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BRAND PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: September 01, 2022

At Dotdash Meredith, we take privacy seriously and we respect the privacy
concerns of our community of users. This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”)
describes how the Dotdash Meredith publishing family and any other digital
properties that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Company,” “we,”
“us,” or “our”) collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal
information in connection with our websites (the “Sites”), mobile applications
(the “Apps”), and the related content, services, products, and other features
and functionality offered on or through those Sites and Apps (collectively, the
“Services”). 


MANAGE YOUR INFORMATION



EMAIL PREFERENCES

Opt-out of marketing e-mails globally (i.e., across our brands) by clicking on
the following link and filling out the form accordingly. 
Update Email Preferences



DELETE YOUR DATA

Permanently delete your information.
Update Data Preferences



CONTROL OVER YOUR DATA

For additional ways to delete, opt out, or manage your information, please see
the "What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?" section of this Privacy
Policy.




WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? 





INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US



The personal information we collect from, and about, you may vary depending on
how you engage with our Services and the information you provide voluntarily. We
may collect personal information directly from you or otherwise in connection
with your use of the Services, such as:



● Contact Information, including your name, contact details (such as a postal
address and email address), event or conference registration and related
information (including dietary restrictions or photos and videos taken at
events), and communication preferences. 

● Inquiry Information, including information provided in messages sent through
forms or surveys, to our email addresses, or via phone. This also may include
information provided when you sign up for our newsletters.

● Account Information, including name, username, account ID, date of birth,
contact information, profile information, saved, “liked,” or bookmarked items
(e.g., articles or recipes), payment and purchase history information,
subscription information, courses enrolled in and completed, Stock Simulator
results, and any other information you provide to us.

● Financial Information, including credit and debit card information, bank
account and routing number, and billing and shipping address.

● Demographic Information, including age, gender, race, income, occupation,
marital status, and information about your household/family status, including
your household size and the length of time at your residence.

● Health- or Fitness-Related Information, including exercise and activity
levels, weight-loss objectives, dietary preferences, and other health and
wellness information.

● User-Generated Content, including personal information you choose to provide
about yourself when you participate in forums or discussions on the Services,
post comments or reviews, and participate in any Services. Please be aware that
information you post may be viewed, used, or captured by anyone who visits the
Services, therefore, you should avoid posting sensitive personal information
that you would not want to be available to the public.

● Contest, Sweepstakes, and Survey Information, iAs is true of many digital
properties, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect certain
information from or in connection with your device when visiting or interacting
with our Services, such as the types of information listed below and in the
sub-sections here:ncluding information provided when you enter a contest or
sweepstakes, information included in any responses submitted through surveys or
questionnaires, or the content of any testimonials.

● Inferences About Your Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data,
including hobbies, interests, and characteristics, e.g., your favorite foods,
purchases, or recipes, consuming tendencies, and health and fitness information.



INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED





GENERAL

As is true of many digital properties, we and our third-party partners may
automatically collect certain information from or in connection with your device
when visiting or interacting with our Services, such as the list below and in
the sub-sections here:



⠀⠀⠀● Device data, including internet protocol (IP) address, operating system,
device type and version, browser type and version, browser id, the URL entered
and the referring page/campaign, date/time of visit, other user agent string
data, the time spent on our Services, and any errors that may occur during the
visit to our Services. Device data may overlap with the other categories of data
listed below.

⠀⠀⠀● Analytics data, including the path taken to our Services, through our
Services, and when exiting our Services, usage and activity on or in connection
with our Services, metrics on how many emails we send are actually opened and
which attachments or links are opened, clicked, or viewed (such as via pixels,
as described further below).

⠀⠀⠀● Location data, including precise or coarse geographic location we or our
third-party providers may collect, such as via permissions within the app
operating system or browser functionality.

⠀⠀⠀● Advertising/Advertising measurement data, including data associated with
your view of, or your clicks on, advertisements served on our Services, cookie
IDs or other digital or proprietary identifiers (e.g., iOS IDFA, Google AAID)
assigned to such device, and device metadata, analytics data, and location data
described above, in each case, for purposes of serving advertising (personalized
or otherwise) or facilitating advertising measurement/attribution to better
optimize or otherwise understand the effectiveness of ad campaigns.  For more
information on our and third-party partners’ data collection and online
advertising practices, please see the “What are Our Third-Party Data Collection
and Online Advertising Practices?” section of this Privacy Policy.

Note that we and our third-party partners may combine information that each of
us collects automatically with other information about you, including
information you choose to provide.



COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES



We and our third-party partners may use cookies on our Services to store
information about users on the users’ computers as well as other tracking
technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, SDKs, scripts, location-identifying
technologies, and logging technologies to automatically collect the personal
information described in this section (and otherwise expanded upon in other
sections).  See the “What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?” section below
to learn more about how you may limit or disable cookies or certain other
tracking technologies on your device.



“DO NOT TRACK” SIGNALS



Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track”
(DNT) signal to websites and online services you visit. At this time there is no
consensus among industry participants as to the meaning of “Do Not Track” in
this context. Like many other websites, our Sites are not configured to respond
to “Do Not Track” signals from browsers.


Click here to learn more about "Do Not Track" signals.



THIRD-PARTY SOURCES



We also obtain personal information from third parties, which we often combine
with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from an
individual. For example, we may receive the same categories of personal
information as described above from the following third parties:

⠀⠀⠀● Other Users who Interact with our Services:  We may receive your
information from other users who interact with our Services.

⠀⠀⠀● Business Partners: We may receive your information from our business
partners, such as companies that offer their products or services on our
Services or on other properties (e.g., digital properties, offline locations) or
marketing/advertising and analytics partners, including third-party
brands/agencies or other partners that facilitate the buying and selling of
advertising inventory on our Services, measure of the effectiveness of those
related ad campaigns, or inform business analytics (e.g., view rates, bounce
rates, audience composition).

⠀⠀⠀● Social Media Networks: When an individual interacts with our Services
through various social media networks, such as when someone logs in through a
social network, “Likes” us on Facebook, or follows us or shares our content on
Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or other social networks, we may receive
some information from those social networks including your profile information
and any other information you permit the social network to share with third
parties. We use this information to allow you to log into your account, to
communicate or interact with individuals on the social network, to better
understand the demographics of our visitors, and to personalize content and
advertising.   Individuals should always review and, if necessary, adjust their
privacy settings on third-party websites and social media networks and services
before sharing information and/or linking or connecting them to other services.

⠀⠀⠀● Information We Receive From Authentication Services: Some parts of our
Service may allow you to login through a third-party social network or
authentication service such as Facebook or Google. These services will
authenticate the individual’s identity and provide the option to share certain
personal information with us, which could include a name, email address, address
book and contacts, or other information. The data we receive is dependent on
that third party’s policies and the individual’s privacy settings on that
third-party digital property. We use this information to authenticate the
individual’s account, to provide our Services, to communicate with our users,
and for advertising and marketing purposes.

⠀⠀⠀● Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services solely on
our behalf, such as payment processors or survey and third parties who conduct
marketing/advertising and analytics activities on our behalf, collect personal
information and may share some or all of this information with us.

⠀⠀⠀● Information Providers: We may from time to time obtain information from
third-party information providers to correct or supplement personal information
we collect. For example, we may obtain updated contact information from
third-party information providers to reconnect with an individual or obtain
demographic information (e.g., interests, preferences).

⠀⠀⠀● Other Sources: We may also collect personal information about individuals
that we do not otherwise have from, for example, publicly available sources,
third-party data providers, brand partnerships, or through transactions such as
mergers and acquisitions.


HOW DO WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?



We may use your information for various purposes, including:



⠀⠀⠀● To fulfill your requests and provide our Services to you. This includes:


⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀● Making our Services and Dotdash Meredith products and services available
to you;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀● Coordinating access to your account

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀● Responding to requests, suggestions, questions, and comments, and
providing other types of user support;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀● Fulfilling your payments and transactions;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀● Sending you service/transaction-related messages, such as changes to your
account;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀● Saving your reading lists, recipes, or other searches; and

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀● Communicating about, and administering your participation in, events,
conferences, programs, contests, surveys, polls, panels, questionnaires, and
other offers or promotions.



⠀⠀⠀● To personalize your experience on our Services: This includes providing you
with content or other products or services you might be interested in and
de-emphasize content you’ve already read or viewed.



⠀⠀⠀● For marketing purposes: We may send you communications about new features,
updates, products, and special offers.  We may also use your information to
serve you ads about our products or other products or services we (or our
advertising partners, such as other third-party brands/agencies) think you might
find interesting.  We may also use individual and aggregate information about
you to inform our, and our third-party partners, marketing and advertising
campaigns more broadly.  For more information on your choices about marketing
communications, see the “What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?” and “What
are Our Third Party Data Collection and Online Advertising Practices?” sections
of this Privacy Policy.


⠀⠀⠀● To communicate with you:  For example, we may communicate with you about
your account activities, such as by providing you transaction confirmations or
alerting you when a subscription is up for renewal. If you register with us, we
may enroll you in our email newsletters or other periodic electronic
communications and may also send you user surveys and promotional
communications. We may communicate with you by email, postal mail, telephone,
text message, or other means. We may use push notifications on Apps to your
mobile device. For more information on how to adjust your communications
preferences, see “What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?” below.



⠀⠀⠀● To monitor, improve, and develop our products and services: We may use your
information to understand our users and to tailor or optimize our Services. For
example, we may analyze statistics and trends to make our Services better and to
develop or better personalize the Services or new services or features.



⠀⠀⠀● To protect the security and integrity of our business, comply with legal
requirements and obligations, or as otherwise permitted by law: We may use your
information to protect our company, our affiliates, including other Dotdash
Meredith brands, our customers, and our Services.  We may also use information
in order to comply with laws, regulations, court orders, or other legal
obligations or to assist in an investigation, protect and defend our rights and
property, or the rights or safety of third parties, enforce our Terms of Use,
this Privacy Policy, or agreements with third parties, detect and prevent fraud
or for crime-prevention purposes, or for any other reason permitted by law.  We
may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a
merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets and
may use information in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate
business transaction.  Personal information may also be used in the event of
insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.


⠀⠀⠀● For any other purposes with your consent, at your direction, or where
notice is provided: We may use your personal information for any other purposes
with your consent, at your direction, or where notice is otherwise provided.




HOW DO WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION?



The personal information we collect from you is used by all the companies and
brands in the Dotdash Meredith publishing family. We may also disclose personal
information to third parties, including:



 * Third Parties At Your Request: You may choose to share your activities on the
   Services with your friends through email, text, or on various social media
   networks.
 * Promotional partners: We may share information with third parties with whom
   we partner to provide contests, surveys, and sweepstakes, or other joint
   promotional activities.
 * Marketing and Strategic Business Partners: We may share information with
   marketing/advertising, analytics, and other business partners (such as those
   that provide their own products or services on other properties) for purposes
   such as providing you with information, undertaking marketing/advertising
   activities about products or services that may interest you, informing
   business analytics, or for other business or commercial purposes in
   accordance with their own privacy policies.
 * Online Advertising Partners: We may share information with third-party online
   advertising partners or permit these partners to collect information from you
   directly on our Services to facilitate online advertising. 
 * The Public: When you provide feedback or post user content on our Services
   (e.g., if you post a comment on an article or comment on our social media
   sites), your information (e.g., your first name, last initial, state of
   residence, and your comments) may be displayed on our Services or on our
   social media pages. When you engage with us on social media, we may tag your
   social media account or the social media account of others (e.g., to give
   photo credit to another user).
 * With Your Consent, At Your Direction, or Where Notice is Provided:  In
   addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Policy, we may share
   information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct
   such sharing or where notice is otherwise provided.
 * Service Providers and Advisors: Personal information may be shared with
   third-party vendors and other service providers who perform services for us
   or on our behalf. This may include certain vendors and providers who engage
   in marketing or advertising activities, analytics, or provide mailing or
   email services, tax and accounting services, product fulfillment, delivery
   services, payments processing, data enhancement services, fraud prevention,
   web hosting, or analytic services.
 * Purchasers and Third Parties in Connection With a Business
   Transaction: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in
   connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, sale of any or all
   of our company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control
   or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by an affiliate or third
   party, or in the event of a bankruptcy, or related or similar proceedings.
 * Law Enforcement, Regulators and Other Parties For Legal Reasons: Personal
   information may be disclosed to third parties, as required by law or
   subpoena, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a)
   comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement, (b) to
   enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the security or integrity of our
   Services, or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal
   safety of our organization, our visitors, or others.



In connection with any of the above, we may share information with others in an
aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you.


WHAT ARE OUR THIRD-PARTY DATA COLLECTION AND ONLINE ADVERTISING PRACTICES?



GENERAL



We participate in interest-based advertising and use third-party
marketing/advertising companies to serve you targeted advertisements based on
your interests and to measure the effectiveness of those ads. 

We permit third-party online advertising networks or exchanges (or other
entities, such as demand-side or sell-side platforms or ad servers),
measurement/attribution companies, ad fraud verification companies, social media
companies, and other third-party services to collect information about your use
of our Services so that they may display ads on our Services, including
interactions with ads, on other websites or services you may use, and on other
devices you may use. 



HOW WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION



Typically, though not always, the information used for interest-based
advertising is collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies, web
beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, and similar
technologies, which recognize the device you are using and collect information,
including clickstream information, browser type, time and date you visited the
Sites, mobile ad ID or other digital identifier (e.g., iOS IDFA, Google AAID,
cookie ID, click ID, other proprietary IDs such as open source “universal IDs”
or other ID solutions) precise or coarse geolocation, and other information.

We may share a common account identifier (such as a hashed or encrypted email
address or user ID) with our third-party advertising partners to help identify
you across devices.



WHY WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION



We and our third-party partners use this information to make the advertisements
you see online more relevant to your interests, to optimize marketing and
advertising campaigns more broadly, as well as to provide
marketing/advertising-related services such as reporting, analytics, market
research, and measurement/attribution.

We may also use services provided by third parties (such as Nielsen, Google, and
social media platforms) to serve targeted ads to you and others on such
platforms. 

For example, we may do this by providing your email address (typically in hashed
or encrypted format) or other information (such as phone number, which also is
typically provided in hashed or encrypted format) to the platform provider, such
as via API, direct file upload, server-to-server transfer, or integrating the
tracking technologies of those platform providers (e.g., pixel). 



HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR CHOICES REGARDING ONLINE ADS



Please see the “What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?” section below to
learn how you can opt out of interest-based advertising.



MORE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND ADVERTISING



Our Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like”
button, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, or other widgets. These social media
companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our
Services, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your
interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those
companies.

We display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social media forums.  For
example, these companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us
to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in our services while
those users are on the social media platform, or to groups of other users who
share similar traits, such as likely commercial interests and demographics.  As
mentioned in the section above, we may share a unique identifier, such as a user
ID or hashed or encrypted email address or phone number, with these platform
providers or they may collect information from our website visitors through a
pixel (or other mechanism, such as API, direct file upload, or server-to-server
integration), in order to direct targeted advertising to you or to a custom
audience (including “look-a-like” audiences, such as audiences that are similar
to you or other users) on the social media platform.  These advertisements are
governed by the privacy policies of those social media companies that provide
them.  If you do not want to receive targeted ads on your social networks, you
may be able to adjust your advertising preferences through your settings on
those networks.


WHAT CONTROLS DO I HAVE OVER MY INFORMATION? 



YOU MAY CONTROL YOUR INFORMATION IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:



Access to, Modification of, or Deletion of Your Information: You have the right
to request access to your personal information, amendment/correction of
inaccurate/incomplete personal information, or deletion of your personal
information. Note that, in order to better protect the security of your personal
information, we will seek to confirm your identity as part of our processing of
any request. Under certain circumstances, we may not fulfill your request, such
as where we, in our discretion, deem that your identity has not been reasonably
verified or that such information is subject to legal/regulatory, internal
audit, record-keeping, or other requirements or legal exceptions such that the
request should not reasonably be granted (or should be granted in part). In any
event, we will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. In order
to make such a request of us, please contact us by using one of the following
methods:

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o   for United States residents, please use this form.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o   for individuals located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or
the United Kingdom, please use this form.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o   by emailing at privacy@dotdashmdp.com and indicating in the subject
line the type of request (e.g., Access, Modification, or Deletion)



 * Marketing E-mail Preferences: You can manage your opt out preferences for
   each of our brand’s marketing e-mails by:
   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o   using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of such messages, or
   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o   by visiting “E-mail Preferences” (to the extent offered by a brand)
   on our Services and updating your preferences.
   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o Further, you may opt-out of marketing e-mails globally (i.e., across
   our brands) by clicking on the following link and filling out this form
   accordingly.
   
   If you no longer want to receive third-party marketing e-mails that you
   requested through our Services, simply follow the third party’s unsubscribe
   link or opt-out instructions that should be included each such marketing
   e-mail from that third party.  However, please note that you cannot opt out
   of transactional or administrative e-mails (e.g., renewal notifications,
   orders placed).





 * Postal Mail: To remove your name and postal address from lists that we sell
   or rent to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, or to opt out
   of receiving marketing offers for other magazines and products by mail: 
   o   please use the opt-out form available here; or
   o   send your request to us in a letter addressed to Dotdash Meredith,
   Opt-Out Postal, Attn: Circulation, 225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY
   10281.
   
 * Note that if you choose to opt out of our promotional mailings, you may still
   receive renewal notices and related offers for any magazines to which you
   subscribe.
   
   
 * Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: To manage cookies, an individual may
   have the ability to change their browser settings to (for example): (i)
   notify them when they receive a cookie, so the individual can choose whether
   or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) automatically
   reject cookies (or certain types of cookies, such as cookies set by third
   parties). Note that similar controls may exist for other tracking
   technologies, such as pixels, SDKs, and localStorage. Please check your
   device or browser settings and related documentation for more information. 
   
   Further, note that restricting the use of these technologies might negatively
   impact an individual’s experience using our Services, as some features or
   offerings may be less personalized or may not work as otherwise intended.
   Depending on an individual’s device and operating system, the individual may
   not be able to delete or block all cookies or other tracking technologies
   described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, if an individual wants to
   reject cookies across all browsers and devices, the individual will need to
   do so on each browser and device they use. An individual may also have
   options within their email client to prevent the automatic downloading of
   images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether they
   have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.





 * Online Ads: To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be
   able to opt-out of some of this advertising (to the extent the advertising
   partner or other entity participates in such industry opt-out pages), you may
   wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) resources at
   https://www.aboutads.info/choices (or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ or
   https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools for the EEA and Canada, respectively) or
   the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) online resources at
   https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. You can also opt-out of
   receiving some interest-based advertisements on mobile apps by visiting
   https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices. You may also be able to opt-out of some
   — but not all — interest-based advertising served by mobile ad networks by
   visiting https://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile
   AppChoices app.
   
   If you want to opt out of receiving online interest-based advertisements on
   mobile apps, please follow the instructions at
   https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
   
   To opt out of sharing information with Nielsen Holding Inc., please click
   here.
   
   Please note that when you opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements,
   this does not mean you will no longer see advertisements from us (or our
   third-party partners) or on our online services in general.  It means that
   the online ads that you do see from self-regulatory program participants (or
   other participants that may provide an opt-out mechanism) should not be based
   on your interests.  We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or
   compliance with, any third parties’ opt-out options or programs, or the
   accuracy of their statements regarding those options or programs.  In
   addition, third parties may still use cookies or other tracking technologies
   to collect information about your use of our online services, including for
   analytics and fraud prevention as well as any other purpose permitted under
   those self-regulatory programs.

HOW DO WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?



We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards
designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental,
unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or
use. That said, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the
security of our systems at all times. Thus, you assume some risk with regard to
the security of information you provide through any digital property, including
our Services. To request an invite to our bug bounty program to submit reports
on vulnerabilities found on our Sites, you may contact us by emailing
security@dotdashmdp.com.



WHAT ABOUT LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES OR SERVICES?



Our Services may provide links to other digital properties that are controlled
by third parties. Linked digital properties may have their own privacy notices
or policies, which we suggest you review. We are not responsible for the
content, usage, terms, or privacy policies of digital properties that we do not
own or control.



WHAT’S OUR POLICY WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN’S PERSONAL INFORMATION?



Our Services are not designed or intended for use by children, and we do not
knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of
13 (or the equivalent age of a child in your jurisdiction) on the Services.  If
we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a
child under the age of 13 (or the equivalent age of a child in your
jurisdiction), we will endeavor to delete any such information promptly.  If you
believe that we may have collected information from a child under 13 (or the
equivalent age of a child in your jurisdiction), please contact us using the
contact information below.



WHAT’S OUR POLICY FOR USERS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES?



Your personal information may be stored in, transferred to, and processed in the
United States and in any other country in which the Company or other Dotdash
Meredith affiliates, and/or service providers maintain facilities. The data
protection laws in these countries may provide a different standard of
protection for your personal information than the country in which you are
located or your country of residence. If you have questions or wish to obtain
more information about the international transfer of your personal information
or the implemented safeguards, please contact us using the contact information
below.



WHERE CAN I FIND YOUR REGION-SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES?



We may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional
disclosures about our data privacy practices depending on your state or country
of residence:

 * California: If you are a California resident, please see the 'California
   Privacy Notice' section below.
 * Nevada: If you are a Nevada resident, please see the 'Nevada Privacy Notice'
   section below.
 * European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland: If you are located in
   the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK”), or Switzerland, or
   otherwise engage with our European operations, please see the 'European
   Privacy Notice' section for additional European-specific privacy information,
   including what constitutes your personal data, the lawful bases we rely on to
   process your personal data, and your rights in respect of your personal data.
   
   

HOW WILL WE INFORM YOU ABOUT CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY?



We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy
practices.  If we make any material changes to our privacy practices, we will
indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date when it was most recently
updated and you shall be bound to such changes when accessing the Services that
are linked to the updated Privacy Policy.  We may also provide notice of such
material changes in other manners at our discretion, such as via email or via a
banner notice.  We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest
information on our privacy practices.



HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?



If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our privacy practices,
you may contact us by emailing privacy@dotdashmdp.com.

If you are a California resident inquiring about your California privacy rights,
please include “California Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line of your
email.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area inquiring about your rights
under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), please include “GDPR
Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line of your email.

You may also write to:

225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281


CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE

This California Privacy Notice (“CA Notice”) applies solely to individual
residents of California (“Consumers” or “you”) and supplements the information
contained in our Privacy Policy.  All terms in this CA Notice have the same
meaning as defined in our Privacy Policy, if not defined in our Privacy Policy,
or as otherwise defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).  For
the purpose of this CA Notice, personal information applies to “personal
information” as defined by the CCPA (also referred to in this CA Notice as
“PI”).



COLLECTION AND USE OF PI



We collect personal information from and about you for a variety of purposes as
set out in the “How Do We Use Personal Information?” section of our Privacy
Policy. To learn more about the types of PI we collect and the purposes for
which we use this information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

In the last 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of PI:



 * Identifiers, such as your name, email address, date of birth, or other
   similar identifiers.
 * California Customer Records (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), such as birth
   date, contact information, and payment information.
 * Protected Classification Characteristics, such as age and gender.
 * Commercial Information, such as payment and purchase history.
 * Internet/Network Information, such as device information, logs, and analytics
   data.
 * Geolocation Data, such as precise location information from your device or
   generated based on IP address or Wi-Fi.
 * Profession/Employment Information, such as your employer, company, or school
   if your subscription is tied to an employer or school account.
 * Other Personal Information, such as information you post on our social media
   pages or otherwise provide to us.
 * Inferences, such as predictions about your interests and preferences.





DISCLOSURE OF PI



As described in the “How Do We Share Your Personal Information?” section of our
Privacy Policy, we share personal information with third parties for business
purposes or we may “sell” your personal information to third parties, subject to
your right to opt out of those “sales” (see below).

The categories of third parties to whom we may sell or disclose for a business
purposes may include:

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(i) other brands and affiliates in our family of Dotdash Meredith
companies;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(ii) our service providers and advisors;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(iii) marketing/advertising and other strategic business partners;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(iv) analytics providers; and

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(v) social networks.

In the previous 12 months, we may have disclosed all of the categories of PI we
collect (explained above) to third parties for a business purpose.

In the previous 12 months, we may have “sold” the following categories of PI to
third parties, subject to your settings and preferences and your right to
opt-out:

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(i) Identifiers,

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(ii) Commercial Information, and

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀(iii) Internet / Network Information.

In addition, please see the “What are Our Third Party Data Collection and Online
Advertising Practices?” section of our Privacy Policy to learn how third-party
advertising networks, social media companies, and other third-party entities
collect and disclose your PI directly from your browser or device through
cookies or other data collection technologies when you visit or interact with
our Sites, use our Apps, or otherwise engage with us.





YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS



As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in
relation to the PI about you that we have collected (subject to certain
limitations under the CCPA, such as exceptions therein and the ability to verify
your identity):





The Right to Access

You have the right to request any or all the PI we have collected and disclosed
in the last 12 months. Note that your right to receive PI is limited to twice in
a 12-month period.

The Right to Request Deletion

You have the right to request the deletion of PI we have collected from you,
subject to certain exceptions.

The Right to Opt-Out of Sales

You have the right to direct us not to “sell” PI we have collected about you to
third parties now or in the future (as such term “sale” is broadly defined under
the CCPA, which includes disclosures to third parties for both monetary and
non-monetary consideration).

We do not have actual knowledge of “selling” PI of consumers under sixteen
(16) years of age.

The Right to Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these
rights. However, please note that if the exercise of these rights limits our
ability to process PI (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.

“Shine the Light”

California residents that have an established business relationship with us have
rights to know how their information is disclosed to third parties for their
direct marketing purposes under California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civ. Code
§1798.83).

TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO ACCESS OR RIGHT TO DELETION



To exercise your right to access or deletion, please submit a request by filling
out our California Consumer Rights Request Form.

Before processing your request, we will need to verify your identity and confirm
you are a resident of the State of California. 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. 



TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF “SALES”



We “sell” PI to third parties, as such term is broadly defined under the CCPA.
 The third parties to whom we “sell” PI may use such information for their own
purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include
reselling this information to additional third parties.

To exercise your right to opt-out of “sales,” you may submit a request by
clicking the following link:  Do Not Sell My Personal Information

AUTHORIZED AGENTS



In certain circumstances, you are permitted to use an authorized agent (as that
term is defined by the CCPA) to submit requests on your behalf through the
designated methods set forth in this CA Notice where we can verify the
authorized agent’s authority to act on your behalf. 

For requests to access or delete PI, we require the following for verification
purposes: 

(a) a power of attorney valid under the laws of California from you or your
authorized agent; or 



(b) sufficient evidence to show that you have:

 1. provided the authorized agent signed permission to act on your behalf; and
    
    
 2. verified your own identity directly with us pursuant to the instructions set
    forth in this CA Notice; 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,” we require a signed permission demonstrating
your authorized agent has been authorized by you to act on your behalf.



CALIFORNIA’S “SHINE THE LIGHT” LAW



If you have an established business relationship with us, you may have rights to
know how your information is disclosed to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes under California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civ. Code
§ 1798.83). To make such a request, please send an email to
privacy@dotdashmdp.com.



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, and/or their
terms by posting notice on the program descriptions and terms linked to above,
so check them regularly.

Each financial incentive or 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, taking into consideration the value of the offer itself and the
anticipated revenue generation that may be realized by rewarding brand loyalty.
We calculate the value of the offer and financial incentive by using the expense
related to the offer.




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: Do Not Sell My Personal Information




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



 * 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).
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

International Transfers

Some of our processing of your data will involve transferring your data outside
the EEA, UK, or Switzerland. Some of our external third-party service providers
are also based outside of Europe and their processing of your personal data will
involve a transfer of data outside of Europe. This includes the United States.
Where personal data is transferred to, stored in, or processed in a country not
determined by the European Commission as providing adequate levels of protection
for personal data, we take steps to provide appropriate safeguards to protect
your personal data, including, when appropriate, entering into standard
contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.



Retention of Personal Data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes
it was retained, such as to enable you to use the Services. In some instances,
we may retain data for longer periods in order to comply with applicable laws
(including those regarding document retention), resolve disputes with any
parties, and otherwise as necessary to allow us to conduct our business.



Data Subject Rights

If you are located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, you have the following
rights in respect of your personal data that we hold:



 * Right of access: You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we
   are processing your personal data, and access to the personal data and
   related information.
 * Right to correction: You have the right to have your personal data corrected,
   as permitted by law.
 * Right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data,
   as permitted by law.
 * Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw consent that you
   have provided.
 * Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You have the right
   to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the member state of your
   habitual residence.
 * Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request the
   limiting of our processing under limited circumstances.
 * Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data
   that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and
   machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit that information
   to another controller, including to have it transmitted directly, where
   technically feasible.
 * Right to object: You have the right to object to our processing of your
   personal data, as permitted by law, under limited circumstances.
   
   

To exercise any of these rights, please:

 * Submit a request through the European Rights Request Form. Please note that
   the above rights are not absolute and we may be entitled to refuse requests,
   wholly or partly, where exceptions under the applicable law apply. 



You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection
authority. Further information about how to contact your local data protection
authority is available
at: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.


HOW TO CONTACT US

We are owned and operated by Dotdash Meredith, located at

225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281

All feedback, questions, and comments  in connection with our privacy practices
and our privacy policies should be directed to: privacy@dotdashmdp.com.

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