ShareThis ShareThis Privacy Notice changes — 20190701_rev01

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## How Data is Collected

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**Updated September 27, 2018**

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**Your name, email, and other registration information:**

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ShareThis takes privacy seriously. This Privacy Notice governs the main privacy principles and details we apply to the data we collect and process through the ShareThis social sharing tools for publishers. ShareThis may change this Notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are up to date with any changes. ShareThis does not collect any data that makes you contactable, such as names, addresses, payment or similar information.

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Many of our services can be used without registering with us. However, if you want to use some of our enhanced features you will need to register with us. If you choose to register with us, you affirm that you are 16 years of age or older. We do not sell or share registration information with third parties for marketing purposes.

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We are unable to process your opt-out request. If your cookies are disabled, please enable them and try again.

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Keep in mind, whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, like blogs, social media, message boards, and forums, you should be aware that this information can be accessed by anyone with access to those places. Be careful how you share.

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## About ShareThis

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**Emails from Users with ShareThis Icon:**

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ShareThis is a company operating in the field of data analytics and technology. We collect data through our sharing tools from our extensive publisher network, we apply data science to the data and we process it to our downstream partners for insights and targeting activities.

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When you share to email with the ShareThis Icon, you choose how to connect to email from your device. We do not verify your identity to that email account. We are not responsible for the information shared by users via the ShareThis Publisher Applications.

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## About ShareThis Social Sharing Tools

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**Usage Data:**

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ShareThis provides a customizable social sharing tool, making sharing online content simple. You can easily share anything on the web with your friends on social sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Email, Digg, Reddit and more through one tool ("ShareThis Icon"). In addition to the sharing service offered directly to you, our technology also allows us to gather information regarding the browsing and sharing from those websites that use our ShareThis Icon or our advertising technology ("Publishers"). This enables ShareThis, Publishers, advertisers, and data partners to facilitate the delivery of relevant, targeted advertising, analytics, and data modeling based on this social sharing (collectively "ShareThis Publisher Applications").

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We collect data when your device visits our website, uses or interacts with our services (including sharing content with the ShareThis Icon), when your device visits Publishers' websites that use ShareThis Publisher Applications, and when your device views or clicks advertisements that we serve or are served on our behalf.

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You can recognize the websites which use the ShareThis Publisher Applications by the ShareThis Icon on the website.

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In the EU/EEA, Publishers make the ShareThis Publisher Applications available on their site to facilitate browsing and sharing content from their website and are required to have a legal base to do so; if their legal base is consent, then they need to deploy consent mechanisms such as cookie banners or CMPs, as applicable by local law.

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Without identifying who you are by name, email or phone number we aim to display to you products and/or services that you might be interested in, based on your recent browsing and/or sharing behavior,. This is often called interest-based advertising ("IBA") or online behavioral advertising ("OBA"). For more information on IBA/OBA, [click here](http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising).

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In order for ShareThis to process your data, you would have consented to data processing and accepting cookies or similar technologies from one of the publishers that participates in our program.

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## Our Technology

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Usage Data may include, without limitation:

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We collect information via technical cookies placed on your browser, pixel tags, HTTP headers (or other communication protocols), and browser identifiers. We do not use flash cookies or other locally stored objects (LSO) that may be used to circumvent user opt-out choices.

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- Unique IDs of a cookie placed on a web browser (example: 37d387ca-f68a-11e5-b87d-0e58954c72b1)

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- Webpages viewed (including the URL addresses of such pages)

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- Search queries from which users are directed to a page

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- Navigation from page to page through the ShareThis services

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- Time spent on each page

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- Items clicked or selected

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- Content highlighted

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- IP addresses

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## Data Collection and Use

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The information listed above does not directly identify an individual and is not considered to be personal information in many jurisdictions in which we operate.

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We collect registration information and Usage Data (defined below). Your registration information is not connected to Usage Data.

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Important notice for EU/EEA residents: part of this information is considered "personal data" in the EU/EEA, such as cookies, IP addresses, device IDs. Specific types of the information listed above, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, may be considered personal information in some parts of the world or if combined with other information. In such cases, we treat this information as personal information.

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_Usage Data._ Data that does not directly identify an individual. We collect and use technical data relating to some of your browsing to display personalized advertisements, provide analytics, and data modeling based on social sharing, by us or third parties.

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**Sensitive Data:**

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In the EU/EEA, usage data would be considered as information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, therefore it would be personal data (for example, cookies, device IDs, IP address).

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ShareThis is aware of the sensitivity of certain types of data. We do not create interest segments that reflect sensitive personal data, based on local jurisdictions. While types of data considered sensitive may vary among users, we presently treat data as sensitive if it includes sensitive health information (such as a serious medical condition like cancer); certain aspects of a user's personal life (such as sexual orientation) or financial situation (such as credit, insurance or employment eligibility); or "adult" products or services.

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We do not at any point collect contact information such as your name, address, phone number, address, credit card information, or anything else that can allow us or our clients to contact you directly.

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In the EU/EEA, we do not collect nor process any personal sensitive data, we do not create segments of EU consumers based on personal data considered to be sensitive (e.g data consisting of racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation).

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## User Choices

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[Click here](https://www.sharethis.com/standard-general-heath-segments/) to view the list of health and wellness interest data segments available by ShareThis in such jurisdictions.

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If you do not want to receive advertisements based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis, on your current browser, you can opt out by clicking the button below.

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**Children:**

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ShareThis does not intentionally collect data from, and does not tailor any segments to children under 16 years of age.

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Each environment is separate. If you do not want to receive ads based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis whatever device or browser used, you must disable our services for each device and each internet web browser.

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Please note that publisher websites, advertisers and our other data partners may independently gain other demographical information about you after they place their own cookies or web beacons. The use of cookies and pixel tags by these third-party advertisers, publishers, and ad networks are subject to their own privacy policies.

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Opting out does not mean you will stop seeing advertisements, but that the advertisements you do see will not be influenced by the Usage Data collected by ShareThis. It is also separate from your registration information. For canceling or deleting your registration information, see [Data Security and Retention](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/).

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In the EU/EEA, we may hold your personal data if you are having business relations with us. You could be a client or a prospect. We may need that data in order to communicate, invoice, manage contracts, offer products and services. You could be a publisher, a data provider, a social media platform, an agency, an advertiser etc and we would require your personal data in order to maintain that relationship. The personal data we hold about you refers to your professional life (name, email address, billing address, office address, phone numbers, title, company you work for). We would have collected that information from exchanging emails or business cards, meeting at industry meetings or client sessions etc.

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[Click Here to Opt Out]()

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Under the GDPR (European regulation), we are not required to obtain your consent in order to hold and carry on processing that data held for business purposes. Still you can always exercise your data subjects' rights and ask for removal or erasure or any of your rights of that personal data by writing to us at [privacy@sharethis.com](mailto:privacy@sharethis.com).

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## Corporate Website Collection and Use

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We will delete your data two years after the last contact and six years after the end of the contractual relationship.

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You can browse the ShareThis corporate website (ShareThis.com) without providing any personal information. You may choose to provide this information to us voluntarily if you interact with ShareThis.com in certain ways, such as applying for employment with ShareThis, or using one of our contact forms. For EU/EEA residents, we have defined retention policies for keeping these forms. To facilitate your purpose in communicating with us, the registration data collected is your name and email address.

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**Employee data:**

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## Data Sharing or Disclosure

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If you are an employee of ShareThis, in the US or in Europe, we advise you to refer to our HR policy and the clauses regarding data protection on your employment contract (available with our HR department).

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We share Usage Data, including audience segments, with advertisers, Publishers, and other data partners (all, "Our Customers") for interest-based advertising, analytics and data modeling.

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## How Data is Used

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## Data Security and Retention

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**Registration Information:**

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The security of your information is a high priority to ShareThis. We do not process any information which could be used by ShareThis, directly or indirectly, with the help of any third party or otherwise, to determine the identity of users. We have implemented industry-standard security measures.

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We use your Registration Information: a) to fulfill requests for our services; b) to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; c) to conduct research about the use of our services; d) to enable you to create an account, store log-in credentials, and customize your ShareThis services; e) to contact you from time to time about ShareThis services; and f) for ShareThis to provide offers for products and services of ShareThis and our partners that may be of interest to you. If you decide to share your interests and your profile information with your friends on ShareThis, we will display your profile information as per the preferences you set in your account. You can control the types of certain emails you receive by clicking on links in the emails, although you agree that we may always contact you to provide you with important information or notices required by ShareThis.

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## Commitments to Privacy Standards

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**Usage Data:**

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ShareThis promotes transparency and control for users as members of various self-regulatory programs.

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ShareThis uses the usage data we collect and information collected from our third-party partners to create audience segments and to otherwise enable interest-based advertising ("Usage Data").

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ShareThis also participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. For more information and to view our Privacy Shield policy, expand the section labeled "Additional Information" below.

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Audience segments are groups of users and certain general interest categories that we have inferred based on the following:

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If you wish to access or amend any of your data that we may hold you may contact us as set forth below.

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a) demographic or interest data

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Please note that while any changes you request will be reflected within a reasonable period of time, we may retain information for backups, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, or satisfaction of legal obligations.

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b) a general geographic location derived from your IP address

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c) the pages you view and links you click, and/or search terms you enter when using certain services.

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Vincent Potier (ShareThis DPO): [dpo@sharethis.com](mailto:dpo@sharethis.com)

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These audience segments do not contain Personal Information; they are tied to a device, not a person. Audience segments are not tied to [Registration Information](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/).

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By mail:

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ShareThis, Inc.

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Please note we may update or change this privacy notice. If we revise our privacy notice, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and to other places we deem appropriate. If we make material changes, we will notify you by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective.

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**Updated September 27, 2018**

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We may also employ Usage Data for research and development purposes, for our internal operational purposes, and to create aggregate statistics for market research or analytics services. These aggregated statistics do not include information that directly identifies an individual (although certain kind of data we collect would be considered as identifiable in the EU/EEA). We offer some of the Usage Data to Our customers for their own internal analytics or data modeling. In such cases, we contractually prohibit the customers from re-identifying you without your opt in consent.

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+## How Data is Collected
+**Updated September 27, 2018**
+**Your name, email, and other registration information:**
+ShareThis takes privacy seriously. This Privacy Notice governs the main privacy principles and details we apply to the data we collect and process through the ShareThis social sharing tools for publishers. ShareThis may change this Notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are up to date with any changes. ShareThis does not collect any data that makes you contactable, such as names, addresses, payment or similar information.
+Many of our services can be used without registering with us. However, if you want to use some of our enhanced features you will need to register with us. If you choose to register with us, you affirm that you are 16 years of age or older. We do not sell or share registration information with third parties for marketing purposes.
+We are unable to process your opt-out request. If your cookies are disabled, please enable them and try again.
+Keep in mind, whenever you voluntarily post personal information in public areas, like blogs, social media, message boards, and forums, you should be aware that this information can be accessed by anyone with access to those places. Be careful how you share.
+## About ShareThis
+**Emails from Users with ShareThis Icon:**
+ShareThis is a company operating in the field of data analytics and technology. We collect data through our sharing tools from our extensive publisher network, we apply data science to the data and we process it to our downstream partners for insights and targeting activities.
+When you share to email with the ShareThis Icon, you choose how to connect to email from your device. We do not verify your identity to that email account. We are not responsible for the information shared by users via the ShareThis Publisher Applications.
+## About ShareThis Social Sharing Tools
+**Usage Data:**
+ShareThis provides a customizable social sharing tool, making sharing online content simple. You can easily share anything on the web with your friends on social sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Email, Digg, Reddit and more through one tool ("ShareThis Icon"). In addition to the sharing service offered directly to you, our technology also allows us to gather information regarding the browsing and sharing from those websites that use our ShareThis Icon or our advertising technology ("Publishers"). This enables ShareThis, Publishers, advertisers, and data partners to facilitate the delivery of relevant, targeted advertising, analytics, and data modeling based on this social sharing (collectively "ShareThis Publisher Applications").
+We collect data when your device visits our website, uses or interacts with our services (including sharing content with the ShareThis Icon), when your device visits Publishers' websites that use ShareThis Publisher Applications, and when your device views or clicks advertisements that we serve or are served on our behalf.
+You can recognize the websites which use the ShareThis Publisher Applications by the ShareThis Icon on the website.
+In the EU/EEA, Publishers make the ShareThis Publisher Applications available on their site to facilitate browsing and sharing content from their website and are required to have a legal base to do so; if their legal base is consent, then they need to deploy consent mechanisms such as cookie banners or CMPs, as applicable by local law.
+Without identifying who you are by name, email or phone number we aim to display to you products and/or services that you might be interested in, based on your recent browsing and/or sharing behavior,. This is often called interest-based advertising ("IBA") or online behavioral advertising ("OBA"). For more information on IBA/OBA, [click here](http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising).
+In order for ShareThis to process your data, you would have consented to data processing and accepting cookies or similar technologies from one of the publishers that participates in our program.
+## Our Technology
+Usage Data may include, without limitation:
+We collect information via technical cookies placed on your browser, pixel tags, HTTP headers (or other communication protocols), and browser identifiers. We do not use flash cookies or other locally stored objects (LSO) that may be used to circumvent user opt-out choices.
+- Unique IDs of a cookie placed on a web browser (example: 37d387ca-f68a-11e5-b87d-0e58954c72b1)
+- Webpages viewed (including the URL addresses of such pages)
+- Search queries from which users are directed to a page
+- Navigation from page to page through the ShareThis services
+- Time spent on each page
+- Items clicked or selected
+- Content highlighted
+- IP addresses
+## Data Collection and Use
+The information listed above does not directly identify an individual and is not considered to be personal information in many jurisdictions in which we operate.
+We collect registration information and Usage Data (defined below). Your registration information is not connected to Usage Data.
+Important notice for EU/EEA residents: part of this information is considered "personal data" in the EU/EEA, such as cookies, IP addresses, device IDs. Specific types of the information listed above, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, may be considered personal information in some parts of the world or if combined with other information. In such cases, we treat this information as personal information.
+_Usage Data._ Data that does not directly identify an individual. We collect and use technical data relating to some of your browsing to display personalized advertisements, provide analytics, and data modeling based on social sharing, by us or third parties.
+**Sensitive Data:**
+In the EU/EEA, usage data would be considered as information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, therefore it would be personal data (for example, cookies, device IDs, IP address).
+ShareThis is aware of the sensitivity of certain types of data. We do not create interest segments that reflect sensitive personal data, based on local jurisdictions. While types of data considered sensitive may vary among users, we presently treat data as sensitive if it includes sensitive health information (such as a serious medical condition like cancer); certain aspects of a user's personal life (such as sexual orientation) or financial situation (such as credit, insurance or employment eligibility); or "adult" products or services.
+We do not at any point collect contact information such as your name, address, phone number, address, credit card information, or anything else that can allow us or our clients to contact you directly.
+In the EU/EEA, we do not collect nor process any personal sensitive data, we do not create segments of EU consumers based on personal data considered to be sensitive (e.g data consisting of racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation).
+## User Choices
+[Click here](https://www.sharethis.com/standard-general-heath-segments/) to view the list of health and wellness interest data segments available by ShareThis in such jurisdictions.
+If you do not want to receive advertisements based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis, on your current browser, you can opt out by clicking the button below.
+**Children:**
+Note:
+ShareThis does not intentionally collect data from, and does not tailor any segments to children under 16 years of age.
+Each environment is separate. If you do not want to receive ads based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis whatever device or browser used, you must disable our services for each device and each internet web browser.
+Please note that publisher websites, advertisers and our other data partners may independently gain other demographical information about you after they place their own cookies or web beacons. The use of cookies and pixel tags by these third-party advertisers, publishers, and ad networks are subject to their own privacy policies.
+Furthermore:
+**Business contacts data:**
+Opting out does not mean you will stop seeing advertisements, but that the advertisements you do see will not be influenced by the Usage Data collected by ShareThis. It is also separate from your registration information. For canceling or deleting your registration information, see [Data Security and Retention](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/).
+In the EU/EEA, we may hold your personal data if you are having business relations with us. You could be a client or a prospect. We may need that data in order to communicate, invoice, manage contracts, offer products and services. You could be a publisher, a data provider, a social media platform, an agency, an advertiser etc and we would require your personal data in order to maintain that relationship. The personal data we hold about you refers to your professional life (name, email address, billing address, office address, phone numbers, title, company you work for). We would have collected that information from exchanging emails or business cards, meeting at industry meetings or client sessions etc.
+[Click Here to Opt Out]()
+Under the GDPR (European regulation), we are not required to obtain your consent in order to hold and carry on processing that data held for business purposes. Still you can always exercise your data subjects' rights and ask for removal or erasure or any of your rights of that personal data by writing to us at [privacy@sharethis.com](mailto:privacy@sharethis.com).
+## Corporate Website Collection and Use
+We will delete your data two years after the last contact and six years after the end of the contractual relationship.
+You can browse the ShareThis corporate website (ShareThis.com) without providing any personal information. You may choose to provide this information to us voluntarily if you interact with ShareThis.com in certain ways, such as applying for employment with ShareThis, or using one of our contact forms. For EU/EEA residents, we have defined retention policies for keeping these forms. To facilitate your purpose in communicating with us, the registration data collected is your name and email address.
+**Employee data:**
+## Data Sharing or Disclosure
+If you are an employee of ShareThis, in the US or in Europe, we advise you to refer to our HR policy and the clauses regarding data protection on your employment contract (available with our HR department).
+We share Usage Data, including audience segments, with advertisers, Publishers, and other data partners (all, "Our Customers") for interest-based advertising, analytics and data modeling.
+## How Data is Used
+## Data Security and Retention
+**Registration Information:**
+The security of your information is a high priority to ShareThis. We do not process any information which could be used by ShareThis, directly or indirectly, with the help of any third party or otherwise, to determine the identity of users. We have implemented industry-standard security measures.
+We use your Registration Information: a) to fulfill requests for our services; b) to communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; c) to conduct research about the use of our services; d) to enable you to create an account, store log-in credentials, and customize your ShareThis services; e) to contact you from time to time about ShareThis services; and f) for ShareThis to provide offers for products and services of ShareThis and our partners that may be of interest to you. If you decide to share your interests and your profile information with your friends on ShareThis, we will display your profile information as per the preferences you set in your account. You can control the types of certain emails you receive by clicking on links in the emails, although you agree that we may always contact you to provide you with important information or notices required by ShareThis.
+## Commitments to Privacy Standards
+**Usage Data:**
+ShareThis promotes transparency and control for users as members of various self-regulatory programs.
+ShareThis uses the usage data we collect and information collected from our third-party partners to create audience segments and to otherwise enable interest-based advertising ("Usage Data").
+ShareThis also participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. For more information and to view our Privacy Shield policy, expand the section labeled "Additional Information" below.
+Audience segments are groups of users and certain general interest categories that we have inferred based on the following:
+If you wish to access or amend any of your data that we may hold you may contact us as set forth below.
+a) demographic or interest data
+Please note that while any changes you request will be reflected within a reasonable period of time, we may retain information for backups, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, or satisfaction of legal obligations.
+b) a general geographic location derived from your IP address
+By email:
+c) the pages you view and links you click, and/or search terms you enter when using certain services.
+Vincent Potier (ShareThis DPO): [dpo@sharethis.com](mailto:dpo@sharethis.com)
+These audience segments do not contain Personal Information; they are tied to a device, not a person. Audience segments are not tied to [Registration Information](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/).
+By mail:
+Privacy
+ShareThis, Inc.
+Miranda Avenue
+Suite 100
+Palo Alto, CA 94304-1227
+Please note we may update or change this privacy notice. If we revise our privacy notice, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and to other places we deem appropriate. If we make material changes, we will notify you by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective.
+**Updated September 27, 2018**
+We may also employ Usage Data for research and development purposes, for our internal operational purposes, and to create aggregate statistics for market research or analytics services. These aggregated statistics do not include information that directly identifies an individual (although certain kind of data we collect would be considered as identifiable in the EU/EEA). We offer some of the Usage Data to Our customers for their own internal analytics or data modeling. In such cases, we contractually prohibit the customers from re-identifying you without your opt in consent.

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