Who we are
Our website address is: http://surveillancereform.org.
We are a coalition of like-minded residents and organizations in the Portland, Oregon area, led by the efforts of PDX Privacy. A nonprofit committed to protecting the personal right to privacy.
We have done our best to protect your privacy. But there are a few things you should know about.
We have embedded 2 powerful TED lectures into the homepage of SurveillanceReform.org. These videos are governed by the privacy policy of TED.com, as though the TED website had placed them there.
You can find their privacy policy here: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/privacy-policy.
Please be aware that websites from other domains, like TED.com, may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Again, please consult TED for their privacy policy: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/privacy-policy.
If anyone has the time to assist us, we would love to know what kinds of privacy implications there could be and would love to explore alternatives.
Please also be aware that this website is built on an open source, WordPress Platform. So, much of the basic WordPress privacy policy below may not pertain to how you, or we, use the site. We keep it here because we are not web developers. We are concerned citizens.
We want to make sure you are aware of any possible privacy implications that our website might have.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Please consult TED for their privacy policy: https://www.ted.com/about/our-organization/our-policies-terms/privacy-policy
Who we share your data with
We use servers operated by our web hosting company, Hostinger. You can view Hostinger’s privacy policy here: https://www.hostinger.com/privacy-policy.
Your data stays local to SurveillanceReform.org, except for your name, city, state and zip code if you sign a petition, and any comments you choose to add through the additional comments form.
Your name, city, state, zip code and any optional comments are shared with the City of Portland, in public support of any text you sign.
How long we retain your data at our website
If you sign a petition, your data will be saved temporarily so that we can authenticate you as a real person.
You consent to having your name, city, state and zipcode made public and added to the public record in support of the text.
We will not present your email address on the petition, but we retain your email address for 30 days, to confirm your existence, and in case of any inquiries made about your legitimate existence.
You consent that we may contact you, in the event that an inquiry of this kind made about you.
If you want us to be in touch with you, you can opt-in to being in contact. We would love to get to know you better.
We will hold your email address for 30 days, then delete it, if you do not opt-in to being in contact with us. (Please note that data processing through the website could be delayed by 3rd party failures and we do not assume liability for 3rd party failures because we have nothing to do with them. These include failures by our web hosting company, Hostinger. You can view Hostinger’s privacy policy here: https://www.hostinger.com/privacy-policy.
However, we will completely delete your email address and locally-saved data to the best of our ability, unless you tell us not to by opting-in to be in touch.
You understand that contact may come from PDX Privacy or SurveillanceReform.org.
We will not share your information with any other organizations, unless you specifically request that we do so.
How long the city retains your data
You consent to having your name, city and zip code submitted into the permanent public record in support of any petition text you choose to sign electronically here at the website. You also consent to having any “comments” added to the petition submitted into the public record in association with your name.
We do not submit email addresses into the public record.
Public records last indefinitely as public information.
How long does SurveillanceReform.org retain your data
We at surveillancereform.org only retain your data for 30 days. We then delete it to the best of our ability, unless you opt-in to being in touch.
Once you opt-in, you may opt out again by sending us an email to info@pdxprivacy.org, or using any unsubscribe options in any newsletters sent to you.
WordPress comments are currently disabled.
Any comments left at SurveillanceReform.org will become a part of the public record, but will not be retained by SurveillanceReform.org, PDX Privacy or any associated organization after 30 days, unless you consent otherwise.
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If WordPress comments become enabled, and If you leave a WordPress comment on the website, the comment and its metadata would be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
When visitors leave WordPress comments on the site we collect the data shown in the WordPress comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Fonts
A full list of our active fonts and symbols can be seen using a 3rd-party tool here: https://fontsplugin.com/google-fonts-checker/.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Who to contact with questions
Questions can be sent to info@pdxprivacy.org. We will do our best to be in touch with you