What we collect, why, and what we never do with it.

When you become a member, you provide:

• —An email address, used to create your account and to send you membership updates.
• —Your legal name, mailing address, employer, and occupation, collected to satisfy FEC and state disclosure rules at the time of contribution.
• —Payment details, which are collected and stored by Stripe — we never see your card number.

When you visit the site, our servers receive standard web-request information: your IP address, the page you requested, and the browser you used. We log enough to operate the service and to investigate abuse; our log pipeline is configured to redact name, email, address, employer, and occupation fields if they ever appear in a request payload.

We use a small set of strictly necessary cookies to keep you signed in, and that's it. There are no advertising cookies and no cross-site tracking pixels.

We use the information you give us to:

• —Authenticate you when you return to the site.
• —Process your dues on the cadence you chose (via Stripe, our payment processor).
• —File the disclosures the FEC and applicable states require, in the form the FEC and applicable states require, on the schedule the FEC and applicable states require.
• —Send membership communications: receipts, renewal notices, and periodic member updates.
• —Investigate suspected abuse, fraud, or violations of these terms.

We share information with the following recipients, and only for the purposes named.

• —State and Federal Election Authorities — contribution records are filed with state and federal authorities at the cadence required by state and federal law and become part of those entities' public disclosure systems. This is the only category of information we share about you, and we share it because we are required to share it.
• —Stripe — handles all payment processing under its own terms and privacy notice.
• —Clerk — handles authentication under its own terms and privacy notice.
• —Service providers we use to run the site (hosting, error monitoring, structured logging) under contractual confidentiality obligations.
• —Law enforcement, courts, or regulators when we are legally required to do so, and we will tell you when we are permitted to.

We do not sell, rent, lease, license, or trade your information for any commercial or political purpose. We do not run advertising on this site, and we do not let third parties run advertising against your visit. We do not "share" your information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as that term is defined under California law.

Contribution records are kept for the period required by federal and state law. Account information (email, identity profile) is kept for as long as you are a member, and for a reasonable period afterward to support audits, fraud investigation, and legal-hold obligations. Server logs are kept for a short operational window and then discarded.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To the extent those rights apply, you can:

• —Ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you.
• —Ask us to correct information that is inaccurate.
• —Ask us to delete information that we are not legally required to keep — note that we cannot delete contribution records.
• —Ask us to stop sending you membership emails (cancel your membership; you will stop receiving them automatically).

The site is not directed to anyone under 18. Federal law prohibits political contributions by people under 18 in most circumstances, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information to us, contact us and we will delete it.

We may update this notice from time to time. The effective date at the top of this page is the version currently in force. Material changes will be flagged at the top of this page for at least 30 days before they take effect.