Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 20, 2026
Operated by: 50501 Movement Network

This policy covers this site and all chapter and state subsites on this network (the “Network”). It describes what we actually collect — which is deliberately little — and what happens to it. It should be read together with the Terms of Use.

What we collect

• Signup forms: an email address and/or Signal username (at least one is required), and optionally a ZIP code and how you’d like to help. That’s the whole record.
• Event RSVPs: an email address and/or Signal username, and which event you’re registering for.
• Contact messages: your message, a subject, an email address and/or Signal username, and optionally your name.
• Comments: if you comment on a blog post, the name and email you enter with it (standard WordPress commenting).
• Anti-spam: form endpoints briefly rate-limit by a hashed form of your IP address. The hash expires within minutes and is never stored with your submission.

We do not collect payment information (donations and merch purchases happen entirely on external providers’ sites), account registrations from the public, dates of birth, or precise location. You must be 16 or older to submit any form; we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16.

What we use it for

Organizing. Signups are used to contact you about movement activity; RSVPs are used to plan and coordinate the event you registered for; contact messages are used to reply to you. Submission data is never used for advertising, never enriched with outside data, and never sold, rented, or traded.

Where it lives and who can see it

• Submissions are stored privately on the specific chapter site you submitted them to — they are never published, excluded from search, and not shared across the network. The national site sees only counts (for example, “how many people signed up this week”), never the records themselves.
• Access is limited to that chapter’s administrators and organizers who have been individually granted access. Under the Terms of Use, those organizers may use your data only for organizing purposes and must honor deletion requests.
• Event RSVPs may be forwarded to the organizing chapter’s private, end-to-end-encrypted coordination channel (Signal) so organizers can plan attendance.
• We disclose personal data to third parties only if legally compelled to, and where lawful we will attempt to notify affected people before complying.

Cookies and tracking

The Network runs no third-party analytics, advertising pixels, or tracking scripts. The only cookies set are functional: standard WordPress cookies for logged-in editors and comment authors, and a session cookie if you unlock a chapter’s private links page. Embedded players (Twitch, YouTube) and external sites you click through to — donation processors, merch stores, social platforms, petition hosts — set their own cookies under their own privacy policies once you interact with them.

Retention

Submission records are kept for as long as they are useful for organizing, and deleted when a chapter winds down or when you ask. Comments stay with the post they were made on until removed.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — regardless of where you live. Contact the chapter you submitted to, or write to us through the contact form and we will route the request. Depending on your jurisdiction (for example, the GDPR in Europe or state privacy laws in the U.S.), you may have additional statutory rights; we honor the requests above for everyone, so you rarely need to invoke them.

Security

Submission records are private, access-controlled, and visible only to granted organizers. Private-links passwords are stored hashed, never in plaintext. If we learn of a breach affecting your personal data, we will notify affected people and, where required, regulators. Report suspected vulnerabilities or data exposure to us through the contact form (subject “Legal / safety”).

Changes and contact

If this policy changes materially, we will announce it on the Network with a new effective date. Questions: use the contact form.