Who we are
You can read more about us here: About RI CASE 2020
This website is privately owned in support of a loosely affiliated group of individuals concerned about election integrity. It is hosted in a U.S. based facility. Final decisions about use of this site are at the discretion of the owner.
Comments
Your posting of comments or writing of articles does not transfer copyright or authorship to this site. Comments are fully owned by the commenter, at the IP address of their origin. Liability as to claims is at the commenter’s risk.
Comments are allowed only from subscribers and to be published must adhere to constructive public discourse. Blasphemies, extreme profanity, ad-hominen/personal attacks, spam, self-promotion will not be posted. Comments of a threatening nature will be forwarded to the appropriate authorities. The commenter’s browser user agent string may be used to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Media, images etc. are not allowed to be uploaded to the site without author privileges. Images uploaded by authors will be scanned for content EXIF, etc. 17 USC Section 107 Fair Use is claimed for all images and content portions necessary and pertinent to the topic discussions, articles etc. Attribution, if known, must always be made. We do not buy, purchase, rent, lease images or content. Ownership of images is governed by 17 USC Copyrights. Media uploaded to the common media library is accessible by other authors, and is thus open to their use.
Cookies
Comments left on our site may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies for your convenience. This avoids providing those details again for additional comments. These cookies expire after one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. Upon logging in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Authors who edit or publish an article will have an additional cookie saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 1 day.
Analytics & data gathering
At this time we are not using analytics packages. We’ve been analyzed by Big Tech and others enough already. However, this section is subject to change should circumstances require it. Should we make a change, we will update this policy so you can be aware of what kind of data may be collected for analytical purposes. Log-in or system data generated for normal, typical use purposes is not considered distinct analytics data, but may be analyzed for usage and system performance concerns.
Data may be gathered from plugins being used for functional purposes as the site expands. We like to keep things extremely simple, but also practical. Should certain plugins call for modification of this policy, it will be updated to reflect what personal data might be collected and why. However, this will only extend to the descriptions provided by the plugin vendor.
Contact forms
We do use contact forms to be able to continue critical conversations with you. The data gathered in these forms are public in nature. You retain certain rights over your personal data as described below.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We only share your information & data with individuals that have been thoroughly vetted by other members. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Your name, contact information etc. will not not be shared with any other organization, however, it you publicly post that information as a comment, we will not be liable for it’s distribution.
How long we retain your data
Comments, articles and their metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, filled in a form or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, including comments and articles. Requests will be performed as authority, time and technical experience permits. Such erasure only extends to the publishing system. We will not erase data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes, such as normal operational logging, hosting backup systems, redundancy systems etc.
Where we send your data
Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.