Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) applies to Matthew Barton for District Attorney website and social media accounts for Matthew Barton for District Attorney located at www.bartonfordesoto.com (this “Site”), which is owned and operated by Matthew Barton for District Attorney. (referred to in this Privacy Policy as the “Campaign”, “Matthew Barton”, “Barton for DeSoto”, “Barton for District Attorney”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Policy describes the Campaign’s collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies whether you access or use this Site via personal computer, mobile device or otherwise. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through this Site and does not cover any information collected by any websites to which we link. In addition, please review the Site’s Terms of Use, which governs your use of this Site.

This Site is a general audience website that does not knowingly collect information from children younger than age 17 (“Children”, and each, a “Child”). However, the Site allows parents to register their Children for various educational programs by providing Matthew Barton for District Attorney with a Child’s name and birth date. Please review our Children’s Privacy Policy to learn about the information this Site collects about Children, how that information is used, and additional information for parents and legal guardians (collectively, “Parents”) with regard to information collected by Matthew Barton for District Attorney.

The Campaign reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time without notice and, unless otherwise indicated, such changes will become effective immediately; therefore, please check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the changes. This Privacy Policy was last revised on February 3rd, 2023.

Information Collected

Matthew Barton for District Attorney only collects personally identifiable information (i.e., information that individually identifies you, such as names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and tax exempt numbers) when you submit it voluntarily. There may also be times when you submit information about someone else, such as when you make a donation in memory of someone, or register or request a program.

At the time you conduct a purchase on this Site, make a donation, agree to participate in a promotion, or register for any of our educational programs we may collect and store your name, address, credit card numbers and other personally identifiable information. We need this information to provide services that you request and to let you know of additional services about which you may be interested. In addition, we use your personally identifiable information to improve our marketing, development and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content offerings and to customize this Site’s content, layout and services. We may also use your information to deliver additional information to you that is intended to target your identified interests; in particular, we may use your email address, phone number or mailing address to contact you regarding administrative notices, offerings and communications relevant to you on this Site.

We may also use or disclose information to resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce the Terms of Use for this Site. In addition, we may disclose or access information when we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so.


In addition, to make this Site more useful to you, we automatically gather general statistical information about this Site and its visitors, such as IP addresses (and information tied to IP addresses, such as screen size, color depth, language, java enabling, flash version, page title, host name, referring source, and page path), browsers, pages viewed, number of visitors, services purchased, etc. In doing so, we do not reference you by name, email, mailing address, or any similar personally identifiable information. We use this data in the aggregate to learn about our visitors and to improve our ability to cater to their needs. We may use third party vendors to gather general statistical information about this Site and its visitors as well as to perform certain services on behalf of this Site, such as hosting this Site, designing or operating this Site’s features, enabling you to register for or purchase tickets to events, enabling Matthew Barton for District Attorney to send you e-mail alerts, or performing other administrative services. We may provide these companies with access to your personally identifiable information to carry out the services they are performing for you or for Matthew Barton for District Attorney.

As part of our service, we also use cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Generally, we use cookies to remind us who you are, to give you easier access to repeatedly used account information, to gather statistical information about usage, to research visiting patterns, and to help target advertisements based on user interests. In some instances, our partners and advertisers appearing at this Site may use their own cookies. Your web browser settings, which you may change at any time, determine if and how a cookie will be accepted. By changing those settings, you can accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or simply reject all cookies. If you decide to reject all cookies, please be aware that you may be required to re-enter your information more often and certain features of this Site may be unavailable to you.

Information You Disclose Publicly

This Site may permit you to submit materials, participate in forums, blogs, message boards, and may provide you with the opportunity to submit, post, display, transmit, publish, distribute or broadcast such content and materials, including your personally identifiable information, to Matthew Barton for District Attorney or this Site (collectively, “Submissions”). Your Submissions may be published online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or later developed). In addition, we may publish your name, voice, likeness and other personally identifiable information in connection with publishing your Submissions or a portion of your Submissions, and we may use your Submissions and any excerpt from your Submissions in connection with our advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional activities. Please also see the Submissions to this Site section of our Terms of Use, which governs any content or materials you submit through this Site or to Matthew Barton for District Attorney.

Please think carefully before deciding what information you share, including personally identifiable information, in connection with your Submissions. Please note that we do not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make public, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly, share with others or otherwise upload onto this Site. We are not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any content, materials, or information that you disclose or receive through this Site.

Security

We employ commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your personally identifiable information, such as “Secure Socket Layer” encryption to protect your credit card numbers. However, no transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure so we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us. Please note that you are using this Site and providing us with your personally identifiable information at your own risk.

Rights to Opt-Out

At times, we will use the voluntarily submitted personal information, including email address and phone numbers to contact users who us this site about offers, we feel obtain to the user. The user may at any time contact us to opt-out of any marketing material submitted to the user. Furthermore, email and “texting” programs will also provide opt-out options applied within the marketing material or message.  Standard text messaging rates will apply.

Contact Us

Matthew Barton for District Attorney is the operator of this Site and questions regarding this Privacy Policy and use of personal information should be directed to us via any of the following methods:

E-mail address: [email protected]
Mail: PO Box 48, Hernando, Mississippi 38632