Brand Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 24, 2024

Introduction

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

Manage Your Information

Email Preferences

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

Update Email Preferences

Delete Your Data

Permanently delete your information.

Update Data Preferences

Control Over Your Data

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

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

Information You Provide to Us

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

Contact Information: including your name, contact details (such as a postal address, email address, or phone number), event or conference registration and related information (including dietary restrictions or photos and videos taken at events), and communication preferences.
Inquiry Information: including information provided in messages sent through forms or surveys, to our email addresses, or via phone. This also may include information provided when you sign up for our newsletters.
Account Information: including name, username, account ID, date of birth, contact information, profile information, saved, “liked,” or bookmarked items (e.g., articles or recipes), payment and purchase history information, subscription information, courses enrolled in and completed, and Stock Simulator results.
Financial Information: including credit and debit card information, bank account and routing number, and billing and shipping address.
Demographic Information: including age, gender, race, income, occupation, marital status, and information about your household/family status, including your household size and the length of time at your residence.
Health- or Fitness-Related Information: including exercise and activity levels, weight-loss objectives, dietary preferences, and other health and wellness information.
User-Generated Content: including personal information you choose to provide about yourself when you participate in forums or discussions on the Services, post comments or reviews, and participate in any Services. Please be aware that information you post may be viewed, used, or captured by anyone who visits the Services; therefore, you should avoid posting sensitive personal information that you would not want to be available to the public.
Contest, Sweepstakes, and Survey Information: including information provided when you enter a contest or sweepstakes, information included in any responses submitted through surveys or questionnaires, or the content of any testimonials.
Inferences About Your Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data: including hobbies, interests, and characteristics, e.g., your favorite foods, purchases, or recipes, consuming tendencies, and health and fitness information.

Information Automatically Collected

As is true of many digital properties, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect information you provide to us and information about your device and use of the Service when you visit or interact with our Services. We, and our third-party partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies (e.g., pixels, SDKs, APIs, scripts, location-identifying technologies, and logging technologies) in connection with our Services to collect and store the information described in this section (and otherwise expanded upon in other sections) for our, and our third-party partners’, purposes.

Types of Information Automatically Collected

Device Data: including internet protocol (IP) address, operating system, device type and version, browser type and version, browser id, the URL entered, the referring page, date/time of visit, other user agent string data, the time spent on our Services, and any errors that may occur during the visit to our Services. Device data may overlap with the other categories of data listed below.
Analytics/Usage Data: including the path taken to our Services, through our Services, and when exiting our Services, usage and activity on or in connection with our Services (e.g., pages visited, links clicked, videos watched), metrics on how many emails we send are actually opened and which attachments or links are opened, clicked, or viewed (such as via pixels, as described further below).
Location Data: including geographic location we or our third-party providers may collect, such as via permissions within the app operating system or browser functionality.
Advertising/Advertising Measurement Data: including data associated with your view of, or your clicks on, advertisements served on our Services, cookie IDs or other digital or proprietary identifiers (e.g., iOS IDFA, Google AAID) assigned to such device, and device metadata, analytics/usage data, and location data described above, in each case, for purposes of serving advertising (personalized or otherwise) or facilitating advertising measurement/attribution to better optimize or otherwise understand the effectiveness of ad campaigns.

Third-Party Sources

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

Other Users who Interact with our Services: We may receive your information from other users who interact with our Services.
Business Partners: We may receive your information from our business partners, such as companies that offer their products or services on our Services or on other properties.
Social Media Networks: When an individual interacts with our Services through various social media networks, we may receive some information from those social networks including your profile information and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties.
Information We Receive From Authentication Services: Some parts of our Service may allow you to login through a third-party social network or authentication service.
Service Providers: Our service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors or survey and third parties who conduct marketing/advertising and analytics activities on our behalf, collect personal information and may share some or all of this information with us.
Information Providers: We may, from time to time, obtain information from third-party information providers to correct or supplement personal information we collect.
Other Sources: We may also collect personal information about individuals that we do not otherwise have from publicly available sources, third-party data providers, brand partnerships, or through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions.

How Do We Use Personal Information?

We may use your information for various purposes, including:

To fulfill your requests and provide our Services to you.
To personalize your experience on our Services.
For marketing purposes.
To communicate with you.
To monitor, improve, and develop our products and services.
To protect the security and integrity of our business, comply with legal requirements and obligations, or as otherwise permitted by law.
For any other purposes with your consent, at your direction, or where notice is provided.

How Do We Share Personal Information?

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

Third Parties At Your Request: You may choose to share your activities on the Services with your friends through email, text, or on various social media networks.
Promotional Partners: We may share information with third parties with whom we partner to provide contests, surveys, and sweepstakes, or other joint promotional activities.
Marketing and Strategic Business Partners: We may share information with marketing/advertising, analytics, and other business partners.
Online Advertising Partners: We may share information with third-party online advertising partners.
The Public: When you provide feedback or post user content on our Services, your information may be displayed on our Services.
With Your Consent: We may share information about you with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.
Service Providers and Advisors: Personal information may be shared with third-party vendors and other service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf.
Purchasers and Third Parties in Connection With a Business Transaction: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction.
Law Enforcement, Regulators and Other Parties For Legal Reasons: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties, as required by law or subpoena.

What are Our Third-Party Data Collection and Online Advertising Practices?

We, and our third-party partners, use information that we receive about you to serve advertisements more relevant to your interests, the content on which the ads will appear, or audiences similar to you. These third-party partners may include online advertising networks or exchanges, measurement/attribution companies, ad fraud verification companies, social media companies, or other advertising technology services.

How Do We Protect Personal Information?

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use. That said, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems at all times.

What About Links to Third-Party Websites or Services?

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

What’s Our Policy With Respect to Children’s Personal Information?

Our Services are not designed or intended for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 16. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, we will endeavor to delete any such information promptly.

What’s Our Policy for Users Outside the United States?

Your personal information may be stored in, transferred to, and processed in the United States and in any other country in which the Company or other Dotdash Meredith affiliates, or service providers maintain facilities. The data protection laws in these countries may provide a different standard of protection for your personal information than the country in which you are located.

How Will We Inform You About Changes to This Privacy Policy?

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices, we will indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date when it was most recently updated.

How Can You Contact Us?

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

U.S. State Privacy Notice

For residents covered under the State Privacy Laws, this U.S. State Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy by providing additional information under such laws.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may exercise the following rights under the State Privacy Laws:

The Right to Access: You have the right to obtain confirmation regarding whether we are processing your personal information.
The Right to Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you.
The Right to Correction: You have the right to request that inaccuracies in your personal information be corrected.
Opt-Out Rights: You have the right to opt-out of “sales” and “shares” of personal information.

To Exercise Your Privacy Rights

To submit a request to exercise your right to access, deletion, or correction, please use this form. You may also email privacy@dotdashmdp.com for assistance.

European Privacy Notice

This European Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to individuals located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland.

Controller of your Personal Data

The controller of your personal data under this European Privacy Notice is Dotdash Meredith, with an address of 225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281.

Legal Basis for Using Personal Data

We process your personal data only if we have a legal basis to do so, including:

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
For the performance of our contract with you.
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party.
Where you have given consent to our specific use.

Data Subject Rights

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

Right of access.
Right to correction.
Right to erasure.
Right to withdraw consent.

How to Contact Us

We are owned and operated by Dotdash Meredith, located at 225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281.

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