1. Categories of Personal Information We Collect About You

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Personal information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly to you. Depending on the Services you use, we may collect the following categories of personal information about you directly from you, automatically through your use of the Services, and from third parties.

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• Identifiers, such as your name, signature, postal address, zip code, email address, telephone number, unique online identifier, IP address, user ID, device ID, or similar identifier.

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• Characteristics of protected classification under applicable law, such as your gender, age (over 40), marital status, nationality, and country of origin.

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• Commercial information, such as your purchase, registration, log-in and Services usage history.

• Payment records, such as your financial account information, credit card number, debit card number, or other payment card information, when necessary for the Services.

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• Internet or other electronic network activity, such as your browser type and operating system; browsing history, clickstream data, search history on the Services, and information regarding your interaction with an internet website, application, email, newsletter, or advertisement, including access logs and other activity information related to your use of our Services; the length of time you visit our Services; and the referring URL, or the website or application that led you to our Services.

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• Geolocation data, such as the general physical location of your device.

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• Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information, such as voice recordings, video recordings, physical characteristics or description, and photos.

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• Professional information, such as occupation, employment history, professional contact information, education history, or other information provided by you in connection with the Services.

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• Inferences, such as inferences drawn to create a profile reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, or aptitudes.

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• Sensitive personal information, as defined under applicable local law, such as certain characteristics of protected classifications as defined above, account login credentials and passwords, and financial account information, credit card number, debit card number, or other payment card information.

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Information We Collect Directly From You. We collect personal information directly from you when you use our Services, such as when you provide us with information online or at an in-person event (e.g., enter a contest, submit a survey, upload or otherwise provide content or comments). If you register for an account or set up a profile through our Services, we may collect your name, login credentials and password information, telephone number(s), postal address, email address, and information regarding your age, gender, or preferences (such as whether you want to receive newsletters). If you make a purchase through our Services, we may collect your financial account information, credit card number, debit card number, or other payment card information. If you contact us, we may collect information such as your name, email address, social media handles, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us, and other information that you choose to provide. We also may collect information that you provide about other people, for example, when you purchase one of our products as a gift.

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Information We Collect From Other Sources. We collect personal information about you from other sources, such as third party consumer data suppliers/resellers, data enrichment providers and aggregators, advertising networks, data analytics providers, internet service providers, operating systems and platforms, data brokers, social networks, business contact databases, government entities, other users, and our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates and other related entities.

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Social Network Integration. If you choose to interact with us on social networking services or use features, such as plugins, widgets, or other tools made available by third party social networking services in connection with our Service, we may collect personal information that has been made available to those services, including personal information about your contacts on those services. For example, some social networking services allow you to push content from our Service to your contacts or to pull information about your contacts so you can connect with them on or through our Service. Some social networking services also will facilitate your registration for our Service or enhance or personalize your experience on our Service.

Information We Collect Automatically. We, and our third party business partners, automatically collect personal information when you use our Services using cookies, pixel tags, clear GIFs, or similar technologies. This may include information such as your IP address and the types of personal information described above as “Internet or other electronic network activity.” Please review our section below on “Our Use of Cookies and Related Technologies” for additional information regarding our use of cookies and related technologies.

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2. How We Use Your Information And The Basis On Which We Use It

 

We use the categories of personal information described above for the following business and commercial purposes: 

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• To Provide Our Services and Fulfill Your Requests. We use your information to provide and maintain our Services, to process and fulfill your requests or orders, to communicate with you about your use of our Services, to respond to your inquiries, and for other customer service and business administration purposes.

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• To Improve Our Services. We use your information to understand and analyse our user base and how you use the Services, to improve and enhance the Services, and to develop new products, services, features and functionality.

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• Identification and Authentication Purposes. We may use your information for identification and authentication purposes. For example, when you enter your login ID and/or password to enter one of our registration or login portals, we use your credentials and password for authentication purposes.

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• Personalisation. We use your information to tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to offer location customisation, to provide personalised offers, personalised help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Services.

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• Marketing and Promotional Purposes. We may use your information to send you news and newsletters, event updates, and to communicate with you about new features, events, or products offered by us or our third party business partners, including our advertising, marketing, and sponsorship clients. We may also use your information to gather broad demographic information, to analyse trends, to seek compatible advertisers, sponsors, clients and customers, and to track users' movements around the Service and elsewhere on the internet or across apps or devices. Your general geolocation data may specifically be used to show you content (including advertising and sponsored messaging) based on your general geographic location. Where required by applicable law, we will obtain your prior consent before using your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes.

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• Combining Information. We (and our third party business partners) may merge, co-mingle, or otherwise combine information, including your personal information, in furtherance of the purposes described above.

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• To Comply With Legal Obligations. We may use your information where we believe necessary to comply with our legal obligations or to exercise or defend our rights or the rights of a third party, including complying with law enforcement or government authority requests and participating in compliance audits.

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• To Protect Us and Others. We may use your information where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities, fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or to otherwise enforce this Policy or the integrity of the Services.

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• De-identified Data. We may also de-identify or anonymise your data in such a way that you may not reasonably be re-identified by us or another party, and we may use this de-identified data for any purpose permitted under applicable law. To the extent we de-identify any data originally based on personal information, we will maintain and use such data in de-identified form and will not attempt to re-identify the data.

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Where required by applicable local law, our legal bases for processing your information are as follows:

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• Performance of a contract: We process personal information where necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations to you. For example, to provide the Services to you, including where you make a purchase, enter a sweepstakes, sign-up to attend an event or conference, or engage in another transaction with us.

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• Compliance with legal obligations: We process personal information where necessary to comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject. For example, to cooperate with public and government authorities, courts, or regulators in accordance with our legal obligations, to the extent this requires the processing or disclosure of personal information to protect our rights.

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• Legitimate interests: We process your personal information where necessary to serve our legitimate business interests. For example, to ensure that we can effectively manage and communicate regarding our business, to perform investigations or compliance audits, to tailor the content and information we may send or display to you, to improve the Services, to exercise or defend our rights, and for business administration purposes. When we use personal information to meet our legitimate interests, and where required by applicable local law, we take steps to ensure that your rights are protected. You can contact us using the details in the “Contact Us” section below for information about how we use your personal information under this legal basis.

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• Consent: Where required by applicable law, we process personal information on the basis of your consent. To the extent we obtain your consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw your consent under applicable local law. To exercise this right, please contact us using the details in the “Contact Us” section of this Policy. If you appear in content submitted to the Services, we may ask the person submitting the content to obtain your consent.

 

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3. How We Disclose the Information We Collect

 

We may disclose each of the categories of personal information described above for our business and commercial purposes as follows:​

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• Service Providers. We may disclose the personal information we collect about you to service providers, contractors, and agents who perform functions and business operations on our behalf, for the purposes set out above. For example, we engage service providers to help us with technical maintenance, database management, fraud prevention, market research, community and forums management, auctions, e-commerce, list rental, data coop management, audience authentication, our products and product recommendations, and other advertising and marketing functionality, as well as credit/debit card or other payment processing, order fulfilment, credit pre-authorisation, and address verification.

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• Third Parties. We may disclose the personal information we collect about you through areas of the Services that may be managed or participated in by one or more of our third party business partners. We may also disclose the personal information we collect about you to third party business partners, such as (i) list buyers who market their goods and services (commonly known as “list rental”); (ii) our advertising, marketing and sponsorship clients to market their goods and services; (iii) “data coops,” which are pooled databases containing the customer information of multiple publishers to enable the marketing use of such customer information by participating publishers; (iv) consumer data suppliers/resellers, data enrichment providers and aggregators, and other entities in the online behavioural advertising ecosystem for purposes of OBA (as described below in this Policy), data optimisation, lead generation and other data driven projects; (v) social media and social networking services; (vi) companies that help us with our products and product recommendations; and (vii) lawyers, auditors, accountants, consultants and other professional advisors.

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We may also disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:

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• Business Transfers. If (i) we or our affiliates are or may be acquired by, merged with, or invested in by another company, or (ii) if any of our assets are or may be transferred to another company, whether as part of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding or otherwise, we may transfer the information we have collected about you to the other company. As part of the business transfer process, we may disclose certain of your information to lenders, auditors, and third party advisors, including attorneys and consultants.

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• In Response to Legal Process. We may disclose your personal information where we believe necessary to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, or other legal process, such as in response to a court order.

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• To Protect Us and Others. We disclose your personal information where we believe it is appropriate to do so to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our User Agreement or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

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• Aggregate and De-identified Information. We may disclose aggregate, anonymised, or de-identified information about you for any purpose permitted under applicable law.

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• Consent. We may disclose your personal information with your consent.

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4. Our Use of Cookies and Related Technologies

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• Cookies/Local Device Storage. The Service will at times place and/or store code or other types of information and/or software on your device or within your browser, such as cookies, locally shared objects, and HTML5 (collectively, “Local Device Storage”). We and third party business partners may independently or in conjunction use Local Device Storage in connection with the Service in a way that collects personal information for the purposes described in the respective privacy policies, including without limitation to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before on the same or different device and to otherwise control and tailor the display of ads to you based on your perceived preferences by collecting data to track the movements of individual users through the Service and elsewhere on the internet over time and across unaffiliated websites, apps, and devices, as well as to help diagnose problems with servers, to gather broad demographic information, to conduct research, to deliver editorial content, to record registration and personalization information, to inform offers that we may make to you, and to otherwise administer the Service. For example, if you register on any part of the Service and are given the option to save your username and password, we may provide this convenience to you via Local Device Storage.

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• You May Disable Local Device Storage. If you do not want Local Device Storage, your device, browser, or the settings menu within an application may include an option that allows you to not accept it. However, if you disable Local Device Storage, some portions of the Service may not function properly.

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• Tracking Technologies. In addition to Local Device Storage, we and/or our third party business partners may use web beacons, web bugs, internet or pixel tags, clear gifs, digital fingerprinting (aka “Machine Identification”) and similar technologies (collectively, together with Local Device Storage, the “Tracking Technologies”) on the Service, including in our communications with you, such as within e-mail and text messages, in-application push notifications, videos, and throughout your use of the Services. We and our third-party business partners use Tracking Technologies to determine which messages have been opened by recipients and for all or some of the same lawful purposes described above for the use of Local Device Storage. For additional information see the Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) section below.

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• Do Not Track (DNT). Your browser setting may allow you to automatically transmit a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal to websites and online services that you visit. There is no consensus as to what DNT means in this context, and since some browsers apply DNT signals by default it does not necessarily reflect our visitors' choice as to whether they wish to receive advertisements tailored to their interests. As a result, like many websites, we do not alter our practices when the Service receives a DNT signal from a visitor's browser. As discussed below, you may opt out of the use of your personal information for online behavioural advertising by third parties at any time. To find out more about DNT, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.

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• Global Privacy Control (GPC) and similar privacy preference signals. Where required by applicable local law, and as further described in the “Your Privacy Choices and Rights; Submitting Requests Under Applicable Local Laws” section below, we honour user-initiated browser-based opt-out preference signals recognised under applicable local law, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC). To find out more about GPC, please visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.