This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information. Privacy Statement for nationmart.com October 3, 2000 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 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: Although we do not currently do so, we reserve the right to use "cookies" to authenticate registered users and subscribers, and to target advertising based on broad demographic categories. 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 individual data ­ 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. Information Use and Sharing 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. Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with our affiliated businesses, an example of which is [Amazon.com]. In some cases, these businesses offer products to you at thenation.com. In other cases, we sell product lines jointly with these businesses. You can tell when another business is involved in your transactions, and we share customer information related to those transactions with that business. We encourage our affiliated businesses to adopt privacy policies which are substantially similar to our own. 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 you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Security This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Children Thenation.com is directed to teenagers and adults and is not directed to children under the age of 13. Thenation.com does not knowingly permit purchases by and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. 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 e-mailNation newsletter at anytime by following the instructions at the bottom of each e-mailNation 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. History of Amendments to This Document February 26, 2001 Added information on web-based opt-out of e-mailNation. October 13, 2000 Document language finalized and published.