Privacy Policy
The Re-Elect Steve Holton For Sheriff Campaign ("we", "us", or "our") operates the website steveholtonforsheriff.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled safely and responsibly.
This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website, in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable U.S. privacy laws.
1. No Cookies or Tracking Technologies
We respect your right to privacy online. This website does not use cookies, tracking pixels, or third-party analytics trackers. We do not track your browsing behavior across the internet or collect unnecessary metadata about your visit.
2. Information We Collect
We only collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us. The only point of data collection on our website is the "Contact Us" form.
If you choose to submit a message through our Contact Form, we collect the following information:
- First and Last Name
- Email Address
- Your Message
Technical Data: For the strict purpose of protecting our website from spam and abuse, our secure server (Cloudflare) temporarily logs your IP address when you submit the contact form to apply a rate limit (e.g., preventing a bot from submitting hundreds of forms). This IP address is not used for marketing or tracking.
3. How We Use Your Information
We rely on your consent and our legitimate interest in communicating with constituents to process your data. The information collected via the Contact Form is used solely for the following purposes:
- To reply to your inquiry, question, or comment.
- To provide you with information regarding the campaign, if requested.
- To coordinate campaign support, such as delivering a yard sign if you requested one.
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, rent, trade, or share your personal information with third parties.
Your information is kept strictly confidential within the Steve Holton campaign team. We will only disclose your data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
5. Data Security
The security of your data is important to us. We use industry-standard encryption (HTTPS) to protect your data as it is transmitted from your browser to our secure servers. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy—specifically, to adequately respond to your inquiry and maintain an archive of campaign communications until the conclusion of the election cycle, after which it will be securely deleted.
7. Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights regarding the information you have submitted through our contact form. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
You have the right to:
- Access: Request a copy of the personal data we have collected from you.
- Rectification: Request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
- Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): Request that we erase your personal data from our records.
- Restrict Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Data Portability: Request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address provided below. We will respond to your request within one month.
8. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us (such as Facebook, Anedot for donations, or the Ravalli County official website). If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit, as we have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us at:
Email: re.electholtonforsheriff@gmail.com
Mailing Address: 524 Harvey Lane, Corvallis, MT 59828