Privacy

Only what you type into a form and send us. The join form asks for your name, email, address, the amount you plan to give, whether you want updates or will testify, and whether you own rental property in Maine. The contact form asks for your name, email, and message.

There are no analytics, no cookies, no tracking pixels, and no third-party scripts on any page. Because nothing tracks you here, a browser's Do Not Track setting has nothing to turn off.

Like every website, ours receives your IP address and browser type when a page loads. Our hosting provider uses them to deliver pages and protect the site, and the site briefly keeps your IP address in memory, never on disk, to stop repeated form submissions. We don't use them to identify you.

When you give by check, we keep the name and address on it, the amount, and the date, as the law requires. If we add online giving, the payment processor will handle your card or bank details under its own privacy policy, and we will update this page first.

We use what you send us only to:

• answer you;
• send the updates you asked for;
• record and acknowledge your gift; and
• keep the records the law requires.

We don't sell, rent, trade, or publish your information, or add it to anyone else's list. We share it only:

• with the service providers that run our email, hosting, and, later, payment processing, and only as far as they need it to do that work;
• when the law requires it, for example in tax filings, campaign finance reports, or in answer to a subpoena or court order; and
• to protect the rights or safety of Mainers First or of others.

We keep form messages as long as we need them to answer you and follow up, and records of gifts as long as the law requires. Nothing you send through a form is stored on the website itself.

Write to info@mainersfirst.org to see what we have about you, correct it, stop updates, or ask us to delete it. We'll do it, except for records the law requires us to keep.

This website is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information. Contributions are accepted only from adults 18 and older.

We take reasonable steps to protect what you send us, and the site is served only over an encrypted connection. No website or email system is perfectly secure, so please don't send bank or card numbers through a form or by email.

Our pages link to the sources behind every number, most of them government agencies and newspapers. Those sites have their own privacy policies, and this one doesn't cover them.

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new effective date. The version posted when you send us something applies to it.