Democracy Engine Inc PAC is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal information. We’ve tried to keep this Privacy Policy as simple as possible. Please note, when we refer to our Site, we mean the website http://pac.democracyengine.com (and any subdomain thereof), which is operated by Democracy Engine Inc PAC, a nonprofit political committee.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Personal Information means information you provide to us that specifically identifies you (such as your name, address, email address, or billing information). Personal Information does not include aggregate information, which is data we collect about the use of our Site or about a group or category of services or users, from which individual identities or other personal information has been removed.

WHAT DO WE COLLECT?

Personal Information may be collected in a number of ways when you visit Democracy Engine Inc PAC. We collect information you voluntarily provide to us, such as when you make a donation, send us an email, sign-up to receive email or updates, connect through a social feed, fill out a form, or request information. Such information may include Personal Information.

Campaign finance law and regulations also require us to collect certain Personal Information from those who donate.

When you use Democracy Engine Inc PAC, some information is may be automatically collected, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your operating system, the browser type, the address of a referring website, and your activity on our Site. We treat this information as Personal Information if we combine it with or link it to any of the identifying information mentioned above. Otherwise, it is used in the aggregate only, without personal identifiers.

We may also automatically collect certain information through the use of cookies or web beacons. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive at the request of a website. Among other things, cookies help us improve our Site and your experience. For example, we use cookies to identify you so that, for example, when you return to our site, if you've already made a donation, you don't have to re-enter certain information. If we link cookies to any personally identifying information, we will treat this information as Personal Information. If you wish to block, erase, or be warned of cookies, please refer to your browser manufacturer to learn how to do so. However, if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect certain features on our Site. Web beacons are small, invisible graphic images that may be used on Democracy Engine Inc PAC or in emails relating to Democracy Engine Inc PAC to monitor traffic on our Site and to understand how people are using our Site and our various products and services when they are offered on third party sites.

The Site may contain links to other web sites. Democracy Engine Inc PAC is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Policy applies solely to information collected by our Site.

WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION

We use your Personal Information to facilitate your use of the Site. We may over time use your email address to let you know about new services on our Site, or information about political issues, candidates and elections that may be of interest to you.

We do not sell, rent or otherwise share your Personal Information with any third parties except in the following specific circumstances:

• Compliance with Law. We may preserve or disclose your Personal Information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security, or technical issues; or to protect Democracy Engine Inc PAC’s rights or property. You should also be aware that we, and the eventual recipients of your donations to Democratic nominees, are required to file public reports that contain some Personal Information with the Federal Election Commission or state campaign finance regulators.
• Functionality. Some of the tools and capabilities you will want to use on Democracy Engine Inc PAC are provided by third parties. In those circumstances, we may share your information with our affiliates or sub-contractors to facilitate providing you the service you have requested. In all cases, your information will be protected by this Privacy Policy or, should their policy apply to your information, we will provide you an explicit opportunity to agree to their Privacy Policy prior to using the service you have requested. Specifically, in making a donation, you are agreeing to the Privacy Policy of Democracy Engine, LLC, which can be found here.
• Business Transfers. This Policy will apply to your Personal Information in the event that Democracy Engine Inc PAC is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or a sale of assets. However, your information may be transferred to another entity as part of that transaction.

MINORS

Democracy Engine Inc PAC does not knowingly ask for or collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13. If you become aware that your child has provided Democracy Engine Inc PAC with Personal Information without your consent, please contact us at pac@democracyengine.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s use of the Site.

FEEDBACK

We value your opinions to make our site more useful and relevant. You may email us at any time with feedback, testimonials, suggestions and ideas about our products and services—or you may also provide such content through other means which we’ll call “Responses.” We may use any of your Responses in any way, without obligation to you.

ENFORCEMENT

Democracy Engine Inc PAC is limited to users in the United States, so the privacy laws of the United States govern the use of our Site.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We reserve the right to change the provisions of this Policy at any time and will alert you to changes in this policy with an effective date at the bottom. Questions or comments regarding this Policy should be sent to info@itstarts.today.

Effective date of this version: February 15, 2018

WHAT IS THE DE PAC ARIZONA PROJECT?

The Democracy Engine Inc PAC Arizona Project is an effort to turn the AZ Senate seat and 2nd Congressional California district blue in 2018.

WHAT IS THE DEMOCRACY ENGINE INC PAC?

Democracy Engine Inc PAC is a political committee (seperate segregated fund) registered with the Federal Election Commission.

HOW DOES THE PROJECT WORK?

In a nutshell: we let you donate now (even before the nominee is known) to each of the eventual Democratic nominees for Congress in these targeted races in 2018. We take your donation, divide it into two parts and hold onto the money until a Democratic nominee is selected in the primary in August. Then we send them the money.

In more legalistic terms (for the lawyers and campaign finance geeks out there): the funds you donate via this website are contributions to Democracy Engine Inc PAC that are then designated (“earmarked” in campaign finance regulation-speak) to each of the Democratic nominees for Arizona Senate seat and the Arizona 2nd Congressional district in the 2018 general election in accordance with FEC Advisory Opinion 1982-23.

In the event there is no Democratic nominee in a district, the funds for that district will be redesignated as a donation to Democracy Engine Inc. PAC.

WHEN WILL THE NOMINEES GET MY MONEY?

Democracy Engine Inc PAC will hold onto your donations for each nominee until the primary election (June 5, 2018). We then have 10 days to send your money (along with everyone else's) to the newly nominated Democrat.

All donations—along with all disbursements—are reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Reporting is quarterly and the FEC makes all reports available online, so you can always check on your donations and our distributions.

WHAT ABOUT FEES?

First off, 100% of your donations will go to the candidates - so if you’re donating $5.00 to each of them, that’s exactly what you’re donating. But, credit cards are not free and just like everyone else (including ActBlue, Kickstarter and PayPal), we have to account for processing fees. Democracy Engine Inc PAC relies on Democracy Engine LLC to process and distribute contributions.

Democracy Engine LLC will collect a 4% + $0.30 processing fee on top of your contribution to the Democratic nominees. This sum covers both the processing fees—credit card, debit card, ACH, etc.—and costs of distribution to candidates. It also provides Democracy Engine with a small profit, which is required by campaign finance law. And just to compare: ActBlue collects 3.95%.

Democracy Engine has low rates and the services we need. So we're happy to work with them in our effort to crowdsource democracy, cut the GOP off at the knees, and make the country - and world - a better place.

You can reach us at pac (at) democracyengine.com or (202) 630-6597 (if you get our voicemail, just send us an e-mail as we'll respond faster).