Privacy

The South Carolina Democratic Party (SCDP) believes in your privacy and the privacy policy of this web site reflects that commitment.

SCDP.com collects information at various points on its website. The main points at which information is collected occur when you volunteer to help, make a contribution, or submit an event for the calendar. When you complete one of these forms, you will be asked for your name, and you may be asked for your email address as well as certain demographic information. Some of this information may be optional, but we encourage you to provide it since it will allow us to better customize your experience.

The information you provide when you complete one of our forms is the exclusive property of The SCDP.  We use the information you provide to send news about events, candidates, and elections. We will not sell this information to any third party. 

When you contribute money online:
Following are the Legal Requirements of the South Carolina Ethics, Government Accountability and Campaign Reform Act of 1991.

1. Contributions to statewide candidates are limited to $3,500 per election cycle. This limitation applies to each primary, runoff, or general election.
2. Contributions may be received from individuals, partnerships, businesses, corporations, or political action committees (PACS).
3. In-kind contributions may be received but are also limited to $3,500 per election cycle.
4. Contributions by each spouse are considered separate contributions and not attributable to the other spouse.
5. Cash contributions are prohibited if they exceed $25 for each election. All cash contributions must be accompanied by the name and address of the contributor.
6. Anonymous contributions are prohibited.
7. Contributions may not be accepted from a registered lobbyist.

 South Carolina law requires that we collect and report the following information on each contributor: name, address, amount of contribution, date of contribution. For more information on South Carolina ethics laws, visit http://www.myscgov.com. To make a contribution online, we also ask for your credit card number and its expiration date.   This information is stored securely with our national provider, Authorize (www.authorize.net), and is not retained in our records or on any local servers.

 
When you subscribe to our eNewsletter or other update notification:
We do not send unwanted information to anyone intentionally.  Each communication via email contains an unsubscribe feature in a consistent and obvious position.  All visitors to SCDP.com have the option of subscribing to our free eNewsletter. Unsubscribe requests are honored immediately and no further communication will go to the unsubscribed address unless the owner of that addresses chooses in the future to again receive communications.  To unsubscribe via email, send a message to unsubscribe@SCDP.com.

Links to other web sites:
This privacy policy covers The South Carolina Democratic Party website, SCDP.com. The site links to a number of other websites. Should you choose to visit those web sites, please remember that the South Carolina Democratic Party is not responsible for their content or privacy policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and review the practices of all websites you visit.