Privacy Policy
The National Community Tax Coalition, (“The Coalition”), a project of the Center for Economic Progress, believes in protecting the integrity and privacy of personal information gathered from our affiliates, and visitors to our Web sites ("End Users"). Since the protection of your privacy is of the greatest importance to us, we have created this privacy policy to communicate our practices regarding the collection and dissemination of personal information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as a name, address, phone number, e-mail address, or any other information, provided to us by our affiliates and website visitors.
You do not have to share personally identifiable information to use the public sections of the Coalition’s web site. The Coalition does not collect personally identifiable information about people without their permission. However, please be aware that our site links to a limited number of third-party websites and the Coalition cannot control and is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of those websites.
This privacy policy explains the information practices we use at www.tax-coalition.org
When do we collect information about website users?
We may collect personal information when you fill out a webform on our website, when you join the Coalition or avail of its services, when you complete a survey, register for our conferences or teleconferences, or when you go to our “Take Action” section and provide contact information necessary for electronic advocacy.
How we use the information gathered when you become an affiliate of the National Community Tax Coalition or use one of our online services:
We use the contact information gathered about you to maintain your affiliation records, to subscribe you to Coalition listservs, to inform you of Coalition activities, and to invite you to engage in advocacy. If you have provided your contact information without affiliating with the Coalition, we may send you an email inviting you to become an affiliate.
The Coalition also uses information gathered via the Coalition website to improve our web-based services. The Coalition periodically performs statistical analyses of aggregate user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of various areas on our website and to use such information to improve on our website's ability to serve you better.
Cookies: The Coalition uses "cookies" on some Web pages. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on an End User's hard drive but does not itself contain any personal information. Cookies enhance an End User's experience by saving the End User from having to log in or provide information each time he or she re-visits a Coalition Web page and by customizing content based on an End User's interests. An End User can configure his or her browser to be alerted when a site is attempting to send a cookie and refuse the cookie. The Coalition also tracks End User activity and click-through behavior to provide an End User with a more personalized experience while visiting our Web pages and for more personalized e-mail alerts. The Coalition also uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Web site, track End User movement and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
How you receive e-mails and e-mail newsletters from the Coalition:
You will only receive email newsletters from us if (a) you are a subscriber to one of our listservs or (b) have expressly asked to receive information from us. If you are not an affiliate of the Coalition but have registered to enter non-public sections of our website, you may receive an occasional newsletter from us with an invitation to join the Coalition.
In order to provide you with better and more relevant information, we compile information about email response and website usage. This information helps us to better understand our members' site usage patterns and also what types of content and information may help improve your user experience on the Coalition website.
You may subscribe or unsubscribe to any newsletter or e-mail communication from the Coalition at any time by either (a) clicking on the “unsubscribe” link within the email, or replying to the email with “unsubscribe” in the subject line.
How we track HTML newsletters:
We may make use of both "open-tracking" and "click-tracking" in our HTML newsletters (i.e. emails that contain text and images). Open-tracking allows us to find out how many people have viewed our email newsletters and click-tracking allows us to find out which links in the newsletter were clicked on. This helps us to refine and improve the editorial content of our newsletters, and to provide you with relevant information.
"HTML-sensing" is used to determine if your email client supports HTML-based emails. This is employed only if you request our system to detect whether you can receive HTML emails.
If you have any questions, please email: info@tax-coalition.org
How we protect your information:
The Coalition is protective of the information gathered through its membership and website. Our web site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our web server is located in a secure environment.
When you make payments to the Coalition on-line, we use a secure server and encryption to protect your financial and other personal information during transmission.
The personal information we gather is not sold or swapped with other parties.
The Coalition does not specifically ask children under 18 for any information and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information about them.
How to unsubscribe from mailing lists:
Those wishing to opt out of receiving communications from the Coalition ("do not contact"), can simply contact our members services at info@tax-coalition.org or via phone 312 630-0264, or via U.S. mail at the Center for Economic Progress, Suite 900, Chicago, IL 60602.
How to correct information you have provided:
You may correct and/or change any information regarding your membership by contacting our member services at info@tax-coalition.org or via phone 312 630-0264, or via U.S mail.
How to contact us about privacy:
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the information we have collected from you online, the practices of this site or your interaction with this website, send email to: info@tax-coalition.org
You can also reach us by U.S. Mail at
Member Services, National Community Tax Coalition
Center for Economic Progress
29 E. Madison, Suite 900
Chicago, IL 60602
