1. Overview

This Privacy Statement clarifies the information security practices of our site and associates and members when you visit or utilize the sites, smartphone app of our sites, and our computerized applications to which this statement is connected, just as when you visit or utilize outsider membership pages or potentially submit offline membership applications and demands, for print and advanced magazines, sites and other article properties distributed by THIS Website that are connected to or contain the URL for this privacy statement

For avoiding uncertainty, this Statement additionally doesn’t relate to the editorial activities of our Distributions, columnists, editors, picture takers and other publication staff who may gather, distribute and convey data about you from sources inconsequential to your utilization of the Administrations. Without limiting the foregoing, this statement does not apply to any Editorial Activities concerning information that you may share at any of our conferences, summits, panels or other events.

This Privacy Statement is included in and subject to the Administrations’ terms of service. In case you don’t consent to the Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement, you should suspend utilizing the Administrations and all parts and highlights in that. By utilizing the Administrations, you recognize you have a survey and comprehend this privacy statement.

2. The Information We Collect

We obtain information about you through the means discussed below when you use our Services. The information we collect and the purposes for which we use it will depend to some extent on the specific Services you use and how you interact with THIS SITE. For example, we collect the information you provide when you enter a sweepstake or contest, complete a survey, participate in a reader panel, register for a part of our Services, register for a summit or event, make a purchase of goods or services, request a refund, participate in our social networking features, request back issues of our Publications, subscribe to our Publications, subscribe to newsletters, promotional correspondence, or other electronic services, or send us an email or feedback. If you elect to post material to any blogs or forums or participate in our social networking features or other community boards that may be offered on our Services, then such materials will be collected and some information, including your posted pseudonym, may be publicly available for others to view. We, or our service providers on our behalf, may collect the following information about you or your use of the Services:

Information You Provide to Us:

• Registration, Subscription or Contact Information such as e-mail address, name, phone number, shipping address, and billing information
• Customer service information such as questions and other messages you address to us directly through online forms, by email, over the phone, or by post; and summaries or voice recordings of your interactions with customer care
• Demographic, statistical and interest information such as your age, date of birth, gender, interests, lifestyle information, and hobbies
• Financial and transactional information such as credit or debit card number, verification number, and expiration date, to process payments and information about your transactions and purchases with us
• Employment or Education Information when you register for events or networking insights services such as education history, employment experience, business contact information
• User-generated content such as comments on articles, photos, videos, audio, any information you submit in public forums or message boards, reviews and feedback or testimonials you provide about our Services
• Research, survey, or sweepstakes information (including contact information and user-generated content) collected if you participate in a survey or sweepstakes; includes information needed for you to participate (such as contact information), and to fulfil your prize
• Contact Information about others, (including personal identifiers) such as name and mailing address to send a gift or use our send-to-a-friend functionality. If you use send-a-friend on our Services, your email address may be included in the communication sent to your friend.
• Social media information (which may include contact information, photos, location, user-generated content, demographic information) if you link your account or access the Services through a third-party connection or log-in, we may have access to any information you provide to that social network depending on your privacy settings such as your name, email address, friend list, photo, gender, location, and current city; and information you provide to us directly through our pages on social networking and blogging platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WordPress, and Twitter)
• Other information any other information you choose to directly provide to THIS SITE in connection with your use of the Services

Information We Collect Automatically:

• Device information and identifiers such as IP address; browser type and language; operating system; platform type; device type; software and hardware attributes; and unique device, advertising, and app identifiers
• Internet network and device activity data such as information about files you download, domain names, landing pages, browsing activity, content or ads viewed and clicked, dates and times of access, pages viewed, forms you complete or partially complete, search terms, uploads or downloads, the URL that referred you to our Services, the web sites you visit after this web site; if you share our content to social media platforms; and other web usage activity and data logged by our web servers, whether you open an email and your interaction with email content, access times, error logs, and other similar information.
• Geolocation information such as city, state and ZIP code associated with your IP address or derived through Wi-Fi triangulation; and precise geolocation information from GPS-based functionality on your mobile devices, with your permission under your mobile device settings

Information from Third Parties:

We may also collect the information outlined above, such as demographic and social media information, from other sources including public and commercial data sources, affiliates, and entities providing conferences and other event, marketers, social media networks, under your privacy preferences on such services, and partners such as those providing surveys or sweepstakes with us. We use this information to update, validate or supplement the information that you provide or we collected automatically, to target our communications so that we can inform you of products, services and offers that may be of interest, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes.  If other users of the Services provide information about you, such as your name and mailing address to send a gift or to use our send-to-a-friend functionality, we collect that information from such users.

3. How We Use the Information We Collect

Depending on the Services you use and how you use them, we, or our service providers, may use your information to:

• Provide the Services you request, including to maintain and service your account, for example to:
  • Process and fulfil your transactions, including subscriptions and the purchase of other goods
  • Maintain and servicing your account
  • Payment processing
  • Send communications that you have requested on your behalf
  • Administer your entries into sweepstakes, contests, promotions, or surveys
  • Provide community features and post your content
• Communicate with You & Provide Customer Service to Provide the Services, for example to:
  • Provide transactional or service communications, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or sweepstakes or other promotions when we make changes to subscriber agreements, send you an email newsletter, process refund requests, or to contact you about your account
  • Respond to your requests for information
  • Provide you with customer service and technical support
• Personalize your experience to Provide the Services, for example to:
  • Customize certain features of the Services,
  • Deliver relevant content and to provide you with an enhanced experienced based on your activities and interests
  • Send you personalized newsletters, surveys, and information about products, services and promotions offered by us, our partners, and other organizations with which we work
  • Customize the advertising on the Services based on your activities and interests
  • Create and update inferences about you and audience segments that can be used for targeted advertising and marketing on the Services, third party services and platforms, and mobile apps
  • Create profiles about you, including adding and combining information we obtain from third parties, which may be used for analytics, marketing, and advertising
  • Conduct cross-device tracking by using information such as IP addresses and unique mobile device identifiers to identify the same unique users across multiple browsers or devices (such as smartphones or tablets, to save your preferences across devices and analyze usage of the Service.
  • using inferences about your preferences and interests for any of the above purposes
• Republish Information You Provide on the Services, for example to:
  • according to our Terms, use and edit information submitted by you in response to opportunities provided on the Services, which you provide to us through emails, blogs, forums, in response to polls, or through any other user-generated submission, for editorial purposes, including your name, likeness, photograph, and biographical information you provide, with or without attribution, including publication in the Publications, and in trade media, and advertising
• Improve the Services and develop new services, for example to:
  • Engage in analysis, research, and reports to better understand how you use the Services, so we can improve them and develop new services
• Our Marketing and Third-Party Marketing and Advertising Purposes, for example to:
  • Send you newsletters, promotional emails, surveys and information about products, services and promotions offered by us, our partners, and other organizations with which we work
  • Customize content that our third-party partners deliver on the Services (e.g., personalized third-party advertising)
  • Create and update inferences about you and audience segments that can be used for targeted advertising and marketing on the Services, third party services and platforms, and mobile apps
  • Create profiles about you, including adding and combining information we obtain from third parties, which may be used for analytics, marketing, and advertising

We may combine the information we collect about you, including from third parties, and conduct cross-device tracking for the marketing and advertising purposes above.

• Bug detection and error reporting, including to understand and resolve technical issues, app crashes and other issues being reported
• Audit consumer interactions on the Services including to measure the placement, frequency, efficacy and compliance of advertising and ad impressions
• Security, Fraud, and Legal Compliance, including by detecting, protecting against, and prosecuting security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity for example to:
  • Monitor prevent and detect fraud, such as through verifying your identity
  • Combat spam or other malware or security risks
  • Monitor, enforce, and improve the security of our Services
  • Comply with any applicable procedures, laws, and regulations, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process, or in connection with a legal investigation, if in our good faith opinion such is required or permitted by law;
  • Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (e.g., to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, Privacy Policies, or other contracts or legal rights)
  • Protect or defend our Services, users, or others
• Aggregate and/or De-Identified Information. We may aggregate or anonymized information and/or de-identify any information collected through the Services so that such information can no longer be linked to you or your device (“Aggregate/De-Identified Information”). We may use this Aggregate/De-Identified Information for any purpose permitted under the law, including without limitation for research and marketing purposes, and disclose such information to third parties, including advertisers, promotional partners, and sponsors in our sole discretion.

4. How We Share the Information Collected

THIS SITE may (and you authorize us to) share or disclose information collected from and about you on the Services to other companies or individuals as set forth below.

• Service Providers. We may provide access to information to vendors that are performing services on our behalf, including fulfilling subscriptions to our Publications, processing and fulfilling orders for other goods and services, managing our email lists and sending email messages on our behalf, processing payments, providing customer support, analytics providers, and performing other administrative services, to carry out such services.
• Our Affiliates. We may share information we collect within the THIS SITE family of companies to deliver products and services to you, ensure a consistent level of service across our Services, internal management and administrative purposes on our behalf and enhance our products, services, and your customer experience.
• Other Individuals, Services, and Partners at Your Request. We will share your information with other individuals and services at your request.
  • For example, if you choose to interact with such co-branded products or services using your account information with us, we may share your account information with third parties as required to provide the co-branded product or service that you request, including any information required for contest prize fulfilment.
• Third-Party Contests and Promotions Providers. In some cases, you may have entered a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by a third party, in which case the information you provide via the contest or sweepstakes may be shared by us with that third party for their use in their discretion, including direct marketing. Some of our contests and sweepstakes will ask you at the time of entry whether you would like to have your personal information shared with the sponsor, in which case we will honour your selection. Other contests will not give you that option and in that event, if you do not want your information to be shared, you should not enter the contest. The privacy policies of such third party companies apply to their use and disclosure of your information that we collect and disclose to such third party companies.
• Third-Party Partners to Provide Co-Branded Products and Services. Some of our Services may from time to time partner with a retailer or other third party to offer online shopping opportunities, games, services, subscriptions, registration opportunities for our events and summits and other applications on a co-branded or cross-promotional basis (“Co-Branded Areas”). The information you provide in connection with the transaction may be collected directly by or shared by THIS SITE with, the third party, as well as with any participating sponsors or advertisers of such Co-Branded Areas. Some of our Services may offer you the ability to access a third-party site with whom we have a relationship to access both sites through a co-branded registration or password; in that event, your applicable registration information may be collected directly by or shared by THIS SITE with, the third-party partner. For example, if you choose to interact with such co-branded products or services using your account information with us, we may share your account information with third parties as required to provide the co-branded product or service that you request, including any information required for contest prize fulfilment or customer service. These third parties will use your information under their own privacy policy.
• Third Parties for Marketing Purposes. We may share your information with partners whose offerings may interest you such as other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases and non-profit organizations. This includes licensing information about your interests and activities, and marketing segments created with such data, which we may share with third parties for their marketing purposes.
• Social Networks. As noted above, if you use your login credentials from a social media networking service on a Website, we may receive information from such service under its terms and privacy policy and your settings. If you elect to share your information with these social networking sites, we will share information with them by your election. The terms and conditions of these social networking sites will apply to the information we disclose to them.
• Sales or Transfer of Business or Assets. In connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise, including via bankruptcy) of all or a portion of the business conducted by the Website to which this policy applies, in which case the company will possess the information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your information as described in this Privacy Policy (the “Acquisition Use”).

5. Legal Grounds for Using (Processing) Your Information

If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the information concerned and the context in which we collect it. We collect information from you:

• Where we need it to perform our contract with you (i.e. our Terms of Service),
• Where the processing is in our legitimate interests (provided that these aren’t overridden by your interests or rights) (such as personalizing our services and marketing for example), or
• If we otherwise have your consent.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “Contact Us” section below.

6. Online Analytics and Advertising

Delivery of Advertising and Other Content. In addition to ads and content that we serve you directly, THIS SITE may use third-party advertising companies and marketing services to serve ads and other content when you visit the Services, as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use. The ads may be based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, your searches, demographic data, user-generated content, and other information we collect from you. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and across other websites and online services and may be tailored to your interests. Third parties, whose products or services are accessible or advertised via the Services, may also place cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other devices to collect information about you as discussed above. We also allow other third parties (e.g., ad networks and ad servers such as Google and others) to serve tailored ads to you on the Services, other sites, and in other applications, and to access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other devices you use to access the Services. We sometimes provide our customer information (such as email addresses) to service providers, who may “match” this information in de-identified form to cookies (or mobile ad identifiers) and other proprietary IDs, to provide you with more relevant ads when you visit other websites and mobile applications.

We neither have access to nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on the device you use to access the Services by such non-affiliated third parties.

Please note that if you exercise the opt-out choices above, you will still see advertising when you use the Services, but it will not be tailored to you based on your online behaviour over time.

Mobile Advertising. When using mobile applications from THIS SITE or others, you may also receive tailored in-application advertisements. We may use third-party service providers to deliver advertisements on mobile applications or for mobile application analytics. Each operating system, iOS for Apple phones, Android for Android devices, and Windows for Microsoft devices provides its own instructions on how to prevent the delivery of tailored in-application advertisements. We do not control how the applicable platform operator allows you to control receiving personalized in-application advertisements; thus, you should contact the platform provider for further details on opting out of tailored in-application advertisements. Often, you may opt-out by adjusting the ad tracking settings on your mobile device or resetting the “Advertising Identifier” (like an IDFA) from your mobile device’s settings page, which will prevent continued use of existing behavioural data tied to the previous “Advertising Identifier.” You may review the support materials and/or the device settings for the respective operating systems to opt-out of tailored in-app advertisements.

Do Not Track. THIS SITE does not act on “do not track” requests from your browser because, this way, we can personalize your experiences on our Services.

7. Your Rights & Your Choices

Marketing Emails. If you want to stop receiving promotional e-mails from us, click on the “unsubscribe” link in any promotional email from us. Please note that once we receive your request, it may take additional time for your opt-out to become effective. We may still communicate with you from time to time if we need to provide you with transaction information about the Services you are using if we need to request information from you concerning a transaction initiated by you, or for other legitimate non-marketing reasons, for example, if we update this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.

SMS Text Communications. You may opt-out of SMS messages from us by following the instructions provided in the message or by texting back STOP to the number we send the text from for that particular SMS message. When we receive an opt-out message from you for SMS messages, we may send a message confirming our receipt of your opt-out.

1. Notice of Right to Opt-Out of Sale of Personal Information

California residents may opt-out of the “sale” of their personal information. We sell certain of your information to third parties to provide you with offers and promotions and opportunities that may be of interest to you.

Under the CCPA, the sale is also broadly defined such that it may include allowing third parties to receive certain information, such as cookies, IP address, and/or browsing behaviour, to deliver targeted advertising on the Services or other services. Advertising, including targeted advertising, enables us to provide you with certain content for free and allows us to provide you offers relevant to you.

Depending on what Services you use, we may provide the following categories of personal information to third parties for these purposes:

• For online targeted advertising purposes: demographic and statistical information, user-generated content, device information and identifiers, connection and usage data, geolocation, and social media information.
• For sharing with third parties to send you relevant offers and promotions and opportunities: contact information (e.g., name and physical address) and publication subscription information.

1. Privacy Information for Nevada Residents

Under Nevada law, Nevada residents who have purchased goods or services from us may opt-out of the “sale” of “covered information” (as such terms are defined under Nevada law). “Covered information” includes, among other things, first and last name, address, email address, and phone number. As discussed above, we share your information with third parties (e.g. magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases) that want to market products or services to you. In some circumstances, this sharing may qualify as a sale under Nevada law. Please note we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request.

8. Retention of Your Information

We keep your information for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. The length of time for which we retain information depends on the purposes for which we collected and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws.

10. Links to Third Party Sites

When you are on the Services, you may be directed to other websites that are operated and controlled by third parties that we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these third parties. If you access a third-party website from the Services, you do so at your own risk, and you understand that this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of such websites.

11. Security

We implement appropriate administrative, technical and security safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of the information we collect. However, no systems can be completely secure. Therefore, while THIS SITE uses reasonable efforts to protect your information, THIS SITE cannot guarantee its absolute security, and your use of the Services indicates your agreement to assume this risk.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy.

15. Disputes; No Rights of Third Parties

If you choose to access the Services, subscribe to our Publications or use any of our Services, any dispute over privacy is subject to our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes by binding arbitration, and application of the laws of the United States, and the State of New York. This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.

16. Contact Us: Data Privacy Officer

If you have any questions or concerns about any aspect of this Privacy Policy, please contact us at email: