Privacy Policy

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55**Email Preferences**
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77Opt-out of marketing e-mails globally (i.e., across our brands) by clicking on the following link and filling out the form accordingly.
88[Update Email Preferences](https://websupport.meredith.com/hc/en-us/requests/new)
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10**Delete Your Data**
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12Permanently delete your information.
13[Update Data Preferences](https://privacyportalde-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/2159c482-749a-49db-916b-475017a9efa5/ac1b3f16-60f7-4795-aca2-2240267ed067.html)
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1510**Control Over Your Data**
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17For additional ways to delete, opt out, or manage your information, please see the "**[What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?](https://www.dotdashmeredith.com/brands-privacy)**" section of this Privacy Policy.
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1912### **What Personal Information Do We Collect?**
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2114#### **Information You Provide to Us**
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2316The personal information we collect from and about you may vary depending on how you engage with our Services and the information you provide voluntarily. We may collect personal information directly from you or otherwise in connection with your interactions with us, such as:
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131124● **Purchasers and Third Parties in Connection With a Business Transaction**: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, sale of any or all of our company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by an affiliate or third party, or in the event of a bankruptcy, or related or similar proceedings, or, in each case, discussions or negotiations related thereto.
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133126● **Law Enforcement, Regulators and Other Parties For Legal Reasons**: Personal information may be disclosed to third parties, as required by law or subpoena, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement, (b) to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the security or integrity of our services, or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our organization, our visitors, or others.
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135128In connection with any of the above, we may share information with others in an aggregated or otherwise anonymized form that does not reasonably identify you.
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130● **Notice Regarding Mobile Phone Number Collection and Sharing:** If you have shared your mobile phone number with us for purposes of receiving text messages, please note that we do not share mobile contact information with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. This information may be shared with subcontractors in support services, such as customer service. All other categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.
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137132### **What are Our Third-Party Data Collection and Online Advertising Practices?**
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139134#### **General**
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141136We, and our third-party partners, use information that we receive about you (e.g., that you provide to us or about your use of the Services, or that we receive from third parties or off our Services) to serve advertisements on and off the Services that are more relevant to your interests, determine the content on which the ads will appear, or audiences similar to you, optimize marketing and advertising campaigns more broadly, as well as to generate analytics and provide and receive marketing/advertising-related services such as reporting, market research, and measurement/attribution. These third-party partners may include online advertising networks or exchanges, measurement/attribution companies, ad fraud verification companies, social media companies, or other advertising technology services (e.g., demand-side or sell-side platforms, ad servers, clean room providers, analytics providers, identity resolution providers, data management platforms).
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157152Our Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook "Like" button, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, or other widgets. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our Services or other interactions with us (e.g., through our ads) and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those companies.
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159154We display targeted advertising to you through social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms. For example, these companies have interest-based advertising programs that allow us to direct advertisements to users who have shown interest in our services or other services while those users are on the social media platform, or to groups of other users who share similar traits, such as likely commercial interests and demographics. As mentioned in the section above, we may share a unique identifier, such as a user ID or hashed or encrypted email address or phone number, with these platform providers or they may collect information from our website visitors through a pixel (or other mechanism, such as API, direct file upload, or server-to-server integration), in order to direct targeted advertising to you or to a custom audience (including "look-a-like" audiences, such as audiences that are similar to you or other users) on the social media platform. These advertisements are governed by the privacy policies of those social media companies that provide them. If you do not want to receive targeted ads on your social networks, you may be able to adjust your advertising preferences through your settings on those networks.
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161156### **What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?**
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163#### You may control your information in the following ways:
158#### **You may control your information in the following ways:**
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165160● **Access to, Modification of, or Deletion of Your Information**: You have the right to request access to your personal information, amendment/correction of inaccurate/incomplete personal information, or deletion of your personal information. In order to better protect the security of your personal information, we will seek to confirm your identity as part of our processing of any request. Under certain circumstances, we may not fulfill your request, such as where we, in our discretion, deem that your identity has not been reasonably verified or that such information is subject to legal/regulatory, internal audit, record-keeping, or other requirements or legal exceptions such that the request should not reasonably be granted (or should be granted in part). In any event, we will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. In order to make such a request of us, please contact us by using one of the following methods:
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167162⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o for United States residents and for individuals located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, please use this [form](https://privacyportalde-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/2159c482-749a-49db-916b-475017a9efa5/ac1b3f16-60f7-4795-aca2-2240267ed067.html).
168⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o Email [\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4a3a38233c2b29330a2e253e2e2b3922272e3a64292527) for assistance on exercising rights requests (email assistance available only where required under applicable privacy laws).
163⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o Email [\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection) for assistance on exercising rights requests, including in other jurisdictions (email assistance available only where required under applicable privacy laws).
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170165● **Marketing E-mail Preferences**: You can manage your opt-out preferences for each of our brand's marketing e-mails by:
171166⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of such messages, or
172167⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o by visiting "E-mail Preferences" (to the extent offered by a brand) on our Services and updating your preferences.
173⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o Further, you may opt-out of marketing e-mails globally (i.e., across our brands) by clicking on the following link and filling out this [form](https://websupport.meredith.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) accordingly.
168⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀o You may also opt-out of marketing e-mails globally (i.e., across our brands) by clicking on the following link and filling out this [form](https://websupport.meredith.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) accordingly.
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175170If you no longer want to receive third-party marketing e-mails that you requested through our Services, simply follow the third party's unsubscribe link or opt-out instructions that should be included each such marketing e-mail from that third party.
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177172Please note that you cannot opt out of transactional or administrative e-mails (e.g., renewal notifications, orders placed).
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179● **Postal Mail**: To remove your name and postal address from lists that we sell or rent to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, or to opt out of receiving marketing offers for other magazines and products by mail:
180o send your request to us in a letter addressed to **People Inc., Opt-Out Postal,** **Attn: Circulation, 225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281**. Note that if you choose to opt out of our promotional mailings, you may still receive renewal notices and related offers for any magazines to which you subscribe.
174● **Postal Mail and Marketing**: To remove your name and postal address from lists that we sell or rent to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, or to opt out of receiving marketing offers for other magazines and products by mail:
175o send your request to [\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#72110701061d1f1700010702021d00063202171d021e175c1b1c11) with the subject line "Opt-Out Postal," or
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182● **Telemarketing Calls/Texts**: When you have provided your "prior express written consent" where required under the TCPA to receive telemarketing communications from us, we will not provide such consent to third parties so that they can provide telemarketing communications to you to the extent such telemarketing communications from such third party also requires "prior express written consent" and you have not provided such consent to such third party. Message and data rates may apply to telephonic communications you receive; message frequency varies. The phrase "prior express written consent" used in this paragraph is as defined under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
177o send your request to us in a letter addressed to **People Inc., Opt-Out Postal,** **Attn: Circulation, 225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281**.
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184● **Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies**: To manage cookies, an individual may have the ability to change their browser settings to (for example): (i) notify them when they receive a cookie, so the individual can choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) automatically reject cookies (or certain types of cookies, such as cookies set by third parties). Note that similar controls may exist for other tracking technologies, such as pixels, SDKs, and localStorage. Please check your device or browser settings and related documentation for more information.
179Note that if you choose to opt out of our promotional mailings, you may still receive renewal notices and related offers for any magazines to which you subscribe.
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181● **Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies**: To manage cookies and other tracking technologies, you may click the _Your Privacy Choices_ link in the website footer of any of our brand websites. You may also have the ability to change your browser settings to (for example): (i) notify you when you receive a cookie, so the you can choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) automatically reject cookies (or certain types of cookies, such as cookies set by third parties). Note that similar controls may exist for other tracking technologies, such as pixels, SDKs, and localStorage. Please check your device or browser settings and related documentation for more information.
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186183Further, note that restricting the use of these technologies might negatively impact an individual's experience using our Services, as some features or offerings may be less personalized or may not work as otherwise intended. Depending on an individual's device and operating system, the individual may not be able to delete or block all cookies or other tracking technologies described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, if an individual wants to reject cookies across all browsers and devices, the individual will need to do so on each browser and device they use. You may also have options within your email client to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain actions with respect to such emails (e.g., URL clickthroughs).
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188● **Online Ads**: To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising (to the extent the advertising partner or other entity participates in such industry opt-out pages), you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) resources at [https://www.aboutads.info/choices](http://www.aboutads.info/choices) (or [https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/](https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/) or [https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools](https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools) for the EEA and Canada, respectively) or the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) online resources at [https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/](http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/). You can also opt-out of receiving some interest-based advertisements on mobile apps by visiting [https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices](http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices). You may also be able to opt-out of some interest-based advertising served by participating mobile ad networks by visiting [https://youradchoices.com/appchoices](http://youradchoices.com/appchoices) and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.
185● **Online Ads**: You may opt-out of some of the tracking technologies used for interest-based advertising as further set forth in our _Your Privacy Choices_ link (found in the website footer).To learn more about interest-based advertising and other ways you may be able to opt-out of some of this advertising (to the extent the advertising partner or other entity participates in such industry opt-out pages), you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) resources at [https://www.aboutads.info/choices](http://www.aboutads.info/choices) (or [https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/](https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/) or [https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools](https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools) for the EEA and Canada, respectively) or the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) online resources at [https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/](http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/). You can also opt-out of receiving some interest-based advertisements on mobile apps by visiting [https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices](http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices). You may also be able to opt-out of some interest-based advertising served by participating mobile ad networks by visiting [https://youradchoices.com/appchoices](http://youradchoices.com/appchoices) and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.
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190You may also opt-out of some of the tracking technologies used for interest-based advertising as further set forth in our _Your Privacy Choices_ link (found in the website footer).
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192187As provided by Nielsen: To opt out of sharing information with Nielsen Marketing Cloud, please click [here](https://sites.nielsen.com/legal/privacy-statement/exelate-privacy-policy/opt-in-opt-out/). With respect to more information on Nielsen's digital measurement services and your choices in relation thereto, please click [here](https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/legal/privacy-statement/digital-measurement/).
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194189When you use our website and enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or to sign up for a newsletter, or similar), we may share with LiveRamp and its group companies information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with any of the following, acting as "joint controllers" (as applicable and defined in the GDPR).
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196191LiveRamp uses this information to create an online identification code that we may store in our first-party cookie for our use in online, in-app, and cross-channel advertising. This may be shared with advertising companies to enable interest-based and targeted advertising. LiveRamp uses this information to create an online identification code for the purpose of recognising you on your devices. This code does not contain any of your directly identifiable personal data and will not be used by LiveRamp to re-identify you.
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226221#### **How Will We Inform You About Changes to This Privacy Policy?**
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228223We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. If we make any material changes to our privacy practices, we will indicate at the top of the Privacy Policy the date when it was most recently updated and you shall be bound to such changes when accessing the Services that are linked to the updated Privacy Policy or when the updated Privacy Policy is otherwise provided to you. We may also provide notice of such material changes in other manners at our discretion. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
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230225#### **How Can You Contact Us?**
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232If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our privacy practices, you may contact us by emailing [**\[email protected\]**](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#39494b504f585a40795d564d5d584a51545d49175a5654).
227If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our privacy practices, you may contact us by emailing [**\[email protected\]**](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#601012091601031920040f14040113080d04104e030f0d).
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234229If you are a U.S. State resident inquiring about your privacy rights under your respective State Privacy Law, please include "U.S. Privacy Rights Request" in the subject line of your email.
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236231If you are a resident of the European Economic Area inquiring about your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), please include "GDPR Privacy Rights Request" in the subject line of your email.
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238233You may also write to:
268263As further described in this Privacy Policy, we disclose the following to our advertising/marketing and analytics partners (e.g., advertisers/agencies, social media networks, adtech partners, customer intelligence firms) for advertising and marketing purposes, including direct marketing: Identifiers, commercial information, geolocation data, internet or other network information, and data that may be considered "sensitive" personal information under certain State Privacy Laws. Please see our "Your Privacy Choices" link (found in the website footer) to exercise your opt-out rights accordingly. NOTICE: We may sell your sensitive personal data.
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270265We do not have actual knowledge of "selling" or "sharing" PI of consumers under sixteen (16) years of age.
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272267#### **To Exercise Your Privacy Rights**
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274To submit a request to exercise your right to access, deletion, or correction, please use [this form](https://privacyportalde-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/2159c482-749a-49db-916b-475017a9efa5/ac1b3f16-60f7-4795-aca2-2240267ed067.html). You may also email [\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#deaeacb7a8bfbda79ebab1aababfadb6b3baaef0bdb1b3) for assistance on exercising rights requests (where State Privacy Laws require that we provide another means for such assistance).
269To submit a request to exercise your right to access, deletion, or correction, please use [this form](https://privacyportalde-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/2159c482-749a-49db-916b-475017a9efa5/ac1b3f16-60f7-4795-aca2-2240267ed067.html). You may also email [\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection) for assistance on exercising rights requests (where State Privacy Laws require that we provide another means for such assistance).
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276To exercise your right to opt-out of "sales," "shares," "targeted advertising," or certain use/disclosure of "sensitive" personal information, please click our **Your Privacy Choices** link (found in the website footer) and follow the instructions therein. As discussed in such link, we respond to the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal to the extent required under the State Privacy Laws to effectuate your opt-out of "sales/shares/targeted advertising" via Targeting Cookies (learn more about GPC at [www.globalprivacycontrol.org](http://www.globalprivacycontrol.org/)). The Targeting Cookies opt-out is on a per-website basis and applies at the browser level for the device you use to opt out.
271To exercise your right to opt-out of "sales," "shares," "targeted advertising," or certain use/disclosure of "sensitive" personal information, you must (1) click our **Your Privacy Choices** link (found in the footer of our brand websites) and follow the instructions therein, **and** (2) submit [this opt-out form](https://privacyportalde-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/2159c482-749a-49db-916b-475017a9efa5/424d0d20-a84d-41ed-9a27-379d31f2551d.html) or send an email to [\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4d3d3f243b2c2e340d3d28223d21286324232e) with the subject line, "Opt-Out of Sales." We will process your opt-out request in accordance with applicable State Privacy Laws.
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273As discussed in the **Your Privacy Choices** link, we also respond to the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal to the extent required under the State Privacy Laws to effectuate your opt-out of "sales/shares/targeted advertising" via Targeting Cookies (learn more about GPC at [www.globalprivacycontrol.org](http://www.globalprivacycontrol.org/)). The Targeting Cookies opt-out is on a per-website basis and applies at the browser level for the device you use to opt out.
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278275Unless otherwise prohibited by the State Privacy Laws, we may need to verify your identity and confirm your residency before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally either require the successful authentication of your account or the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. This process may require us to request additional personal information from you, including, but not limited to, your email address, phone number, or date of last transaction on our Services.
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280277In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity or locate your information in our systems. If we cannot comply with a request, we will explain the reasons in our response.
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282279**Non-Discrimination and Appeals**
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284281You have the right to not receive "discriminatory" treatment for exercising the rights discussed in the table above. However, please note that if the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process personal information (such as in the case of a deletion request), we may no longer be able to provide you our products and services or engage with you in the same manner.
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286Further, under certain State Privacy Laws, you may appeal our decision to not take action on your rights request. All appeals should be submitted by emailing [\[email protected\]](about:blank), along with a copy of the decision that you are appealing.
283Further, under certain State Privacy Laws, you may appeal our decision to not take action on your rights request. Information about how to appeal is provided with the response to your rights request. You may also appeal by emailing [\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection), along with a copy of the decision that you are appealing.
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288285**Authorized Agents**
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290287In certain circumstances under the State Privacy Laws, you are permitted to use an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf (using the mechanisms for submitting requests above), to the extent we can verify the authorized agent's authority to act on your behalf.
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292289For requests to access, delete, or correct personal information, we may require the following for verification purposes:
341338**Notice to Nevada Residents**
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343340Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. To exercise your right to opt-out of sales subject to the Nevada Revised Statues, please submit your request by clicking [here](https://privacyportalde-cdn.onetrust.com/dsarwebform/2159c482-749a-49db-916b-475017a9efa5/424d0d20-a84d-41ed-9a27-379d31f2551d.html).
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345342**European Privacy Notice**
346343
347**This European Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to individuals located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland ("you") and to the services available in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland that link to this European Privacy Notice:**
344This European Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to individuals located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland ("you") and to the services available in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland that link to this European Privacy Notice:
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349346**Controller of your Personal Data**
350347
351The controller of your personal data under this European Privacy Notice is People Inc., with an address of **225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281**. Our local representative with respect to the GDPR can be contacted at [**\[email protected\]**](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2656544f5047455f664249524247554e4b42560845494b).
348The controller of your personal data under this European Privacy Notice is People Inc., with an address of **225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281**. Our local representative with respect to the GDPR can be contacted at **[\[email protected\]](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection)**.
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353350**Legal Basis for Using Personal Data**
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355352We process your personal data only if we have a legal basis to do so, including:
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357354● to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
419416● **Right to data portability**: You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit that information to another controller, including to have it transmitted directly, where technically feasible.
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421418● **Right to object**: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, as permitted by law, under limited circumstances.
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423420To exercise any of these rights, please:
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425● **Submit a request through the European Rights Request Form.** Please note that the above rights are not absolute and we may be entitled to refuse requests, wholly or partly, where exceptions under the applicable law apply.
422● **[Submit a request through this form](https://privacyportal-de.onetrust.com/webform/2159c482-749a-49db-916b-475017a9efa5/119ca844-23bb-43dd-8c91-102588487dda).** Please note that the above rights are not absolute and we may be entitled to refuse requests, wholly or partly, where exceptions under the applicable law apply.
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427424You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority. Further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at: [https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index\_en.htm](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm).
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429426## How to Contact Us
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431428We are owned and operated by People Inc., located at
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433430**225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281**
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435All feedback, questions, and comments in connection with our privacy practices and our privacy policies should be directed to: [**\[email protected\]**](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1666647f6077756f567279627277657e7b72663875797b).
432All feedback, questions, and comments in connection with our privacy practices and our privacy policies should be directed to: [**\[email protected\]**](https://www.people.inc/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#89f9fbe0ffe8eaf0c9ede6fdede8fae1e4edf9a7eae6e4).