This is the Web site of the Media Research Center.

Our postal address is:
325 S. Patrick St.
Alexandria, Virginia 22314

We can be reached via e-mail at privacy@mediaresearch.org or you can reach us by telephone at (800) MRC-1423.

Your investment in the MRC comes with our 100% money-back guarantee: You must be totally delighted with how your donation to the MRC is used, or you can receive a complete refund of your entire donation, no questions asked.  In addition, the Media Research Center will provide refunds for donations whose gifts were made in error, provided they contact us within 30 days of making the online gift.

For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes no information regarding the domain or e-mail address.

We collect e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations.

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web site, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

With respect to cookies: We do not set any cookies.

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We do not share e-mail addresses with others.

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From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.

Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the above address, writing us at the above address.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to all information [including proprietary information] that we maintain about them.

Consumers can access this information by writing to us at the above address.

Consumers can have this information corrected by writing to us at the above address.

With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number, The DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org, state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, state or local consumer protection office or The Federal Trade Commission by phone at 202-FTC-HELP (202-382-4357).