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This policy describes the privacy practices of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (“Bulletin”), 1307 E 60th St Chicago, IL 60637 (“us” “our” or “we”), for its website https://thebulletin.org (“Website”), including the mobile version of the Website. This policy does not apply to information we collect offline. Your use of the Website or any other Website on which these terms and conditions (“Terms”) or (“Terms and Conditions”) reside (collectively, “Sites”) are subject to the following terms and conditions.

From time to time we may update the Sites and these Terms. You should review these Terms periodically to ensure that you are familiar with the most recent version. The Bulletin may, in its sole discretion, and at any time, discontinue the Sites or any part thereof, with or without notice, or may prevent your use of the Sites with or without notice to you. You understand that you do not have any rights in the Sites and that the Bulletin will have no liability to you if the Sites are discontinued (in whole or in part) or your ability to access the Sites or any content you may have posted on the Sites is terminated.

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You agree not to use any robot, spider, scraper, crawler, or other automated means to access, extract, harvest, copy, store or otherwise collect data or content from the Website for any purpose, except indexing the Website (or content thereon) for inclusion in a public search engine. This restriction applies to all forms of automated data collection, regardless of whether the data is publicly accessible or behind technical barriers or user authentication. The use of any content on the Website, including, without limitation, text, images, photographs, illustrations, and metadata, for the purpose of developing, improving or training any artificial intelligence technology or tool or machine learning model without the express written permission of the Bulletin is strictly prohibited.

 

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Privacy Policy

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists respects your privacy. We will only collect, store, and use your personal information for defined purposes. These defined purposes are to support and enhance our relationship with you--for example, to process your purchase, provide service and support, and share informational offerings and company news with you. For more information, please see our full Privacy Policy.

Security

We use standard security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the data we collect. Still, because there are risks on the Internet, we cannot promise that your use of our sites will be completely safe. We encourage you to use caution when using the Internet. This includes not sharing your passwords.

Your consent

By using the website, you signify your consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you may not use this website.

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This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

At any time, you may contact us with any privacy questions or concerns you may have. You may also ask at any time to see the data you have given us and request correction or deletion. Our goal is to ensure the highest levels of security and confidentiality.