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.

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Remembering the first genocide
Yesterday, people all over the world marked the 90th anniversary of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, memoration that has taken on added political frieght with Turkey’s candidacy for accession to the European Union. Given the refusal of Turkey to even acknowledge the genocide — which also targeted hundreds of thousands of Pontic Greeks and Syrians — the EU question should be put permanently on hold until the Turks face their past with honesty. But the prospects...
Canon within the canon
Having trouble understanding the Bible? Can’t seem to reconcile what you just “know” to be true with the plain meaning of Scripture? Why not take Episcopalian Bishop Spong’s hermeneutical approach? According to a column in the Detroit News, Bishop Spong, author of The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love, says you can feel free to downplay or ignore difficult passages. “Much as I wanted to think otherwise,” he says, “…sometimes (the...
Grading America’s giving: global action week for education
This week is Global Action Week for Education, and the Global Campaign for Education has given the United States an “F” grade. Anthony Bradley writes that this judgment is short-sighted, and that “support for education…should not be isolated from the promotion of peace and stability.” Read the full text here. ...
Power Ball
Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998.An article in The New York Times magazine over the weekend provides an up-close look at the stories of two men impacted by the burgeoning problem of steroid use in baseball. In “Absolutely, Power Corrupts,” Michael Lewis writes, Unable to parse the statistics and separate natural power from steroid power, the people who evaluate baseball players for a living have no choice but to ignore the distinction. e to view the increase in...
Free and fair trade
S.T. Karnick at Signs of the Times passes along the words of Dr. Sean Gabb, an English Libertarian author, on the debate about fair trade, which is driven in large part by Christian groups (see Acton Commentaries here and here). Dr. Gabb contends, contrary to the claims of the ecumenical movement, that “To call the actually existing order liberal—or ‘neo-liberal’—is as taxonomically accurate as calling the old Soviet Communist Party syndicalist. That order is based on tariffs, subsidies and a...
Survey: Nominal giving rises but actual giving stagnates
Via The Christian Post: Annual giving to churches rose by 11 percent, but after factoring in inflation, churches are getting about two percent more than contributed in 1999. Another trend was the practice of donating 10 percent of the annual e to church. Tithing is practiced by very few Americans at only four percent, according to Barna, though good stewardship remains an important priority for Christians. Ultimately, Barna explained, “Americans are willing to give more generously than they typically do,...
Laura Ingraham
All of us here at Acton were saddened to hear the news that Laura Ingraham, radio talk show host and a friend of the Institute, has been diagnosed with breast cancer. From her website: On Friday afternoon, I learned that I have joined the ever-growing group of American women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. As so many breast cancer patients will tell you, it all came as a total shock. I am blessed to be surrounded by people...
Defend civilization itself
An excerpt from a mencement address by Mark Helprin, “Defend Civilization Itself,” delivered at Hillsdale College on May 24, 2002: I ask you to join this brotherhood, and, in your own way, whatever that may be, to defend and champion the sanctity of the individual, free and objective inquiry, government by consent of the governed, freedom of conscience, and the pursuit — rather than the degradation and denial — of truth and of beauty. I ask you to defend a...
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