Privacy policy

Information you give us: your name, email, phone number, ZIP code or neighborhood, and anything you type into a form — a volunteer signup, a question, a neighborhood concern, an event RSVP, or an endorsement.

Contribution information: contributions are taken on Anedot, not on this site. Anedot collects your name, mailing address, email, occupation, and employer, because Florida campaign finance law requires the campaign to report them. The campaign receives that information from Anedot; this website never handles it.

Information from the public voter file: if you are a registered voter in North Miami Beach, we may hold your name and contact details taken from the Miami-Dade County voter roll. That file is a public record. Some of the email addresses in it were matched to voters by a data vendor rather than given to us by you, so you may hear from us without ever having contacted the campaign. Every email we send has a one-click unsubscribe link, and you can remove yourself at any time.

Automatically collected: basic analytics about pages visited, referring site, approximate region, device type, and browser. We do not use this to build advertising profiles of individuals on this site.

Contact you about the campaign. If you signed up with us, we contact you only in the ways you asked to be contacted. If your details came from the public voter file, we may email you about this election, and every message has a one-click unsubscribe link.

Organize volunteers and events, and route neighborhood concerns to the right place.

Meet legal obligations, including campaign finance reporting.

Understand which parts of this site are useful.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

We do not use information obtained through Commissioner Smith's city office for campaign purposes.

We do not publish your email address, phone number, or home address. Where we publish a question or endorsement, we publish only your first name and neighborhood, with your permission.

Contributions are reported to the City Clerk as Florida law requires, including contributor name, address, occupation, and amount. Those filings are public record. We cannot make a contribution anonymous.

Payments are processed by Anedot on Anedot's own pages. The campaign never receives or stores your card number, and this website stores no contribution records at all. Anedot's own privacy policy governs its handling of your contribution and payment data.

We email two groups: people who signed up on this site, and registered voters in North Miami Beach whose email addresses appear in the public voter data described above. Every message has a one-click unsubscribe link, unsubscribing takes effect immediately, and you can also unsubscribe at smithbuzz.com/unsubscribe without waiting for an email.

We send text messages only to people who explicitly opted in by checking the SMS consent box and providing a mobile number. Being in the voter file never counts as agreeing to texts, and we do not text numbers that came from it. Message and data rates may apply; message frequency varies. Reply STOP to unsubscribe or HELP for help. We do not share mobile numbers or SMS consent with third parties for their own marketing.

We measure whether campaign emails are opened and which links in them are clicked. Opening is detected by a small invisible image in the message, and clicks by routing links through our email provider, Resend. We use it to tell which messages were worth sending. It is not used to build a profile of you and it is not shared with anyone. It is also unreliable in both directions: some mail apps load that image automatically whether or not anyone read the message, and blocking images stops an open being recorded at all. If you would rather not be counted, turning off image loading in your mail app is enough.

This site uses only the cookies necessary to make it work, plus privacy-respecting analytics that measure page views in aggregate. We do not run third-party advertising trackers on this site.

You can block cookies in your browser; the site will still work.

We publish photographs of identifiable individuals and testimonial quotes only with permission. If you appear in a photograph on this site and want it removed, email us and we will remove it.

Campaign finance records are retained as long as Florida law requires.

Volunteer, subscriber, submission and voter-file contact records are retained through the campaign and then deleted or archived, except where a legal retention obligation applies.

You can ask us to delete your information at any time and we will, except where we are legally required to keep it.

We use encrypted connections, multifactor authentication on campaign accounts, individual staff accounts with limited permissions, and automatic backups. No system is perfect; we will tell affected people promptly if something goes wrong.

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

To see what we have, correct it, or delete it, email the campaign. We will respond within a reasonable time.