## Privacy Policy

**Effective date:** June 27th, 2026

Friends of Ben Connor ("we," "us," or "the Committee") respects your privacy. This policy explains what information we collect through votebenconnor.com, how we use it, and your choices.

### Information we collect
- **Information you give us:** your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, and similar details when you fill out a form, sign up to volunteer, or contact us.
- **Donation information:** if you contribute, payment is processed by our third-party processor (ActBlue), subject to its own privacy policy. We receive the information required to comply with campaign-finance reporting law.
- **Automatically collected information:** basic usage data such as IP address, browser type, and pages visited, through standard web analytics.

### How we use your information
- To communicate with you about the campaign — news, events, volunteer opportunities, and calls to action.
- To respond to your questions and requests.
- To process and report contributions as required by law.
- To improve our website and outreach.

### Text messaging (SMS/MMS)
If you provide your phone number and opt in, we send recurring automated text and MMS messages from Friends of Ben Connor about political news, events, and calls to action. Message and data rates may apply, and message frequency varies. You can opt out at any time by replying **STOP**, or reply **HELP** for help. See our SMS Terms & Conditions for full details.

**No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.** Information-sharing with subcontractors strictly to support the messaging program (for example, the messaging platform that delivers our texts) may occur, but text-messaging opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties for any other purpose.

### How we share information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only: (a) with service providers who help us operate the campaign and website, under confidentiality obligations; (b) as required by campaign-finance law or other legal requirements; and (c) subject to the text-messaging restriction stated above.

### Your choices
- **Email:** unsubscribe using the link in any email.
- **Text:** reply STOP to stop messages.
- **Access/correction:** contact us using the information below to update or remove your information where applicable.

### Children
Our site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

### Changes
We may update this policy from time to time. The effective date above reflects the latest version.

### Contact
Friends of Ben Connor
3413 Hixson Pike, Chattanooga, TN 37415
Email: ben@votebenconnor.com