Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for MayaForKingCounty.com

Effective Date: October 27, 2025

1. Introduction

This website is operated by the campaign to elect Maya Vengadasalam for King County Council District 7. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency in how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information.

2. Information We Collect

This website is hosted on Squarespace. We, and/or Squarespace, may collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, mailing address, indication of consent to receive SMS messages, and other contact details that you enter when you sign up for updates, volunteer, or donate.

  • Donation Information: If you make a contribution, we may collect payment details and comply with Federal Election Commission (FEC) reporting requirements.

  • Usage Data: Information about your device, browser, IP address, clicks, internals links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, time stamps, and site interactions via cookies and analytics tools.

 3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

  • Communicate campaign updates, donation asks, voting reminders, and events through email and/or SMS text messages

  • Process donations and comply with legal reporting

  • Respond to inquiries and requests

  • Provide information relevant to the community

  • Improve website functionality and user experience

We may email you with messages about any campaign donation activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

·      You’ve created a customer account

·      Your customer account password has been reset or updated

·      You’ve made a donation

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from the donation confirmation messages.

For website activity. we share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

For SMS text messages, text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties, provided that the foregoing does not apply to sharing (1) with vendors, consultants and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf (and who will not use such information for their own purposes); (2) if we believe disclosure is required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation or to comply with law enforcement or legal process.

Mobile information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.

4. Sharing of Information and Length of Retention

We do not sell your personal information. We may share data with trusted service providers (e.g., email platforms, payment processors) who assist in campaign operations. These providers are required to protect your data. Also, we keep your data as long as this website is active.

Mobile information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

5. Cookies and Tracking

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

6. Your Choices

You may opt out of receiving campaign communications at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our emails, replying STOP to our SMS text messages, or contacting us directly.

7. Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

8. Legal Compliance

We comply with applicable laws, including FEC regulations and state-level disclosure requirements. As a political campaign, certain privacy laws may not apply, but we strive to uphold high standards of transparency and respect for your data.

9. Use of share buttons

This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: Facebook and Instagram. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

·      Information about your browser, network and device

·      Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

·      Your IP address

10. Squarespace payments

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

·      Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.

·      Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy or your data, please contact us at: info@mayaforkingcounty.com

12. Mobile SMS Text Message Terms and Conditions

This campaign uses ScaleToWin as our SMS texting provider. You can cancel the SMS service at any time. Just text "STOP". After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us. If you want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time and we will start sending SMS messages to you again.

If you are experiencing issues with the messaging program you can reply with the keyword HELP for more assistance, or you can get help directly at hello@scaletowin.com.

Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. T-Mobile is not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

You can expect to receive no more than 2 text message(s) per day from Scale to Win.

As always, message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider.

If you have any questions regarding ScaleToWin’s privacy, please read their privacy policy: ScaleToWin Privacy Policy.

13. Term of this Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices and applicable law. We suggest that you periodically review the Privacy Policy for amendments.