Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting ScottWalker.org! At Friends of Scott Walker, we are always doing our best to provide privacy and security of information that you share with us online at our website, at our grassroots social organizing site, MyScottSpot.org and via any e-communications and social networks. We urge you to take steps also to protect the privacy of your personal information, such as safeguarding your passwords and logging off of the website after submitting personal information. This privacy policy is designed to help you keep you and your information safe while you are visiting our websites while also providing you with information about security measures, precautions and legal requirements to secure your information.

We Protect your Information

Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our websites and technology have restricted access limited only to authorized staff and vendors. This access applies to all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data including credit card information is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Our servers are located in a locked, secure environment and are monitored on a continuing basis.

How do we use the information you provide?

At Friends of Scott Walker and all associated web sites, we may ask for your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Via MyScottSpot.org, the campaign’s online organizing network, or through our e-communications system, we will know who referred you to join Friends of Scott Walker or its social network so that our grassroots team may credit those who are organizing, volunteering, supporting or fundraising for the committee.

We will use your e-mail address to provide you news and information about Friends of Scott Walker. Communications include a weekly E-Newsletter, event invitations & updates, urgent campaign alerts, or for fundraising support.

When you register, sign-up online or contribute, we may share your contact information with successor organizations and other like-minded Republican candidates and organizations and they may contact you. Friends of Scott Walker will not sell or exchange your credit card information to any third party under any circumstances.

Contributing money online

The State of Wisconsin requires Friends of Scott Walker to maintain a record of the name and mailing address for each individual who contributes to the committee. In addition, for contributors who contribute over $100 per calendar year, Friends of Scott Walker is also required to maintain contributor occupation information as well as employer name and address. This information will be reported on the committee’s campaign finance reports.

We keep your IP Addresses safe

We keep track of your IP address, which is the location of your computer or network on the Internet, for systems administration purposes. We also use page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit in order to improve the quality of the site. There is no personal identifiable information collected in our log files.

Unsubscribing from Email Communications

If you wish to unsubscribe from our communications, please click on the link “Unsubscribe” at the bottom every mass email communication or you may request an unsubscribe by emailing info@scottwalker.org. We will process these requests to the best of our ability to comply with legal requirements, however, our contributor records will be continuously maintained in a separate secure database.

Contacting us about privacy

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, corrections to the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this site or your interaction with this website, please send an email to: info@scottwalker.org

Our site links to a limited number of other websites such as media, blogs and other websites of interest to supporters of the committee. Friends of Scott Walker is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these websites, however, we do our best to ensure that we are leading you to responsible and credible content. Friends of Scott Walker will continually update this privacy policy with the demands of website users and as content evolve. While we do not intend to make any changes to this privacy policy, we reserve the right to revise or update this privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to be informed of how we are protecting your information.