Privacy Policy

Ralph Prioleau, Jr. for Berkeley County District 7
Effective Date: June 30, 2026

Ralph Prioleau, Jr. for Berkeley County District 7 (“Campaign,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide when visiting our campaign website, communicating with our campaign, volunteering, signing up for updates, making a contribution, or otherwise interacting with us online.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use it, when we may share it, and the choices available to you.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with our website and campaign, we may collect information such as:

Your name
Email address
Mailing address
Telephone number
ZIP code
Information you provide when contacting the campaign
Volunteer and event-registration information
Information you provide when signing up to receive campaign updates
Contribution or donation information, where applicable
Information you voluntarily provide about your interests or campaign involvement

We may also automatically collect certain technical information when you visit our website, including your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring website, pages visited, and general website usage information.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use information we collect to:

Respond to questions, requests, and messages
Communicate with you about Ralph Prioleau, Jr. and the campaign
Send campaign news, announcements, invitations, and updates
Coordinate volunteer activities and campaign events
Process contributions and comply with applicable campaign-finance requirements
Improve the functionality, security, and performance of our website
Understand how visitors use our website
Maintain campaign records and supporter information
Comply with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations

If you provide your telephone number or email address, you may receive campaign communications, including messages related to campaign activities, events, volunteer opportunities, or requests for support.

3. Political Communications

By providing your contact information, you may receive communications from the campaign concerning Ralph Prioleau, Jr., the campaign, upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, elections, public policy issues, and other campaign-related activities.

Where required by law, we will obtain appropriate consent before sending certain types of electronic communications.

You may unsubscribe from campaign emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in the message. You may also contact the campaign to request removal from campaign communications.

Please note that opting out of promotional or campaign communications may not prevent us from sending communications that are necessary to respond to a request you have made or that we are legally required to provide.

4. Donations and Contributions

If you make a contribution to the campaign through our website, your payment may be processed by a third-party payment processor.

We generally do not receive or store complete credit-card or debit-card numbers on our own systems. Payment information is handled according to the privacy and security practices of the applicable payment processor.

Information associated with political contributions may be collected and maintained as required by applicable campaign-finance laws and regulations. This may include information such as your name, address, occupation, employer, contribution amount, and other information required for reporting purposes.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies to help the campaign understand how visitors use the website and to improve website functionality.

These technologies may collect information such as pages viewed, approximate location, device information, browser information, and interactions with the website.

You may be able to control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain website functionality.

6. Analytics and Website Services

We may use third-party website, hosting, analytics, advertising, communications, event-registration, donation-processing, or other service providers to operate and improve campaign activities.

These providers may process information on our behalf and may have access to information necessary to perform their services.

We expect our service providers to use personal information only for legitimate purposes associated with the services they provide to the campaign and to maintain reasonable safeguards for that information.

7. Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal information for money.

We may share information with:

Campaign staff, volunteers, and authorized representatives who need the information to perform campaign-related activities
Service providers that assist with website hosting, communications, donations, events, analytics, data management, or other campaign operations
Professional advisers or vendors when reasonably necessary to conduct campaign activities
Government agencies, election authorities, or other entities when disclosure is required by law
Law enforcement, courts, or other parties when required to comply with a legal obligation or protect the rights, safety, or security of the campaign or others

Political campaign records may also be subject to disclosure or reporting requirements under applicable campaign-finance and election laws.

8. Data Security

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no website, database, electronic transmission, or method of storing information can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use caution when submitting personal information online.

9. Children's Privacy

Our website is not directed toward children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

10. Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties, including social-media platforms, donation services, event-registration services, or other campaign partners.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website before providing personal information.

11. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:

Request information about personal information we maintain about you
Request correction of inaccurate information
Request deletion of certain information, subject to legal and campaign-recordkeeping requirements
Unsubscribe from campaign emails
Opt out of certain communications
Ask questions about how your information is collected or used

Some requests may be limited by legal requirements governing political campaigns, campaign-finance reporting, recordkeeping, or other obligations.

To exercise a privacy-related choice or submit a request, please contact the campaign using the contact information provided on our website.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our campaign activities, website functionality, applicable laws, or privacy practices.

When we make changes, we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the website after an updated policy is posted constitutes acknowledgment of the updated policy to the extent permitted by law.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, how we handle personal information, or your privacy choices, please contact:

Ralph Prioleau, Jr. for Berkeley County District 7
Campaign: Ralph Prioleau, Jr. for Berkeley County District 7
Email: [Campaign Email Address]
Website: [Campaign Website]

Paid for by Ralph Prioleau, Jr. for Berkeley County District 7.

This Privacy Policy is intended as a general campaign website privacy notice and should be reviewed by the campaign's legal counsel or compliance professional before publication, particularly to ensure compliance with applicable South Carolina election and campaign-finance requirements.