OpinionJournal - Privacy Policy

Dow Jones Company, Inc., publisher of OpinionJournal.com, and its affiliates (hereafter referred to collectively as "Dow Jones") are committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us when using OpinionJournal.

com. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you when you visit OpinionJournal.com.

We may make content or services from other Web sites including our affiliated or co-branded Web sites available to you from links located on OpinionJournal.com. These other Web sites are not subject to this Privacy Policy.

We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each such Web site to determine how that site protects your privacy. General. When you use certain features of this site, we may collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, address and e-mail address.

We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. Web Site Usage Information. We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information from you when you visit our Web site.

This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our Web sites on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each Web page, and the length of their visits. Surveys: We may conduct occasional online surveys. For example, when you are within our Web site, you may see a pop-up window offering you the optional opportunity of participating in a survey.

These surveys are entirely voluntary and you may easily decline to participate. When you use our "Respond to this Article" feature on the Web site, we collect your name, e-mail address, and city and state or country of residence. If OpinionJournal.

com posts your response, we may include the name, city and state or country that you provide to us.

To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services. We may combine the information that we collect from you on this Web site with information that you provide to us in connection with your use of our other products, services and Web sites. We use third party network advertisers such as Doubleclick to deliver ads to you on our behalf.

We may also use third-party service providers to contact you on our behalf, or facilitate some aspects of our Web site services, or fulfill your requests. These network advertisers and service providers may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf. Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, we will not share your personally identifiable information outside of Dow Jones unless you "opt in" to having your personally identifiable information shared with a company that is not affiliated with us.

We may disclose and use personally identifiable information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, enforce our Terms of Use (for example, when necessary to protect our or a third party's intellectual property or proprietary rights) or to alert you to changes in our policies or agreements that may affect your use of our Web site. We may also disclose personally identifiable information when we, in our sole discretion, believe it is necessary or appropriate, in connection with a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets in the Web site, or when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so. You can let us know that you do not wish to receive information about new features and special offers for Dow Jones products by opting out at the time you sign up for E-mail Updates.

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