Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how we, the website operator, collect, store and use any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, through our website.

Collection of Personal Information

We may collect personal information about you when you use our website, for instance, when you contact us via email, or when you fill in a contact form on our website. The personal information we may collect includes your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide to us.

Use of Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from you for the following purposes:

a) to provide you with the information or services you request;

b) to process and respond to your inquiries and requests;

c) to send you marketing emails or newsletters if you have opted in to receive them;

d) for internal recordkeeping; and

e) to improve our services and website.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to any third party if we are required to do so by law, or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or the rights of others.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will delete your personal information when it is no longer required, or when you request that it be deleted.

Access to and Correction of Personal Information

You have the right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you. If your personal information is incorrect or incomplete, you may request that it be corrected. To access or correct your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our website. Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or device when you visit our website. We use cookies to track your use of our website, remember your preferences, and improve your user experience. We may also use cookies to serve targeted advertising and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly. We do not collect personal information for the purpose of targeting advertising. We do not sell or disclose any information about your use of our website to third parties.

Security of Personal Information

We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information we collect from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please note that no internet transmission is ever fully secure or error-free. In particular, email sent to or from our website may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information online, especially via email.

Links
‘When we act we create our own reality.’
This post at Davids Medienkritik, “Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung: One-Sided Attack Journalism as News,” gives us a perfect example of what can happen when the media es unmoored. And I’ll take it as a piece of concrete evidence supporting the conclusions of my earlier post today. ...
Google’s memory
Google recently surpassed Time Warner as the world’s top media stock. Google provides services to about 19 million users per day. People go to Google to find things, participate in discussions via online forums, to check and send email, driving directions, and a host of other services. That is a lot of information about a lot of people…where does it all go? Apparently, Google keeps it all! What is the cost of this data collection? How much of our own...
Harming head start
Two years ago the Head Start battle focused on effectiveness: Were low e kids truly better prepared for starting school because they had participated in the program? No solid answers emerged, but like so many other Beltway debates, the substance issues abate once the funding crisis is passed. Now Head Start is the focus of yet another brouhaha. Legislation attached to H.R.2123 by Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) ensures faith-based organizations receiving federal Head Start early childhood program dollars are not...
The culture’s animating values
A Dove Foundation report released this week shows a link between family-friendly movies and profitability. es away from the Dove report with a sense that the movie industry is beginning to recognize a profit opportunity in producing more morally robust movies,” writes Rev. Robert A. Sirico. Read the full text here. The Dove Foundation report is available here (PDF). ...
Men without chests
In the spirit of C. S. Lewis’ classic The Abolition of Man ing available online, I pass along this story: Macho man is an endangered species…fashion industry insiders say. A study along these lines led by French marketing and style consultants Nelly Rodi was unveiled to Fashion Group International during a seminar Tuesday on future strategy for the fashion industry in Europe. Asks Pierre Francois Le Louet, the agency’s managing director, “We are watching the birth of a hybrid man....
An interview with Karen Woods
The Roundtable on Religion & Social Policy interviewed Acton’s Karen Woods, director of the Center for Effective Compassion (CEC) this week. Woods spoke about the work of the CEC, including the Samaritan Award, and also gave her perspective on the federal Faith-Based and Community Initiative. She says in part, With welfare reform in ’96, and certainly the waivers that preceded that in certain states, there was a change in the way that we looked at social services. Suddenly, work was...
From academic to apoplectic
The article I referenced a couple weeks ago about the trends in conservative think tanks and philanthropy noted that the first phase was ushered in by F. A. Hayek. In some ways, the arc that Piereson sketches follows a change in the relationship that Hayek observed between what he termed “academics” and “intellectuals.” In his 1949 essay, “The Intellectuals and Socialism,” (PDF) Hayek defines an intellectual in this way: The term intellectuals, however, does not at once convey a true...
Last week
Power corrupts…and upsets babies. Just in case anyone missed (or didn’t miss) my posting last week, I was on vacation following the birth of my first child, a son, on May 30 (Memorial Day). Owen Flynn Ballor 9 lbs., 2 oz. 20.5 inches 5/30/05 10:10 pm ...
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