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Privacy Policy

Effective date:

Iowa for All operates www.iowaforall.com, the transition website for Governor-elect Rob Sand and Lieutenant Governor-elect Dave Muhlbauer (the "Site"). This notice explains what information we collect through the Site, how we use and share it, and the choices you have.

Information you give us

You choose what to send us through three forms:

  • Email updates: your email address, ZIP code, and, if you choose, your first name. We keep a record of the sign-up wording you agreed to.
  • Share an Idea: your idea, the area it concerns, the problem it addresses, and where it has been tried. Also your name, email address, ZIP code, and county, and whether we may contact you about it.
  • Boards and Commissions: your name, email address, phone number, home address, county, political party, occupation, and employer. Also the boards that interest you and why. If you choose, also your LinkedIn profile, licenses, prior service, community involvement, and résumé.

If you email us, we receive what you send.

Applications for jobs with the transition are submitted on Workable, a third-party hiring platform, not on this Site. Workable's privacy policy and the job posting govern that information.

Information collected automatically

  • Analytics. We use Google Analytics to understand how the Site is used, such as pages viewed, device and browser type, and approximate location. It also records whether a form was started or completed. Google Analytics uses cookies. We have turned off Google's advertising features and Google signals. We remove query strings from page addresses before they are sent, and we never send anything you type into a form. See how Google uses this information, or use the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
  • Bot protection. Our forms use Cloudflare Turnstile, which examines information about your browser and device to tell people from automated programs. Cloudflare's privacy policy applies.
  • Security and abuse prevention. When you submit a form, we record the time and a one-way, keyed hash of your IP address. For ideas and Boards and Commissions submissions, we also record your browser's user-agent string. We do not store your IP address itself. We use these to limit repeated submissions and investigate abuse.
  • Hosting and fonts. Our web host (Netlify) and font service (Adobe Fonts) receive standard technical information, such as your IP address and browser type, when they deliver the Site to you.
  • Storage on your device. Your browser saves your accessibility settings, whether you closed the cookie notice, and a draft of the Boards and Commissions form. The draft holds your typed answers, never your résumé, and is kept for up to 7 days. This information stays on your device and is not sent to us.

How we use information

We use information to:

  • consider you for boards and commissions and contact you about your interest;
  • review ideas for improving state government and, if you agreed, follow up with you;
  • send the email updates you signed up for;
  • respond to your messages;
  • keep the Site secure, prevent spam and abuse, and enforce our Terms of Use;
  • understand how the Site is used and improve it;
  • transfer information to the State of Iowa, as described below; and
  • comply with the law.

Political party and résumés

Many Iowa boards and commissions must be politically balanced (Iowa Code § 69.16), so the Boards and Commissions form asks for your political party. We use it only to consider appointments, and only authorized transition staff can see it. Résumés are encrypted before they are stored and can be opened only by authorized staff.

Transfer to the State of Iowa

Information submitted through the Site, including uploaded documents, may be transferred or donated to the State of Iowa and maintained by the State for official government purposes. You acknowledge and consent to this transfer when you submit a form. Once transferred, the State maintains the information under its own policies and Iowa law, including Iowa's public records law, Iowa Code chapter 22.

How we share information

We do not sell or rent personal information. We do not share it with campaigns, candidates, or political organizations. We share information only:

  • with the State of Iowa, as described above;
  • with service providers that run the Site for us and may use the information only to provide their services: Netlify (hosting and file storage), Neon (database), Cloudflare (bot protection), Google (analytics), Adobe (fonts), and our email service provider;
  • when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or when needed to protect the safety, rights, or security of any person or of the Site; and
  • with your consent.

We may share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably identify you, such as the number of ideas received on each topic.

Links to other sites

The Site links to sites we do not control, including Workable and news outlets. News pages also have share links for Facebook, X, and LinkedIn. These are ordinary links, so those companies receive nothing from our pages unless you click one. Their own privacy policies govern what they collect.

How long we keep information

We keep form submissions until they are transferred to the State of Iowa and for 12 months afterward. We keep email sign-ups until you unsubscribe, and afterward only what we need to honor that request. We then delete or de-identify the information unless the law requires us to keep it. Copies held by the State are kept under the State's rules.

Security

All connections to the Site use HTTPS. Résumés are encrypted before they are stored, IP addresses are kept only as one-way hashes, and only authorized staff who sign in can see submissions. No website can guarantee security, so please don't send us information the forms don't ask for.

Your choices

  • Email updates: use the unsubscribe link in any email. Or email team@iowaforall.com with the subject "Unsubscribe from email communications," from the address you signed up with.
  • Your submissions: to see, correct, or delete an idea or Boards and Commissions submission, email team@iowaforall.com from the address you used. We will verify the request and respond within 30 days. We cannot delete copies already transferred to the State; the State's rules apply to those.
  • Cookies and analytics: you can block or delete cookies in your browser, or install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. The Site works without them.
  • Storage on your device: clear this site's data in your browser to remove saved settings and form drafts.

Children

The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to this notice

If our practices change, we will post the updated notice here with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this notice: team@iowaforall.com.