Privacy policy.

Friends of Stephen Baratta and BarattaforDA.com have created this privacy notice to explain how we use information that you may provide while visiting our website and to demonstrate our firm commitment to Internet privacy. Friends of Stephen Baratta and BarattaforDA.com may modify this policy from time to time so we encourage you to check this page when revisiting this website.

How Friends of Stephen Baratta Uses Your Information

Friends of Stephen Baratta is committed to protecting your privacy online. When you register, contribute, sign up to volunteer, or take any other action on our site, we may ask you to give us contact information, including your name, address, telephone number and/or e-mail address. We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect through this site. We use this information to operate this site, send you news and information to you about Friends of Stephen Baratta and to solicit your participation in programs, events, and activities, and to obtain and confirm reservations to events and programs. We use your e-mail address to send such information by e-mail and may use your telephone number to call you for these purposes.

Friends of Stephen Baratta will never provide your e-mail address or any of your personal information to any other person or organization, for any purpose. If you decide to purchase tickets to an event or to contribute online, we may also ask for your credit card number and its expiration date. That information is used solely for processing your contribution, is not maintained by Friends of Stephen Baratta, and is never disclosed to anyone, for any other purpose other than for processing your contribution, under any circumstances.

How Friends of Stephen Baratta Protects Information You Provide

Friends of Stephen Baratta and this website use industry-standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our server is in a locked, secure environment. Permission to access your information is granted only to you and Friends of Stephen Baratta employees or contractors who need to know that information to provide services to you. Although Friends of Stephen Baratta makes good faith efforts to store information collected by this website in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security.

Other Disclosure of Your Information

Friends of Stephen Baratta makes every effort to preserve user privacy. Nonetheless, Friends of Stephen Baratta may need to disclose personal information when we have a good-faith belief release is appropriate to comply with the law (for example, a lawful subpoena), to protect our rights or property, or to protect our donors, artists and supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct, or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without delay.

Links to Other Websites

This privacy policy covers this website and its subdomains. The website and its subdomains may link to third-party websites. Friends of Stephen Baratta is not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these third-party websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and review the practices of all websites you visit.

About Cookies, IP Addresses and Log File Data Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. This website uses a cookie for measuring aggregate web statistics, including number of monthly visitors, number of repeat visitors, most popular webpages and other information. Friends of Stephen Baratta and this website will also use cookies to facilitate your online visit by maintaining data that you provide for online activism activities so that you will not need to resubmit certain information. We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our Site. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to our supporters.

Server Log Files

Friends of Stephen Baratta logs standard technical information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and the kind of browser you use. We log this information for troubleshooting purposes and to track which pages people visit to improve the site. We do not use log files to track a particular individual’s use of the website.

Advertising 

We may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including, but not limited to Google, Facebook/META, and Instagram, which will be shown on other sites on the internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to this website.  At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with Friends of Stephen Baratta be shared with those third-party vendors. If you prefer to opt out of the use of these third-party cookies, you can do so by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative “opt out” website at https://thenai.org.

Special Notice for Parents

Friends of Stephen Baratta wants to help you guard your children’s privacy. We encourage you to talk to your children about the safe and responsible use of their personal information while using the Internet. Friends of Stephen Baratta and this website do not knowingly collect, use or distribute children’s personally identifiable information to any third parties. If you have any reservations, questions, or concerns about your child’s access to this website or how information that your child provides is used by us, please contact Friends of Stephen Baratta at info@barattaforda.com.

How Friends of Stephen Baratta Notifies You About Privacy Policy Changes

We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if we change our practices, add new site features, or change existing site features. We will notify registered users by email and post notice to this site of any substantive changes to our Privacy Policy. Your use of this site following such changes constitutes your agreement with regard to information collected from you in the past and in the future.

How to Unsubscribe or Opt-Out

People who subscribe to email lists via this website will receive periodic updates from Friends of Stephen Baratta and this website by regular mail, fax, as well as e-mail. You may opt-out of receiving future information via e-mail by using the unsubscribe procedure specified on the e-mail message.

How To Contact Friends of Stephen Baratta

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be emailed to info@barattaforda.com.