Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how County Line Strategies ("County Line Strategies," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares information when you visit countylinestrategies.com (the "Site"), contact us, or participate in our text messaging program. It also covers information we handle when we send messages on behalf of our clients.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide

• Contact details such as your name, email address, mobile phone number, and organization when you submit our contact form or email us.
• Text messaging opt-in data, including your mobile number, the date, time, and method of your consent, and any keywords or replies you send.
• Message content you send to us, including replies to text messages.

Information collected automatically

• Basic technical data such as IP address, browser type, device type, referring page, and pages viewed, collected through server logs and hosting analytics.

Information from our clients

• When a candidate, committee, or organization engages us to send messages on their behalf, they may provide us with voter or supporter contact lists. We process that data only as directed by the client and under the client's own privacy commitments.

2. How We Use Information

• To respond to your inquiries and provide our consulting services.
• To send text messages you have agreed to receive, and to honor opt-out requests.
• To operate, secure, and improve the Site.
• To comply with legal obligations, including carrier and messaging-industry requirements.

3. Text Messaging (SMS/MMS)

Program: County Line Strategies Text Alerts. By providing your mobile number and checking the consent box on our contact form, texting a keyword to one of our numbers, or otherwise affirmatively agreeing, you consent to receive text messages from County Line Strategies. Messages may include replies to your inquiry, appointment or meeting reminders, campaign updates, and information about our services. Consent is not a condition of purchasing any goods or services.

• Message frequency: Message frequency varies. Typically up to 4 messages per month, with more during the weeks before an election.
• Cost: Message and data rates may apply according to your carrier plan.
• Opt out: Reply STOP to any message to stop receiving texts from us. You will receive a single confirmation message and no further messages unless you opt in again.
• Help: Reply HELP to any message, or use our contact form.

Messages we send on behalf of a client are sent under that client's name and disclosures, and the client is responsible for obtaining consent from its own recipients. The STOP and HELP commands above work on those messages too.

4. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only:

• With service providers that help us operate, such as website hosting, form processing, email, and text messaging platforms. They may use your information only to provide services to us.
• With our clients, when you contact us about a specific candidate or campaign and ask us to pass your message along.
• For legal reasons, when required by law, subpoena, or governmental request, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of County Line Strategies, our clients, or others.
• In a business transfer, if County Line Strategies is merged, acquired, or sells assets, subject to this Policy.

The categories above exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent, which we do not share for any purpose other than delivering the messages you requested.

5. Data Retention

We keep contact information for as long as needed to respond to you and provide services, and we keep records of text messaging consent and opt-out requests for as long as required by carrier rules and applicable law, generally at least four years, so that we can prove consent and honor your opt-out.

6. Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to protect information, including access controls and encrypted connections. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Your Choices

• Text messages: reply STOP at any time.
• Email: use the unsubscribe link in any marketing email or write to us.
• Access, correction, or deletion: use our contact form and we will respond within a reasonable time. We may need to keep certain records, such as opt-out logs, to meet legal obligations.

8. Children

The Site and our messaging program are not directed to anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

9. Third-Party Links

The Site may link to other websites, including client campaign sites. Their privacy practices are their own, and we encourage you to review them.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. The effective date at the top reflects the latest revision. Material changes to how we handle mobile information will be posted here before they take effect.

11. Contact Us

Questions about this Policy or our messaging program can be sent to:

County Line Strategies · Contact form: countylinestrategies.com/#contact