Privacy Policy

Public Accountability places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This privacy policy demonstrates our commitment to the privacy of our website users. It explains what types of information are collected by our website, www.pubaccountability.org, and how this information is used.

What personally identifiable information is collected?
Individuals that sign up to receive our communications voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name and e-mail address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always "opt out," either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages. You may do this using the "unsubscribe" option on each message or by emailing contact@pubaccountability.org.

IP addresses
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.pubaccountability.org and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.

Cookies
www.pubaccountability.org uses "cookies" to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you've done and told us before. The cookie is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you're particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.pubaccountability.org so we know which parts of our site are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your browser accordingly.

How your information may be used
We use your personal information to send email news and alerts to you and to answer your communications to us. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitors to our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.

Email privacy
Public Accountability does not share, trade, lease, or sell email addresses to anyone outside the organization.

Donor privacy
Donations to Public Accountability are made through our fiscal sponsor, the Oregon Justice Resource Center. OJRC also has a strict privacy policy, which can be found here.

External links
www.pubaccountability.org includes links to external websites. These links are not part of the www.pubaccountability.org domain, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.

Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify it at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.