Privacy Policy

1. Introduction and Scope

This Privacy Policy (this "Policy") is issued by Texas Political Jobs ("Texas Political Jobs," "we," "us," or "our") and describes how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal data in connection with the website located at texaspoliticaljobs.com (the "Site") and the services made available by or through the Site, including, without limitation, all newsletters, mailing lists, subscription services, job posting services, and ancillary features (collectively, the "Services"). This Policy is intended to describe our practices and your rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapter 541 (the "TDPSA"), and other applicable law. Texas Political Jobs is the "controller" of the personal data described in this Policy. By accessing or using the Site or the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy.

2. Definitions

As used in this Policy: (a) "Personal Data" means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual, excluding deidentified data and publicly available information; (b) "Sensitive Data" means personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, a mental or physical health diagnosis, sexuality, or citizenship or immigration status; genetic or biometric data processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual; personal data collected from a known child; and precise geolocation data, in each case as contemplated by the TDPSA; (c) "Sale" means the sharing, disclosing, or transferring of personal data for monetary consideration by us to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising or any other purpose covered by the TDPSA; (d) "Targeted Advertising" means displaying an advertisement to a consumer where the advertisement is selected based on personal data obtained or inferred from the consumer's activities over time across nonaffiliated websites, applications, or online services; (e) "Profiling" means any form of solely automated processing of personal data to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects concerning a consumer; (f) "Processor" means a person or entity that processes personal data on behalf of a controller pursuant to a contract or other arrangement; and (g) "You" and "your" refer to the individual who accesses or uses the Site or the Services, whether on your own behalf or on behalf of an employer, organization, or other entity.

3. Categories of Personal Data We Process

We process the following categories of personal data: (a) Identifiers and account information, including electronic mail address, account name, and password, which we store only in hashed form; (b) Subscription and transaction records, including the plan or posting purchased, amounts, dates, and renewal and cancellation status; payment card and bank account details are collected and processed directly by Stripe, and subscriptions established through our prior platform continue to be billed within PayPal, and in each case we neither receive nor retain complete payment card numbers; (c) Employer and job posting content, including organization names, contact names and electronic mail addresses, job titles, job descriptions, and compensation information voluntarily supplied in a posting, all of which is submitted for publication and is displayed publicly as part of the corresponding listing; (d) Communications, including the contents of contact form submissions, electronic mail messages, and support requests that you send to us; (e) Internet and device activity information collected automatically, including pages viewed, searches conducted within the Site, page view counts, Internet Protocol address, browser and device information, and server log data; and (f) Location information, limited to the city and state stated in a job posting or used in a search. We do not knowingly collect or process Sensitive Data, and we do not process personal data for purposes of creating consumer profiles in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

4. Sources of Personal Data

We obtain personal data from the following sources: (a) directly from you, when you create an account, subscribe, submit a job posting, join a mailing list, complete a form, or otherwise communicate with us; (b) automatically, through your use of and interaction with the Site and the Services, including by means of cookies and server logs as described in Section 7; (c) from employers, recruiters, and other persons who submit job postings or other content for publication; and (d) from our Processors, including payment confirmations and transaction records from Stripe and PayPal and mailing list activity from MailerLite, in each case to the extent necessary for such Processors to furnish the services for which they have been engaged.

5. Purposes of Processing

We process personal data for the following purposes: (a) to provide, operate, maintain, administer, and improve the Site and the Services; (b) to process, publish, display, categorize, and manage job listings and other submitted content; (c) to create, administer, authenticate, and secure member accounts and subscriber access; (d) to process payments, subscriptions, renewals, and cancellations, and to maintain records thereof; (e) to transmit job newsletters and other electronic communications to which you have subscribed or for which you have otherwise registered, and to send account related messages, including password reset and subscription claim messages; (f) to respond to inquiries, requests, and other communications, and to provide customer support; (g) to understand, in the aggregate, how the Site is used, including by means of first party page view counts; (h) to detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud, unauthorized access, security incidents, technical issues, and other actual or suspected violations of our Terms of Use; (i) to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal process, and governmental requests; and (j) to enforce our agreements and policies and to protect the rights, property, and safety of Texas Political Jobs, its users, and the public.

6. Disclosure of Personal Data

We disclose personal data only as follows: (a) to our Processors, which process personal data solely to provide services to us, presently including Stripe, Inc. (payment processing for subscriptions and job postings), PayPal (billing of subscriptions originally established through PayPal, which remains within PayPal), MailerLite (maintenance of mailing lists and transmission of newsletters), Postmark (delivery of account and transactional electronic mail), and DigitalOcean (website hosting and infrastructure); (b) by publication, in the case of job posting content, which is submitted for the purpose of public display on the Site and in our newsletters; (c) to employers and other third parties, solely to the extent that you direct an application, inquiry, or other communication to such employer or third party through a link or address contained in a listing, it being understood that any information you transmit directly to an employer is governed by that employer's practices and not by this Policy; (d) to governmental authorities, courts, and other persons, where disclosure is required or permitted by applicable law, subpoena, court order, or other legal process, or where we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or the safety of any person; and (e) in connection with a sale, merger, reorganization, or other transfer of all or part of our business, subject to the commitments in this Policy. We do not sell personal data for monetary consideration. We do not process personal data for targeted advertising, and we do not disclose personal data to data brokers.

7. Cookies and Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms

We use only strictly necessary, first party cookies and similar technologies, limited to session cookies used to authenticate members and administrators and to maintain the state of forms and displays. We do not use third party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. You may configure your browser to refuse or delete cookies; provided, however, that certain features of the Site, including member access, may not function properly in the absence of cookies. Although we do not sell personal data and do not engage in targeted advertising, if our practices change we will recognize universal opt-out mechanisms, including Global Privacy Control signals, as valid requests to opt out of any sale of personal data or targeted advertising, as required by the TDPSA.

8. Retention

We retain personal data for such period as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as required or permitted by applicable law. Account records are retained while an account is active; subscription and transaction records are retained for tax, accounting, and record keeping purposes; mailing list information is retained until you unsubscribe or the information is removed in the ordinary course; and job listing information may be retained in our archives and job bank after the corresponding listing has expired or been removed from public display. When personal data is no longer needed for the purposes described in this Policy, we delete it or deidentify it, subject to legal retention obligations.

9. Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards that we deem reasonable in view of the nature of the information we hold and the manner in which the Services are operated; provided, however, that no method of transmission over the Internet, and no method of electronic storage, is completely secure, and we accordingly do not represent, warrant, or guarantee the absolute security of any information transmitted to, from, or through the Site. In the event of a breach of system security involving sensitive personal information, we will provide notification as required by Section 521.053 of the Texas Business and Commerce Code.

10. Your Texas Privacy Rights; How to Exercise Them; Appeals

If you are a Texas consumer, the TDPSA gives you the right, subject to authentication of your identity and to applicable exceptions, to: (a) confirm whether we are processing your personal data and obtain access to that data; (b) correct inaccuracies in your personal data; (c) request the deletion of personal data provided by you or obtained about you; (d) obtain a copy of the personal data you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another controller without hindrance; and (e) opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of any sale of personal data, targeted advertising, or profiling in furtherance of a decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect concerning you, it being noted that we do not engage in any sale of personal data, targeted advertising, or such profiling, so there is no such processing to opt out of at this time. Requests may be submitted by electronic mail to admin@texaspoliticaljobs.com or by mail to the address set forth in Section 13. We will authenticate requests using account credentials or other information reasonably available to us, respond within forty-five (45) days of receipt, and may extend that period once by an additional forty-five (45) days where reasonably necessary, in which case we will inform you of the extension and the reason for it. We do not charge a fee for up to two requests in a twelve month period; we may charge a reasonable fee, or decline to act, in the case of requests that are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive. If we decline to take action on a request, we will inform you of the justification and of your right to appeal. You may appeal by electronic mail to admin@texaspoliticaljobs.com with the words "Privacy Request Appeal" in the subject line; we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal within sixty (60) days, together with a written explanation of the reasons for the decision and information on how to contact the Texas Attorney General to submit a complaint. You may designate an authorized agent to submit an opt out request on your behalf, and we may require proof of such designation. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any right under this Section.

11. Children

The Site and the Services are intended for adults and are not directed to children. Under the TDPSA, personal data collected from a known child under the age of thirteen (13) is Sensitive Data; we do not knowingly collect or process the personal data of a known child, and if we become aware that such data has been provided to us, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

12. Third Party Websites

The Site contains links to, and incorporates services provided by, third party websites and platforms, including employer career pages and the checkout pages operated by Stripe and PayPal. This Policy does not apply to the information practices of any such third party, and we are not responsible for the privacy, security, or other practices of any such third party.

13. Changes; Contact Information

We reserve the right to amend, modify, or replace this Policy, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, effective upon posting of the revised Policy on the Site, unless a later effective date is stated therein. Your continued use of the Site or the Services after any such posting constitutes your acknowledgment of the Policy as so revised. Questions, requests, and notices under this Policy should be directed to Texas Political Jobs, Post Office Box 4378, Austin, TX 73301, US, or to admin@texaspoliticaljobs.com. The effective date of this Policy is November 4, 2026.