PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to https://www.buncombegop.com, the website and online service of the
Buncombe County Republican Party. The Buncombe County Republican Party knows that
you care how information about you is used and shared. This Privacy Policy explains what
information of yours will be collected by the Buncombe County Republican Party when you
use our online services, how the information will be used, and how you can control the
collection, correction and/or deletion of information. We will not use or share your
information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does
not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources.
Information We Collect
User-Provided Information: You provide us information about yourself, such as your name
and e-mail address, if you register at https://www.buncombegop.com (including by
“following,” “liking,” linking your account to https://www.buncombegop.com, etc., on a third-
party website or network). If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of
your email messages, your email address and our responses. We may also retain any
messages you send through https://www.buncombegop.com. You may provide us
information in user content you post to https://www.buncombegop.com.
Third-Party Services
The Buncombe County Republican Party uses the Wix platform to organize our community
of members, supporters and prospects. You can read more about that company and its
features and polices at Wix.com. When you visit https://www.buncombegop.com, Wix may
send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters -
to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets Wix help you log in faster
and enhance your navigation through https://www.buncombegop.com. A cookie does not
collect personal information about you. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive after
you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent
visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s
directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You
can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
However, some features of https://www.buncombegop.com may not function properly if the
ability to accept cookies is disabled. You can read more about how the Wix service interacts
with and protects your information at Wix.com/privacy and Wix.com/confidentiality.
The Buncombe County Republican Party uses Google Analytics to help understand use
of https://www.buncombegop.com. This service collects the information sent by your
browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address, and their
use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy.
How We Use Your Information
We use the personal information you submit to operate, maintain, and provide to you the
features and functionality of https://www.buncombegop.com.
By providing https://www.buncombegop.com your email address (including by “following,”
“liking,” linking your account to https://www.buncombegop.com, etc., on a third-party
website or network), you consent to our using the email address to send
you https://www.buncombegop.com related notices, including any notices required by law,
in lieu of communication by postal mail. You also agree that we may send you notifications
of activity on https://www.buncombegop.com to the email address you give us, in
accordance with any applicable privacy settings. We may use your email address to send
you other messages, such as newsletters, changes to features
of https://www.buncombegop.com, or other information. If you do not want to receive such
email messages, you may opt out.
Following termination or deactivation of your Buncombe County Republican Party account,
the Buncombe County Republican Party may retain your profile information and user
content for a reasonable time for archival purposes. Furthermore, the Buncombe County
Republican Party may retain and continue to use indefinitely all information (including user
content) contained in your communications to other users or posted to public or semi-public
areas of https://www.buncombegop.com after termination or deactivation of your account.
The Buncombe County Republican Party reserves the right, but has no obligation, to
monitor the user content you post on https://www.buncombegop.com. We reserve the right
to remove any such information or material for any reason or no reason, including without
limitation if in our sole opinion such information or material violates, or may violate, any
applicable law or to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any third party. The
Buncombe County Republican Party also reserves the right to remove information upon the
request of any third party.
How We Share Your Information
Personally Identifiable Information: the Buncombe County Republican Party may share your
personally identifiable information with third parties for the purpose of
providing https://www.buncombegop.com services to you. If we do this, such third parties’
use of your information will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal
information in locations outside the direct control of the Buncombe County Republican Party
(for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).
Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting
to https://www.buncombegop.com, such as user content, becomes available to the public,
as controlled by any applicable privacy or website customization settings. If you remove
information that you posted to https://www.buncombegop.com, copies may remain viewable
in cached and archived pages, or if other users have copied or saved that information.
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, the Buncombe County Republican
Party will not disclose personal information to any third party unless required to do so by law
or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law, comply
with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action
regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; (b) to enforce this policy, take precautions
against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or
allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or
integrity of our site; and (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety
of https://www.buncombegop.com, our users or others.
How We Protect Your Information
The Buncombe County Republican Party cares about the integrity and security of your
personal information. Our website has a number of security measures in place to protect
against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Computer
systems have restricted access limited only to those persons and organizations necessary
to the proper functioning of the Buncombe County Republican Party. This access applies to
all electronic and physical security measures. Highly sensitive data including credit card
information is additionally secured through the use of encryption, such as the Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
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We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to the
Buncombe County Republican Party or guarantee that your information on the service may
not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical,
technical, or managerial safeguards. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes
to the functionality of third-party providers, such as social networks. The Buncombe GOP is
not responsible for the functionality or security measures of any third party.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique
password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information,
and for controlling access to your email communications from the Buncombe County
Republican Party, at all times.
Privacy Precaution Warning
Please note that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. As a result, we
cannot guarantee the security of the information that you transmit via our online services.
Compromise of Personal Information
In the event personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, the
Buncombe County Republican Party will promptly notify those persons whose personal
information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth
in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
Your Choices About Your Information
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information
through https://www.buncombegop.com, in which case the Buncombe County Republican
Party may not be able to provide certain services to you. You can review and correct the
information about you that the Buncombe County Republican Party keeps on file by
contacting us directly at contact@brightspand.com.
Collection and Use of Children’s Information
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, we comply
with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its
accompanying FTC regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy
of children using the Internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect personal information
from children under 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from
children under 13, and we have designed our sites to block our knowing acceptance of
information from children under 13 whenever age-related information is requested. In the
event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13
without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as
possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13,
please contact us at contact@brightspand.com.
Links to Other Web Sites
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or
from https://www.buncombegop.com, nor the information or content contained therein.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from https://www.buncombegop.com to
another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on
any other website, including those that have a link on our website, is subject to that
website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before
proceeding.
Notification Procedures
It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are
for marketing or other business-related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard
copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice
on https://www.buncombegop.com, as determined by the Buncombe County Republican
Party in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of
providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification
as described in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes
on https://www.buncombegop.com to keep you aware of what information we collect, how
we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Policy
are effective when they are posted on this page.
We welcome your feedback about this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this
Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact
us at contact@brightspand.com.
SMS TERMS OF SERVICE
Go to https://buncombegop.org to sign up to receive fundraising solicitations from the
Buncombe County Republican Party by opting into the program. After signing up, you will
receive a text message from us on your mobile number. Message frequency may vary.
Message & data rates may apply. We do not share or sell your mobile phone telephone
number with any third parties unless required by Federal, State, or Local Law enforcement
agencies under an order by the court.
 
Compatible carriers include AT&T, T-Mobile®, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Boost, Alltel
(Verizon Wireless), U.S. Cellular, Cellular One, MetroPCS, ACS/Alaska, Bluegrass Cellular,
Cellular One of East Central Illinois, Centennial Wireless, Cox Communications,
EKN/Appalachian Wireless, GCI, Illinois Valley Cellular, Immix/Keystone Wireless, Inland
Cellular, Nex-Tech Wireless, Rural Cellular Corporation, Thumb Cellular, United Wireless,
West Central (WCC), Cellcom, C Spire Wireless CellSouth, Cricket, Cincinnati Bell and
Virgin Mobile®. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
 
To discontinue receiving SMS messages from the Buncombe County Republican Party, text
STOP to any of our messages. For additional help, send an email
to contact@brightspand.com or call 336-218-9588.
 
By opting into the program you’re consenting to receive messages to that number from the
Buncombe County Republican Party. Reply STOP to end. Message frequency may vary.
Message & data rates may apply.
This privacy policy was last updated May 19, 2025.