Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated effective April 1, 2023.

The New Republic (“TNR,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) understands that you care about how we collect, use, and share information when you interact with our websites, mobile applications, social media sites, email, and online services (our “Services”). This Privacy Policy explains:

• the type of information we collect through our Services;
• how we use and protect that information;
• the types of information we may share with others and under what circumstances;
• the choices you have regarding our collection, use, and sharing practices; and
• details regarding our use of cookies and other tracking technologies.

We also include specific disclosures for residents of certain individual U.S. states below.

This Policy applies when you interact with us through our Services. It also applies anywhere it is linked. It does not apply to non-TNR websites and mobile applications that may link to our Services or be linked to or from our Services; please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.

Information We Collect

We collect, use, and retain personal information that you provide when using our Services. We collect the following information from you:

• Your email address, mailing address, and demographic information when subscribing to a print or digital version of TNR.
• If you choose to create an account, you will also be asked to create a username, and we will assign one or more unique identifiers to your profile.
• Your payment information and associated contact information when engaging in a transaction related to our Services.
• Email address information and your area of residence when subscribing to our email newsletters.
• Information you provide when you complete a survey administered by us or a service provider acting on our behalf.
• Information you provide when you participate in a contest or sweepstakes that we offer.
• If you contact us, a record of that correspondence and any contact information provided.

Information We Collect Automatically

When you interact with our Services, certain information about your use of our Services is automatically collected. Much of this information is collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies, as well as through your web browser or device. This includes:

• Details of your visits to our site and information generated in the course of the use of our site, including, but not limited to, user traffic data (e.g., frequency and other patterns), location data, weblogs and other communication data, and how you reached our site.
• Details regarding the device you use to access our Services, including, but not limited to, your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• Information about how you interact with our ads and newsletters, including special advertising and other unique identifiers and information about whether you open the email and what links you engage.
• Information that you make available to us on a social media platform—by clicking on a social media icon linked from our Services or interacting with us via social media—including your account ID or username and other information included in your posts.

TNR relies on partners to provide many features of our Services using data about your use of TNR and other sites. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Advertising: Allowing us to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you and measuring the effectiveness of ads.
• Analytics: Allowing us to understand how our services are being used, track site performance, and make improvements.
• Site Operations: Enabling features that are necessary for providing you the services on our site, such as identifying you as being signed in, tracking content views, and remembering your preferences and the number of times you have been shown an advertisement.
• Social Media: Enabling the sharing of content from our services through social networking and other sites.

Below is a list of these partners with links to more information regarding their use of your data and how to exercise your options regarding tracking.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies, or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of our Services may not be available, work, or work as designed. You also may be able to opt out of or block tracking by interacting directly with the third parties that conduct tracking through our Services.

You can learn more about ad serving companies and the options available to limit their collection and use of your information by visiting the websites for the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative. Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings and by resetting the advertiser ID on your Apple or Android device.

Please note that opting out of advertising network services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Services or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from other companies that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms. If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. At this time, TNR does not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

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

• To provide you with our Services, including to provide online content, to deliver your subscriptions, process payments, and send service communications.
• To deliver personalized marketing and advertising to you, including creating custom audiences on social media sites.
• To provide you with the best service and improve and grow our business, including understanding our customer base and purchasing trends and understanding the effectiveness of our marketing.
• To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.
• To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with legal requirements regarding the provision of products and services.

How We Share Your Information

• Service Providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that we share only for the purpose of providing these services. The business functions our vendors support include: website, software, and data storage; content management; database management; subscription management; technical integration; marketing; analytics and site optimization; conducting customer surveys; payment processing; managing subscription-related information; billing and collection; auditing and accounting; professional services; analytics services; security; and IT.
• Online Advertising Partners: We partner with companies that assist us in advertising about our Services to others who may be interested in the Services. We also partner with other companies who use cookies to display interest-based advertising to you on our Services.
• Other Similar Organizations: We share subscriber addresses with other organizations that may be interested in advertising to our subscribers.
• Social Media Platforms: Where you choose to interact with us through social media, your interaction with these programs typically allows the third party to collect some information about you through digital cookies it places on your device and other tracking mechanisms. In some cases, the third party may recognize you through its digital cookies even when you do not interact with its application. Please visit the third parties’ respective privacy policies to better understand their data-collection practices and controls they make available to you.
• Government Entities: We may also share data when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the safety of our employees, our customers, or other individuals.
• Potential Purchasers of our Business: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Policy.

Together and with the information provided from our Services, we may combine other information we obtain from our business records. Additionally, information collected about you from a particular browser or device may be linked to information collected from another computer or device that we believe relates to you.

We may also disclose information to other entities who are not listed here when required by law or to protect our Company or other persons, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Children’s Information

Our Services are intended for users over the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 13, we will delete that information.

How We Secure the Information We Collect From or About You

TNR has technical and organizational security measures in place, including firewalls, to protect the information under our control from accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. Such measures do not guarantee prevention of loss, misuse, or alteration of information, however, so while we strive to protect your information, TNR cannot warrant the security of information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We comply with generally accepted industry standards in collecting and processing credit card information. However, TNR does not guarantee the safety of credit card information over the internet.

Users Outside the United States

If you use our Services outside the United States, you understand that we collect, process, and store your information in the United States. The laws in the United States regarding personal information may be different from the laws of your jurisdiction. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law.

Your California Privacy Rights

Residents of California have the right to request information regarding companies to whom the company has disclosed certain categories of personal information during the preceding year for the companies’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please email [email protected] or write to us at 1 Union Square West, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with rights to receive certain disclosures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of “personal information,” as well as rights to know or access, correct, delete, and limit disclosure of personal information. The CCPA defines “personal information” as “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” Certain information we collect may be exempt from the CCPA because it is considered public information (i.e., it is made available by a government entity) or covered by a specific federal privacy law, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

You have the right to be free from discrimination based on your exercise of your CCPA rights. To the extent that we collect personal information that is subject to the CCPA, that information, our practices, and your rights are described below.

Right to Information Regarding Categories of Personal Information Collected, Sold, Shared, and Disclosed

You have the right to receive notice of the categories of personal information we collect, and the purposes for which we use personal information. You also have the right to know about the sources of the personal information; whether we disclose, sell, or share that information to service providers or third parties, respectively; and the criteria we use to determine the retention period for such information. The categories we use in the table below to describe personal information are those enumerated in the CCPA. The table also summarizes the categories of “sensitive” personal information that we collect, the purposes for which such information is used, and whether we sell or share such information.

Entities to whom we disclose information for business purposes are service providers, which are companies that we engage to conduct activities on our behalf. Service providers are restricted from using personal information for any purpose that is not related to our engagement. The categories of service providers with whom we share information and the services they provide are described above in the section titled “How We Share Your Information.”

Entities to whom we “sell” or with whom we “share” information are third parties. Under the CCPA, a business “sells” personal information when it discloses it to a company for monetary or other benefit. A company may be considered a third party either because the purpose for its sharing of personal information is not for an enumerated business purpose under California law, or because its contract does not restrict it from using personal information for other purposes. A business “shares” personal information when it discloses personal information to a company for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.

We collect this personal information from the sources described in the Information We Collect section above for the purposes described in the How We Use Your Information section above.

We do not collect: your medical or health information; information about your physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics; or your precise geolocation (e.g., GPS coordinates).

Personal information may be disclosed in additional, more limited circumstances, as described in How We Share Your Information above.

We determine the retention period for each of the categories of personal information listed above based on (1) the length of time we need to retain the information to achieve the business or commercial purpose for which it was obtained, (2) any legal or regulatory requirements applicable to such information, (3) internal operational needs, and (4) any need for the information based on any actual or anticipated investigation or litigation.

Right to Know, Request Access, Correction, or Deletion

You have the right to request access to personal information collected about you and information regarding the source of that information, the purposes for which we collect it, and the third parties and service providers with whom we sell, share, or disclose it. You also have the right to request in certain circumstances that we correct personal information that we have collected about you and to delete personal information that we have collected directly from you. You may submit such a request as described below. To protect our customers’ personal information, we will verify your identity before we act on your request.

Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information to Third Parties

You have the right to opt out of any sale or sharing of your personal information to third parties. To exercise this right, please visit our “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” page, email us at [email protected], or call us at 1-800-827-1289. Please note that your right to opt out does not apply to our sharing of personal information with service providers, who are parties we engage to perform a function on our behalf and are contractually obligated to use the personal information only for that function.

Right to Limit the Use of Your Sensitive Personal Information

You have the right to limit our use of your sensitive personal information if we use such information to infer characteristics about you. Your right to limit our use of such information is subject to exception.

How to Submit a Request

You may submit a request to exercise your rights through one of two means:

• By filling out a Consumer Data Request Form available here.
• By calling us at 1-800-827-1289.

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, or Connecticut, you may, under certain circumstances, authorize another individual or a business, called an authorized agent, to make requests on your behalf. (Authorized agents in California must be registered with the California Secretary of State.)

We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.

In order to process your request to access, correct, limit the use of, or delete personal information, we will verify your request by asking you to provide personal identifiers, such as your name, contact address, email address, and account number (if available), which we can match against information we may have collected from you previously or to confirm your request using the email or telephone account stated in the request.

We will not use personal information we collect in connection with verifying or responding to your request for any purpose other than responding to your request.

Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia

Residents of the States of Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia have the following rights

• Opt out of “sales” of personal information and use of their personal information for “targeted advertising,” as those terms are defined under applicable law.
• Opt out of “profiling” under certain circumstances, as defined under applicable law. (Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia only.)
• Confirm processing of and access to personal information under certain circumstances
• Correct personal information under certain circumstances. (Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia only.)
• Delete personal information under certain circumstances.

Residents of these states can exercise their rights by contacting us using one of the methods listed above. Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia have the right to appeal a denial of their request by contacting us as described in the notice of denial.

Special Information for Nevada Residents

Residents of the State of Nevada have the right to opt out of the sale of certain pieces of their information to other companies that will sell or license their information to others. If you are a Nevada resident and would like to make such a request, please email [email protected].

Information for Individuals Located in the EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom

We process personal data on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary to perform our agreement to provide Services; and (3) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing our Services where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedom related to data privacy. Personal information we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates or subcontractors maintain facilities, as described above.

Users who reside in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom have the right to lodge a complaint about our data-collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here.

If you are a resident of the EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, you are entitled to certain rights. In order to verify your identity, we may require you to provide us with personal information prior to accessing any records containing information about you. These rights include the ability to do the following:

• Request from us access to personal information held about you or request transmission of your data to a third party.
• Request that we rectify inaccurate or incomplete information we hold about you.
• Request that we erase data that is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, when you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or when you believe your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.
• Request that we restrict our processing if there is a dispute about the accuracy of the data; if the processing is unlawful; if the processing is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected but is needed by you for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or if your request to object to processing is pending evaluation.
• Object to processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests or for direct marketing (including profiling). We will no longer process the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for our processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms; or for the purpose of asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims.
• Withdraw your consent at any time, if we are processing your personal data based on your consent.

To submit a request to exercise your rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to respond to your request, or why we respond to it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy at any time. The “Effective Date” at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised.

Options Related to Your Subscription

Subscribers to TNR, in print or digital format, may correct or change their subscription information online. Users may change this information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who experience problems with updating information or who have questions about how our subscription services work, may contact us at [email protected]. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from future correspondence, you can click the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email, or write us at [email protected].

Contact Us

For questions about our privacy practices, contact us at:

The New Republic
1 Union Square West, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003

1-800-827-1289 or 1-646-779-8000

Email: [email protected]