Introduction
George Morgan for North Miami Mayor (“Campaign,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on www.VoteGeorgeForMayor.com (“Website”) to help operate, secure, maintain, analyze, and improve the Website.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, the types of cookies and related technologies that may be used, why they may be used, and the choices visitors may have concerning them.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and SSL Security & Website Protection Notice.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that a website may place or store on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can help a website recognize a browser or device, remember certain preferences, maintain website functionality, understand how visitors interact with pages, and improve the overall user experience.
Some cookies may remain only during your browsing session, while others may remain on your device for a longer period.
Types of Cookies We May Use
Depending on the Website’s features and the services being used, the Campaign may use several categories of cookies.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies may be necessary for the Website to function properly. They may support:
- Website security
- Form submissions
- Session management
- Fraud prevention
- Network management
- Website navigation
- Payment or donation functionality
- Other essential Website features
Disabling strictly necessary cookies may prevent certain portions of the Website from functioning correctly.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may allow the Website to remember choices or preferences that improve your experience. These may include:
- Previously selected preferences
- Form settings
- Display preferences
- Language or accessibility preferences
- Other Website customization features
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies may help us understand how visitors interact with the Website. Information collected may include:
- Pages visited
- Approximate number of visitors
- Time spent on pages
- Referring websites
- General navigation patterns
- Device and browser information
- Website errors or performance information
We may use this information to evaluate Website performance, understand which information is most useful to visitors, and improve our Website and campaign communications.
Advertising and Campaign Measurement Cookies
The Campaign may use advertising, tracking, or measurement technologies to understand the effectiveness of online campaign advertising and communications. These technologies may help us:
- Measure advertising performance
- Determine whether visitors interacted with campaign advertisements
- Understand which communications lead visitors to the Website
- Measure campaign outreach
- Reach audiences who may be interested in campaign information
- Avoid unnecessarily repeating certain advertisements
Depending on the services used, these technologies may be provided by independent advertising or social-media platforms.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed directly by our Website or services operating on our behalf.
They may be used for Website functionality, preferences, security, analytics, or other Campaign purposes.
Third-Party Cookies
Third-party cookies may be placed by independent services integrated with or linked from our Website.
These providers may include services related to:
- Website analytics
- Social media
- Digital advertising
- Video hosting
- Payment processing
- Campaign contributions
- Email communications
- Text-message communications
- Merchandise
- Embedded Website features
- Website security
Third-party providers maintain their own privacy and cookie practices. The Campaign does not control every cookie or tracking technology used by independent third parties.
Social Media Technologies
The Website may contain links, buttons, pixels, embedded content, or other technologies associated with social-media platforms.
These technologies may allow a social-media provider to recognize your browser or device when you interact with the Website or its services.
Information collected by those platforms is governed by their respective privacy policies and terms.
Your interaction with a Campaign social-media page may also be subject to the privacy settings associated with your individual social-media account.
Campaign Advertising
The Campaign may conduct digital advertising to communicate with voters, supporters, volunteers, donors, and members of the public.
Advertising platforms may use cookies, pixels, tags, or similar technologies to measure whether an advertisement was displayed, viewed, or interacted with.
These technologies may also help measure whether someone subsequently visited the Campaign Website.
Where required, visitors may be provided with options to control certain advertising or analytics technologies.
Analytics
The Campaign may use analytics services to understand Website traffic and performance. Analytics information may help us determine:
- How visitors find the Website
- Which pages receive the most visits
- How long visitors remain on particular pages
- What devices or browsers visitors use
- Whether Website pages are functioning correctly
- General geographic information based on IP address
- How Website performance can be improved
Analytics information may be aggregated or otherwise processed by our service providers.
Donation and Payment Technologies
If you make a political contribution or purchase merchandise through the Website, a third-party payment or contribution processor may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Process transactions
- Authenticate users
- Prevent fraud
- Maintain transaction security
- Remember transaction preferences
- Comply with legal or regulatory requirements
The Campaign does not control all technologies used by independent payment providers.
Visitors should review the privacy and cookie policies provided by the applicable payment processor.
Email and Campaign Communications
Certain Campaign emails may contain technologies that help determine whether an email was delivered, opened, or interacted with. This information may be used to:
- Measure communication effectiveness
- Improve Campaign messaging
- Manage email subscriptions
- Understand supporter engagement
- Detect delivery problems
You may unsubscribe from applicable Campaign marketing emails using the unsubscribe instructions contained in those communications.
Cookie Duration
Cookies may generally be categorized as either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session Cookies
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser or end your browsing session.
Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies may remain on your device after you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may remain until:
- Their scheduled expiration date
- You manually delete them
- Your browser automatically removes them
- The applicable provider removes or replaces them
The duration of individual cookies may vary depending on their purpose and provider.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Most web browsers allow users to manage cookies through browser settings. Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete existing cookies
- Block certain cookies
- Block all cookies
- Allow cookies from selected websites
- Receive notifications when cookies are being placed
- Clear cookies when the browser closes
Please consult your browser or device settings for the controls available to you.
What Happens If You Disable Cookies?
You may generally browse portions of the Website after restricting certain cookies. However, disabling cookies may affect Website functionality.
For example, certain features involving the following may not function as intended if certain cookies are disabled:
- Forms
- Donations
- Merchandise
- Preferences
- Website security
- Embedded media
- Social-media integrations
Mobile Devices
Mobile devices may provide additional privacy, advertising, or tracking controls.
These controls vary depending on the operating system, device manufacturer, browser, and applications being used.
Visitors should review their mobile-device privacy and advertising settings for additional choices.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” or similar privacy signal.
Because there is not necessarily a uniform industry standard for responding to every browser-based tracking signal, our Website may not respond identically to all such signals.
We will comply with applicable legal requirements regarding recognized privacy preference signals where required.
Personal Information
Information collected through cookies or similar technologies may sometimes be associated with other information collected through the Website.
Our handling of personal information is described more fully in our Privacy Policy.
Website Security
Cookies may also be used for security purposes, including helping us:
- Identify suspicious Website activity
- Prevent fraud
- Protect forms
- Maintain secure Website sessions
- Detect automated attacks
- Protect Website infrastructure
- Diagnose technical problems
Please review our SSL Security & Website Protection Notice for additional information concerning Website security.
Third-Party Websites
Our Website may link to websites and services that we do not own or control.
When you leave our Website, cookies or tracking technologies used by another website are governed by that website’s policies.
The Campaign is not responsible for the privacy or cookie practices of independent third-party websites.
Children’s Privacy
This Website is intended primarily to provide political, election, campaign, and civic-engagement information.
The Campaign does not intentionally use cookies for the purpose of creating commercial advertising profiles of young children.
Additional information regarding children’s privacy is available in our Privacy Policy.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
The Campaign may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:
- Website technology
- Campaign operations
- Advertising services
- Analytics services
- Third-party providers
- Legal requirements
- Privacy practices
When this Cookie Policy is updated, the revised version may be posted on the Website with a new “Last Updated” date.
Visitors are encouraged to periodically review this page.
Related Website Policies
Visitors should review this Cookie Policy together with our other Website policies, including:
Contact Us
Questions or concerns regarding this Cookie Policy or the Campaign’s Website privacy practices may be directed to:
George Morgan for North Miami MayorWebsite: www.VoteGeorgeForMayor.comEmail: votegeorgemorgan@gmail.comP.O. Box 510956North Miami, Florida 33161