Privacy Policy

At the Institute for the Study of Russian Piracy (“we” “us” “our”), we know you are concerned about your privacy, so we developed this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information (defined below). Read on and we will tell you how this all works.

The purpose of our website, russiatheftwatch.com (the “Site”), is to inform the public of Russia’s illegal pilfering of Ukrainian assets. While we provide you information about this issue, you accept the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. Each time you visit the Site or voluntarily provide us with information, you agree that you are consenting to our use and disclosure of the information that you provide, and consenting to receive emails or otherwise be contacted, as described in this Privacy Policy.

When we use the phrase “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing. When we use the phrase “Non-Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information. Non-Personal Information does not allow anyone to identify or contact individual persons.

How we collect information

We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily. When you communicate with us by sending us an email, completing online forms, posting a comment to or on the Site, or signing up for our newsletter, we will collect Personal Information like your email address and any information that is contained in your communications with us. We may store this information to better serve our users. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but be aware that your refusal to provide us with information may limit some features of the Site. We do all of this to help us in our effort to help you with your use of the Site and to offer you other services as applicable.

Please be aware that when you voluntarily transmit or post comments or Personal Information on public portions of the Site, that information will be displayed to anyone who has access to those postings or transmissions and can be collected and used by others. This may result in unsolicited messages from third parties. We cannot be responsible for Personal Information you voluntarily display, disclose, or distribute on the Site for all to see.

Information collected via technology

As you use the Site, we may collect Non-Personal Information related to your use of the Site, including your IP address and data about your web browser and operating system, all of which may be collected and stored on our server logs. We also use cookies and navigational data like URL to collect information about your visit, such as when you visited the Site, how you arrived at our Site, and what you viewed and searched for on the Site.

You have the option to disable cookies while using the Site. However, note that disabling cookies on the Site may cause some features of the Site to not function properly. Your usage information helps us tailor the Site to best suit our users’ needs.

We may contract with online partners to help manage and optimize our organization’s internet presence and communications. For example, we may use the services of a marketing company to help us measure the effectiveness of our branding and how visitors use our Site. To do this, we may use web beacons, clear GIFs and cookies provided by our marketing company on this Site. The information collected helps us learn things like how our message is being spread, what kinds of users our Site attracts, and what kinds of content our users like to see.

Please note that we do not sell your Personal Information or provide it to others for advertising purposes.

Third-party websites

We are excited to share information with you, so our Site may contain links to third party websites. These other websites have their own privacy statements that govern your activities on those sites, and we are not responsible for the content on or privacy practices of such websites you visit once you navigate away from our Site. This Privacy Policy applies only to our Site, so if you click on a link to another website, you should review the privacy policy of that website before accessing that content. Providing a link to any other websites does not represent our endorsement of such websites or the content posted on such websites.

Disclosure

We may disclose your Personal Information:

(a) to comply with law enforcement, court orders, or the law or to protect our rights or property, prevent crimes, or protect the safety or rights of our users and others,
(b) as part of a merger, consolidation, sale of our assets, bankruptcy, reorganization, or the like, to a successor-in-interest, and
(c) in other instances when we have gotten your express permission before disclosure.

Security

We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Private Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Even though we have taken reasonable steps to ensure that your Private Information is not intercepted, accessed, used, or disclosed by unauthorized persons, you should know that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

You assume all responsibility and risk for your use of the Site and the information you post or access through the Site.

Changes

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Any such modifications become effective upon posting the revised policy to our Site. It is your responsibility to check the Site from time to time to view any such changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any changes, if and when such changes may be made to this Privacy Policy, you must cease access to the Site. You give us permission to email you for the purpose of notification as described in this Section, if we choose to notify you of any such revision.

Privacy rights in certain jurisdictions

Residents of some jurisdictions have certain privacy rights that they may wish to exercise. If you reside in such a jurisdiction, you may have the right to access the information we gather concerning your use of our Site, as well as the right to rectify the information, erase the information, restrict the processing of the information (under certain conditions), the right to request a transfer of the information to another organization (or directly to you) under certain conditions, the right to request a list of all third parties to which our Site has disclosed certain personal information during the preceding year, and/or the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of exercising your privacy rights.

If you reside in such a jurisdiction and want such a list, or if you have questions about your privacy rights, please send a request by email at In all such requests, please use the subject line “Your Privacy Rights” and include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. Please allow us up to one month to respond to you.

Children

The Site and its content are not directed to children. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. We do not collect or maintain Personal Information from people we actually know are under 18 years of age. If we learn that a user is under 18 years of age, we will take reasonable steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our databases and to prevent the user from using the Site.

Jurisdiction

The Site is based in the United States, so your personal information will be processed in the United States. Data protection laws of the United States may not provide the same level of protection as what’s provided in other countries, so if you use the Site or otherwise submit your personal information to us, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information in the United States.

Contact

If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at: info@russiatheftwatchcom.

Thank you for using our Site.

Last Updated: July 26, 2022