Privacy Policy

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide through forms on this website and through third-party services linked from our site (such as our donation processor). Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:

• Contact information — name, email address, phone number, and mailing address (including street address, city, and ZIP code).
• Volunteer and supporter details — areas of interest, availability, and messages you send us.
• Donation information — when you donate through our secure third-party donation page, payment and contribution details are collected directly by that provider. We may receive your name, contact information, contribution amount, and employer/occupation information as required by Florida and federal campaign finance law.
• Communications preferences — whether you have opted in to receive emails, text messages, or other campaign updates.

We may also automatically collect limited technical information when you visit our site, such as your browser type, device type, general location (city/region level), pages viewed, and referring website. See Cookies and analytics below.

Forms on this site that may collect personal data include:

• Contact form
• Volunteer sign-up
• Yard sign request form
• Email and newsletter sign-up forms
• Our external donation page

We use the personal information we collect solely for campaign-related purposes, including to:

• Respond to your inquiries and requests
• Coordinate volunteer activities, events, and yard sign delivery
• Send you campaign updates, news, event invitations, and get-out-the-vote information by email, mail, phone, or text message (where you have consented)
• Process and acknowledge donations as required by law
• Comply with Florida and federal campaign finance reporting requirements
• Improve our website and understand how visitors use it

We use your information for campaign communications only. We do not use your personal data for unrelated commercial purposes.

If you provide a mobile phone number and affirmatively opt in, you may receive recurring autodialed campaign and donation-related text messages from Sargent for Sarasota. Your consent to receive text messages is not required as a condition of purchasing any goods or services, or of making a donation.

Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

TCPA consent language

By checking this box and providing your phone number, you consent to receive recurring autodialed campaign and donation text messages from Sargent for Sarasota at the number you provide. Consent is not a condition of donating or any purchase. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help. We honor all opt-out requests promptly.

You may revoke SMS consent at any time by replying STOP to any message. For assistance, reply HELP or contact us using the information below. After you opt out, we may send one final confirmation message. For more information about our texting program, visit our SMS Opt-In page.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We may share information only in limited circumstances, such as with service providers who help us operate the campaign (for example, email delivery, website hosting, donation processing, or volunteer management tools), when required by law, or with authorized campaign staff and volunteers who need the information to carry out campaign activities. These parties are permitted to use your information only to perform services on our behalf and must protect it consistent with this policy.

Under Florida law, certain campaign contribution records are public records and may be published by the Florida Division of Elections or other reporting authorities.

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect the personal information we collect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include secure connections (HTTPS) for data transmitted through our website, access controls limiting who may view supporter data, and use of reputable third-party service providers for donations and other sensitive transactions.

No method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure. While we work to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to remember your preferences, keep the site functioning properly, and understand how visitors use our pages. Cookies are small text files stored on your device.

We may use analytics tools (such as privacy-respecting or commonly used web analytics services) to collect aggregated, non-identifying information about site traffic, including:

• Pages visited and time spent on the site
• General geographic region and device/browser type
• How you arrived at our website (referring URL)

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies. Disabling cookies may affect certain site features. We do not knowingly use analytics data to personally identify you without your consent.

You have the right to control how the campaign communicates with you and how we maintain your personal information.

Opt out of communications — you may stop receiving campaign messages at any time:

• Email — click the “unsubscribe” link in any campaign email, or email us at sargentforsarasota@gmail.com with “Unsubscribe” in the subject line.
• Text messages — reply STOP to any campaign text message.
• Phone or mail — contact us at the email or phone number below and ask to be removed from our contact lists.

Request deletion or correction — you may request that we delete or correct your personal information by emailing sargentforsarasota@gmail.com. We will honor your request to the extent permitted by Florida and federal campaign finance law. Some information — such as itemized contribution records required to be retained and reported to government authorities — cannot be deleted but will not be used for unsolicited marketing if you have opted out.

Please allow a reasonable time for us to process your request. Even after you opt out of marketing communications, we may still contact you regarding a specific request you submitted or as otherwise permitted by law.

This website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us and we will promptly delete it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your opt-out rights, or need to update or correct your information, please contact the campaign:

You may also reach us through our contact page.