The Independent Institute Privacy Policy

The Independent Institute knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting Independent.org, you are accepting the practices described herein.

What Personal Information Does Independent.org Gather?

* Information You Give Us: We receive and store information you enter on our Web site through the shopping cart when making purchases in the Store section. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, shipping ordered items to your address, and communicating with you.

* E-mail Communications: To help us keep in contact with our users, we send a weekly email newsletter, The Lighthouse. To subscribe or unsubscribe to The Lighthouse, please enter your email address on the left side of this page under the ?E-Newsletter? section, select Subscribe or Unsubscribe, and click “Submit”.

We may also send out email communications to announce upcoming events, or new articles and publications. To unsubscribe to these emails, please respond to the email with “UNSUBSCRIBE” in the subject line of the message.

If you contact us using the email webform, buying a product in the store, or by entering the Garvey Essay Contest, we may add your email address to be a recipient of The Lighthouse, our free weekly email newsletter. You are always free to unsubscribe by using the interface on the left side of any page on this website.

Does Independent.org Share the Information It Receives?

Occasionally we make our mailing list available to organizations from whom we think you’d like to receive offers. However, we do not share the email list of Lighthouse recipients.

Cookies

* Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The shopping cart software uses cookies to remember your name and address so that you don’t have to re-enter it when making another purchase.

* The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

* We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

* We reveal only the last six digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

What Choices Do I Have?

* As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or contact us.

* If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please go to the Lighthouse page and unsubscribe, or respond to the message with “UNSUBSCRIBE” in the subject.

* The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.