Effective Date: February 10, 2020
Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California consumers have the following rights:
- The right to opt out of future sales of their personal information (as such term is defined in the CCPA).
- The right to request the deletion of personal information that we hold about them.
- The right to request more information about our data collection, use, disclosure and sale practices in connection with their personal information and right to request a copy of specific personal information we hold about them.
- The right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of their California privacy rights.
For more information, please see the notices below.
You may submit a request to exercise your rights under the CCPA via our request form or by contacting us with the details of your request at the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140. To skip directly to the request form, click here.
This notice to California consumers forms a part of the Group Nine Media, Inc. Privacy Policy available here, which applies to Group Nine Media, Inc. and/or any of its other subsidiaries, affiliates, brands, and/or entities that it controls, including NowThis Media, Inc.; Seeker Media, Inc.; TheDodo.com, Inc.; and Thrillist Media Group, Inc. (collectively, "GNM"), and the POPSUGAR Privacy Policy available here, which applies to POPSUGAR Inc. and its subsidiaries ("POPSUGAR"). GNM and POPSUGAR are referred to collectively in this Privacy Notice as "we", "us" and "ours."
DO NOT SELL REQUESTS
Notice of the Sale of Personal Information
We have made certain disclosures and/or "sales" (as that term is defined in the CCPA) of personal information of California consumers in the previous twelve (12) month period. As described in the GNM Privacy Policy and the POPSUGAR Privacy Policy, in some cases, we may sell personal information in exchange for monetary compensation; however, we also permit certain third parties to use personal information for their own business and commercial purposes that may not directly benefit us, and this sharing may be considered a "sale" of personal information under the CCPA.
For example, we and our advertising partners collect personal information (such as the cookies stored on your browser, the advertising identifier on your mobile device, or the IP address of your device) when you visit our sites and/or use our applications. We and our partners use this information to tailor and deliver ads to you on our sites and applications, or to help tailor ads to you when you visit others' sites and applications. In order to tailor ads that may be more relevant to you, we and/or our partners may share the information we collect with third parties (as that term is defined in the CCPA). To learn more about the information we share for advertising purposes, please see the "How We Share Information" section of the GNM Privacy Policy and the Advertising and Marketing section of the POPSUGAR Privacy Policy.
Please note that we do not knowingly sell the personal information of minors under 16 years of age without affirmative authorization.
Right to Opt Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information
If you are a California consumer and you do not wish for us to sell your personal information to third parties, please submit a Do Not Sell Request via our request form here or contact us with the details of your request using the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140.
Please note that although we will not sell your personal information (as those terms are defined in the CCPA) after you submit a Do Not Sell Request, we will continue to share some personal information with service providers. These service providers help us perform a host of services, including, but not limited to, advertising-related functions such as measuring the effectiveness of our ads, managing how many times you may see an ad, reporting on the performance of our ads, ensuring services are working correctly and securely, providing aggregate statistics and analytics, improving when and where you may see ads and/or reducing ad fraud.
Please also note that in order to submit a Do Not Sell Request that applies to advertising data, you must use the request form here here (rather than the toll-free phone number), and your browser must be set to accept cookies. If you access our sites and/or applications from other devices or browsers, you must submit a request via the request form from each of your devices and browsers separately to ensure that your choice applies to the data collected when you use those devices or browsers. If you delete your cookie history on a particular browser or device, the opt-out will no longer be effective and you will have to submit a new request via the request form on such devices or browsers.
Additionally, although submitting a Do Not Sell Request will opt you out of the future sale of your personal information, it will not opt you out of the use of previously collected and sold personal information, nor will it opt you out of all interest-based advertising on our sites and applications or elsewhere. If you would like more information about how to opt out of interest-based advertising, please see the "Online Advertising" section of the GNM Privacy Policy and the Advertising and Marketing section of the POPSUGAR Privacy Policy.
You may submit a Do Not Sell Request via our request form or by contacting us with the details of your request at the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140. To skip directly to the request form, click here.
REQUESTS TO KNOW
Right to Know about Personal Information Collected, Disclosed or Sold
California consumers have a right to submit a Request to Know in order to obtain information about what personal information about them we collect, use, disclose and/or sell. If this applies to you, you may submit a Request to Know and ask us to provide any of the following:
- Specific pieces of personal information that we hold about you;
- Categories of personal information we have collected about you;
- Categories of sources from which the personal information that we hold about you was collected;
- Categories of third parties to whom your personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and/or
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information about you.
To submit a Request to Know, you must submit a verifiable consumer request via the request form available here or contact us with the details of your request using the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140.
In order for a Request to Know to be verifiable, you must be able to verify certain account information to enable us to confirm your identity with a reasonable degree of certainty or a reasonably high degree of certainty, depending on the sensitivity of the information being requested.
After you submit your Request to Know, our customer support team will contact you to start the process of verifying your identity. Once your identity has been verified in accordance with our policies, we will disclose the information requested as required by the CCPA. If you are an authorized agent submitting a Request to Know on behalf of a consumer, please see this section for more details.
You may submit a Request to Know via our request form or by contacting us with the details of your request at the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140. To skip directly to the request form, click here.
REQUESTS TO DELETE
Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information
California residents have a right to submit a Right to Delete request in order to request the deletion of some or all of the personal information about them that we collect or maintain.
To submit a Request to Delete, you must submit a verifiable consumer request via the request form available here or contact us with the details of your request using the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140.
In order for a Request to Delete to be verifiable, you must be able to verify certain account information to enable us to confirm your identity with a reasonable degree of certainty or a reasonably high degree of certainty, depending on the sensitivity of the information you are requesting to be deleted. If you are an authorized agent submitting a Request to Delete on behalf of a consumer, please see this section for more details.
After you submit your Request to Delete, our customer support team will contact you to start the process of verifying your identity. Once your identity has been verified in accordance with our policies, we will delete the information requested as required by the CCPA, unless retaining the information is necessary to perform certain actions as permitted by the CCPA.
You may submit a Request to Delete via our request form or by contacting us with the details of your request at the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140. To skip directly to the request form, click here.
NON-DISCRIMINATION
Right to Non-discrimination for Exercising Your Privacy Rights
California residents have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by any business covered by the CCPA. We will not discriminate against any consumer who exercises their privacy rights pursuant to the CCPA.
AUTHORIZED AGENTS
Designation of an Authorized Agent to Submit Requests on Behalf of a Consumer
California residents have the right to designate an authorized agent to submit a Do Not Sell Request, a Request to Know, and/or a Request to Delete on the user's behalf. If you are an authorized agent, please provide the legal name of the consumer, the agent's own contact information where the agent will be contacted in connection with the request, and indicate in the request that the agent is the authorized agent of the consumer.
If we receive a request from a person or entity claiming to be an authorized agent on behalf of a consumer, we will seek certain information in order to confirm their status as the authorized agent of the consumer as follows: (1) the consumer or the agent must provide evidence that the user has given written permission for the agent to submit a Do Not Sell Request, a Request to Know, and/or a Request to Delete, and/or a to us on behalf of the user (or alternatively, provide evidence that the user has provided the agent with a power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code sections 4000 to 4465); and (2) the agent must verify their own identity with us in accordance with our verification process.
We may deny requests from any person or entity claiming to be an authorized agent who is unable to provide evidence that the user in question has given them permission to do so and/or who is unable to verify their own identity in accordance with our policies and/or the CCPA.
You may submit a Do Not Sell Request, Request to Know and/or Request to Delete as an authorized agent on behalf of a consumer via our request form or by contacting us with the details of your request at the following toll-free phone number: 1-800-478-9140. To skip directly to the request form, click here.