Privacy and Security Policy
April 18, 2007

Information Made Public About You

Note well.

Ballots posted in ChoiceRanker.com's public polls (all of which are public at this time) are, by design, available to public review and traceable to a votername. Votes here are not anonymous. Activity here is equivalent to posting and commenting on a typical blog. Therefore, if you register and decide to provide information about yourself, your ballots will link to any information you choose to make public about yourself..

Information Collected About You

The following pertains to all visitors:

An HTTP state management mechanism called a "cookie" will be set on your PC when you participate at Indaba.org. Its primary purpose is to enable easier login, voting, and review by registered members, and to help block abuse of Indaba.org's open balloting features. Some features may not be accessible through browsers that have cookies turned "off." To learn more about cookies, please read this.

An originating IP address is collected for each ballot posted. Other information that might be collected would include: 1) The type of browser you are using; 2) The length of your visit, and; 3) Referring pages. These details may be shared with Indaba.org's sponsors. Also, ChoiceRanker.com uses tools from Google Analytics, to review the order in which pages are visited.

An email address is collected with each request for a registration invitation. Your email address will not be published, marketed, or given away. Only one email will be sent for each invitation event. Registrants may opt in to receive two kinds of text emailings... One that contains brief news about the site and featured polls, and another sent on behalf the site's sponsors.

Your privacy is taken seriously. If formal control of this site or its database is ever sold or transferred, diligent effort will be made to give registrants timely notice about any coming amendments to this privacy policy. That notice period will provide sufficient opportunity for registrants to retire their formal membership and purge their email addresses from the system.

The following pertains to registered members:

New registrants need to submit the following information:

• Email address.
• Username and password. (Your password will be stored in an encrypted format.)
• Year of birth.

Registered members will have the option of providing additional information:

• Nationality.
• State (if US nationality).
• Free-form self description.
• Blog and social networking membership names.
• Announced party loyalties (Democratic, Republican, etc.).
• Announced partisan loyalties (Blogs, Action Committees, etc.).
• Other demographic and self-identification categories that may be added.

Members who provide such information and other validations of authentic individuality will eventually be able to participate in specialized ballots, nominate candidates for those ballots, and propose polls of their own.