Operation Abigail / Adams Institute

Last updated: November 28, 2025.

operationabigail.org is a project of the John Adams Institute, dba the Adams Institute for the Preservation of the Democratic-Republican Model of Government, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This website is intended for an adult audience located within the United States.

If you wish to contact us, please use the method provided on our contact page.

Information We Collect

We collect only the information necessary to operate this website, maintain security, and understand how visitors use the site. This includes:

Information you voluntarily submit (such as comments or contact form entries)

Basic technical information automatically provided by your browser (such as IP address and user-agent) for security and spam detection

Aggregated website usage statistics via Google Analytics

Any content you choose to upload (such as images in comments)

We do not use advertising trackers, remarketing tools, or behavioral profiling.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects information such as:

Pages visited

Time spent on pages

Device type

Browser type

Anonymized IP addresses

Basic interaction data

This information is used only in aggregate, to improve website performance and content.

We do not use Google Analytics for advertising, remarketing, audience targeting, demographic profiling, or cross-site tracking.

You can learn more about how Google collects and processes data here:
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You may opt out of Google Analytics using Google’s opt-out browser add-on:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Comments

If you leave a comment on the site, we collect the information you enter in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user-agent string to help detect spam.

If you use Gravatar, an anonymized hash of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service. Their privacy policy is here:
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After your comment is approved, your profile image (if any) may be visible to the public in connection with your comment.

Cookies

This site uses only the cookies necessary for basic functionality and analytics. These may include:

Cookies that remember your name and email if you leave a comment (optional)

Temporary cookies that test whether your browser accepts cookies

Cookies used by Google Analytics to measure site usage

We do not use advertising cookies, targeting cookies, or third-party marketing cookies of any kind.

Embedded Content

Pages on this site may include embedded content (such as YouTube videos or images).

Embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the other website directly.

These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their content according to their own privacy policies.

If you prefer not to be tracked by external sites, you may choose not to interact with embedded content.

How Long We Keep Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its associated metadata are retained indefinitely to maintain continuity and to help detect spam.

Contact form submissions are retained only as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry.

We do not create user accounts for general visitors.

If you contact us by email (or via physical mail) we may retain your message and any information you provide for the purpose of responding to your inquiry or maintaining appropriate correspondence records. We do not use this information for marketing and we do not share it with third parties.

Your Rights

If you have left comments or submitted information through a contact form, you may request:

A copy of the personal data we hold about you

That we delete such data

We may retain some information if required for security, legal, or administrative purposes.

Where Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share personal data with third parties.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. The latest revision date will appear at the top of this page.

Contact

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