To Whom We May Disclose Your Personal Data
We may disclose any of the categories of Personal Data described above to the following categories of persons:
- Our service providers, including vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services or functions on our behalf, for business purposes. For example, our service providers include companies that support us with marketing, sales, consulting, communications, software maintenance and support, web services, analytics, social media, market research, auditing, security, user verification, localization, and payment processing.
- Our group companies, as we work closely with other businesses and companies that fall under our group family. We may share certain information about, for example, browsing history on our websites for marketing purposes or internal reporting.
- Our business partners, in order to facilitate your relationship with us or for any of the purposes described in our or those business partners’ privacy policies. Such business partners may include:
- Advertising networks
- Data analytics providers
- Social networks
- Data brokers
- Joint marketing partners
- Law enforcement agencies, courts, other government authorities or other third parties where we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.
- Potential transaction partners, service providers, advisors, and other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company, or we sell or transfer all or a portion of our assets or business.
In some cases, we may share your information with third parties who may use your information for their own purposes, including for purposes of marketing and advertising. These disclosures may be considered “sales” or “targeted advertising” under applicable privacy laws, even where no money is exchanged. For more information, please see the “Your Rights Over Your Personal Data” section or, if you live in California, the Disclosure of Personal Information subsection in the “Additional Disclosures for Residents of California” section of this Policy.
Additionally, there are cases where the recipients referred to above may be located outside the jurisdiction in which you are located. See the “International Data Transfers” section below for more information.
Your Rights Over Your Personal Data
Depending on where you reside, and subject to certain exceptions, you may have the following rights with respect to your Personal Data:
- Access: You may have the right to request that we confirm whether we process your Personal Data and that we provide you access to such Personal Data.
- Data Portability: You may have the right to request that we provide a copy of your Personal Data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format. You may also have the right to have your Personal Data transmitted directly to another controller, where technically feasible.
- Correction/Rectification: You may have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in the Personal Data that we process.
- Deletion/Erasure: You may have the right to request deletion of your Personal Data.
- Opt Out of Sales and Targeted Advertising: You may have the right to request that we not process your Personal Data for the purposes of targeted advertising, sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, as those terms are defined under applicable local law.
- Opt Out of Profiling: You may have the right to request that we not process your Personal Data for the purpose of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
- Withdraw Consent: Where you have previously given your consent to the processing of your Personal Data, you may have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Object to Processing: You may have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
- Restrict Processing: You may have the right to restrict our processing of your Personal Data.
- Lodge a Complaint: We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about our processing of your Personal Data. However, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority.
You may opt out of sales and/or targeted advertising by clicking here and following the instructions: [LINK: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information]. Where required, we also honor requests to opt-out submitted via privacy preference signals recognized under applicable local law, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC).
You may submit requests to exercise your other rights by contacting us at the information provided in the “Contact Us” section below. Please include the phrase “Personal Data Privacy Request” in the subject line. In order for us to verify your request, we need to verify your identity, so the request should include your name, address, and email address, along with a clear indication of the right(s) you wish to exercise. Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to honor your requests.
Depending on where you reside, you may also use an authorized agent to act on your behalf to submit requests to exercise your rights. We will honor a request from an authorized agent provided that (i) you provide written authorization to the authorized agent to act on your behalf and we can verify your identity, and (ii) the agent submits proof of authorization. Authorized agents may use the same methods noted above to submit requests on your behalf.
You may also have the right to appeal a refusal to take action on your request. You can submit an appeal using the same information provided in the “Contact Us” section below.
How We Handle “Do Not Track” Requests
We do not currently respond to web browser “Do Not Track” requests. For more information about these signals, please visit www.allaboutdnt.org.
International Data Transfers
Depending on your location, your Personal Data may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country that is not regarded as ensuring an adequate level of protection for Personal Data under the laws of your country.
We have put in place appropriate safeguards (such as contractual commitments) in accordance with applicable legal requirements to help protect your Personal Data. For more information on the appropriate safeguards in place, please contact us using the details below.
Information Security and Retention
We implement technical and organizational measures designed to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk to the Personal Data we process. These measures are aimed at ensuring the ongoing integrity and confidentiality of Personal Data. We evaluate these measures on a regular basis to help safeguard Personal Data we process.
We will retain your Personal Data for as long as we have a relationship with you. Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your Personal Data for a period of time that enables us to:
- Comply with record retentions requirements under applicable law
- Meet our legal obligations including financial, accounting, tax, or export obligations
- Defend or bring any existing or potential legal claims
- Maintain business records for internal purposes, such as in connection with analyses or audits
- Enforce security standards and protect against unauthorized access or fraud
- Resolve or otherwise address any complaints or queries relating to the Services
We will delete your Personal Data when it is no longer required for these purposes. If there is any information that we are unable to delete entirely from our systems for technical reasons, we will put in place appropriate measures to prevent any further processing or use of the data.