Meredith Online Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy - Effective January 14, 2015
Read our updated privacy policy carefully:
We've summarized our privacy policy terms so you can find what you need quickly. We've designed one privacy policy to apply across many Meredith brands and online and mobile services. We've amended our privacy policy to update you about the types of information we collect. We've added more description about the ways we use and share the information collected from our users, within Meredith brands and with third-party service providers that help us operate our business. We have updated our description of the various choices you have to limit the use of your information. Please read this summary and our updated privacy policy carefully so you understand what types of information Meredith collects about you, how we use and share that information and your related choices.
||| Your California Privacy Rights
(As provided by California Civil Code Section 1798.83)
California residents have the right to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed certain types of personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year. At our option, we may respond by providing instructions about how our users can prevent our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You can read these instructions in the section of our Online Privacy Policy titled "How We Disclose Information and Your Related Opt-out Choices." Or, if you are a California resident and prefer that we send you a separate response, please email your request to privacy@meredith.com
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||| Children and Privacy
Meredith cares about protecting the privacy of children. We won't knowingly allow anyone under the age of 13 to provide us any personally identifying information online. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any personal information about themselves. If you're under 13, please do not register for any of our services or provide us information about yourself.
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What Information Do We Collect?
Meredith and our service providers collect a variety of information about you including:
Information you choose to provide to us directly when using our Services and information about the computers and devices you use to access our services, including their location. Information about your browsing activity as you use our Services and interact with our content, email messages and advertising. Some information may be collected automatically through cookies, beacons and other tracking and personalization technologies. Information about you or your household that we obtain from other sources where permitted by law. More
||| How We Use the Information We Collect We and our service providers use the information about you we collect for a variety purposes including to: Customize the content and advertising you see and recognize you as a previous visitor. Provide the services you request and improve these services. Tell you about offers we think you will value. Conduct market research and audience analysis For any other purpose described at the point of collection or with your consent. More
||| How Do We Share Information?
We may share anonymous or aggregated information about you in a way that does not identify you personally as we deem appropriate. Except as otherwise noted in our Privacy Policy , we may share your other information in various circumstances, including:
When we have obtained your consent. With business partners that co-sponsor promotions we offer or provide a tool or feature accessible through our Services. Within the family of Meredith sites and Services and with other Meredith businesses. With our service providers, select third-party advertisers and other companies involved in the delivery of the advertising you see online and offline. To protect or defend the rights of Meredith or our users. Together with other assets, if a Meredith website or Service is sold to another company. When required by law or as we deem necessary or appropriate to respond to requests from public authorities. ||| More
Your Choices You can update any contact information you provide to us by using the "My Account" feature available on many of our sites or emailing us at privacy@meredith.com. You can stop the delivery of commercial email messages you receive from any Meredith brand by using the unsubscribe link in any such email you receive. You can remove your name and postal address from lists we sell or rent to third parties for their direct marketing purposes by using the opt-out form here. You can opt-out of our use of your online viewing behavior data to serve you interest-based advertising on third-party sites and email newsletters at www.aboutadsinfo/ or by clicking on the Ad Choices link in the footer of our websites and navigating to the consumer opt-out page. Use the same links to opt-out of interest-based advertising on our Services from any third-party advertising networks we may use.
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Other Information Meredith is committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any privacy concern. We have adopted commercially reasonable procedures to help us secure your information but no data transmissions or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. For more complete information about our privacy practices, please review our full Meredith Privacy Policy . If you have any questions, please email us at privacy@meredith.com.
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Meredith Online Privacy Policy
Online Privacy Policy
Welcome! This Online Privacy Policy applies to your use of websites, interactive services, email programs and mobile device applications provided by Meredith Corporation or our affiliates (collectively, "Meredith," "we" or "us") that include an authorized link or reference to this policy (collectively, the "Services"). This Online Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect through the Services. Please click here
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By using any of our Services, you agree that this Online Privacy Policy and our Visitor Agreement govern your use of our Services and any dispute concerning the Services. Please take a few minutes to read them before using or registering to access our Services.
This Policy describes our privacy practices regarding:
If you have questions about this Online Privacy Policy , please contact us at privacy@meredith.com
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||| Children Under 13:
Meredith cares about protecting the privacy of children. We won't knowingly allow anyone under the age of 13 to provide us any personally identifying information online. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any personal information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We encourage you to become involved in your children's online experience, and to share your knowledge and experience with your young ones. If you're under 13, please do not register for any of our Services or provide us with any personally identifying information (such as your name, email address or phone number).
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Information Collected Through Our Services:
The information we gather through our Services falls into two categories: (1) information you voluntarily supply to us when you register, initiate transactions, participate in promotions or surveys, submit comments or questions or otherwise communicate with us or others through the Services, and (2) information collected automatically as you use our Services. Third-party providers and advertisers featured on, or linked to or from, our Services may also gather information through processes that we don't control and subject to their own separate privacy policies, which may differ from ours. Some of our Services also may participate in third-party advertising networks that collect information about your activity online to tailor some of the advertising that you see on sites in their networks to your interests.
||| Registration and Other Personally Identifying Information.
You may register to use certain features of our Services. When you register, we may collect personally identifying information, including your name, postal address, email address, user name and password, reminder questions and answers and communications preferences, such as which newsletters you would like to receive. We may also ask for information about your age, gender, hobbies, interests, preferences (such as your favorite foods, purchases or recipes) and the like, but you're free to register for most of our Services without providing this additional information. When you register for one of our Services, the information you provide may be added to a centralized Meredith database so that you may be simultaneously registered for our other Services as well. In addition, when you use various aspects of our Services, we may ask you for personally identifying information, including when you order products, complete a survey, enter a contest, or report a problem with our Services. We may also collect contact information for other individuals when you use the sharing and referral tools available within some of our Services to forward content or offers to your friends and associates. We use this information to facilitate the communications that you request. Please note that if you use any "send-to-a-friend" features of our Services, your email address may be included in the communication sent to your friend.
||| Contests and Other Promotions.
From time to time, we may offer contests, sweepstakes or other promotions. Participation in these promotions may require registration for our Services (see "Registration and Other Personally Identifying Information," above). We may also automatically enter our users in some promotions. If you choose to participate in promotions that require registration, we will collect contact information such as your name, address, and email address and we may share this information with co-sponsors or other third parties involved in the promotion that we identify in the rules or entry materials. We don't control these third parties' privacy practices, and our Privacy Policy does not apply to their collection and use of your information. We may also share some of your entry information with third parties or the public in connection with the administration of the promotion, such as winner selection and prize fulfillment, and as permitted by the promotion's official rules, such as on a winners' list.
||| Information Collected Automatically When You Use Our Services.
Meredith or third-party contractors we engage may collect certain information automatically when you use our Services, including but not limited to:
Web pages, content and advertisements you view and links you click on while navigating within our Services; Information about your interactions with our video or audio content, such as the type of content accessed via our Services; Information about your interactions with our email messages, such as the links you click on and whether you open or forward a message, the date and time of these interactions and the device you use to read emails; The site you visited before visiting a Meredith website and the site you visited after visiting a Meredith website; Your Internet Protocol (IP) address (a numerical address assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider so that other computers connected to the Internet can communicate with you online) that can sometimes be used to derive your general geographic area; Search terms you enter using our Services or on a referral site; Unique identifiers, including mobile device identification numbers, that can identify the physical location of devices in accordance with applicable law; Your device type, screen size, browser type, language, plug-ins, Internet domain, TCP configuration parameters, operating system and versions of installed software; standard server log information; and Information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies (see additional descriptions of these terms below). ||| Personalization and Tracking Technologies.
Like most website and mobile application operators, we, or third parties acting on our behalf, use embedded scripts, "cookies," web beacons and other tracking technologies to operate, analyze and improve our Services and tailor content and advertising to user interests. Third-party companies that provide some of the tools and features accessible through our Services and advertisers and other companies involved in the delivery of advertisements you see on our Services and other websites also may use tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our Services. Cookies. Cookies are small amounts of data (often containing a unique identifier) that are stored in separate files within your computer or device's Internet browser. Cookies are accessed and recorded by the websites you visit, and by the companies that deliver the advertisements you see on our services, so they can recognize the same browser navigating online. You can set your browser to accept or reject most cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.) It is up to you to decide whether to allow us or third parties to set cookies, but if you block cookies, you may not be able to view or access some of the features of our Services. Please be aware that certain browsers cannot block or delete so-called "Flash" cookies, which use a feature of the Adobe Flash video player to store information on your computer. For information about how to delete Flash cookies, please visit the Adobe website here.
||| Web Beacons and Other Tracking Technologies.
Web beacons (sometimes called "transparent GIFs," "clear GIFs," or "pixel tags") are small strings of code that embed a small graphic image (usually invisible) on a web page or in an email or advertisement. When your browser downloads a web beacon, the server that sends the corresponding image to your browser can recognize and store certain types of information such as cookies previously set, the time and date that you viewed the page embedded with the beacon and a description of that page.
||| Mobile Device IDs and Location-Based Information.
Certain mobile devices, including smart phones and tablet devices, contain unique device IDs that can be used to identify their physical location. Mobile devices also typically transmit caller ID data (which may include a phone number) when used to transmit a telephone call or text message. When you use mobile devices to access our Services, we may collect and transmit unique device IDs and collect caller ID data, information about your wireless carrier, the make, model, operating system and settings of your device and information about how you navigate within our Service. With your consent, we also may use precise geolocation technology such as GPS or Wi-Fi triangulation to collect information about the exact location of your mobile device.
||| Social Network Posting Tools and "Share" Features.
You can access various social network posting and sharing tools through our Services that are operated by third parties, including a "share" button that allows you to post links to content and features that you believe will be of interest to others on your social network pages. When you visit a page that includes one of these sharing tools, the third-party company that operates the tool may be collecting information about your browser, device and online activity through its own tracking technologies and subject to its own separate privacy policy, which may differ from ours.
||| Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings Service.
Some of our advertisers may participate in a program operated by the Nielsen Company to develop an Online Campaign Ratings service that is comparable to Nielsen's television ratings. When one of their ads appears on our Services, it may contain a web beacon that will record your exposure to the ad, read certain cookies on your browser, and forward this information to one or more operators of third-party websites or other online service on which you may have registered. If the third-party operator recognizes a cookie that identifies you as one of its registered users, it will append the impression data it receives, which may identify you as a user our Services, with age and gender information before returning the data to Nielsen. Nielsen aggregates the data it receives about a given campaign to create ratings reports for advertisers and publishers. According to Nielsen, these reports measure campaign performance on an aggregate level within various demographic categories and do not identify you personally. For more information about Nielsen's information collection practices and any related opt-out choices, please see the Nielsen.com privacy policy here.
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Information We May Obtain From Other Sources:
We may combine any information collected through the Services with other information that we obtain about you, your computer, and/or device from other companies and sources, including third-party data suppliers and public databases. The following are examples of information we may collect from other sources:
Name, postal address, email address and telephone number; Demographic data, such as age, gender, and income level; Your interests and purchase behavior; Publicly-visible data, such as your posts and submissions to blogs, video-sharing services, and other interactive forums; and Other navigation data, such as web sites visited and advertisements viewed or clicked on. ||| Return to top
How We Use The Information We Collect:
Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with a customized experience when using our Services and to make them more valuable to you. Because our Services are supported by advertising, we also use the information we collect to help us and advertisers efficiently reach consumers who are most likely to be interested in particular products and services. We only use payment and identity verification information as necessary to complete a particular transaction, provide a requested service, enforce legal rights or comply with applicable law.
||| In addition, we and our authorized service providers generally use other information that we or they collect about you to:
Customize the content you see when you use our Services and other services as you navigate online; Analyze, operate and improve our Services, and fulfill your requests for products, services, and information, including to send you email and electronic newsletters; Help recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting one of our Services; Enable you to participate in features such as surveys, polls, sweepstakes, and message boards; Attribute content that you post to forums we operate on our Services; Recognize the same users as they access online or mobile services using multiple browsers or devices and deliver to them appropriate interest-based content and advertising; Provide you with special offers, promotions and information from companies within our corporate family, and select third parties in accordance with applicable law; Control the display of advertising and develop and deliver advertising tailored to your interests, including advertising that you see on our Services, advertising you see on third-party websites and email programs, and offers and advertising you may receive offline; Help us measure and analyze visitor traffic and usage patterns and improve the quality and effectiveness of our content, features, advertisements, and other communications; Conduct market or audience analysis and related reporting; Understand whether our users read email messages and click on links contained within those messages; Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, comply with applicable law and enforce our Visitor Agreement; For any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.
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How We Disclose Information and Your Related Opt-out Choices:
Except as otherwise expressly noted herein or within the Services, we may share any information collected through our Services, including without limitation, your name, postal address (and any other information we combine with that information) with our Meredith-affiliated companies, our provider partners and service providers, and with carefully selected third-party organizations and marketers of products and services potentially of interest to you. The following describes some of the circumstances in which we may share information about our users:
||| Email.
We share our users' email addresses with service providers that send email messages and deliver targeted advertising in our emails on our behalf. These service providers may collect data about how you interact with those messages (including information about whether and when you opened a particular message or clicked on a link within a message and the device you used to do so) and analyze it in conjunction with similar information they collect when you respond to emails they send on behalf of their other clients who are not affiliated with us. They use this email response information in combination with your email address to target and optimize the delivery of emails and email advertising they send on our behalf and for their other clients. We may also provide our service providers with lists of our user email addresses that they use in a hash-encrypted form to recognize our users when they subscribe to third-party email services and send them interest-based advertising on those services. We do not authorize our email service providers to share your email address with their other clients.
If you use our Services to sign up for special email offers from third-party advertisers, we will also share your email address and any other information you provided with your request with the advertisers you selected. Except as described in this policy, we will not sell or rent your email address to unaffiliated third parties for their email marketing purposes, without your consent.
||| Co-Registration Offers.
If, during or immediately following registration, you choose to access offers for goods or services that are available from selected third-party companies ("Co-Registration Vendors"), we may make certain contact and demographic information you provide (e.g., name, age, and/or email address) available to these vendors with your consent.
||| Provider Partners and Service Providers.
To make your experience with our Services more useful and enjoyable, we may offer some features (such as social sharing tools and chat rooms) in conjunction with third-party providers ("Provider Partners") that specialize in operating such services. We share with each of these Provider Partners such information as is useful or necessary to provide you with the services we offer through that Provider Partner. We also contract with other companies to provide specialized services to us, including but not limited to credit-card and billing processing, shipping, marketing, email and text message distribution, data processing, mobile and website analytics and promotions management. We reserve the right to share with these companies any information we collect about you and/or authorize them to collect information from you directly for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy .
||| Aggregated and Anonymous Information.
We and our service providers may combine information about you with information that we or they collect about other users of our Services and share it in a form that does not identify you personally. We and our service providers may also anonymize information by removing any information (such as your name) that makes the information personally identifying to you. We may use aggregated information or other anonymous information and disclose it to third parties as we deem appropriate.
||| Information You Post to Blogs, Discussion Forums and Community or Social Networking Areas.
Keep in mind that any information that you choose to post to blogs, discussion forums, or other community or social networking services that we offer can be seen, collected and used by anyone who has access to the applicable service. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information.
||| Legal Compliance, Business Transfers and Other Disclosures.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary stated herein or within our Services, we may occasionally release information about users of our Services when we deem such release appropriate to comply with law, respond to compulsory process or law enforcement requests, enforce our Visitor Agreement, or protect the rights, property or safety of users of our Services, the public, Meredith Corporation, our affiliates, or any third party. Over time, we may reorganize or transfer various assets and lines of business. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary stated herein or on our Services, we reserve the right to disclose or transfer any information we collect to third parties in connection with any proposed or actual purchase, sale, lease, merger, foreclosure, liquidation, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition, disposal, transfer, conveyance or financing of all or any portion of Meredith or our affiliates.
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Opt-Out Choices.
Postal Lists.
To remove your name and postal address from postal lists that we sell or rent to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, please use the postal list opt-out form available here or send your request to us in a letter addressed to Meredith Corporation, Opt-Out Postal, Attn: Circulation, 1716 Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50309).
||| Email.
You can opt-out from any Meredith email newsletter or commercial email list and prevent the collection of related email response information by our email service providers by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each message and/ or by visiting the Email Preferences page on our sites and updating your preferences. If you no longer want to receive third-party email offers that you requested through our Services, simply follow the advertiser's unsubscribe link or opt-out instructions that should be included in every commercial message you receive.
||| Interest-Based Advertising.
Meredith follows the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral advertising released by the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA") in July 2009. To opt-out of our use of your online viewing behavior data to serve interest-based advertising on third-party websites and email newsletters, visit http://www.aboutads.info/. You can also click on the Ad Choices icon located in the footer of our web sites and navigate to the consumer opt-out page. Use the same links to opt-out of the delivery of interest-based advertising on our Services from the operators of the third-party ad networks we use. Note that you must opt-out separately from each computer or device and browser that you use to access our Services and if you clear your cookies, you will need to repeat the opt-out process.
||| Most of the third-party advertising and data companies we work with, including DoubleClick and Google also subscribe to the DAA Principles and/or are members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI"). To learn more about the information collection practices of NAI members and your related opt-out choices, please visit the NAI's website here. You can opt out of interest-based advertising from Google by visiting the About Google Ads page or permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie by installing the DoubleClick opt out extension. For information about Google Analytics' information practices and related opt-out choices, click here.
||| Adobe and Krux are other third parties we engage to track and analyze usage and browsing patterns of our users. For information about Adobe's information collection practices and related opt-out choices, click here. For information about Krux's information collection practices and related opt-out choices, click here.
Do Not Track.
Do Not Track is a standard that is currently under development. As it is not yet finalized, we do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. Instead, we adhere to the standards set out in this privacy policy and offer the opt-out choices described above.
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||| Sites to Which We Link:
We also may provide links to other websites or services, and provide access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we don't control.
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How to Correct or Update Your Information:
Meredith Corporation provides you with the ability to access and edit certain personally identifying information that you have provided to us through our Services. To update this information, please visit the "My Account" area or comparable feature of the Service you used to enter your information. If you cannot locate such a feature, send us an email at privacy@meredith.com.
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||| Security, Retention and Storage of Information:
We use commercially reasonable procedures to protect the personally-identifying information that we collect. No security system is impenetrable, however. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Please see our Visitor Agreement for more information related to posting materials on our Services including our use of such materials.
||| For the purposes set out in this Online Privacy Policy , personally-identifying information may be transferred to, processed, stored and accessed by us, our affiliates and our unaffiliated service providers in the United States and in other jurisdictions where we or they operate. Courts and other authorities in these jurisdictions may, in certain circumstances, be entitled to access your personally-identifying information. By using the Services, you consent to this transfer, processing, storage and access of your personally-identifying information in and/or outside of the jurisdiction in which you reside.
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||| Your California Privacy Rights
(As provided by California Civil Code Section 1798.83)
California residents have the right to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed certain types of personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year. At our option, we may respond to such requests by providing instructions about how our users can exercise their options to prevent our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You can read these instructions above in the section of our Online Privacy Policy titled "How We Disclose Information and Your Related Opt-out Choices." Or, if you are a California resident and prefer that we send you a separate response, please email your request to privacy@meredith.com
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Changes to Our Online Privacy Policy :
Digital technology is rapidly evolving. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy in the future, we'll post the changes here and indicate at the top of the policy the last date on which it was updated. Unless otherwise noted, all changes will be effective when posted.
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