Privacy Policy
To help you understand how information submitted
will be treated when you log on to and use our
web site, The New Republic Online ("TheNewRepublic.com")
offers this Privacy Policy. Use of TheNewRepublic.com
web site, and disclosure to us of your personal
information, is optional and voluntary. By visiting
TheNewRepublic.com, you are accepting and agreeing
to the practices described in this Policy.
The following paragraphs describe the type
of information TheNewRepublic.com collects,
the reasons why such information is collected,
how such information is used and who has access
to it.
General Principles
TheNewRepublic.com will not release your personal
data to anyone else without your consent.
TheNewRepublic.com's Privacy Policy may change
from time to time without notice to you. You
should read this Privacy Policy each time you
plan to submit personal information so that
you understand how the information you are submitting
will be used.
Any changes made to the Privacy Policy will
be prospective, not retroactive.
TheNewRepublic.com is not responsible for the
information practices of third parties.
Collection of Information
TheNewRepublic.com collects information in
various ways that is volunteered by visitors
to our site. Certain identifying information,
such as name, street address, city, state, zip
code and email address, is gathered at certain
interactive areas on the site, such as when
you subscribe to our print publication while
online.
Wherever possible and practical, TheNewRepublic.com
gives users options about submitting information.
Such choices include:
Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters.
Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviates the need
for collecting information from our users.
Subscriptions
You may use the web site to subscribe to the
print version of The New Republic by
following the instructions for subscribing.
All subscription-related information is collected
from users on this site and stored by the magazine's
fulfillment house, Communications Data Services,
Inc. ("CDS"), a reputable third party.
Electronic Newsletters
TheNewRepublic.com offers several electronic
newsletters to which you may voluntarily subscribe
and unsubscribe at any time. TheNewRepublic.com
uses DoubleClick®, a reputable third party,
to deliver the email newsletters you will receive
from our site and serve all of the advertisements
that are placed within those emails. DoubleClick®
provides this email service through its DARTmail™
service.
DoubleClick® collects and stores all the information
users submit to TheNewRepublic.com in connection
with the electronic newsletters. If you would
like to know more about the information gathering
practices and "opt-out" procedures of DoubleClick®,
please go to Doubleclick's
website.
You may remove yourself from any or all of
the electronic newsletters' mailing lists at
any time by following the instructions for unsubscribing
found at the end of every newsletter.
Letters to the Editor
You may submit letters to the editor by sending
your letters via email. Any letters you send
to TheNewRepublic.com or The New Republic,
whether online or in hard copy, become the sole
property of TheNewRepublic.com for all purposes
in any media, may be modified by us in any way,
and will not be returned to you.
Surveys
From time to time TheNewRepublic.com conducts
voluntary user surveys to better target our
content to our audience. We sometimes share
the aggregated demographic information in these
surveys with our advertisers. We never share
any of this information about specific individuals
with any third party, unless so indicated in
this Privacy Policy.
Cookies and IP Addresses
In order to offer and provide personalized
custom services, TheNewRepublic.com uses cookies
to limit the number of times a particular advertisement
is shown to a user as the user navigates through
the site. A cookie is a small data file that
certain web sites write to your hard drive when
you visit them. A cookie file may contain information
such as a user ID that the site uses to track
the pages you have visited and to allow easy
access to restricted areas of the web site.
The only personal information a cookie can contain
is information you supply yourself. A cookie
cannot read data off your hard disk, read cookie
files created by other sites, or damage your
files.
If you have set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, you will receive the warning
message with each cookie. You also may refuse
cookies by disabling them on your browser. You
do not need to have cookies turned on to use
TheNewRepublic.com.
IP addresses are also recorded in the log
files on TheNewRepublic.com. TheNewRepublic.com
may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer
the site, track users' movement and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use.
Use of the Information Collected
TheNewRepublic.com uses any information you
voluntarily give to enhance your experience,
whether to provide interactive or personalized
elements on the site, to present content more
effectively, or to make our future marketing
efforts more efficient.
TheNewRepublic.com uses information you voluntarily
submit to send out electronic newsletters and
to enable users to move seamlessly through our
web site. We send out newsletters to subscribers
on a regular schedule (weekly) and occasionally
send out special editions when we think subscribers
might be particularly interested in something
we are doing. With respect to advertisements,
an advertiser will inform us which type of audience
it seeks to reach, and TheNewRepublic.com, through
DoubleClick®, will place the advertisement in
the body of the email newsletter of those individuals
fitting the advertiser's criteria. Pop-up advertisements
are displayed to a targeted audience based on
the same criteria. The advertisers are not able
to access your account or any of your personally
identifiable information.
We also use tracking information to determine
which areas of our site users like and do not
like based on traffic to those areas.
TheNewRepublic.com creates aggregate reports
on user demographics and traffic patterns for
advertisers. This allows our advertisers to
advertise more effectively, and allows our users
to receive advertisements that are pertinent
to their interests. Because TheNewRepublic.com
does not track the usage patterns of individual
users, an advertiser will never know that a
specific user clicked on a particular ad.
Information Sharing
When you visit TheNewRepublic.com and are
asked to provide information about yourself,
unless specifically stated otherwise in this
Privacy Policy, you are sharing that information
only with TheNewRepublic.com. TheNewRepublic.com
will not disclose the information you submit,
except as described here, or when we believe
in good faith that the law requires disclosure
to protect the rights or property of TheNewRepublic.com,
or for administrative or other purposes we deem
necessary to maintain or service our products
and services. For example, we may allow access
to our database by third parties that provide
us with services, such as technical maintenance,
but only for the purpose of and to the extent
necessary to provide you with our services.
As discussed above, TheNewRepublic.com uses
DoubleClick® to collect and store personal information
users submit when subscribing to the electronic
newsletters. CDS stores information collected
from you when you subscribe online to our print
publication, The New Republic. These
third parties may have their own privacy and
data collection practices. TheNewRepublic.com
has no responsibility or liability for these
third party policies.
If you do not want your data to be shared,
you may choose not to permit the data to be
collected or transferred by not submitting personally
identifiable information on our site, or by
not using a particular service.
TheNewRepublic.com Security Measures
TheNewRepublic.com web site has technical
and organizational security measures in place,
including firewalls, to protect the information
under our control from accidental or unlawful
destruction or accidental loss, alteration,
unauthorized disclosure, or access. Such measures
do not guarantee prevention of loss, misuse,
or alteration of information, however, so while
we strive to protect your information, TheNewRepublic.com
cannot warrant the security of information you
transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Children's Privacy
TheNewRepublic.com site is intended for use
by individuals over the age of 16, and not for
children. If you are under 16, please do not
submit any personally identifiable information
on our site. Children should always ask a parent
or guardian for permission to send any personal
information online to anyone.
Other Information About Your Privacy
Whenever you voluntarily disclose any information
online in any forum, that information can be
collected and used by others. In other words,
if you post personal information online that
may be accessed by the public, you may receive
unsolicited messages from other parties. It
is important to be responsible and careful whenever
you are online.
Updating, Correcting and Deleting Personal
Information
Users who subscribe to our print publication,
The New Republic, may correct or change
online their subscription information. Users
may change this information at any time and
as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing
problems with updating information, or who have
any questions about how our services work, may
contact us at online@tnr.com.
Currently, TheNewRepublic.com does not offer
users a means by which to completely delete
personal information submitted while on this
site.
Additional Information
If, for any reason, you believe that TheNewRepublic.com
has not adhered to its Privacy Policy, please
notify us by sending an email message to online@tnr.com.
TheNewRepublic.com will try to respond to your
concerns and, where appropriate, attempt to
correct the problem.
By using this web site, you signify your assent
to this policy statement regarding online privacy.
If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy,
please do not use our web site. Moreover, your
continued use of this web site after we post
changes to the Privacy Policy will mean that
you accept those changes. If you have any questions
about this Privacy Policy, the practices of
this web site, or your interaction with TheNewRepublic.com,
you may contact us at the email address posted
above.
This Privacy Policy was last updated effective
July 18, 2002.
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