Voice of the People Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 19, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Voice of the People (“VOP,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal information when you:
- Visit our website at https://www.vop.org or any VOP website that links to this policy
- Play VOP’s Americans Say What? game at https://www.vopgame.com
- Sign up for our email lists, or engage with us at events or in other related ways
VOP is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our services. Questions? Email us at support@vop.org.
The Short Version
What we collect. When you sign up for our lists or to play the game, we collect your name (or chosen display name), your email address, and, for the game, your scores. Our websites also use cookies and Google Analytics to collect technical information about how the sites are used, and we may use advertising tools such as the Meta pixel when we run ad campaigns (see Section 9). We do not collect sensitive personal information, and we do not collect information about you from third parties.
How we use it. To send a one-time confirmation email when you sign up; to send you VOP updates and communications; and, if you join the game leaderboard, to display your display name and score publicly.
The leaderboard is public. Whatever display name you enter can be seen by anyone who views the leaderboard. Your email address is never shown.
We don’t sell or rent your information. We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing. A small number of service providers (such as our email platform and website host) process data on our behalf and may not use it for anything else.
How long we keep it. Your email address until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it; your display name and scores while the game is running, or until you ask us to remove them.
Your choices. Unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of every email. Ask us to correct or delete your name, email, and scores at any time by emailing support@vop.org; we will process your request within 30 days. Residents of certain U.S. states have additional rights, described in Section 11.
Children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
The full policy follows.
1. What information we collect
In short: We collect the personal information you give us directly. Our websites also use cookies and Google Analytics to collect technical information about how the sites are used, and we may use advertising tools such as the Meta pixel when we run ad campaigns (see Section 9).
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you sign up for our email lists, register to play the Americans Say What? game, contact us, or otherwise interact with us. Depending on how you interact with us, this may include:
- Your name, or the display name you choose for the game
- Your email address
- Your game scores
Sensitive information. We do not collect or process sensitive personal information (such as racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, health information, or sexual orientation).
Information from third parties. We do not collect information about you from third parties.
All personal information you provide must be true, complete, and accurate, and please let us know if it changes.
Information collected automatically. When you visit vop.org or vopgame.org, our service providers and we automatically collect certain technical information through cookies and similar technologies, such as your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view, the time you spend on them, and the site that referred you. We use this information to understand how our websites are used and, when we run advertising campaigns, to measure whether our ads are working. See Section 9 for details and your choices.
2. How we use your information
In short: We use your information to run our services and communicate with you, and only when we have a valid reason to do so.
We use your personal information to:
- Send you a one-time confirmation email when you sign up
- Send you official updates and communications from VOP
- Create and manage your game account, and display your display name and score on the public leaderboard if you choose to join it
- Respond to your questions and requests
- Protect the security of our services and prevent fraud or abuse
- Comply with the law
- Understand how our websites are used and improve them
- Measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, when we run them
We may also use your information for other purposes with your consent.
3. When and with whom we share your information
In short: We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we share it only in the limited situations described here.
We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing purposes. We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- Service providers. We use a small number of vendors, such as our email platform and website host, that process data on our behalf under written contracts. They may use your information only to provide services to us and not for their own purposes.
- Legal requirements. We may disclose information if required to do so by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of VOP, our users, or others.
- Organizational changes. If VOP merges with or transfers its operations to another organization, your information may be transferred as part of that change. The new organization would be bound by this policy unless you are notified otherwise.
- Analytics and advertising providers. Google Analytics and, when we run advertising campaigns, advertising platforms such as Meta receive technical information through cookies and pixels on our websites, as described in Section 9. These providers may use that information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
4. The Americans Say What? public leaderboard
In short: Your display name and score are public if you join the leaderboard; your email address never is.
If you choose to be listed on the game leaderboard, the display name you enter and your scores are visible to anyone who views the leaderboard. Your email address is never shown publicly. Because the leaderboard is public, entries may be copied or cached by others in ways we cannot control, so choose a display name you are comfortable sharing. You can ask us to remove your display name and scores at any time by emailing support@vop.org.
5. How long we keep your information
In short: We keep your information only as long as we need it for the purposes described in this policy, unless the law requires otherwise.
- We keep your email address until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.
- We keep your display name and scores while the Americans Say What? game is running so the leaderboard stays accurate. You can ask us to remove them at any time.
When we no longer have a legitimate need to keep your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it. If that is not possible (for example, because the information is in backup archives), we will store it securely and isolate it from further use until deletion is possible. We may retain information longer where required by law.
6. Security
In short: We take reasonable steps to protect your information, but no system is completely secure.
We have put in place reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, no transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security. Transmission of personal information to and from our services is at your own risk.
7. Children under 18
In short: Our services are intended for the general public, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone younger than 18.
Our website, email lists, and the Americans Say What? game are intended for the general public, but we do not knowingly collect, solicit, or market to anyone under 18. If we learn we have collected personal information from someone under 18, we will delete it promptly. A parent or guardian who believes their child has provided us with information can contact us at support@vop.org.
8. Your privacy rights and choices
In short: You can unsubscribe, and you can ask us to review, correct, or delete your information at any time.
Unsubscribing. You can unsubscribe from VOP emails at any time using the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email, or by emailing support@vop.org. We may still send you service-related messages that are necessary to administer your account or respond to your requests.
Reviewing, correcting, or deleting your information. You can ask us to review, correct, or delete the information we hold about you, including your name, email address, display name, and scores, by emailing support@vop.org. We will process removal requests within 30 days. We may keep limited information where needed to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, enforce our legal terms, or comply with legal requirements.
Withdrawing consent. Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you can withdraw it at any time by contacting us. Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place before you withdrew.
Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under state privacy laws. See Section 11.
9. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising
In short: We use Google Analytics to understand how our websites are used, and we may use advertising tools such as the Meta pixel when we run ad campaigns. You can control cookies through your browser and opt out as described below.
Cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small text files placed on your browser or device. We and our service providers use cookies and similar technologies (such as pixels and web beacons) on vop.org and vopgame.org to make the sites work, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the sites, and measure our advertising. Some cookies are essential for the sites to function; others are used for analytics or advertising.
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google LLC, to understand how visitors use our websites. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you stay, how you arrived at our site, your approximate location (derived from your IP address), and your browser and device type. We use this information only to analyze and improve our websites; we do not use it to identify you personally. Google’s use of this information is governed by Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy. You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your information by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Advertising. From time to time, we may run advertising campaigns on platforms such as Meta (Facebook and Instagram). When we do, we may place the platform’s pixel on our websites or campaign landing pages. The pixel lets the platform measure whether our ads led you to our site and lets us show our ads to people who have visited it. The platform may also use the information it collects under its own privacy policy. Meta’s privacy policy is at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy, and you can adjust your ad preferences at https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences. Where state law treats this activity as “targeted advertising” or “sharing” personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, you have the right to opt out, as described below.
Your choices. You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings; most browsers let you refuse all cookies or alert you when a cookie is being set. If you disable cookies, some features of our websites may not work. You can opt out of Google Analytics using the add-on linked above and manage Meta ad preferences through your Meta account. To opt out of targeted advertising or the sharing of your personal information for advertising purposes, email us at support@vop.org with the subject line “Opt Out of Targeted Advertising.”
You can also change your cookie choices at any time using the Privacy Settings button or the “Your Privacy Choices” link on our websites. We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signals as a request to opt out of targeted advertising and the sharing of personal information.
10. Do-Not-Track signals
Some browsers offer privacy signals such as Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) and Global Privacy Control (“GPC”). We honor GPC signals as a request to opt out of targeted advertising and the sharing of personal information, as described in Section 9. Because there is no uniform standard for DNT signals, we do not respond to DNT at this time; if one is adopted that we must follow, we will describe our practice in a revised version of this policy.
11. Additional rights for residents of certain U.S. states
In short: If you live in a state with a comprehensive privacy law, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information, and to withdraw your consent. Email support@vop.org to exercise these rights.
If you are a resident of Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, obtain a copy of it, or delete it. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.
Categories of personal information we collect
The table below shows the categories of personal information we have collected in the past twelve months. The examples are illustrative; for the full list of what we collect, see Section 1.
| Category | Examples | Collected |
| A. Identifiers | Name, display name, email address, account name | YES (name or display name, email address) |
| B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute | Name, contact information, education, employment, financial information | YES (name and email address only) |
| C. Protected classification characteristics | Gender, age, date of birth, race and ethnicity, national origin, marital status | NO |
| D. Commercial information | Transaction and purchase history, payment information | NO |
| E. Biometric information | Fingerprints, voiceprints | NO |
| F. Internet or other network activity | Browsing history, search history, interactions with websites and advertisements | YES (cookie and analytics data; advertising-pixel data when ad campaigns run — see Section 9) |
| G. Geolocation data | Device location | NO |
| H. Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar information | Images, audio, video, or call recordings | NO |
| I. Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details, work history, professional qualifications | NO |
| J. Education information | Student records and directory information | NO |
| K. Inferences drawn from personal information | Profiles or summaries of an individual’s preferences and characteristics | NO |
| L. Sensitive personal information | Racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, health data, sexual orientation, precise geolocation | NO |
We may also collect other personal information when you contact us for support, participate in surveys or contests, or otherwise interact with us in person, online, or by mail.
Sources. We collect this information directly from you and, for technical information, automatically through cookies and similar technologies (see Section 1).
Use and sharing. We use this information as described in Section 2 and share it only as described in Section 3. We have not sold personal information in the preceding twelve months and will not sell it in the future. When we use advertising pixels on our websites (see Section 9), some state laws treat the resulting disclosure to the advertising platform as “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising or as “targeted advertising”; you may opt out as described in Section 9.
Your rights
Subject to the limits of applicable law, you have the right to:
- Know whether we are processing your personal data
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Request deletion of your personal data
- Obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
- Not be discriminated against for exercising your rights
- Opt out of the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects (we do not sell personal data or profile you; for targeted advertising, see Section 9)
- Depending on the state where you live, you may also have the right to:
- Access the categories of personal data being processed (for example, under Minnesota law)
- Obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (for example, under California, Delaware, and Maryland law)
- Obtain a list of the specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (for example, under Minnesota and Oregon law)
- Obtain a list of third parties to which we have sold personal data (for example, under Connecticut law)
- Review, understand, question, and, where applicable, correct how personal data has been profiled (for example, under Connecticut and Minnesota law)
- Limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (for example, under California law)
- Opt out of the collection of personal data through voice or facial recognition features (for example, under Florida law)
How to exercise your rights
To exercise any of these rights, email us at support@vop.org with the subject line “Privacy Request” and tell us which right you wish to exercise. You can also write to us at the address in Section 13. Under certain state laws, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf; we may deny a request from an agent who does not provide proof of valid authorization.
Verifying your request. Before acting on your request, we will need to verify that you are the person whose information we hold. We will use only the information in your request to verify your identity. If we cannot verify your identity from the information we already have, we may ask you for additional information for verification, security, or fraud-prevention purposes. Requests made through an authorized agent may require written, signed permission from you.
Appeals. If we decline to act on your request, you may appeal by emailing support@vop.org. We will tell you in writing what action we took or did not take in response, and why. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.
California “Shine the Light” Law
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents to request, once a year and free of charge, information about the categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, and the names and addresses of those third parties. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. California residents may make such a request by emailing support@vop.org.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or the law. The updated version will show a new “Last updated” date at the top. If we make material changes, we will post a notice on our website or send you a notification by email. Please review this policy periodically.
13. How to contact us
Questions about this policy, or want to review, update, or delete your information? Email us at support@vop.org, or write to us at: Voice of the People, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003, United States
We will respond to requests to review, correct, or delete your information within 30 days, in accordance with applicable law.