Contents
- Personal Information We Collect and Why We Collect It
- Sources from Which We Collect Personal Information
- Retention of Personal Information
- How We Disclose Personal Information
- Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
- Targeted Advertising, Sales, and Sharing of Personal Information
- A Note About Our Online Chat Features
- California Privacy Rights
- Privacy Choices for US Consumers Outside of California
- Users Outside the United States
- Privacy Rights for Residents of Canada
- Security
- Email Communications
- Services Not for Children
- Updates to this Notice
- Contact Information
Personal Information We Collect and Why We Collect It
“Personal information” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you. Personal information does not include information that is publicly available as defined by applicable privacy legislation or is anonymized. Generally, we collect the following categories of personal information, which we use for the business or commercial purposes shown below.| Categories of Personal Information | Purposes for Collection |
| Identifiers and Personal Records, including real name, alias, postal address, telephone number, email address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, signature, IP address, account name, or other similar identifiers; employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or other financial information Commercial information, including browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interactions with our websites, applications, or advertisements Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interactions with our websites, applications, or advertisements Audiovisual information Professional or employment-related information | To process your transactions or otherwise provide our Services to you To communicate with you To respond to your inquiries and provide customer service To facilitate and personalize your user experience To prevent fraud and for security purposes To deliver promotional or advertising content to you To better understand how users access and use our Services, to improve the Services, to respond to user desires and preferences, auditing, and for other research and analysis To comply with applicable laws and regulations |
| Geolocation data inferred from your IP address | To process your transactions or otherwise provide our Services to you To facilitate and personalize your user experience To better understand how users access and use our Services, to improve the Services, to respond to user desires and preferences, auditing, and for other research and analysis |
| Inferences about your preferences and interactions with our Services | To better understand how users access and use our Services, to improve the Services, to respond to user desires and preferences, auditing, and for other research and analysis |
| Characteristics of Protected Classifications under Federal or state law, including military or veteran status | To provide military or veteran discounts |
| “Sensitive Personal Information” as defined under relevant US state privacy law, which may include: Account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account | To process your transactions or otherwise provide our Services to you To prevent fraud and for security purposes |
In addition to the purposes described above, we may use and disclose any category of personal information or sensitive personal information we collect to respond to law enforcement requests, or as otherwise required or authorized by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations; to protect our rights and interests and those of others; to resolve any disputes; to enforce our policies; and to evaluate or conduct a merger, sale, or other acquisition of some or all of our assets. We also reserve the right to use personal information we collect for any other purpose identified in an applicable privacy notice, click-through agreement, or other agreement between you and us, or otherwise with your consent.
Sources from Which We Collect Personal Information
Generally, we collect the categories of personal information described above from the following categories of sources:- Directly from you
- From our affiliate organizations
- Automatically when you use our Services
- From other companies we do business with, which may include your employer
- From service providers that help us to run our business
- From advertising networks
- From social networks
- From internet service providers
- From data analytics providers
- From third-party data suppliers
- From other third parties, including your personal contacts or customers
- Derived from other information we collect or otherwise created by us
Retention of Personal Information
We keep the categories of personal information described above for as long as necessary or permitted for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or otherwise authorized by law. This generally means holding the information for as long as one of the following apply:- Your personal information is reasonably necessary to manage our operations, to manage your relationship with us, or to satisfy another purpose for which we collected the information;
- Your personal information is reasonably necessary to carry out a disclosed purpose that is reasonably compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected;
- The personal information is reasonably required to protect or defend our rights or property (which will generally relate to applicable laws that limit actions in a particular case); or
- We are otherwise required or permitted to keep your personal information by applicable laws or regulations.
How We Disclose Personal Information
We disclose personal information to our brands, subsidiaries, affiliate organizations, service providers and contractors for business purposes as follows:- To process your transactions or requests for products or services
- To perform services (including processing, maintaining, or collecting personal information) on our behalf (e.g., fulfilling orders, processing payments, supporting our promotions, providing communications, technical, analytical, web hosting, cloud hosting and application support, or other services on our behalf)
- Auditing related to ad impressions
- To ensure security and integrity of personal information
- To debug or identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
- For short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising
- To provide advertising and marketing services
- To undertake activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our Services
- To comply with applicable laws and regulations
- To detect or protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as web beacons) to collect and store information about your interactions with our websites, including information about your browsing behavior. Our websites also support third-party cookies placed by our service providers and third parties, such as advertising partners. This means that our service providers and advertising partners can collect and use information regarding your interactions with our websites as further detailed below. Cookies are small files that a website transfers to your device through a web browser that enable the website’s or a third party’s systems to recognize your device and capture and remember certain information. Web beacons (also known as tracking pixels) are tiny graphics embedded invisibly on a webpage or in an email that may be used to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count users who have visited certain pages, and to understand usage patterns. In general, we use cookies and other tracking technologies as follows:- Where necessary to run our websites
- To optimize the functionality of our websites
- For analytics purposes
- For purposes of ad targeting and marketing
- To determine if our email messages have been opened and acted upon
Targeted Advertising, Sales, and Sharing of Personal Information
Although we do not sell personal information in exchange for money, some of the ways in which we share personal information for targeted advertising may be considered “sales” or “sharing” under US state privacy laws. Listed below are the categories of personal information we share for purposes of targeted/cross-context behavioral advertising or otherwise “sell” for non-monetary consideration:- Identifiers
- Personal records
- Commercial information
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Geolocation data
- Inferences
A Note About Our Online Chat Features
Some of our online Services include chat features to assist with answering questions and providing information about our products. When you participate in an interactive chat, either with a virtual or live agent, the contents of the chat may be captured and kept as a transcript. By using a chat feature, you understand that our vendors may process the information obtained through the chat feature in order to provide services on our behalf.California Privacy Rights
- This section supplements the other parts of our Privacy Policy and provides disclosures for California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”). Please note that the disclosures below are not intended to apply to employees or job applicants. If you are a California employee, please see our employee privacy notice for more information. If you are a California job applicant, you can find applicable disclosures here.
- The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including
- The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected
- Our business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information
- The categories of recipients to which we disclose personal information
- The categories of personal information that we sold or shared, and for each category identified, the categories of third parties to which we sold or shared that particular category of personal information
- The categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose, and for each category identified, the categories of service providers or contractors to which we disclosed that particular category of personal information
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.