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* Effective as of: November 1, 2020
Last Updated: November 18, 2021
Forbes values your privacy.
This Privacy Statement outlines how Forbes Media LLC (“Forbes” “we” “us” or
“our”) collects, uses, processes, and shares your personal information and
other information about you (your “user information”) in connection with your
access to and/or use of Forbes.com and other Forbes owned digital media
(collectively, the “Site”), including any content, features, services, or
other offerings that Forbes may provide in connection the Site, such as email
communications or newsletters that Forbes may send in connection with your
use of the Site. This Privacy Statement also describes your choices and
rights regarding the use, access to, correction, or deletion of your user
information. By using the Site, you acknowledge that you understand that we
will use your user information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Where required by law, you will also be asked to provide clear and
unequivocal affirmative consent to the collection, processing, and sharing of
your user information via cookies and similar technologies. The Site is owned
and operated by Forbes.
>Notice to EU/UK individuals, residents of California and Nevada, and
residents of China: this Privacy Statement is intended to comply with: (1)
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the
European Union 27 April 2016 (the “GDPR”), and the UK equivalent (the "UK
GDPR"), and provide appropriate protection and care with respect to the
treatment of your user information in accordance with those laws; the
California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"); Nevada law; and China’s Personal
Information Protection Law of PRC (“PIPL”).
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Summary
What this Privacy Statement Covers
Gathering of Information
Information Collected
Voluntary Submission
Information that We Collect Automatically
Cookies
Web Beacons
Log Files
Information that We Obtain from Third Party Sources
Use of Your Information
To Target Content and Advertising
To Provide Interactive Communications from the Site
To Provide Communications from Third Parties
Sharing of Information
Aggregate Information with Advertisers
As Necessary to Provide Services to You
In the Event of Sale or Bankruptcy
As Required By Law
Consent
Control Of Your Information
Data Retention
Security
Privacy of Children
Cross-border Transfers
Law Enforcement Requests
How to Contact Us
How Will I Know if the Privacy Statement Is Changed?
SUMMARY
To enhance, personalize, and support your experience on the Site, among other
things, we collect, use, and share your user information. For example, we use
aggregated information to develop content targeted to user interests and to
generally improve the Site’s user experience. As detailed below, your user
information may also be used by Forbes and its partners to tailor content and
ads, provide social media features (e.g., features that allow you to share
content directly to your preferred social media platform), track your
preferences, analyze traffic, organize Forbes events, and provide similar
services and content. Forbes is committed to your privacy and will not share
any user information with any third party without your consent, except as
outlined in this Privacy Statement or as permitted by law. If you have any
requests, comments, or questions about this Privacy Statement or your user
information, please contact us in the manner provided below.
WHAT THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT COVERS
This Privacy Statement applies only to user information collected by us or
shared with us in relation to our Site. While you may encounter links on the
Site to other websites, such as those relating to our third-party sponsors,
advertisers, and other partners (e.g., our affiliate network operators),
please note that these websites are not covered by this Privacy Statement
(unless otherwise noted on such site, which may be the case if, for example,
the site is also owned and operated by Forbes).
This Privacy Statement does not apply to the activities of Forbes’
third-party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners (e.g. our affiliate
network operators) that may collect your user information while you access or
use such third party’s services in connection with your use of our Site (e.g.
social media and sharing services). The privacy and information practices of
those third parties are not covered by this Privacy Statement. To learn more
about such third party policies, we encourage you to read and review the
privacy statements of each third party service that you may choose to use.
As a general reminder, please think carefully before you decide to put
anything on the internet. For example, if you voluntarily disclose user
information in chat areas or bulletin boards (e.g., comments sections), that
information could be seen and used by others, and may result in unsolicited
messages from others. We are not responsible for the user information you may
choose to submit in these public forums. To request removal of your user
information from our blog or community forum, please contact us as provided
below. In some cases, for legal retention purposes or technical limitations
(e.g., the data may not be searchable), we may not be able to remove user
information voluntarily disclosed by you in such forums, in which case, we
will notify you.
GATHERING OF INFORMATION
Section Overview: We collect user information when you use the Site.
Sometimes you may submit it to us yourself, other times it may be collected
automatically. You can manage and change your preferences as outlined below.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
When you use the Site, your user information may be collected, used, and
shared in a variety of manners. As detailed below, the type of user
information collected may vary, but may include, among other things, user
information that you voluntarily submit (e.g., when setting up an account or
submitting a registration or application---including when signing up for a
paid subscription or event---you may submit your contact information, social
media account handles, and/or professional information), user information
automatically collected about your usage of the Site (e.g., the content that
you choose to view), and user information that our third party partners may
share with us if such third party partners have previously received your
consent to do so or are otherwise permitted by applicable law.
VOLUNTARY SUBMISSION
Forbes may collect user information (including personal information) that is
voluntarily provided by you or with your permission. For example, we may ask
you for user information, such as your email address, when you register to
become a member of the Site or register for a Forbes-produced live event. You
may also provide user information to Forbes in other contexts, including, for
example, on your member profile page and public profile URL (for example, if
you choose to add content to your profile page, such as photos, videos or
other information about you and your interests), to enter into a sweepstakes,
contest, or promotion, or to apply for consideration in connection with a
Forbes list or similar accolade (e.g., Under 30 list applications).
In the event you order something from the Site or one of our co-branded
websites, or if you sign-up for a paid subscription (or a free trial of a
paid subscription), we may request additional user information, such as your
address, telephone number and credit card information, in order to complete
the order. You may also provide us with other information at the same time,
such as your choice of subscription term or type of subscription. If you
choose to sign up for a paid subscription via your social media profile
(further information on this below under "Information that We Obtain from
Third Party Sources"), we may also receive some limited information about you
from that social media provider. Where you sign-up for paid subscriptions as
a gift option (e.g., on behalf of a friend or colleague, the gift recipient),
you may provide us with this information on behalf of the gift recipient.
You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you
choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of
the Site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services, such
as paid subscription content. If you wish to provide user information to us
about a third party, such your friend or colleague, in connection with a
referral, gift subscription, recommendation, nomination (e.g., Under 30 list
nomination), or other purpose, please only do so if you have the permission
of that third party. When you register or become a member of the Site or
provide information to Forbes in any other manner, you agree to provide only
true, accurate, current and complete information.
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY
When you visit our Site, we may collect certain user information
automatically from your device. In some territories, including California,
the European Economic Area ("EEA"), the United Kingdom (the EEA and the
United Kingdom, together "Europe"), and China, this information may be
considered personal data or personal information under applicable data
protection laws.
Specifically, the user information we collect automatically may include
information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification
numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g., country or city-level
location) and other technical information. We may also collect user
information about how your device has interacted with our Site, including the
pages accessed and links clicked.
Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who
come to our Site, where they come from, and what content on our Site is of
interest to them. We use this information for our business and commercial
purposes, including internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality
and relevance of our Site to our visitors. With respect to any content that
is subject to a paywall, we also use this information to notify users via a
notice on the Site when they have read their quota of "free" content (and
would need to purchase a subscription to continue reading additional
articles).
Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking
technology, as explained further below.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small data file that is written to your computer's hard drive
by your web browser. A cookie file can contain and/or automatically collect
user information, such as a user identification code or IP address, that a
website will use to track the pages and number of times you have visited. The
data read from these cookies may be linked to your user information, so our
use of these cookies may allow us to better understand how you use our Site,
or to serve you with personalized advertising.
In particular, we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies on
the Site for our business purposes of personalizing and optimizing your
browsing experience and the Site by:
* providing you with tailored content and advertisements (see below for more
information),
* enabling social media features,
* safeguarding against spam and malware,
* analyzing trends, traffic, and user behavior,
* administering the Site, including triggering paywalls for certain content
as appropriate,
* gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole,
* tracking web and advertising analytics throughout the Site and its
affiliate websites,
* remembering your preferences and voluntarily-submitted information (e.g.
custom video playlists, preferences, job title, story ratings, membership
status),
* performing location-related functionalities and analytics,
* participating in market research (e.g., Site ratings), and
* educating ourselves about how we can continue to improve the Site and its
various elements.
Cookies fall into the subcategories below.
Required Cookies. Certain cookies are used for specific purposes that are
essential to your secure use and navigation of the Site. Without them, Forbes
may not be able to provide core Site functions and features to you, and the
Site would not operate as well as you or Forbes would like. These cookies
collect and use information such as your server preferences, single-session
data and corresponding identifier, web beacons and log files (detailed
below), and other credential-related information.
Functional Cookies. Other cookies may be used to collect and process
information about your preferences and similar choices in connection with the
Site in order to optimize your browsing experience (e.g., various local
preference settings; which geographically-customized version of the Site and
related content you may prefer e.g., Forbes US, Forbes Asia, Forbes Europe).
Functional cookies include social media cookies, which collect information
about your social media usage and other data you may have provided in
connection with such usage (if you access the Site through a social media
website or mobile application, you may have social media cookies). If you
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the settings on your applicable social media account(s). Functional cookies
also include analytics cookies, which provide us with data that allows Forbes
to better understand its users and improve the Site based on what we have
learned from that data.
Advertising Cookies. To help support the Site and further tailor your
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analytics providers) may also use cookies on the Site to personalize the
content and advertisements you may be shown. Such advertisements use cookies
to provide you targeted advertisements that may be more consistent with your
interests than non-targeted advertisements. Certain Forbes advertising
partners may also use cookies to monitor or track the performance of their
advertising content, including native advertising content (e.g., BrandVoice).
Forbes does not provide user information to advertising partners except in
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If you would like to manage your cookie preferences or learn more information
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our Site, you may not be able to use or benefit from certain features of the
Site, particularly the features that are designed to personalize your
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Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but generally allow users to
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Please do review your web browser settings if you want to use your web
browser to control our cookies.
WEB BEACONS
We may use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or
clear GIFs) on our Site for our business purposes of recognizing users,
assessing traffic patterns, identifying preferred content and measuring site
engagement. We may also include web beacons in our email communications,
including newsletters, in order to measure engagement with our communications
(e.g., to count how many, and when, email communications have been opened, or
which links in such communications have been clicked on).
Forbes and its partners (including advertisers, ad servers, and affiliate
link e-commerce providers) may also use web beacons to collect various data
provided by your browser while you are on our Site and elsewhere (i.e.,
outside of the Site) where we may be acting as a third party. This data is
collected in the aggregate, but may include or be associated with other user
information that users have voluntarily submitted. As we do not control or
have access to the manner in which these third parties may use cookies or
other tracking technologies, Forbes is not responsible for the privacy
practices of these third parties (if you have questions about any of these
third parties, we encourage you to review their corresponding privacy
policies).
LOG FILES
The Site’s web and ad servers log information about a user's IP address,
browser type and the current URL the user is requesting. This information is
always provided by a user's browser and automatically logged by most
websites. These log files are stored in a secure location and used for our
business purpose of internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Site.
INFORMATION THAT WE OBTAIN FROM THIRD PARTY SOURCES
From time to time, we may collect personal information about you from third
party sources (including data append services such as public or social graph
data, or social media websites if you have chosen to log in or connect your
social media with our Site) which we will use for our business or commercial
purposes (for example, in order to better serve you with content or
promotions). However, we will only use this information where these third
parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or
required to disclose your personal information to us.
When you sign into our Site or purchase a paid subscription on our Site using
a social media log-in, you give permission to that social media company to
share certain information with us. For example, if you sign in or purchase a
subscription using Facebook or LinkedIn, you give permission to Facebook or
LinkedIn (as applicable) to share with us your email address and certain
other information contained in your profile on that social media platform
(but only if you have made this information public in your corresponding
Facebook or LinkedIn profile). This will be limited to your full name, age
range, profile picture (if you have one) and link to your Facebook or
LinkedIn profile (as applicable). If you log-in or purchase a subscription
using your Google account, you give Google permission to share personal data
with us that you have made public in your Google profile. This will be
limited to your full name, your email address (and whether your email has
been validated), your age range, your profile picture (if you have one) and a
link to your Google profile. If you log-in or purchase a subscription using
your Apple ID, you give Apple permission to share your personal data with us
(however, you can choose to hide your email address and instead Apple will
create a random email address so that your personal email can stay private).
This email address will be linked to your account and will be used to allow
you to access your subscribed content.
We will use this information to form a profile for your account, or to enable
you to purchase a paid subscription. If you later remove the Site from your
Facebook or LinkedIn settings, Google settings, or Apple ID, we will no
longer have access to this information. However, this will not affect our
ability to use the information that we already received when you first set up
your account (or purchased a subscription) using that social media login, as
long as we continue to need to use it for the purposes as described in this
Privacy Statement.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Section Overview: Our primary goal in collecting, using, and sharing user
information is to enhance your experience on the Site, support the Site, and
improve its features, performance, and other elements. Your user information
may be used for the purposes outlined below, and we may combine user
information you provided us with information we automatically collected or
collected from third parties to better understand you and to better
facilitate the uses described below, like serving you more targeted content
and advertising. We will not use your user information without a valid legal
basis to do so.
TO TARGET CONTENT AND ADVERTISING
Forbes may use your user information for advertising purposes in order to
promote our Site or our other products or services, and the products and
services of third parties. To develop and provide content and advertising to
you that is targeted to your interests, we use the analytics collected by the
systems described above to determine which areas of our Site you prefer based
upon the frequency of your visits and engagement with those areas. We may
make reasonable assumptions based on your browser provided data to target
relevant content and advertising to you on our site and elsewhere where we
may be acting as a 3rd party. We may also make reasonable geographic and
demographic assumptions based on your presented IP address to target relevant
content and advertising.
TO PROVIDE INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SITE
To enhance your experience, we may provide you with interactive
communications, such as notifications of activity by topic or contributor to
the email address that you provide to us. Such interactive communications are
provided only to those users who have expressly provided us with their
permission to receive them as part of their user profile.
From time to time we may provide emails highlighting new features, promotions
or contests on the Site to those users who have expressly provided us with
their permission to send such communications as part of their user profile,
or where we are otherwise permitted by law.
TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS FROM THIRD PARTIES
We respect the privacy of our users and will not disclose or distribute our
user list to any third party, nor will we permit anyone else to do so.
However, for users who have opted into receiving communications about Forbes’
third-party partners, Forbes may email such users information about
third-party partners Forbes thinks such users may be interested in, though
Forbes will not share user information with its partners in these situations.
Forbes may also make available, including for rental, its list of registrants
and users who have expressly provided Forbes with their permission to share
their user information with third parties in order to receive third-party
offers. Such permission may sometimes be provided as part of your user
profile. In those cases, your user information will be transferred to the
third party consistent with the consent you provided to Forbes. You can
remove your consent to this use or modify your related user information by
contacting Forbes as indicated below. If you are a resident in mainland China
and want to know more information about these third parties, you may contact
us using the contact information below.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
You may be requested to voluntarily provide certain user information during
your use of the Site. If you choose to do so, that user information may be
shared with Forbes as well as our business partners, third party vendors and
service providers who fulfil our business purposes. These third parties
provide hosting and other services for Forbes (for example, to support on the
delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our
Site), and otherwise process user information for purposes that are described
in this Privacy Statement or notified to you when we collect your user
information. If you are a resident in mainland China and want to know more
information about these third parties, you may contact us using the contact
information below.
We use third parties for a number of business purposes, including to provide
credit card processing, to provide email services and to host services on the
Site. When you sign up for such services, we will share your user information
only as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third
parties are prohibited from using your user information for any other
purpose. With respect to credit card processing, we do not collect, store, or
process any credit card information. If you do not want your information to
be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of your information by
not using that particular service.
In addition, if you provide any user information via an advertiser promotion,
please be aware you are directly providing your user information to that
advertiser. Similarly, we may share certain attendee user information with
sponsors of our live events (e.g., attendee name, title, company name),
subject to applicable law. If you are a California resident, you may click
here to opt out of this activity or contact us as provided below.
From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in
contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain
user information from you, such as your name and email. Participation in
these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a
choice whether or not to disclose this information. We use this information
to notify contest winners and award prizes.
We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or
contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' user
information for any other purpose. We will not share the user information you
provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give
you prior notice and choice.
As noted above, you may be able to log in to our site using sign-in services
that bridge your social media login information with the Site. These services
will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain
user information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate
our sign up form or subscription order. These services give you the option to
post information about your activities on the Site to your profile page to
share with others within your network. The Site includes social media
features, widgets and/or interactive mini-programs that run on the Site.
These features are small content modules that can be embedded on the Site (or
other sites) and may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on
the Site, or set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social
media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted
directly on the Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by
the privacy policy of the company providing it.
We offer widgets that are hosted on the Site, like our embeddable video
player. Use of the Forbes.com widgets is subject to the Site terms of use,
but downloading or embedding these widgets on other websites is not covered
by this privacy statement.
AGGREGATE INFORMATION WITH ADVERTISERS
Forbes derives the majority of its revenue on the Site from advertising, and
sharing information is essential to keeping our services affordable to users.
In order to attract and retain advertisers, we use the aggregated,
information that we gather (as well as aggregated information from
third-party market researchers and providers) to describe our services to
partners and to assist our advertisers and sponsors to better understand our
audience.
We partner with third party ad networks to either display advertising on the
Site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partners use
cookies and web beacons to collect user information about your activities on
the Site and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon
your interests.
If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you
targeted ads, you may opt-out or modify your choices by clicking here, if you
are a California resident, by clicking the “Cookies on Forbes” tab or, if
located in the Europe or, by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you
out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive non-targeted
ads.
AS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO YOU
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our
behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of newsletter mailings,
processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services.
We will only provide those companies the user information they need to
deliver the service. In some instances, these companies may collect user
information directly from you. In these cases, you will be notified of the
involvement of the external service provider. In all cases, these companies
are subject to agreements that require them to maintain the confidentiality
of your user information and they are prohibited from using that information
for any other purpose.
IN THE EVENT OF SALE OR BANKRUPTCY
The ownership of the Site may change at some point in the future. Should that
occur, we want this site to be able to maintain a relationship with you. In
the event of an (actual or potential) sale, merger, public offering,
bankruptcy, acquisition of any part of our business, or other change in
control of Forbes, your user information may be shared with the person or
business that owns or controls (or potentially will own or control) this
Site, provided that we inform the buyer (or prospective buyer) that it must
use your user information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy
Statement. In this case, we may notify you if applicable law requires, such
as China’s PIPL.
AS REQUIRED BY LAW
Forbes may disclose your user information to any competent law enforcement
body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we
believe disclosure is necessary: (i) as a matter of applicable law or
regulation (such as to comply with a subpoena or in the good faith belief
that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law), (ii) to
protect your safety or the safety of others, (iii) to investigate fraud or
comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on
Forbes, or (iv) to protect and defend the rights or property of Forbes. In
this case, we may notify you if applicable law requires.
CONSENT
Forbes may disclose your user information to any other person with your
consent.
Notice to Visitors in the Europe and China: As outlined in this Privacy
Statement, Forbes will not process your user information without a lawful
basis to do so. Our legal basis for collecting and using your user
information as described above will depend on the user information concerned
and the specific context in which we collect it. In general, Forbes will
process your user information on the legal bases of consent, contract (if you
have entered into an agreement with us and such processing is a necessary
part thereof), or legal obligation (as noted above). If we ask you to
provide user information to comply with a legal requirement or so we can
perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and
advise you whether the provision of this user information is mandatory or not
(as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide this user
information).
Forbes may also process certain user information on the basis of the
following legitimate interests in accordance with applicable laws such as the
GDPR, provided that such interests are not overridden by your privacy rights
and interests: delivering and continuing to develop and improve the Site,
learning from your behavior on the Site (e.g., analyzing traffic) to better
serve you and other Site users, helping us modify or enhance the Site and its
content, receiving insight as to what users do (and don’t) like about our
Site or aspects thereof, and providing a stable, consistent, and secure user
experience in connection with the Site.
CONTROL OF YOUR INFORMATION
Section Overview: You have a variety of rights regarding the use and control
of your user information.
Upon a verifiable request, Forbes will provide you with information about
whether we hold any of your user information. Registered users may change the
information stored in their member profile such as image, name, password,
location, country and the topics and contributors they are following at any
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Your rights and controls with respect to the user information that may be
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You may request to delete or modify your personal account and/or any user
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You may also ask to opt-out of marketing communications from Forbes or on
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provided Forbes is able to verify your identity in accordance with applicable
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your user information; you may object to our processing of this information;
and you may ask us to restrict our processing of your user information, or
request portability of your user information. Forbes will, however, need to
verify your identity in accordance with applicable law. Similarly, if we have
collected and processed your user information with your consent, then you can
withdraw your consent at any time. However, please note that withdrawing your
consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior
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also have a right to complain to a data protection authority about our
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to request notice of certain information about the user information that we
may share with third parties for marketing purposes (e.g., the categories of
user information shared, and contact information of applicable third
parties), as well as request that we disclose to you what personal
information we collect, use, disclose and sell about you, and the right to
request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain about you.
Forbes will, however, need to verify your identity in accordance with
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information, and request portability of your user information. If you cannot
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of how we process your personal information. If you are a close relative of a
person in China who is now deceased, you can request to access, correct and
delete their personal information. You can exercise these rights under PIPL
via the methods provided for under the “How to Contact Us” section below. For
more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
To make any request under this section, please use the applicable webform or
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which may require that we ask you for additional information to confirm your
identity. We will do our best to respond to your request within 30 days and,
in any event, we will respond within the timeframe required by applicable
law.
You can modify your cookie preferences by following the procedure outlined in
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DATA RETENTION
We will retain your user information for as long as your account is active or
as needed to provide you the Site, unless you have revoked your consent or
requested to delete certain user information; and we may retain certain user
information for specific legitimate interests where we have an ongoing
business need (for example, relating to core Site functionalities (such as
fraud-prevention and account recovery), or to comply with applicable tax,
legal or accounting requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to use your user
information, we will delete it or, if this is not possible (for example,
because your personal information has been stored in back-up archives), then
we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any
further processing until deletion is possible.
SECURITY
Section Overview: We care about the protection of your user information and
use appropriate technical and organizational security measures (including
industry standard safeguards) to do so. The measures we use are designed to
provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing of your
user information. Of course, it’s important to keep in mind that no data
transmission on the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Your user information is stored on Forbes servers located in the United
States. We use industry standard physical, electronic, and organizational
safeguards to protect your user information against loss or theft as well as
unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. We treat data as
an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We
employ many different security techniques to protect such data from
unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However,
"perfect security" does not exist on the Internet. If you are concerned that
your privacy may have been breached, please contact us as provided below.
PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
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of age.
If you are less than 16 years old, please do not send any user information to
us--including information such as your name, address, or email address. We do
not knowingly collect (nor do we wish to collect) any user information from
children under the age of 16. If we learn we have collected any user
information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information
from our database and terminate the corresponding account, if any. We
encourage you to discuss the Site with your parent or guardian.
CROSS-BORDER TRANSFERS
Section Overview: Your user information may be transferred to, and processed
in, countries other than the country in which you reside in connection with
your use of the Site or our use of your user information. These countries may
have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country.
Specifically, if you access or use the Site outside of the United States,
your user information will be transferred to our servers in the United
States.
However, we take appropriate safeguards to require that your personal
information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Forbes still participates in and has certified its compliance with the
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework,
and where applicable, Forbes use the UK and EEA Standard Contractual Clauses
for cross-border transfers. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework,
visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Privacy Shield List at
https://www.privacyshield.gov/list. Forbes is responsible for the processing
of personal data it receives, under each Privacy Shield Framework, and
subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf.
Forbes complies with the Privacy Shield Principles and Standard Contractual
Clauses for all onward transfers of personal data from Europe and
Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions. With respect
to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield
Frameworks, Forbes is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the
U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Forbes may be required
to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public
authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement
requirements. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we
have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party
dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at
https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request. Under certain conditions,
more fully described on the Privacy Shield website at
https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint, you may
invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been
exhausted.
We have implemented similar appropriate safeguards with our third party
service providers and partners and further details can be provided upon
request.
LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUESTS
Section Overview: Our position when it comes to responding to law enforcement
requests for the disclosure of personal information.
Forbes takes the protection of your personal information very seriously; and
is committed to acting as a responsible data custodian. If we become aware
that any law enforcement, regulatory, judicial or governmental authority
("Authority") wishes to obtain access to, or a copy of, the personal
information that we hold about you (whether on a voluntary or mandatory
basis) (a "Request"), then we commit to the following: (1) we will
investigate the Request before responding, to ensure that it is a valid
request made under applicable law; and (2) we will only disclose personal
information to the Authority in response to the Request where we are legally
required to do so and in accordance with applicable lawful process. The only
exception to these commitments is where we reasonably believe (in good faith)
that the urgent provision of the requested personal information per the
Authority's Request is necessary to prevent an imminent risk of serious harm
to any individual. However, in any event, we shall never knowingly disclose
personal information in a massive, disproportionate or indiscriminate manner,
which goes beyond what is necessary in a democratic society.
We also ensure that, in accordance with good industry practice, we have in
place security measures to protect your personal information from
interception, including in transit between our different systems and devices.
This includes having in place network protection to deny attackers the
ability to intercept data and the encryption of your personal information
while in transit, to deny attackers the ability to read data.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Section Overview: Please contact us if you have any questions or requests.
If you are an individual in Europe and would like to make a request pursuant
to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), click here.
If you are a California resident and would like to make a request pursuant to
the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), click here.
If you are a Nevada consumer and would like to make a request pursuant to
Nevada law, click here.
If you are a China resident and would like to make a request pursuant to
Personal Information Protection Law of PRC (PIPL), click here.
If you have any other questions regarding this Privacy Statement or how to
remove or modify your user information or related consents, please feel free
to contact us at privacy@forbes.com or Forbes Media, Privacy Team - Customer
Service, 499 Washington Blvd., 9th Floor, Jersey City, NJ 07310. The data
controller of your user information is Forbes Media LLC. You may contact our
EU and UK GDPR Data Protection Officer at gdpr.dpo@forbes.com and, if you are
writing from the UK, you may contact our UK representative at Forbes Media -
UK Representative, 151 Wardour Street, Offices 201-203, London, W1F 8WE. If
you are writing from the EEA, you may contact our EEA GDPR Representative at
Forbes@LionheartSquared.eu or Lionheart Squared (FAO Forbes Media), 2
Pembroke House, Upper Pembroke Street 28-32, Dublin, D02 EK84 Ireland.
If you are a California resident who has a disability and requires assistance
to access this Privacy Statement in an alternative format, contact us by any
of the methods set out here. You can access a printable copy of this Privacy
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disability to understand this Privacy Statement or has further questions to
exercise your rights under PIPL, please contact use by any of the methods set
out here.
HOW WILL I KNOW IF THE PRIVACY STATEMENT IS CHANGED?
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to
changing legal, technical or business developments. This Privacy Statement
describes our data handling practices for the 12 months prior to the date on
which it was last updated. When we update our Privacy Statement, we will take
appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the
changes we make. For example, if we make any material changes we will notify
you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by
means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We
will obtain your consent to any material changes if and where consent is
required by applicable laws. We encourage you to periodically review this
page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Note on Translated Version(s): For your convenience, Forbes may make
translated versions of this Privacy Statement available on the Site. In the
event that the terms of any such translated version conflict with the terms
of the English version, the terms of the English version of this Privacy
Statement will apply.
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