To Exercise Your Privacy Rights
To submit a request to exercise your right to access, deletion, or correction, please use
this form
.
To exercise your right to opt-out of "sales," "shares," ”targeted advertising,” or certain use/disclosure of “sensitive” personal information, please click our
Your Privacy Choices
link (found in the website footer) and follow the instructions therein. As discussed in such link, you may also visit our website with the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal enabled to opt-out of “sales/shares” via Targeting Cookies (learn more about GPC at
www.globalprivacycontrol.org
). The Targeting Cookies opt-out is on a per-website basis and applies at the browser level for the device you use to opt out.??
Unless otherwise prohibited by the State Privacy Laws, we may need to verify your identity and confirm your residency before processing your request.? In order to verify your identity, we will generally either require the successful authentication of your account or the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems.? This process may require us to request additional personal information from you, including, but not limited to, your email address, phone number, or date of last transaction on our Services.
In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity or locate your information in our systems.? If we cannot comply with a request, we will explain the reasons in our response.
Non-Discrimination and Appeals
You have the right to not receive “discriminatory” treatment for exercising the rights discussed in the table above.? However, please note that if the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process personal information (such as in the case of a deletion request), we may no longer be able to provide you our products and services or engage with you in the same manner.
Further, under Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia’s State Privacy Laws, you may appeal our decision to not take action on your rights request. All appeals should be submitted by emailing
privacy@dotdashmdp.com
, along with a copy of the decision that you are appealing.
Authorized Agents
In certain circumstances under the State Privacy Laws, you are permitted to use an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf (using the mechanisms for submitting requests above), where we can verify the authorized agent’s authority to act on your behalf.
Specifically, under the CCPA, for requests to access, delete, or correct personal information, we require the following for verification purposes:
(a) a power of attorney from you or your authorized agent that is valid under the laws of the applicable state where you reside; or
(b) sufficient evidence to show that you have:
- provided the authorized agent signed permission to act on your behalf; and
- verified your own identity directly with us or directly confirmed with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request on your behalf.
For requests to opt-out of “sales,” “shares,” or the processing of your personal information for “targeted advertising” under the State Privacy Laws, we require a signed permission demonstrating your authorized agent has been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
Deidentified Information
Where we process “deidentified information” (as such term is defined under the State Privacy Laws) and are required to keep such information deidentified, we commit to maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information, except in instances where necessary for determining whether the deidentification process we used satisfies the requirements under applicable law.
Notice at Collection for California Residents
The following additional disclosures apply to residents covered under the CCPA.
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Categories/Use of PI
:
In the last 12?months, please see the list below for the categories of personal information we have collected. Further, please see “
How Do We Use Personal Information?
” for the purposes for which such personal information is used.
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Identifiers
, such as your name, email address, date of birth, online identifiers, or other similar identifiers.
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California Customer Records
(
Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)
), such as birth date, contact information, and payment information.
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Protected Classification Characteristics
, such as age and gender.
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Commercial Information
, such as payment and purchase history.
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Internet/Network Information
, such as device information, logs, and analytics data.
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Geolocation Data
, such as location information from your device or generated based on IP address or Wi-Fi.
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Profession/Employment Information
, such as your employer, company, or school if your subscription is tied to an employer or school account.
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Other Personal Information
, such as information you post on our social media pages or otherwise provide to us.
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Inferences
, such as predictions about your interests and preferences.
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Sensitive Personal Information
, such as account username and password or data that may concern your health or race/ethnic origin.
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“Sales” and “Shares”
: In the previous 12?months, we may have “sold” and “shared” the following categories of personal information to our advertising/marketing and analytics partners for the purposes of advertising/marketing and analytics services, subject to your right to opt-out via our
Your Privacy Choices
link (found in the website footer): Identifiers, Commercial Information, Geolocation Data, Internet/Network Information, and data that may be considered “sensitive” personal information.
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Data Retention
: We retain the categories of personal information above as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. In many situations, we must obtain all, or a portion, of your personal information to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, protect against fraudulent, deceptive, or illegal activity, or for another one of our business purposes.
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Notice of Financial Incentives
: We may offer you financial incentives for the collection, sale, retention, and use of your PI as permitted by the CCPA that can, without limitation, result in reasonably different prices, rates, or quality levels.? The material aspects of any financial incentive will be explained and described in its program terms.? Please note that participating in incentive programs is entirely optional, you will have to affirmatively opt-in to the program and you can opt-out of each program (i.e., terminate participation and forgo the ongoing incentives) prospectively by following the instructions in the applicable program description and terms.? We may add or change incentive programs or their terms by posting notice on the program descriptions and terms linked to above, so check them regularly.
● Each price or service difference related to the collection and use of personal information is based upon our reasonable, good-faith determination of the estimated value of such information to our business, such as by calculating the expense related to the offer, provision, or imposition of the financial incentive or price or service difference or revenue generation or expense related to the sale, collection, or retention of consumers’ personal information.
Notice to Nevada Residents
Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident.? To exercise your right to opt-out of sales subject to the Nevada Revised Statues, please submit your request by clicking
here
.
European Privacy Notice
This European Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to individuals located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland (“you”) and to the Services available in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland that link to this European Privacy Notice:
Controller of your Personal Data
The controller of your personal data under this European Privacy Notice is Dotdash Meredith, with an address of
225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281
.? Our local representative with respect to the GDPR can be contacted at
privacy@dotdashmdp.com
.?
Legal Basis for Using Personal Data
We process your personal data only if we have a legal basis to do so, including:
● to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
● for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
● for our legitimate interests or those of a third party;
● where you have given consent to our specific use.
The purpose for which we use and process your information and the legal basis on which we carry out each type of processing is further explained below.
Purposes for which we will process the information & legal basis for such processing
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To provide products and services you request:
It is necessary for us to process your personal data in order to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us (or take necessary steps relating thereto).
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To respond to requests, questions, and comments, and provide other types of user support
: It is necessary for us to respond to requests, questions, and comments, and provide other types of user support in order to take steps at your request or according to the applicable contract between us.
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To offer you products and services in marketing communications, or direct you to portions of this Site or other websites, that we believe may interest you:
We may send electronic marketing communications to you if you have consented to these communications. It is in our legitimate interest to market out products and services to you by other means and to direct you to portions of this Site or other websites that we believe may interest you. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
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To communicate about, and administer your participation in, events, programs, contests, and other offers or promotions:
We will send electronic communications to you if you have consented to these communications, where such consent is required by applicable law. With respect to other communications, it is in our legitimate interest to communicate to you and administer your participation in, our events, programs, contests, and other offers or promotions. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
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To carry out, evaluate, and improve our business (which may include developing new features for the Services; analyzing and enhancing the user experience on the Services; optimizing and assessing the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising; and managing our communications)
: It is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data to carry out these activities. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
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To perform data analytics regarding usage of the Services (including market and customer research, trend analysis, financial analysis, and pseudonymization or anonymization of personal data):
It is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data to carry out these activities. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to you.
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To serve advertising, content, and offers to you based on your interests and online activities, from us or third parties:
We will serve you advertising, content and offers to you based on your interests and online activities if you have consented to this processing.
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To enable our affiliates or service providers to perform certain activities on our behalf:
It is necessary for us to process your personal data in this manner in order to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us. It is also in our legitimate interest to enable our service providers and affiliates to perform certain activities on our behalf. We consider this use to be proportionate and will not be prejudicial or detrimental to your rights and freedoms.
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To notify you of any changes to the Services that may affect you:
It is necessary for us to process your personal data in order to deliver the services and process transactions according to the applicable contract between us.
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If we are required to do so by law, regulation, or legal process (such as a court order or subpoena); in response to requests from government agencies, such as law enforcement authorities, including to meet national security requirements; if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; and in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including a reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation). ?In such an event, we will seek to provide you with commercially reasonable notice, e.g., via email and/or notice on our Sites, of any change in ownership, incompatible new uses of your personal data, and choices you may have regarding your personal data
: ?We conduct this processing to comply with our legal obligations and to protect the public interest.
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Guard against, identify, and prevent fraud and other criminal activity, claims, and other liabilities; and comply with applicable legal requirements, law enforcement requests, and our company policies
: ?We conduct this processing to comply with our legal obligations and to protect the public interest.