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Information Collection
We collect both personally identifiable information on the Website about you and non-personally identifiable information about you and your visits to the Website.
Personally Identifiable Information: Some content, services and activities on the Website can be accessed and used without the submission of any personally identifiable information. However, in order to participate in certain activities or receive certain of our services (such as commenting on our blogs, downloading materials from the Website and subscribing to our newsletter), you will need to register on the Website and provider certain personally identifiable information. "Personally identifiable information" includes, for example, contact information and demographic information, such as the User's name, postal address, e-mail address, photograph and zip code. Some information may be required, such as a username, password, name and e-mail address, and other information (such as your postal address, photograph and avatar), may be voluntary. Personally identifiable information may also be collected from Users using a "contact us" or similar feature on the Website, when sending us an e-mail or in any other way contacting us through the Website.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information: We collect the browser type of all Site visitors. Our servers may also record the referring page that linked Users to the Site (e.g., another Web site or a search engine); the pages Users visit on this Site; the Web site that Users visit after this Site; other information about the type of Web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings Users are using; any search terms Users have entered on this Site or a referral site; and other Web usage activity and data logged by our Web servers. All User IP address information is anonymized.
We also store certain information from Users' browsers using cookies (small pieces of data stored on the User's computer). Cookies track where Users travel and what Users look at on the Web Site, and confirm when Users have logged in to the Site. A cookie may enable us to relate Users' use of the Website to other information about that User, including personally identifiable information. Cookies can be blocked or removed by a User through the use of browser settings. However, refusing a cookie may, in some cases, preclude Users from using, or negatively impact the display or function of, the Site or certain areas or features of the Site. We also may use "clear GIFs" (aka "Web beacons" or "pixel tags") or similar technologies in the Site and/or in our communications with you (such as in our e-mails), which help us to verify an individual's viewing or receipt of a Web page or message, and may enable us to relate such viewing or receipt to other information, including personally identifiable information. Any or all of the above-described activities with respect to non-personally identifiable information may be performed on our behalf by our Service Providers (defined below).
Information Obtained from Third Parties: We may supplement the information obtained from you through the Website with information that is received or otherwise obtained from third parties. For example, this information may be received or obtained from our partners in sponsored content sections of the Website or from other third parties. The types of information that is shared with us could include personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information.
We use Google Analytics, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, and other Google services that place cookies on a browser across the website. These cookies help us increase the website’s effectiveness for our visitors. These cookies are set and read by Google. To opt out of Google tracking, please visit this page.
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Use of Information
Personally Identifiable Information: We may use personally identifiable information of our Users for various purposes, including, for example, to respond to User requests and to provide Users with certain content and service offerings. We may also use Users' personally identifiable information to maintain our internal record keeping. Contact information may also be used to notify you of significant upcoming events and programs. Demographic information may be used to tailor your experience at the Site. Contact information and demographic information also may be used to establish a profile for you to use when posting information in public forums (however, as further described below, we are not responsible for protecting the personally identifiable information you may disclose in public forums, comments, or other user-generated content). The Website may show you content we think might be of interest to you and we may display content according to your preferences and interests expressed through the Website and your activities on the Website.
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We may match information collected from Users through different means or at different times, including both personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources, including (without limitation) any of our other Web sites and third parties. We may use Users' names and email addresses to send notifications regarding the Site, and otherwise correspond with Users, about products, services, companies, events, sponsored by us and others, that we think might interest our Users.
We may also use personally identifiable information for marketing and promotional purposes (such as sending you promotional emails), and we may combine information we receive online with outside records and/or information from other sources to enhance our ability to market products or provide services that we believe may be of interest to you. If you want to stop receiving promotional email messages from the Website, you may do so by following the directions in the "Rights to Opt In/Opt Out" section below.
Non-personally identifiable information: We use non-personally identifiable information of and about our Users for various purposes. For example, cookies may enable us to relate your use of the Web Site to other information about you, including your personally identifiable information. Additionally, we use this information for internal system administration, to help diagnose problems with our servers, to analyze this information to increase the functionality and user-friendliness of the Site, to better tailor the Site to our Users' needs, and to otherwise operate and administer the Site. Such information may also be used to gather broad demographic information, such as country of origin and Internet Service Provider. We may also combine this non-personally identifiable information with personally identifiable information.
E-mail-A-Friend: Users may be able to send information about our products and/or Site to their friends and family members by using an "E-mail to Friend" or similar feature on the Site or in an e-mail that we have sent them. In some of these cases (unless a User simply forwards our e-mail on his or her own), the User may provide the name and e-mail address of his or her friend or family member to us. Such information will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.
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Disclosures of Information
Except as otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose personally identifiable information to third parties without User consent.
Service Providers: We may provide User information (including personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information) to third party service providers such as server hosts, data management companies, address list hosting companies, e-mail service providers, analytics companies, distribution companies, fulfillment companies and payment processors (collectively, "Service Providers"), which may use such information on our behalf to facilitate the operation of the Website and its various services and features.
Legally Required Disclosures: We may comply with judicial requests for Users' personally identifiable information and other information, and make other legally-required disclosures. Additionally, we may disclose User information when we believe it is necessary to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Site, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing User information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
Aggregate Information: Aggregate demographic and other information of and about Users may be published or shared with third parties, such as advertisers, for various purposes.
Public Forums: When you use certain features of the Website, certain information you choose to post, such as your profile information, comments, messages, photos, videos or other content or information, may be shared with other Users of the Website and/or the general public, depending on the area of the Website. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personally identifiable information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos or other items, this information may become publicly available, and all such activities are therefore done at your own risk.
Corporate Change of Control: In the event that we, or a significant portion of our assets, are acquired by or transferred to one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, consolidation or liquidation, personally identifiable information and other User information may be one of the transferred assets.
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Rights to Opt In/Opt Out
You may have the right to "opt in" and/or "opt out" of certain of our uses of your personally identifiable information. For example, at the time you are requested to provide personally identifiable information on this Site or in connection with our communications, you may have the opportunity to elect to, or not to receive correspondence from us. You may opt out of our promotional e-mails by clicking on an opt-out or "unsubscribe" link within the promotional e-mail you receive. Please understand that if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us.
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Links to Third-Party Websites
The Site may contain links to other websites. When you link to such sites, you become subject to their terms of use and privacy policies posted thereon and/or applicable thereto. We are not responsible in any way for the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided to or collected on any other website. You should review these other websites' privacy policies regarding any personally identifiable information and other information that they may collect about you at their sites.
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Security
While we will endeavor to protect the security and integrity of any sensitive personally identifiable information that may be provided to this Site, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.
If you contact us by e-mail, via a messaging feature, or by a "contact us" or similar feature on the Site, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure. A third party could view information you send by these methods in transit. We will have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission.
In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of any user's personally identifiable information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify such user of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail, and by providing your e-mail address to us, you consent to our use of such e-mail as the means of such notification.
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Children
The Site is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Users under 13 without prior parental consent. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide personally identifiable information of any kind whatsoever.
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Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and such changes will be effective immediately upon posting. We will notify you of material changes to this Privacy Policy by other means, including, for example, by posting the revised policy with the date it was revised on this page or by email. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personally identifiable information we collect.
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Consent to Processing
This Website is intended for users located in the United States. This Privacy Policy shall be interpreted under the laws of the United States. By using the Website, you are consenting to have your personally identifiable information collected, maintained, transferred and processed in and to the United States and other countries and territories.
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Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@thefiscaltimes.org
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Last Updated: June 05, 2014
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