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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 24, 2025

INTRODUCTION

This website, front.moveon.org and any other websites we own and operate that link to this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), and the related content, platforms, services, products, and other functionalities offered on or through our services, (collectively referred to as the “Sites”), is operated by MoveOn.org Civic Action and MoveOn.org Political Action (“MoveOn”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).

MoveOn.org Civic Action is a 501(c)(4) organization that primarily focuses on nonpartisan education and advocacy on important national issues. MoveOn.org Political Action is a federal political committee that primarily helps members elect candidates who reflect our values through a variety of activities aimed at influencing the outcome of the next election. MoveOn.org Civic Action and MoveOn.org Political Action are separate organizations. However, both have a core mission of promoting your participation in the democratic process, and the Sites are owned and operated by both entities.

When you provide your personal information to MoveOn.org Civic Action, it is also shared with MoveOn.org Political Action (and vices versa).

We work hard to protect your privacy. This Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and process personal information in our efforts to mobilize for an inclusive and progressive future.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as an added statement on our homepage or by email notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Sites to stay informed about our privacy practices and the ways you can protect your privacy.

1. OUR COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the term “personal Information” in this Policy to mean data or information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular person. This does not include information considered de-identified or publicly available under applicable law.

We collect personal information that (a) you provide us, (b) we receive from third parties, or (c) are automatically collected, in the ways described below:

a. Personal Information You Provide Us

This is information you explicitly take steps to share with MoveOn. Some of the ways you provide information to MoveOn include, but are not limited to:

  • Completing forms on our Sites,
  • RSVPing to and attending our events,
  • Creating or signing petitions on our Sites,
  • Completing surveys addressed to specific individuals or groups,
  • Applying for an endorsement or partnership,
  • Joining our volunteer community, and
  • Donating through our Sites.

The information you may provide us include but not limited to the following:

  • Account Information: For example, account username and password for our petition platform.
  • Audio or Visual: For example, your photo, video, or voice captured when you attend an in-person or virtual event, leave us voicemails, or voluntarily send in videos, photos, or voice recording.
  • Contact Information: For example, first and last name, email address, postal address, or phone number.
  • Demographic Information: For example, age, citizenship status, ethnicity/race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and household information. These categories are considered “Sensitive Personal Information” under state consumer privacy laws, and you may withdraw your consent for our processing of this information as described in the “Your Choices” section below.
  • Donation Information: For example, payment information, billing address, profession, or donation history.
  • MoveOn utilizes third-party providers to process donations on our behalf.
  • Inquiry and Communications Information: For example, user-provided information submitted through web forms on our Sites, to our email addresses, or via phone.
  • Interaction: For example, donation history, membership status, and advocacy actions taken.
  • Interests: For example, political causes and campaigns you express interest in hearing about, or information about your personal and professional interests that are relevant to your interest and involvement with MoveOn and our work.
  • Preferences: For example, your preferred method(s) of communication.
  • User-created content: For example, the stories and information you provide to MoveOn as a part of petitions, campaigns, or messages on issues we send to elected officials, news publications, and other audiences when you use our petition building, survey, and emailing tools. This includes photos, videos, audio, and other information you may submit to us.
  • Other: Any other information you voluntarily provide, which could include information deemed “sensitive” personal information under certain laws, such as religious beliefs, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, or citizenship status.

 

b. Personal Information We Receive from Third Parties

This is information we may receive from third parties, such as partners and affiliates, including but not limited to the following categories:

  • Other MoveOn-related organizations, such as MoveOn Education, a 501(c)(3) organization,
  • Other individuals who interact with our Sites, such as when others refer you to our Sites,
  • Social media, such as when someone engages with our social media networks, or other social media networks that may share our information,
  • Service providers performing services on our behalf, such as vendors, database administrators and marketing providers that may collect personal information on our behalf and often share some or all of this information with us,
  • Community and coalition partners, such as organizations or entities that align with our mission and partner with us on programming and/or services,
  • Data cooperatives for nonprofits, commercial voter file and consumer research providers, and various public records data;
  • Other sources, such as publicly available sources, third-party service providers, or other activities consistent with our mission.

 

c. Personal Information We Automatically Collect

We and our third-party affiliates and partners may collect information automatically when you access the Sites, read our emails and/or texts, or otherwise interact with us. This information may be collected through tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, pixels, or other related technologies. This may include:

  • Information about your device, such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, device manufacturer, type or model, operating system, date and time of access, and unique IDs that allow us to identify you when you engage with our Sites;
  • Information about how you access and use our Sites, such as how you got to our Sites, which pages you visited, what links you clicked, the frequency of your visits, and other browsing behavior;
  • Location information, such as a general geographic location that we or our third-party providers may derive from your IP address or other relevant information;
  • Analytics information that our third-party providers may use to help us understand how our Sites are being accessed and used.

 

If you would like to disable cookies or prevent the collection of cookies, you may consult your browser’s settings and options. You may find your browser type below to go directly to the browser user guide to learn how to disable or erase cookies.

 

However, blocking all cookies may negatively impact the functionality of some websites. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

We collect and use your personal information to further our core mission of promoting your participation in the democratic process. This includes and is limited to the following, unless otherwise specified or we specifically obtain consent:

  • Advocacy and organizing: When you provide information on our petitions, surveys, partnership sign-up, volunteer forms, and the other forms on our Sites, we use this information to further our mission and mobilize civic engagement. This includes delivering your petitions and survey outcomes to interested parties such as elected officials, the press, or the general public; or to better conduct events. We may also use personal information to mobilize volunteers and coalition partners in support of our mission.
  • Services and Operations: We may use your personal information to fulfill your requests and tailor our communications with you to things that may be relevant to your interactions with us. For example, we may communicate with you regarding upcoming events, new partnerships, or information about our activities. We may also use your personal information for business purposes, such as data analysis, enhancing our website, improving our services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our programs; and to send you important information regarding the Site, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and/or other administrative information.
  • Fundraising: MoveOn relies on donor support to enable its operations. To do this, we use your personal information to process and solicit donations.
  • Outreach and Research: We may share information with you about issues of concern or importance to MoveOn and our partners. To do this, we may use your personal information to communicate with you about opportunities to support our mission through various channels, including targeted advertising, based on your membership profile or interaction history.
  • When Required by Law or Public Interest: As nonprofit organizations, MoveOn is required to submit donation information to governmental entities where required by law and other legal obligations. We may use your personal information to fulfill these obligations. Additionally, we may share your personal information if required (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Your Personal Information may be disclosed to the following third parties in the following ways:

  • We may share information you voluntarily provide for advocacy purposes with public officials, the press, specific groups, or the general public when you choose to use our email tool to send them messages or when you sign petitions or complete surveys addressed to specific individuals, groups, or audiences.
  • We may share information you voluntarily provide us with our affiliates and partners.
  • We may share your information with our third-party service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, database administration, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email/text delivery services, and other similar services to enable them to provide services.
  • With your consent, we may share your information with like-minded organizations that may send you communications.
  • To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
  • As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We only allow our service providers to handle your personal data if we are satisfied, they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers, contractors, and third parties to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.

a. Sites Security

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. This includes but is not limited to limiting access to personal information, encryption, and de-identifying personal information before sharing (for example, using hashing technologies).

However, no security system is impenetrable. As such, we are not able to nor do we guarantee that our security systems are 100% safe. If we become aware of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the incident and where appropriate, notify the relevant parties regarding what information may have been compromised, and take other steps in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

b. Financial Donations

MoveOn treats our donors’ credit card information with the highest level of privacy and security, following industry best practices. Our donation pages use a secure (SSL/https) connection to send credit card data directly to a leading payment processor that is certified Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant. MoveOn never has access to or stores credit card numbers in any format on any of our servers.

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which this Site contains a link. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates. To learn more about the privacy practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices.

a. Targeted Advertising

We may use your personal information to display targeted advertisements to you on social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, to fundraise and amplify our advocacy and organizing activities. By doing so, we may share your personal information with social media platforms to serve targeted advertisements to specific individuals (for example, one-to-one matching), including you, or to display to people who share similarities with our existing audiences (for example, “lookalike” audiences”) who are members or volunteers with MoveOn. We do this to support fundraising and advocacy operations by optimizing our ability to communicate effectively with existing and potential supporters. All personal information shared for these purposes is hashed to improve privacy.

b. Sale of Data

We do not exchange your personal information for monetary consideration or value whatsoever. However, some state privacy laws consider the exchange of personal information for any form of valuable consideration to be sale of data. MoveOn will occasionally exchange donor and contact personal information with other like-minded progressive nonprofit organizations and nonprofit data cooperative vendors. When you opt out of sales of data, you will be removed from both practices.

c. Profiling

Some state privacy laws provide consumers with the right to opt out of profiling or automated decision-making that can significantly impact their legal or economic well-being. MoveOn does not conduct these activities.

d. Sensitive Personal Information

We collect the following information classified as “sensitive personal information “ under state consumer privacy laws with your consent:

  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • Religious beliefs
  • Health information
  • Sexuality
  • Citizenship/immigration status

We use this sensitive information for the purposes set forth in Sections 2 and 3 of the Policy. You may be able to withdraw your consent for our processing of sensitive information as described in Section 8 below.

If you are a resident of the following states, you may be able to exercise the rights listed below in relation to the personal information we have collected about you (subject to identity verification): Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana (effective January 1, 2026), Iowa, Kentucky (effective January 1, 2026), Maryland (October 1, 2025), Minnesota (July 15, 2025), Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Virginia.


  1. Right of Access – You have the right to obtain:
  • Confirmation of whether and where we are processing your personal information;
  • The categories of your personal information we process, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and what our retention policies are for your personal information;
  • The categories of third parties with whom we may share your personal information; and
  • A readable copy of the personal information we hold about you.
  1. Right of Portability – You may request up to twice a year, subject to the applicable laws, a copy of the personal information you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that supports re-use, or to request the transfer of your personal information to another person.
  2. Right to Correct – You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in any personal information that we hold about you.
  3. Right to Delete – You have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we hold about you, except information that we are required or permitted to keep in compliance with applicable law and obligations. If any information cannot be deleted, we will notify you upon the completion of your request.
  4. Right to Opt-Out – You may have the right to op-out of targeted advertising or sale of data activities.
  5. Right to Withdraw Consent – In instances where you have provided consent for the processing of your sensitive personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. While we will cease processing activities, this will not affect the lawfulness of use prior to your withdrawal.
  6. Right to Appeal – If we decline to fulfill your request to exercise any of the above rights, you have the right to appeal our decision. If your appeal is denied, you may contact your state’s attorney general through the following links:

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify the requestor’s identity as the person about whom we collected information or as someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf. Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.

All exercise of these rights are subject to the consideration of the interests of others. If permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. We will notify you of the fee with explanation of the decision before completing your request.

We are required under most state consumer privacy laws to respond without undue delay but within 45 days of receipt of your request. Depending on factors such as the type and complexity of the request, we may extend the time for response once for 45 additional days, as long as we notify you within the original 45 days.

If we decline to take action regarding your request, we must notify you without undue delay, but within 45 days of the receipt of the notice and provide information on our appeal process. We are required to provide justification and provide information on the appeal process within a reasonable time after the communication of the decision to decline.

You may exercise your privacy rights by submitting a data privacy request using the methods below:

  1. Recommended: Use the Manage Your Data form.
  2. Email: You may email us regarding your privacy rights at help@moveon.org.
  3. Phone: 202-386-6333
  4. Universal Opt-Out Signals: MoveOn recognizes and honors opt-out preference signals that meet the requirements under applicable laws, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC), in regard to opt-out requests for targeted advertising and sale of data when we are able to connect the opt-out signal to the requesting individual.
 

Other parties may be authorized to submit opt-out and/or deletion requests on your behalf subject to certain state consumer privacy laws. To do so, please indicate that you are an authorized third-party on your request. We are only obligated to fulfill requests of authorized agents whose authority we are able to verify.

The Site is not intended for children under the age of thirteen (13).

We do not knowingly, directly or passively, collect information from children under the age of thirteen (13). To respect the privacy of children and to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, children under the age of 13 should not provide any Personal Information on this Site.

If you believe that we may have collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen, please contact us at help@moveon.org to request deletion of that information.

If you have any specific questions about how MoveOn controls or processes your data which are not answered here or you would like to exercise any of your rights under applicable law, please contact help@moveon.org. If you are not satisfied with our response to your inquiry then you can appeal or request further information by membersupport@moveon.org.