Protecting your privacy is important to Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition. We are committed to keeping your personal information confidential.

WHY WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition collects and uses personal information to provide individuals with news and information regarding Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition. In addition, we use personal information (e.g. email address, city, and state) to keep email subscribers up-to-date on the latest marijuana policy news and information we think they’d like to hear about.

WHEN WE DISCLOSE CONTACT INFORMATION

Except as provided in this policy, Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition will not share any of your personal information at any time with any organization. Given that Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States, we may contact you on behalf of another organization doing work related to ours. These updates will be sent by Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition personnel via Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition’s secure system. Your personal information will only be handled by Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition employees who are knowledgeable of all rules and policies regarding securely handling all information. They will protect your personal information in accordance with Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition’s Privacy Policy.

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition occasionally allows other organizations to send mail to individuals on its lists. In these cases, lists containing only names and addresses (no contribution data or other personal information) are delivered to a third-party mailing house for one-time use for that organization’s mailing. To request that we never allow your contact information to be used even in this secure manner, please contact info@marylandcannabispolicy.org. If possible, please include your full name, postal address, phone number, and the email address at which you receive messages from Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition.

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition is dedicated to providing a safe and secure environment for your personal information.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition safeguards the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the internet.

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition uses industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on all webpages where donations are submitted. To make donations to Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition or organizations supported by Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition, you must use an SSL-enabled browser. (Any current version of Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari will work.) This protects the confidentiality of your personal and credit card information while it is transmitted over the internet.

ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you would like your personal information updated or modified, you can contact info@marylandcannabispolicy.org with your request. If possible, please include your full name, postal address, phone number, and the email address at which you receive messages from Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition.

OUR ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition does not knowingly solicit personal information from children or send them requests for personal information.

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition's website contains limited links to other sites. Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition does not share your personal information with those sites, nor is Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those organizations.

If we are going to use your personal information differently from what is stated here, we will try to contact you via email using the most recent information we have. If you have not given us permission to communicate with you, you will not be contacted, nor will we use your personal information in a new manner.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

By using this site, you acknowledge and agree to the following: 

COOKIE/TRACKING TECHNOLOGY

This site uses cookie and tracking technology. The cookies are useful for gathering information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the site, and understanding how visitors use the site. If you have enabled the Do Not Track feature of your browser on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome, the site’s cookie tracking technology will be disabled.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition collects personally identifiable information, like names, postal addresses, email addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted by our visitors. The information you provide is used to fulfill your specific request. Personal information submitted when donating to Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition, or subscribing to Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition email alerts will not be shared with other groups, but Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition may occasionally allow like-minded organizations to send mailings to you, whereby Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition doesn’t actually share your contact info with these like-minded organizations.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our website. These companies may use aggregated (not personal identifying) information about your visits to this website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.  These companies may also use cookies on our site for advertising purposes on our and other sites.

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING COOKIES OPT-OUT

We are dedicated to providing privacy on the internet. In addition to developing our privacy policy, we have provided you the opportunity to opt out of future third-party advertising cookies.

These terms do not cover the collection methods or use of the information collected by these vendors. These vendors have their own privacy policies and may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”).  To remove yourself from some or all NAI member advertising programs, please visit the NAI Opt-Out Page and follow the relevant instructions.  Please note that if you delete, block, or otherwise restrict cookies, or if you use a different computer or internet browser, you may need to renew your opt-out choice.

CREDIT CARD INFORMATION

Credit card numbers are not stored by us. They are submitted directly to a secure third-party vendor for processing.

COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY

Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorized employees and vendors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information. All emails and newsletters from this site allow you to opt out of further mailings.

THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS

Portions of the marylandcannabispolicy.org site (donation processing, the Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition store, and action center) are operated by a third-party grassroots campaign service provider, which is currently Salsa. Salsa may place cookies on your computer in order to store information, such as items placed in your shopping cart in the Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition store or storing your account login when using the action center. Salsa logs standard technical information, such as the numerical internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and the internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

Salsa also stores and organizes the personal information collected through this site on our behalf.

From time to time, Maryland Cannabis Policy Coalition may work with third-party consultants or other service providers who have access to personally identifiable information. In such cases, we will restrict their use of personally identifiable information in accordance with their assigned tasks and subject to the limitations of this privacy policy.