ZIFF DAVIS, LLC PRIVACY POLICY

Effective January 12, 2018

Version Française

Note: The Ziff Davis Privacy Policy has been updated. Please review the updated privacy policy carefully before using the Ziff Davis Services. By using any of the Ziff Davis Services, you consent to the terms of the updated Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at ZDLegal1@ziffdavis.com and include ‘Privacy Policy’ in the subject line.

Ziff Davis, LLC, its affiliates and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Ziff Davis”“us” or “we”) owns, operates, or provides access to, several interactive websites, mobile and connected applications, and other online interactive features and services, including, but not limited to, emails, newsletters, chat areas, forums, communities, sweepstakes and contests (collectively “Services”). This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected about you by Ziff Davis, regardless of how it is collected or stored, and describes, among other things, the types of information collected about you when you visit the Services, how your information may be used and when it may be disclosed, how you can control the use and disclosure of your information, and how your information is protected.

This Privacy Policy covers information collected through these websites and mobile applications:

Applications:

  • IGN: Video Game News, Reviews, Guides
  • IGN App For PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
  • IGN App For Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • IGN App For PlanetSide 2
  • IGN: Video Game News, Reviews
  • IGN App For GW2
  • IGN App For Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
  • IGN App For Dead Space 3
  • TechBargains
  • Mashable
  • Black Friday
  • Offers.com
  • Speedtest

Privacy Policy Overview

In this Privacy Policy, we will discuss the following topics and more:

 

  1. What information we collect.
  2. How we collect and use information.
  3. Information regarding interest-based advertising.
  4. What information we give to third parties.
  5. How you can change or control what is collected.
  6. Information for users located outside the U.S.
  7. How this Privacy Policy can change.
  8. Other useful information regarding your privacy.
  9. How you can contact Ziff Davis about any questions or concerns you may have.

Site Specific Links

The practices described in Sections 1 through 9 below generally apply to all Services. For further information about Services that relate to particular Ziff Davis sites and applications, click below:

1. What information we collect.

We may collect Personal Information from you or from other sources. “Personal Information” generally means information that might reasonably be used to specifically identify you and may include information such as:

  • Contact information, such as your name, postal address, email address, phone number and/or mobile number;
  • Demographic information such as gender, job and professional information, company information, education and work experience;
  • Age and/or date of birth;
  • User name and password; and
  • Location data that describes the precise geographic location of your device (“Precise Location Data”).

We do not intentionally collect data such as financial information or data concerning racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership.

We also collect other kinds of information from you or other sources, which we refer to as “Other Information” in this Privacy Policy. The type of information we collect may change as technologies evolve. Other Information may include, but is not limited to, information such as:

  • Areas or topics of interest;
  • Content of messages or comments posted by you or other users (e.g., text, photos, videos, and links) to the Services, including on forums or content;
  • Browsing history, including the websites or other services you visited before and after visiting the Services;
  • Device type, settings and software used;
  • Device identification (“ID”), which is a distinctive number associated with a smartphone or similar handheld device, but is different than a hardware serial number;
  • Advertising ID, which is a unique, user-resettable identification number for advertising associated with a device (e.g. iOS uses the Identifier for Advertising (or “IDFA”) and Android uses Google Advertising ID);
  • Internet connection means, such as internet service provider (“ISP”), mobile operator, WiFi connection, service set identifier (“SSID”), International Mobile Subscriber Identity (“IMSI”) and International Mobile Equipment Identity (“IMEI”);
  • Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which is a unique string of numbers automatically assigned to your device whenever you access the Internet;
  • Log files, which may include IP addresses, browser type, ISP referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamps and/or clickstream data, including any clicks on customized links;
  • Web Beacons, which are electronic files that allow a website to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies;
  • Pixel Tags, also known as clear GIFs, beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, are a method for passing information from the user’s computer to a third party website;
  • Non-precise information about the approximate physical location (for example, at the city or zip code level) of a user’s computer or device derived from the IP address of such computer or device (“GeoIP Data”);
  • Local Shared Objects, such as Flash cookies, and Local Storage, such as HTML5;
  • Mobile analytics to understand the functionality of our mobile applications and software on your phone; and
  • Information collected through the use of cookies, eTags, Javascript, pixel tags, device ID tracking, anonymous identifiers and other technologies, including information collected using such methods and technologies about (i) your visits to, and interaction and engagement with, the Services and ads on third party websites, applications, platforms and other media channels, and (ii) your interaction with emails including the content and ads (collectively, “Online Data”).

We may also supplement the Personal Information and Other Information we collect from you with information from third parties, including third party affiliate network operators, referral sources, social networking sites or services (such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn), and commercially available or public sources (such as data brokers, data aggregators and public databases). If you use a third party connection or log-in (such as Facebook Connect, Twitter, or Google+) to access the Services, create a membership or profile on any part of the Services, access our content or forward our content to another person, platform or service, we may also receive your user name, password or email address for those third party services or other information available about you or collected from you on those services. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of third parties, including those that may disclose information to Ziff Davis.

All of the above information is referred to collectively as “User Information”.

Please note that Ziff Davis is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the discussions in certain public areas of the site, such as forums, blogs, wikis, chat rooms, private messages, message boards or other publicly accessible interaction, or information that you choose to make public in your member profile or other areas that allow users to upload or post content. We discourage users from posting Personal Information in this fashion. You can change your publicly available information at any time via your profile page or to request removal of your Personal Information from these areas. Please see our section on How you can change or control what is collected in this Privacy Policy. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

2. How we collect and use information.

Ziff Davis collects information as described herein. All information is or may be used as described in this Privacy Policy.

We collect User Information across our Services, such as when you register for site membership or create a profile or account on any part of the Services; purchase a subscription, software license or product; sign up for emails, newsletters, bulletins, webinars or white papers; enter a sweepstakes, contest, competition or prize draw; receive promotional information by SMS text message; participate in surveys; perform search queries on the Services; send an email to us; or otherwise communicate with us. We also collect User Information about you offline through telephone or direct mail efforts or from customers, vendors, suppliers, third parties and publicly-available sources.

When you use the Services, we may combine Personal Information with Other Information we collect about you. We do this to improve services we offer you and to improve the functionality of the Services and our ability to market or advertise to you those products or services that may be of interest to you. We may also combine information you have provided to us with information obtained from other sources such as social networks.

Personal Information is used to provide Services to you from Ziff Davis or its partners, which includes, but is not limited to when: (i) we send emails or newsletters offering services or products to you, (ii) you post your personal testimonial alongside other endorsements, (iii) we display your personal reviews of products or services, or (iv) you to search for other website members using information you may already know about that member such as username, full name or gamer profile and identify users matching that criteria. Personal Information may also be used to send you advertisements and promotions on the Services and on third party channels. Personal Information you provide to us is used in a way that is compatible with the Services and this Privacy Policy. Some of the Services use Personal Information of a registered user to “pre-populate” online forms that are displayed for the purpose of collecting additional information about you by the Services or on behalf of a third party.

If you choose to use our referral service to send an article to a contact or to invite a contact to become a member of a website, we will ask you for your contact’s email address or allow you to import your contacts from your email account’s address book. We will automatically send your contact a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the website. We may collect the username and password for the email account from which you wish to import your contacts, and will only use that information for that purpose.

Ziff Davis and its partners use cookies and other tracking technologies to analyze trends, administer Services, track users’ movements around the Services and on third party sites, devices and applications, and to gather demographic information about our user base. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on the Services. To manage Flash cookies, please click here. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information, including a more in-depth explanation of what cookies are, the different types of cookies used on the Services, and how to change or delete them.

Tracking technologies on the Services may be deployed by Ziff Davis and/or by our service providers or partners. Certain tracking technologies enable us to assign a unique identifier to you, and relate information about your use of the Services to other information about you, including your User Information. We may match information collected from you through different means or at different times and use such information along with offline and online information obtained from other sources (including from third parties), including, but not limited to, demographic information and updated contact information for the purposes of learning more about you so we can provide you with relevant content and advertising.

When you receive email messages or newsletters from us, we may use web beacons, customized links, clear GIFs or similar technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you more focused email communications or other information, and/or aggregate with other data we collect for some or all of the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

We and our partners (including but not limited to e-commerce partners, affiliates, and analytics providers) may also use technologies such as pixel tags, e-tags, IP addresses, Local Shared Objects, Local Storage, Flash cookies and HTML5 to analyze trends; administer the Services; collect and store information such as user settings, anonymous browser identifiers and video viewing history; supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and response measurement; track users’ location and movements around the Services; gather demographic information about our user base; and to improve our understanding of traffic on the Services, visitor behavior, and responses to promotional campaigns. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these third party companies on an individual and aggregated basis. For example, we may connect information about your IP address to known corporate or other information or User Information and use the associated information related to aggregate content preferences to assist in our efforts to market services to you or the originating corporation(s). Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing Local Storage. To manage Flash Local Shared Objects please click here.

We use mobile analytics software to collect data and to better understand the functionality of our mobile software, devices and applications on your phone and other devices. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We may link this information to User Information.

The Services include certain social media features, such as the Facebook Connect authentication feature and Facebook “Like” button and widgets, which include the “Share” button or interactive mini-programs that run on the Services. These features may collect your IP address, track which page you are visiting on the Services, and may serve a cookie to enable the features to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

3. Information regarding interest-based advertising.

Ziff Davis and/or certain third parties collect information about you for online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) purposes in order for you to receive relevant interest-based advertising on the Services and on other websites, platforms and media channels. OBA is also referred to as interest-based advertising.

Ziff Davis displays ads on both the Services and on third party websites, applications, platforms and other media channels (collectively, “Channels”). We use Online Data as well as other User Information to send you OBA. For example, if you read an article about a particular subject on the Services, we may use cookies from a vendor to later serve you an advertisement for a particular product or service related to the viewed article. These third party vendors may connect information about pages you visit on the Services with information about pages you visit on other Channels and show you advertising based on this combined information. These advertisements may appear when you are visiting a different section of the Services or on another Channel. Likewise, third party vendors may serve you advertisements when you visit the Services based on your interaction with the Services and other Channels.

The specific providers we use for OBA are subject to change. For a list of some of the applicable providers, click here. For information about how to opt out of tracking methods for these entities and others, click here. For more details about OBA and opting out, click here.

Online Data is aggregated with the other information and data we collect as described in this Privacy Policy and/or similar data collected by partners to create groups of users and certain general-interest categories or segments that we have inferred based on (a) demographic or interest data and GeoIP Data, (b) the pages you view and links you click when viewing an email or using the Services and those of our partners, and/or (c) the search terms you enter when using certain search services. We use this information to get a more accurate picture of audience interests in order to serve ads we believe are more relevant to your interests. We store page views, clicks and search terms used for ad personalization targeting separately from your Personal Information.

We may also sell or transfer Online Data to certain third parties such as advertisers who will use this data to serve ads that they believe are relevant to your interests, and who agree to maintain the confidentiality of this information. Some of these third parties may combine the Online Data with their own data about you to form a more detailed picture.

We engage third party providers to assist with the collection, storage and segmentation of Online Data and the providers are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information. We do not authorize such third party providers to collect Personal Information from our Services for their own purposes. Except as may be set forth elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, this Online Data is retained by Ziff Davis for not more than 180 days after which it shall expire. However, the 180 day period may commence again if the same user subsequently visits or interacts with an ad, email, the Services or a Channel.

We may also engage third parties for the purpose of recognizing our users and delivering interest-based content and advertisements to them. We may share your User Information with our partners such as your name, postal address, email, or other identifier. Our partners may also: (i) collect information directly from your device, such as your IP address, device ID, advertising ID, and information about your browser or operating system; (ii) combine User Information about you received from Ziff Davis with information about you from other sites or services; and (iii) place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

Our ad network partners may use cookies, web beacons and advertising IDs to collect information about your activities on the Services and Channels to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you click or tap on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria. If you wish to not have this information used by Ziff Davis or vendors collecting OBA data on the Services for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served all advertising. If you opt out of interest-based ads, you will continue to receive ads, but these ads may not be as relevant to your interests. If you change your computer, change your browser, reset your advertising ID, or delete your cookies, you will need to renew your opt-out settings.

4. What information we give to third parties.

Ziff Davis provides User Information to third party companies and contractors who work on our behalf to provide us with specialized services, such as email message deployment, email address validation, merge-purge (identifying and removing duplicate addresses), subscription fulfillment, customer support and service, research, statistical analysis, cross-device user tracking, data and website hosting, marketing, advertising, and other data and transaction processing. These companies work on our behalf, are authorized by Ziff Davis to obtain only the information they need to deliver the service, and are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information. We also engage third party service providers for the purpose of processing the sale of subscriptions, to fulfill your orders for product purchases, to honor your request to be removed from promotional mailings, to monitor, analyze and prevent fraudulent traffic or other suspicious activities on the Services or Channels, or other services. These service providers have access to or are provided with certain User Information (including credit card information) in order to provide us with the applicable service.

At times, we conduct contests, competitions, sweepstakes and prize draws, or produce and host sponsored white papers, webcasts or other downloads for a variety of companies (“Sponsors”). Information collected during the registration for such events is used by us as part of User Information, and may be shared with the Sponsor and others. The information collected would be subject to our Privacy Policy and, in the event that it is shared with a Sponsor or other third party, would also be subject to the Sponsor’s or such other third party’s privacy policy, and it may be used by us, the Sponsor, and/or such other third parties for follow up purposes. We may also share your information with third party vendors involved in the administration of such events. For contests, competitions, sweepstakes and prize draws, please read the official rules or terms and conditions carefully before you submit your information.

For some of our Services, we may make some information, such as the name of our users, their mailing address, phone number, email address—and in certain circumstances their employer’s name, company size and other industry data—available on a rental or other basis (e.g. sale) to third party providers of goods and services, for example, when such information is provided in connection with webcasts, white papers or other sponsored downloads. While many customers appreciate the communications they receive from the third party providers of goods and services to whom we provide lists of our customers, if you no longer wish to receive messages from individual providers, follow the unsubscribe link and instructions at the bottom of the provider’s message or contact the third party provider directly to be removed from their list.

When you use a co-branded service (a service operated with a partner of Ziff Davis), or register or otherwise provide information on a co-branded site, you grant us permission to pass the information collected back to that partner. This may include third party service providers whose services are embedded into and/or appear within the Services. Use of your information by such partners may be subject to their privacy policies as well as ours.

In order to help us sell advertising on the Services and otherwise publicize Ziff Davis and its brands, we may share aggregate statistics that describe our online audience. Those statistics are often based on the information you provide when you subscribe, register, or browse the Services and describe, among other things, the demographics of our visitors.

With respect to surveys, in the event that responses are publicly disclosed, users will be notified at the time they take the survey. Ziff Davis will disclose only aggregate information regarding its users’ responses in surveys to other participants in the survey. Where surveys allow users to submit written comments, and where Ziff Davis advises users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the survey, Ziff Davis reserves the right to disclose any information provided by users, provided that no User Information identifying a specific user is disclosed. Participation in surveys is solely at your discretion.

We may also disclose User Information that we receive from you and from third party and public sources to third parties whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy (e.g., third party providers of goods and services, marketing and advertising companies and agencies, content publishers and retailers). In addition, we provide information to third parties for OBA as discussed above.

Ziff Davis and some of our advertisers use third party advertising service companies to serve advertisements and perform related services when you visit the Services. Often, these third party advertising companies employ cookie and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of website, app and email advertisements and to create a record of interaction with our content that they use in conjunction with their advertising which appears on other sites or applications, or for reporting website traffic, app use, statistics, advertisement data and/or other activities on the Services. We also engage third party providers to assist with the segmentation of this data.

The Service may utilize framing techniques to serve content from our partners while preserving the look and feel of our site. Please be aware that you may be providing your information to these third parties and not to Ziff Davis, or in some cases such information may be shared with both Ziff Davis and such third parties.

5. How you can change or control what is collected.

Updating Your Registration Information. Upon request, Ziff Davis will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Information. You can also view, correct, delete or change the information collected during user registration at any time at the profile page for that membership, app or website. Please allow five to ten business days for corrections or changes to be publicly displayed or implemented throughout our systems. If you have any trouble accessing, correcting or deleting any of your information, or would like to make a request about whether Ziff Davis holds any of your Personal Information, please contact the website directly by clicking on the appropriate link below (which should lead to a “Contact Us” page or support email) or contact us at ZDLegal1@ziffdavis.com (must include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line) and we will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

Location Based Services. You may opt-out of having your Precise Location Data collected by Ziff Davis at any time by editing the appropriate setting on your mobile device (which is usually located in the Settings are of your device) or by emailing us at ZDLegal1@ziffdavis.com and include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.

OBA. Ziff Davis is a member of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) in the U.S., E.U. and Canada and uses third party assurance platforms to comply with the DAA principles. Online ads on the Services using Online Data are delivered with the DAA Ad Marker Icon , which helps users understand how their data is being used and provides choices for users who want more control. This icon is also on each of our web pages and applications where Online Data is collected that will be used for OBA purposes.

The DAA Ad Marker Icon AdChoices provides information (and links to other information) on online behavioral ads, who is collecting and using your Online Data, how you can opt out and more. If you would prefer that we not collect Online Data that may be used to help determine which advertisements to serve you, opt out by clicking this icon AdChoices, which can be found on most of our webpages and mobile applications.

    • European Union and Switzerland residents should visit the European DAA by clicking here.
    • Canadian residents should visit the DAA of Canada by clicking here.
    • U.S. residents and residents of all other countries or territories not listed above can click here for the DAA site to learn more about the use of cookies, your opt-out choices, and more.

Cookies and Pixel Tags. You may stop or restrict cookies and pixel tags on your computer or purge cookies from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences. However, if you “turn off,” purge, or disable cookies or pixel tags, although you may still use the Services, you may not be able to use all of the features, functions, or services available on the Services.

Your Newsletter and Email Subscriptions. You can opt out or unsubscribe to a newsletter or other email list at any time by following the instructions at the end of the newsletters or emails you receive. Please allow five to ten business days for changes to take effect. On some Services, member service-related communications are an integral part of such Services to which you subscribe and you may continue to receive emails as part of that particular portion of the Services unless you cancel your account, even if you opt out of the newsletters or email list. If you have provided more than one email address to us, you may continue to be contacted unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided

Push Notifications. We send you push notifications from time-to-time in order to update you about any events or promotions that we may be running. If you no longer wish to receive these types of communications, you may turn them off at the device level. To ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device such as operating system and user identification information.

California Residents. In accordance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, we may collect Personal Information about your online activities when you use the Services. While we give our users many avenues to opt out of providing Personal Information, we do not respond to Web browsers’ “do not track” signals. If you wish for us to refrain from gathering your Personal Information, please see our section on How to Change or Control What Is Collected. California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code Section 1798.83, permits our users who are California residents to periodically request and obtain certain information about any Personal Information disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and wish to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to:

Ziff Davis
28 East 28th Street
New York, NY 10016
Attn: Legal Department

6. Information for users located outside the U.S.

The Services operate and are hosted in the United States and, depending on your country of residence, the submission of personally identifiable information to the Services may involve some transfer of User Information to the United States. You understand and consent to having any User Information you provide transferred to and processed in the United States. You should be aware that privacy laws in the United States may not provide protections equivalent to those of your country of residence.

Please note that we may use data collected by a third party operator/licensee of localized versions or editions of Services.

Ziff Davis privacy practices described in this Privacy Policy comply with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Cross Border Privacy Rules System. To learn more about this program, please click here.

Ziff Davis, LLC and its U.S. subsidiaries IGN Entertainment, Inc., emedia Communications, LLC, Salesify, Inc. d/b/a B2BSignals, Offers.com, LLC, Ookla, LLC and OnTargetJobs, Inc. participate in and have certified its compliance with the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. Ziff Davis is committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (E.U.) member countries and Switzerland, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, please visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List. Ziff Davis is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives under the Privacy Shield Framework and subsequent transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Ziff Davis complies with the Privacy Shield principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the E.U. and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions. With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, Ziff Davis is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Ziff Davis may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If you are a European individual with a privacy related complaint, concern or question about Ziff Davis’ privacy practices, please contact us by writing to ZDLegal1@ziffdavis.com (must include “Privacy Policy” in the subject line) and we will respond within 45 days of receiving your request. Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, European individuals may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.

7. How this Privacy Policy can change.

Some or all User Information maintained by Ziff Davis may be subject to transfer to another company in the event of a change of ownership of Ziff Davis or sale of any part of Ziff Davis. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our websites in the event of any change in ownership along with a material change of the uses of your Personal Information.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and all changes will be effective at the time we post them. If we believe there is a significant change to this Privacy Policy or our data collection and use practices, we will indicate on our websites that our Privacy Policy has changed prior to the change becoming effective. The then-posted version of the Privacy Policy supersedes all prior versions. Your continued access to or use of any of the Services shall be deemed your acceptance of the Privacy Policy.

We urge you to come back to this web page and review this Privacy Policy regularly so that you remain aware of the terms and conditions that apply to you.

8. Other useful information regarding your privacy.

Security. We believe we use reasonable precautions to keep the Personal Information you disclose to the Services secure. However, we cannot guarantee there will not be a breach, and we are not responsible for any breach of security or for the actions of any third parties. In certain instances we may use Secure Sockets Layer encryption and/or transfer certain User Information in a non-human readable format to provide protection. You are ultimately responsible for the security of your email address and password.

Children. The Services are not intended for use by children, especially those under 13. No one under age 13 should provide any Personal Information or use our public discussion areas, forums or chats. Minors under the age of 18 are prohibited from making purchases on the Service or obtaining coupons or codes from the Services to purchase goods or services on third party websites. If, notwithstanding these prohibitions, your children disclose information about themselves in our public discussion areas, consequences may occur that are not intended for children (for example, they may receive unsolicited messages from other parties). If it is discovered that we have collected Personal Information from someone under 13, we will delete that information immediately.

Data Retention. The time period for which we keep information varies according to the information’s use. In some cases, there are legal requirements to keep data for a minimum period. Unless there is a specific legal requirement for us to keep the information, we plan to retain it for no longer than is necessary to fulfill a legitimate business need.

Links to Other Sites. The Services contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different from ours. You should consult the privacy policy of these other sites to learn how your privacy is protected.

Compliance with Law and Other Terms. Subject to applicable law, we reserve the right to release information concerning any user of Services when we have grounds to believe that the user is in violation of our Terms of Use or other published guidelines or engages in (or we have grounds to believe is engaging in) any illegal activity, and to release information in response to court and governmental orders, other requests from government entities, civil subpoenas, discovery requests and otherwise as required by law. We also may release information about users when we believe in good faith that such release is in the interest of protecting the rights, property, safety or security of Ziff Davis, any of our users or the public, or to respond to an emergency.

For more information concerning your use of the Services, please visit Ziff Davis’ Terms of Use page which is incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy.

9. How you contact Ziff Davis about any questions or concerns you may have.

If you have any questions on our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at ZDLegal1@ziffdavis.com and include ‘Privacy Policy’ in the subject line. You may also contact us by writing to:

Ziff Davis
28 East 28th Street
New York, NY 10016
Attn: Legal Department

If you have an unresolved privacy of data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) by clicking here.

Health eCareers

Health eCareers (“HEC”) is a website operated by OnTarget Jobs, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. HEC offers news, information, events, career resources and employment opportunities for professionals in the healthcare industry.

Job seekers should post profiles and resumes on HEC only if they wish such information to be viewed by prospective employers. At any time, job seekers may elect that their profile and resume not be searchable by prospective employers by logging into their account and changing the status of their profile or, if that is not possible, they may contact info@healthecareers.com and HEC will make the change for them. Job seekers can also provide HEC with their geographic location in order to search for jobs near them if they wish.

In addition, job seekers may elect to make their profile searchable by prospective employers on a confidential basis only. In this case, the user’s name and contact information will not be displayed to prospective employers. If a prospective employer desires to contact a confidential job seeker regarding an employment opportunity, the prospective employer will send an email to the job seeker through HEC, who will forward the email to the job seeker’s email address. The job seeker’s email address will not be provided directly to the prospective employer. When posting a resume confidentially, it is the job seeker’s responsibility to ensure that their contact information is not included within their resume attachment.

With respect to job applications, HEC will not disclose your profile or resume through the Services to prospective employers except with your consent or to carry out your instructions.

Offers.com

Offers.com is a Ziff Davis website and application. When you install the Offers.com extension on your web browser, you may be offered coupons which are relevant to your online shopping experience. Offers.com has relationships with various third party merchants (“Merchants”), and coupons may be offered to you when you either search for a particular Merchant on your web browser or when you visit a particular Merchant’s website. The Offers.com extension may also use cookies to track your browsing history (if available) and the amount of money you spend on a particular Merchant’s website. All data collected about your browsing and spending history collected is collected anonymously and is then used by Offers.com for internal purposes only.

When using the Offers.com service, we may collect information that is about you but does not identify you, such as your merchant, brand and coupon preferences, and your interactions with Offers.com and its merchants. This and certain other information about you as described above (including Personal Information) may be collected when you: (1) search for merchants, brands or coupons, (2) view, display, click, print or download a coupon; (3) submit or redeem a coupon to a merchant; or (4) interact with advertisements appearing on the Offers.com website.

Offers.com also offers the opportunity to receive coupons via SMS messages if you provide your mobile phone number. You may choose to stop receiving mobile marketing communications from Offers.com by texting STOP in response to SMS messages. You can also text HELP for assistance, or contact Customer Service. Offers.com will not charge you for receiving or sending SMS messages and makes no representations, warranties or guarantees that a particular wireless service provider will enable you to participate in an SMS program.

Ookla

Ookla is a Ziff Davis company and operator of Speedtest.net and Speedtest Custom, as well as the Speedtest applications. Speedtest by Ookla is offered on multiple devices, products and platforms, such as an extension on your web browser or as an application in certain products such as routers.

When conducting a test through Speedtest on any device or platform, we collect: (a) the test results; (b) non-precise information about the approximate physical location of your computer or device derived from GeoIP Data and/or Precise Location Data (if your mobile device settings allow it); and (c) other information, including, but not limited to, the IP address, the ISP, college or organization that operates the network you test, and network, hardware and device identifiers such as your SSID or IMEI (if the test is conducted on a smartphone). If you install Speedtest on your smartphone or other mobile device, Ookla may collect your Precise Location Data, both while you are running a test and when the application is not actively in use but is running in the background on your device. To turn off the background scanning feature of the Speedtest application, go to the settings or coverage maps features within the Speedtest application and switch the background scanning feature to “Off.” If your smartphone or mobile device settings do not allow transmittal of Precise Location Data, certain features may not be available or their functions may be limited.

If you install the Speedtest extension on your web browser, in addition to allowing you to run a test of your internet speed, the extension uses our Web Speed feature, which measures the load time for a particular website and allows you to measure how long it takes for a particular website to load. Through the Web Speed feature, we collect page load metrics for the websites you visit, including page URLs, load times, and GeoIP Data. Web Speed does analyze your IP address when you run a test to ascertain the approximate location of your device, but the IP addresses analyzed by Web Speed are not retained by Ookla and are deleted automatically after the test is completed and are not licensed to third parties. Note, however, that we also combine this information with recent Speedtest information collected from the same device. You can opt out of the Web Speed feature at any time by adjusting the settings on your web browser.

Except as otherwise described herein, the information we gather from all tests run through Ookla’s brands is collected anonymously and then aggregated to provide performance data to users on the Ookla websites, including Ookla’s Speedtest server hosts, and/or to third parties to whom we license the information. We do so with the express intent of providing a neutral and unbiased monitoring and reporting resource for users around the world. The only Speedtest results we do not license to third parties are those test results from instances of Speedtest Custom which have a paid subscription– in such instances, the Speedtest results are owned by the subscriber and are subject to that subscriber’s privacy policy.

Information collected through Speedtest may not be anonymous as follows: in most cases, the IP addresses collected when you run a test on Speedtest.net, the Speedtest applications, or through the Speedtest feature of the browser extension are masked or partially hidden, but in some cases we provide the full IP address to the company licensing the information. For some ISPs and mobile carriers, Ookla will provide full IP addresses and/or network, hardware or device identifiers, for such ISP or mobile carrier’s customers upon request. Ookla may also provide full IP addresses and/or network, hardware and device identifiers, to equipment manufacturers and core network, or wholesale, providers on a case-by-case basis for network research purposes. Ookla may also collect GeoIP Data and/or Precise Location Data, and such data may also be licensed and/or transferred to third parties.

For more information concerning your use of Ookla’s websites and services (including Speedtest and Speedtest Custom), please visit the Ookla Terms of Use page. The Ookla Terms of Use page is incorporated by reference into this Privacy Policy.


Other brands and divisions of Ziff Davis not covered by this Privacy Policy

Everyday Health is a Ziff Davis company, but maintains separate privacy policies from Ziff Davis. Everyday Health and its subsidiaries own or operate the sites and applications listed below. For further information about their privacy practices, please click on the links below.

Everyday Health also operates the applications Calorie Counter and In Check.

Humble Bundle is a Ziff Davis company. For further information about their privacy practices, please click here.

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