Privacy Policy
At iPetitions, operated by Angle Three Associates, LLC ("iPetitions," "we," "us," or "our"), we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal data when you access or use our platform and websites ("Services").
By using our Services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Your use of iPetitions is also subject to our Terms of Service, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. We may update this policy from time to time and will notify you of material changes by posting a notice on our website.
Table of Contents
1. What This Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers how we treat personal data that we gather when you access or use our Services. "Personal data" means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual, including name, email address, IP address, and location data.
This policy applies only to our Services. It does not apply to third-party websites, products, or services, even if they link to our Services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you visit.
2. Information We Collect
Information you provide to us
Account registration
When you create an iPetitions account, you provide your name, email address, and other profile information. We are the sole owner of this information and will not sell, share, or rent it in ways other than those disclosed in this policy.
Signing a petition
When you sign a petition, you may be asked for your name, email address, country, postal code, and an optional comment. This data is stored on our servers and may be accessed by the petition host, who has agreed to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Creating a petition
When you create a petition, the title, description, and any images you upload are publicly visible. Your account name is displayed as the petition creator.
Payments
If you make a voluntary contribution, payment processing is handled by trusted third-party services (Stripe, PayPal). We do not store credit card or payment information on our servers.
Information collected automatically
Log data
We collect IP addresses, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and timestamps to analyze trends, administer the site, track usage patterns, and prevent duplicate or fraudulent signatures.
Device information
We may collect information about the device you use to access our Services, including device type, screen size, and operating system version.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our Services
- Process petition signatures and deliver them to petition recipients
- Send verification emails and signature confirmations
- Notify petition signers of updates from petition creators
- Detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, and security issues
- Analyze usage patterns to improve user experience
- Send important service announcements
- Comply with legal obligations
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We may share aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data for analytical purposes.
4. Who May Receive Your Information
Petition hosts
Petition hosts can access signer information (name, email, country, comment) for their petitions. Hosts agree not to sell, share, or rent this information except in aggregated form. When presenting a petition to its intended recipient, hosts may share a disaggregated list of signers on a single occasion.
Public visibility
Your name may appear on a petition's public signature page, but your email address is never publicly visible. You can opt to keep your name hidden when signing.
Service providers
We share information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, email delivery, and analytics. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data.
Legal requirements
We may disclose personal data when we believe it is legally necessary, including in response to legal requests, to protect the safety of any person, to prevent illegal activity, or to enforce our Terms of Service. We may respond to verbal, emailed, or other requests at our sole discretion.
Email sharing
Petitions include a sharing feature that lets signers forward a petition to friends. Email addresses entered for sharing are used once and are not stored.
6. Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include:
- Encryption of data in transit using TLS/SSL
- Encryption of sensitive data at rest
- Regular security assessments and monitoring
- Access controls limiting who can view personal data
- Secure cloud infrastructure with industry-standard protections
No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide our Services. We may also retain data as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
When you delete your account, we will delete or anonymize your personal data within a reasonable timeframe, unless we are required by law to retain it. Signatures on petitions may be retained in anonymized form to preserve petition integrity.
8. Personal Data of Children
Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete that information promptly. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at privacy@ipetitions.com.
9. Your Privacy Rights
All users
You can update your personal information at any time through your account settings. You may also request:
- Access: A copy of the personal data we hold about you
- Correction: Updates to inaccurate or incomplete data
- Deletion: Removal of your personal data, subject to legal requirements
- Data portability: A copy of your data in a structured, machine-readable format
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@ipetitions.com.
European Economic Area (EEA) and UK users
If you are in the EEA or UK, you have additional rights under GDPR, including:
- The right to restrict or object to certain processing of your data
- The right to withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent)
- The right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority
We process your data on the basis of consent (e.g., signing a petition), contract (e.g., providing our Services to account holders), legitimate interests (e.g., fraud prevention, analytics), and legal obligations.
U.S. state privacy rights
Residents of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and other states with privacy legislation may have additional rights, including the right to know what personal data is collected, the right to delete, and the right to opt out of the sale of personal data. We do not sell personal data. To exercise your rights, contact us at privacy@ipetitions.com.
10. Key Contacts
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data rights:
- Privacy inquiries and data requests: privacy@ipetitions.com
- General support: support@ipetitions.com
- Abuse reports: report@ipetitions.com
You may also reach us through our Contact page.
iPetitions is a product of Angle Three Associates, LLC, a Delaware registered limited liability company.