Scope of this Privacy Policy

The NWDIGEST.COM web site (the “Site”) is owned and operated by Republic Modern Media, LLC.  Your privacy is important to us.

This page describes how NWDIGEST.COM protects your privacy when you use our site.  Please also see our site Terms of Use.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy

By using our Site, you are agreeing to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy, you may not use our Site.

This Privacy Policy may change

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised version of this Privacy Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site following any such change constitutes your agreement that all Personal Information collected from or about you through the Site after the revised Privacy Policy is posted will be subject to the terms of the revised Privacy Policy. You may access the current version of this Privacy Policy at any time by clicking on the link marked “Privacy Policy” at the bottom of each page of our Site.

Information NWDIGEST.COM gathers and tracks

We gather the following types of information about users:

Optional Voluntary Information

In order to access or use certain services and capabilities on our Site, you may be required to voluntarily submit certain Personal Information. The use of these services or capabilities is purely optional, so you are not required to submit any Personal Information to us if you do not wish to use them.

Usage tracking

We may track user traffic patterns and content accessed throughout our Site. This information allows NWDIGEST.COM to better tailor our content to readers’ needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand our audience.

Browser Information

We may collect information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser, such as your IP address, the address of the web page you were visiting when you accessed our Web Site, information on your operating system and browser, and the date and time of your visit. Such information does not by itself identify you personally.

In addition, we may review our server logs for security purposes, such as detecting intrusions into our network. If we suspect criminal activity, we might share our server logs — which contain visitors’ IP addresses — with the appropriate investigative authorities who could use that information to trace and identify individuals.

Use of information collected on the site

In the event of unusual activity on NWDIGEST.COM by users, such as verbal harassment or other uncivil behavior, we may use IP addresses to ban users from the site.  If the disruption of the site continues, we may take steps to identify the user, and reserve the right to use that information in ways that block the user from further accessing the site.  We also review IP addresses to analyze where we are getting our audience.

 External sites

Third party sites, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our Site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our Site you may link to (i.e. External Digest link), or view certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. We are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. We suggest you exercise caution and check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing Personal Information or another party’s information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

Effective date of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of June 1, 2009.