PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE OR SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION. BY USING THIS WEBSITE YOU ARE AGREEING TO THESE PRIVACY TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.  THIS SITE IS INTENDED FOR USERS IN THE UNITED STATES ONLY.

Commitment to Privacy

This site, www.newt.org, and any and all sites that we may own and operate in the future is owned by Gingrich Communications (“Site”, "Newt.org", "we" or "our").  Newt.org respects the privacy of every individual who uses the Site and we will only process and use the data obtained through the Site for our own business purposes. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) outlines the information we will collect and how we will use that information.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Because of changes in Internet technology and practices, this Privacy Policy, and our security and other policies may change from time to time. Please consult this portion of the Site for important changes to the Privacy Policy as they occur. By using the Site after we post any changes to this Privacy Policy, you agree to accept those changes, whether or not you have reviewed them, and such acceptance shall be deemed legally conclusive. If at any time you choose not to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Site, nor should you provide information about yourself to us.

Personally Identifiable Information

When you access and use this Site, we or our service providers may obtain data concerning that access and use.  If you request information from us or register to use any limited access portions of the Site, you will be asked to provide personally identifiable information about yourself. This data may include, but is not limited to, your name, address and other demographic information, telephone number, and email address. We will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you opt not to provide us with personally identifiable information, no material consequences will result, although there may be functionality on the Site that may be unavailable to you.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We may store and process your personally identifiable information in order to fulfill any requests for information that you make of us, provide you access to “members only” portions of the Site, or to better understand your needs and to learn how to improve our Site offerings. We may also use your personally identifiable information to contact you (for example, we may respond to your comments or requests for information).  Further, we will post your user id when you participate in Collaborative Editing and Interactive Forums. Your user id is hot linked to your profile information (which may contain your personally identifiable information if you so specify) so another user will be able to click on your user id and see the profile information you have opted to display. We will not sell or rent your personal information to any third party not affiliated to Gingrich Communications without your express consent.  However, we may share your information within the Gingrich Communications family of companies.   

Your Profile Information

When you register on the Site, we minimally require you to provide first name, last name, postal/zip code, country, and e-mail address.  You may provide additional information at your discretion. This profile information, minus your e-mail address, may be accessible to others depending on the options for display that you choose when registering or updating your profile.

Interactive Forums

Our Interactive Forums provide our registered users an opportunity to interact with one another.  Though we encourage the dialogue, you should remain cautious about revealing non-profile information such age, e-mail address and phone number to other participants in these forums.  You, and not we, are liable for any consequences that result from your disclosure of information to participants in Interactive Forums.

Disclosure to Service Providers

To enable us to more efficiently provide the products and services you have requested from us, we may share your personal information with selected third parties who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers, or providers. Such third party service providers are provided only with such information as is necessary under the circumstances.  Information provided to third parties is used only for the purposes stipulated and those third parties are subject to confidentiality obligations. We may also enhance or merge personally identifiable information with data obtained from third parties for any of the foregoing purposes. Nothing in the Privacy Policy shall be deemed to prohibit us from disclosing your identity or information if we are required by law to do so.

Contacting Us Regarding Your Personally Identifiable Information

If you have submitted personally identifiable information through the Site, and you would like to review, request changes or have that information deleted from our databases, please contact us by sending a letter to our Privacy Compliance Officer at Gingrich Communications, 1425 K St., NW, Suite 350, Washington, D.C. 20005. We will then use reasonable efforts to change or remove your personally identifiable information from our files, unless we are entitled or required to retain it pursuant to other agreements or by law. We will use reasonable efforts to supply you with this information and correct any factual inaccuracies in this information. Notwithstanding the prior two sentences, if the laws in your state provide you with additional protections or requires us to comply with more stringent obligations to provide you with, remove, or correct your personally identifiable information, we will comply with those legal requirements.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information Collected Automatically

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. Examples of this type of information include but are not limited to the frequency of your use of the Site and the route by which you choose to access the Site and your use of any available hyperlinks. We and our service providers, agents or advisors may process and use this data for purposes including but not limited to, planning Site development, assessing patterns of use, or to include you in e-mail or mailing lists so that we may send you information or updates and or offer you services.

Cookies

"Cookies" are small text files that are either used for the duration of a session ('session cookies'), or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user the next time he/she logs on to the Site ('persistent cookies'). We may use 'session cookies' to identify registered users logging in to the Site. These cookies are deleted from the server soon after the session ends and are not collected or saved. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that, although if you do disable cookies from your browser you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site.

Security

We use reasonable measures to protect personal information from access by unauthorized persons. This includes, among other things, standard techniques such as firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection, and site monitoring.  We also use reasonable internal controls to protect personal information from misuse by our employees. Unfortunately, no electronic data or transmission can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we use reasonable measures to protect personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted or otherwise provided to the Site or received from the Site. This is especially true for information that is transmitted via e-mail that is unprotected until it reaches our servers. Once a transmission is received, we use the reasonable measures set forth above to secure our servers.

Internally, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees who need access to the information in order to do their jobs. These employees are limited in number and are instructed to adhere to our privacy policies.

We use a third party provider to operate our online store.  When you purchase goods from the store you are dealing with our third party provider, and not us. If you pay by credit card, this provider may retain your credit card information according to their own business processes and as required by law.  They are required to use reasonable measures to protect your financial information as mandated by law.

Children

This Site is not intended for use by persons under the age of 13. If you are under 13, do not use this Site. If parents believe their minor children have accessed this Site and provided their personally identifiable information, please contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us Regarding Your Personal Identification Information” section of this Privacy Policy.

Other Sites

The Site may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by other websites. Users are encouraged to review the privacy policy of any website linked to from the Site.

Transfer of Business Assets

As we continue to develop our business, we might acquire or buy other businesses or assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that we or substantially all of our assets are acquired, both personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable user and customer information will be one of the transferred assets.