We understand our community of users’ privacy concerns and take privacy seriously at Dotdash Meredith. This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) outlines how personal information is gathered, used, disclosed, and processed in relation to the Dotdash Meredith publishing family, other digital properties that link to it, and our websites (the “Sites”), mobile applications (the “Apps”), and the associated content, services, goods, and other features and functionality provided on or through those sites and apps (collectively, the “Services”).
Information You Provide to Us:
The personal data that we get from you and about you could change based on your interactions with our services and the information you freely submit. In conjunction with your use of the Services, we could obtain personal information about you directly or through other means, including:
- Contact details, such as your name, email address and postal address, registration information for events or conferences, any dietary requirements, images and videos recorded at the events, and communication preferences.
- Inquiry Data, including details supplied in correspondence transmitted via phone calls, email addresses, or forms and surveys. Information you supply when subscribing to our newsletters may also fall under this category.
- Name, username, account ID, date of birth, contact details, profile details, saved, “liked,” or bookmarked items (like recipes or articles), payment and purchase history details, subscription details, courses enrolled in and completed, and Stock Simulator results are all included in the account information.
- Financial Data: This includes the billing and shipping addresses, bank account and routing number, credit and debit card details, and more.
- Details about your age, gender, race, income, employment, and marital status; also, details on the size of your home and how long you have lived there are included.
- Information on food choices, exercise and activity levels, weight loss goals, and other aspects of health and wellbeing that are related to fitness or health.
- User-Generated Content: This includes any personally identifiable information you decide to provide about yourself when you use the Services, engage in forums or debates, leave comments or reviews, or use any other service. You should avoid providing sensitive personal information that you would not want to be available to the public because you should be aware that information you submit may be accessed, utilised, or collected by anyone who uses the Services.
- Information from Contests, Sweepstakes, and Surveys: This includes any information you enter into a contest or sweepstakes, any information you supply in answers to surveys or questionnaires, and any material from testimonials.
- Inferences About Your Preferences, Interests, and Other Behavioural Data, such as hobbies, interests, and traits like your go-to meals, purchases, or recipes, consumption patterns, and details about your physical condition and well-being.
Information Automatically Collected:
· General
Like many other digital sites, when you visit or use our Services, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect information about your device and usage of the service in addition to the information you submit to us. In connection with our Services, we, along with our third-party partners, use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as pixels, SDKs, APIs, scripts, location-identifying technologies, and logging technologies) to gather and store the data that is detailed in this section (and further elaborated upon in other sections) for our own and our partners’ needs.
Device information includes the following: the IP address, operating system, type and version of the device, browser type and version, browser id, URL entered, referring page, date and time of visit, additional user agent string data, amount of time spent using our services, and any errors that may have occurred. There may be overlaps between device data and the other data types mentioned below.
Analytics/Usage data: this includes the route taken to access, use, and exit our services; usage and activity on or in connection with our services (e.g., pages visited, links clicked, videos watched); metrics on the number of emails we send that are actually opened; and which attachments or links are opened, clicked, or viewed (e.g., via pixels, as explained below). Additionally, we could employ third-party programmes to gather data that you give us or data about your usage of the Services, such as keystrokes, mouse movements, scrolling, clicking, and other browsing, search, or purchase activities. When you use our services, participate in chat, or use other features, these technologies could also capture the information you submit.
