Serving the GW Community since 1904

The GW Hatchet

AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING THE GW COMMUNITY SINCE 1904

The GW Hatchet

Serving the GW Community since 1904

The GW Hatchet

Privacy policy

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].

At The Hatchet, we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by The Hatchet and how we use it.

Log files
Like many other websites, www.gwhatchet.com makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’s analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and web beacons
The Hatchet uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

DoubleClick DART cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on The Hatchet’s website. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based on their visits not only to this website, but to other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy here.

Our advertising partners
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include:

  • Google
  • DoubleClick

While each of these advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their site, an updated and hyperlinked resource is maintained here. You may consult this listing to find the privacy policy for each of The Hatchet’s advertising partners.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on The Hatchet and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

The Hatchet has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. What Are Cookies?

Children’s information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

The Hatchet does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that www.gwhatchet.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Online privacy policy only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

Update
This privacy policy was last updated on July 2, 2020.

Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here. Find the rest of our policies here.

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