Our Privacy Policy

The following policy is applicable to:

Foundation For National Progress
222 Sutter Street Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94108

The nonprofit Foundation for National Progress—which operates Mother Jones magazine and MotherJones.com—respects our customers' right to privacy. When we collect information about our users, subscribers, and other customers, we make every effort to give them the option to "opt out" of providing such data. However, we feel strongly that choosing to share some data with us will help make your experience at MotherJones.com and other interactions with the Foundation for National Progress more pleasant and successful for you, and will help us continue to provide outstanding investigative journalism and photography.

Most of the information we collect on our website is aggregated to track general patterns such as browser and platform usage and overall traffic patterns. We use address, telephone, and email information primarily to deliver items you request, such as magazines, weekly email newsletters, items purchased from our store, or fine photography catalogs.

Upon request, we provide our users, including subscribers to the magazine, with access to any and all information (including proprietary information) that we maintain about them. Users may access and/or correct this information, or have themselves removed from any shared list, by contacting us by postal mail, or, in the case of disputed charges, through your financial institutions.

Cookies: MotherJones.com sets cookies to spare users the irritation of seeing the same pop-up ads repeatedly in the same visit. These cookies do not record your domain name, or your email address, or any personal information about you or your Web-viewing habits. Cookies are used consistently in two areas of the site. Our discussion software, Web Crossing, uses cookies to recognize logged-in users and to track their settings and preferences. The Mother Jones Market, our online store, uses cookies to track users.

The Mother Jones Market is operated through a partnership between Yahoo! Stores and MotherJones.com; as a condition of service, the Mother Jones Market utilizes cookies to track users and associate them with the purchases that they intend to make. The privacy policy for the Mother Jones Market can be found here.

Security: When sending or receiving sensitive information such as credit card numbers, we automatically direct users to a secure transaction server.

Advertising: We feature advertising banners on our website hosted by third-party servers. Some of the servers used by our advertising partners may use cookies to track your "click stream" (your viewing and/or purchasing behavior). Any data they collect is separate from that collected by MotherJones.com. To determine what, if any, data our advertising networks may collect, examine their privacy policies.

• Double Click
• Premium Network
• Linksynergy

Subscriptions: When you subscribe to our magazine, we use your personal address information to deliver your magazine and send you periodic reminders to renew your subscription. We may also contact you about new products or services, or upcoming events, or share your information with reputable companies who may contact you via mail with products or services we think will be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive such third-party mailings, please contact us at the above postal address with your full name and address and we will be sure to remove your name from our shared lists.

Transactions: When purchasing products in the Mother Jones Market, any financial information you send to us will be saved with our banking records for verification of deposits and handling of refunds. We make only one copy, and store it in the accounting office. Other information, such as your name and mailing address, may be used to send you updates about new features on our site; from time to time we may also share mailing information from the Mother Jones Market users with other reputable companies. If you do not wish to receive such third-party mailings, please contact us at the above postal address with your full name, postal address, and email address and we will be sure to remove your name from our shared lists.

Online giving: Online donations made to Mother Jones through the Foundation for National Progress are processed by GetActive. Details of these secure transactions, including name, address and email information, are not shared with any outside organization. If you supply us with your postal address or email, we will use that information for the purpose of delivering what you have requested, such as your magazine subscription or other premium. We may use that information to send you occasional mailings about our projects or ways that you can support Mother Jones. If you wish to be removed from such lists write to the above postal address with your request, along with your name and email address.

Additional questions about how these philanthropic partnerships work can be addressed to giving@motherjones.com.

Email: If you provide us with your email address while filling out a form on our website, we may use it to inform you of new features on our site and periodically to send mailings to you about new Mother Jones and partner products, services and other information. If you wish to be removed from such lists write to the above postal address with your request, along with your name and email address.
Please note that this does not apply to email addresses collected in our discussion forums.

Discussion Forums:In order to register for participation in our forums, you must provide us with an email address. These addresses are not shared with anyone nor are they used for any promotional purposes. Please keep in mind, however, that the email address you use to register, and any personal information you post to the forum, is available to any person with a Web browser and Internet access. If you would like to register but remain anonymous, feel free to use an anonymous email address, such as one from Yahoo! or Hotmail.

Postal addresses: If you supply us with your postal address, we will use that information for the purpose of delivering what you have requested, such as your magazine subscription or products ordered from our store. We may occasionally use that information to send you periodic mailings about our projects, or share it with other reputable companies. If you wish to be removed from such lists, write to the above postal address with your request, along with your name and email address.

Telephone numbers: If you supply us with a telephone number online, you may be contacted by us regarding new products and services, features, or up coming events. We do not share telephone numbers with other companies. If you wish to be removed from such lists or write to the above postal address with your request, along with your name and email address.

Special Promotions: If you supply us with any personal information in connection with a special promotion or giveaway, any information you provide will be covered by the terms of this policy as well as by the privacy policies of any partnering/sponsoring entities connected with that promotion.

Our Promise: We will never user our customers' information in any way other than those outlined above without first notifying you on our website and providing you with the opportunity to opt out.

If you believe our site is not adhering to the privacy policy outlined above, please contact us at the above address.