Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Accessibility

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Online Privacy Policy
Terms of Use

Accessibility Statement for Labor Notes

Labor Notes is committed to accessibility, and we are working to create a website and magazine accessible to all. We also aim to weave accessibility through all aspects of our current and future work, including our online and in-person events.

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Labor Notes magazine, website, books, and events. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers:

Phone: (718) 284-4144
E-mail: business[at]labornotes[dot]org
Postal Address: 55 Washington St, Suite 522, Brooklyn, NY 11201

We try to respond to feedback as soon as possible, usually within 5 business days.

Online Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE March 2026

The Labor Education and Research Project, a Michigan not-for-profit corporation, d/b/a Labor Notes (“Labor Notes” in this Privacy Policy) respects your privacy as a visitor to its website and has developed the following privacy policy to inform you about how we handle your personal information after receiving it. This Privacy Policy governs Labor Notes’ use of your information on our website labornotes.org.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at business[at]labornotes[dot]org.

California residents under 13 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Controller

Labor Notes is the controller and responsible for your personal information (“Labor Notes,” “we,” “us” or “our” in this privacy policy).

We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the details set out under "Contact Labor Notes" below.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to European Union supervisory authorities for data protection issues (https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-role-supervisor/complaints_en). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach such authorities, so please contact us in the first instance.

Types of Information Collected and Stored

Personal Information Summary.
When you engage in activities such as sign up to receive Labor Notes magazine or other publication, make donations to Labor Notes, shop on our website, or otherwise use the Labor Notes website, Labor Notes may gather your personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”).

Your Personal Information may generally include, but is not limited to, your name, address, phone number, email address, electronic signature, IP addresses, geo-location, or any other personally identifying data collected from you by Labor Notes or its authorized agents.

By using the Labor Notes website, you agree to allow Labor Notes and its agents to gather, store, and share your Personal Information subject to the limits of this Online Privacy Policy.

Specific types of data we collect about you. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  1. Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  2. Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, phone number, union/affiliation, and email address.
  3. Financial Data. When you use the Labor Notes website to purchase a subscription, to shop, or to make donations to Labor Notes, Labor Notes utilizes third-party payment processors as its agents (“Payment Agents”) to process your payment and provide payment verification to Labor Notes concerning your payment. Labor Notes and its Payment Agents utilize systems whereby we substitute a proxy set of identifying information for your real financial information. Our Payment Agents, which do handle your credit cards and other payment information, are PCI Data Security Standard (“PCI DSS”) compliant. Labor Notes does not collect or store your credit card numbers or other similar financially related Personal Information and it isn’t exposed more than necessary. For more information about PCI DSS generally please visit https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/about_us/.
  4. Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of Labor Notes products and services you have purchased from us.
  5. Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  6. Profile Data includes your Labor Notes donations, Labor Notes purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses where applicable.
  7. Usage Data includes information about how you use the Labor Notes website, products and services.
  8. Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
  9. Aggregated Data / Analytics Information. We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data. In an effort to improve visitors’ experiences on the Labor Notes website, Labor Notes gathers this Aggregated Data related to individuals’ website visits. This information is used solely to measure and improve our website and services and to better serve our members and customers. Labor Notes uses aggregate statistical data to compile reports. If we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as Contact Data, Technical Data, and/or Marketing and Communications Data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy. This analytics information so gathered is likely to include the following:
    1. Device and network specific information, such as your unique device identifier, operating system and version, the browser you use, your Internet service provider (ISP), and your IP address.
    2. Non-personal information, such as language, zip code, area code, location, and the time zone.
    3. Labor Notes website visit information, such as the domain from which you came to our website or referring links, and details of how you use our website, including but not limited to what webpages you visit on the Labor Notes website, as well as downloads, purchases, and orders during the duration of your visit. At times we will track user behavior over time during interactions with the site in order to pursue legitimate business interests, including, but not limited to, troubleshooting technical user issues with site services.

Sensitive Information.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data), except trade union membership if you opt to provide that information to us. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

Cookies and Browser “Do Not Track” Notice
Labor Notes may use cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the user’s previous activity. Labor Notes does not correlate its use of cookies with your Personal Information.

Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. Embedded YouTube content may send information to Google. Not all embedded videos are in privacy-enhanced mode. For information about managing your privacy and security, see the Security of Personal Information section below.

Labor Notes does not respond to browser Do Not Track (“DNT”) Signals. Labor Notes websites may utilize page tags or web beacons to track information related to user visits as a part of Labor Notes data analytics processes and user experience customization as described below. Page tags are small pieces of Javascript embedded in webpages that collect data to help track web traffic on our website. Web beacons are very small, effectively invisible, graphic images we use to count and recognize users on our website. Such technologies enable us to improve and customize user experiences while users visit our website. Click here https://allaboutdnt.com/#adjust-settings for information on how you can opt out of such behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking. Labor Notes does not correlate its tracking activities through the use of page tags or web beacons with your Personal Information.

Labor Notes may employ third party data analytics firms to track and analyze traffic on the Labor Notes website, to analyze visitor trends, to determine advertising effectiveness, browser types and usage trends, and to present targeted ads based on anonymous information collected through tracking. Labor Notes’ third party analytics firms, as described in this section, do not receive your Personal Information.

Third parties that may advertise on Labor Notes websites may have content embedded that sets cookies on a visitor’s browser and/or tracks visitor information that a web browser visited a specific Labor Notes website. Such information may contain a visitor’s IP address. Third parties may not collect identifying Personal Information from the Labor Notes website unless you provide it to such third parties.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Keeping Information Updated
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.

Security of Personal Information

Labor Notes takes the security of your Personal Information very seriously. When your Personal Information is stored by Labor Notes, we use reasonable and appropriate measures to protect it from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Unfortunately, data transmission over public networks cannot be guaranteed to be one hundred percent secure. While Labor Notes will use all reasonable means to protect your Personal Information, Labor Notes cannot guarantee the security of your transmissions of such Personal Information, and you use the Labor Notes website at your own risk. If you suspect your Personal Information has been compromised, please notify Labor Notes Customer Service using the contact information provided below.

How we Collect Your Personal Information.

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through the following methods.

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

  1. apply for our products or services;
  2. create an account on our website;
  3. subscribe to our service or publications;
  4. request marketing to be sent to you;
  5. enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  6. give us feedback or contact us.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We may collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.

Technical Data from the following parties:

  1. analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
  2. advertising networks based inside OR outside the EU; and
  3. search information providers based inside OR outside the EU.

Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services based inside OR outside the EU.

How Labor Notes Uses and Shares Your Information

General Information and Your Rights. Labor Notes limits its use of your Personal Information to the stated purposes for which such information is collected. In some cases, Labor Notes may be required to disclose your Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. You have the right to the following regarding your Personal Information transferred to Labor Notes:

  1. To know the types of Personal Information Labor Notes collects;
  2. To know the purposes for which it collects and uses your Personal Information;
  3. To know type or identity of third parties to which Labor Notes discloses your Personal Information, and the purposes for which it does so;
  4. To access and update your Personal Information; and
  5. To know the choices and means Labor Notes offers you for limiting the use and disclosure of your Personal Information.

Labor Notes Services to Labor Notes ID Holders.
When you create a Labor Notes ID, we may use information collected from technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and page tags, as described herein, to improve your experience of our website. For example, by saving information concerning the pages you visit and products you purchase, we will be able to provide you with information on other Labor Notes goods and services that may be of interest to you. Furthermore, by creating an account with Labor Notes, there is a possibility of receiving content from third parties through Labor Notes, as discussed below.

In creating an Labor Notes ID, and as a condition of having an Labor Notes ID, you expressly consent to Labor Notes’ use of your Personal Information and non-personally identifiable information as described in this section. Moreover, in using an Labor Notes ID you expressly acknowledge and agree to our collection and use of such information as described in this section.

You can opt-out of the use of your Personal Information as described in this section by deleting your Labor Notes ID. To delete your Labor Notes ID, please contact Labor Notes at business[at]labornotes[dot]org.

Other Labor Notes Services.
Labor Notes may use your Personal Information to provide services to you upon your request. Such services may include sending you newsletters and publications, responding to your questions and comments, communicating with you concerning your purchases on the Labor Notes website, emailing you updates concerning Labor Notes products and services, and personalizing your visits to Labor Notes website.

You may opt-out of the use of your Personal Information as described in this Section by contacting Labor Notes at business[at]labornotes[dot]org.

Labor Notes Internal Data Sharing
Labor Notes may also share your Personal Information with other Labor Notes offices or Labor Notes subsidiaries in the country in which you reside and in other countries.

Information Sharing with Third Parties
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Labor Notes may utilize third-party service providers that process your Personal Information solely on Labor Notes’ behalf (“Agents”). When Labor Notes transfers your Personal Information to its Agents, your Personal Information will be used only for limited and specified purposes. Labor Notes will take reasonable and appropriate steps to ensure that its Agents process your personal information in a manner consistent with the organization’s obligations. Labor Notes remains responsible and liable if the Agents that Labor Notes engages to process your Personal Information on Labor Notes’ behalf do so in a manner inconsistent with this Online Privacy Policy, unless Labor Notes proves that it is not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage.

Labor Notes uses outside third parties to ship orders and financial service-oriented third parties to bill users for goods and services. While Labor Notes is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services, all third party services we use have agreed to comply with privacy and confidentiality standards consistent with this Online Privacy Policy.
Labor Notes may partner with third parties to provide other specific services, including, but not limited to registration for Labor Notes conferences and other Labor Notes program and educational materials. When the user signs up for these services, we may share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. Labor Notes may auto-populate forms utilized by these third parties with data contained in Labor Notes managed cookies. These third parties are not allowed to use your
Personal Information except for the purpose of providing these services. All parties with which Labor Notes shares your Personal Information are bound by confidentiality and data transfer agreements consistent with this Online Privacy Policy.

Other Possible Disclosures.
In addition to the other disclosures stated herein, Labor Notes may share your information in the following ways:

  1. To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or government enforced orders,
  2. To enforce applicable terms of service, protect our legal rights or defend against legal claims,
  3. To defend, prevent, take action, and otherwise address security or technical issues, as well as suspected or potential fraud,
  4. To guard against harm (whether actual or potential) to the legal rights, property or safety of Labor Notes, our visitors or the general public as required or permitted by law.

International Transfers

We share your personal data within Labor Notes. This will involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

Many of our external third parties are based outside the EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Labor Notes Purposes In Using Personal Information

We have set out below, in a table format, a summary of the ways we plan to use your personal information, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal information where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer or member. (a) Identity
(b) Contact		 Performance of a contract with you
To register you for Labor Notes events, conferences and programs. (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
(e) Financial
(f) Transactional		 (a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us		 (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and Communications		 (a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(c) Inviting you to contribute content, or respond to social media communications
(d) Managing Labor Notes member services.		 (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
(e) Financial
(f) Transactional		 (g) User Contributed
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) User Contributed		 (a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical		 (a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical
(g) User Contributed		 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences (a) Technical
(b) Usage		 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
(f) Marketing and Communications
(g) User Contributed		 Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

Data retention

What data do we collect?
Labor Notes collects the following data:
Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, affiliations)

How do we collect your data?
You directly provide Labor Notes with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
Register online, sign up for our newsletter, make a donation, subscribe to our magazine, or place an order for any of our products or events.
Register in-person or make a purchase or donation at one of our events.
Contact us directly by phone or email.
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

How will we use your data?
Labor Notes collects your data so that we can:

  1. Process your order and manage your account.
  2. Email you, call you, or send you mail about events and products we think you might like, for fundraising purposes, or for editorial purposes.
  3. Connect workers with each other where relevant

When Labor Notes processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

How do we store your data?
Labor Notes securely stores your data in Salesforce.

Labor Notes keeps your data on file unless you choose to opt out, so that we can support and maintain a network of labor activists.

You have the right to request that Labor Notes delete your personal information. See "Your Legal Rights" below for more details.

Marketing
If you have agreed to receive marketing emails from Labor Notes, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to stop Labor Notes from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email business[at]labornotes[dot]org.

What are your data protection rights?
Labor Notes would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  1. The right to access – You have the right to ask Labor Notes for copies of your personal data.
  2. The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Labor Notes correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Labor Notes to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  3. The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Labor Notes erase your personal data.
  4. The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Labor Notes restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  5. The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Labor Notes’ processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  6. The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Labor Notes transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: business[at]labornotes[dot]org

Privacy policies of other websites
The Labor Notes website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy
Labor Notes keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on March 5, 2026.

How to contact us
If you have any questions about Labor Notes’ privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: business[at]labornotes[dot]org

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

Labor Notes Email Uses

Labor Notes never rents or sells email addresses to outside parties without your consent. Occasionally, you may wish to receive information or communication from a Labor Notes affiliated entity. In that instance, you will be asked for permission to share your email address.

After you create an online account with Labor Notes, you will receive information about Labor Notes products, services, and educational offerings that relate to your areas of interest unless you choose to opt-out. If you have questions or concerns about Labor Notes’ Online Privacy Policy or wish to no longer receive such offers (opt-out), please contact Labor Notes Customer Service using the contact information provided below.

How to Access or Change Your Personal Information

To review or make changes to the content of your Personal Information, or to request that we limit the use of your Personal Information, you may contact Labor Notes Customer Service by emailing business[at]labornotes[dot]org.

In your request, clearly state what information you would like to have changed or updated. Labor Notes will try to comply with your request as soon as possible.

The deletion of Personal Information and other changes to the data retained by Labor Notes as described above may result in the deletion or limitation of other services Labor Notes provides, including, but not limited to, maintaining and making accessible Labor Notes certification records. Labor Notes may retain certain Personal Information to pursue legitimate business interests, conduct audits, comply with (and demonstrate compliance with) legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.

Your Legal Rights.

You have the right to:

  1. Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request” under GDPR). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

    2. Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

    Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

    Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.

  2. Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:
    1. If you want us to establish the data’s accuracy.
    2. Where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it.
    3. Where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
    4. You have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
  3. Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
  4. Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

Nevada Opt Out Rights.

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to the Contact listed below. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

Your California Privacy Rights

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You

You have the right to know:

  1. The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
  2. The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
  3. Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;
  4. The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and
  5. The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Please note that we are not required to:

  1. Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;
  2. Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or
  3. Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

Personal Information Sold or Used for a Business Purpose
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. However, Labor Notes will not sell your Personal Information.

Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  1. Delete your personal information from our records; and
  2. Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  1. Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
  2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
  3. Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
  4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
  5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
  6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
  7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
  8. Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
  9. Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Protection Against Discrimination
You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things:

  1. Deny goods or services to you;
  2. Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
  3. Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
  4. Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods and services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information.

Verification

Labor Notes will regularly self-assess its compliance with all applicable law regarding Personal Information that is received from the EU. Labor Notes statement on verification and related self-assessment procedures is available to you upon request.

Recourse Mechanisms

Labor Notes makes readily available independent recourse mechanisms by which your complaints and disputes are investigated and expeditiously resolved at no cost to you. Please direct any inquiries or complaints regarding our compliance to the point of contact listed in the “Contact Labor Notes” section below. If we do not resolve your complaint within 45 days, you may submit your complaint free of charge to JAMS using this link: https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield. Labor Notes has designated JAMS, an alternative dispute resolution provider in the United States. The JAMS dispute resolution process shall be conducted in English. A binding arbitration option will also be made available to you at your request if you qualify for such option, in order to address your complaints not resolved by any other means.

Notices of Changes to Privacy Policy

In the event of any change to the Labor Notes Online Privacy Policy, notice of such changes will be posted on the Labor Notes website. Any changes to this Online Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Online Privacy Policy on the Labor Notes website. Your use of the Labor Notes website following these changes means that you accept the revised Online Privacy Policy.

Contact Labor Notes

For any questions, comments, or further information concerning the terms of this Online Privacy Policy, or to request changes to your Personal Information, subject to such limitations as provided herein, please contact:
Labor Notes Customer Service
business[at]labornotes[dot]org

Terms of Use

March 5, 2026

These terms and conditions of use (hereinafter, “Terms of Use”) govern your access to and use of the website www.labornotes.org, labornotes.swoogo.com, and May2028.org (collectively, the “Website”), and the services offered to you when you visit or make purchases on the Website (the “Services”). These Terms of Use also govern your access to and use of the content, including text, layout, images, graphics, logos, button icons, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations and the selection and arrangement thereof (collectively, “Content”) available on or through the Website. The Website is owned and operated by the Labor Education and Research Project, a Michigan not-for-profit corporation, d/b/a Labor Notes (collectively referred to herein as “Labor Notes”, “we,” “us” and/or “our”).

Your use of the Website and the Services constitutes your agreement to and acceptance of these Terms of Use. In addition, as a condition of your use of the Website and the Services, you represent and warrant to Labor Notes that you will not use the Website or the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to and accept these Terms of Use, you are prohibited from accessing and using the Website or the Services. These Terms of Use govern your use of the Website and the Services regardless of whether you are accessing the Website from a computer or mobile phone device (for example, through an iPhone application). BY ACCESSING, BROWSING OR USING THE WEBSITE AND THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD, HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THESE TERMS OF USE AND LABOR NOTES’ PRIVACY POLICY AND AGREE TO BE BOUND HEREBY AND THEREBY. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO BE OR CANNOT BE BOUND BY ALL OF THESE TERMS OF USE AND LABOR NOTES’ PRIVACY POLICY, THEN YOU MAY NOT BROWSE OR USE THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICES. MOREOVER, LABOR NOTES DOES NOT AND WILL NOT GRANT YOU ANY RIGHT OR LICENSE TO ACCESS, BROWSE OR USE THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICES WITHOUT YOUR WILLINGNESS AND ABILITY TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THESE TERMS OF USE AND LABOR NOTES’ PRIVACY POLICY.

The Services available on the Website may be subject to additional terms. When using the Services, you will also be subject to the terms and agreements applicable to the specific Services (for example Terms and Conditions of Sale relating to the purchase of subscriptions). In the event of an inconsistency between these Terms of Use and the specific terms of a Service, the Service terms will control.

Intellectual Property

The Website contains material, including the Content, that is protected by international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You agree that the Website and the Content are and remain the sole property of Labor Notes, and, except as expressly permitted herein or otherwise by Labor Notes in writing, your license to access, browse and use the Website and the Content is limited solely to a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to (i) access and view the Website and Content, and (ii) copy, download and store the Content temporarily (e.g., in a temporary cache) to enable printing and/or offline viewing of such Content, solely for your non-commercial use and not for resale or distribution to anyone else. You further agree that, with respect to any Content that you download, create, generate, store and/or print, pursuant to these Terms of Use, you will reproduce and include all copyright and other proprietary notices included in such Content.

Except as expressly permitted by Labor Notes in these Terms of Use or otherwise in writing, you may not modify, copy, reproduce, adapt, translate, republish, upload, download, post, transmit, distribute, sell, rent, license, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, mirror, frame, scrape, extract, wrap, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any aspect of the Website or the Content, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, whether manual or automatic. Articles may be republished with written permission; please contact editors[at]labornotes[dot]org.

All right, title and interest in and to the Website and the Content and all intellectual property rights embodied therein, including without limitation any and all trademarks, copyrights and patents, are the property of Labor Notes, its licensors or suppliers. The Website and Content contained and referenced therein are for informational purposes only. Any reproduction, retransmission or other use is strictly prohibited, except as otherwise provided by these Terms of Use or by Labor Notes’ express written authorization.

All trademarks, service marks, domain names, logos and company names (collectively “Trademarks”) displayed or referred to on the Website are trademarks, registered trademarks, service marks, domain names, logos, company names of or are otherwise the property of Labor Notes or their respective owners.

Except as provided in these Terms of Use, Labor Notes does not grant you any rights in or to the Trademarks. You agree that you shall not use the Trademarks in any manner inconsistent with the provisions of these Terms of Use, without the prior written authorization of Labor Notes or the respective owners as the case may be.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Labor Notes expressly authorizes you to establish a hypertext link to the Website, or any portion thereof, on your website(s); provided that (i) the link shall not imply, directly or indirectly, that your website is sponsored by, affiliated with or otherwise related to Labor Notes, the Website or the Services, and (ii) the website(s) containing such link to the Website do not contain content that is harmful, threatening, offensive, abusive, harassing, vulgar, false or inaccurate, racially, sexually, ethnically or otherwise objectionable or otherwise contrary to the laws of any place where such hyperlink may be accessed, and (iii) the hyperlink shall merely use the term “Labor Notes” and shall not use or feature any other Trademark without the prior written authorization of Labor Notes or the Trademark’s owner.

Use

You acknowledge and agree that the Website and any information contained therein are valuable intellectual property owned by or licensed to Labor Notes, and that no proprietary rights therein are being transferred to you by these Terms of Use. You agree that you shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) use any of the Content or other information contained on the Website for any purposes other than your personal, non-commercial use; (ii) use the Content or other information contained on the Website to train Artificial Intelligence; (iii) use the Content or other information contained on the Website to establish independent data files or otherwise amass statistical information thereof or therefrom; (iv) use the Content or other information contained on the Website in violation of any applicable laws or regulations; (v) publish or distribute in any medium the Content or other information contained on the Website, in whole or in part, to any other entity, except to republish an article with credit; (vi) access or attempt to access any other user’s account; (vii) obtain or ascertain or attempt to obtain or ascertain any other user’s username, password and/or personal information (“Personal Data”) by any means whatsoever; (viii) elude or attempt to elude the Website’s security systems; (ix) attempt to gain access or gain access to the Website in a fraudulent manner; (x) use the Website for any purpose other than those intended by Labor Notes as set forth in these Terms of Use; or (xi) upload or submit any data or information containing viruses or any computer code, corrupt files or programs engineered or intended to disrupt or destroy the functionality of any software, hardware, telecommunications, networks, servers or other equipment.

You acknowledge and agree that any and all misappropriation or misuse of the Content or other information contained on the Website will cause irreparable harm to Labor Notes and that in such event money damages will not constitute sufficient compensation to Labor Notes. Consequently, in the event that you, directly or indirectly, misappropriate or misuse the Content or other information contained on the Website, you specifically consent to Labor Notes obtaining injunctive relief against you in addition to any other legal or financial remedies to which Labor Notes may be entitled.

Labor Notes reserves the right to modify and/or discontinue the Website at any time, for any reason and without notice, and to terminate a user’s password and account should that user be in violation of these Terms of Use. If you are under 18, you may use the Website and the Services only with the involvement of your parent or guardian. Labor Notes reserves the right to refuse to provide services, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in its sole discretion.

Registration

To use certain features of the Website and the Services, you may be required to register with the Website on a form provided. Registration may require you to provide certain Personal Data. You agree (a) to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the applicable registration form, and (b) to maintain and promptly update the information you provide to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If Labor Notes has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Labor Notes reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Website and the Services (or any portion thereof). Labor Notes use of any Personal Data you provide as part of the registration process is governed by the terms of Labor Notes’ Privacy Policy.

Passwords

To use certain features of the Website and the Services, you will need a username and password, which you will receive through the applicable registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are responsible for all activities (whether by you or by others) that occur under your password or account. You agree not to authorize third parties to access the Website using your registration information. You may not sub-license, transfer, sell or assign your username and password, or your obligations under these Terms of Use, to any third party without the prior written approval of Labor Notes. Any attempt at such assignment will be null and void and shall be considered a material breach of these Terms of Use. You agree to notify Labor Notes immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. Labor Notes is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your password or account information. Labor Notes expressly reserves the right to terminate your account and/or refuse service to you, without prior notice, if you violate these Terms of Use, or if Labor Notes decides, at its sole and exclusive discretion, that it would be in Labor Notes’ best interest to do so.

User Submissions

You hereby acknowledge and agree that by posting messages or otherwise providing any material for display on the Website (individually and collectively, “Submissions”), you are representing and warranting the following:

  1. Your Submissions are true and accurate, and the original work of your authorship, and that you are not impersonating any other person;
  2. You have the right to make your Submissions without violating the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity; and
  3. Your Submissions do not violate any law, or in any manner infringe or interfere with the rights of others, including but not limited to the use of names, information, or materials that (a) libel, defame, or invade the privacy of any third party, (b) are obscene or pornographic, (c) are harmful, threatening, offensive, abusive, harassing, vulgar, false or inaccurate, racially, sexually, ethnically or are otherwise objectionable or otherwise contrary to the laws of any place where such Submissions may be accessed; (d) constitute personal attacks on other individuals; (e) infringe the intellectual property, trade secret or proprietary rights of any third party; (f) promote criminal or other illegal activity; (g) promote or advertise any person, product or service or solicit funds; or (f) are deemed confidential by any contract or policy.

In addition, when you post a Submission, you are (i) granting Labor Notes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, sublicense to third parties, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform such Submissions throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter created without attribution; (ii) granting Labor Notes the right to pursue at law any person or entity that violates your and/or Labor Notes’ rights in your Submissions; and (iii) forever waiving any and all of your rights, including but not limited to moral rights, if any, in and to your Submissions, including, without limitation, any all rights or requirements of attribution or identification of you as the author of the Submission or any derivative thereof. You further acknowledge and agree that your Submissions are non-confidential and do not contain proprietary information. Labor Notes reserves the right to not post your Submission on or to remove your Submissions from the Website, in whole or in part, without notice, for any reason or no reason. Further, any review that violates the provisions of these Terms of Use or the guidelines set forth below regarding submission of content will not be posted on the Website.

Except as described in Labor Notes’ Privacy Policy, Labor Notes will not be required to treat any Submissions as confidential, and you acknowledge and agree that Labor Notes may use, in connection with its business, any of the concepts and ideas contained in your Submissions (including, without limitation, product or advertising ideas) without compensation to you, and Labor Notes will not incur any liability to you as a result of any similarities between concepts and ideas contained in your Submission and future Labor Notes operations and business. Except as otherwise set forth in these Terms of Use, Labor Notes is entitled to use the Submissions for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever without compensation to you or any other person, and without your consent.

Your Submissions, including personally identifiable information contained therein, are made voluntarily and are subject to Labor Notes’ Privacy Policy. You are responsible for the content of your Submissions and agree to defend, at Labor Notes’ option, and at your sole expense, indemnify and hold Labor Notes, its affiliates and their respective employees, agents, representatives, successors and assigns harmless from any damages, losses, costs, or expenses, including attorneys’ fees, which Labor Notes may incur as a result of your Submissions.

Interactive Features

In addition to your Submissions on the Website, you may from time to time post materials on the bulletin boards, chat rooms, personalized homes pages and email services offered by and through the Services that allow you to provide Labor Notes with feedback and permit real-time interaction between users (collectively, the “Interactive Pages”). Your Submissions on the Interactive Pages are subject to the same rules and restrictions as any other Submissions; provided, however, that Labor Notes does not regularly monitor or control the content of the Interactive Pages. It is therefore a condition of your use of the Interactive Pages that you do not:

  1. Restrict or inhibit any other users from using and enjoying the Interactive Pages;
  2. Use the Interactive Pages to post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law;
  3. Use the Interactive Pages to post or transmit any information, software or other material that violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material that is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or that is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or right holder;
  4. Use the Interactive Pages to post or transmit any information, software or other material that contains a virus or other harmful components;
  5. Use the Interactive Pages to post, transmit or in any way exploit any information, software or other material for commercial purposes, or that contains advertising;
  6. Use the Interactive Pages to advertise or solicit to anyone to buy or sell products or services, or to make donations of any kind, without Labor Notes’ express written approval; or
  7. Gather for the purpose of spamming e-mail addresses that have been posted by other users of the Interactive Pages.

You acknowledge and agree that Labor Notes has no obligation to monitor any Interactive Pages on the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Labor Notes reserves the right to not post your Submission on or to remove your Submissions from the Interactive Pages, in whole or in part, without notice, for any reason or no reason. Further, any review that violates the provisions of these Terms of Use or the guidelines set forth below regarding submission of content will not be posted on the Interactive Pages.

Claims of Copyright Infringement

If you believe that your work of original authorship (or the work of original authorship belonging to a third party on whose behalf you are entitled to act) has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, we request that you promptly file a copyright infringement notice with Labor Notes’ Designated Copyright Agent by following the instructions below. The notice must be in writing and include the following:

  1. A statement that you have identified material on the Website that infringes your copyright (or infringes the copyright of a third party on whose behalf you are entitled to act);
  2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, which should include the type of work (such as a book or a sound recording) and any relevant further details (such as the title and date of publication, as applicable);
  3. A description of the manner in which the copyright material has been infringed;
  4. Identification of the location of the material that you claim is infringing (including a URL and screen shot to the extent possible);
  5. The country/ies to which your copyright applies;
  6. Your address, telephone number, and email address so that Labor Notes may respond to you directly;
  7. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material that is the subject of the complaint is not authorized by the copyright owner (or by a third party who is legally entitled to do so on behalf of the copyright owner) and is not otherwise permitted by applicable law;
  8. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and
  9. An electronic or physical signature (which may be a PDF) of the copyright owner.

Labor Notes will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed on or through the Website or the Services that are reported to Labor Notes Designated Copyright Agent, identified below, in accordance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (“DMCA”) and other applicable local, state, federal and international laws and regulations.

Notifications of claimed copyright infringement must be sent to Labor Notes’ Designated Copyright Agent by mail or email:
Editors
Labor Notes
55 Washington St, Suite 522, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Email: editors[at]labornotes[dot]org

If Labor Notes has been alerted to potentially infringing material that you have posted on the Website and Labor Notes removes or disables access thereto, Labor Notes may notify you that it has removed or disabled access to such material by means of a general notice on the Website, or by electronic mail, or by written communication sent by first-class mail to your physical address. If you receive such a notice, you may provide counter-notification in writing to Labor Notes’ Designated Copyright Agent. Counter-notifications must be in writing and include the following:

  1. A description of the material that you claim was erroneously removed or disabled, which should include the type of work and any relevant further details (such as the title and date of publication, as applicable), and its location, or former location, on the Website;
  2. Your address, telephone number, and email address;
  3. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material;
  4. A statement by you that you consent to the jurisdiction of a U.S. Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your physical address is located, or, if your physical address is located outside of the U.S., for any judicial district in which the Website may be accessed.
  5. A statement by you that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification to Labor Notes of the allegedly infringing material, or an agent of such person.
  6. An electronic or physical signature (which may be a PDF) of the copyright owner.

If you are unsure whether there has been an infringement of your copyright or about your rights in the material, it is recommended that you seek legal advice before sending notification or counter-notification to Labor Notes regarding such material. The notice and takedown process described herein is governed by and subject to the DMCA and other applicable local, state, federal and international laws and regulations. There may be negative consequences if you falsely allege copyright infringement or report material to Labor Notes in bad faith, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

[Terms and Conditions of Sale]

Labor Notes may allow you to purchase different types of products and services online that are provided by us or third parties. Labor Notes is not responsible for the quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or any other aspect of these products and services provided by third parties. If you make a purchase from Labor Notes or a third party merchant through the Services or on a site linked to by the Services, the information obtained during your visit to such site, and the information that you give as part of the transaction, such as your credit card number and contact information, may be collected by Labor Notes or the merchant, as applicable. A merchant may have separate privacy and data collection practices. Labor Notes has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding a merchant, its online store, and its privacy policies, return to that merchant’s home page and click on its information links or contact the merchant site directly. You hereby release Labor Notes from any damages that you incur, and agree not to assert any claims against Labor Notes arising from your purchase or use of any products or services made available by third party merchants through any of the Services.

When you purchase products or services on or through the Services, you may be subject to additional terms and conditions that specifically apply to your purchase or use of such products or services. If you have any questions about these additional terms and conditions, you should contact the merchant of such products or services directly.

You agree to be financially responsible for all purchases made by you or someone acting on your behalf through the Services. You agree to use the Services and to purchase services or products through the Services for legitimate purposes only. You also agree not to make any purchases for speculative, false or fraudulent purposes. You agree to only purchase goods or services for yourself or for another person for whom you are legally permitted to do so. When making a purchase for a third party that requires you to submit the third party’s personal information to us or a merchant, you represent that you have obtained the express consent of such third party to provide such third party’s personal information.

Links to and from Third Party Sites

The Website may contain live hypertext links to other third party websites which can be accessed by you. Such other websites contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by organizations not related to and otherwise independent of Labor Notes. Labor Notes does not endorse, approve, certify, maintain, or control these other websites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of information located at such addresses. Labor Notes provides the links only as a convenience. Use of any information obtained from such addresses is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness as well as those websites’ respective terms of use and privacy policies. Neither the inclusion of the link on the Website nor reference on the linked website to any product, process, or service by name, trade name, trademarks, service mark, manufacturer, or otherwise constitutes or implies endorsement, recommendation, or referral by Labor Notes. You acknowledge and agree that Labor Notes shall not be liable for any damages or injury resulting or arising from the content of or access to such other websites.
There may be circumstances in which access to the Website is provided by a hypertext link located at another third party website. Labor Notes has no responsibility for the content of such other websites, Labor Notes does not make any representations or give any warranties or conditions with respect to any information contained in or at such other websites and you acknowledge and agree that Labor Notes shall not be liable for any damages or injury resulting or arising from the content of or access to such other websites. Labor Notes does not endorse the individuals, companies or other similar entities, or any products or materials associated with such individuals, companies or other similar entities, which provide a link to the Website. Except as otherwise permitted herein or unless consented to in writing by Labor Notes, you agree not to: (i) provide or create a link to the Website; or (ii) create any frames at any other websites pertaining to any of the Content located on the Website.

These Terms of Use and any other Labor Notes policies, rules or guidelines that you may find on this Website do not apply to companies that are not affiliated with or controlled by Labor Notes, or to the activities of individuals not associated with Labor Notes. Therefore, before using the services of any third party website, it is recommended that you become familiar with terms of use and other policies posted regulating such third party websites.
Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Labor Notes, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim, demand, or damage, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, asserted by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Website and/or any Content, information (text or graphical), software, or products obtained through the Website and/or from Labor Notes.

No Warranties; Limitation of Liability

THE INFORMATION AND CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED FOR YOUR REVIEW IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NOTICES, TERMS OF USE SET FORTH HEREIN. THE INFORMATION AND CONTENT AND THESE TERMS OF USE MAY BE CHANGED OR MODIFIED BY LABOR NOTES FROM TIME TO TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, AND IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. THE WEBSITE IS OPERATED BY LABOR NOTES ON AN “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LABOR NOTES MAKES NO REPRESENTATION ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE MATERIALS ON THE WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL SUCH MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. LABOR NOTES AND ALL THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. NEITHER LABOR NOTES NOR ANY THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE CONTENT OF THE WEBSITE, FOR YOUR ACTION OR INACTION IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE OR FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER OR DATA OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE YOU MAY INCUR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IN NO EVENT SHALL LABOR NOTES, ITS AGENTS OR THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF THE WEBSITE, THE MATERIALS ON THE WEBSITE, THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, SOME STATES AND/OR JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, AND, ACCORDINGLY, THE ABOVE EXCLUSION IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

THIS DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY APPLIES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORDS, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NEITHER LABOR NOTES NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES ARE LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD-PARTIES AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, LABOR NOTES DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, USEFUL, TIMELY OR CURRENT OR THAT THE WEBSITE WILL OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERROR.

Advertising

All advertisements published on the Website are the property of Labor Notes. Creators of such advertisements hereby irrevocably assign to Labor Notes all rights and title in and to the advertisement as it appears on the Website under copyright law or otherwise. Submission of an advertisement does not require Labor Notes to publish the advertisement, and publication of an advertisement does not constitute an agreement for continued publication. Labor Notes will accept only standard abbreviations and required proper punctuation in advertisements submitted for publication. Labor Notes reserves the right to edit, reclassify, revise, reject or cancel any advertisement at any time, in its sole discretion. Rates and specifications are subject to change.

Termination

Labor Notes may cancel or terminate your right to use the Website, their Services or any part thereof at any time without notice. In the event of termination, you are no longer authorized to access the part(s) of the Website or the Services affected by such cancellation or termination. The restrictions imposed on you with respect to material downloaded from the Website, and the disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in these Terms of Use, shall survive in the event of such cancellation or termination.

Privacy

Labor Notes recognizes the importance of protecting your privacy. You are encouraged to view the Website’s Privacy Policy here, which is incorporated herein by this reference and made part of these Terms of Use.

Applicable Law

All disputes against Labor Notes, including but not limited to disputes as to these Terms of Use, the license hereunder, Website access restriction and/or termination, Labor Notes’ intellectual property, privacy and disclaimer of warranties shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York (without giving effect to its conflicts of law principles). Except otherwise expressly provided, all legal proceedings arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use and other Website policies shall be brought solely in the City of New York, State of New York. Use of the Website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms of Use.

Severability; Waiver

If any part of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. No waiver of any term of these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and Labor Notes’ failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

Entire Agreement

Unless otherwise specified herein, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between Labor Notes and you with respect to your access to and use of the Website. These Terms of Use supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals between you and Labor Notes, whether written or oral, with respect to your access to and use of the Website. For the avoidance of doubt, other agreements between you and Labor Notes, including without limitation the other policies and terms posted on the Website with respect to privacy, terms of sale and/or other subject matter that is unrelated to your use of and access to the Website is not governed by or superseded by these Terms of Use.

Right to Modify

Labor Notes reserves the right to change, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time, which shall become effective immediately upon posting. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Use prior to each use of the Website and by continuing to use the Website, you agree to any such changes. Labor Notes further reserves the right to change, modify, suspend, discontinue or abandon any aspect of the Website or the Services at any time, including the availability of any Services feature, database, or the Content. Labor Notes may from time to time perform regular, planned or unplanned maintenance to the Website and the Services due to technology improvements or bugs, and you may or may not be notified of these changes before they occur. Labor Notes may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Services without notice or liability.