1. Scope and campaign identity

This Privacy Policy applies to the website, forms, landing pages, and online services operated by Alexander Stoeber for City Council 2026 (the “Committee,” “campaign,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), as well as information the campaign receives through related volunteer, event, donor, voter-contact, and communications activities.

The Site is a political campaign website. It is not a City of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, State of California, or election-administration website.

Campaign data firewall. Campaign contacts, communications, supporter information, voter information, and donor records are maintained separately from Stoeber Agency, Compass, and AbundantSB. We do not use campaign information for commercial real estate marketing, and we do not transfer campaign supporter information into a professional real estate database.

This Policy does not control information collected independently by a government agency, social network, payment processor, website you visit through a link, or other third party.

2. Information we collect

The information collected depends on how you interact with the campaign.

We ask you not to submit Social Security numbers, account passwords, complete payment-card information, medical details, immigration records, or other highly sensitive information unless a specific lawful campaign process clearly requires it.

3. Where information comes from

We may collect information:

• directly from you, such as when you donate, complete a form, attend an event, volunteer, call, email, text, or speak with campaign staff or volunteers;
• automatically from your browser or device when you use the Site;
• from service providers, including website, CRM, payment, email, text, events, analytics, data-management, and security vendors;
• from public and election sources, including lawfully available voter registration records, campaign filings, property or business records, and other public information;
• from political-data vendors or campaign partners that are permitted to provide information for campaign or election purposes;
• from referrals, event hosts, volunteers, endorsers, or supporters who provide a lawful introduction or information relevant to campaign outreach.

If you provide information about another person, please provide only information you are authorized to share and that is reasonably necessary for the campaign purpose.

4. How we use information

We may use information to:

• respond to questions, requests, and local priorities;
• send campaign email, texts, calls, mail, and digital communications in accordance with applicable law and your choices;
• identify and communicate with voters, supporters, volunteers, donors, event participants, endorsers, and community stakeholders;
• organize field activity, including canvassing, phone banking, relational outreach, supporter identification, and lawful ballot-turnout activity;
• process and acknowledge contributions, prevent unlawful contributions, issue refunds, maintain records, and file required campaign reports;
• register and manage volunteers, events, signs, hosts, and campaign activities;
• evaluate campaign reach, improve content, troubleshoot the Site, measure communications, and understand which messages or channels are useful;
• protect Site and campaign security, detect misuse, verify consent, maintain suppression lists, and investigate suspected fraud or violations;
• comply with legal obligations, subpoenas, audits, investigations, election rules, recordkeeping duties, and campaign-finance requirements;
• establish, exercise, or defend legal rights and protect people, property, and campaign operations;
• carry out another purpose disclosed when the information is collected or that you authorize.

Campaign software may help sort, match, segment, score, or prioritize contacts and outreach based on lawful campaign information. The campaign does not determine voting eligibility, ballot validity, government services, credit, employment, housing, insurance, or another comparable legal entitlement through automated decision-making.

5. How we disclose information

We may disclose information to the following categories of recipients for campaign purposes:

We may transfer records to a lawful successor committee, post-election committee, records custodian, or service provider as permitted by law and subject to continuing campaign-finance, security, and confidentiality obligations.

6. Campaign-finance information becomes public when law requires it

Political committees must maintain detailed contribution records and file public campaign statements. California law generally requires itemization of contributions aggregating to $100 or more, including the contributor’s name and street address and, for an individual, occupation and employer information. Other information may be disclosed depending on the contributor, amount, timing, source, transaction, and applicable filing rule.

Public filings may be posted, indexed, copied, retained, or republished by government agencies and third parties. The campaign cannot delete or retract information from an official filing merely because a contributor later asks the campaign to delete its internal copy.

A payment processor may collect payment-card or bank information under its own policy. The Committee generally receives transaction details needed to process, reconcile, report, verify, or refund the contribution rather than the full payment credential.

7. Voter files, field notes, and political outreach

California voter registration information is restricted information that may be made available to authorized persons for permitted purposes such as communicating with voters in connection with an election. The campaign uses voter-file information and derivative field data only for lawful political, election, governmental, or related campaign purposes and not for commercial real estate marketing.

Campaign field records may include contact attempts, issues discussed, support or persuasion status, volunteer or sign interest, language preference, household notes, and follow-up. They may be matched with voter-file or publicly available information to avoid duplicate outreach and direct campaign resources.

Voter-file records may come from a public election source or authorized vendor rather than directly from you. Some requests concerning those records must be directed to the source agency or vendor, and some fields cannot be altered by the campaign. We do not receive or record the contents of a secret ballot.

8. Cookies, analytics, and online tracking

The Site and its providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, scripts, tags, and similar technologies. These tools may support:

• essential functions, such as security, form operation, load balancing, fraud prevention, and session management;
• analytics and performance, such as measuring visits, traffic sources, page performance, and campaign-link activity;
• embedded services, such as video, maps, scheduling, forms, social content, and donation processing;

Third-party tools may collect information directly from your browser and may be able to recognize you across websites or services according to their own settings and privacy policies. Review the privacy controls supplied by your browser and the applicable third party.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Some browsers transmit “Do Not Track” (DNT) or Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. Because no uniform DNT response standard applies, the Site does not currently change its own behavior in response to a legacy DNT signal.

The campaign does not currently authorize cross-context behavioral advertising based on personal information collected through the Site. Because the campaign does not sell personal information for money or knowingly share Site-collected personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, there is no separate “Do Not Sell or Share” link at this time.

The Site currently uses campaign advertising or audience technology. Where applicable law treats that activity as a sale or sharing and requires an opt-out, we will honor a valid GPC signal received through a supported browser and provide a separate privacy-choice mechanism.

If actual Site technology changes, this section and any cookie controls must be updated before or when the new tool is enabled.

9. Email, text messages, and calls

Email. You may unsubscribe through the link in a campaign email or at the unsubscribe page. We may retain your email address on a suppression list so we can honor the request. A transactional message, such as a contribution receipt or requested event confirmation, may still be sent when necessary.

Texts and calls. Where required, we obtain consent through the form or interaction used to enroll you. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to an applicable campaign text thread to opt out and HELP for help. You may also contact us directly. Consent to campaign texts or automated communications is not a condition of donating, volunteering, or receiving information through another available method.

Mail and canvassing. You may ask the campaign to update its internal contact preference. Certain voter-file mail or contact records are maintained by public agencies or vendors, and a campaign preference request may not alter the underlying official record.

10. Stories, photos, endorsements, and public use

Sending a private message, policy idea, story, photograph, or endorsement inquiry does not by itself authorize the campaign to publish your name, likeness, quotation, or personal story.

When we want to use a Submission publicly, we will seek permission through a form, release, email confirmation, or other clear authorization that identifies the intended campaign use. You may ask us to stop future campaign use, but we may be unable to recall materials already printed, mailed, published, archived, or lawfully distributed.

11. How long we retain information

We retain information for the period reasonably necessary for the purpose collected, campaign operation, post-election administration, security, dispute resolution, and legal compliance. Retention varies by record:

Deletion from active campaign systems does not require deletion from a lawful public record, backup awaiting ordinary overwrite, required suppression list, security log, or record that must be retained by law.

12. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed for the nature of the campaign and the information involved. Measures may include role-based access, account security, vendor controls, staff or volunteer guidance, secure payment processing, system updates, backups, and incident response.

No system, transmission, or storage method is guaranteed to be secure. Do not send full payment-card information, Social Security numbers, passwords, or other unnecessary sensitive data by email, text, or an ordinary campaign form.

If a security incident occurs, we will investigate and provide legally required notices to affected people, regulators, or other parties.

13. Your choices and privacy requests

You may ask the campaign to:

• confirm whether we maintain information collected directly from you;
• provide a reasonable summary or copy of that information;
• correct inaccurate contact or campaign-participation information;
• delete information collected directly from you when no legal, security, archival, suppression, public-record, or operational exception applies;
• change email, text, call, mail, volunteer, or other campaign communication preferences;
• withdraw a permission for future public use of your name, story, photograph, or endorsement where reasonably possible.

To protect you and the campaign, we may verify identity and authority before acting. A request concerning another person may require proof of authorization. We may deny or limit a request when necessary to comply with campaign-finance law, maintain required records, preserve a suppression preference, protect security, complete a requested transaction, exercise legal rights, or retain lawful public or voter-file information.

These practical choices are campaign commitments. They do not concede that a particular privacy statute applies to the Committee or create a right beyond applicable law.

14. California privacy disclosures

CalOPPA-style transparency

This Policy identifies the categories of personal information collected online, categories of recipients, process for requesting review or correction, tracking disclosures, change-notice process, and effective date. The California Online Privacy Protection Act applies by its terms to operators of commercial websites and online services that collect personally identifiable information from California residents. The campaign posts this Policy as a transparency and trust practice without representing that every provision of CalOPPA applies to a political committee.

CCPA

The California Attorney General states that the California Consumer Privacy Act generally applies to qualifying for-profit businesses and generally does not apply to nonprofit organizations or government agencies. The Committee does not represent that it meets the CCPA’s definition of a covered business. Where the CCPA or another privacy law applies to a particular activity, we will honor the rights and disclosures required for that activity.

Regardless of statutory coverage, the campaign does not sell supporter information for money, does not transfer it into Alexander’s professional real estate business, and offers the practical request process described above.

Third-party collection over time

Website, analytics, embedded-content, social-media, payment, and other providers may collect information about your activity over time and across different websites or services according to the technologies enabled and the provider’s own policy. The current campaign policy on DNT, GPC, and advertising technology appears in Section 8.

15. Children

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from a child under 13. If you believe a child under 13 provided information through the Site, contact us so we can review and take appropriate action.

A minor’s volunteer activity should be supervised by a parent or guardian when appropriate. Political contributions, contracts, event participation, and access to campaign systems remain subject to applicable law and campaign policy.

16. Third-party sites and services

The Site may link to or embed payment services, video, social networks, maps, scheduling, event registration, forms, or other services. A third party may collect information directly and may place its own cookies or identifiers. Review that provider’s privacy policy and settings.

The campaign is not responsible for a third party’s independent privacy, security, content, or data-retention practices, except to the extent responsibility cannot be excluded under applicable law.

Current named providers:

17. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes in law, campaign operations, vendors, forms, cookies, security practices, or data uses. The “Last updated” date identifies the current posted version.

For a material change, we will provide a reasonable notice through the Site, a collection form, email, or another appropriate channel before or when the change takes effect. A material change will apply prospectively unless law permits or requires otherwise.

18. Contact