Privacy Statement for the Democratic Underground Website

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Democratic Underground, LLC, (Democratic Underground) has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Democratic Underground.

Our site's registration forms require users to give us contact information (like their name and email address). We use customer contact information from these registration forms to send the user occasional email messages. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users' contact information may be shared with other organizations and companies who may want to contact our visitors. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

This site contains links to other sites. Democratic Underground is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

We have relationships with other Web sites to provide additional services. Plug 'n' Pay Technologies (http://www.plugnpay.com) provides merchant processing services for donations to this Web site. Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.com) provides merchandise production and order fullfillment for this Web site. We have contracted with BURST! Media, LLC, (http://www.burstmedia.com) to serve banner advertisements on this site. We are not responsible for the services they provide, nor are we responsible for the privacy practices or content of their sites.

Our site links to order forms for customers to purchase products and make donations. We collect visitors' contact information (like their email address) and financial information (like their account or credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form is used to send confirmation mailings, and to send the user occasional email messages. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you in our discussion forum. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site, and for other purposes.

Public Forums
This site makes discussion forums available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us.

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.

1. You can send email to: du@remove.postmastergeneral.com
2. You can visit the following URL: http://inbound.postmastergeneral.com/remove?du

Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

1. Send an email to: mail@democraticunderground.com

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact