PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: November 7th, 2026

Money Out of Politics - California ("we," "us," or "our") operates https://mop-cal.org/ (the "Site"). We are an independent team of volunteers, not a registered company. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit the Site, use one of the forms on the Site, or subscribe to our mailing list.

This policy is written with our primarily U.S. audience in mind, including specific disclosures for California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

1. Who We Are

Money Out of Politics - California

We are an unincorporated team, not a registered company, so we do not have a business address to list. You can reach us at the email above.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide Directly

When you use the Request a Talk form on our Site, we collect:

  • Your first and last name
  • Your email address
  • Your phone number
  • The name of your group or organization
  • Your city and ZIP code

When you use the contact form on our Site, we collect:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • The subject and content of your message

When you use the "Get updates" form, you provide your email address. When you use the "Volunteer" form, you provide your first and last name, email address, city, state, and ZIP code; the ways you would like to get involved; and, if you choose, your phone number and answers to two optional questions about yourself and why you care about this issue. These two forms are run by our partner, Transparent Election Initiative (TEI), and the information goes to TEI. See Section 4.

When you use the "Take Action in California" button to email or call your state legislators, you provide your first and last name, email address, and address. This button is provided by TEI through a tool called ActionButton, and the information goes to TEI. See Section 4.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking tools. Some automatic data collection happens as a normal part of how the internet works, and we use one privacy-preserving analytics tool:

  • Cloudflare Web Analytics: We use Cloudflare's privacy-first analytics to understand roughly how many people visit the Site and which pages they read. It records page views, referring URL, browser type, operating system, country, and page load performance. It does not use cookies, does not fingerprint your device, and does not track you across other websites.
  • Hosting and CDN logs: Our host, Cloudflare, automatically logs standard technical data for every visit — such as IP address, browser and device type, referring URL, and which pages were requested — as part of routine web server operation and security, for example preventing abuse and denial-of-service attacks.
  • Forms: When the Request a Talk form (run by Brevo) or the "Get updates" and "Volunteer" forms (run by TEI) load, those services may collect technical data such as your IP address and browser information, and each sets one cookie. See Sections 4, 5.1 and 6.
  • "Take Action in California" button: When a page with this button loads, ActionButton's servers receive your IP address, browser information, and the address of the page you are on, and may place cookies in your browser. See Sections 4 and 6.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect, or are given access to, to:

  • Send you our newsletter and updates you have subscribed to
  • Contact you about volunteering, if you used the "Volunteer" form
  • Arrange a talk with your group, if you used the Request a Talk form
  • Read and reply to messages you send us through the contact form
  • Understand which pages people read, so we can improve the Site
  • Comply with legal obligations

4. Forms and Tools Run by Our Partner, Transparent Election Initiative

Our "Get updates" form and our "Volunteer" form are run by Transparent Election Initiative (TEI), our partner organization. TEI is the organization that introduced the Montana Plan in Montana, and it works with partner organizations in individual states, such as us in California. These two forms are displayed on our Site, but they are hosted on TEI's server (signups.transparentelection.org), and the information you enter goes directly to TEI.

TEI stores this information in NationBuilder, a software service for managing supporter contacts, run by 3DNA Corp. As TEI's California partner, we are given access to this information through TEI's NationBuilder account, so that we can send you updates and contact you about volunteering in California.

Our "Take Action in California" button, which lets you email or call your state legislators, is also provided by TEI. It runs on ActionButton, a tool operated by 3DNA Corp. (doing business as NationBuilder), and loads from ActionButton's servers (actionbutton.co). When you use it, the name, email address, and address you enter go to TEI and to ActionButton. When a page with the button loads, ActionButton also receives your IP address, browser information, and the address of the page you are on, and its terms state that it may place cookies in your browser. ActionButton's terms and privacy information are available at: https://actionbutton.org/terms-and-policies, which refers to NationBuilder's privacy policy: https://nationbuilder.com/privacy

TEI's handling of this information is governed by TEI's privacy policy: https://transparentelection.org/privacy. You can contact TEI about it at [email protected].

We do not send TEI, or anyone else, the information you submit through our own Request a Talk form or our contact form. We do not sell or share your personal information.

5. Third-Party Service Providers

5.1 Brevo (Request a Talk Form)

We use Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), a company based in Paris, France, to run our Request a Talk form. When you submit that form, the information you enter is transferred to and stored by Brevo, in our own Brevo account, on our behalf. Brevo uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a spam-prevention check, on this form; Turnstile receives technical information about your browser when the form loads.

Brevo acts as our service provider and processes your information according to our instructions and its own privacy policy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/

When the Request a Talk form loads, Brevo sets one session cookie to prevent spam submissions and ensure form functionality.

5.2 Cloudflare (Hosting and Analytics)

Our Site is hosted by Cloudflare, which serves our pages, logs standard technical data as part of routine hosting and security, and provides the privacy-preserving analytics described in Section 2.2. Cloudflare sets no cookies on our Site. Their privacy policy is available at: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

5.3 Web3Forms (Contact Form)

Our contact form is handled by Web3Forms, which receives the name, email address, subject, and message you submit and forwards them to our inbox. Web3Forms stores submissions on servers in the United States for up to 30 days, after which they are automatically deleted. To prevent spam, Web3Forms may share submitters' IP and email addresses with spam-prevention services such as CleanTalk. Their privacy policy is available at: https://web3forms.com/privacy

5.4 Proton Mail (Our Inbox)

Messages sent through our contact form, or sent directly to our email address, arrive in an inbox hosted by Proton Mail. We chose Proton because it stores messages encrypted at rest, meaning Proton cannot read their contents. Their privacy policy is available at: https://proton.me/legal/privacy

5.5 YouTube (Embedded Video and Thumbnails)

Our home page embeds a video hosted on YouTube, a Google service. We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com), which prevents YouTube from setting its viewing-history cookies. However, Google still sets its own cookies when the page loads, and receives information about your visit including your IP address — whether or not you play the video. Our Media Library page also displays thumbnail images loaded from YouTube's servers, which means Google receives your IP address and browser information when that page loads. This happens under Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

5.6 Datawrapper (Charts and Maps)

Some pages on our Site display interactive maps created with Datawrapper. When one of these pages loads, your browser requests the map, its data, and its fonts from Datawrapper's servers, which means they receive your IP address and browser information. Datawrapper does not set cookies on our Site. Their privacy policy is available at: https://www.datawrapper.de/privacy

6. Cookies

We do not set any cookies of our own, and we do not use analytics or advertising cookies. The cookies you may encounter come from:

  • The Brevo Request a Talk form, which sets one session cookie when the form loads, to make it work and to prevent spam submissions. It expires when you close your browser. See Section 5.1.
  • The TEI "Get updates" and "Volunteer" forms, whose server sets one cookie when either form loads. See TEI's privacy policy, described in Section 4.
  • The "Take Action in California" button, run on ActionButton, whose terms state that it may place cookies in your browser when a page with the button loads. See Section 4.
  • The embedded YouTube video on our home page, which causes Google to set cookies when the page loads, whether or not you play the video. See Section 5.5.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings.

7. How Long We Keep Your Information

"Get updates", "Volunteer", and "Take Action in California" information: held by TEI as described in TEI's privacy policy. Our access to it lasts for as long as TEI makes it available to us, or until you unsubscribe or ask for it to be deleted.

Request a Talk information (your name, email address, phone number, group or organization, city, and ZIP code): kept in our Brevo account until we no longer need it to arrange and follow up on the talk, or until you ask us to delete it.

Contact form messages (your name, email address, subject, and message): Web3Forms deletes its copy after 30 days. Our own copy remains in our inbox indefinitely, unless you ask us to delete it.

8. Your Privacy Rights

8.1 California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

  • Know what personal information we collect, use, and (if applicable) sell or share, and why
  • Delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions
  • Correct inaccurate personal information
  • Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information (not currently applicable — we do not sell or share personal information)
  • Limit use of sensitive personal information (not currently applicable — we do not collect sensitive personal information)
  • Non-discrimination for exercising any of these rights

Some browsers send a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. Because we do not sell or share personal information, there is no sale or sharing for a GPC signal to switch off.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at: . We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. For information you submitted through the "Get updates" or "Volunteer" forms or the "Take Action in California" button, you can also contact TEI directly at [email protected], since TEI holds that information (see Section 4). If you contact us about that information, we will pass your request on to TEI.

8.2 All U.S. Residents

Regardless of your state, you can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time, as described in Section 9.

9. How to Unsubscribe

You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email you receive from us. Because the mailing list is managed through TEI, you can also unsubscribe by contacting TEI at [email protected], or by contacting us at: .

10. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information. The service providers described in Section 5 — Brevo, Cloudflare, Web3Forms, and Proton Mail — each maintain their own security measures, described in their respective privacy policies. Information you submit through the "Get updates" and "Volunteer" forms and the "Take Action in California" button is protected under TEI's security measures, described in TEI's privacy policy (see Section 4). No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

11. Children's Privacy

Our Site, the Request a Talk form, and the contact form are not directed at children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. The "Get updates" and "Volunteer" forms and the "Take Action in California" button are run by Transparent Election Initiative (TEI), whose privacy policy states that its services are not intended for people under 18.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

13. Contact Us

Money Out of Politics - California