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PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: December 13, 2021

The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and its subsidiaries including A57 Digital
Consulting LLC, d/b/a Long Dash, cares about your privacy and the security of
your information. Together, The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and its subsidiaries
are referred to below as “The Atlantic,” “we” or “our”.

This Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices of The Atlantic in
connection with our print, digital, and live event products and services,
including www.TheAtlantic.com and The Atlantic iOS mobile app; other websites
and mobile applications we own and operate; newsletters and other content we
provide; The Atlantic magazine; live editorial events we host, and any other
site or service that posts or links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the
“Services”). It describes the kinds of information we may gather in connection
with the Services, how we use your information, to whom we disclose your
information, and how you can manage your information  Our Privacy Policy does
not govern or apply to information collected or used by The Atlantic through
other means, including when you use any of our websites on which a different
privacy policy is posted.

By using our Services, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy
Policy, including our use of cookies and similar online tools  If you do not
agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services  We
reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our privacy policy from time
to time without notice  Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective
as of the “last updated” date set forth above. Your continued use of our
Services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept
those changes.

If you are a resident of California, please see the Important Information for
Users in California Section of this Privacy Policy.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK”),
or Switzerland, please see the Users in the EEA and Switzerland Section of this
Privacy Policy.

Our Services are under constant development. This Privacy Policy may therefore
be modified and updated on an ongoing basis. Please check back to this page
regularly.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.    WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
2.    HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
3.    HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
4.    ONLINE TRACKING
5.    THIRD PARTIES
6.    PRIVACY CHOICES
7.    IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR USERS IN CALIFORNIA
8.    USERS IN THE EEA, UK, AND SWITZERLAND
9.    CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
10.  OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
11.  CONTACT US

1. WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

We may collect several types of information about you in connection with the
Services

Information You Provide to Us  There are a number of circumstances in which you
supply us with personal information in connection with the Services, which
include:

 * Contact data, such as your personal or business contact information such as
   your name, e-mail address, street address and phone number.
 * Registration data, such as information you provide when you register for any
   of our Services or when you register for events.
 * Marketing data, such as information related to your preferences for receiving
   communications, subscribing to our publications, newsletters and other
   content, completing surveys, participating in market research, and entering a
   contest, sweepstakes, or game relating to the Services.
 * Communications, such as information you provide when you send us an email,
   pitch, submit content or post a comment, request for information, or
   otherwise correspond with us.
 * Demographic information, such as your city, state, country of residence,
   postal code, gender, ethnicity, race, languages spoken, and age.
 * Transaction data, such as your order history, products and services you have
   purchased, subscription records, and information needed to process and
   fulfill your order, including your order details and delivery address.
 * Audience research data, such as occupation, the name of the employer, level
   of education, income level, and school(s) attended.
 * Financial information, such as your financial account numbers or payment card
   information. (Please note that a third party payment processor is responsible
   for all collection, processing, and storage of your Financial Information; at
   no time do we have direct access to or possession of any payment card
   information.)
 * Profile information, such as your username and password that you may set to
   establish an online account with us, your photograph, interests, social
   medial account ID and preferences.
 * Content you choose to upload to the Services, such as text, images, audio,
   and video, along with the metadata associated with the files you upload.
 * Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here,
   but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise
   disclosed at the time of collection.

Information We Automatically Collect About Your Use of the Services. We, our
service providers, and our business providers may automatically log information
about you, your computer or mobile device, and your activity occurring on or
through our websites, such as:

 * Device information:  We may collect device identifiers and settings such as
   your computer or mobile device model, IP address, other unique device
   identifiers, operating system version, browser type, language, and settings,
   and device type and settings.
 * Usage information:  We may collect information about the Services you use,
   the time, date, and duration of your use of the Services, your interaction
   with content offered through the Services, site engagement, search terms
   used, our referring website, browsing and search history, site and
   advertisement interactions, and software crash reports. We also collect
   information stored using cookies, mobile ad identifiers, and similar
   technologies set on your device  Our servers may automatically keep an
   activity log of your use of the Services  We may collect such usage
   information at the individual or aggregate level.
 * Location information: We collect and store your device’s source IP address,
   which may disclose the general location of your device at the time you access
   the Services and precise location derived from GPS-enabled services. 
   Advertisements and certain content may be directed to you based on this data.

Information from Third Parties  We may receive information about you from third
parties and combine it with information we receive from or about you. For
example:

 * Information from social media websites:  When you interact with any The
   Atlantic page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook,
   Twitter, Tumblr, or LinkedIn, or otherwise connect your account on the
   third-party platform or network to your account through our sites, we may
   collect the personal information available from that page or platform or that
   you make available to us on that page or account, including your social media
   account ID, username, user ID, profile picture, cover photo, and networks to
   which you belong, friends and connections and contact information  If you
   choose to link or login to your TheAtlantic.com account with or through a
   social media platform, The Atlantic and that platform may share certain
   information about you and your activities. You can read more about your
   choices in the “Privacy Choices” section. Likewise, we obtain contact details
   and other personal information regarding media contacts and influencers from
   a variety of sources including Cision. If you wish to know more about how
   such information is collected and used, please refer to Cision’s privacy
   notice at www.cision.com/us/legal/privacy-policy.
 * Information from publicly or commercially available sources: We may collect
   certain information about you the third parties, including business partners
   (such as advertising and joint marketing partners) data providers (such as
   information services and data licensors) and public sources (such as blogs,
   forums or social media platforms).

Other Information We Collect. We also may collect other information about you,
your device, or your use of the Services in ways that we describe to you at the
point of collection  You may choose not to provide us with certain types of
information, but doing so may affect your experience in using the Services.



2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use your information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in
this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

Providing the Services. We use your information to provide you with and
personalize the Services, process your subscription, communicate with you, send
you electronic newsletters, post content you submit, administer loyalty
programs, enable your participation in the Services, and improve the Services
 We may also use your information to establish and maintain the Services,
provide support, facilitate social features, enable and support security and
fraud prevention features, communicate with you about the Services, and provide
information about our Services. To enable us to provide these Services, we may
use the information we collect to identify you across sessions, browsers, and/or
devices.

Providing Customer Support Services  We may use your information in order to
provide customer support to you, including without limitation any information
you provide to us when you contact us by email, through our online help portal,
through our online chat interface, or by phone.

Contacting and Communicating with You about our Services. We may contact or
communicate with you (by email, phone, chat, or other medium) concerning:
information about your account or any transactions; editorial newsletters and
content; invitations to events; offers or announcements about our products or
features; offers or announcements about our third party partners’ products or
services; communications about your comments or information submissions; online
surveys; and legal notices, policy updates, and other important information
about the Services  All editorial and commercial email messages include
instructions for unsubscribing from such future communications. We also provide
personalized content and suggestions to you, including by email, based on your
interest and preferences.

Content and Advertising Analytics  We may use your information to help us better
understand your use of, and our delivery of, the Services, including content
selection, delivery, and reporting; and advertising selection, targeting,
delivery, and reporting

Delivering Advertising. We may use your information to facilitate the delivery
of targeted advertising, promotions, and offers, on behalf of ourselves and our
third party advertisers, both on our websites and elsewhere. Please see the
“Third Parties” and “Privacy Choices” sections of this Privacy Policy for
further information about our and third parties’ use of cookies, web beacons,
and other tracking technologies to provide you relevant ads, as well as
information about how to disable cookies and make other choices related to
targeted advertising

Auditing and Tracking Our Delivery of Advertising. We may use your information
to measure and report on the delivery of advertisements, including without
limitation counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and
quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and
other standards.

Delivering Emails on Behalf of Advertisers or Event Underwriters. We may use
your information, including the names and email addresses provided to us when
you register for our Services (including our live events), to deliver marketing
communications we believe may interest you on behalf of advertisers or event
underwriters regarding their products or services. (In such instances, we do not
share our readers’ information directly with these companies). Many of our
readers find this a valuable service. If you do not want your information used
for this purpose, you can opt-out of such use by e-mailing us at
privacy@theatlantic.com, or calling or writing us at the contact information
provided below.

Facilitating Social Media Engagement  We may use your information, including
information provided to us by social media platforms, to enable you to log into
the Services with a social media service or connect a social media account with
the Services, as well to enable you to interact with any The Atlantic page or
account on a social media platform.  We may use your information to help us
determine which content or advertising to deliver to you on those social media
platforms.

Providing Services to our Business Customers  We may use your information to
facilitate the provision of services to business customers by our
business-focused divisions, including without limitation Atlantic57 (our
creative consulting division) and Re:think (our sponsored content studio).

Learning about Our Users and Services. We conduct research on our users’
demographics, interests and behavior, including performing statistical analysis
of our users, their use of the Services, and their purchasing patterns. We do
this to optimize and improve the Services, our products, and our operations. We
may use the information from one aspect of the Services for other aspects of
Services. Additionally, data collected from a particular computer, browser or
device may be used with another computer, browser or device that is linked to
the computer, browser or device on which such data was collected.

Research, Development, and Improving the Quality of our Services  We analyze use
of the Services to analyze and improve the Services and to develop new products
and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Services.

Debugging. We may use your information to identify and repair errors that impair
existing intended functionality.

To Aggregate Data or Create Anonymous Data  We may create aggregated,
de-identified or other anonymous data records from your personal information and
other individuals whose personal information we collect  We make personal
information into anonymous data by excluding information (such as your name)
that makes the data personally identifiable to you.  We may use this anonymous
data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including
to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

Information Security. We may use your information to detect security incidents,
protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and
prosecute those responsible for that activity.

Protecting Our Rights, Protecting Others’ Rights and Safety, and Fraud
Prevention We may use your personal information as we believe is necessary to
detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or may
be fraudulent or illegal; to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights,
privacy, safety, or property of The Atlantic, its employees, agents, or users.
We may also use your personal information to ensure compliance with this Privacy
Policy, with the Terms and Conditions that govern use of our respective
websites, and any other terms of use to which you may agree in the course of
using our Services.

Compliance with Law. We may use your personal information as required by law or
if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law
or legal process.



3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

As described below, our information-sharing practices vary based on the type of
information and the type of recipient.

Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our corporate parent,
subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Service Providers. Third party agents and vendors perform functions
on our behalf, including, but not limited to, hosting, content syndication,
content management tools, social media integration, marketing, analytics,
billing and customer service  These entities may have access to personal
information if needed to perform their functions  If such access is required,
the third parties will be obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security
of that personal information  They are restricted from using, selling,
distributing or altering this data in any way other than to provide the
requested services to The Atlantic.

Third Party Content or Advertising Partners. When you use our Services, third
parties that provide content, advertising, or functionality to the Services may
collect or receive information about you and/or your use of the Services,
including through the use of cookies, beacons, and similar technologies  These
third parties may use your information to provide you with advertising that is
based on your interests and to measure and analyze ad performance, on our
Services or other websites or platforms, and combine it with information
collected across different websites, online services, and other devices. These
third parties’ use of your information will be based on their own privacy
policies

Third Party Event Partners or Underwriters. When you register for or attend one
of our live events, we may share the information you provide at registration
with our event partners or underwriters  These third parties may use your
information to provide you with information about their own products and
services. If you do not want your information used for these purposes, you can
opt-out of such use by e-mailing us at privacy@theatlantic.com, or calling or
writing us at the contact information provided below.

Social Media Services. If you log into the Services with a social media service
or if you connect a social media account with the Services, we may share
information about you or your activities on that social media service, including
what you view on our websites and applications, with that social media service
and/or its users  Social media services will use that information based on their
own privacy policies  If you do not want your information shared in this way, do
not connect your social media service account with our Services.

Business Transferees. We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of
your personal information in connection with or during negotiation of any
merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, transaction or proceeding
involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our
business or assets, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or
receivership.

Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations. In some cases, we may
use or disclose your personal information to a third party if we are required to
do so by law or if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to
comply with the law or legal process; to protect and defend our rights or to
prevent misuse of our Services; or to protect the personal safety of our
employees, agents, partners, the users of the Services, or the public.

Professional Advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional
advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in
the course of the professional services that they render to us.

For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety. We may share your personal
information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes.

With Your Consent or At Your Direction. In addition to the sharing described in
this Privacy Policy, we may share your information with third parties whenever
you consent to or direct such sharing.



4. ONLINE TRACKING

When you use our Services, we and our third party partners (which provide
content, advertising, functionality, measurements, or analytics for our
Services) may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other similar technologies to
track your use of the Services.

What Are Cookies?  Cookies are small text files that are stored in your device’s
browser when you visit a website. Cookies make it possible to recognize you as
the same user across one or more browsing sessions, and across one or more
websites  We and third parties use cookies for a variety of purposes, including
remembering your sign-in credentials and preferences so that you do not have to
input them each time you use the Services; allowing us and third parties to
customize your experience using the Services, including by determining the most
relevant content and advertisements to show you on our websites and elsewhere
online; and allowing us and third parties to monitor site traffic and
performance, so that we may improve our Services and your experience

What are Beacons?  Web beacons (also called “web tags” or “pixels”) are tiny
graphics or scripts that communicate information from your device to a server 
Beacons can be embedded in online or mobile content, videos, advertisements, or
emails  They allow a server to read certain types of information from your
device, such as when you viewed the beacon (and thus the content in which it is
embedded) and the IP address of the device on which you viewed the beacon  We
and third parties use beacons for a variety of purposes, including to analyze
the use of our Services and (in conjunction with cookies) to provide content and
ads that are more relevant to you.

What are SDKs? SDKs are third-party computer code that we may incorporate into
our mobile applications that may be used for a variety of purposes, including to
provide us with analytics regarding the use of our mobile applications, to
integrate with social media, add features or functionality to our app, or to
facilitate online advertising.

For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been
set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit
www.allaboutcookies.org.



5. THIRD PARTIES

The Services may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other
online services operated by third parties, and other websites, mobile
applications, and online services operated by third parties may contain links to
our Services  These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we
are affiliated with, any third party  In addition, our content may be included
on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not
associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications
or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions of their
privacy policies  Other websites, mobile applications and Services follow
different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal
information  We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other
websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

We rely on third parties to provide many features of our Services using data
about your use of our Services and of other websites  These third parties may
use cookies, web beacons, or other technologies to collect and process your
personal data for the purposes of information storage and access;
personalization of our Services; measurement of and analytics regarding the use
of our Services; content selection, delivery, and reporting; and advertising
selection, targeting, delivery, and reporting

For instance, third party analytics services use cookies, web beacons, and other
tracking technologies to collect information such as your IP address, time of
visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website, in order to
help us analyze how users interact with and use the Services, compile reports on
the Services’ activity, and provide other data and insights related to the
Services’ usage

We also allow our third party partners, third party ad serving networks, and
unaffiliated advertisers (collectively, “Advertisers”) to use cookies, web
beacons, and other tracking technologies to provide ads about goods and services
that may be of interest to you. Advertisers may place a separate cookie on your
computer, mobile device, or browser, or utilize other data collection and
tracking technologies, to collect information such as your IP address, browser
type, server being used, area code and zip code associated with your server, and
whether you respond to particular ads. Advertisers may collect information about
your online activities over time, across different computers, devices, and
browsers, and across different websites and other online services  Advertisers
may use this information to provide interest-based advertising or other targeted
content  

Advertisers may use persistent identifiers, however, to track your internet
usage across other websites in their networks beyond our Services  Though we
restrict any attempts to re-identify this information, Advertisers may
nonetheless be able to do so by combining information they collect about you
when you use the Services with information about you obtained from other
sources.

In general, the information collected and generated by third parties is
processed and stored by the third parties and will be subject to their
respective privacy policies (which we do not control and for which we are not
responsible)  We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or
the information they may collect.

6. PRIVACY CHOICES

There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device
data collected by third parties, which we have summarized below  We hope you
find this information to be a helpful reference  Please note that using these
tools to opt out of tracking and targeting does not mean that you will not
receive advertising while using our Services or on other websites, nor will it
prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not
participate in these programs  It will exclude you, however, from interest-based
advertising conducted through participating networks and platforms, as provided
by their policies and choice mechanisms.

Blocking Cookies in Your Browser  Most web browsers automatically accept
cookies, but also usually allow you to modify your settings to disable or reject
cookies, including cookies for interest-based advertising  If you delete your
cookies or if you set your web browser to decline cookies, however, some
features of the Services may not work or may not work as designed.  You can
usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser;
links to instructions provided by several of the most common browsers are below.
You can also learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org.

 * Cookie settings in Google Chrome
 * Cookie settings in Firefox
 * Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
 * Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.

Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings  Your mobile device settings
may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with
your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.

Advertising Industry Opt Out Tools. Many of the third party advertisers that use
tracking or targeting tools in connection with our Services either directly, or
are members of programs that, offer you additional choices regarding the
collection and use of your information  You can learn more about the options
available to limit these participating third parties’ collection and use of your
information by visiting their websites:

 * Opt Out of Interest Based Advertising (National Advertising Initiative)
 * Your Ad Choices (Digital Advertising Alliance)
 * Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance)
 * Users of our mobile apps may opt out of receiving targeted advertising in
   mobile apps through participating members of the Digital Advertising Alliance
   by installing the AppChoices mobile app, available here, and selecting the
   user’s choices

Platform Opt Out Tools  Google and Facebook offer opt-out features that let you
opt-out of use of your information for interest-based advertising.

 * Facebook: About Facebook Ads and Facebook Privacy Policy
 * Google:  The Services may deliver advertising using the vendor DoubleClick, a
   Google company. You can read about how DoubleClick uses cookies, use Google’s
   controls for blocking certain ads, or use Google’s Ad Settings Page to
   control how DoubleClick personalizes your ad experience  The Services also
   may use Google Analytics to track your usage, including the stitching of
   authenticated and unauthenticated sessions (which allows for the combination
   of data from your use of the Services while not signed in to your Atlantic
   account with your use of the Services while signed in to your Atlantic
   account). If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics’ tracking, use this
   browser add-on provided by Google.

Mobile App Tracking Opt Out Tools  You can learn about your options to opt-out
of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device
settings  For more information about how to change these settings for Apple,
Android or Windows devices, see:

 * Apple:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
 * Android:  http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
 * Windows:  http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out

Social Media Services Settings. If you choose to connect to the Services via a
third-party platform or social media network, you may have the ability to limit
the information that we may obtain from the third-party at the time you login to
the Services using the third-party’s authentication service or otherwise connect
your account. Subsequently, you may be able to control your settings through the
third-party’s platform or service. For example, you may access and change your
settings through the Facebook settings page for Apps and Websites. If you
withdraw our ability to access certain information from a third-party platform
or social media network, that choice will not apply to information that we have
already received from that third-party.

Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers  You can block our websites from setting
cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features,
like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or
uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.

Do Not Track Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track”
signals to the online services that you visit  We currently do not respond to
“Do Not Track” or similar signals  To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please
visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.



7. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR USERS IN CALIFORNIA

This section applies only to California residents  It describes how we collect,
use and share Personal Information of California residents in operating our
business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information  For
purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) but does not include
information exempted from the scope of the CCPA.

How We Collect, Use, and Share your Personal Information  We collect the
following statutory categories (as defined by CCPA) of Personal Information:

 * Identifiers (e.g., device identifier, IP address, unique browser ID, cookies,
   beacons, pixel tags, account login, other unique identifiers, name, site
   log-in, email address, mailing address (or state / province and country of
   residence), phone number, images of yourself you provide us for your account
   page you are creating and completing in order to attend an event we are
   hosting.
 * Commercial information (e.g., subscription records, site engagement).
 * Internet or network information (e.g., browsing and search history, site and
   advertisement interactions, audience research data).
 * Geolocation data (e.g., precise location derived from GPS-enabled services).
 * Professional or employment information (e.g., information you provide when
   you apply for a job with us or participate in audience research, as well as
   information about your job title, income level, and the name of your employer
   that you provide when you register to attend an event we are hosting or when
   participating in audience research).
 * Financial information (e.g.,  your financial account numbers or payment card
   information; please note that a third party payment processor is responsible
   for all collection, processing, and storage of your Financial Information and
   we do not have direct access to or possession of any payment card
   information.)
 * Education information (e.g., information you provide when you apply for a job
   with us or when you participate in audience research).
 * Protected classification characteristics (e.g., age, ethnicity, race,
   languages spoken, or gender)
 * Inferences (e.g., information about your interests, preferences, and
   favorites).

The sources from which we collect information are described in Section 1 of this
Privacy Policy; the business and commercial purposes for which we collect this
information are described in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy; and the
categories of third parties to whom we “disclose” the information for a business
purpose are described in Section 3 and Section 5 of this Privacy Policy

Your California Privacy Rights. As a California resident, you have the rights
listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases we
may decline your request as permitted by law.

 * Information  You can request the following information about how we have
   collected, used, disclosed, and "sold" your Personal Information during the
   past 12 months:
   * The categories of Personal Information that we have collected and used.
   * The categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information.
   * The business or commercial purpose for collecting and/or selling Personal
     Information.
   * The categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information.
   * Whether we have disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose,
     and if so, the categories of Personal Information received by each category
     of third party recipient.
   * Whether we’ve sold your Personal Information, and if so, the categories of
     Personal Information received by each category of third party recipient
 * Access  You can request a copy of the Personal Information that we have
   collected about you during the past 12 months.
 * Deletion  You can ask us to delete the Personal Information that we have
   collected from you.
 * Opt-out of sales  You can ask that we do not sell your Personal Information. 
   In addition, if you direct us not to sell your Personal Information, we will
   consider it a request pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light” law to stop
   sharing your personal information covered by that law with third parties for
   their direct marketing purposes.
 * Opt-in  If we know that you are younger than 16 years old, we will ask for
   your permission (or if you are younger than 13 years old, your parent’s or
   guardian’s permission) to sell your Personal Information before we do so.
 * Nondiscrimination  You are entitled to exercise the rights described above
   free from discrimination. This means that we will not penalize you for
   exercising your rights by taking actions such as denying you services;
   increasing the price/rate of services; decreasing service quality; or
   suggesting that we may penalize you as described above for exercising your
   rights.

How to Exercise your California Rights. California residents may exercise the
California privacy rights described above as follows:

 * Rights to information, access, and deletion  To request to exercise your
   information, access or deletion rights:
   * Complete the “Submit a CCPA Data Request” form available in our online Help
     Center.
   * Email privacy@theatlantic.com
   * Call us toll free: 1-855-940-0585.
 * Identity verification for CCPA rights to information, access, and deletion.
   * We reserve the right to confirm your California residence to process your
     requests and will need to confirm your identity to process your requests to
     exercise your CCPA rights.
   * Following California law, we take reasonable precautions to verify the
     identities of those California residents submitting requests to delete or
     access Personal Information, or to learn more about how their Personal
     Information is processed. For requests to access specific pieces of
     Personal Information, we verify the requester’s identity by having them
     first complete a notarized affidavit affirming their identity and
     California residency. When a notarized affidavit cannot be obtained, we may
     request alternate forms of identification, such as by authenticating one’s
     identity through their account on our site or, only when necessary and only
     as permissible under applicable law, by providing a copy of a government
     identification card.
   * For CCPA deletion requests and requests to learn more about how their
     Personal Information is processed, we verify the requester’s identity by
     asking them to confirm their request by email.
   * We cannot process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient
     detail to allow us to verify your identity, understand the nature of the
     request, and respond to it.
 * Right to opt-out of the “sale” of your Personal Information: The Atlantic
   does not sell your Personal Information in the conventional sense (i.e., for
   money)  Like many companies, however, we use services that help deliver
   interest-based ads to you and may transfer Personal Information to business
   partners for their use. Making Personal Information (such as online
   identifiers or browsing activity) available to these companies may be
   considered a “sale” under the CCPA.  You can request to opt out of such
   “sale” of your Personal Information here: Do Not Sell My Personal
   Information  Please note that you will still see some advertising, regardless
   of your selection. We do not impose verification protocols for processing
   California residents’ requests to opt out of the “sale” of their Personal
   Information, unless we have reason to question the authenticity of a
   requester’s identity, in which case we may request a notarized affidavit
   affirming their identity and California residency.

Authorized Agents. California residents can empower an “authorized agent” to
submit CCPA requests on their behalf through the same means outlined above
through which a California resident may file a request – through our online Help
Center, by emailing us at privacy@theatlantic.com, or by calling our toll free
number. Unless the California resident has provided the authorized agent power
of attorney, we will also require the following before processing a request
submitted via an authorized agent:

 * Signed authorization from the California resident permitting the authorized
   agent to submit CCPA requests on their behalf;
 * Proof of the California resident’s identity sufficient to satisfy our
   respective verification protocols that otherwise apply to CCPA requests to
   delete Personal Information, access Personal Information, learn more about
   how Personal Information is processed, or to opt out of the “sale” of
   Personal Information; and
 * Direct confirmation sent from the consumer to us (without the authorized
   agent as an intermediary) affirming that the agent is authorized to act on
   their behalf.

Notice Regarding B2B Sites. Three of our websites, www.Atlantic57.com,
www.atlanticbrandpartners.com, and advertising.theatlantic.com (the “B2B
Sites”), are designed solely for business use and not intended for personal or
household use  Accordingly, we treat all information collected from the B2B
Sites as pertaining to individuals acting as business representatives, rather
than in their individual capacity  We do not “sell” any information collected
from your use of the B2B Sites, as that term is defined by the CCPA.

Notice Regarding California Residents We Know to Be Under the Age of 16.
California residents we know to be younger than 16 years of age will by default
be treated as though they have exercised a request to opt out of the sale of
their Personal Information with respect to information provided directly to us
(as opposed to information automatically collected from them through technical
means). We do not permit such users to opt-in to the sale of their Personal
Information, unless they provide proof that they are no longer under the age of
16.

8. USERS IN THE EEA, UK, AND SWITZERLAND

If you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, the following information
applies with respect to personal data collected through your use of our
Services.

Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing: We process personal data
consistent with our disclosures in this Privacy Policy. We process personal data
on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary to perform
our agreement to provide Services (such as when you become a Subscriber); and
(3) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing the Services where
those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms related to
data privacy  EEA, UK, Swiss users may review or update your preferences
regarding how The Atlantic and our third party partners process your personal
data at any time by using the tool at the bottom of this page.

Transfers: Personal data we collect may be transferred to, and stored and
processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our
affiliates or processors maintain facilities. We are no longer participating in
the Privacy Shield, but we will ensure that transfers of personal data to a
third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate
safeguards.

Your Rights: You are entitled to the rights under Chapter III of the EU General
Data Protection Regulation, applicable UK data protection law, or Section 2 of
the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection with respect to the processing of your
personal data, which include the right to access and rectify and to request
erasure of personal data. To exercise these rights, contact
privacy@theatlantic.com and provide as complete a description of your request as
possible.

Third Party Processing Partners: Below is a list of the third party data
processing partners with which we have a direct relationship, the categories of
data processing they provide to us, and links to their privacy policies (which
may provide more information about their use of your data and how to exercise
your rights to opt-out of that usage)  Please note that this list does not
include advertisers (with whom we have no direct relationship) who advertise on
our websites through ad serving networks. Because our Services are under
constant development, this list may be modified and updated on an ongoing basis.

Third Party

PROCESSING CATEGORY

Information storage and access

Personalization

Ad selection, delivery, and reporting

Content selection, delivery, and reporting

Measurement

Amazon Web Services

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Amuse Labs

Yes

Yes

Yes

AppNexus

Yes

Yes

Yes

Bounce Exchange

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

CDS

Yes

Celtra

Yes

Yes

ChargeDesk

Yes

Churnbuster

Yes

Cision

Yes

Yes

ComScore

Criteo

Yes

Yes

Yes

DoubleVerify

Yes

Yes

Yes

Facebook

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Fivetran

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Flashtalking

Yes

Yes

Yes

Google Ads

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Google Analytics

Yes

Yes

Google Cloud

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Google Docs

Yes

Yes

Google DoubleClick

Yes

Yes

Google Optimize

Yes

Yes

Grapeshot

Yes

Yes

Yes

GroupM

Yes

Yes

Heap

Yes

Yes

IAS

Yes

Yes

Yes

IMT

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Index Exchange

Yes

Yes

Yes

Innovid

Yes

Yes

Yes

Janrain

Yes

Yes

Yes

Keywee

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Knotch

Yes

Yes

Krux

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Lickability

Litmus

Yes

Yes

Moat

Yes

Yes

Oath

Yes

Yes

Yes

OpenX

Yes

Yes

Yes

Parse.ly

Yes

Yes

Powerinbox

Yes

Yes

Yes

Pubmatic

Yes

Yes

Yes

Quantcast

Yes

Yes

Yes

Quora

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Rubicon Project

Yes

Yes

Yes

SimpleReach

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sizmek

Yes

Yes

Yes

SocialFlow

Yes

Stripe

Yes

SurveyGizmo

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Switchboard Software

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Teads

Yes

Yes

Yes

The Media Trust

Yes

Yes

Yes

True Anthem

Yes

Yes

Twitter

Yes

Yes

Unbounce

Yes

Yes

Wishpond

YouTube

Yes

Yes

Zendesk

Yes

Yes

Yes



9. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

The Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. With respect
to children we know to be located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland who we also
know to be under 16 years of age, and with respect to any child we know to under
13 years of age, we do not knowingly collect information from such children and
we do not target the Services to such children. If you are under 13 years of
age, or if you are under 16 years of age and are located in the EEA, UK, or
Switzerland, do not provide personal information to The Atlantic without
providing us with consent from your parents. If we discover that any child under
the age of 13 or a child from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16
has provided us with personal information and we do not have parental consent,
we will delete that child’s information as soon as reasonably practicable. If
you believe that we have been provided with the personal information of a child
from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16 without parental consent,
or have been provided with the personal information of any child under the age
of 13 without parental consent, please notify us immediately at
privacy@theatlantic.com.



10. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

How Your Information Is Secured  The security of your personal information is
important to us.  We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical
safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect  However,
security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we
cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. You need to help
protect the privacy of your own information. You must take precautions to
protect the security of any personal information that you may transmit over any
home networks, wireless routers, wireless (WiFi) networks or similar devices by
using encryption and other techniques to prevent unauthorized persons from
intercepting or receiving any of your personal information. You are responsible
for the security of your information when using unencrypted, open access or
otherwise unsecured networks.

How Long Your Information Is Stored  The time period for which we keep
information varies according to the purpose for which it is used for. In some
cases, there are legal requirements to keep data for a minimum period. Unless
there is a specific legal requirement for us to keep the information, we will
retain it for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data
was collected or for which it is to be further processed.

Emails and Newsletters  You may always opt-out of receiving future e-mail
marketing messages and newsletters from The Atlantic by following the
instructions contained within the emails and newsletters, or by e-mailing,
calling or writing us at the addresses in Section 11 of the Privacy Policy
below.

Contests, Sweepstakes or Games  When we run a contest, sweepstakes, or game
relating to the Services, it will be accompanied by a set of rules. The rules
for each contest, sweepstakes or game will specify how the information gathered
from you for entry will be used and disclosed if it is different than as
described in this Privacy Policy  In conjunction with your entry in such contest
or sweepstakes, personal information will be collected only if you voluntarily
submit it.



11. CONTACT US

If you have an account with www.TheAtlantic.com, you may review and change your
information by logging into your account and editing your account profile

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

ATTN: General Counsel

The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC

600 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20037

Phone: (202) 266-7000

Email: privacy@theatlantic.com

If you have questions about subscriptions to The Atlantic, please contact us at:

Atlantic Customer Care

PO Box 37564

Boone, IA 50037-0564

Phone: +1 (855) 940-0585

Email: support@theatlantic.com



You may review or update your preferences regarding how The Atlantic and our
third party partners process your personal data at any time by using the tool
available here



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