Our Privacy Policy
 Free the Media is a non-commercial advocacy site for media reform, independent media, and journalists working in any medium. We support the right to publish and the right to privacy. No information collected by Free the Media is shared with any third-party nor used for commercial purposes. Free the Media may, on occasion, send an unsolicited, individual email to the address provided when you registered. Such emails will be limited and utilized only to notify you of significant events that will permanently impact your ability to access the site. These include the initial confirmation email and could include notices of site address change or equivalent matters of consequence. Because of the complexity of the site and the variety of relations users may have with it, the amount of information about you contained in our database will vary from person to person and from role to role. With the exception of logging your IP address when you add or modify content or site settings and the traffic statistics recorded by Google Analytics, Free the Media neither collects nor retains any information that you have not provided.  Additional data beyond username, password, and email that may be collected varies as follows:

Site Visitors
No individual data is recorded or retained on site visits beyond traffic statistics, with the exception of attempts made by visitors to change or administer the site. These attempts are logged in the error log and include the users IP. Site visitors do not have permissions to change the site in any way.

Members
Free the Media records the email address members provide, their user name, and password. This information is required for membership. Any other affiliated Drupal site you log on to using these credentials validates them through our database and does not replicate your credentials. Any additional information you provide through profile screens, posts, private messages, chat, or in any other way to another user or the community may or may not persist in our database but will, on no account, be used by Free the Media for any other purpose than its explicit intention. Free the Media cannot be responsible for the use of the information by other site users, and assumes no liability in this regard. Use of such information for spamming, stalking, or other unwanted communications will result in immediate termination of a user's account. Members may opt to enable settings which will provide them with information through emails. These might include copies of the user's posts, replies to posts, group announcements, etc. These settings can always be toggled off if desired.

Software
Free the Media runs on Drupal, currently under Rev. 4.6 of the Drupal engine. Drupal and all themes and modules to extend Drupal functionality used by Free the Media are Open Source software and free of spyware and all other kinds of malicious software.