We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share information only in the following limited circumstances:

• Service providers: Payment processing (Stripe), email delivery, and website hosting, under contractual data protection obligations
• Legal requirements: When required by law, subpoena, or court order — we will challenge compelled disclosure of source information to the fullest extent permitted by applicable shield laws
• Organizational transfers: In the event of a merger or organizational restructuring, with equivalent privacy protections

AFTorg respects the privacy of our donors. Consistent with the Supreme Court's ruling in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (2021), which held that compelled donor disclosure burdens First Amendment associational rights:

• We will never sell or share donor lists with any third party
• Donor names will not be published without explicit written consent
• We maintain donor information only as required for IRS compliance and tax-deductible receipt issuance
• Schedule B contributor information is not included in any public disclosures, consistent with IRS public charity rules

The Site uses cookies for essential functionality (session management, security) and for analytics.

Analytics: We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and to see which pages are read, for how long, from which country or region, and which site or search led there. We use it to understand how much interest there is in the subjects we cover. Google processes this data under its own privacy policy. We do not enable advertising features, Google Signals, or ad personalization, and we do not use advertising cookies.

Your choices: Choosing Decline on the cookie notice switches analytics storage off. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, analytics does not load at all. For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics storage stays off unless you choose Accept. You may also disable cookies in your browser settings.

Where analytics never runs: the Secure Tips page.

Questions put to the page assistants are counted, but the text of a question is never sent to analytics.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights:

• California residents (CalOPPA/CCPA): Right to know what personal information is collected, right to request deletion, right to opt out of sale (we do not sell data), right to non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights
• Colorado, Oregon, Delaware, Maryland residents: Similar rights to access, correct, and delete personal data where applicable under your state's privacy law
• All visitors: Right to unsubscribe from communications, right to request information about data practices

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@afnpt.org.

We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy:

• Contact information from tips: Retained for the duration of the investigation plus 3 years, then securely deleted unless the source requests earlier deletion
• Donation records: Retained for 7 years as required by IRS regulations for tax-deductible contributions
• Newsletter subscriptions: Retained until you unsubscribe, then deleted within 30 days
• Analytics data: Kept in Google Analytics for no more than 14 months
• Server logs: Retained for 90 days for security purposes, then deleted

AFTorg does not sell personal information. We have never sold personal information and have no plans to do so. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information.

Although we do not sell personal information, if you wish to exercise your rights under CCPA or submit a verifiable consumer request, contact us at privacy@afnpt.org with the subject line "CCPA Request."

We will respond to verified requests within 45 days as required by law.