Last updated: September 27, 2026
What we collect
When you use the contact form on this website, we collect the information you type into it: your name, email address, an optional phone number, the subject you select, and your message, along with the time you sent it. We do not ask for anything else, and we do not record your IP address with your message.
If you answer one of our surveys, it is anonymous: we store only your answers (including any comment you type, which committee members read and never publish automatically) and the time you sent them, with no name, email address or IP address.
Separately, we keep anonymous counts of how the site is used. Those are explained under Visitor counts below.
How we use it
Messages from the contact form are stored in the committee's own Cloudflare account and are read by committee members, who use them to reply to you and to follow up on what you asked about. If you tell us you want to volunteer, we may keep your note so a committee member can contact you about volunteering. That is the extent of it.
What we do not do
- We do not sell, rent, or trade your information.
- We do not share it with other campaigns, committees, or vendors for their own use.
- We do not run advertising or set advertising cookies on this site. (Google Analytics, described below, uses cookies to measure visits; we have not turned on its advertising features.)
Service providers
This website is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare's servers handle the technical details of each visit (such as your IP address) in order to deliver the pages and protect the site from attacks.
To keep spam out of our contact form, it is screened by Cloudflare Turnstile, a "not a robot" check. To tell people from bots, Turnstile may look at signals from your device and browser. That check is run by Cloudflare under Cloudflare's privacy policy; the committee does not receive those signals.
Visitor counts and cookies
We count page visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It does not use cookies, does not follow you to other websites, and gives us only totals, such as how many visits a page had and which sites sent people here.
We also keep our own simple counts, in the committee's Cloudflare account. We count:
- Page views: one count for each page opened, recorded only as the page's address on this site (for example "/songs").
- Visits: one count the first time you open the site in a browsing session, with only the kind of site that sent you here: Facebook, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, another site, or none (you typed the address or used a bookmark). We do not keep the actual link you came from. Moving between pages on this site is not counted as a new visit.
- Area: with each visit, the approximate city and state (or country) that our web host, Cloudflare, estimates from your internet connection, so we can see whether we are reaching Logan County. We keep only that place name, never the IP address it came from.
- Songs and games: song plays, video plays, sing-along, likes, shares and downloads; game starts, finishes, shares and replays, with the score at the end of a game; and clicks on the "Look up my polling place" button.
For each count we store only which page, song, game or source it was, what happened (for example "view" or "play"), and the time. Our own counts use no cookies, and we store no IP addresses, no names and no visitor or device identifiers, so the counts cannot be tied to you or linked from one visit to the next. To know whether a visit has already been counted, your browser keeps a single "counted" flag in its session storage, which is erased when you close the tab or browser and is never sent to us. Automated traffic (search engine crawlers, monitoring services and cloud servers) is left out of these counts; to tell, our server looks at the browser name and network of each count as it arrives and keeps neither. The polling place lookup itself happens on the Logan County Clerk's website; we never see the address you enter there.
Google Analytics. We also use Google Analytics to see how people find and use the site. It sets cookies in your browser and sends Google details of your visit, such as the pages you view, your approximate location, and your device and browser type. Google processes this under Google's privacy policy. You can block it with your browser's privacy settings or an ad blocker, or with Google's opt-out add-on; the rest of the site works the same without it.
The site's music player and the "like" buttons remember your place and your likes in your browser's local storage. That information stays on your device; we do not collect it. Clearing your browser's site data removes it.
Links to other websites (such as Facebook, the State Board of Elections, or the County Clerk) take you to sites with their own privacy policies.
Contributions
Political contributions are handled by a separate, dedicated payment processor, not by this website. We never see or store your payment card details.
Please be aware that political contributions are a matter of public record. Illinois law requires political committees to report contributions to the Illinois State Board of Elections, including the contributor's name and, above certain amounts, address, occupation, and employer. Those reports are published by the State. This is a legal requirement, not a choice we make, and it applies no matter how you give.
Children
This site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Accessibility
We want this site to work for everyone, including people using screen readers or keyboard navigation. If you hit something that does not work for you, please tell us and we will fix it.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or want a message you sent us removed from our records?
Use our contact form (tell us the email address you wrote from), or
write to Logan County Republican Central Committee, PO Box 766, Lincoln, IL 62656-0766.
If we change this policy, we will update it here and change the date at the top.