O'Reilly Privacy Policy (Version 4.15)

DATED 2016-11-09 · VERSION 20161203_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20150206_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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+This version (Version 2.0) of O'Reilly Media, Inc.'s Privacy Policy is effective as of December 2, 2014.
+## O'Reilly Media Privacy Policy
+This Policy ("Policy") describes the privacy practices of O'Reilly Media, Inc. ("O'Reilly," "we," "us," "our") and governs how we collect, store, process, transfer, use, and protect personal information collected from and about you. This Policy applies to the websites that we own and that display or link to this Policy, including the websites located at oreilly.com, but does not apply to oreillyschool.com. Specific information relating to the O'Reilly School of Technology's privacy practices may be found [here](http://www.oreillyschool.com/privacy-policy/). This Policy also applies to your access to these websites via mobile devices. This Policy does not apply to any O'Reilly websites, products or services that display or link to their own privacy policies, or that do not link to or display this Policy.
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+O'Reilly Media, Inc. has received TRUSTe's Privacy Seal certifying that this Policy and our practices comply with the TRUSTe program viewable on the validation page available by clicking the TRUSTe seal. The TRUSTe certification only covers information collected on the O'Reilly websites listed on the validation page, and to our conference specific mobile applications that link to this Policy.
+This version (Version 2.1) of O'Reilly Media, Inc.'s Privacy Policy is effective as of November 9, 2016.
+Please contact us at if you have questions or concerns about this Policy. If we do not resolve your question or concern satisfactorily, then please contact TRUSTe at [https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request](https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request).
+This Policy ("Policy") describes the privacy practices of O'Reilly Media, Inc. ("O'Reilly," "we," "us," "our") and governs how we collect, store, process, transfer, use, and protect personal information collected from and about you. This Policy applies to the websites that we own and that display or link to this Policy, including the websites located at oreilly.com. This Policy also applies to your access to these websites via mobile devices. This Policy does not apply to any O'Reilly websites, products or services that display or link to their own privacy policies, or that do not link to or display this Policy.
+O'Reilly Media, Inc. complies with the U.S. - EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor Framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal data from the European Economic Area and from Switzerland. You can learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and view our Safe Harbor certification at [http://www.export.gov/safeharbor](http://www.export.gov/safeharbor).
+Please contact us at if you have questions or concerns about this Policy. If we do not resolve your question or concern satisfactorily, then please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at [https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request](https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request).
 - [Information We Collect]()
 - [How We Use Information We Collect]()
 - [How We Share and Disclose PI]()
 - [Notice and Choice]()
 - [Onward Transfer]()
 When you participate in a promotional offer (such as a trial subscription) and/or purchase products or services, we may gather PI regarding the offer that you participate in, and any products or services that you purchase, as well as payment information.
 When you register for an online account, make a purchase, subscribe to a newsletter, participate in communities or an event, program, class or promotion, or click on a URL, we may gather user preferences, product interests, industry focus, community choices and other customer profile information.
 Our website offers publicly accessible areas where users may contribute content and other information. Any PI that you provide in these areas may be read, collected and used by others.
+We may provide you the opportunity to participate surveys on our website. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). As participation in these surveys is voluntary, you need not provide this information if you do not participate.
+We may provide you the opportunity to participate in surveys on our website. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). As participation in these surveys is voluntary, you need not provide this information if you do not participate.
 You can log in to our website using third party sign-in services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you with the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form(s). Third party services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on our website to your profile page on third party services to share with others within your network on those services.
 **1.2 Information we collect through technology related to our products and services**
 Certain products and services, such as our mobile conference applications, may connect and transmit telemetry and system/product data to us or our authorized agents. This data may include, but is not limited to, system model, mobile carrier, operating system, host ID, location, IP address and other information used to collect aggregate data on app usage, downloads, sessions, and frequency of use.
 - Planning and forecasting
 - Maintaining legal compliance
 - Preventing fraud and prohibited or illegal activities
 We use information collected directly from you in order to monitor website traffic, personalize our website, and to improve our website and mobile applications.
+### 3\. How We Share and Disclose PI
+We will not sell your information to third party companies for their promotional use, however we may share with or disclose your PI to:
+- Companies related to O'Reilly, in order to support business and marketing processes.
+- Service providers and suppliers, who are authorized to use PI only as necessary to provide services to us. For example, we use a third party payment processor to bill you for purchases of goods and services, and an email service provider to send communications to you on our behalf.
+- Sponsors of events, products, or services that we make available to you, and organizations with whom we make co-branded events, products or services available (the sponsors and co-branding participants are identified when you provide PI to us in the course of registering for the event including participant listings, purchasing or signing up to receive the product or service, or when you otherwise indicate to us that you are going to participate in, purchase, or take advantage of the co-branded offering).
+- Government agencies, law enforcement agencies and others, based on a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to respond to judicial process, valid government inquiry, or is otherwise required by law.
+- The buyer or other transferee, if O'Reilly or portion of our business is sold or transferred (in which case you will be notified via a notice on our website of the sale or transfer, any related changes regarding uses of your PI, and any choices that you may have regarding your PI).
+- Other third parties for purposes to which you have consented
+- Other users of and participants in of our wikis, forums, blogs, message boards, chat rooms, profile pages, comment fields and other social network environments, to the extent of any PI that is posted there by you or by someone else whom you have authorized to do so.
+Our website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of O'Reilly. If you submit PI to any of those websites, your information is governed by their privacy policies, which we encourage you to review carefully.
+We may share with or disclose your PI as necessary, if we suspect a violation of our policies or to protect the rights or safety of any person or entity.
+We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our website in addition to other endorsements. With your consent we may post your testimonial along with your name.
+Information, such as your public profile and information or material (including images) that you in the course of your participation in public or community events and activities make available via our sites, and aggregated or anonymized information, may be shared by us without restriction. You acknowledge that when you make information or material public in the course of participating in public or community activities, we are not responsible for its collection by others, or their subsequent use of it.
 ### 4\. Notice and Choice
 We provide notice about our use of PI in this Policy, in our web pages, and in other locations where we collect PI. You can choose whether or not to provide PI to us. If you choose not to provide PI, you may not be able to take advantage of certain offers, options, website features, events and services that depend upon accurate PI.
 To request the removal of your PI, please see the "Access and Accuracy" section of this Policy. That section also contains information about making changes with respect to some specific aspects of our website and your website activities.
 After obtaining such consent, O'Reilly may from time to time provide its business partners with contact details for direct marketing purposes of relevant services, products, and programs.
 If you no longer wish your information to be shared, or if you have questions regarding our information sharing practices, please let us know. You can email us at .
 ### 13\. Previous Versions
+For the previous version please [click here](http://www.oreilly.com/privacy-091415.html).
+This is version 2.1.
+This is version 2.0.
+For version 2.0 please [click here](http://www.oreilly.com/privacy-120214.html).
+For version 1.1 please [click here](http://www.oreilly.com/privacy-091415.html).