Advocacy-as-a-Service is a registered doing-business-as name of Germain Consulting, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company.
We understand that you are aware of and care about your own personal privacy interests, and we take that seriously. This Privacy Notice describes Advocacy-as-a-Service's policies and practices regarding its collection and use of your personal data, and sets forth your privacy rights. We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, so we will from time to time update this Privacy Notice as we undertake new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies.Advocacy-as-a-Service is a service to facilitate grassroots advocacy campaigns. Our role is to deliver the messages entrusted to us and satisfy our users.
We are a data controller with regard to your account details. We are a data processor with regard to the data you upload to our service (such as API or file upload). Our system is used to send messages from American citizens to American public officials.
Our users work on behalf of interest groups, professional associations, employers, unions, clubs, etc. that initiate and facilitate grassroots advocacy communications between citizens and public officials.
The data we collect about our users include name, affiliated organization, job title, work email address, work telephone number, and a username and password (which is encrypted and we cannot read).
We use Google Analytics (anonymized visit and traffic tracking) and Stripe (payments and invoices).
You can delete your account at any time via the system.
Our users put into our system each advocate's personal information, including name, address, email address, telephone number, and the message the advocate has authorized to be delivered to the public official.
We use the address to determine to which public official we will deliver the advocate's message. Messages are sent in the advocate’s name, and the advocate’s full name and contact information is provided as part of the submission. The advocate must be a constituent of the public official (e.g., to send a message to a congress member, an advocate must live in that member’s congressional district; to send a message to a governor, an advocate must live in that state).
The data our users put into the system are the property of the user. Users can delete the data they put into our system anytime via the system. We retain data in our system for 90 days. After 90 days, the data that users put in our system is deleted.
We never sell or share the data our users put in the system. We never sell or share information about our users.
Our user database is encrypted and regularly backed up to Amazon S3 in the US. Our website is encrypted and hosted on bubble.io where user log-on information is stored. The data you put into our system is encrypted and hosted on Amazon RDS and S3.
We have no known breaches in our past.
If you have any questions please email security@advocacyasaservice.com.
Advocacy-as-a-Service is a pay-as-you-go grassroots advocacy service that provides organizations with a cost-effective, hassle-free service to deliver messages from advocates to lawmakers. Advocacy-as-a-Service is available on demand and requires no subscriptions, contracts or complicated systems to manage. Advocacy-as-a-Service is the only grassroots advocacy service where you pay only for what you use & only when you use it.