Privacy Policy

Depending on the Services you use and how you use them, we, or Our service providers, may use your information to:

Provide the Services you request, including to maintain and service your account, by:

• Processing and fulfilling your transactions
• Maintaining and servicing your account
• Sending communications that you have requested
• Administering your entries into sweepstakes, contests, promotions, or surveys
• Providing community features and post your content

Communicate with You & Provide Customer Service to Provide the Services, including through:

• Transactional or service communications, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or sweepstakes or other promotions, when we make changes to subscriber agreements, to send you an email newsletter, process refund requests, or to contact you about your account
• Responses to your requests for information
• Customer service and technical support

Personalize your experience to Provide the Services, by:

• Customizing certain features of the Services
• Delivering relevant content and to provide you with an enhanced experience based on your activities and interests
• Sending you personalized newsletters, surveys, and information about products, services and promotions offered by us, our partners, and other organizations with which we work
• Customizing the advertising on the Services based on your activities and interests
• Creating and updating inferences about you and audience segments that can be used for targeted advertising and marketing on the Services, third party services and platforms, and mobile apps
• Conducting cross-device tracking by using information such as IP addresses and unique mobile device identifiers to identify the same unique users across multiple browsers or devices (such as smartphones or tablets), in order to save your preferences across devices and analyze usage of the Service
• Use inferences about your preferences and interests for any and all of the above purposes

Republish Information You Provide on the Services, by:

• Pursuant to our Terms of Use, using and editing information submitted by you in response to opportunities provided on the Services, which you provide to us through emails, blogs, forums, in response to polls, or through any other user generated submission, for editorial purposes, including without limitation in our Editorial Content, including your name, likeness, photograph, and biographical information you provide, with or without attribution, including publication in the Publications, and in trade media, and advertising

Improve the Services and develop new services, by:

• Engaging in analysis, research, and reports to better understand how you use the Services, so we can improve them and develop new services

Our Marketing and Third-Party Marketing and Advertising Purposes, by:

• Sending you newsletters, promotional emails, surveys and information about products, services and promotions offered by us, our partners, and other organizations with which we work
• Customizing content and advertising that we or our third-party partners deliver on the Services (e.g., targeted third-party advertising)
• Creating and updating inferences about you and audience segments that can be used for targeted advertising and marketing on the Services, third party services and platforms, and mobile apps
• We may combine the information we collect about you, including from third parties, and conduct cross-device tracking for the marketing and advertising purposes above

Bug detection and error reporting, including to understand and resolve technical issues, app crashes and other issues being reported

Audit consumer interactions on the Services including to measure the placement, frequency, efficacy and compliance of advertising and ad impressions

Security, Fraud, and Legal Compliance, including by detecting, protecting against, and prosecuting security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity including to:

• Monitor, prevent, and detect fraud, such as through verifying your identity
• Combat spam or other malware or security risks
• Monitor, enforce, and improve the security of our Services
• Comply with any applicable procedures, laws, and regulations, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process, or in connection with a legal investigation, if in our good faith opinion such is required or permitted by law
• Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (e.g., to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, Privacy Policies, or other contracts or legal rights)
• Protect or defend our Services, users, or others

Aggregate and/or De-Identified Information. We may aggregate or anonymize information and/or de-identify any information collected through the Services so that such information can no longer reasonably be linked to you or your device (such information, “Aggregate/De-Identified Information”). We may use and disclose this Aggregate/De-Identified Information for any purpose permitted under the law.

• For our Editorial Activities, including
• to license Editorial Content for our legitimate business purposes.

California and Colorado residents can find additional information about how we process categories of information in “California Privacy Notice” below.

PMC may disclose information collected from and about you on the Services to other companies or individuals as set forth below:

• Service Providers. We may provide access to information to vendors that perform services on our behalf, including subscription and order fulfillment, Event and travel coordination, managing our email lists and sending email messages on our behalf, processing payments, providing customer support, providing analytics, and performing other administrative services, in order to carry out such services. For example, we use Shopify to power the Rolling Stone Store located at shop.rollingstone.com, the Billboard Store located at shop.billboard.com and the WWD Store located at store.wwd.com. You can read more about how Shopify uses your information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.  
• Our Affiliates. We may disclose information we collect within the PMC family of companies to deliver products and services to you, ensure a consistent level of service across our Services, internal management and administrative purposes on our behalf and enhance our products, services, and your customer experience.
• Information You Disclose Publicly. You may submit photographs, user profiles, written material, music, video, photos, comments and other content, which may include information relating to your and/or other individual users (collectively, “UGC”) on the Services. We do not control who will have access to the UGC you choose to make public or how they will use it and take no responsibility for ensuring such UGC remains private or is secure. We are also not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any UGC that you disclose or receive through the Services. Please see our Terms of Use for further information about the terms that govern the UGC you post.
• Other Individuals, Services, and Partners at Your Request. We will disclose your information to other individuals and services at your request.
• Third Party Contests and Promotions Providers. If you enter a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by a third party, the information you provide via the contest or sweepstakes may be disclosed to that third party for their use subject to their own policies.
• Third Party Partners to Provide Co-Branded Products and Services. From time to time, we partner with a retailer or other third party to offer products, services, subscriptions, Events and summits, and other applications on a co-branded or cross-promotional basis (“Co-Branded Areas”), such as ChartStars in connection with Billboard. The information you provide in connection with Co-Branded Areas may be collected directly by, or disclosed by PMC to, the third party, as well as with any participating sponsors or advertisers of such Co-Branded Areas. These third parties will use your information in accordance with their own privacy policy.
• For Marketing Purposes. We may disclose your information to third parties whose offerings may interest you such as other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases, Event sponsors and non-profit organizations. This includes licensing information about your interests and activities, and marketing segments created with such data, which we may disclose to third parties for their marketing purposes.
• Third-Party Online Advertisers, Ad Networks and Advertising Partners. As discussed in the “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” Section below, the Services may integrate third-party advertising technologies that allow for the delivery of relevant content and advertising on the Services (including in our emails to you), as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use. These technologies will collect certain information from your use of the Services to assist in delivering such ads and marketing messages and enhancing our information. These third parties include advertising networks, data exchanges, ad servers, certain analytics providers and others. The list of third party providers is found in the Section below entitled “List of Third Party Vendors”. Except for the choices provided by PMC herein, this Privacy Policy does not govern the use of cookies or other tracking by such third parties. In addition, we sometimes provide certain information (such as email addresses) to service providers and third-party advertising partners, who may “match” this information in hashed form to cookies (or mobile ad identifiers) and other proprietary IDs, in order to provide you with more relevant ads when you visit other websites and mobile applications.
• For Legal Purposes. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that we may access, retain, and disclose the information we collect and maintain about you if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, retention or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process or a regulatory investigation (e.g. a subpoena or court order); (b) enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; and/or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of PMC, its agents and affiliates, its users and/or the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes.
• Social Networks. As noted above, if you use your login credentials from a social media networking service on a Publication, we may receive information from such service in accordance with its terms and privacy policy and your settings. If you elect to share your information with these social networking sites, we will disclose information to them in accordance with your election. The terms and conditions of these social networking sites will apply to the information we disclose to them.
• Sales or Transfer of Business or Assets. In connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise, including via bankruptcy) of all or a portion of the business conducted by the Publication to which this policy applies, in which case the company will possess the information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your information as described in this Privacy Policy (the “Acquisition Use”).
• Editorial Activities. As part of our Editorial Activities.
• Editorial Content Licensees. To third parties that license our Editorial Content.

Under the law of certain jurisdictions, such as the European Union, the UK, and Brazil, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the information concerned and the context in which we collect it. We collect information from you:

• Where we need it to perform our contract with you (i.e. our Terms of Service) in order to provide the Services you request;
• Where the processing is in our legitimate interests (provided that these aren’t overridden by your interests or rights) to secure our Services, prevent misuse, and fraud, and resolve technical issues; respond to your requests for information and provide you with more effective and efficient customer service; contact you regarding the Services, as well as surveys, promotions, special events, and other subjects that we think may be of interest to you (in accordance with applicable legal requirements); better understand your interests and improve our Services; personalize the Services; conduct internal business operations in support of our Services, such as auditing, sales and marketing, analytics, and research and development; and establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights;
• Where we have obtained your consent to send you marketing and other commercial communications and use non-strictly necessary cookies where local law requires such consent for such marketing and cookies (please note these requirements vary by jurisdiction and not all jurisdictions require consent for such uses) or use your information as set forth in a release or in connection with a consent;
• To comply with our legal obligations; or
• To protect the vital interests of a person, such as their life or physical or mental well being.
• For our Editorial Activities, including, on the basis of consent, legitimate interest and/or to exercise the rights of freedom of expression and information.

We may also collect and use personal information in connection with your consent in other circumstances, which will be presented to you at the time of collection. You can revoke your consent at any time, though you might not be able to use a service or feature that requires collection or use of that personal information.

We keep your information for the purposes for which it is processed. The length of time for which we retain information depends on the purposes for which we collected and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws.

We use and allow certain other companies to use certain tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies”) on the Services. To see an explanation of what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them please see our  cookie notice (“Cookie Notice”). We endeavor to adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) self-regulatory principles governing interest-based advertising.

When you are on the Services, you may be directed to other websites that are operated and controlled by third parties that we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these third parties. If you access a third-party website from the Services, you do so at your own risk, and you understand that this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of such websites.

We implement appropriate administrative, technical and security safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of the information we collect. However, no systems can be completely secure. Therefore, while PMC uses reasonable efforts to protect your information, PMC cannot guarantee its absolute security, and your use of the Services indicates your agreement to assume this risk.

The Services are for a general audience and are not designed or intended for use by children, especially those under age thirteen (13) or sixteen (16) in the EU.

The Services are operated in the United States of America (USA) and are intended for users located in the USA. If you are located outside of the USA, please note that the information you provide to us will be processed in the USA, where laws regarding processing of personal data may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Where applicable law requires certain mechanisms or safeguards prior to the transfer of data from another entity in another jurisdiction to the United States, we will implement such safeguards such as relying on approved standard contractual clauses and applying appropriate security measures relevant to the treatment of data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy.

If you choose to access the Services, subscribe to our Publications or use any of our Services, any dispute over privacy is subject to our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes by binding arbitration, and application of the laws of the United States, and the State of New York. This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.