Legal and Policies — Privacy, Terms of Use, Affiliate & AI Disclosure
Effective Date: January 2026
🔒 Privacy Policy
DoWhatMATAs.org values your privacy. This section explains what information we collect, how it’s used, and your rights.
Information We Collect
- 🔹 Basic site analytics (e.g., IP address, device type, pages visited)
- 🔹 Voluntary submissions (e.g., email if you subscribe or contact us)
- 🔹 Cookies and embedded content (e.g., TikTok, YouTube, Amazon)
How We Use Your Data
- 📊 Improve site performance and user experience
- 📧 Send newsletters or updates if you opt in
- 🛡️ Maintain site security and prevent abuse
Your Rights
You may request deletion of your personal data or unsubscribe at any time. Contact us at admin@dowhatmatas.org.
📑 Terms of Use
By using DoWhatMATAs.org, you agree to the following terms:
- Content ownership: Blog posts, essays, tools, and resources are © DoWhatMATAs.org unless otherwise noted.
- Sharing: You may share links freely. Republishing full posts requires permission.
- Accuracy: We strive for clarity and good faith, but do not guarantee completeness or fitness for a specific purpose.
- Use at your own risk: Content related to protest, resistance, or civic engagement is provided for educational and reflective purposes only. You are responsible for your own decisions and actions.
- Governing law: These terms are governed by the laws of Arizona, USA.
🤖 AI & Persona Disclosure
Transparency matters here.
The voices you encounter on DoWhatMATAs.org — including Joe Bob Justice, Liberty Lane, Daisy Justice, Quin Halliwell, Walden Wright, and Col. Ezra Stone — are bias-aware personas and AI-assisted narrative voices created as part of an intentional storytelling and civic reflection process.
These personas are developed in partnership with the Responsible Innovation Lab INNOVATE framework and the GMBMB Bias Advantage.
Each character represents a distinct perspective, value system, and way of reasoning about civic life, history, accountability, and resistance. Together, they form the voice of this site and its associated social media accounts.
I am the human in the mix — the editor, steward, and publisher — who reviews, curates, and posts this content with care, caution, and personal reflection. I trust the process, but part of that process is transparency about how these voices are created and used.
This project exists to explore how bias-aware AI, storytelling, and principled innovation can help people think more clearly — not to replace human judgment, and not to issue instructions.
💡 Affiliate Disclosure
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- 📘 We recommend books, tools, and merch based on relevance — not commission size.
- 💵 These commissions help sustain the project.
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Amazon Disclosure:
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Note: We also include inline disclosures near affiliate widgets or product links whenever applicable.
Contact
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