Privacy Policy

Antelope Data, Inc. ("Antelope," "we," "us") provides a political intelligence and campaign management platform used by campaigns, party organizations, committees, and civic organizations (our "Customers") to understand their communities and communicate with people who have chosen to hear from them. This policy covers all of our services and channels — including our websites, surveys and web forms, text messaging (SMS/MMS), WhatsApp, Telegram, email, and any voice communications — and explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have under United States law. We built Antelope around consent and transparency, and this policy is written to be read, not skimmed past.

1. SMS & Text Messaging Disclosures

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be sold, rented, or shared with any third parties.

You will only receive text messages from a campaign or organization on the Antelope platform if you have affirmatively opted in to receive messages from that specific sender — for example, by submitting a web form, scanning a QR code, texting a keyword, or signing up in person.

Message frequency varies depending on the sender and your engagement (for example, surveys, event updates, and replies to your messages). Message and data rates may apply.

Opting out: You can opt out at any time by replying STOP to any message. You may also opt out by any other reasonable means, including contacting us at the address below. Opt-out requests are honored promptly and your number is permanently suppressed for that sender.

Help: Reply HELP to any message, or contact lukesvasti@antelopedata.org, for assistance.

Other messaging channels: The same consent principles apply to messages sent through WhatsApp, Telegram, or similar services on our platform — you will only receive them from a sender you opted in to hear from, and you can withdraw that consent at any time using the channel's own controls or by contacting us.

2. Information We Collect

Information you provide

• Opt-in and contact information: your name, phone number, email address, mailing address, and any details you submit when you sign up to receive communications from a campaign or organization.
• Survey and engagement responses: answers you choose to give to surveys, polls, and messages, including free-text replies and conversations with senders.
• Account information: if you are a Customer, the details you provide to create and administer an account (name, organization, role, login credentials).
• Payment information: if you make a payment or donation through the platform, your payment card details are collected and processed by our payment processor (such as Stripe). We do not store full card numbers on our systems; we receive confirmation of the transaction and limited billing details.

Information provided by our Customers and other sources

• Contact and public-record data: Customers may upload contact lists and publicly available data (such as voter file information obtained lawfully from public sources) for analysis and for communications permitted by law.
• Licensed data: Customers may combine their data with information licensed from commercial data providers, used under those providers' terms.

Information collected automatically

• Technical and usage data: when you use our websites, surveys, or web forms, we collect standard technical information such as IP address, device and browser type, pages viewed, referring links, and timestamps. We use this in part to document consent and to keep the platform secure.

3. How We Use Information

• To deliver communications you have opted in to receive — by text, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, or other channels — and to stop them when you opt out or unsubscribe.
• To create, store, and honor records of consent and opt-out requests across every channel.
• To provide analysis and insights to the Customer you interacted with — for example, aggregated survey results for a district.
• To process payments and donations you choose to make, through our payment processor.
• To produce aggregated and de-identified insights across the platform (such as broad response patterns and engagement trends). These insights do not identify you and do not include your phone number or other contact details.
• To operate, secure, and improve the platform, prevent fraud and abuse, and enforce our terms.
• To comply with legal obligations, including telecommunications, consumer-protection, election, and campaign-finance rules, and to respond to lawful requests.

4. Cookies & Similar Technologies

Our websites and web forms use cookies and similar technologies for functions that are necessary to the service (such as keeping a session active and recording that a form was submitted) and for basic analytics that help us understand how pages are used. We do not use third-party advertising cookies, and we do not permit third parties to track you across our sites for advertising purposes. You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling necessary cookies may affect how forms and surveys work. Because there is no common industry standard, our sites do not currently respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals, but the commitments in this policy apply regardless.

5. How Information Is Shared

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only as follows:

• With the Customer you interacted with. If you opt in to hear from a specific campaign or organization, your contact information and responses belong to that relationship and are visible to that Customer.
• With service providers that help us operate the platform (such as messaging carriers, cloud hosting, and payment processors), bound by confidentiality and permitted to use the information only to provide services to us.
• For legal reasons, if required by law, subpoena, or to protect rights, safety, and the integrity of the platform.

For the avoidance of doubt, and as stated above: mobile numbers, text messaging originator opt-in data, and consent records are never shared with, sold to, or rented to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

6. Who Controls Your Data

Antelope operates as a platform. The campaign or organization you opted in to hear from is the owner of its relationship with you, including your contact information and your responses to its surveys. Antelope processes that information on the Customer's behalf. Consent to receive text messages is specific to the sender named when you opted in — it is not transferred between campaigns or organizations.

7. Survey Responses & Sensitive Information

Responses to political surveys can reveal opinions and affiliations. We treat this information with particular care: it is used to provide insights to the specific Customer you responded to and, in de-identified and aggregated form, to produce platform-level insights. We do not sell it, we do not use it to build advertising profiles of you, and we do not disclose your individual responses to anyone other than the Customer you chose to respond to, our bound service providers, or as required by law. Where a state privacy law treats this kind of information as sensitive and grants additional protections, we honor them.

8. Consent Records & Retention

• We keep a record of each opt-in: how you opted in, when, the source, and the disclosure language you agreed to. We retain these records, along with opt-out records, for at least four (4) years, consistent with telecommunications rules.
• Opt-out records are retained indefinitely so that a suppressed number is never messaged again by that sender.
• Other personal information is retained for as long as needed to provide the service, comply with law, and resolve disputes, after which it is deleted or de-identified.

9. Your Choices & Rights

• Stop receiving texts: reply STOP at any time, or contact us by any reasonable means.
• Unsubscribe from email: every email we or our Customers send through the platform contains a working unsubscribe mechanism, honored within the time required by law.
• Other channels: you can withdraw consent for WhatsApp, Telegram, or other channels at any time using the channel's controls or by contacting us.
• Access, correction, and deletion: you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information by contacting lukesvasti@antelopedata.org.

10. State Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, state privacy laws (including the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended, and comparable laws in states such as Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, and Oregon) may give you specific rights over your personal information, including the right to:

• Know / access the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have about you, the sources, and the purposes for which it is used;
• Correct inaccurate personal information;
• Delete personal information, subject to legal exceptions (for example, records we must keep to honor your opt-out or to comply with telecommunications rules);
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information — noting that we do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising;
• Limit the use of sensitive personal information, which we already use only for the purposes described in this policy;
• Non-discrimination for exercising any of these rights.

To exercise any of these rights, email lukesvasti@antelopedata.org with the subject line "Privacy request." We will verify your request using the information associated with your record, respond within the time required by the applicable law, and you may use an authorized agent where the law provides for one. If we deny a request, you may appeal by replying to our decision, and we will explain the outcome. Note that where we process information on behalf of a Customer, we may refer your request to that Customer or assist them in fulfilling it, as state law contemplates for processors and service providers.

11. Security

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encryption in transit, access controls, and logging. No system is perfectly secure, and we encourage you to contact us if you have concerns about the handling of your information.

12. Children

The platform is not directed to individuals under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor's information has been provided to us, contact us and we will delete it.

13. Visitors From Outside the United States

The platform is operated from the United States and is intended for use in the United States. If you access it from elsewhere, your information will be processed in the US under this policy and US law.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the updated version at this page with a revised "Last updated" date, and where changes are material, we will provide additional notice.

15. Contact Us

Antelope Data, Inc. lukesvasti@antelopedata.org · antelopedata.org