Last Updated: June 9 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how Dan Schwartz for Congress (“ Committee”, “we” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you access or use our websites, mobile sites, and mobile application that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”). You can contact us by emailing [email protected]
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website homepage or sending you a notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Site or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you sign up to receive email or SMS updates, request information, fill out a form, sign a petition, sign up as a volunteer, sign up for an event, make a donation or purchase, send us an email, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information we may collect include your name, contact information (such as email address, postal address, and phone number), credit card and other payment information (although payment information may be collected directly by a third-party processor), and any other information you choose to provide.
In addition, we may be required to collect certain personal information from donors. For example, the disclosure of name, mailing address, occupation, and employer of all individuals whose donations to the Committee exceed $200 per election cycle may be required.
When you access or use our Site, we automatically collect information about you, including:
We and our service providers may also obtain information about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect about you on our Site. For example, we and our service providers may collect information about you from third parties, such as mailing list providers and publicly available sources. In addition, if you make a donation through a third party, such as Act Blue, for our benefit, we will obtain certain information about you from such third party.
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No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.
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SHARING OF INFORMATION
We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used by those third parties to identify you.
The Site may contain links to third-party websites or provide access to tools and features that are powered by third party vendors. For example, we may link to third-party sites to facilitate donations or purchases for our benefit. Any personal information you provide in connection with such websites, tools, features or linked sites is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s privacy policy, and not this privacy policy. We encourage you to learn about their privacy and security practices and policies before providing them with personal information.
If you sign an online petition, you understand that such petition is public information and that we may make the petition, and your name, city, state, and any comments provided in connection therewith publicly available. In addition, we may provide such petitions or compilations thereof, including your comments, name, city, and state to national, state or local leaders, or to the press.
The Site may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on our Site with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on your privacy for the relevant social media site. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.
We may allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the web and in mobile applications. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Site and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by the Committee and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, provide measurement services, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Site and other websites, and better understand your online activity.
For example, we may use Google Analytics tools, Facebook Pixel or other tools, including remarketing tools, to advertise online. Such tools may enable third-party vendors, including Google and Facebook, to show our ads on sites across the Internet. Such third-party vendors, including Google, may use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site. For information on how you can opt out of Google’s use of cookies for interest-based ads please visit Google’s Ads Settings. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices.
The committee is based in the United States, and is directed to U.S. residents, and we process and store information in the U.S.. If you are located outside the U.S., we and our service providers may transfer your information to, or store or access to your information in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction.
Cookies
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Promotional Communications
You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from the Committee by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
Mobile Push Notifications/Alerts
With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
In common with other websites, log files are stored on the web server saving details such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, referring page and time of visit.
Cookies may be used to remember visitor preferences when interacting with the website.
Where registration is required, the visitor’s email and a username will be stored on the server.
If you have subscribed to one of our services, you may unsubscribe by following the instructions which are included in the email that you receive.
You may be able to block cookies via your browser settings but this may prevent you from access to certain features of the website.
Cookies are small digital signature files that are stored by your web browser that allow your preferences to be recorded when visiting the website. Also they may be used to track your return visits to the website.
3rd party advertising companies may also use cookies for tracking purposes.
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Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to sites they visit on the Internet.
Website visitors may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.”
Cutting waste, fraud, and unnecessary bureaucracy is crucial to achieving economic development. However, protecting Americans from collateral damage is non-negotiable.
Congressman Andy Harris is the leader of a small group of MAGA extremists in Congress who are wreaking havoc with devastating cuts to food, water, bridge, nuclear and air safety – endangering citizens while crashing the economy, vaporizing retirement accounts and gutting consumer protections. Andy Harris has done nothing to stop the Trump administration from driving our country off a cliff. And only holding two in-person town halls in the last six years shows that Andy Harris has long since tuned us all out.
Dan Schwartz believes Maryland deserves better.
Dan is a consumer watchdog who got his start after the 2008 financial crisis. Working with state banking regulators across the country and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dan has helped protect consumers from financial fraud.
A different kind of Democrat than what we’ve seen lately in Washington, Dan believes in letting the hard-working people of Maryland keep more of what they earn while protecting what makes our state special. Dan understands that working-class Marylanders need a voice in Congress who works for them, not someone who only listens to billionaires and the farthest extremes of his party.
Dan and his wife Megan live in the historic community of Bellevue, Maryland, once the heart of the state’s famous African American crab and oyster processing industry.
Dan’s commitment to fighting for working class families isn’t just professional – it’s personal. Megan is a family nurse practitioner in Dorchester County, where she sees firsthand how limited choices for specialty and mental health care, rising prescription drug costs, under-funded hospitals and insurers who only know how to say “no” are devastating families.
Dan will work to stop the never-ending grift, economic malpractice and gutless oversight in a Congress more concerned about their own jobs than ours.
In Congress, Dan will: