Last Modified: March 26, 2010 At MAKE MEDIA MATTER we recognize that privacy is important. This privacy policy applies to all of the products, services, and websites offered by MAKE MEDIA MATTER or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. We take seriously the privacy of you as the user of the MAKE MEDIA MATTER websites and any information we collect from you. This document sets out our Privacy Policy in relation to you and your personal data.

The MAKE MEDIA MATTER website is hosted in Canada and adheres to the Canadian law on data security, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at:

MAKE MEDIA MATTER
147 Spadina Avenue, Suite 206
Toronto, Ontario. Canada
M5V 2L7
info@makemediamatter.com MAKE MEDIA MATTER acknowledges the importance of protecting your privacy and personal information, and will adhere to all applicable privacy laws.


Collection of Information
When you use the MAKE MEDIA MATTER website, sign up for a MAKE MEDIA MATTER account, or other service including a promotion, donation, online petition, or subscription that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name and email address).

For certain services, such as our online donations and sales, we also request credit card or other payment account information which (we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers/is retained only for as long as is required to process your payment).

We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13 years old. If you are under 13 years old, please do not provide us with any such information or ask your parents for permission.


Cookies
When you visit MAKE MEDIA MATTER, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service such as storing user preferences. MAKE MEDIA MATTER also uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web.

You can set up your computer to refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use the MAKE MEDIA MATTER websites. We will only collect personal information from you in a fair, reasonable, and lawful manner. Unless we have obtained your consent or applicable law requires or permits us to process your information we will use personal information only for the following purposes:

• Providing you with personalized service including the display of customized content.
• Auditing, research, and analysis in order to maintain, protect, and improve our services.
• Managing and processing inquiries, registrations, donations, and other interactions with you.
• Forwarding petitions you have signed to advocacy targets.
• Providing you with information about services we offer. Please see our Privacy Preferences below if you do not wish to receive such information.
• Other marketing services
• Developing new services
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network.
• Protecting the rights or property of MAKE MEDIA MATTER and/or our users
• Complying with applicable laws and regulations.

jhr (Journalists for Human Rights) processes personal information on our servers in Canada and in other countries. In some cases, we process personal information on a server outside your own country. As jhr recognizes the importance of the protection of personal information in a sophisticated global information and communication society, all jhr offices and affiliates are required to comply with the present Privacy Policy or similar provisions subject to their compliance with local legal requirements. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners. When a user signs up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask that they provide personal information. If we use this information in a manner different from the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask the user for consent prior to such use.

• You may view, correct, or request the deletion of any of your information we have collected from you and stored by us by sending your request through our website or by email to (info@makemediamatter.com). Please see the note below.
• You may choose not to receive newsletters, invitations, and other similar correspondence from us, and/or choose not to have us disclose your personal information to third parties. You may do this whenever you provide us with personal information by checking the appropriate box on the online or other form.
• You may subscribe or unsubscribe to any of our mailing lists and a link to automatically unsubscribe will also be included in every email delivered by one of our subscription mailing lists.

If you request that we disclose, modify, or delete your information from our databases, or cease to make use of your personal information either temporarily or permanently, we will endeavor to comply with your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records to the extent that such retention is legally required and permitted. MAKE MEDIA MATTER only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of MAKE MEDIA MATTER or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies in the following limited circumstances:

• We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
• We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
• We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:
  1. Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
  2. Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof.
  3. Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
  4. Protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of MAKE MEDIA MATTER, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
• We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information that does not identify you individually (such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular link).

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction or data. These include:

• The physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
• Restriction of access to personal information to jhr employees, contractors, and agents who require that information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

MAKE MEDIA MATTER websites and emails may contain links to external websites, such as news sites, international institutions, social media websites, other nonprofit organizations, and other relevant entities. We do not monitor or control the information collection or privacy practices of these or any other third parties, and are not responsible for their practices or the content of their websites. Users should review the privacy policies of such third parties to understand how they collect and use information. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at: MAKE MEDIA MATTER
147 Spadina Avenue, Suite 206
Toronto, Ontario. Canada
M5V 2L7
info@makemediamatter.com This Privacy Policy is valid as of the date at the top of the policy. Please note that, by using this website, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. In our ongoing efforts to provide appropriate protection for personal information, in accordance with changes in the law and at other necessary times, we reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. In the event that we make an amendment, the amended policy will be promptly posted on this website. Your continued use of this website, subsequent to changes to this Privacy Policy, will mean that you accept such changes.