Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is applicable to your use of the website(s) owned and operated by Libertas Institute (collectively “we”, “us” or “our”). As used herein, the term “Site” refers to the https://libertas.institute/ worldwide web location, and mobile-optimized versions of the same to which this Privacy Policy is linked, along with any subpages or other websites or online accounts owned or operated by us.

Your use of our Site is governed by the terms and conditions outlined in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy will tell you what information we collect when you visit our Site, how we use that information, and what choices you have about how it is used. We urge you to read our entire Privacy Policy. Use of our Site constitutes acceptance of all terms contained herein. If you do not accept any of the terms contained herein, you must cease use of the Site immediately.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

Some functions and services offered through our Site require you provide certain personally identifiable information (“PII”). PII we may collect if you provide it includes email address, name, postal address, and/or telephone number. We may also collect other information about you we associate with your PII such as your interests, preferences and demographics.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We may use your personally identifiable information and other information we collect about you for purposes described in this policy, disclosed to you on our Site, or related to our mission. For example, we may use your information to:

  • operate and improve our Site, products and services;
  • send you newsletters, including any online newsletter(s) you have requested;
  • understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using our Site, products and services;
  • send you a welcoming email, to contact you about your use of our Site and to provide important website updates;
  • provide and deliver information you request;
  • respond to your comments and questions;
  • request feedback and to enable us to develop, customize and improve our Site and other information;
  • send you surveys or questionnaires;
  • send you related information, including confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
  • communicate with you about new contests, promotions and rewards, upcoming events, and other news offered by us or our selected partners;
  • use for editorial purposes, such as to contact you about content you have submitted to our Site or to give attribution to content you submit;
  • link or combine it with other personal information we get from third parties, to help understand your needs and provide you with better information;
  • investigate and take action against fraudulent or illegal activity or improper conduct; and
  • use, store, or report your information for any other lawful purpose.
  • We may store and process personal information in the United States and other countries.

Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information

We may share your PII for the following purposes and under the following circumstances.

We may share your PII with our affiliates, technical consultants, auditors and other third parties who act on our behalf, for example, to make our Site available, enhance their functionality, or provide associated services, and/or who deal with you in delivering content, samples, products, and gifts and prizes.
We may share your information with strategic partners and other third parties to further our mission;
We may release, personal information to third parties: to (i) comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process, (ii) to protect our rights and property and that of our agents, Site users, members, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies and terms of use or (iii) in an emergency to protect the personal safety of our employees, website users, or any person; or
We may provide aggregate statistics and de-identified data about our Site users, including traffic patterns and related site information, to third parties for their own purposes, including statistical analysis.

Text messaging opt-in data, consent and related collected personal information will not be shared with or sold to any third parties, unless required by law.

Your Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information

Please be aware when you connect and share your actions, comments, content and information, for example, through discussion board postings on our Site, those actions are not private. Others may capture personal information you post, including your email address, and may use the data to identify or contact you, including to send you emails. We cannot control such actions by others. Please be mindful of your own privacy needs as you choose who to connect with and what to share and make public. If you share information about others, please be sure to respect their privacy and get consent for any information you may share about them.

Choices about Our Use and Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information

If you do not wish to receive promotional and newsletter emails from us, you may click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.

If you opt-out of promotional or newsletter emails from us, we may continue to send you certain communications such as administrative messages that relate to us and our Site that are necessary to our relationship with you.

For all other requests for changes relating to your PII, including opting out of email, please contact us at info@libertas.institute or at the following addresses:

Libertas Institute
2183 W Main St
Suite A102
Lehi, UT 84043

Third Party Activities

If you submit or chose to share PII through a form or posting on any page of our Site, choose to otherwise share your PII with a third party such as by sharing stories you read by connecting with social networking services, or click on a link on our Site to go to a third-party site that may collect information about you, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, including any marketing or other use of your PII by, those third parties. To learn more about any other company or organization’s privacy practices, we suggest you contact them directly about their privacy policy.

How We Respond to Do Not Track Disclosures

We do not respond to Do Not Track signals sent by various web browsers. To date, a clear standard has yet to be developed concerning these signals and how they should be treated by website operators. Thus, we do not respond to any Do Not Track signals sent by an individual user’s web browser. We are permitted pursuant to this Privacy Policy to share any information you provide through use of our Site with third parties. If you do not wish to consent to the provision of your PII in this manner, you should stop using our Site immediately and contact us at the email address included herewith to be removed from our database.

Third Party Advertising

We may use third parties to serve advertisements on our Site. Certain third parties may automatically collect information about your visits to our Site and other websites, your IP address, your ISP, the browser you use to visit our Site (but not your name, address, email address or telephone number). They do this by using cookies, clear gifs or other technologies. Information collected may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of our Site and the other sites tracked by these third parties. This policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, cookies or clear gifs in third party advertisements, and we encourage you to check the privacy policies of advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technology. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please go to http://www.networkadvertising.org.

Third Party Cookies

Notwithstanding anything else in this policy, we or a data provider we have engaged may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive customized advertisements or content. These cookies contain no personally identifiable information. The cookies may reflect de-identified demographic or other information linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us (e.g., your email address), which data we may share with a data provider or third party solely in hashed, non-human readable form. To opt-out of some of these cookies, please go to aboutads.info/choices.

Ads on Third Party Sites

We may use information collected using third party cookies and Web beacons on our Site and in our emails to deliver advertising displayed to you on third party sites. We also may use cookie information to know when you return to our Site after visiting these third-party sites. We use this information and other information about you to try to understand your interests and show you relevant advertising about content you may be interested in.

Cookies, Web Beacons and Server Logs

We, related web hosting providers, and advertisers and ad serving and tracking companies sometimes utilize “cookie” technology on our Site. Cookies are bits of data stored on your hard drive that contain no personally identifying information but which help enhance your web-browsing experience. Not all web browsers accept cookies, and those that do usually provide a preference or setting that allows you to refuse and remove most types of browser cookies. If your browser does not accept cookies, you may still enjoy our Site.

We may also use local shared objects, also known as flash cookies, to store your preferences such as volume control for videos, or display content based upon what you view on our Site to personalize your visit. Third party partners provide certain features on our Site and may display advertising based upon your web browsing activity, using flash cookies to help track and store information about you. Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser usually will not remove flash cookies.

We may collect information using web beacons. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our Site or in our emails. We use web beacons to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon.

Server logs capture certain non-personally identifying data, such as the time and date of a web visit, the browser and operating system being used, and the web URL a user linked from. This information is used in aggregate form to help us plan system enhancements when necessary and to provide content that is compatible with our visitors’ web-browsing systems. We also collect information about keyword searches performed by visitors on our Site. We may keep logs of all words searched to help us learn what kinds of information our Site visitors are seeking, and to improve our service to visitors.

Privacy Precaution Warning

Please note that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of the information that you transmit via our Site or other online accounts.

Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please bookmark this page and check it periodically. We will post any changes to this privacy policy on our Site.

Policy last updated June 2024.