Privacy policy

Introduction

Rally Starter is owned and operated by Media Cause, Inc. ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This Policy covers how we collect, use, store, sell, and share your information which on its own, or in combination with other information, may be used to identify you as an individual ("Personal Data"). This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website, including creating an account with us, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy should be read together with the Terms of Use and Cookie Policy. Any undefined terms that are used in the policy have the meaning as defined in the Terms of Use or the Cookie Policy. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Terms of Use.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
• any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@rallystarter.com.

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any Personal Data to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at support@rallystarter.com.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including:

• Personal Data, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, cellphone number, and social media handle.
• information that is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
• information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

• directly from you when you provide it to us; and
• automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details and IP addresses.

Information You Provide to Us.

The Website connects individuals who want to make their voices heard ("Supporters") with individuals and organizations who are taking action on issues that matter ("Organizers"). In order to participate as either a Supporter or an Organizer on the Website, you will need to create an account.

When you create an account, you will be asked to provide the following information:

• Your full name
• Email address
• Your Zip Code
• Cellphone number
• Social media handles
• Credit card or payment method. When you initially provide or update your payment information, we transmit it via an encrypted connection to our Payment Processor, Stripe. Stripe uses and processes your payment information in accordance with Stripe's Privacy Policy. To keep your financial data secure, we do not store full credit card information on our servers.

When you organize or support a Rally, you may also provide information to be published or displayed ("posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions").

The information we collect on or through our Website may also include:

• Information that we ask for when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website.

Additionally, if you visit our Website you may also provide us with certain Personal Data in order to receive marketing or promotional emails (such users referred to herein as "Marketing Recipients"). We collect Personal Data from Marketing Recipients who are interested in learning more about the Website. This Personal Data consists of basic contact information such as the Marketing Recipient's name and email address. For Marketing Recipients who have not otherwise created an account through the Website, we only use your Personal Data to send communications, including updates on Rallies, relating to the Website offered by us and by third parties we work with that are related to the Website. For more information, see the section entitled "Marketing Communications Preferences."

Lastly, we may collect certain information from you when you use our AI-Tools campaign tools. This information may include Personal Data that is often regarded as sensitive data under global privacy standards, such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, or data concerning your sex life or sexual orientation. This type Personal Data may be collected and processed by us in order to generate relevant campaign suggestions or messaging content. While we do not intentionally solicit these types of sensitive Personal Data, the nature of our AI Tools may result in such data being voluntarily disclosed by users.

By using the AI Tools to submit such Personal Data, you understand and agree that (1) any Personal Data you choose to provide is shared voluntarily, (2) the content generated may reflect or reference such Personal Data, and (3) you remain solely responsible for the content and messaging submitted or published through our Website, including through the AI Tools. We recommend that you carefully review any information you submit, including any sensitive Personal Data, and avoid including details you do not wish to be processed or stored.

We treat all this information as your "Personal Data."

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include Personal Data, but we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include tools such as web beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect Personal Data automatically, but we may tie this information to Personal Data about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Information we collect through automatic data collection techniques is governed by this Privacy Policy as well as our Cookie Agreement.

How We Use Your Information

We generally use Personal Data for the following: to deliver and improve our Website; to manage your account and provide you with customer support; to perform research and analysis about your use of the Website; to develop, display, and track content and advertising tailored to your interests on the Website and other sites, including, potentially, providing our advertisements to you when you visit other sites; website or mobile application analytics; to diagnose or fix technology problems; to automatically update the Website on your device; to verify your identify and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity; to enforce or exercise any rights in our Terms.

We collect and use your Personal Data only where:

• We need it to provide you the Website, including to operate the Website, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Website;
• It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote the Website and to protect our legal rights and interests; or
• We need to process your data to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Moreover, by agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you have provided your consent for our processing of your Personal Data for the purposes described above. As such, we may also rely on your consent as a legal basis for using your Personal Data. If we do rely on your consent to a use of your Personal Data, you have the right to change your mind at any time (but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place). We have set out below, in a table format, more detailed examples of relevant purposes for which we may use your Personal Data.

What Happens When You Do Not Provide Necessary Personal Data?

We may need to process your Personal Data either to comply with applicable law or to perform the terms of a contract we have with you or others. We may make attempts to do so even if you fail to provide the necessary Personal Data or consents to process such data. Your failure to provide the necessary Personal Data or consents may result in us not being able to provide you with access to the Website.

Information You Share Socially

The Website may allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with friends. The Website may also allow you to connect with us on, share on, and use third-party platforms, including those on which the Company has a presence.

Please be mindful of your personal privacy needs and the privacy needs of others as you choose whom to connect with and what to share and make public. We cannot control the privacy or security of information you choose to make public or share with others. We also do not control the privacy practices of third-party platforms. Please contact those sites and services directly to learn about their privacy practices.

Disclosure of Your Information

When you support a Rally, we will provide the Organizer of that Rally with your name and email address so that they can communicate with you about the Rally. We do not share your cellphone number with Organizers.

Organizers must adhere to our Terms of Use, including that you:

• Not share a Supporter's name or other Personal Data with any third party without the Supporter's express consent.
• Unsubscribe a Supporter from any mailing list or other communications if the Supporter requests.
• Comply with the Website's Content Standards in all communications with Supporters.

If you use the Website to send a message to a governmental representative or Member of Congress, your cellphone number and email address may be disclosed to the recipient.

Affiliated Businesses: In certain situations, businesses or third-party websites we're affiliated with may sell or provide products or services to you through or in connection with the Website (either alone or jointly with us). You can recognize when an affiliated business is associated with such a transaction or service, and we will share your Personal Data with that affiliated business only to the extent that it is related to such transaction or service. We have no control over the policies and practices of third party websites or businesses as to privacy or anything else, so if you choose to take part in any transaction or service relating to an affiliated website or business, please review all such business' or websites' policies. We make no guarantees about, and assume no responsibility for the information, services, or data/privacy practices of third parties.

Agents and Other Third Parties: We employ or engage other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or Website to you; for example, we may use a payment processing company to receive and process your credit card transactions for us. Unless we tell you differently, such agents or third parties do not have any right to use the Personal Data we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us; however, such agents or third parties may separately collect personally identifiable information from you which will not be subject to this Privacy Policy and may be subject to other privacy or similar policies maintained by such agents or third parties.

Business Transfers and Funding: We may choose to buy or sell assets or to seek funding from investors and may share and/or transfer customer information in connection with the evaluation of and entry into such transactions or to allow investors to evaluate the value of the company. Also, if we (or our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, Personal Data could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party. You consent to the foregoing transfer of your Personal Data.

Protection of Company and Others: We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we believe is necessary to comply with law or court order; enforce or apply our Terms of Use, and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our employees, our users, or others.

Sale of Your Data

We may sell or license certain categories of Personal Data collected through our Website to third parties. This means that some of your Personal Data may be shared in exchange for compensation or other benefits. By creating an account or using our Website, you expressly agree and provide your informed consent to the sale of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the sale of your Personal Data, please refrain from using the Website. If you would like to opt out of the sale of your Personal Data, please email us at support@rallystarter.com. Note that opting out may limit your ability to access certain features of the Website.

The types of Personal Data we may sell include:

• Identifiers, such as your name or email address;
• Campaign interaction data, such as the topics or goals of Rallies you create or engage with;
• Technical data, such as IP address, device information, and interaction logs; or
• Geolocation or regional information.

The categories of third parties to whom this information may be sold include:

• Other users;
• Data analytics providers;
• Political or advocacy organizations (if applicable); or
• Data brokers and technology vendors

Personal Data sold may be used by third parties for purposes such as marketing, audience targeting, analytics, or Rally research.

We do not knowingly sell Personal Data of individuals under 16 years of age.

Duration of Storage of Personal Data.

We will store your Personal Data for as long as it is needed to provide you with the Website, however, we may not know if you have stopped using the Website so we encourage you to contact us if you are no longer using the Website. However, if required by applicable law, we may retain your Personal Data for such period as may be required by such law. To continue to provide an effective service, we may store non-Personal Data perpetually and may anonymize your Personal Data and store that anonymized information perpetually.

Additionally, as described in this Policy, we use third parties to provide the Website and do not have full control over their practices related to storage and retention of your Personal Data. However, we will work with such third parties to delete or modify your Personal Data to the extent required by applicable law.

Your Rights Relating to Your Personal Data

You can always opt not to disclose information to us, but keep in mind some information may be needed to register with us or to take advantage of some of our services or products.

You may be able to add, update, or delete information as explained above. When you update information, however, we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. Some information may remain in our records after your deletion of such information from your account. We may keep and use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Data after you update or delete it, but it will not in a manner that would identify you personally.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy to:

• Request access to your Personal Data: This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you: This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request erasure of your Personal Data: This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
• Object to processing of your Personal Data: This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to processing of your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.
• Request the restriction of processing of your Personal Data: This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of Personal Data about you, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request the transfer of your Personal Data: We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw consent: This right only exists where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Data ("Consent Withdrawal"). If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to the certain specific functionalities of our Site. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Marketing Communications Preferences

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages or modify your email preferences at any time through any of the following methods:

• by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you; or
• by contacting us at any time at support@rallystarter.com

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to Personal Data provided to us as a result of emails relating to existing or pending usage of our products and/or services.

How to Exercise Your Rights

If you want to exercise any of the rights described above, please contact us via email at support@rallystarter.com.

Typically, you will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, except in relation to Consent Withdrawal, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, or, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to support@rallystarter.com.

Data Security

While no service is completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Website, we have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Any payment information is transmitted using HTTPS encryption.

We use reasonable efforts to secure your Personal Data and to attempt to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you. For example, we restrict access to your Personal Data to individuals within and outside of the Company who need access to such information to provide the Website. In addition, we use reasonable technical safeguards such as encryption and secure hosting provided by industry leading third party vendors, to secure your Personal Data. However, loss, misuse, and alteration may occur despite our efforts to protect your Personal Data. We are not responsible to our users or to any third party due to any such loss, misuse, or alteration, except to the extent required by applicable law.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Data Transfer

The Website is hosted in the United States and is intended for visitors located within the United States. If you choose to use the Website from the European Economic Area ("EEA"), Switzerland, or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your Personal Data outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. By providing any information, including Personal Data, on or to the Service, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.

Information collected in the EEA may be transferred, stored and processed by us or third parties (as provided in this Privacy Policy) in the United States and other countries whose data protection laws may be different than the laws of your country.

As described in this Policy, we may share Personal Data with third parties and may be required to disclose information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions, file a complaint, or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at support@rallystarter.com.