ShareThis ShareThis Publisher Terms of Use changes — 20200101_rev01

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2) You may use the ShareThis Publisher Applications only with a web site You directly own and/or control, and for Your personal or internal business purposes and not in connection with any other commercial purpose or application such as a toolbar, plug-in, helper, and/or component or other software that runs on an end user's computer. You may use our Analytical Tools and any data from such tools ("Analytical Data") solely for Your personal or internal business purposes to analyze and operate Your Publisher Site. You may access the ShareThis Publisher Applications only through the software, interfaces and protocols provided or authorized by Us.

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**V. License for Usage Data and Cookies, Pixel Tags, Web Beacons and/or Other Similar Technologies, and Data Ownership**

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**1) General**. By downloading ShareThis Publisher Applications from Our Website and accessing or using on Your Publisher Site, You agree that ShareThis has the right to collect and use data related to visitors' accessing Your Publisher Site ("Visitors"), including without limitation, data regarding the browsing and sharing of content from Publisher Site on a pseudonymised personal data basis ("Usage Data"). You agree that We may deploy a cookie, pixel tag, web beacons and/or other similar tracking technologies ("Cookies") when Visitors to a page on Your Publisher Site containing ShareThis Applications (e.g., sharing icon or widget) in order for Us to collect information on categories of Content shared by such Visitors and categories of Visitors' interests. The Usage Data our Analytical Tools collect on Your Publisher Site is pseudonymized personal data such as IP address, cookie and mobile advertising ID and information about how Your Visitors view Your Publisher Site, other websites and how Visitors use the ShareThis Analytical Tools. We know how a particular browser or device interacts with websites; we do not know the person behind the browser

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For Publishers with California traffic: BY ENTERING AND ACCEPTING THESE REVISED TERMS OF USE, SHARETHIS WILL EXPECT THAT YOU WILL ONLY COLLECT, PROCESS, AND TRANSFER PERSONAL INFORMATION OF CALIFORNIA DATA SUBJECTS TO SHARETHIS ONCE YOU HAVE PROVIDED EACH INDIVIDUAL CALIFORNIA VISITOR WITH A NOTICE THAT CLEARLY DESCRIBES: A) THE CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED BY SHARE THIS, THE BUSINESS PURPOSES FOR SHARETHIS' USE OF SUCH DATA AND C) THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CALIFORNIA DATA SUBJECT TO OPT-OUT FROM THE SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU HEREBY ATTEST THAT YOU WILL PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF SUCH NOTICES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.

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**For Publishers with European traffic**: BY ENTERING AND ACCEPTING THESE REVISED TERMS OF USE, SHARETHIS WILL EXPECT THAT YOU WILL ONLY COLLECT, PROCESS, AND TRANSFER EU/EEA VISITOR PERSONAL DATA TO SHARETHIS ONCE YOU HAVE SOLICITED AND OBTAINED CONSENT FROM EACH INDIVIDUAL VISITOR. In order to be in a position to obtain consent from Your visitors, You must implement a consent mechanism using a consent management platform (also called CMP). SHARETHIS RESERVES THE RIGHT (BUT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO) TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO HELP ENSURE YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW INCLUDING DETECTING WHETHER A CMP IS IMPLEMENTED ON A PUBLISHER SITE THAT IS DIRECTED TO VISITORS LOCATED IN THE EU/EEA AND/OR IMPLEMENTING A CMP AS APPROPRIATE IN THE SOLE JUDGEMENT OF SHARETHIS. To learn about ShareThis's CMP, visit this page: [ShareThis GDPR Compliance Tool](https://www.sharethis.com/gdpr-compliance-tool/). For GDPR-specific questions, reach out to the ShareThis DPO, Vincent Potier, at [support@sharethis.com](mailto:support@sharethis.com).

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**2) License.** You grant to Us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, fully sub-licensable, and irrevocable right and license to:

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a. Collect, use, create derivative works from, and disclose data derived from the Usage Data via Cookies placed by ShareThis in accordance with our Privacy Notice located at [https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/)and to allow our third-party data partners to do the same. We may use Usage Data to target advertising toward the Visitors to Your Publisher Site and/or authorize our third-party data partners to do the same.

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3	3	YOUR AFFIRMATIVE ACT OF ACCESSING, USING OR REGISTERING FOR ANY SHARETHIS PUBLISHER APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS ("Terms"). YOU AGREE THAT THESE TERMS HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS A CONTRACT SIGNED IN WRITING.
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5	5	WE URGE YOU TO READ THOSE REVISED TERMS OF USE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE EITHER BASED IN THE EUROPE UNION/EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA AND/OR RECEIVE EUROPEAN WEB TRAFFIC, THESE UPDATED TERMS OF USE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK IN EUROPE (GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION "GDPR") IMPLEMENTED IN THE EU/EEA ON MAY 25TH2018) AND EXPLAIN SHARETHIS' POSITION, LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING AND GENERAL APPROACH TO THE GDPR.
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7	7	You may not sign-up or use the ShareThis Publisher Applications or Services (described below) if You do not agree.
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13	13	I. About ShareThis Publisher Applications
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15	15	A publisher ("You" or "Publisher") is the owner and/or operator of a website ("Publisher Site") and desires to use ShareThis Publisher Applications as described below on such Publisher Site. ShareThis, Inc. and its affiliates ("We", "Us," or "ShareThis") makes available to Publishers certain code, applications, graphics (including icons), tools, analytics, widgets, plug-ins and proprietary methods and systems that include, without limitation:
37	37	2) You may use the ShareThis Publisher Applications only with a web site You directly own and/or control, and for Your personal or internal business purposes and not in connection with any other commercial purpose or application such as a toolbar, plug-in, helper, and/or component or other software that runs on an end user's computer. You may use our Analytical Tools and any data from such tools ("Analytical Data") solely for Your personal or internal business purposes to analyze and operate Your Publisher Site. You may access the ShareThis Publisher Applications only through the software, interfaces and protocols provided or authorized by Us.
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39	39	V. License for Usage Data and Cookies, Pixel Tags, Web Beacons and/or Other Similar Technologies, and Data Ownership
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41	41	1) General. By downloading ShareThis Publisher Applications from Our Website and accessing or using on Your Publisher Site, You agree that ShareThis has the right to collect and use data related to visitors' accessing Your Publisher Site ("Visitors"), including without limitation, data regarding the browsing and sharing of content from Publisher Site on a pseudonymised personal data basis ("Usage Data"). You agree that We may deploy a cookie, pixel tag, web beacons and/or other similar tracking technologies ("Cookies") when Visitors to a page on Your Publisher Site containing ShareThis Applications (e.g., sharing icon or widget) in order for Us to collect information on categories of Content shared by such Visitors and categories of Visitors' interests. The Usage Data our Analytical Tools collect on Your Publisher Site is pseudonymized personal data such as IP address, cookie and mobile advertising ID and information about how Your Visitors view Your Publisher Site, other websites and how Visitors use the ShareThis Analytical Tools. We know how a particular browser or device interacts with websites; we do not know the person behind the browser
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	43	For Publishers with California traffic: BY ENTERING AND ACCEPTING THESE REVISED TERMS OF USE, SHARETHIS WILL EXPECT THAT YOU WILL ONLY COLLECT, PROCESS, AND TRANSFER PERSONAL INFORMATION OF CALIFORNIA DATA SUBJECTS TO SHARETHIS ONCE YOU HAVE PROVIDED EACH INDIVIDUAL CALIFORNIA VISITOR WITH A NOTICE THAT CLEARLY DESCRIBES: A) THE CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED BY SHARE THIS, THE BUSINESS PURPOSES FOR SHARETHIS' USE OF SUCH DATA AND C) THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CALIFORNIA DATA SUBJECT TO OPT-OUT FROM THE SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU HEREBY ATTEST THAT YOU WILL PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF SUCH NOTICES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.
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43	45	For Publishers with European traffic: BY ENTERING AND ACCEPTING THESE REVISED TERMS OF USE, SHARETHIS WILL EXPECT THAT YOU WILL ONLY COLLECT, PROCESS, AND TRANSFER EU/EEA VISITOR PERSONAL DATA TO SHARETHIS ONCE YOU HAVE SOLICITED AND OBTAINED CONSENT FROM EACH INDIVIDUAL VISITOR. In order to be in a position to obtain consent from Your visitors, You must implement a consent mechanism using a consent management platform (also called CMP). SHARETHIS RESERVES THE RIGHT (BUT IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO) TAKE REASONABLE STEPS TO HELP ENSURE YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW INCLUDING DETECTING WHETHER A CMP IS IMPLEMENTED ON A PUBLISHER SITE THAT IS DIRECTED TO VISITORS LOCATED IN THE EU/EEA AND/OR IMPLEMENTING A CMP AS APPROPRIATE IN THE SOLE JUDGEMENT OF SHARETHIS. To learn about ShareThis's CMP, visit this page: [ShareThis GDPR Compliance Tool](https://www.sharethis.com/gdpr-compliance-tool/). For GDPR-specific questions, reach out to the ShareThis DPO, Vincent Potier, at [support@sharethis.com](mailto:support@sharethis.com).
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45	47	2) License. You grant to Us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, fully sub-licensable, and irrevocable right and license to:
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47	49	a. Collect, use, create derivative works from, and disclose data derived from the Usage Data via Cookies placed by ShareThis in accordance with our Privacy Notice located at [https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/)and to allow our third-party data partners to do the same. We may use Usage Data to target advertising toward the Visitors to Your Publisher Site and/or authorize our third-party data partners to do the same.
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220	222	XXI. Additional Information and Terms
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222	224	You may also reference ShareThis, Inc., other terms and information, including:
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224	226	Our Privacy Notice found at: [https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/)
225		User Terms of Use found at: [https://www.sharethis.com/terms/](https://www.sharethis.com/terms/)
226		Our Copyright Policy found at: [https://www.sharethis.com/copyright/](https://www.sharethis.com/copyright/)
227		ShareThis Marks Guidelines found at: [https://www.sharethis.com/usage/](https://www.sharethis.com/usage/)

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