BuzzFeed Privacy Policy
DATED 2023-06-29 · VERSION 20240701_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20240601_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT
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| 233 | 233 | - **First Party Cookies.** Our Services use our own cookies to recognize you and remember you as a unique user. |
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| 235 | 235 | - **Session Cookies** remember you during your session on our Services. They are deleted when you log out of the Services and when you close your web browser. We use session Cookies to ensure content is displayed correctly on the Services, to balance and monitor load on our servers, and for other technical matters essential to the operation of our Services. You can configure your device to reject these cookies, but our Services will probably not work correctly, or at all, if you do. |
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| 237 | 237 | - **Consent cookies** are used by our consent management platform we employ to record your preferences about third party cookies described below, and to store and share your preference with those third parties. These cookies are essential for compliance with the legal obligations imposed on us and on third parties with whom we have a business relationship to ensure we request your consent, record your consent preferences, and act on such consent preferences. |
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| 239 | - **Analytics cookies.** Analytics cookies are used by us and by third parties who process data for us for data analytics purposes (for example Google Analytics) so that we can manage and improve the performance and design of our Services and for monitoring, auditing, research and reporting. We have activated Google's IP anonymisation function on our Sites. This will cause your IP address to be cut by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other countries party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Sites, to compile reports on Site activity and to provide us with other services relating to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. With respect to Google Analytics, you can read about how Google uses data gathered for that purpose [here](https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). | |
| 239 | - **Analytics cookies.** Analytics cookies are used by us and by third parties who process data for us for data analytics purposes (for example Google Analytics) so that we can manage and improve the performance and design of our Services and for monitoring, auditing, research and reporting. We have activated Google's IP anonymisation function on our Sites. This will cause your IP address to be cut by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other countries party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On our behalf, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Sites, to compile reports on Site activity and to provide us with other services relating to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. With respect to Google Analytics, you can read about how Google uses data gathered for that purpose [here](https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). For AU users, Audigent may be used by Val Morgan, who operates the BuzzFeed AU Territory scope. Please visit their [site](https://audigent.com/platform-privacy-policy/) for information. | |
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| 241 | 241 | - **Third party cookies: advertising and affiliate links.** Our Advertising Partners and our affiliate links partners collect personal data from you for the purposes they disclose through our cookie consent management platform. |
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| 243 | 243 | - Advertising Partners include ad networks such as third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. |
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| 245 | 245 | - Affiliate links partners pay us when you buy things from them or another third party after clicking on an affiliate link in our content. |