Feds For Future is committed to protecting individual privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you visit FedsForFuture.org, or visit Feds For Future pages hosted by other sites (such as our official profiles on social networking sites). This Privacy Policy describes what information is made available to Feds For Future and how that information is used and retained, and provides information on:
- Information we receive (when you provide it, visit FedsForFuture.org, receive email updates, or interact with official Feds For Future presences on third-party sites)
- How this information is used
- Sharing of this information
- Data retention
- Third-party tools and sites
- Children and privacy
- Security
If you have questions about this policy or suggestions for its improvement, please let us know at FedsForFuture.org/Contact/.
Information Received and Retained by Feds For Future Online Platforms
Information You Give Us
You do not have to provide the Feds For Future with any personal information or create a user account to access information on FedsForFuture.org. However, for some services, we may need some personal information from you such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and other contact or identifying information about yourself or others that you choose to provide or authorize us to collect. For example:
- The “Contact Us” form asks for basic contact information so we can respond to your request;
- When we ask users to share their story or how a policy decision will impact them, we generally ask for their name, zip code, and email address;
- We may ask for personal information from people applying to, registering for, or participating in a Feds For Future event or survey.
Visits to FedsForFuture.org
When you visit FedsForFuture.org, the following basic information is automatically received and stored by the web servers hosting FedsForFuture.org:
- The originating Internet Protocol (IP) address;
- The internet domain name;
- Information about your computer or mobile set-up (e.g., type and version of web browser, operating system, screen resolution, and connection speed);
- The pages on FedsForFuture.org that you visit;
- The internet address, or URL, of the website that connected you to our site, if you accessed FedsForFuture.org via a link on another page (i.e., “referral traffic”); and
- The amount of data transmitted from FedsForFuture.org to your computer.
Feds For Future also uses web measurement and customization technologies (such as “cookies”). You can choose not to accept cookies from any website, including FedsForFuture.org, by changing your browser settings.
How Information is Used
If you choose to provide us with information, we may use that information to contact you, respond to your message, or provide you the information or services you requested. In order to serve you better, we may analyze multiple sources of data you have provided (for example, to look up whether you previously contacted Feds For Future about the same topic so that we do not send you a duplicative response). We may also use messages or comments collected through FedsForFuture.org or official social media pages for our own purposes, such as to inform policy decisions or in public advocacy.
We may use data you provide and automatically generated data for statistical analysis to assess, for example, what information is of interest to users, technical design specifications, and system performance. This allows us to make general improvements to our site as well as to offer tailored content to email subscribers (e.g., a follow-up message to subscribers interested in a specific topic based on information they have provided or automatically generated data). We may also use your information in order to detect, prevent, and respond to security issues and other harmful or unlawful activities on the Site. For resume information submitted, your information may be used for employment consideration.
Sharing of this Information
Information you choose to share with the Feds For Future beyond standard browsing activity metadata (directly and via third party sites) will not be shared with external parties without your consent.
Feds For Future uses a third-party analytics provider (currently Google Analytics) to analyze data from cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies. We have also limited the provider’s ability to see your full IP address (a process known as “IP masking”). Please review Google Analytics’ privacy policy for additional information.
Within Feds For Future, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to officers subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position.
We do not use or share your information for commercial purposes and, except as described above, we do not exchange or otherwise disclose this information.
