Privacy Policy

DATED 2025-02-04 · VERSION 20250401_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20250202_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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+This policy was last updated on 11/18/2024.
+This policy was last updated on 02/04/2025.
 This is the privacy policy ("policy") for _scientificamerican.com_ and the Scientific American mobile apps (collectively our "web properties"), which are operated and provided by Springer Nature America, Inc. (**we**, **us** and **our**). Springer Nature America, Inc. (_Scientific American)_ is located at 1 New York Plaza New York, NY 10004_._ We can also be contacted at sadigital@sciam.com.
 We will only use the personal data gathered over this website as set out in this policy. Below you will find information on how we use your personal data, for which purposes your personal data is used, with whom it is shared and what control and information rights you may have.
 I. Summary of our processing activities
 We may also utilize other tools, such as Permutive, to build anonymous behavioral segments, and pass the status of membership of these segment(s) into the Facebook cookie. This will enable membership of these segments to be used when building Custom Audiences within Facebook.
 For further information on the privacy policy of Facebook and Custom Audience please refer to https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ or https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/custom-audiences-website.
 If you do not wish your data to be collected via Custom Audience, you can deactivate custom Audience using this [link](https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).
+We utilize tools such as Piano, Stripe and Auth0 by Okta to manage your subscriptions, identity, payments, and authorizations. If you do not wish for your data to be processed by these providers, please email [help@sciam.com](mailto:help@sciam.com) - however, if you do not allow for this processing you will not be able to access our web properties. For additional information on the use of your data by these providers, please refer to:
+We utilize tools such as Piano, Chargebee, Stripe and Auth0 by Okta to manage your subscriptions, identity, payments, and authorizations. If you do not wish for your data to be processed by these providers, please email [help@sciam.com](mailto:help@sciam.com) - however, if you do not allow for this processing you will not be able to access our web properties. For additional information on the use of your data by these providers, please refer to:
 - [https://piano.io/privacy-policy/](https://piano.io/privacy-policy/)
+- [https://www.chargebee.com/privacy/](https://www.chargebee.com/privacy/)
 - [https://stripe.com/privacy](https://stripe.com/privacy)
 - [https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/)
 VIII. Analytics
 Please submit any questions, concerns or comments you have about this privacy policy or any requests concerning your personal data by email to our Group Data Protection Officer. You can contact our Group Data Protection Officer via dataprotection@springernature.com.
 The information you provide when contacting us at dataprotection@springernature.com will be processed to handle your request and will be erased when your request is completed. Alternatively, we will restrict the processing of the respective information in accordance with statutory retention requirements.
 XVII. Amendments to this policy
+We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time by updating our web properties respectively. Please visit our web properties and check our respective current privacy policy. This policy was last updated on 01/28/2025.
+We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time by updating our web properties respectively. Please visit our web properties and check our respective current privacy policy. This policy was last updated on 02/04/2025.