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+<div id="title-header">
+  <span class="header">Privacy Policy</span>
+  <span class="subheader"></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Selectricity respects its users' privacy. Private information on how
+individuals use Selectricity including, but not limited to, information
+on how users vote in anonymous elections will <em>never</em> be shared
+with any third party. Private information will never be sold for any
+reason.</p>
+
+<p>QuickVotes publish list of IP addresses of voters to all voters to
+allow them to check results for vote flooding.  Please be aware of this
+feature and the fact that this information may be publicly disclosed for
+QuickVotes to other voters. This does not affect full Selectricity
+Elections. Users wanting to use these features anonymously are
+encouraged to use an anonymity system like <%= link_to("Tor",
+"http://tor.eff.org") %>.</p>
+
+<p>Aggregate information on site usage (e.g., summaries of how many
+users, how often they visited, the average time spent on the site, etc.)
+may be collected and shared with others in <em>aggregated form</em>
+after being stripped of any identifiable information.</p>
+