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Privacy

Updated 1 September, 2009

Every individual has the right to know if a website is collecting data about him or her, and how that data is used. MidlandTXGOP.com takes seriously concerns about privacy and has formulated the following statement to address them.

General Policy

We do not collect any personal information about visitors to our website. We do not know nor can we ascertain a visitor’s name, address, phone number, drivers license or Social Security number, date of birth, marital status, bank account numbers, nor – except as explained below – email address. We cannot access anything stored on the computers used by visitors to our website.

The MidlandTXGOP.com website may use web-based forms to allow visitors to request information, be added to the MidlandTXGOP.com’s mailing lists or to submit information for inclusion on the website. If you choose to provide any information via those forms, you do so on a strictly voluntary basis, but you may rest assured that such information will be used only for the purpose described. We do not sell or otherwise share your personal information with any third parties.

In the unlikely event that MidlandTXGOP.com is required by a governmental agency or court to turn over any information collected via this website, we will comply to the extent required by law.

Cookies

Cookies are small bits of data which are placed on your hard drive by certain websites in order to identify you as a repeat visitor to those sites. The vast majority of cookies are innocuous and are used for such things as storing passwords or membership ID’s for sites that require them.

MidlandTXGOP.com’s website does not currently (as of August, 2009) issue cookies for any reason. That could change in the future, if interactive features are added to the site, but any such changes will be clearly communicated. And, in any event, any such cookies will never be used to collect personal information about visitors to our site.

Visitor Logs

MidlandTXGOP.com’s website resides on a server maintained by a third-party webhost. A standard feature of such servers is the creation of what are called “referer logs,” which contain certain data about every visit to each website housed on those servers. If analyzed properly, this log can be useful in understanding how people find our website, and what features they use most often. The following information is collected in the referer log for the MidlandTXGOP.com website:

The visitor’s IP address, which is a code identifying the visitor’s Internet Service Provider (such as America Online, MSN, etc.)
The referring address, which is the webpage from which the visitor came to the current site. For example, if a visitor found MidlandTXGOP.com’s website via the Google search engine, the Google address would be shown as the referring address.
If the visitor arrived at the MidlandTXGOP.com website via a search engine query, the log shows what words or phrases the visitor used in that query.
The date and time the visitor came to the current page, and how long the visitor spent on that page.
A list of all the pages visited within our website.

The referer log does NOT capture any personal information, such as name or e-mail address, nor can the log be used to identify any specific visitor.

Incidentally, the creation of this log is not controlled by, nor can it be modified by MidlandTXGOP.com.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. MidlandTXGOP.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of those other sites. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by the MidlandTXGOP.com website.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

MidlandTXGOP.com reserves the right to change or update its Website Privacy Statement at its discretion. We will make reasonable efforts to highlight any significant changes to this policy on our website, but if you are concerned, please check this page periodically.

In any event, we will never change our policy of not collecting individually-identifiable information from visitors to our website without their knowledge, nor will we ever share personal data provided voluntarily by visitors with third parties, except as provided above.