Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is committed to protecting
the privacy of our visitors and supporters. We only collect and store your email
address for login purposes and in order to send you updates about our work. We will
not sell, rent, share or distribute your email address in any way except in the
case of third parties who provide our services, such as website hosting or other
services of an administrative or technical nature. These third parties have access
to your information solely for the purpose of providing such services and are subject
to confidentiality obligations.
You can remove yourself from our list at any time. Personal information you provide
is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by designated staff.
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their browser settings to reject session cookies. Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington's servers log IP addresses for systems administration and troubleshooting.
We track page hits to track the popularity of pages that people visit. With that
information we can improve the quality of the site.
Children's privacy:
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is concerned about the safety
and privacy of children online. Because of this, we will make all efforts to comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its
accompanying FTC regulations establish United States federal law that protects the
privacy of children using the Internet. We do not and will not knowingly contact
or collect personal information from children under 13. Our site is not intended
to solicit information of any kind from children under 13, and we will develop our
site with the capacity to block acceptance of information from children under 13
whenever age-related information is requested.
It is possible that by fraud or deception by others we may receive information given
to us or pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as
we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or else delete
the information from our servers. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information
by children under 13, please do so by e-mailing us at
info@citizensforethics.org
Last Updated November 2, 2006