Welcome to The Truth and Freedom Initiative
We are an advocacy initiative dedicated to freedom of speech, assembly, and advocacy for positive change. Through our initiatives, our mission is to enable you to take meaningful action on the public policy issues you care about.
We also know how important privacy is to everyone, so we want to be very clear right from the start: The Truth and Freedom Initiative does not and will not sell personally identifiable information to anyone – ever. Instead, we use data to match you with your elected officials, make informational and engagement opportunities available to you, and improve our grassroots initiatives to better serve you. Since it’s important to fully understand all this, we’ve prepared this privacy policy to answer any questions you may have about that information.
Introduction
We are big believers in democracy, and we think it works best when issues and ideas are put out in the open for all to see and explore. That’s why The Truth and Freedom Initiative is designed to help you advocate to others so your voice is heard, keep you informed about issues, ideas, and people that may interest you, and strengthen participatory democracy by forging a positive dialogue between the people and their leaders. Knowing certain things about you helps us do this, and to protect you we have adopted safeguards which are described below.
How do we get information?
The Truth and Freedom Initiative collects information when users register with us, and when surveys or polls are filled out. At all times, though, you are in charge of what information you provide. If you do not want to provide certain information or choose to opt out of certain communications, that’s perfectly okay with us! It is important to know though that some functionality may not be available as a result. For example, lawmakers generally don’t accept an email unless they’ve been able to confirm it was sent by someone who lives in the district or state they represent, so they tend to require certain information like your name and address. We also sometimes receive information from sources other than the individuals to whom it pertains, such as partner organizations.
What do we do with the information we collect?
The Truth and Freedom Initiative may use the personally identifiable information we collect for limited purposes relating to grassroots campaigns. Principally, information is used to facilitate advocacy campaigns and issue engagement so our users can most effectively make their views known and voices heard. We also use info to provide, analyze, develop, and improve our services, events, and other offerings, to communicate with you, and to manage our relationships with users, Organizers, and others as appropriate. And of course, we may use info to enforce the legal terms that govern our operations and commercial relationships, to comply with legal obligations, and to protect the rights, safety, or property of The Truth and Freedom Initiative or others.
The Truth and Freedom Initiative reserves the right to determine at any time whether or not to transmit users’ submissions whether the action was solicited by The Truth and Freedom Initiative or not.
More About the Scope of this Privacy Policy
As we noted above, this Privacy Policy applies to the handling by The Truth and Freedom Initiative of the personally identifiable information we collect from visitors to our website, ForTruthAndFreedom. It does not apply to other data we collect, and it does not apply to data collected by third parties for their own purposes. The Privacy Policy also does not apply to the use of data by Organizers or elected officials.
Aggregated and De-identified Data
We may aggregate or de-identify the information we collect by removing any personally identifiable information.
Updates to the Privacy Policy
The Truth and Freedom Initiative may change this Privacy Policy at any time, such as to reflect changes in the law or our data practices. Any updated Privacy Policy will be accessible at ForTruthAndFreedom or another convenient location.
Contacting Us
If you have questions, requests, or concerns regarding your information or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@fortruthandfreedom.