College DEmocrats of America PrIVACY POLICY
Terms of Use & Privacy Policy
Date: August 21, 2026
Terms of Use
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Acceptance of Terms. collegedemocratsofamerica.com (“College Democrats of America,” “CDA,” “we,” “us,” “our”), including all site-related content and services provided by College Democrats of America (“we,” “us”). Your use of College Democrats of America is subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Terms of Use agreement (“Terms of Use”).
By using CDA, you agree to be bound by the version of the Terms of Use then in effect. We reserve the right to update the terms and conditions at any time.
Communications from College Democrats of America.
Based on the information you provide to us, we may contact you via email or SMS text messaging. If you do not want to be contacted, please email us at comms@collegedemocratsofamerica.com.
Consent to Receive Text Messages.
By providing your mobile number and opting in, you agree to be contacted by or on behalf of College Democrats of America at the provided mobile number. This includes text messages for informational, product, or service-related purposes (e.g., donation requests, advocacy actions, etc.). Message frequency varies, and standard message and data rates may apply.
To stop receiving text messages, reply with the word STOP. We may confirm your opt-out by text message.
For support or assistance, please email us at comms@collegedemocratsofamerica.com.
T-Mobile is not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
College Democrats of America Proprietary Rights and Re-Use Policy.
You acknowledge and agree that the information and materials presented on or through CDA will remain the property of CDA and its licensors or providers, and are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and/or other proprietary rights and related laws, rules and regulations.
Trademarks.
The trademarks, service marks, logos, and/or trade names displayed on College Democrats of America (collectively the “Marks”) are the registered and unregistered trademarks of CDA, its licensors and suppliers, and others. All Marks on CDA not owned by CDA are the property of their respective owners. The Marks owned by CDA, whether registered or unregistered, may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not CDA. CDA logos may not be reused in any manner without explicit authorization from CDA.
Third Party Content
CDA may provide third party content on the Site and may provide links to Web pages and content of third parties (collectively the “Third Party Content”) as a service to those interested in this information. CDA does not control, endorse or adopt any Third Party Content and makes no representation or warranties of any kind regarding the Third Party Content, including without limitation regarding its accuracy or completeness. You acknowledge and agree that CDA is not responsible or liable in any manner for any Third Party Content and undertakes no responsibility to update or review any Third Party Content. Users use such Third Party Content contained therein at their own risk.
Submissions
You acknowledge and agree that any materials, including but not limited to questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, plans, notes, drawings, original or creative materials or other information, regarding the Site or CDA that are provided by you in the form of email or other submissions to CDA, or any postings on the Site, are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of CDA. CDA shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights, and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these materials for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
Limit on Use
Except as expressly permitted above, you may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, enter into a database, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any material produced by College Democrats of America. You may not make any editorial changes to articles or materials without first receiving express permission from CDA. This provision does not restrict excerpting portions of content in a manner that does not alter the editorial intent. If any of these terms are breached, we reserve the right to withdraw your license to republish our material. In this situation, you must take immediate steps to remove our material from all current and past communications.
Disclaimer of Warranties
We do our best to provide accurate and helpful information. However, our Services are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not guarantee that our Services will be error-free, uninterrupted, or secure.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CDA and its employees, directors, and officers are not responsible for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of our Services, including lost profits, lost data, or personal injury. Your sole remedy if you are dissatisfied with our Services is to stop using them.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CDA and its employees, directors, and officers from any legal claims, damages, liabilities, or expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of our Services or your violation of these Terms.
Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. You agree to resolve any dispute with CDA through binding arbitration in San Francisco, California, except that either party may bring eligible claims in small claims court.
Additional Legal Provisions:
No Assignment
You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms without CDA's prior express written consent.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, that provision will be construed as narrowly as possible to reflect the original intent, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
No Waiver
CDA's failure to enforce any provision of these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of that provision or any other right.
Privacy Policy
College Democrats of America, a project of Youth Progressive Action Catalyst, (“College Democrats of America,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), provides this Privacy Policy to describe how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process information when you visit our websites, participate in our programs or events, make a donation, apply for an opportunity, sign up for communications, or otherwise interact with services that link to this Policy—the “Services.”
Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal information (a) directly from you (such as when you contact us, make a donation, contribution, or purchase, complete a survey, or complete a registration form), (b) from third parties, including, for example, our vendors or nonprofits, and advocacy organizations with whom we work, (c) from the device and browser that you use to access the Site, and (d) from cookies and similar technologies.
In addition, the government campaign finance regulators or other agencies may require us to collect certain personal information from donors. For example, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) requires us to collect (and disclose to them) the name, mailing address, occupation, and employer of all individuals whose donations to College Democrats of America via the Youth Progressive Action Catalyst, a Federal Hybrid PAC, exceed $200 per calendar year.
Identifiers
We may collect any information you choose to provide, including your name, email address, mailing address, mobile phone number, ZIP code, age or date of birth, employer and occupation, donation and transaction information, volunteer or event participation, program or employment application information, demographic information, interests, preferences, and the contents of your communications with us.
Payment-card, bank-account, and other payment information may be collected and processed directly by a third-party payment processor rather than by College Democrats of America.
Inferences
We may also draw inferences from the information that we collect that reflect your preferences, characteristics, and interests.
Device Information
When you use the Services, we and others acting on our behalf may automatically collect information such as your IP address, browser and device information, device identifiers, approximate location, pages viewed, links clicked, access times, referring pages, interactions with communications, and information collected through cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.
Internet Activity
We may collect information concerning your interaction with the Site, including when you access the Site and your browsing activity on the Site (such as which pages you visit, in what order, and for how long). This may also include “traffic data” or tracking information provided by the Site’s host or similar providers (e.g., Google Analytics) that may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the Site and App.
We may receive information from donation processors, event and volunteer platforms, voter-engagement tools, application platforms, social media services, public records, voter files, consumer and political data providers, data cooperatives, advertising and analytics providers, partner organizations, campaigns, committees, nonprofit organizations, and other lawful sources.
We may combine, match, append, enhance, analyze, or derive inferences from information collected through the Services and information received from other sources.
You are not required to provide all personal information identified in this Privacy Policy to use our Service or to interact with us, but certain functionality will not be available if you do not provide certain personal information. For example, if you do not provide certain personal information, we may not be able to respond to your requests.
How We Use Information
We may collect, use, retain, analyze, and otherwise process personal information for any purpose permitted by law, including to:
Operate, maintain, administer, personalize, and improve our Services, programs, and operations;
Process donations, applications, registrations, grants, stipends, reimbursements, and other transactions;
Communicate with you about College Democrats of America, Youth Progressive Action Catalyst, political candidates and campaigns, elections, public issues, organizing, advocacy, volunteer opportunities, voter registration and turnout, voter-contact activities, events, programs, and donation or fundraising requests;
Contact you by email, text message, telephone, mail, social media, digital advertising, or other channels;
Personalize and target communications, advertising, fundraising, organizing, advocacy, and voter-engagement efforts;
Create audiences, profiles, models, scores, analyses, and inferences concerning supporters, prospective supporters, donors, volunteers, voters, applicants, and other individuals
Measure and improve the effectiveness of our programs, communications, advertising, fundraising, and outreach;
Match, supplement, verify, update, or correct information using information obtained from other sources;
Conduct research, analytics, testing, reporting, and organizational planning;
Protect against fraud, security threats, unlawful activity, misuse of the Services, and other harmful conduct;
Enforce our terms, policies, and agreements;
Comply with campaign-finance reporting requirements and other legal, regulatory, accounting, and recordkeeping obligations; and
Carry out any other purpose disclosed when information is collected, directed or authorized by you, or otherwise permitted by law.
How We Share Information
Except for text messaging originator opt-in data and consent as stated in the Mobile Messaging Program section below, we may share, disclose, exchange, transfer, license, or otherwise make personal information available to:
College Democrats of America and its other projects and programs, affiliates, fiscally sponsored projects, related organizations, organizational partners, and coalition partners;
Vendors, consultants, contractors, volunteers, communications providers, payment processors, data providers, advertising and analytics providers, technology providers, professional advisers, and other service providers that perform work for us;
Candidates, campaigns, political committees, party organizations, nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups, causes, and other organizations that share similar political viewpoints, principles, objectives, interests, or goals;
Organizations that facilitate fundraising, list exchanges, cooperative databases, audience matching, political communications, advertising, organizing, research, voter registration, voter turnout, or voter-contact activities;
Support academic studies and research about voter behavior. Any information shared with researchers is aggregated and de-identified—it cannot be used to identify any individual user;
Social media services, advertising networks, data platforms, and similar services for audience creation, targeting, matching, measurement, and analytics;
The Federal Election Commission and other federal, state, or local government agencies when campaign-finance laws or other legal requirements require disclosure. Information reported under campaign-finance laws may become publicly available;
Law-enforcement agencies, regulators, courts, government authorities, or other parties when we believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with law, legal process, or a lawful request; enforce our rights or agreements; investigate fraud or unlawful activity; or protect the rights, property, safety, or security of College Democrats of America, our supporters, or others;
Parties involved in an actual or proposed merger, consolidation, reorganization, financing, transfer of assets, change in organizational structure, or similar transaction;
Any person or organization at your direction or with your consent; and
Any other person or organization when otherwise permitted by law or disclosed at or before the time information is collected
Organizations receiving information from us may use it for their own purposes, including to communicate with you, solicit donations, advertise, organize, advocate, conduct research, or engage in political, electoral, voter-registration, voter-turnout, or voter-contact activities. Their handling of information is governed by their own policies and practices.
We may use and share aggregated, statistical, anonymized, or de-identified information without restriction where permitted by law. Nothing in this Policy limits our collection, use, retention, or disclosure of information that does not identify and cannot reasonably be linked to an individual.
SMS Terms
We may send SMS or MMS messages concerning College Democrats of America, our affiliates, political candidates and campaigns, organizational updates, elections, public issues, organizing, advocacy, volunteer opportunities, voter registration and turnout, voter-contact activities, events, programs, and donation or fundraising requests.
By providing your mobile phone number and affirmatively opting in, you agree to receive recurring automated text messages from or on behalf of College Democrats of America at the number you provided. Messages may be sent using automated technology. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply.
Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of making a purchase or donation or participating in a College Democrats of America program.
By opting in, you represent that you are the account holder for the mobile number provided or are authorized by the account holder to enroll that number.
Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties.
Other personal information may be collected, used, and shared as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
You may cancel your participation in College Democrats of America text messages at any time by replying STOP to any College Democrats of America text message. We also honor END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, QUIT, and OPT OUT, as well as other messages that reasonably communicate that you no longer wish to receive text messages.
After opting out, you may receive one final message confirming your request. No additional recurring Program messages will be sent unless you subsequently opt in again.
You may also request removal by emailing comms@collegedemocratsofamerica.com and clearly identifying the mobile number you want removed from our list. Please allow up to 10 business days to process requests submitted outside the text-messaging system.
For assistance, reply HELP to a College Democrats of America text message or email comms@collegedemocratsofamerica.com.
Message delivery is subject to effective transmission by your wireless carrier and is not guaranteed. College Democrats of America may modify, suspend, or discontinue its mobile messaging program at any time.
Third-Party Services
The Services may link to, integrate with, or embed donation processors, event platforms, voter tools, application forms, social media services, or other websites and services operated by third parties.
Information you provide directly to a third party is governed by that party’s privacy policy, terms, and practices. College Democrats of America is not responsible for the privacy, security, availability, or other practices of independently operated third-party services.
Your Choices
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by following the instructions included in those emails. You may stop text messages as described in the Mobile Messaging Program section.
You may control cookies and similar technologies through your browser, device, or platform settings. Disabling these technologies may affect the availability or operation of certain features.
Where applicable law grants you privacy rights, you may contact us to submit a request. We may take steps to verify your identity and authority to make the request. We may deny, limit, or retain information in response to a request to the extent permitted or required by law, including for campaign-finance, fraud-prevention, security, legal, accounting, recordkeeping, and opt-out purposes. Please note that you cannot unsubscribe from certain correspondence from us, including messages we send in response to an inquiry from you.
Security and Retention
We use administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to protect personal information. However, no transmission, network, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
We may retain personal information for as long as we determine it is reasonably necessary or useful for the purposes described in this Policy, including political, organizational, fundraising, analytical, historical, legal, accounting, campaign-finance, security, fraud-prevention, and recordkeeping purposes, or for any other period permitted or required by law.
We may retain aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information for longer periods.
Children
The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without legally valid authorization. Please contact us if you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us.
Cookies
We store certain information that gets collected automatically at our end through cookies and other similar technologies. A cookie is a small string of information that a website that you visit transfers to your browser for identification purposes. Cookies can be used to follow your activity while using a website or across websites, and that information helps companies understand your preferences and tendencies, as well as improve and personalize your website experience. Some cookies are necessary to operate a website, while others can be functional, analytical, or used for marketing purposes, including targeted advertising (as discussed in more detail below). Cookies on the Site are generally divided into the following categories:
Strictly Necessary Cookies.
These are required for the operation of the Site. They include, for example, cookies that track whether you have accepted the Site’s cookie notice.
Analytical/Performance Cookies.
These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to the Site and understand how such users navigate through the Site (e.g., when and which pages are visited, in what order the pages are visited, and where a user is located). We also use Google Analytics for part of this process. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. Google provides users with the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics—learn more by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Marketing Cookies.
These record your visit to the Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed to recognize you as a previous visitor, and to track your activity on the Site and other websites you visit. These cookies are used to display ads on other websites based on your visits to the Site and other online activity. These cookies qualify as persistent cookies because they remain on your device. You can opt out of these cookies through our cookie banner. If you opt-out, you will need to apply these opt-out settings in each browser and device from which you wish to opt out. If you opt-out of interest-based advertisements, you will still see advertisements online, but they may be less relevant to you.
We also use third parties to provide certain features or functionality through the Service. For example, we use Action Network for marketing services. You can learn more about Action Network’s Privacy Notice at https://actionnetwork.org/privacy.
You can also prevent the use of certain cookies by modifying your Internet browser settings, typically under the sections “Help,” “Internet Options,” or “Settings.” If you disable or delete certain cookies in your Internet browser settings, you may still access our Site, however, you might not be able to access or use important functions or features of our Site, and you may, for example, be required to re-enter your log-in details.
Do-Not-Track Signals
At this time, CDA does not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “do-not-track” instructions.
Changes to This Policy
We may change this Policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. Changes become effective when the revised Policy is posted unless otherwise stated or required by law.
Your continued interaction with the Services after a revised Policy becomes effective constitutes your acknowledgment of the revised Policy to the extent permitted by law.
Contact Us
Questions or requests concerning this Policy may be sent to:
College Democrats of America
A project of the Youth Progressive Action Catalyst
P.O. Box 323, Culver City, CA 90232
comms@collegedemocratsofamerica.com