Fort Bend Young Republicans is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Fort Bend Young Republicans Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Fort Bend Young Republicans website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Fort Bend Young Republicans collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Fort Bend Young Republicans also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Fort Bend Young Republicans. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Fort Bend Young Republicans for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Fort Bend Young Republicans Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Fort Bend Young Republicans public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Fort Bend Young Republicans does not read any of your private online communications.

Fort Bend Young Republicans encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Fort Bend Young Republicans so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Fort Bend Young Republicans is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Fort Bend Young Republicans and Fort Bend Young Republicans family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Fort Bend Young Republicans collects and uses your personal information to operate the Fort Bend Young Republicans Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Fort Bend Young Republicans also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Fort Bend Young Republicans and its affiliates. Fort Bend Young Republicans may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Fort Bend Young Republicans does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Fort Bend Young Republicans may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Fort Bend Young Republicans may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Fort Bend Young Republicans, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Fort Bend Young Republicans does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Fort Bend Young Republicans keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Fort Bend Young Republicans, in order to determine what Fort Bend Young Republicans services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Fort Bend Young Republicans to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Fort Bend Young Republicans Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Fort Bend Young Republicans or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Fort Bend Young Republicans; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Fort Bend Young Republicans, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Fort Bend Young Republicans Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Fort Bend Young Republicans pages, or register with Fort Bend Young Republicans site or services, a cookie helps Fort Bend Young Republicans to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Fort Bend Young Republicans Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Fort Bend Young Republicans features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Fort Bend Young Republicans services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Fort Bend Young Republicans secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Fort Bend Young Republicans secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Fort Bend Young Republicans will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Fort Bend Young Republicans encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Fort Bend Young Republicans is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Fort Bend Young Republicans welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Fort Bend Young Republicans has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Fort Bend Young Republicans at info@fbyr.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.