Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 8, 2026
Dr. Shimon Blau for Congress (“Blau for Congress,” the “Campaign,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit BlauForCongress.com, interact with the Campaign online, sign up for Campaign communications, volunteer, make a contribution, or otherwise interact with us.
This website is operated on behalf of Dr. Shimon Blau for Congress, a federal political campaign.
By using this website, you acknowledge the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. Where consent is required by applicable law, we will request consent separately.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information in several ways.
Information You Provide to Us
When you sign up for Campaign updates, volunteer, request a yard sign, provide feedback, make a contribution, contact the Campaign, or otherwise interact with us, we may collect information such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Mailing address
- ZIP code
- Volunteer interests and preferences
- Feedback or messages you submit
- Contribution and donor information
- Employer and occupation information when required for campaign-finance compliance
- Other information you choose to provide
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect information about your visit using cookies, pixels, scripts, and similar technologies.
This information may include:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Device or online identifiers
- Pages viewed
- Links clicked
- Referring website or source
- Date and time of visits
- Time spent on pages
- Return visits
- Approximate location derived from IP address
- Other information about your interaction with the website
We use this information to operate the website, understand how visitors engage with the Campaign, measure the effectiveness of Campaign communications and advertising, prevent fraud or misuse, and improve our outreach.
2. Website Visitor Identification and Identity Resolution
We may use identity-resolution and data-matching technologies to help us better understand visitors to our website.
When you visit our website, cookies, pixels, IP information, device identifiers, and similar technologies may be used to associate your website activity with information available from other sources.
As a result, in some circumstances, we may receive or associate website activity with information such as:
- Name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Mailing address or general location
- Online or device identifiers
- Professional information
- Demographic or interest information
- Online profiles
- Pages viewed and other website activity
This identification may occur even if you do not fill out a form or otherwise directly identify yourself on our website.
We may use this information to better understand our audience, measure Campaign engagement, improve Campaign communications, conduct outreach, support fundraising, create or refine Campaign audiences, and communicate with individuals who may be interested in the Campaign, where permitted by applicable law.
Because this is a political campaign website, information regarding visits to or interactions with this website may indicate or be used to infer an interest in political candidates, issues, or civic activity. A visit to this website alone, however, does not necessarily mean that an individual supports, opposes, or is affiliated with the Campaign.
We do not treat identity resolution or the identification of a telephone number through third-party data sources as consent to receive automated text messages. Where consent is legally required for a particular form of communication, we will rely on an appropriate consent mechanism.
You may contact the Campaign directly to exercise applicable privacy rights or request that certain uses of your personal information be limited, as described in the Your Privacy Choices section below.
3. Cookies, Pixels, and Similar Technologies
We and companies that provide services to us may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies to:
- Operate and secure the website
- Remember website preferences
- Understand website traffic
- Measure visitor engagement
- Attribute website visits to Campaign communications or advertising
- Identify or recognize website visitors
- Measure the effectiveness of Campaign outreach
- Build or refine audiences
- Support advertising and communications, where permitted by law
Some of these technologies may remain on your browser or device between visits.
You can control certain cookies through your browser settings and through any privacy-choice tools we make available on this website. Disabling cookies may affect certain website features.
4. How We Use Information
We may use the information we collect to:
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website
- Respond to inquiries and requests
- Communicate information about Dr. Shimon Blau and the Campaign
- Recruit and coordinate volunteers
- Process requests for Campaign materials or yard signs
- Process Campaign contributions
- Conduct fundraising
- Understand which issues, pages, and Campaign content generate interest
- Measure and improve Campaign advertising and communications
- Conduct Campaign outreach where permitted by law
- Maintain Campaign supporter and contact records
- Prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents
- Comply with campaign-finance, election, tax, recordkeeping, and other legal requirements
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights
- Perform other Campaign-related activities consistent with the context in which information was collected and applicable law
5. Email and Text Message Communications
If you voluntarily provide your email address, we may send you Campaign emails. You may unsubscribe from Campaign marketing emails using the unsubscribe link included in those messages.
If you voluntarily provide your mobile telephone number and affirmatively consent to receive Campaign text messages, we may send you text messages, including automated messages where indicated in the consent disclosure.
Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency may vary.
You may opt out of Campaign text messages by replying STOP.
Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of making a contribution, volunteering, or otherwise supporting the Campaign.
6. Campaign Contributions
Campaign contributions may be processed using third-party contribution and payment-processing platforms. Information you provide while making a contribution may therefore be collected and processed by those providers in addition to the Campaign.
Federal campaign-finance law requires political committees to collect, maintain, and publicly report certain contributor information.
For individuals whose contributions exceed applicable federal reporting thresholds, information reported to the Federal Election Commission may include your:
- Name
- Mailing address
- Employer
- Occupation
- Contribution date
- Contribution amount
- Aggregate contribution amount
- Election designation
Information required to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission may become publicly available through government records and databases.
We may also retain contribution records as required to comply with applicable campaign-finance and recordkeeping obligations.
7. How We Disclose Information
We may disclose personal information when reasonably necessary to organizations and individuals that perform services for or work with the Campaign, including:
- Website hosting and technology providers
- Data and identity-resolution providers
- Donation and payment-processing providers
- Email, text messaging, and communications providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising and audience-management providers
- Campaign consultants and authorized Campaign personnel
- Professional advisers, accountants, attorneys, and compliance providers
- Security and fraud-prevention providers
We may also disclose information when required by law, including campaign-finance reporting obligations, subpoenas, court orders, regulatory requests, or other lawful government processes.
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect the Campaign, our visitors, our systems, or the rights and safety of others.
8. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising
We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration to third parties for their own independent commercial use.
However, some privacy laws define terms such as “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly. Certain disclosures involving advertising, identity-resolution, analytics, or data partners could potentially fall within those definitions even when no money is paid specifically for your personal information.
Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of these activities, we will provide a mechanism for you to exercise that right.
9. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have the right to request that we:
- Provide access to personal information we maintain about you
- Correct inaccurate personal information
- Delete certain personal information
- Provide a portable copy of certain information
- Opt you out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
- Opt you out of certain uses of personal information for targeted advertising
- Limit certain other forms of data processing
You can submit a privacy request by emailing: campaign@blauforcongress.com
Please include “Privacy Request” in the subject line and describe the request you would like us to process.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. Some information may be exempt from a request where retention or disclosure is required or permitted by law, including campaign-finance and legal-compliance records.
Where applicable, the Campaign will process requests to opt out of covered identity-resolution, targeted advertising, data-sharing, or similar activities.
Global Privacy Control
Where required by applicable law, we recognize applicable legally valid universal opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control (“GPC”), for the purposes covered by those signals.
Because these signals operate at the browser or device level, you may need to enable the signal separately on each browser or device you use.
10. Colorado Residents
Colorado residents may have additional privacy rights under the Colorado Privacy Act when the law applies to the processing at issue.
These rights may include the ability to access, correct, delete, or obtain a portable copy of certain personal data and to opt out of certain processing involving the sale of personal data, targeted advertising, or qualifying profiling.
Colorado residents may submit requests using the methods described in the Your Privacy Choices section.
Where required by applicable law, we will also process recognized universal opt-out signals.
Nothing in this section limits any additional rights that may apply under state or federal law.
11. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including Campaign operations, communications, fundraising, legal compliance, campaign-finance requirements, security, dispute resolution, and recordkeeping.
Different types of information may be retained for different periods.
We may retain certain information after an opt-out or deletion request when necessary to document the request, prevent future unwanted communications, comply with law, or exercise or defend legal rights.
12. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information. However, no website, database, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or maintained by us.
13. Children’s Privacy
This website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through this website. If we become aware that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected inappropriately, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
14. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may link to or integrate with websites and services operated by third parties, including contribution processors, social-media platforms, and other external services.
Their privacy practices are governed by their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review those policies before providing information to those services.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our Campaign, website, technology, vendors, or legal obligations change. When we make changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page. Material changes may also be communicated through additional notices where appropriate or required by law.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or would like to submit a privacy request, please contact:
Dr. Shimon Blau for Congress, 360 S Garfield St, Ste 600, Denver, CO 80209
Email: campaign@blauforcongress.com
Phone: (720) 451-7072
Please use “Privacy Request” in the subject line for requests relating to your personal information.
