PRIVACY POLICY

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the www.nationalcenter.org and The National Center for Public Policy Research and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to The National Center for Public Policy Research include www.nationalcenter.org and NCPPR. The NCPPR website is a news and information site. By using the NCPPR website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
NCPPR may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name. If you donate to NCPPR, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. We may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by NCPPR. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the NCPPR website.

NCPPR encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from NCPPR so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. NCPPR is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the NCPPR website.

Use of your Personal Information
NCPPR collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

NCPPR may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from NCPPR and its affiliates. NCPPR may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

NCPPR does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

NCPPR may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to NCPPR, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

NCPPR may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within NCPPR, in order to determine what NCPPR services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within NCPPR to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

NCPPR will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on NCPPR or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of NCPPR; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of NCPPR, or the public.

Use of Cookies
The NCPPR website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize NCPPR pages, or register with NCPPR site or services, a cookie helps NCPPR to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same NCPPR website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the NCPPR features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the NCPPR services or websites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

NCPPR secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

Children Under Thirteen
NCPPR does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from NCPPR by contacting us here.

Changes to this Statement
NCPPR will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. NCPPR encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how NCPPR is protecting your information.

Contact Information
NCPPR welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that NCPPR has not adhered to this Statement, please contact NCPPR at:

The National Center for Public Policy Research
20 F Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, District of Columbia 20001

Email Address:
[email protected]

Telephone number:
(202) 507-6398

Effective as of December 01, 2016

List rentals and exchanges: The National Center for Public Policy Research periodically permits other appropriate non-profit organizations to mail certain lists of our donors, primarily through list exchanges as a means of obtaining new donors to support National Center programs. These exchanges are on a one-to-one basis, for one-time use, and require the consent of either the president or chairman of The National Center.

Only names and addresses are provided in such exchanges. All other data is kept in the strictest confidence.

To ensure that donors are not sent more mail than authorized, every list The National Center ships contains unique markers permitting use to be tracked. The National Center will take legal action for compensation, damages and legal fees for any unauthorized use of any of its donor lists.

If you are a National Center donor and you prefer that your name and address not be included in such list trades or rentals, you may inform us by e-mail by clicking here. Please include your name and address.

To be removed from mailing lists: If you wish to be removed from our mail solicitation lists, please click here. Please include your name and mailing address in your e-mail correspondence. For name/address changes or other concerns, please click here.

These requests also may be facilitated by writing us at: National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20001, or faxing us at (301) 498-1301, or calling (202) 507-6398.

To ensure that we respect the wishes of our donors, all requests must be made either by the donor or a legally-appointed representative of the donor. If you are a donor’s legal representative, include a copy of your Power of Attorney when e-mailing, faxing or writing us on the donor’s behalf. If we do not receive this documentation, we have no way to know if a person purporting to be speaking on a donor’s behalf has the permission of the donor to do so.

Those who wish to continue receiving solicitations from The National Center, but wish to reduce either the frequency of such mailings or specify specific times of year they wish to receive them, may inform us of their wishes using any of the means indicated above.

Additional information: The National Center also periodically (at least annually) provides in written appeals to donors the opportunity to express their preference with regard to sharing their contact information with other organizations. Internally, confidential donor information is protected in numerous ways: 1. Only personnel with direct fundraising responsibilities have access to our donor database; 2. The National Center has software that records details on every list exported from our database, including the identity of the staff member accessing the list; 3. All National Center employees are required to sign a legally-binding non-disclosure agreement as a condition of employment; 4. The National Center’s database contains a mixture of “decoys,” including paid monitors; family, friends and associates of The National Center; donor volunteers permitting us to track unauthorized use. These decoys, some of whom are only known to the president of The National Center, provide regular reports to the president on the mail they receive; 5. Any employee found sharing confidential donor lists without authorization will be terminated immediately and will face legal action.

The National Center will not divulge ANY information about a donor’s giving history to anyone other than the donor, the donor’s legally-appointed representative, or government agencies as required by law.

Telephone solicitations: The National Center for Public Policy Research does not conduct telephone solicitation efforts, so there is no need to contact us if you do not wish to be telephoned as part of a National Center telephone solicitation campaign.

Legal notice: All privacy policies are subject to laws, subpoenas, government regulations and court orders, and also are subject to change.