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Terms & Conditions

Effective July 14, 2026 · Last updated July 14, 2026

These Terms govern your use of this campaign website and related online forms. They do not govern official election administration.

Plain-language summary. This is a political campaign website operated by Alexander Stoeber for City Council 2026, not a government website. Use the Site lawfully. Contributions must come from a lawful source and comply with the current limit. Communications choices can be changed at any time. We handle personal information as described in the Privacy Policy.

The full Terms below control. This summary is provided only for convenience.

1. Agreement to these Terms

This website and its related pages, forms, and online features (collectively, the “Site”) are operated by Alexander Stoeber for City Council 2026 (the “Committee,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), a California political campaign committee supporting Alexander Stoeber for Santa Barbara City Council, District 6.

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms & Conditions (the “Terms”) and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Site. Additional terms presented at the point of a donation, event registration, text-message signup, volunteer activity, or third-party service also apply to that transaction or activity.

2. This is a campaign website

The Site is a political campaign website. It is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by the City of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, the State of California, any election administrator, or any other government agency.

Site content is provided for campaign communication and general informational purposes. It is not an official government notice and does not constitute legal, tax, financial, investment, medical, or real estate advice.

The Committee maintains its branding, communications, records, contact data, and operations separately from Stoeber Agency, Compass, AbundantSB, and Alexander Stoeber’s other professional or publishing activity. No campaign content is offered in a professional real estate capacity, and the Site does not imply endorsement by any employer, brokerage, publication, client, or affiliated organization.

3. Eligibility and children

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. Do not submit personal information through the Site if you are under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from a child under 13. If we learn that we have done so, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

You may donate, enter into an agreement, or participate in an activity only if you are legally permitted to do so and can truthfully provide any certifications required for that activity. A parent or legal guardian should supervise a minor’s campaign participation when appropriate.

4. Political contributions

Contributions are governed by applicable federal law, California law, the Santa Barbara Municipal Election Campaign Disclosure Ordinance, the Committee’s filed election documents, and instructions approved by the Committee’s treasurer.

Contribution limit. Santa Barbara’s ordinance ties the applicable limit to the candidate’s filed acceptance or rejection of the City’s voluntary expenditure ceiling. The current treasurer-approved limit is stated on the donation form. Do not rely on an older contribution amount.

By making a contribution, you represent and certify that:

  • The contribution is made from your own funds, or from funds of an entity on whose behalf you are legally authorized to act.
  • No other person or entity provided you with funds for the purpose of making the contribution, and no person will reimburse you.
  • You are making the contribution in your true name or the true legal name of the contributing entity, and the contributor information supplied is accurate.
  • You are not a foreign national prohibited from making a contribution in connection with a United States election. An individual contributor is a United States citizen or a lawfully admitted permanent resident, or is otherwise legally permitted to contribute.
  • The contribution, together with other contributions attributed or aggregated to the same contributor for this election, does not exceed the applicable limit.
  • The payment method is used with authorization and does not conceal the true source of the contribution.
  • The contribution is not otherwise prohibited by campaign-finance, pay-to-play, contractor, proceeding, anti-money-laundering, or other applicable law.

Required contributor information and public disclosure

California campaign-finance law requires campaign committees to keep contributor records and publicly report contributions as required by law. Contributions aggregating to $100 or more generally must be itemized with the contributor’s name and street address; when the contributor is an individual, occupation and employer information is also required. A contribution of $100 or more may have to be returned if required contributor information is not obtained within the legally permitted period.

Campaign disclosure filings are public records. Information reported publicly may remain available through government filing systems even after the Committee’s own retention period ends.

Contribution processing, refunds, and taxes

Contributions are not charitable donations and are not tax deductible as charitable contributions. The Committee may decline, void, refund, or return any contribution, including a contribution that is excessive, incomplete, unauthorized, from a prohibited source, inconsistent with treasurer-approved policy, or otherwise unlawful.

Except when required by law or approved by the treasurer, contributions are final. A request for a refund does not guarantee a refund. If only part of a contribution is unlawful or excessive, the Committee may return the affected amount.

Online contributions are handled through a third-party payment service. The payment service’s terms and privacy practices also apply. Payment-service fees may be charged to the Committee as disclosed on the donation form.

5. Text messages, calls, and email

Text messages and calls

Where a form presents a mobile-communications opt-in and you affirmatively consent, you authorize the Committee and its service providers to send campaign messages to the number you provide. Messages may include campaign updates, event information, volunteer requests, fundraising appeals, election reminders, and other political communications. Depending on the program and technology used, messages may be sent using automated dialing or messaging technology.

Consent is not a condition of making a contribution, volunteering, purchasing anything, or receiving campaign information through another available channel. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to an applicable text thread to opt out and HELP for help. You may also contact us using the information below. We will process valid revocation requests as required by law and applicable carrier or platform rules.

Mobile carriers are not responsible for delayed or undelivered messages. You represent that you are the subscriber or customary user of the number provided and will notify us if the number changes or is reassigned.

Email

If you sign up for campaign email, we may send updates, event notices, volunteer requests, fundraising messages, and other political communications. You may unsubscribe using the link in an email or at the unsubscribe page. We may still send a limited transactional message necessary to complete an action you requested, such as a donation receipt or event confirmation.

6. Information and materials you submit

The Site may allow you to send a question, policy idea, volunteer information, photograph, testimonial, endorsement, event material, or other content (a “Submission”). You retain any ownership rights you have in your Submission.

By submitting material, you represent that you have the right to provide it and grant the Committee a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, review, adapt, and use it as reasonably necessary to respond to you, administer the campaign, comply with law, and perform the purpose for which you submitted it.

Public use requires separate permission. Unless your form clearly states otherwise or you separately authorize public use, we will not publish your name, likeness, personal story, endorsement, photograph, or quotation as a campaign testimonial merely because you submitted it privately.

Do not send confidential information, privileged material, sensitive personal information that is unnecessary for the request, content you do not have the right to share, or unlawful, threatening, defamatory, harassing, deceptive, or infringing material. We may remove, disregard, preserve, or disclose a Submission when reasonably necessary to operate the Site, protect rights or safety, investigate misuse, or comply with law.

7. Site content, campaign marks, and fair use

The Site’s original text, design, graphics, photographs, video, code, and campaign identifiers—including the STOEBER wordmark and “A Future Here”—are owned by or licensed to the Committee and are protected by applicable law.

You may link to the Site and share unaltered campaign materials for personal, news, commentary, educational, or noncommercial political discussion. You may not use Site content or campaign marks to falsely imply endorsement, impersonate the campaign, misrepresent a campaign position, raise money without authorization, or promote a commercial product or service.

Nothing in these Terms limits rights available under fair use, the First Amendment, or other applicable law.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • break the law or use the Site to facilitate unlawful conduct;
  • contribute in another person’s name, conceal the true source of funds, use an unauthorized payment method, or submit false contributor information;
  • impersonate a person or organization or falsely state an affiliation;
  • interfere with Site availability, security, forms, databases, or connected services;
  • introduce malicious code or attempt unauthorized access;
  • harvest personal information, send spam, or use automated tools in a way that imposes an unreasonable burden or violates law;
  • circumvent access controls or use Site content to create deceptive campaign communications.

Reasonable indexing by general-purpose search engines and good-faith security research conducted lawfully and reported responsibly are not prohibited by this section.

9. Third-party links and services

The Site may use or link to third-party services for payments, forms, customer-relationship management, email, text messaging, video, social media, maps, analytics, accessibility, events, or other functions. Third parties operate under their own terms and privacy policies. A link or integration does not necessarily mean the Committee endorses every statement, product, or practice of the third party.

We are not responsible for a third party’s availability, content, security, or handling of information, except to the extent responsibility cannot be excluded under applicable law.

10. Privacy and security

The Privacy Policy describes the categories of information collected through the Site, the purposes for which it is used, disclosures to service providers and other recipients, retention, and available choices.

No website or transmission method is completely secure. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures appropriate to the Site, but we cannot guarantee that information will never be lost, misused, accessed without authorization, or affected by a service interruption.

11. Election and voter information

Any election date, registration deadline, voting-location information, ballot instruction, district information, or election result appearing on the Site is provided for campaign convenience and may change or become outdated. Confirm voting information directly with the public agency administering the election.

The Committee does not determine voter eligibility, registration status, ballot acceptance, vote-center availability, election results, or certification.

12. Disclaimers

The Site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Committee disclaims warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We work to keep campaign information accurate and useful, but we do not promise that every page, policy description, event detail, link, figure, form, or third-party integration will always be complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, or error free.

Nothing in these Terms excludes any warranty, right, or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Committee and its candidate, officers, treasurer, employees, contractors, volunteers, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, goodwill, opportunity, or profits, arising from or related to the Site, even if advised that such loss is possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the total aggregate liability of the Committee parties for claims arising from or related to the Site or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid directly to the Committee for a Site-related service that gave rise to the claim, excluding political contributions, or (b) one hundred dollars ($100).

These limitations do not apply to liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable law.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Committee and its candidate, officers, treasurer, employees, contractors, volunteers, and agents from third-party claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful misuse of the Site, your material violation of these Terms, or a Submission that infringes another person’s rights.

This section does not require indemnification for the Committee’s own unlawful conduct, gross negligence, or willful misconduct.

15. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to any rights or procedures that cannot lawfully be waived, a legal action arising from these Terms or the Site must be brought in a state or federal court with jurisdiction in Santa Barbara County, California.

16. Changes to the Terms and Site access

We may update these Terms prospectively. The “Last updated” date identifies the version posted on the Site. A material change will be presented through a reasonable notice when appropriate. Your continued use of the Site after an updated version becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue any part of the Site and may block access when reasonably necessary to protect the Site, users, the Committee, or compliance with law. Provisions that by their nature should continue—including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnification, and general provisions—survive termination of access.

17. General provisions

These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the agreement between you and the Committee concerning the Site, except for additional terms presented for a specific transaction or activity.

If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum lawful extent and the remaining provisions will remain effective. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Headings are for convenience only.

You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. The Committee may assign or transfer its rights and obligations as permitted by law, including to a lawful successor committee, service provider, or records custodian, subject to applicable campaign-finance and privacy obligations.

18. Accessibility

We want campaign information to be usable by every neighbor. We work to improve accessibility and aim to follow recognized accessibility guidance where reasonably practicable.

If you encounter a barrier or need information in another format, email [email protected] or use the Accessibility page. Please identify the page, the barrier, and the format or assistance requested.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms, a contribution, a communication preference, or Site use may be directed to:

Alexander Stoeber for City Council 2026
[email protected]

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