Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 27, 2026

The Act Now Project d/b/a Center for U.S. Voters Abroad and the Act Now Coalition d/b/a Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Foundation (jointly the “Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project,” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our online visitors. The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is the way we handle information learned about you from your visits to our website available at https://usvotersabroad.org/ and all other websites operated and owned by the Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”).

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. When you submit information to or through the Site, you consent to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project is a nonpartisan voter registration and overseas ballot request service available to all eligible United States citizens and military voters residing overseas. We will not withhold or refuse to provide our services to anyone on the basis of support for or opposition to particular candidates, or on the basis of party affiliation (or non-party affiliation). We want you to exercise your right to vote as an American citizen regardless of your party affiliation or lack thereof. We will only ask about your party affiliation (i) to complete your voter registration or ballot request materials to the extent required by state law or (ii) as a part of an optional survey to better understand the needs and characteristics of overseas voters.

Personal Information

Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project collects personally identifiable information from you, which may include your name, U.S. citizenship status, information on whether you are residing overseas temporarily, indefinitely, etc., email address, telephone number, date of birth, residential address abroad, voting address in the U.S. and any other additional information that you choose to provide when you contact us or interact with us, including through the chat functionality offered on the Site. This information is collected and stored electronically when you use our services to register to vote or request your ballot or when you contact or interact with us, including through the chat functionality offered on the Site.

Information Collected Automatically

In addition, information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project when you access the Site. This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, approximate geographic location, access times, referring website addresses and other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information. We may also collect information regarding traffic patterns and about how you interact with our Site and advertisements. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including for the operation and improvement of the Site, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain quality of the Site, to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.

We may also receive similar data from our website analytics and digital advertising vendors, online advertising networks and from social media platforms, subject to your registration and privacy settings with such third-party social media platforms, and may share this data with such third parties.

Cookies and Other Information Collection Tools

Cookies

What are cookies? A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.

Duration of Cookies. We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.

Categories of Cookies. The types of cookies we may use on the Site include:

• Necessary Cookies. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the Site to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the Site, anonymously.
• Functional Cookies. Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the Site on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
• Performance Cookies. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the Site which helps in delivering a better user experience for Site visitors.
• Analytical Cookies. Analytical cookies are used to understand how Site visitors interact with the Site. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of Site visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
• Advertisement Cookies. Advertisement cookies are used to provide Site visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. We may share the information collected through the advertisement cookies with others, such as our website analytics and digital advertising vendors.

We may also use third-party cookies, like Google Analytics, for example, which sets cookies on the Site to help analyze how visitors use the Site. You can visit https://www.google.com/settings/ads to learn more about Google’s use of cookies. If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google Analytics, you may use Google Analytics’ opt-out browser add-on designed for this purpose. Please note that information collected via third-party cookies may be shared with our website analytics and digital advertising vendors.

Why do we use them? Cookies help us improve the Site by providing us with information about which parts of the Site are most popular, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site, and helping us to detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools to help improve your experience with the Site.

How do I control cookies? Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site. You may also manage your cookie preferences by clicking here: Manage consent.

Pixels / Web Beacons

A pixel or web beacons is an HTML code snippet embedded in a website or email that collects information about user behaviors and interactions with the website or email.

We may utilize pixels/web beacons both on certain aspects of the Site and in HTML-formatted email messages to you. Pixels/web beacons may be used for the purpose of, among other things, measuring the success of our marketing campaigns, compiling statistics about Site usage and tracking the activities of users of the Site and email recipients. For instance, we may use pixels from Google and Meta on the Site to enable us to create targeted advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our advertisements. For additional information on interest-based advertising, please see the “Interest-Based Advertising” section below. Please note that information collected via pixels/web beacons may be shared with our website analytics and digital advertising vendors.

Interest Based Advertising

We may collect information about your online activities on our Site to provide you with advertising about services tailored to your individual interests. We also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party websites on which our advertisements are served.

You may see certain advertisements on other websites because we work with advertising partners (including advertising networks) to engage in remarketing and retargeting activities. Our advertising partners allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. These partners track your online activities over time and across websites, including our Site, by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of third-party cookies and pixels/web beacons, including the pixels/web beacons that we may utilize on the Site and in our HTML-formatted email messages to you. They use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information our advertising partners may collect includes data about your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. For example, we utilize certain of our advertising partners’ targeted advertising services to show you our advertisements on other websites based on your prior visits to our Site and other online activity.

Provided that a company participates in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers choices about whether to receive targeted advertising, you may opt out of interest-based advertising generally through the Network Advertising Initiative website or by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (web-based advertising) or http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices (for mobile advertising). To learn more, please visit the websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance at www.networkadvertising.org/choices. You may also opt-out of interest-based advertising by managing your preferences here. Opting-out does not mean that you will stop receiving advertisements from us. It means that you still stop receiving advertisements from us that have been targeted to you based on your visits and browsing activity across websites over time.

How Information is Used

We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:

• To provide, operate and manage our Site and services;
• To perform services requested by you, such as preparing and submitting your voting materials, responding to your comments, questions, and requests, and providing any related support services;
• To improve our Site and services, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• To personalize our advertising communications, and provide you with information about products and services that we and other organizations and businesses may provide that we think may be of interest to you;
• To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you, including through the chat functionality provided on the Site;
• For security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site;
• For our other business purposes, such as data analytics, accounting, auditing and reporting, developing new or improving our services, identifying Site usage trends, usage and activities and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns;
• As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use; (v) to protect our operations; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

Sharing of Information

• To Prepare and/or Submit your Voter Registration or Ballot Request Materials. We share your personal information as necessary to prepare and/or submit your voter registration or ballot request materials through the Federal Voting Assistance Program.
• With Third Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We share your personal information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site or assist us in providing functionality on the Site and provide analytics on the Site.
• Through Tracking Technologies. We may share information collected through tracking technologies set on the Site with our website analytics and digital advertising vendors, including but not limited to the pixels/web beacons we may utilize on the Site and in our HTML-formatted email messages to you as described above.
• For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We may also share personal information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain. We will disclose personal information without your knowledge or consent as to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process.
• Changes of Control. We may transfer or assign information, including your personal information, in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, reorganization, liquidation, change in control or other sale by or of us or any affiliated entity (in each case whether in whole or in part).

Links to External Websites

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites, such as the Federal Voting Assistance Program’s website at https://www.fvap.gov/. Any access to and use of such third-party websites is not governed by this Privacy Policy but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites.

Social Media

Some aspects of the Site may allow you to interface with other social media services such as Instagram, Facebook and X. We will work to identify these aspects of the Site to you, for example, by identifying them with the applicable third-party logos or trade names. By using these interfaces, you will allow us to access information about you from those other online services, including information and other content that you submit to those online services. If you interface with the Site through your social media account, we may contact you or enable you to share your experience and content via your social media account, which information may be publicly viewed by other users of those services. For a description on how such social media services and other third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, and applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify your privacy settings with that service or platform.

Security Used & Retention of Personal Information

Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project uses reasonable security measures designed to safeguard against unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information and to help ensure that your data is safe and secure. However, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the “Questions / Contact Us” section below. We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws or regulation.

Internation Data Transfers

Due to the global nature of our operations and the services we provide, Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project needs to be able to move personal information internationally. Accordingly, your personal information may be transferred to, or accessed, outside of your jurisdiction (e.g., to the United States). If we transfer your personal information outside of your jurisdiction, we will take appropriate measures to protect your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may transfer your personal information to a third party in a country that is different from where you live or work.  Where this is the case, please note that we or the third party may be required to disclose your personal information in order to comply with local laws or regulations.

Your Rights

Under certain circumstances, depending on your jurisdiction and governing data protection law, you may have the following rights:

• Right of Access. You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether your personal information is being processed, as well as access to the personal information along with certain information, including the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal information concerned and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal information have been or will be disclosed.
• Right to Rectification. You have the right to rectify your inaccurate personal information and to complete any incomplete personal information, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
• Right to Erasure or Right to be Forgotten. You have the right to erase your personal information under certain circumstances.
• Right to Restrict Processing. You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal information under certain circumstances.
• Right to Object. You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to our processing of your personal information, which is based on public interest or our legitimate interests. In this case, we will stop processing your information, except for where we have compelling legal grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the exercise or defense of possible legal claims. You also have a right to object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to Data Portability. Under certain circumstances, you have the right to receive your personal information that you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and have the right to transmit such information to another controller without hindrance from us.
• Right to Not be Subject to Automated Processing. You have the right to request not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces significant effects impacting yourself. Please note that Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project does not make any decisions based exclusively on automated processing.
• Right to Confirmation of Personal Information Used to Render Automated Decision. You have the right to request confirmation of which personal information was used to render the automated decision, request confirmation of the reasons and principal factors and parameters that led to the decision and submit observations regarding the automated decision. Please note that Center for U.S. Voters Abroad Turnout Project does not make any decisions based exclusively on automated processing.
• Right to Withdraw Consent. If you have provided us with your consent for the processing of your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time to stop any further processing.
• Right to Lodge a Complaint. You have a right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority if you believe that our processing of your personal information violates applicable data protection law.

We will not discriminate against you because of the choices and requests you make in connection with your personal information.

We may require sufficient information to allow us to confirm your identity before granting access or making corrections. This is a security measure designed to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who does not have the right to receive it.

You can exercise your rights above at any time by contacting us at info@votersabroad.org.

Children

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of thirteen. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of thirteen.

Text Message Terms

We may send text messages, including through our service providers, to send both informational and marketing/promotional messages. We send informational and marketing/promotional text messages only to individuals who have opted in to receiving such messages. Your consent and participation in receiving text messages from us is completely voluntary.

When you opt in to receiving informational and marketing/promotional text messages from us, you are expressly authorizing us to contact you at the phone number you used to opt in, and you are agreeing that we may communicate with you by text message in accordance with these Text Message Terms.

Please understand that our text messages to you will be sent via automated systems. By opting in to receiving informational or marketing/promotional text messages from us, you are consenting to receive such messages via automated systems.

Even after you consent to receiving text messages, you may opt out of such communications at any time by sending STOP to the phone number that you no longer want to send you text messages, or you can contact info@votersabroad.org to opt out.

Opting into receiving text messages from us is not a condition of purchasing any goods, products or services from us; however, some communication capabilities with us may be impeded without your consent to receive text messages.

 We will not sell any personal information obtained as part of our text messaging communications with you, and we do not permit our third-party suppliers, vendors, or contractors to sell any personal information obtained in the course of our business relationship related to our text message communications with you. Please note we are not responsible for the information practices of our service providers who may be sending text messages on our behalf.

Furthermore, mobile information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for their marketing/promotional purposes. Our service providers who may be sending text messages on our behalf will not be sending you any advertisements or marketing materials even though we are using its services to text you. Your mobile information will not be used or shared with any third parties except as necessary to document your consent to receive text messages, to send those text messages to you and to comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

The frequency of text messages you receive will depend upon your relationship with us. Just as with other communication tools, some individuals may communicate with us more often than others.

If you feel you are receiving more communications than desired, you can let us know or opt out of receiving communications by sending the opt-out keyword STOP, and that number should no longer be able to send you communications. Alternatively, you can contact info@votersabroad.org for assistance.

Helpful Hints:  The opt-out keyword needs to be sent from the phone number where you want to stop receiving messages. If you have more than one phone number enrolled, you will need to follow this process with each phone number or contact us for assistance. Alternatively, you can contact info@votersabroad.org for assistance.

If your phone number changes, you should let us know right away to avoid your messages being sent to your old number. Ideally, you should follow the opt out process described above before you change your phone number. You will also need to re-opt in to receive marketing and promotional text messages from us to your new number.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that we will not be liable for failed, delayed, or misdirected delivery of any text messages sent by us through our service providers, any errors in such messages, and/or any action you may or may not take in reliance on the information set forth in the messages.

For additional information, text HELP, or reach out to info@votersabroad.org.

Questions / Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or complaints, please contact us at info@votersabroad.org.

Notification of Changes

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.