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Privacy Statement for TheNation.comAugust 22, 2007 The Nation Company, L.P. and its affiliated organizations and individuals (which also may be collectively referred to herein as, among other things, "we," "us" and "our") have created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our websites. ScopeThe 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 your use of our sites (the "Services"). We also collect and store information that is generated automatically as users navigate online through the Services. This document addresses the privacy policy of TheNation.com and other sites owned and operated by The Nation Company or its affiliates (unless otherwise indicated by such site) including, but not limited to TheNationMart.com. Each site of the Services may further supplement, revise or otherwise amend this privacy policy as it relates to such site. This statement is subject to change or alteration at any time, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the privacy policy in effect at the time of our use. Notices of such changes will be posted on this web page. You should check our sites frequently to see recent changes. Information GatheringGeneral 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 may use your IP address (the location of your computer on the internet) to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our sites, 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 sites. Some third party merchants and advertisers use cookies, which can be used to tell when your computer has contacted a site. Because we do not control the privacy policies of third party merchants, 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 SharingWe may use information in the following ways:
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 Company or its affiliates. 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, we may rent, exchange or sell to third parties mailing address information you provide us when ordering a subscription to our print publication, The Nation. We adhere strictly to the Direct Marketing Association's Ethical Business Practices For information about this practice, visit the Direct Marketing Association's site 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 Services through cooperative relationships with third parties, where the brands of such third party appear prominently on the Services. We may share with such third party any information you provide, or that is collected, in the course of visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with such third party. In some cases, the third party may collect information from you directly, in which cases the privacy policy of such third party may apply to its use of your information. The privacy policy of third parties may differ from ours. If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of a third party, you should contact the third party 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. LinksOur sites may contain links to other sites, in the form of hyperlinks and banner advertisements. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. Our sites may use an order form for customers to subscribe to a publication or other services or to purchase certain items. We may 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 ForumsOur sites may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to their 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 Company and its affiliates. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third party use of information that you disclose online. SecurityOur sites have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Children's Privacy StatementOur sites are directed to teenagers and adults and are 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 Services. 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 Services, 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 Services. Because we do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Services, 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 Services. Because we do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Services, we do NOT condition the participation in the Services' online activities of a child under thirteen on providing personally identifiable information. Opt-OutYou can remove yourself from our EmailNation newsletter at anytime by following the instructions at the bottom of each EmailNation newsletter, or by making a request via this form 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 us through one of our sites, fill out this form. Who Else Has Access to My Personal Information?The ads appearing on our websites are delivered to you by Google, our web advertising serving partner. Information about your visit to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site. And, in the course of serving advertisements to this site, third party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. We have also contracted with a number of advertising network partners to monitor certain pages of our website and RSS feeds for the purpose of reporting website and RSS traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-throughs', and/or other activities on our website. Where authorized by us, these advertising network partners may use cookies, web beacons, and/or other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous statistics about our website visitors. No personally identifiable information is collected by or transferred to these network partners. For more information about how the information is collected and used, please see the following:
Third parties and web sites that have links on our site may also collect or use information about you. The information practices of other companies or people that The Nation does not employ or manage are not covered by this privacy statement. Correct/UpdateOur sites give 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 UsIf you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of our sites, or your dealings with our sites, click here. Or you can contact:
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