PRIVACY POLICY

Dancing the Art was created to help serve the informational and organizational needs of South Carolina citizens committed to restructuring state government to improve services, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.  As such, we seek to provide a place on the Internet individuals can come together and get connected with news, sign one or more petitions, contact legislators, or distribute information to friends.  As we continue to develop, you will find easy to use tools that will allow you quick access to information that is important to your goals - as well as the ability to share such information with others on our site.
 
The petition aspect of Dancing the Art allows individuals to create petitions and forward them to individuals in their own contact lists. It is the nature of online petitions that a large percentage of recipients will "forward" them to individuals within their own contact lists. This is at the sole discretion of the recipient and not the result of spam on the part of Dancing the Art.

Dancing the Art collects aggregate information regarding what areas of our site users may access, as well as individual information volunteered by the user, such as contact and survey information and/or site registrations or petition signatures. Information collected is the property of the creator of the petition as well as Dancing the Art. The information collected is used to improve the content of our site, to notify users about updates to our site, and may also be used by us or other reputable organizations to help contact consumers for marketing purposes. Users should also know that information gathered as a result of signing a petition can also be made public when a signed petition is presented by its creator to the intended target or recipient of the petition, (such as a public official).

Dancing the Art reserves the right to amend its privacy policies at any time for any reason. Given that new unanticipated uses for information may develop which have not been disclosed in our privacy statement, our practices may change from time to time. Dancing the Art will post such changes to our policy at that time in this section of our site. This privacy policy applies to Dancing the Art only and has no application to individuals and/or organizations that may use our petition services in order to advance their own petition.

All users have the opportunity to subscribe to our free newsletter and additionally may unsubscribe at any time. This will not however remove their information from any petitions they may have already signed.

Dancing the Art may employ the use of cookies to store visitor's preferences, track and target user interests and other session information that may be necessary to provide better service to returning visitors of our site. Some partnering organizations may make use of cookies as well, (advertisers for example), but Dancing the Art has neither control of nor access to this information.

Dancing the Art may contain links to various external sites and is not responsible for either the content and/or privacy policies of those sites. We encourage users to observe the relevant privacy policies of those sites before continuing in their use.

While we will endeavor to monitor the contents of petitions that may be created by users of that aspect of our site (when made available) as well as any associated discussion groups, comments or forums.  Dancing the Art is not liable for any offenses, damages, injuries or legal infractions that may be caused as a result an individual's and/or organization's use of our site. Dancing the Art operates as a tool to enhance the ability of SC citizens conservatives to organize, gain access to news, information and to express their opinions.

Users may be given the option of participating in discussion groups and/or forums to make comments regarding various issues and should understand that the contents of the same are accessible to the public. Dancing the Art reserves the right to use such public comments for its own marketing purposes.

Regarding security, whenever Dancing the Art transfers and/or receives certain types of sensitive information, (such as financial information), users will be directed to a secure server for such purposes. We take every precaution to protect our user's information both on and offline.