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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:

  1. We have your consent to share the information;
  2. We need to share your information in order to provide the product or service you have requested; or
  3. We are required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena.

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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