TAKE ACTION
DONATE
Facebook-f Instagram Twitter
Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 12/01/2025

1. Our Commitment to Your Privacy

We The People Action Fund (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of our supporters, volunteers, and visitors to our website. This Privacy Policy outlines the information we collect and how we use and protect it. Our goal is to be transparent and responsible stewards of the information you entrust to us. This Privacy Policy applies to all information we collect, both online and offline. By interacting with our organization, including by using our website, donating, volunteering, attending an event, or speaking with our staff or volunteers, you consent to and agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your personal information according to this Privacy Policy.

2. The Information We Collect

We collect information in several ways when you interact with us. This helps us run our campaigns and enhance engagement. We may collect the following types of information:

    • Personally Identifiable Information (PII): This includes information you voluntarily provide to us, such as your name, email address, mailing address, and phone numbers.
    • Engagement Information: This includes your responses to surveys, petitions you’ve signed, event registrations, volunteer interests, and any other information you provide when you engage with our campaigns and activities.
    • Transactional Information: When you make a donation, we collect information necessary to process the transaction, which may include your contact information and donation history. All financial transactions are processed through a secure third-party payment processor. We do not store your credit card information.  In the case of recurring donations, our secure third-party payment processor may store your credit card information, but we do not have access to that information.
    • Automatically Collected Information: When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain technical information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, and browsing activity. We may use “cookies” to enhance your experience and gather aggregate data about website traffic and interaction.
  • Information You Provide Offline: We also collect information you provide to us through offline interactions such as in-person meetings, events or over the phone. This may include personal stories, notes on your interests and other information you choose to share. When our staff or volunteers enter this information into our systems, it is governed by all the terms of this Privacy Policy.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to advance our mission, engage our community, and as needed to do the work of our organization. For example, we use it to:

  • Communicate with you about our organizing work, campaigns, events, and other news.
  • Process and acknowledge your donations.
  • Recruit, coordinate, and communicate with our volunteers.
  • Provide you with opportunities to take action on issues you care about.
  • Analyze data to better understand our supporters and improve our outreach and programs.
  • Comply with applicable laws and regulations.

We may use the information you provide (such as your name, address, and email) to match with information from other sources, including publicly or commercially available voter files. Appending data such as your voter registration status, voting history, and legislative districts helps us better understand our supporters, operate more effectively, and personalize our advocacy and outreach efforts.

4. Data Sharing with Affiliated Organizations

To advance our mission and maximize our collective impact, we work as a family of affiliated organizations and in coalition with other groups and campaigns. We may share your information—including your name, contact information, and engagement history— at our discretion with our affiliates We The People Michigan and We The People Power PAC and with other trusted organizations, candidates, or causes that share our values, principles and/or objectives. This collaboration allows us to mobilize our full community for a wide range of activities. 

5. Volunteer Data Access 

Our organizing model is powered by a network of dedicated volunteers who help us connect with our communities.

  • Volunteer Access: To facilitate this work, we may provide trusted volunteers with limited access to the contact information of other supporters. This information is shared for the purpose of carrying out official organizational activities, such as but not limited to phone banking, peer-to-peer texting, event outreach, and canvassing.
  • Confidentiality: By participating in our activities your information may be managed by volunteers under our guidance and/or supervision.
  • Controlling Access: We enforce the principle of “least privilege,” meaning volunteers can only access the specific information required for their assigned task.

6. Data Security

We are dedicated to keeping your information secure and we have implemented technical and organizational measures to protect it. As part of these measures, access to personal information is restricted to staff and volunteers who have a legitimate need to use it for our organizational purposes, or to other trusted organizations or affiliates as described in section 4 above. While we strive to use these commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, as no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

7. Your Choices

  • Account Information: If you believe your personal information collected by us is incorrect, you may request to review or correct the information by contacting us at the email address below. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
  • Deletion: You may request that we delete your personal information from our active records. Please note that we may retain certain information as required by law, for legitimate business purposes, or as part of our standard data backup procedures. There may be a delay in deleting information from our servers and backed-up versions may exist after deletion.
  • Communications: You can opt out of receiving promotional emails or text messages from us by following the instructions in those communications.

To request that information be changed or deleted, or to opt out of communications, please contact us using the information below.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may amend or revise this policy at any time at our sole discretion. We encourage users to visit this page periodically to review our current policy.

9. Information From Children Under 13

Our services are not directed to or intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under 13. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from providing us with personal information subject to this policy.  If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information from our files. By providing information to We The People Action Fund, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are at least 13 years old and have your parents’ permission to provide information to We The People Action Fund.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

We The People Action Fund 

help@wethepeopleactionfund.org 

440 Burroughs St, Ste 174 Detroit, MI 48202

 

—-

Mobile Messaging Terms & Conditions

 

The We The People Action Fund Alerts application and the associated WTPAF Alerts website available at https://www.wethepeoplemi.org/ (“WTPAF”) are owned and operated by We The People Action Fund (“us” “we” or “our”). This WTPAF Alerts privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any information you submit to us through WTPAF Alerts. This includes “Personal Information,” which is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, e-mail address, user ID number, and other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing, as well as “Anonymous Information,” which is information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information and does not permit the identification of individual persons.

 

User Consent

By accessing or otherwise using WTPAF Alerts, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the associated Terms of Service and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information and Anonymous Information according to this Privacy Policy. Your Personal Information may be processed by us in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.

 

Regarding Children

 

Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use WTPAF Alerts and we do not intentionally collect or maintain Personal Information from those who are under 13 years old. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. Thus, if we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our databases. We recommend that children between the ages of 13 and 18 obtain their parent’s permission before submitting information over the internet. By using WTPAF Alerts, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are at least 13 years old and have your parents’ permission to use WTPAF Alerts.

 

Collection and Use of Information

Personal Information

 

In general, we collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through WTPAF Alerts. We also collect information that you submit in the process of creating or editing your account and user profile on WTPAF Alerts. For example, our registration and login process requires you to provide us with your name, valid email address and password of your choice. When you personalize your profile and use the features of WTPAF Alerts, we will collect any information you voluntarily provide, and we may also request optional information to support your use of WTPAF Alerts, such as your year of birth, gender and other demographic information. We collect information in the form of the content that you submit during your use of WTPAF Alerts, such as photos, comments, ratings and other information you choose to submit. We may also collect information about you and your friends, from any social network you may have connected from, in order to provide you and others with a more personalized experience. For instance, we may collect your user ID or profile information that you have permitted to be displayed through WTPAF Alerts in order to display you as a friend or in association with your profile and collections. When you donate to our organization, you may need to submit your credit card or other payment information so that our service providers can process your donation. If you choose to sign up to receive information about our organization’s activities that may be of interest to you, we will collect your email address and all related information. Additionally, we collect any information that you voluntarily enter, including Personal Information, into any postings, comments, or forums within the WTPAF Alerts community.

 

Personal Information from Other Sources

 

We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources with which you have registered, companies or organizations who we have partnered with (collectively, “Partners”) or other third parties. We may associate this information with the other Personal Information we have collected about you.

 

E-mail and E-mail Addresses

 

If you send an e-mail to us, or fill out our “Feedback” form through WTPAF Alerts, we will collect your e-mail address and the full content of your e-mail, including attached files, and other information you provide. We may use and display your full name and email address when you send an email notification to a friend through WTPAF Alerts or the social network from which you have connected to WTPAF Alerts (such as in an invitation, or when sharing your content). Additionally, we use your email address to contact you on behalf of your friends (such as when someone sends you a personal message) or notifications from a social network or other website with whom you have registered to receive such notifications. We may use this e-mail address to contact you, for things such as notifications of organizational activities and other related information. You may indicate your preference to stop receiving further organizational communications as further detailed below.

 

Information Collected Via Technology

 

As you use WTPAF Alerts, certain information may also be passively collected and stored on our server logs or our service providers’ server logs, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, and operating system. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information for which you searched and viewed, or on which of the items displayed on WTPAF Alerts you clicked. This type of information is collected to make WTPAF Alerts more useful to you and others and to tailor the experience with WTPAF Alerts to meet your special interests and needs.

 

An “Internet protocol address” or “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session. For example, we, or our service providers, may track your IP Address when you access WTPAF Alerts to assist with information targeting.

 

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience with WTPAF Alerts. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. In order to use our services offered through WTPAF Alerts, your web browser must accept Cookies. If you choose to disable Cookies, some aspects of WTPAF Alerts may not work properly, and you will not be able to receive our services.

 

Use and Disclosure of Information

We do not sell or rent the Personal Information that we collect with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so.

 

In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used by us to provide you access to WTPAF Alerts, to improve WTPAF Alerts, to better tailor the features, performance, and support of WTPAF Alerts and to offer you additional information, opportunities, and functionality from us and our partners at your request. Additionally, we do share your content preferences and other information with the social network from which you have connected to WTPAF Alerts, along with those companies and persons you have asked us to share your information with.

 

We may provide your Personal Information to third-party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide some of the services and features of WTPAF Alerts and to help us communicate with you. Examples of such services include sending email, analyzing data, providing promotional assistance, processing payments (including credit card payments), and providing customer service. We require our third-party service providers to promise not to use such information except as necessary to provide the relevant services to us. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of your personally identifiable information by such third-parties. We do not maintain responsibility for the manner in which third parties, including, without limitation, social networks or partners and affiliates, use or further disclose Personal Information collected from you in accordance with this Privacy Policy, after we have disclosed such information to those third parties. If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the manners identified in this Privacy Policy, you may not use WTPAF Alerts. We may share some or all of your Personal Information with our affiliated organizations We The People Michigan and We The People Power PAC and with other trusted organizations, candidates, or causes that share our values, principles and/or objectives.

 

In the event we go through a business transition such as a merger with another organization, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any merged organization or transferee may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) to protect and defend our rights or property, you, or third parties. You hereby consent to us sharing your Personal Information under the circumstances described herein.

 

The Ability of others to View your Information

Helping you to protect your information is a vital part of our mission. It is up to you to make sure you are comfortable with the information you choose to provide us and the information you choose to publish. You understand that when you use WTPAF Alerts, certain information you post or provide through WTPAF Alerts, such as your name, profile, comments, posts and ratings, may be shared with other users and posted on publicly available portions of WTPAF Alerts, including without limitation, chatrooms, bulletin and message boards, along with other public forums. Please keep in mind that if you choose to disclose Personal Information when posting comments or other information or content through WTPAF Alerts, this information may become publicly available and may be collected and used by others, including people outside the WTPAF Alerts community. We will not have any obligations with respect to any information that you post to parts of WTPAF Alerts available to others, and recommend that you use caution when giving out personal information to others in public forums online or otherwise. We also share the information you publish with other third parties.

 

Third Party Sites and Advertising

WTPAF Alerts may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each and every website they visit. This WTPAF Alerts applies solely to information collected by us through WTPAF Alerts and does not apply to these third-party websites. The ability to access information of third-parties from WTPAF Alerts, or links to other websites or locations, is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such third-parties, their products, their services, other websites, locations or their content.

 

Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information

We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. When you receive promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further promotional communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional e-mail you receive or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below).

 

Despite your indicated email preferences, we may send you administrative emails regarding WTPAF Alerts, including, for example, administrative confirmations, and notices of updates to our Privacy Policy if we choose to provide such notices to you in this manner.

 

You may change any of your profile information by editing it in the profile settings page. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us at help@wethepeoplemi.org, but please note that we may be required (by law or otherwise) to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request, only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete Personal Information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives.

 

Feedback

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You agree that any such comments and any email we receive becomes our property. We may use feedback for promotional purposes or to add to or modify our work without paying any royalties or other compensation to you.

 

Security

We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Even though we have taken significant steps to protect your Personal Information, no company, including us, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

 

Contact and Revisions

If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at help@wethepeoplemi.org. This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision at our discretion, and if we make any substantial changes in the way we use your Personal Information, we will post an alert on this page. If you object to any such changes, you must cease using WTPAF Alerts. Continued use of WTPAF Alerts following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgment of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.