TransAtlantic Futures, Inc. ("TAF") respects your privacy and pledges to earn and keep your trust. All personal information you give us is kept confidential and protected with the utmost care, subject to the provisions set forth below. This page describes our privacy policy.

Registration and technical information

TAF will not collect any personal information about you except when you specifically and knowingly provide such information via our registration page. When you register for access to certain areas of this web site, we ask for your name, email address, a password of your choice and other details. However, we will not disclose any information that reveals your identity to a third party without your specific consent, except as set forth herein.

If you need to update your registration information, click on your user name at the top right of each page to go to the "Update Your Profile" page. (Or you may paste this URL in your browser: http://www.theglobalist.com/dbweb/register.aspx.) If you experience any difficulties updating your registration information, please contact our technical team by email at: webmaster@theGlobalist.com.

When you visit this web site, we collect various technical information during your visit: about your computer and internet connection (including your computer or network IP address), your browser type and operating system, your internet domain and the URL of the page that referred you to us, the pages you visited and the amount of time you spent on our site. (Many sites collect similar data.) We use this information in the aggregate to enhance your reading and browsing experience at this web site. We may also use this information in the future (again, in the aggregate only) to aid us in the development of marketing campaigns, to help us manage relationships with potential advertisers, or to help us in various fundraising activities. Please note that we cannot retrieve personal information from your web browser.

During your visit, we may also place a cookie on your computer hard drive to enhance your experience at this web site. The cookie is primarily used by our system to remember you from visit to visit, enabling you to sign in just once. (If you delete the cookie between visits, our system will not be able to identify you when you next visit this web site, and you will have to complete the sign-in process again.)

Use of information

We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber or other agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.

We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

Agents and contractors of TAF who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for TAF.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.

We may on occasion combine information we receive online with outside records to enhance our ability to market to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive marketing information from this site, please notify us.

Finally, TAF will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

Collection of information by third-party sites and sponsors

This web site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

We may sometimes offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or cobranded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. TAF has no control over these third parties' use of this information. TAF will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information.

We may use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its Web pages. Our privacy policy does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may have collected from you.

Reader comments and forums

Our site may eventually have several publicly accessible areas, including reader-comment forums, which allow you to post information anonymously. Please remember that any information you share in these areas becomes public, so you should exercise caution and not disclose information that would allow others to identify you. Other reader-comment areas, especially those for sending letter-to-the-editor comments, may require you to submit your name and city/state/country of residence. We reserve the right to publish your comments for editorial purposes or in promotional/marketing materials. We also reserve the right to moderate comments posted to our site and to edit comments for length and style.Your use of such publicly accessible areas is subject to our Terms of Use.

Email story to a friend service

TAF allows you to use our web site to electronically forward a story to a third party by entering his or her email address. We do not use the email address for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent, sell or disclose these email addresses to any third parties, nor do we add these email addresses to our mailing lists.

Children under the age of 13

TAF does not intentionally collect personal information from individuals under the age of 13. Whenever possible, we will discourage underage visitors from submitting personal details. We will immediately comply with requests from parents or guardians to delete personal information unintentionally collected from their underage children.

Your consent

By using our web site, you consent to our Terms of Use policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

TAF reserves the right to modify or update our Privacy Policy at any time. Please review this page from time to time.

Questions or comments?

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy or have other questions, please send an email to: feedback@theGlobalist.com. Our mailing address is 927 15th Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC  20005.