one of our customers' keywords on our Short Code, it may automatically ask for your zip code. We'll connect you to our nearest customer representative or agent if you offer a zip code.
During a peer-to-peer interaction, our consumer manually inputs data. For instance, our client may ask you for your name via a text message (or voice call, if appropriate) and then type your name into their contacts along with your phone number.
Data gathered from 3rd parties by matching your email, phone number, or other information submitted to us by you or our client. We may employ a third-party provider to decide which phone numbers can be texted when a client submits a list of their contacts (i.e. which numbers belong to cell phones and which belong to landlines).
Usage metrics from the SMS Platform or other Services. For instance, we may monitor and show a customer your previous message.
Our customer's database automatically sends us information. For instance, if you joined up on one of our clients' websites and supplied your name and phone number, we would retain your name and show it to our customer at relevant times (e.g. in our text messaging app used by customers).
When you use our Services, we may get technical information. This may include your browser or operating system, your method of connecting to the Internet, and the name of your Internet service provider or wireless carrier; your Internet protocol (IP) address; information about referring websites or services (websites or services you used immediately prior to using our websites or other Services); exiting websites or services (immediately after using our website or other Services); and data relating to malfunctions or problems. We may also gather information about other software on your device for security or online experience purposes.
Several web browsers offer a "Do Not Track" function that tells websites and Services not to track your online behavior. It's impossible to comply with every "Do Not Track" request since browsers send them differently. At this time, we do not reply to or honor "Do Not Track" signals to avoid browser-Service communication errors. As browser-website communication improves, we may reassess our ability to heed "Do Not Track" signals and adjust our policy.
We don't examine SMS messages received using the SMS Platform, therefore you're responsible for their legality and compliance with our Conditions of Use and Acceptable Usage Policy. Unless disclosed to you or required by law or for spam control, we do not automatically scan the content of your peer-to-peer communications received over the SMS Platform to use it for targeted contextual advertising or to profile you.
Use of Your Information
Uses of your data may include:
to operate and improve the Services we offer; to personalize the content and advertisements provided to you (including to present offers on behalf of business partners and advertisers); to fulfill your requests for tools, software, functionality, features, and other products and services; to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; to conduct research about your use of our products; and to help offer you other products, features, or services.
Cookies, flash cookies, local shared objects, web beacons, pixels, single pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, and other technologies may be used with your information to improve and customize your experience and optimize our Services. Accept or reject some cookies. Most web browsers automatically allow cookies, but you can typically change your browser settings to deny cookies. If you disable cookies, several of our Services may not work correctly.
Usage Data is ours. For instance, we may utilize Usage Data to enhance service to Service visitors or end users, modify the Services based on your preferences, compile and analyze statistics and trends concerning Service use, and generally manage and improve our Services.
Your Data
We do not rent or sell your personally identifiable information (name, address, telephone number, and payment card information) to third parties for marketing reasons. With your approval or as specified in this Privacy Policy, we may share your information with third parties to offer products and services you requested.
We may publicly and privately disclose aggregated, non-personally identifiable information. For instance, we may publicly reveal website usage data.
The contents of your online communications and other information about you as a user of our Services may be accessed and disclosed in response to lawful governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant, or subpoena), in other circumstances in which we have a good-faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user of our Services, or in an emergency that poses a threat to
Several of our Services allow sharing. Note that public content can be indexed by search engines, copied, transmitted, stored, or preserved by others.
Our offers may integrate or interact with third-party products and services or incorporate third-party features or capabilities (including, without limitation, via APIs, plug ins, links, frames, embedding, or other interactions). Your browser or other tools or technology may transfer information to the third-party supplier to deliver such functions in our services. The privacy policies of these third-party applications or functionalities apply. For example, a third party may have access to your data if we utilize it for ad serving, retargeting, remarketing, or analytics. These third-party vendors may use their own cookies and/or other third-party cookies together to (a) inform, optimize, and serve ads across the web based on your past visits to our Services and others and (b) report to us how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site. You can establish preferences and opt-outs using Google Ads Settings and Google Analytics' current opt-outs if and when we employ Double Click or another Google brand for ad serving, analytics, remarketing, retargeting, etc.
Unless as explicitly authorized above, business partners or other third parties may acquire data about groups of our users but not individually identifying information. Agents and contractors may assist us run our Services. Their use of information is limited to these reasons, except as expressly allowed below.
Whenever we combine, acquire, or sell, your information may be transferred. You will be notified (through changes to this page) if such a transfer results in a major change in the use of your information.
We may store and process personal information collected via the Services on our servers in the US or in any other countries where we, our affiliates, subsidiaries, or agents have operations. Any such transfer of personal information outside your country of residence is consented to.
General Disclosure Policy
Your personal information may be disclosed as mentioned below. Usage Data may be disclosed at our discretion.
Partners
Your personal information and Usage Data may be shared with our related companies, including our subsidiaries. Affiliated entities are entities we control or that control us.
Suppliers
Our trusted service partners who help us operate and maintain our sites and services may access your personal information and Usage Data. For instance, we may hire third parties to handle payments, host our servers, offer security, and provide production, fulfillment, optimization, analytics, and reporting services. Our service providers will only have access to your information as needed to perform their contractual services.
Successors
In the event of an acquisition, merger, bankruptcy, or liquidation, we may transfer your personal information and Usage Data to another entity.
Legal Procedure, Enforcement, and Security Notification
If we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of your personal information and Usage Data is reasonably necessary I to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request (such as a subpoena or court order), (ii) to detect, prevent, and address fraud or other illegal activity, and (iii) to investigate, respond to, or enforce
Joint Ventures with Marketing Partners
We may collaborate with another firm or person to promote our or their products, services, promotions, or competitions. For compensation, transaction processing, fulfillment, and support, and to offer you additional goods, services, promotions, and competitions, we may release your personal information to them. You may receive further offers from these joint venture marketing partners.
Publicity
Your data may be used for advertising. Ad networks may personalize and display advertisements on our Services. We may share user data like age, zip code, and other information with ad networks and service partners to help them offer more relevant content and ads. You may be subject to other organizations' privacy rules when we collaborate with them for services like analytics or advertising, but you may opt out directly or contact us with issues.
Your Data Choices
You can restrict the gathering or use of your personal information in the following ways:
When filling out a form on our website or other Services, consider what information to include and exclude. You may also be able to check a box to opt out of direct marketing.
Under your account settings dashboard and profile pages, we may let you modify your registration information. Once you delete or update information in our Services, we may not instantly erase residual copies from our active servers or remove information from our backup systems. If and to the extent any information is indexable by search engines (including public profile information), it may not be updated by them when we update it, and previous copies may be archived by them or third parties without our control.
You should check additional privacy information and options on certain of our Services.
If you previously consented to us using your personal information for direct marketing, you can change your mind by writing to us using the contact information below.
Security Commitment
We have safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your information, but we cannot guarantee that it will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with this Privacy Policy (for example, due to third parties' unauthorized acts that violate applicable law or our and our affiliated providers' policies). We may use passwords or other technologies to register or authenticate you and enable you to use our Services before giving access or making updates to your information to safeguard your privacy and security.
Reaching Us
If you have any queries regarding our Privacy Policy or its execution, please email info@mwpolitical.com.
We provide fast options to update or remove your information unless we need it for business or legal reasons. Before changing your personal information, we may ask for identification. Requests that are excessively repetitious, entail disproportionate technical effort (such as establishing a new system or substantially modifying an existing practice), jeopardize others' privacy, or are exceedingly impracticable may be rejected (for instance, requests for information residing on backup tapes).
Modifications to this Privacy Policy
You should routinely review our Privacy Policy as we may alter it. Your continuing use of any Services signifies your acceptance of such modifications.