Last Update: December 3, 2025
Welcome to the City Journal website (the “Site”), owned and operated by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc. (“Manhattan Institute,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). The Site is designed to serve as an online magazine resource for parties interested in City Journal and the Manhattan Institute.
The following Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information you provide to us through your use of the Site or any other Manhattan Institute apps or websites linking to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”), when you attend our events or otherwise interact with us. Please note that we may provide you with different or additional privacy policies or notices when we collect personal information in other contexts or for other purposes. By using or visiting the Services, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, effective immediately upon posting on the Services. Please check this page of the Services periodically for such changes. Your continued use of the Services following any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes. Our use of your information is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we obtained your information. In the event of a material change to the processing of your personal information, if required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent and will provide a reasonable opportunity for consumers to withdraw consent to any further materially different collection, processing, or transfer of previously collected personal data under the changed Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning set forth in our Terms of Use.
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc. is responsible for the personal information collected and used as described in this Privacy Policy. We are headquartered at 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017.
1. Information We Collect
a) Information You Provide
“Personal information” (as the term is used in this Privacy Policy) means any information about an individual, that describes an individual, or from which a person can be identified. It includes information such as your name, mailing address, Internet Protocol (IP) address, phone number or email address. We collect personal information that is provided to us by our members, event attendees, donors, Service users and others, which may include:
- Contact information, including name, alias, email address, telephone or mobile phone number, and address.
- Sign-in information, including email and password, account name, and account number.
- Membership information and survey responses, including your interests, preferences, demographic information, feedback, educational or professional information, employment, employment history, marital status, date of birth, age, and sex.
- Commercial information, including records of products or services purchased, donations made, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
- Geolocation data.
- Transaction and billing data, including billing address, delivery address, signature, and transaction history. Our third-party payment processors also collect bank account and payment card details (credit card number, expiration date, and credit card security code, where needed to complete a transaction) on our behalf.
- Correspondence you send to us, including but not limited to contact information, photographs, and videos.
- Event information, such as the contact data you provide when you register for an event, and a record of your participation in our events as an attendee, presenter or a member of the press.
In addition, we collect personal information from publicly available sources, such as corporate and industry websites, social media platforms (such as LinkedIn), press releases and other news outlets.
We may aggregate or de-identify the information described above. Aggregated or de-identified data is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
b) Information Collected Automatically
We and our service providers also may collect certain information automatically when you visit the Services, including:
- Your browser type and operating system;
- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, which is the number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet and that can sometimes be used to derive your general geographic area;
- Sites you visited before and after visiting the Services;
- Pages you view and links you click on within the Services;
- Information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies;
- Information about your interactions with e-mail messages, such as the links clicked on and whether the messages were opened or forwarded; and
- Standard server log information.
We may use cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies to automatically collect this information. Cookies are small bits of information that are stored by your computer’s web browser. Pixel tags are very small images or small pieces of data embedded in images, also known as “web beacons” or “clear GIFs,” that can recognize cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, a description of the page where the pixel tag is placed, and similar information from your computer or device. By using the Services, you consent to our use of cookies and similar technologies and may withdraw your consent to future collection in our cookie management platform. You can decide if and how your computer will accept a cookie by configuring your preferences or options in your browser. However, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to use certain online products, services, or features on the Services.
We also allow third parties to place and read their own cookies, web beacons, Local Shared Objects, and similar technologies to collect information through the Services. For example, we use third-party analytics services (such as Piano.io and Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of the Site, compile reports on activity (based on their collection of IP addresses, internet service provider, browser type, operating system and language, referring and exit pages and URLs, data and time, amount of time spent on particular pages, and other similar usage data), analyze performance metrics, and helps us with traffic measurement, research, analytics, and/or advertising. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyze and provide us the data. When you opt-in to these types of cookies, you consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in each cookie’s respective privacy policy. For additional information about Google Analytics, please see https://www.google.com/analytics.
The disclosure of personal information to the third parties listed in this section may be considered a sale and/or targeted advertising under applicable law. To opt-out of targeted advertising, email us at legal@manhattan.institute or click “Your Opt-Out Rights” in the footer of the Site.
c) Information Obtained from Third Parties
We may receive certain information about you from other sources, including publicly available sources, as well as our service providers and marketing partners.
When we collect personal information from users and visitors of other sites on which you have interacted with us, we will do so in accordance with the terms of use and privacy policies of those sites and applicable law. We may also receive personal information when you comment on our social media advertisements, post comments about us, or tag us in a public-facing social media post. Personal information may also be collected by the third-party social media sites that host our social media pages. These sites may provide aggregate information and analysis to us about visitors’ use of our social media pages. This allows us to better understand and analyze our user growth, general demographic information about the users of these pages, and interaction with the content that we post. Overall, this information may be used to help us understand the types of visitors and users of our social media pages and use of the content. This Privacy Policy does not cover personal information collected by such third-party social media sites. For more information on their privacy and security practices please review the privacy policies and terms of use on their respective websites.
2. How We Use Personal Information
We process your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and as allowed or required under applicable law.
We will process your personal information for the following purposes to perform our obligations under a contract with you, or to answer questions or take steps at your request prior to entering a contract:
We may also process your personal information for the following purposes:
- to administer our Services, including troubleshooting, data analytics, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you about things that are similar to those that you have enquired about or may otherwise be of interest to you, such as events you may be interested in or donations for causes you may want to support;
- to send promotional materials from us or by our affiliates and trusted business partners;
- to tailor the Services to you and for internal purposes such as analytics to improve the Services;
- to improve our Services and to ensure that content is presented in the most relevant and effective manner for you and for your device;
- to keep our Services, business and users safe and secure;
- to comply with applicable laws and regulations; and
- to protect or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We may use any information we obtain about you in marketing communications and donor outreach. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing communications at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
3. How We Share Personal Information
a) General Sharing
We may share your personal information with our corporate parents, subsidiaries, or other affiliated entities, as well as with service providers that perform certain functions or services on our behalf (such as hosting the Services, managing our databases, or performing analysis).
If we sell all or part of the Manhattan Institute, or are otherwise involved in a merger or business transfer, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, we may transfer your information — including personal information — to one or more third parties as part of that transaction. In addition, we may share your personal information (1) if we determine that an applicable law, regulation or legal process requires it; (2) in response to a request from law enforcement personnel; or (3) if we determine that we need to share such information with others to protect the Services and/or to protect or enforce our rights. Apart from the reasons identified above, we may ask for your permission to disclose your personal information for a specific purpose. We will contact you and ask for your consent before you give us your personal information or before the personal information you already provided is disclosed for such purpose.
b) Social Networks
We have worked with certain third-party social media providers to offer you their social networking services through our Services. For example, you can use third-party social networking services, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and others, to share information about your experience on our Services with your friends and followers on those social networking services. These social networking services may be able to collect information about you, including your activity on our Services. These third-party social networking services also may notify your friends, both on our Services and on the social networking services themselves, that you are a user of our Services or about your use of our Services, in accordance with applicable law and their own privacy policies. If you choose to access or make use of third-party social networking services, we may receive information about you that you have made available to those social networking services, including information about your contacts on those social networking services.
Manhattan Institute and its brands utilize social media channels as an open communication platform through which users can learn more about our work, our scholars, our values and our ideas. Social media is a vital part of promoting the Manhattan Institute’s research and engaging with other researchers, journalists, and policymakers. Our goal is to provide content that is valuable, relevant, and timely. Please note: external blogs, newsletters, social media posts, etc. that do not fall within the issue portfolio of a Manhattan Institute scholar are independent products and are therefore not connected with or affiliated with the Manhattan Institute.
c) Mailing Lists and Donor Information
We periodically make our list of both offline and online donors available to other organizations to send physical mail. This process is carefully controlled and conforms to industry best practices. We hope that you may find information from these groups interesting and helpful. This practice allows us to reach a broader community of donors in a cost-effective way, which increases the impact of the dollars that you give. If you would like to be excluded from this, please call us at (212) 599-7000 or email legal@manhattan.institute, and we will not include your name in our mailing list sharing activities.
d) Aggregated Information
We may use aggregated information about the use of the Site to improve the Services. We may share aggregated information with potential partners, advertisers, investors, content providers and customers in connection with the promotion of our services. However, this aggregated information does not include personal information.
e) Sale and Targeted Advertising
We do not sell your personal information as that term is commonly understood, e.g., disclosure of your personal information in exchange for money. Rather, as used herein and described below, the definition of sale includes situations where another company can use the personal information about you that we disclose to it for its own purposes. We may also share with third parties certain personal information we have collected from you for targeted advertising as described below.
We will not sell your Sensitive Personal Information if you are a Maryland resident. Also, if you are a Maryland resident who we know or should know is under 18 years of age, we will not process or sell your personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising.
We disclose personal information to certain third parties that may be considered a sale or targeted advertising under applicable law under the following circumstances:
- When the personal information disclosed in Section 1(b) above is disclosed to marketing and analytics cookie providers, to make suggestions and recommendations to you about things that are similar to those that you have enquired about or may otherwise be of interest to you, such as events you may be interested in or donations for causes you may want to support;
- When we disclose mailing lists and donor lists (including your name, email address, and mailing address) to third party companies who are interested in offering charitable opportunities.
To opt out of this processing, please call us at (212) 599-7000 or email legal@manhattan.institute. You may also opt-out of cookies by clicking “Your Opt-Out Rights” in the footer of the Site.
4. How Long We Retain Personal Information
We will store your personal information, in a form that permits us to identify you, for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which the personal information is processed. If you have an account, we will retain your information for as long as you have an account with an active email address associated with it. We store your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements and rights, or if it is not technically and reasonably feasible to remove it.
5. How We Protect Your Information
We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the personal information that you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet.
6. Children's Privacy
The Services are not intended to be used by children. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe we have collected your child’s personal information, please contact us as outlined below.
7. External Websites and Third Parties
We do not control the privacy policies of third parties that have websites linked to the Services. For instance, we may provide tools allowing you to share articles on the Services, or to support Manhattan Institute financially, through services such as Facebook or Twitter. If you click on a link or use such tools, the privacy policies of the website that you link to will govern the use of your information by that website’s operator. We assume no responsibility or liability for the actions of third parties with respect to their use of your information. Accordingly, make sure you are aware of, and comfortable with, the privacy policies of any third-party websites you link to.
8. Notice To California Residents
Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of California have the right to obtain certain information about the types of personal information that companies with whom they have an established business relationship (and that are not otherwise exempt) have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, including the names and addresses of those third parties, and examples of the types of services or products marketed by those third parties. In order to submit such a request, please contact us using the contact information provided at the end of this document.
9. Notice To Nevada Residents
If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information to third parties. You can exercise this right by contacting us at via email at legal@manhattan.institute, with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and the email address.
10. Important Notice to International Users
The Services are intended to be used by individuals within the United States of America. The Manhattan Institute is headquartered in New York. When you provide your personal information from locations outside of the United States, it will be transferred and stored on our servers in the United States. In addition, we employ third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers to store and process personal information on our behalf. These companies may be based in the United States or around the world. United States data protection and other relevant laws may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence. By using the Services, or otherwise providing your personal information to us, you acknowledge and agree to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United States, or other countries and territories, pursuant to the laws of the United States, as described in this Privacy Policy.
11. Personal Information Rights You May Request
Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal information. You may submit a request by emailing us at legal@manhattan.institute. Please note that not all of these rights may be applicable to you, and depending on your state of residency certain of these rights may be subject to certain exceptions or subject to verification mechanisms.
a) Right To Know: You have the right to know whether we are processing your personal information, and, if you are a resident of Maryland or Minnesota categories of third parties we are sharing your personal information with.
b) Right of Access: You have the right to access your personal information, and to obtain a copy of it in a readily usable format, if feasible.
c) Right to Correct Inaccuracies: You may request that inaccuracies in your personal information be corrected.
d) Right to Delete: You have the right to request that your personal information be deleted, except in cases where retention is required by law or contractual obligation.
e) Right to Data Portability: You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal information in a portable and, if feasible, readily usable format.
f) Right to Opt-Out: You may elect to prevent your personal information, to the extent applicable, from being:
a. Used in targeted advertising;
b. Sold;
c. Used for automated decision making or profiling purposes that may produce legal or similarly significant effects.
To exercise these rights, please contact us as indicated below, or activate a Universal Opt Out Mechanism in your browser.
g) Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercising Your Rights: If you choose to exercise any of your rights, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us.
h) Rights Regarding Sensitive Personal Information: Depending on your state of residency, we will either: (a) not process your Sensitive personal information without first presenting you with clear notice and an opportunity to opt out of the processing; or (b) not process your Sensitive Personal Information without obtaining your consent. You have the right to withdraw your previous consent and opt out of further processing of your Sensitive personal information.
i) Rights Regarding Information We Share with Third Parties: If you are a Minnesota resident, you have the right to obtain a list of the specific third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information. If you are a Maryland resident, you have the right to obtain a list of categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information.
j) Right to Withdraw Consent. You may withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information using the same method for which consent was provided or by emailing legal@manhattan.institute. We will cease processing the personal information as soon as practicable, but not later than 15 days after the receipt of such request to withdraw consent.
Furthermore, if we have actual knowledge that you are 13 years of age and not older than 18 years of age, we will not without your consent process your personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising, profile you in furtherance of decisions that produce legal effects or effects of similar significance, or sell your personal information.
We will respond to valid requests no later than 45 calendar days after receiving your consumer request. If we cannot verify your request within 45 days, we may deny your request. If necessary, we may take up to an additional 45 days to respond to your request but in such an event will provide you a notice and an explanation of the reason that we will take more than 45 days to respond to your request.
Verification of Consumer Requests
When you make a request to know, delete and/or correct, to help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity. Our verification procedure may differ depending on whether you have an account with us or not and the request you are making. The following generally describes the verification processes we use:
- Password Protected Accounts. If you have a password-protected account with us, we may use existing authentication practices to verify your identity but will require re-authentication before disclosing, correcting or deleting data. If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity relating to your account, we will require further verification (as described below) before complying with a request to know, correct or delete.
- Verification for Non-Accountholders. If you do not have, or cannot access, a password-protected account with us, we will generally verify your identity as follows:
- For valid requests to know categories of personal information, we will verify your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty by matching at least two data points provided by you with reliable data points maintained by us.
- For valid requests to know specific pieces of personal information, right of access and right to data portability, we will verify your identity to a reasonably high degree of certainty by matching at least three data points provided by you with reliable data points maintained by us.
- For valid requests to correct or delete personal information, we will verify your identity to a reasonable degree or a reasonably high degree of certainty depending on the sensitivity of the personal information and the risk of harm posed by unauthorized deletion. We will act in good faith when determining the appropriate standard to apply.
If there is no reasonable method by which we can verify your identity, we will state so in response, including an explanation of why we have no reasonable method to verify your identity.
Authorized Agents
We may also require a declaration, signed under penalty of perjury, that the person requesting the information is the person whose information is the subject of the request or that person’s authorized representative.
If you use an authorized agent to submit a request to know, delete or correct, we may require the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request. We may also require you to do either of the following: (a) verify your own identity directly with us; or (b) directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.
Appeals
You have the right to appeal our decision regarding your consumer request. To submit your appeal you may (1) respond using the same method with which we provided our initial decision regarding your consumer request or (2) email us at legal@manhattan.institute.
Within 45 days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, along with a written explanation of the reasons in support thereof and clearly and prominently provide the consumer with information about how to file a complaint with the applicable Office of the Attorney General. That period may be extended by 60 additional days where reasonably necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests serving as the basis for the appeal. We will inform you of any extension within 45 days of receipt of the appeal, together with the reasons for the delay. We will maintain records of all appeals and our responses for at least 24 months and will, upon written request by the attorney general as part of an investigation, compile and provide a copy of the records to the attorney general.
12. Do Not Track
We do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
13. How To Contact Us
Please do not hesitate to reach out to us with any questions, complaints, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, and include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line. You can contact us at Manhattan Institute, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10017, by phone at +1 (212) 599-7000, or via email at legal@manhattan.institute.