Last updated June 20, 2020
1. About This Privacy Policy
JURIST provides legal news and analysis to our readers as a public service. We want you to know how we handle your data and the choices you have about how it is collected and used.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard information about you. It applies when you visit our website or use our downloadable iOS application.
By visiting our website or using our app, you accept the present terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
2. What Information Do We Collect?
How we gather information about you depends on how you interact with JURIST.
2.1 Information You Provide
By subscribing to JURIST’s daily newsletter, contacting us by phone or email, reaching out to us on social media platforms, or visiting jurist.org you may provide us with personal information, such as your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, IP address, or social media handle.
We may use your personally identifiable information in a variety of ways including but not limited to:
- Answering your emails or online requests
- Delivering and processing surveys and newsletters
- Personalizing and improving the usability of the website
- Fulfilling and/or delivering products and services requested by you
- Keeping you informed about events.
2.2 Data Automatically Collected on our Website
We use technologies that automatically collect and store some personal and non-personal data when you use our website, including sending one or more cookies, web beacons, or other anonymous identifiers to your device. Cookies are small files with code and text that are saved on your device after visiting websites that employ the technology. Web beacons are also small files saved to your device, often by analytics software, to track visitor information.
Cookies and web beacons gather information unique to your device and browser. The data they collect may include:
- Your IP address
- Your geographic location
- The date and time you visit the website
- The URLs of websites you visit before and after you visit our website
- Information about your device hardware
- Information about your device software
2.3 Data Automatically Collected on our iOS Application
Our iOS application does not collect personal information that is used to identify you. When you use our iOS application, our server may record some non-personal information to understand the reading habits of our users, including the time of visit, and the type and titles of articles viewed. This information, however, is collected on an aggregated level only. We do not link the data gathered to your personal device or your personal identity.
3. How Do We Use Your Information?
We use Google Analytics to collect information about your use of the JURIST website. Google may use and share information collected about you per the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
Cookies, web beacons, and other technologies help us to recognize you on return visits to the JURIST website and application, to enhance your browsing experience, and to collect additional information to help us conduct traffic analyses and better understand our website and application users.
We use data in ways including but not limited to:
- Improving the usability and design of the website or application
- Evaluating and improving the content of the website or application
- Diagnosing problems with the website or application
- Assessing the interests and demands of website and application users.
We do not automatically collect personally identifiable information and will not collect such information without your consent, with the exception of IP addresses. We will not merge your personally identifiable information with non-personal data without your consent.
We may contract with third-party service providers to better understand our visitors. These third parties may use cookies and other identifiers to collect data, such as gender, age, industry, or interests. We do not control how third parties use these technologies.
We may also share your non-personal data with third parties or permit third parties to use cookies, web beacons, and other anonymous identifiers to collect additional data when you use our website. The collected data may be used to serve advertisements to you before, during, and after you visit the website.
4. What Choices Do You Have?
Acceptance of anonymous identifiers is not required to use the website. You may adjust your browser settings or use other means to prevent the collection of data through cookies. Doing so may result in some reduced functionality and a less personalized browsing experience.
You may opt out of Google Analytics tracking and prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits by disabling cookies. Using Google Ads Settings, you can also opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising or customize Google Display Network ads. For more information about opting out of Google Analytics tracking, you can visit Google Analytics’s currently available opt-outs.
5. Do We Share Your Information
We will not share your personally identifiable information with third parties except where:
- You have given your express consent to share the information with third parties
- We, in our good-faith judgment, determine we need to provide your information to a third party to deliver services you requested
- Disclosure is required by law or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of ourselves, or members of the general public
We may contract with third-party service providers to better understand our visitors and improve their experience. We will not use or disclose to any third parties the information gathered when visiting our website, except as provided by this Privacy Policy.
6. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
We may keep any collected information for an unlimited time, or for the amount of time permitted by law.
7. How Do We Protect Your Information?
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We take administrative and technical measures to prevent the unauthorized or unlawful use of your data and to prevent accidental loss or damage to such information. However, the security of any data transmission over the Internet or a wireless network cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to protect your information, by visiting our website, using our iOS application, or sending us an email, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy concerns inherent to using the Internet that they are beyond JURIST’s control; (ii) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and our website or iOS application cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third-party, despite best efforts.
8. Will This Policy Change?
From time to time we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. We will post any such changes to this page.
