The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT (KSJ@MIT), is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Knight Science Journalism Program website and project websites ksjfactcheck.org and ksjhandbook.org and governs data collection and usage. By using the ksj.mit.edu, ksjfactcheck.org, or ksjhandbook.org, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
KSJ@MIT may collect personally identifiable information, anonymous demographic information, and information about your computer hardware and software. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through public comments, such information may be collected and used by others. KSJ@MIT encourages you to review the privacy statements of linked websites you choose to visit outside of ksj.mit.edu, ksjfactcheck.org, and ksjhandbook.org so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. KSJ@MIT is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the ksj.mit.edu, ksjfactcheck.org, and ksjhandbook.org.
USE/SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
For the purposes of an email newsletter or other reader communications, KSJ@MIT may offer to collect your name and email address.
In order to support fact-checker or educator accounts on ksjfactcheck.org, KSJ@MIT collects information such as your name and email address in order to create account credentials.
KSJ@MIT does not sell, rent or lease its user lists to third parties.
KSJ@MIT may keep track of the links and pages that users access within the ksj.mit.edu, ksjfactcheck.org, and ksjhandbook.org in order to determine which content is most useful to users and improve our sites.
KSJ@MIT is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, KSJ@MIT has put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information KSJ@MIT collects online.
USE OF COOKIES and GOOGLE ANALYTICS
As is true of most websites, KSJ@MIT gathers certain information automatically and stores it in log files for ksj.mit.edu, ksjfactcheck.org, and ksjhandbook.org. This information could include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. KSJ@MIT uses this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
KSJ@MIT does not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
KSJ@MIT may use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp. KSJ@MIT uses this information to better gain an understanding about how our site is used by visitors, helping us to update and improve the web site.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
KSJ@MIT will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy. KSJ@MIT encourages you to periodically review this Statement of Privacy to be informed of how KSJ@MIT is using and protecting your information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
KSJ@MIT welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that KSJ@MIT has not adhered to this Statement, please contact knight-info@mit.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.