Terms and Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy

These Terms and Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy apply to individuals and institutions (“you”) visiting the Website, and, by downloading, printing, distributing or otherwise using or exploiting materials or content (“use”) on the Website, you hereby agree to comply with the Terms and Conditions detailed here. The Lenfest Institute for Journalism does not warrant that use of any materials or content displayed on its Website will not infringe the rights of third parties.

If The Lenfest Institute decides to change the Terms and Conditions of Use or Privacy Policy for its Website, we will post those changes here.

Terms and Conditions of Use

Trademarks

The Lenfest Institute’s trademarks, service marks, logos, and design elements displayed on the Website are owned by The Lenfest Institute. (collectively, the “Trademarks”). The Trademarks may not be used except to provide attribution as specified above. Nothing contained on the Website should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademarks, service marks, logos or design elements displayed on the Website without the express written permission of The Lenfest Institute or any third party that may own such marks displayed on the Website.

Disclaimer

The Website and the content made available through this site are for educational and informational purposes only.

The Lenfest Institute makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the Website’s operation or the information, content or materials included on the Website; all of which are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, The Lenfest Institute hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. The Lenfest Institute will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from your use of or inability to use the Website. You expressly agree that you use the Website, or any materials or content from the Website, solely at your own risk. You also hereby agree to indemnify The Lenfest Institute, its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to your use of the Website or any materials or content obtained from the Website.

The site may contain copyrighted material owned by a third party, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Notwithstanding a copyright owner’s rights under the Copyright Act, Section 107 of the Copyright Act allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, for purposes such as education, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing.

If you wish to use or submit copyrighted material published on this site for your own purposes that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. All copyrighted material submitted with explicit permission of the copyright owner will be credited accordingly. In some instances, copyrighted material may be linked back to the original source as posted. We recommend that you seek the advice of legal counsel if you have any questions on this point.

Privacy Policy

The Lenfest Institute is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its Website. Your privacy concerns are important to The Lenfest Institute. This Statement is designed to inform you about our privacy principles and policy regarding collected data. The only information The Lenfest Institute obtains about individual visitors to its Website is that supplied voluntarily. Personally identifiable information provided by a visitor (name, email or home address, etc.) will not be disclosed to anyone unless the visitor expressly permits The Lenfest Institute to do so.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices:

Personally Identifying Information

The Lenfest Institute does not require you to register or furnish any personal information as a condition of using our Website. We collect personally identifying information only if you voluntarily provide it to us.

The Lenfest Institute logs Internet protocol (IP) addresses to conduct system administration, report aggregate information, and conduct site analysis. An IP address is a number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. All computer identification on the Internet is conducted with IP addresses, which allow computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other. If a visitor requests pages from The Lenfest Institute, The Lenfest Institute servers enter the visitor’s IP address into a log. To maintain visitor anonymity, The Lenfest Institute does not associate IP addresses with records containing personal information. However, The Lenfest Institute will use IP addresses to identify any visitors who refuse to comply with The Lenfest Institute’s in-house rules or terms of service, and to identify visitors who threaten our service, site, customers or others.

Cookies

The Lenfest Institute uses cookies only to enhance your web browsing experience. (A cookie is a unique number assigned to you and stored on a cookie file on your computer). The first time The Lenfest Institute serves you a page, our site places a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. Cookies are pieces of information that a Website transfers to an individual’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Our site uses cookies only to identify you during your visit; they do not contain personal information and we do not use them to store personal information about you, track your movements to other sites, or sell information about you to others. We may use cookies to analyze Website usage statistics in aggregate without personally identifying individual users.

Analytics

If you receive an email from us, we may use analytics tools to capture data such as when you open our message or click on any links or banners our email contains. This data allows us to assess the effectiveness of our communications, marketing, and fundraising campaigns.

We may use third-party web analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to collect and analyze information about how our platforms are used, and to engage in auditing, research or reporting. The information (including your IP address) collected by various analytics technologies will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of our Website, including by noting the third party website from which you arrive, analyzing usage trends, assisting with fraud prevention, and providing certain features to you.

External Links

In order to provide visitors with greater value, The Lenfest Institute may provide links to various third-party Websites. However, even if an affiliation exists between The Lenfest Institute and that third-party site, The Lenfest Institute exercises no control over linked sites, each of which maintains independent privacy and data collection policies and procedures. If you visit a Website which is linked to The Lenfest Institute, you should consult that Website’s privacy policy before providing any personally identifying information.

Security

The Lenfest Institute’s Website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Personal information furnished to The Lenfest Institute is stored in a secured database.