Privacy Statement for TheNation.com

January 10, 2006

The Nation Company, L.P. has created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for www.thenation.com:

Scope

The following privacy policy governs our online collection of information from you. This privacy policy, including our children's privacy statement, does not apply to any information you may provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through other means; for example, at a live event, via telephone, or through the mail. We may collect and store information, personal or otherwise, that you voluntarily supply to us online as part of the Service. We also collect and store information that is generated automatically as users navigate online through the Service.

This document addresses the privacy policy of TheNation.com and does not necessarily reflect the privacy policy of The Nation Magazine, The Nation Associates, The Nation Institute, or any other affiliated organization or individual.

This statement is subject to change or alteration at any time, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. Notices of such changes will be posted on this web page. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes.

Information Gathering

General Information: If you subscribe for, purchase or otherwise make use of our products and services, we may collect personal information from you, including your name, age, address, e-mail address, credit card number and facts about your computers, profession and similar information. We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

IP Addresses: We use your IP address (the location of your computer on the internet) to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web site, to gauge the popularity of content areas, and to gather broad demographic information for prospective advertisers.

Cookies: We use "cookies" to help deliver advertisements and to identify unique browsers that visit us and to track usage throughout our site. Some of our business affiliates and advertisers use cookies, which can be used to tell when your computer has contacted a web site. Because we do not control the privacy policies of our business affiliates, advertisers or any other sites to which we may provide hyperlinks, you should check the privacy policy of the site you are visiting if you have any concerns about that site's use of cookies or about that site's use of your information.

Information Use and Sharing

We may use information in the following ways:

• For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to enable us to process, validate and verify subscriptions.
• To send you e-mail notifications about our new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you.
• To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services.
• To provide aggregate information--not personally identifiable information--to our advertisers to help them better understand our services and to monitor the reach of their advertising on the service.
• To allow us to personalize the content and advertising that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences.

Be aware that we may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Terms of Service agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of users of our Services, the public, or The Nation.

Email Addresses: We will not share your e-mail address with third parties, although we reserve the right to present you with advertisements on their behalf.

Subscription Lists: In accordance with standard industry practice, The Nation may rent, exchange or sell to third parties information you provide us when ordering a subscription to our print publication. We adhere strictly to the Direct Marketing Association's Ethical Business Practices For information about this practice, visit the Direct Marketing Association's website at http://www.the- dma.org/consumers/privacy.html.

If you wish not to receive unsolicited offers by mail, we strongly encourage you to take part in the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service.

Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but are contractually prohibited from using it for other purposes.

Third Party Providers: We also make some content, products and services available through our Service through cooperative relationships with third party providers, where the brands of our provider partner appear prominently on the Service. We may share with our provider partner any information you provide, or that is collected, in the course of visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with our provider partner. In some cases, the provider partner may collect information from you directly, in which cases the privacy policy of our provider partner may apply to the provider partner's use of your information. The privacy policy of our provider partners may differ from ours. If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider partners, you should contact the provider directly for more information.

Major Business Transactions: In the event of a major business transaction, our customer information may be one of the transferred business assets.

Links

This site contains links to other websites, in the form of hyperlinks and banner advertisements. The Nation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Our site uses an order form for customers to subscribe to our print publication, The Nation. We collect visitor's contact information (like their postal and e-mail addresses). Contact information from the order form is used to send orders to our customers, or to send e-mail newsletters that they have requested. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Opt-Out section below.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and that information can be collected and used by others besides The Nation. The Nation cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third party use of information that you disclose online.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Children's Privacy Statement

TheNation.com is directed to teenagers and adults and is not directed to children under the age of 13. This children's privacy statement explains our practices with respect to the online collection and use of personal information from children under the age of thirteen, and provides important information on your rights under federal law with respect to such information.

We do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Service. We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent users under the age of thirteen from providing such information. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen as part of the Service, we will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Service.

Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Service, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such information to third parties.

We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact information through the Service.

Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Service, we do NOT condition the participation in the Service's online activities of a child under thirteen on providing personally identifiable information.

Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.

You can remove yourself from our EmailNation newsletter at anytime by following the instructions at the bottom of each EmailNation newsletter, or by following this link and following the instructions provided. Note: You do not need to enter a password.

To opt-out of any promotional e-mail, based on information you provided to this website, fill out this form.

Correct/Update

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided. To correct information you provided previously, click here. Changes, including renewals and address changes, to your subscription to our print publication, The Nation, can be made by filling out this form or by calling (800) 333-8536.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, click here. Or you can contact:

Scott Klein
VP, Website & Technology
The Nation
33 Irving Place, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10003

History of Amendments to This Document

January 10, 2006: Made changes to reflect new partnerships and interactive features.
February 26, 2001: Added information on web-based opt-out of EmailNation.
October 13, 2000: Document language finalized and published.