Americans
for Fair Taxation
Privacy Policy
Thank
you for visiting Americans for Fair Taxation or www.fairtax.org.
Your privacy is very important to us. Our policy is to respect
and protect the privacy of visitors to our websites. In this document,
we explain how we use information you supply us. If we update
our privacy policy, all revisions will be posted on this page.
We reserve the right to change the privacy policy.
For
your convenience we have organized our privacy policy into the
following topics.
INFORMATION
COLLECTION AND USE
Two
types of information may be collected when you visit www.fairtax.org,
information which you knowingly provide us (called personally
identifiable information), and information which is obtained from
your visit but is not directly associated with you (called non-personally
identifiable information).
When
you sign up to use one or more of our services, send an e-mail
or fax from our site, make a contribution, ask a question, offer
an opinion or order items in the online store, we may specifically
ask for information about you, including, but not limited to name,
age, address, phone number, e-mail address, financial and/or demographic
information and payment information. This information is used
to fulfill the services you requested or to better our website
offerings to you and users like you.
In
the normal course of using FairTax.org we may collect information
about your habits and usage of our sites. The information collected
cannot be traced specifically to the person using the site.
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INFORMATION
SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Agents,
employees and contractors of Americans for Fair Taxation and its
affiliates who have access to personally identifiable information
are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent
with this Privacy Policy and the high standards of this organization.
Information
about you specifically will not be used for any purpose other
than to carry out the services you requested from Americans for
Fair Taxation and its affiliates.
We
will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information
to anyone at any time without your prior permission.
We
will not use any personal or financial information beyond what
is necessary to assist us in delivering to you the services you
have requested.
We
will send personally identifiable information about you to other
organizations or individuals when:
We
routinely use the non-personally identifiable information that
we collect to improve the design and content of our sites and
to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also
may use this information to analyze site usage, as well as to
offer products, programs, or services to you or other users like
you.
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USES
OF E-MAIL ADDRESSES
Americans
for Fair Taxation and its affiliates may periodically send informational
or promotional e-mail messages. You will not receive such e-mail
messages unless, at the time you provided us with your e-mail
address, you indicated that you wish to receive such e-mails.
If you are asked for your e-mail address and not given the opportunity
to opt-out of receiving additional information, then the e-mail
address is to be used for the specific service you requested only
and will be deleted when you request the service be discontinued.
You may request discontinuation of e-mail messages by sending
such request by e-mail to info@fairtax.com.
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COLLECTION
OF INFORMATION BY THIRD-PARTY SITES AND SPONSORS
FairTax.org
contains links to various other sites. While we encourage other
site developers to adopt privacy policies that build users' trust
and confidence in the Internet, we are not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of websites linked to our sites
or to which we link. Visitors should consult the other sites'
privacy policies, as we have no control over the information that
is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
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USE
OF COOKIES
Cookies
are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive
by our servers to identify your computer. Cookies are only read
by the server that placed them there and are unable to execute
any code or virus. We may use cookies to recognize you when you
visit our sites, to personalize your experience and generally
to serve you better. For example, if you enter your name, address,
telephone number, e-mail address, ZIP code or other personally
identifiable information on one of our forms, such information
may be, but is not necessarily always, stored in a cookie so you
do not have to enter this information again.
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IP
Addresses
An
IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer whenever
you're using the Internet. Web servers automatically identify
your computer by its IP address.
Americans
for Fair Taxation and its affiliates collect IP addresses for
the purposes of system administration, to report aggregated information
to our sponsors, and to audit the use of our site. When visitors
request pages from FairTax.org, our servers log the visitor's
IP address. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally
identifiable, which means that a visitor's session will be logged,
but the visitor remains anonymous to us.
OUR
COMMITTMENT TO SECURITY
We
have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial
procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access,
maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect
via the Internet. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal
information without your prior knowledge and permission.
If
you have questions about the privacy procedures employed at Americans
for Fair Taxation, please write, e-mail or call us at:
Americans
for Fair Taxation
PO Box 27487
Houston, Texas 77227-7487
Phone:
1.800.FAIRTAX (1-800-324-7829)
E-mail:
info@fairtax.org
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