Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Texas Nationalist Movement, Inc. (“TNM,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, retains, and protects personal information when you access or use the tnm.mewebsite and any current or future subdomain, page, account portal, feature, embedded content, API, communication channel, or service delivered through tnm.me (the “Services”). Separate properties operated by Texas Nationalist Enterprises or any other entity are governed by the privacy policy posted on that property. This Policy governs tnm.me.

Scope of described practices. For transparency, this Policy describes personal-information practices across the full TNM supporter experience, including some you initiate through tnm.me that are carried out on separate TNM platforms (for example, membership accounts and the Texian Declaration on texian.app, and contributions handled by our payment processors), as well as practices for features we may add to tnm.me in the future. Where another TNM platform operates a described activity, the privacy policy posted on that platform controls for that engagement (see Section 2); where a described activity is one tnm.me does not yet perform, the description is forward-looking and takes effect if and when we implement it. We describe these practices in one place so your rights and choices are fully visible.

1. Quick summary

• TNM is a Texas nonprofit corporation, exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code §501(c)(4), engaged in political and social-welfare advocacy for the independence of the State of Texas.
• We collect what you give us (name, contact information, address, payment data, Declaration data, posts, photos, communications) and what your device and browser tell us (IP address, device data, usage data, approximate location, cookie data).
• We may rent or exchange your postal mailing address and email address with other organizations whose missions we believe may interest you (Section 6). You may opt out at any time by writing privacy@thetnm.org.
• We do notrent, sell, transfer, or share your mobile or voice telephone number, payment data, donor history, Declaration data, or other sensitive personal information with third parties for those third parties’ own purposes.
• We do notcollect, capture, store, sell, or otherwise process biometric identifiers as defined by the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §503.001.
• We honor recognized opt-out signals, including the Global Privacy Control, on tnm.me regardless of whether a particular law requires it.
• We treat donor identities as confidential consistent with Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, 594 U.S. 595 (2021).

2. Who we are

Texas Nationalist Movement, Inc.
Principal office: 3318 Hwy 365, Suite 243, Nederland, Texas 77627
Mailing: P.O. Box 403, Nederland, Texas 77627
Phone: 800-662-1836 · Privacy office: privacy@thetnm.org

TNM is the controllerof the personal information described in this Policy, except where we act as a service provider for another organization, in which case the other organization’s policy controls for that engagement. Texas Nationalist Enterprises and any other affiliated entity are separate legal persons with separate, user-facing privacy policies you must review on the property each entity operates.

3. Information we collect

Information you provide directly: identity and contact data; account credentials (passwords stored hashed and salted); Declaration data (the fact and date of your Declaration, your assigned Texas House district and county); payment data (TNM does not store full payment-card numbers; full card data is handled by PCI-DSS certified processors); membership, event, communications, User Content, volunteer and field data, petition and Texas First Pledge data, and compliance representations.

Information collected automatically: device and connection data (IP address, device type, OS, browser, identifiers, diagnostic logs); usage data; approximate location derived from IP; and cookies, pixels, web beacons, SDKs, local storage, and similar technologies (Section 9).

Information from third parties: payment processors; social-media platforms where you sign in or interact; voter file and public records for legislative- district matching and contact correction; other supporters who refer you (limited to name and contact information; you may request removal); data-hygiene, analytics, and compliance vendors.

4. How we use information

We use personal information to operate the Services; organize the movement (assigning you to your Texas House district and county team, routing action alerts, producing district- and county-level aggregates); communicate with you; process contributions and dues; conduct fundraising; comply with law; secure the Services; improve the Services; and aggregate and de-identify data for analysis and public communications.

Sensitive personal data; political affiliation.By the nature of TNM’s mission, the information you provide reveals your political affiliation and viewpoint. Where applicable law requires opt-in consent before processing sensitive data, your provision of personal information to TNM in a manner reflecting your support for Texas independence constitutes that consent. We do not publish your individual name as part of the public count unless you separately consent. District-level and county-level totals may be published at TNM’s discretion.

Automated decisions. We do not use solely automated decision-making that produces legal effects concerning you. Automated processing assigns your district, routes communications, scores engagement, and de-duplicates records, none of which determines benefits without human involvement.

5. Communications

By providing contact information you consent to receive operational, organizing, fundraising, action-alert, event, and platform-notice communications by email, SMS, voice calls, and postal mail, on the consent framework described in the Terms of Service, Section 9. We do not rent, sell, exchange, or transfer your mobile or voice telephone number to any third party for that party’s own purposes. You may opt out of non-transactional communication using the methods in Section 10.

6. How we share information

Inside the movement:volunteer leaders responsible for your geographic area receive contact and engagement information sufficient to coordinate organizing. Volunteer access is governed by TNM’s Local Groups Data Compliance terms and applicable Texas law; violations result in immediate revocation and, where appropriate, referral to authorities.

Service providers and processors (cloud hosting and CDN such as Cloudflare; payment processing currently Stripe and Givebutter; email and SMS delivery; analytics; support; data hygiene; identity, sanctions, and fraud screening; accounting, tax, and legal; insurance) operate the Services on our behalf under written confidentiality and data-protection agreements. Affiliates and successors may receive information where lawful and consistent with your preferences, including in a corporate transaction under confidentiality protections. We also disclose information for legal and safety purposes and at your direction.

What is never rented, sold, shared, or transferred: mobile and voice telephone numbers; full payment-card, bank, or credential data; donor identities, amounts, or history; Declaration data tied to identifiable individuals; account credentials; date of birth collected solely for age verification; and sensitive personal information beyond the applicable consent regime.

List rental and exchange.TNM may rent or exchange limited categories, postal mailing addresses and email addresses, each with name and salutation, with other organizations under written agreements requiring single-use and destruction or return. Mobile and voice numbers, payment data, donor data, Declaration data, credentials, and date of birth are never included. Where a state privacy law treats this as a “sale” or “sharing,” TNM treats it as such and honors opt-outs. Opt out at any time by writing privacy@thetnm.orgwith the subject line “List Rental Opt-Out.”

Advertising-platform audience matching.To deliver TNM’s own communications to TNM’s own supporters, TNM may upload hashed identifiers to advertising platforms including Meta, Google, and X for known-supporter delivery, modeled-audience delivery, and suppression. Where a state privacy law treats this as a “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising,” TNM treats it as such and honors opt-outs. Opt out by writing privacy@thetnm.orgwith the subject line “Audience Matching Opt-Out,” or transmit the Global Privacy Control.

7. Donor confidentiality

Consistent with the First Amendment’s protection of associational privacy, as recognized in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta, 594 U.S. 595 (2021), TNM treats donor identities as confidential and does not publicly disclose donor identities, amounts, or histories except where required by law or valid legal process, where the donor consents, or where the contribution is publicly disclosed by the donor. TNM may publish aggregate or de-identified contribution data.

8. Children’s privacy

The Services are intended for adults. TNM does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under thirteen (13). As a matter of policy, TNM follows the core principles of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and the FTC’s 2025 amendments to the COPPA Rule. Persons under 18 may not create an account, declare as a Texian, contribute, post content, or transact. Report any such collection to privacy@thetnm.org.

9. Cookies, pixels, and similar technologies

We use strictly necessary, functional, analytics, and limited remarketing technologies to operate, secure, and improve the Services. Our analytics use Google Analytics with Google’s advertising features, including Google Signals, which can associate a visit with a signed-in Google user who has enabled Ads Personalization to give us aggregated demographics, interests, and cross-device measurement; opt-out options are in our Cookie Notice. You can manage cookies through your browser settings; disabling certain cookies may affect functionality. Where you transmit a recognized opt-out signal (including the Global Privacy Control), we treat it as an opt-out of any sale of personal information, any sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising, and any targeted advertising, for the transmitting browser. We do not engage in cross-context behavioral advertising and do not respond to legacy “Do Not Track” signals, which have no industry-standard interpretation. See our Cookie Notice for more detail.

Bot protection (Cloudflare Turnstile). We use Cloudflare Turnstile to protect our forms and pages from automated abuse, spam, and bots. Turnstile runs a lightweight check that may process technical signals from your browser and device to distinguish human visitors from automated traffic; it is designed not to be used for cross-site tracking or advertising. Your interaction with Turnstile is also governed by the Cloudflare Turnstile Privacy Addendum and Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

10. Your communication choices

• Email: click unsubscribe in any non-transactional email, or write support@thetnm.org.
• SMS: reply STOP to cancel, HELP for help. Standard message and data rates may apply.
• Voice calls: follow any in-call opt-out or write support@thetnm.org. We maintain an internal Do Not Call list.
• List rental and audience matching: write privacy@thetnm.org with the relevant subject line above.
• Referral inclusion: if another supporter added your contact information through a TNM tool and you want it removed, write privacy@thetnm.org.

11. Your rights

TNM is a Texas nonprofit corporation exempt under §501(c)(4). Several U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws exempt nonprofits; others do not, or apply only above thresholds. Where a state law clearly does not apply, TNM nonetheless voluntarily provides the rights below as a matter of policy; where a state law applies, TNM provides the statutory rights it confers. The state laws that do not categorically exempt nonprofits and that may apply include the Colorado Privacy Act, the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, the New Jersey Data Privacy Act, the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act, and potentially the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Chapter 541).

Rights TNM provides regardless of statutory entitlement: confirmation, access, correction, deletion (subject to legal, financial, security, recordkeeping, and historical-record obligations in Section 12), portability, opt-out of marketing, opt-out of list rental and audience matching, opt-out of cross-context behavioral advertising (which TNM does not engage in), opt-out of significant-effect profiling (which TNM does not engage in), limits on sensitive-data use, non-discrimination, and appeal. Submit requests to privacy@thetnm.org. We verify your identity and respond within forty-five (45) days, extendable by an additional 45 days where reasonably necessary. Texas residents may also contact the Texas Office of the Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division, P.O. Box 12548, Austin, Texas 78711-2548.

12. Data retention

We retain personal information only as long as needed to fulfill the purposes in this Policy. Membership and contribution records are retained at least seven (7) years to satisfy IRS recordkeeping and donor-acknowledgment obligations; communications, event records, and similar data up to seven (7) years; cookies and diagnostic and security logs generally up to twenty-four (24) months; tax, audit, and legal-hold materials as required. When the retention period ends and no obligation applies, we delete, anonymize, or de-identify the information.

13. Data security

We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards including encryption in transit (TLS), access controls, segregation of payment-card data to PCI-DSS certified processors, logging and monitoring, and contractual security requirements on service providers. No system is perfectly secure. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and any device on which they are stored.

14. Security incident notification

If TNM determines that a security incident has materially affected your personal information and applicable law requires notification, TNM will notify you and the appropriate regulators in accordance with that law, including Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §521.053 and comparable state breach-notification laws.

15. Biometric identifiers

TNM does not collect, capture, store, sell, or otherwise process biometric identifiers as defined by the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §503.001, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, or any comparable law. The Services do not run facial recognition, voice analysis, or other biometric processing on uploaded content.

16. International users

TNM operates from the United States. If you access the Services from outside the United States, your personal information will be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States. By using the Services, you consent to that transfer.

17. Artificial-intelligence and automated processing

TNM uses AI and machine-learning tools for content classification, deliverability, anomaly detection, fraud prevention, communication drafting, and other operational purposes, and may use the information described in this Policy together with User Content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, and improve TNM’s own systems. We do not license your personal information to unaffiliated third parties for their independent model training.

18. Public posts; third-party links; changes

Information you post in public-facing areas may be visible to others and indexed by search engines. Do not post information you do not want made public. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party platforms the Services link to or integrate with. We may update this Policy from time to time; when we make material changes we will update the Effective date and provide reasonable notice. Continued use after the Effective date constitutes acceptance.

19. Texas-resident notice

To the extent the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Chapter 541, applies to TNM, TNM provides the rights it confers through Section 11; to the extent TNM is exempt, TNM honors those rights as a matter of policy. Notice required by Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §541.102: TNM may sell personal data to the extent described in the list-rental and audience-matching practices in Section 6; you have a right to opt out as described there and in Section 11. TNM does not engage in profiling that produces a legal or similarly significant effect.

20. Contact

Texas Nationalist Movement, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Office
3318 Hwy 365, Suite 243 / P.O. Box 403, Nederland, Texas 77627
privacy@thetnm.org· 800-662-1836

Texas Nationalist Movement, Inc. is a Texas nonprofit corporation, exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code §501(c)(4). Contributions or gifts to Texas Nationalist Movement, Inc. are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.