Privacy Policy

We use information to:

• provide, maintain, and secure the site;
• operate site search and other requested features;
• send the newsletter and manage subscriptions;
• respond to questions, corrections, and source suggestions;
• understand which terms and pages are useful;
• improve content, navigation, and performance;
• detect spam, fraud, misuse, and security problems;
• display, measure, and manage advertising where enabled; and
• comply with legal obligations.

The site and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies. These technologies may be used for:

• essential site functions and security;
• remembering privacy or consent choices;
• analytics and performance measurement; and
• advertising, ad measurement, and fraud prevention.

Where required, the site will ask for consent before using non-essential cookies. You can use the privacy controls shown on the site to accept, reject, or change your choices.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. Some site features may not work correctly if essential cookies are blocked.

We use Cloudflare Turnstile on this site to help prevent automated abuse (such as bot submissions to forms). Turnstile is Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA alternative.

Turnstile may place cookies or similar identifiers on your device to analyze requests and distinguish humans from bots. Cloudflare processes the technical signals needed to make that decision. The data Turnstile collects is governed by Cloudflare’s privacy practices, not ours.

Read Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

We may use Google Analytics or a similar analytics service to understand how visitors find and use the site.

Analytics providers may process information such as IP addresses, device identifiers, browser information, page activity, and approximate location. We use analytics reports to improve the site, not to identify individual visitors by name.

Analytics cookies will be used only with consent where consent is required.

If you subscribe, we use your email address to send the newsletter and related subscription messages.

An email service providers may process your address and information about email delivery, link selections, unsubscribes, and similar activity on our behalf. We use this information to deliver the newsletter, protect deliverability, and understand whether the emails are useful.

You can unsubscribe at any time by using the link in an email. We may keep a limited suppression record after you unsubscribe so that we do not add you back to the mailing list by mistake.

The site may display ads provided by Google AdSense or other advertising partners.

When advertising code is active:

• third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to serve and measure ads;
• Google and its partners may use advertising cookies to show ads based on a visitor’s previous visits to this site or other websites; and
• ads may be personalized only where allowed and, where required, after the visitor has given consent.

You can manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings (adssettings.google.com). You may also be able to opt out of some participating advertising providers through AboutAds (optout.aboutads.info).

Google explains how it uses information from sites or apps that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites — “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.”

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, ESG will use a consent-management process where required to provide information about participating advertising providers and collect or record consent choices.

We may share information with:

• hosting, security, analytics, email, and advertising providers that help operate the site;
• professional advisers when necessary for legal, security, or compliance reasons;
• authorities or other parties when required by law or needed to protect rights and safety; and
• a successor organization if the site is sold, transferred, or reorganized.

Service providers may use information only as allowed by their agreements and applicable law.

We do not sell newsletter email addresses or contact-form messages to data brokers.

Where laws in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland apply, we process personal data on one or more of these grounds:

• Consent: for optional cookies, personalized advertising, or newsletter signup where required.
• Requested service: to provide a feature or communication you requested.
• Legitimate interests: to operate, secure, measure, and improve the site, where those interests do not override your rights.
• Legal obligation: when processing is needed to comply with the law.

You may withdraw consent at any time. This does not affect processing that happened before consent was withdrawn.

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably needed for the purpose described in this policy.

For example:

• newsletter information is kept while you remain subscribed;
• a suppression record may be retained after unsubscribe;
• messages are kept for as long as needed to respond and maintain an appropriate record;
• technical and security logs are kept for a limited operational period; and
• analytics and advertising information is retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant provider.

We may keep information longer when required by law, needed to resolve a dispute, or necessary to protect the site.

ESG and its service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live.

Where required, we use appropriate contractual or legal safeguards for international transfers. Service providers may also rely on approved transfer mechanisms available under applicable law.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• ask what personal information we hold about you;
• request a copy, correction, or deletion;
• object to or restrict certain processing;
• withdraw consent;
• request transfer of information you provided;
• opt out of personalized advertising or certain data sharing; and
• complain to a data-protection or privacy regulator.

To make a request, email [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

You can manage cookies through the site’s privacy controls and your browser settings. You can stop newsletter emails by by selecting the unsubscribe link in any issue.

We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect information.

The site is a general reference resource and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.

The site links to government documents, standards organizations, research sources, and other websites.

Those websites have their own privacy practices. This policy does not cover information collected by an external website after you follow a link.

We may update this policy when our services, providers, or legal duties change.

The current version will be posted on this page with its effective date. We will provide additional notice when a change materially affects how we use personal information, where required.

Privacy questions and requests may be sent to:

Election Security Glossary

Email: [email protected]