ShareThis ShareThis Publisher Terms of Use changes — 20200703_rev01

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1) ShareThis Publisher Applications are available only to (i) individuals who are legally capable of entering into contracts (i.e., eighteen (18) years of age or older in most places), or (ii) corporations and other legal entities authorized to form legally binding contracts under applicable law. We may refuse to offer the ShareThis Publisher Applications to any person and may change our criteria for eligibility, at any time, in our sole discretion. We retain the right to terminate Your account and Your rights to use the ShareThis Publisher Applications for any reason, including but not limited to, if We believe that any registration data You provide is or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if We believe in our discretion that You are in violation of these Terms.

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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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**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") utilizing JavaScript 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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b. Use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, broadcast, transmit and distribute the Usage Data for any purpose and in any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed. This includes, without limitation, the right to incorporate or implement the Usage Data into any of Our products or services, and to display, market, sublicense and distribute the Usage Data as incorporated or embedded in any product or service distributed or offered by Us without compensation to You.

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3) You also agree to provide appropriate notice to Your Visitors of third party Cookies, tracking, interest-based advertising as described below in section VI.7. Such data may be used to provide tailored advertising to Your Visitors. We will give Visitors of Your Publisher Site the ability to opt out certain uses of the Usage Data at any time by going to [https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/) as well as the opt-out pages for the self-regulatory groups for which ShareThis is a participant.

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3) You also agree to provide appropriate notice to Your Visitors of cookies, including third party Cookies, tracking, interest-based advertising as described below in section VI.7. Such data may be used to provide tailored advertising to Your Visitors. We will give Visitors of Your Publisher Site the ability to opt out certain uses of the Usage Data at any time by going to [https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/) as well as the opt-out pages for the self-regulatory groups for which ShareThis is a participant.

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**4) Data Ownership.** In consideration of Your access and use of the ShareThis Publisher Applications, You agree that We will retain ownership of all data and information collected or obtained by Us from Visitors through our networks of the ShareThis Publisher Applications and We provide any data to You as part of the Services. You own all data that You collect directly from the Visitors of Your Publisher Site.

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**VI. Data Collection, Rights and Publisher Privacy Notices.**

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1) In consideration for Your access to and use of the ShareThis Publisher Applications, You agree that We may set cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and/or other similar tracking technologies (collectively, "Cookies") on Your Publisher Site where the ShareThis Publisher Applications are enabled, and allow our partners to set Cookies. When a Visitor accesses Your Publisher Site, we collect Usage Data via Cookies placed by ShareThis. For those Publishers based in the EU/EEA and/or Publishers with EU/EEA traffic, You need a legal basis to collect and process personal data and You need a consent for the placement of Cookies on Your Publisher Sites.

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:
35	35	1) ShareThis Publisher Applications are available only to (i) individuals who are legally capable of entering into contracts (i.e., eighteen (18) years of age or older in most places), or (ii) corporations and other legal entities authorized to form legally binding contracts under applicable law. We may refuse to offer the ShareThis Publisher Applications to any person and may change our criteria for eligibility, at any time, in our sole discretion. We retain the right to terminate Your account and Your rights to use the ShareThis Publisher Applications for any reason, including but not limited to, if We believe that any registration data You provide is or becomes untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, or if We believe in our discretion that You are in violation of these Terms.
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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		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
	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") utilizing JavaScript 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	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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45	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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47	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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49	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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51	51	b. Use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, broadcast, transmit and distribute the Usage Data for any purpose and in any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed. This includes, without limitation, the right to incorporate or implement the Usage Data into any of Our products or services, and to display, market, sublicense and distribute the Usage Data as incorporated or embedded in any product or service distributed or offered by Us without compensation to You.
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53		3) You also agree to provide appropriate notice to Your Visitors of third party Cookies, tracking, interest-based advertising as described below in section VI.7. Such data may be used to provide tailored advertising to Your Visitors. We will give Visitors of Your Publisher Site the ability to opt out certain uses of the Usage Data at any time by going to [https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/) as well as the opt-out pages for the self-regulatory groups for which ShareThis is a participant.
	53	3) You also agree to provide appropriate notice to Your Visitors of cookies, including third party Cookies, tracking, interest-based advertising as described below in section VI.7. Such data may be used to provide tailored advertising to Your Visitors. We will give Visitors of Your Publisher Site the ability to opt out certain uses of the Usage Data at any time by going to [https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/](https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/) as well as the opt-out pages for the self-regulatory groups for which ShareThis is a participant.
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55	55	4) Data Ownership. In consideration of Your access and use of the ShareThis Publisher Applications, You agree that We will retain ownership of all data and information collected or obtained by Us from Visitors through our networks of the ShareThis Publisher Applications and We provide any data to You as part of the Services. You own all data that You collect directly from the Visitors of Your Publisher Site.
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57	57	VI. Data Collection, Rights and Publisher Privacy Notices.
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59	59	1) In consideration for Your access to and use of the ShareThis Publisher Applications, You agree that We may set cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and/or other similar tracking technologies (collectively, "Cookies") on Your Publisher Site where the ShareThis Publisher Applications are enabled, and allow our partners to set Cookies. When a Visitor accesses Your Publisher Site, we collect Usage Data via Cookies placed by ShareThis. For those Publishers based in the EU/EEA and/or Publishers with EU/EEA traffic, You need a legal basis to collect and process personal data and You need a consent for the placement of Cookies on Your Publisher Sites.

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