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All surveys are voluntary and you may decline to participate.</p><p><strong>Direct mail partners</strong></p><p>From time to time we may share our postal mailing list with selected providers of goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive mailings from these providers, you can notify us at any time by sending an email to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/mailto:privacy@eb.com">privacy@eb.com</a>.</p><p><strong>Law enforcement</strong></p><p>We also may disclose your information: In response to a subpoena or as otherwise required by law. When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of Britannica, our Users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Service Terms and Conditions or other agreements or policies.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section data-id="1ed3804" class="elementor-element elementor-element-1ed3804 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-row"> <div data-id="bb83ae4" class="elementor-element elementor-element-bb83ae4 elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap"> <div data-id="d25440e" class="elementor-element elementor-element-d25440e elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor" data-element_type="menu-anchor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div id="Purposes of Processing the Information That You Provide to Us" class="elementor-menu-anchor"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section data-id="92c8673" class="elementor-element elementor-element-92c8673 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-row"> <div data-id="4510f7f" class="elementor-element elementor-element-4510f7f elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap"> <div data-id="4cd2a93" class="elementor-element elementor-element-4cd2a93 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Purposes of Processing the Information That You Provide to Us</strong></p><p><strong> </strong>As explained above, Britannica processes your data to provide you with the products and services you have requested or purchased from us, including subscriptions, special features, e-newsletters and other content. Sometimes we use third-party providers to facilitate the delivery of the services described above, and these third-party providers may be supplied with or have access to your personal information for the sole purpose of providing services to you on our behalf, such as our e-newsletters.</p><p>We also use your data for legitimate business purposes that enable us to refine our products and services to better tailor them to your needs and communicate with you about other products and services offered by Britannica. In addition, we may disclose your personal information in special legal circumstances. For instance, such information may be used where it is necessary to protect our copyright or intellectual property rights, or if the law requires us to do so.</p><p>You can update your personal information and change your marketing preferences at any time by sending an email to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/mailto:privacy@eb.com">privacy@eb.com</a>.</p><p> </p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section data-id="a3596a6" class="elementor-element elementor-element-a3596a6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-row"> <div data-id="dcd1c80" class="elementor-element elementor-element-dcd1c80 elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap"> <div data-id="b175c01" class="elementor-element elementor-element-b175c01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor" data-element_type="menu-anchor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div id="Links to Other Websites" class="elementor-menu-anchor"></div> </div> </div> <div data-id="d66df95" class="elementor-element elementor-element-d66df95 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Links to Other Websites</strong></p><p>This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Britannica Services by Britannica. Our Services contain links to websites or content (including advertisements on our free, ad-supported Services) operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of a third-party website before disclosing any personal information to the website. Do not supply Personal Information to these sites unless you have verified their security and privacy policies.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section data-id="84496fe" class="elementor-element elementor-element-84496fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-row"> <div data-id="a49c57a" class="elementor-element elementor-element-a49c57a elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap"> <div data-id="274b70d" class="elementor-element elementor-element-274b70d elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor" data-element_type="menu-anchor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div id="Information Collected Automatically-Opt Out & Cookie Policy" class="elementor-menu-anchor"></div> </div> </div> <div data-id="52e882e" class="elementor-element elementor-element-52e882e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Information Collected Automatically- Opt-Out & Cookie Policy</strong></p><p><strong>Britannica Activities & Opting Out</strong></p><p>Like other commercial websites, Britannica and our authorized partners use cookies (small files transferred from a website to its visitors’ hard drives or browsers for record-keeping purposes), including essential, functional and analytical cookies, and other similar information gathering technologies throughout our Services to collect certain information automatically and store it in log files for a variety of legitimate business interests and purposes. This information may include (but is not limited to) internet protocol (IP) addresses, mobile device identifiers, the region or general location where your computer or device is accessing the internet, browser type, operating system and other usage information about your use of our Services, including a history of the pages you view.</p><p>Web beacons, tags and scripts may be used on our Services or in email or other electronic communications we send to you. These assist us in delivering cookies, counting visits to our Websites, understanding usage and campaign effectiveness and determining whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our third-party service providers on an individual and aggregated basis.</p><p>Britannica and its authorized partners use cookies, beacons and other similar technologies on our Services for legitimate business interests that enable us to allow you to navigate our websites, use our Services and access secure areas of our Services. We also use these technologies for statistical purposes and to analyze and improve the use of our Services and prepare aggregated usage reports.</p><p>As described below, on our free, ad-supported Services, we use these technologies for legitimate business purposes to provide standard advertising controls, determine user response to advertisements and promotions, and deliver targeted advertisements that we or our partners believe will be of most interest to you.</p><p>We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, analyze trends, track visitor movements, and gather broad demographic information that assists us in identifying visitor preferences.</p><p>You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Services. For more information about cookies, please visit <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.allaboutcookies.org/">http://www.allaboutcookies.org/</a>.</p><ul><li><strong>Analytics & usage data</strong></li></ul><p><em>For our legitimate business interests, we may process your personal information for analytic purposes on all of our Services as described in this section. </em></p><p>Together with Google Analytics, we use cookies and software logs to monitor the use of the Services and to gather non-personal informational about visitors to the site. These monitoring systems allow us to track general information about our visitors, such as the type of browsers (for example, Firefox or Internet Explorer), the operating systems (for instance, Windows or Macintosh), or the Internet providers (for instance, Comcast) they use. This information is used for statistical and market research purposes to tailor content to usage patterns and to provide services requested by our customers.</p><p>We also have implemented Google Analytics Demographics and Interest reporting, which is a Google Analytics Advertiser feature. This tool uses cookies to collect and store standard Internet log and visitor information on our behalf, including information about what pages you visit, how long you are on our sites, how you got here, and what you click on during your visit. This Google Analytics data is not tied to personal information, so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We use the data provided by Google Analytics Demographics and Interest reports to develop our services and content around our User demographics, interests, and behavior on our Services. You can opt out of this Google Analytics Advertiser feature using the Ads Settings located at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/https://www.google.com/settings/ads">https://www.google.com/settings/ads</a>. In addition, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics. To delete these cookies, please see your browser’s privacy settings or follow the above instructions.</p><p>We may also receive other data about your use of our Services from other sources. This information may include (but is not limited to) information about your activities across unrelated websites and mobile applications, information about the possible relationships between different browsers and devices and information that we receive from our third party service providers. We may add this information to the information to the information we have already collect through our Services.</p><ul><li><strong>Advertising on our free, ad-supported Services</strong></li></ul><p><em>For our legitimate business interests we process and disclose your personal information collected automatically through our free, ad-supported Services for advertising, including interest-based advertising, as described in this section. Our free Services are supported by advertising. Our subscription websites are paid for by subscription fees, and are ad-free, as are our paid-for mobile applications. As more fully described below, in order to monetize our free, ad-supported Services, we work with third parties to display advertising on the Services. If you would like to avoid all advertisements, sign up for a subscription or upgrade your mobile application. </em></p><p>We work with DigiTrust to set a cookie in your browser to enable us and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.digitru.st/participating-companies/">DigiTrust Partners</a> to collect web viewing data that includes visits to a Britannica Service and other non-affiliated websites over time. This data may be used to infer whether you share interests with other Users, and deliver advertising relevant to those inferences. This type of advertising is called interest-based or behavioral advertising. You can exercise choice about the collection of data in this way for interest-based, behavioral advertising by visiting the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/">Digital Advertising Alliance’s choice page</a> and opting out from DigiTrust or use one of the links provided below. Opting out from DigiTrust will stop DigiTrust Partners from using the DigiTrust identifier. Through the DAA choice page, you may make other choices for companies that participate in the DAA, some of which are DigiTrust Partners.</p><p>Please note that limiting third-party cookies via your browser controls does not prevent our first-party cookie from being set in this way. Also, please know, if you opt out of interest-based advertising <u>you will continue to receive ads on our free, ad-supported Services, but not behaviorally targeted ads</u>. Also, if you opt out of Britannica’s practices, you may continue to receive interest-based advertising through other companies. If you erase your browser’s cookies, you may need to perform this process again.</p><ul><li><strong>Anonymous </strong><strong>data</strong></li></ul><p>Anonymous aggregated data may be provided to other companies we do business with for statistical purposes. For example, we may report to advertisers that a certain percentage of our site’s visitors are adults between the ages of 25 and 35.<a name="_Toc514312505"></a></p><ul><li><strong>Device identifiers</strong></li></ul><p><em>For our legitimate business interests, we process your device identifiers as described in this section. </em></p><p><em> </em>When you use a mobile device like a tablet or cell phone to access our Services, we may access and monitor one or more “device identifiers.” Device identifiers are small data files associated with your mobile device that uniquely identify your mobile device. A device identifier may deliver information to us or a third party partner about how you browse and use the services and may help us or others provide reports or personalized ads. Some features of the services may not function properly if use or availability of device identifiers is impaired or disabled.</p><p><a name="_Toc514312506"></a></p><p><strong>Third-part<a name="_Toc514312508"></a>y activities & opting out</strong></p><p><em>For our legitimate business interests, and with your consent where this is required, we may process for advertising, including interest-based advertising, as described in this section.</em></p><p>As described above, in order to monetize our free, ad-supported Services, we work with third-party advertisers and advertising networks that use cookies and other similar technologies to target ads served to our free, ad-supported Services. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the use of data that you provide directly to advertisers or third party partners; that usage is governed by the advertiser’s or third party partner’s privacy policy.</p><p>What does it mean to “serve ads”? When you visit a website, your Internet browser transmits a “request” to the computer that hosts the website (the “host server”) requesting that server to send you (or “serve”) the Web page that you are seeking. Most Web pages contain components that are pulled from different sources, for example, a Web page at a news site may get its weather section from one provider, its sports results from a different source, and advertisements from other servers. Our Web pages contain coding that directs your browser to fill the ad spaces on the Web pages with content served by advertisers and networks of advertisers to whom we have sold the ad spaces. The advertisers and networks use cookies and beacons to help manage ad delivery and frequency, and to identify audience segment(s) for customized advertising (“targeting”). These cookies are used to identify your IP address, so that when you visit another website using the same advertising network, the network will recognize the cookie as one of its own, read the information on the cookie (the record of which sites in the network you have visited) and serve you an ad that you might be interested in, based on your past visits to other sites in the network. Advertising targeted based on past Web surfing is known as “behavioral advertising.”</p><p>Britannica does not provide any personal information to third-party advertisers about visitors to the Services. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the use of information that they may have collected from you by third parties on other sites. If you would like to learn more about behavioral advertising or to opt out of having this information used by companies that are part of the Network Advertising Initiative to deliver targeted ads, please visit <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.networkadvertising.org/">http://www.networkadvertising.org</a>. Many of the same companies are members of the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. You can learn more and opt out of receiving targeted ads from them at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.aboutads.info/choices">http://www.aboutads.info/choices</a>.</p><p>Some advertising networks require that we specifically list their opt-out links below. When you opt-out of a network, you may receive a “opt-out” cookie so that the network will know not to assign you new cookies in the future. <u>You will continue to receive ads from that network, but not behaviorally targeted ads</u>. If you erase your browser’s cookies, you may need to perform this process again.</p><ul><li>Exponential Interactive, Inc. has a legitimate interest to collect and profile personal data in the form of IP address and cookie ID from users on our website in order to provide targeted online advertising and ad measurement. For more details including opt-out requests, access requests or complaints, please review their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://exponential.com/privacy/">privacy policy</a> or contact their data protection officer via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/mailto:privacy@exponential.com">privacy@exponential.com</a>.</li></ul><p><strong>Opt-Out Choices</strong></p><p>You can opt out of being behaviorally targeted by Britannica (and other companies employing online advertising) via the following options:</p><ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.aboutads.info/choices/">Digital Advertising Alliance</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.youradchoices.ca/">Digital Advertising Alliance Canada</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/">European Digital Advertising Alliance</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp">Network Advertising Initiative</a></li></ul><p>To manage or delete browser cookies, please see your browser’s privacy settings.</p><p>To manage or delete Flash cookies, please use the Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager:</p><p>here:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html">http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/<br/>help/settings_manager07.html</a></p><p><strong>Please remember, if you opt out of interest-based advertising you will continue to receive ads on our free, ad-supported Services, but not behaviorally targeted ads. Also, if you opt out of Britannica’s practices, you may continue to receive interest-based advertising through other companies</strong></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section data-id="40ded8d" class="elementor-element elementor-element-40ded8d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-row"> <div data-id="58eed16" class="elementor-element elementor-element-58eed16 elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap"> <div data-id="41de806" class="elementor-element elementor-element-41de806 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor" data-element_type="menu-anchor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div id="Children’s Privacy" class="elementor-menu-anchor"></div> </div> </div> <div data-id="ee8dd5e" class="elementor-element elementor-element-ee8dd5e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Children’s Privacy</strong></p><p>Children should always ask parents for permission before providing any personal information to Britannica or purchasing any products or services from Britannica. Except as permitted by law and described in the following paragraphs, Britannica does not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from or about children under 16. If we discover we have received any personal information from a child under 16 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe Britannica has any Personal Information from or about anyone under 16, please contact us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/mailto:privacy@eb.com">privacy@eb.com</a>.</p><p>Our kid-directed, subscription-based Services, including <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/https://kids.britannica.com/">Britannica Kids</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/https://school.eb.com/">Britannica School</a>and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/https://packs.eb.com/">Britannica Launch Packs</a>, are ad-free services, operated in compliance with applicable children’s privacy laws in U.S., EU and elsewhere.</p><p>With a parent or school official’s express consent and to fulfill a contractual obligation, the personal information we may collect through our kid-directed Services includes (but is not limited to) a visitor’s email address, parent email address, school name and teacher email address. When accessed using a Google Classroom account created and managed by a school for use by its students and educators, we also may collect certain roster data that includes (but is not limited to) a student’s or educator’s first and last name and password.</p><p>When using one of our kid-directed Services, our systems also automatically collect certain analytic and usage information for our legitimate business interests described above.</p><p>In no event do we require children to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity or perform a requested service, and, as a parent, you can review your child’s personal information, direct us to delete it and refuse to allow any further collection or use of your child’s personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, or to exercise your parental rights, please email us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/mailto:privacy@eb.com">privacy@eb.com</a>or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190814213345/mailto:dpo@eb.com">dpo@eb.com</a>.</p><p>All other Services offered by us are general audience services, intended for Users (visitors and subscribers) of all ages and Britannica does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information on these Services from or about children under 16.<strong> </strong></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section data-id="1587b5c" class="elementor-element elementor-element-1587b5c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-row"> <div data-id="1cddd56" class="elementor-element elementor-element-1cddd56 elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap"> <div data-id="c8a762c" class="elementor-element elementor-element-c8a762c elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor" data-element_type="menu-anchor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div id="security of your information" class="elementor-menu-anchor"></div> </div> </div> <div data-id="9cc6512" class="elementor-element elementor-element-9cc6512 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Security </strong><strong>of Your Information</strong></p><p>Any personally identifiable information collected through this site is stored on limited-access servers. We will maintain safeguards to protect these servers and the information they store. In addition, to help protect the privacy of data and personally identifiable information you transmit through use of our Services, we maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We strive to restrict access to your personal data to those employees who need to know that information to provide benefits or services to you. In addition, we strive to all our employees about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your information.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section data-id="640e0bd" class="elementor-element elementor-element-640e0bd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-section elementor-top-section" data-element_type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-row"> <div data-id="dddd1a4" class="elementor-element elementor-element-dddd1a4 elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column" data-element_type="column"> <div class="elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap"> <div data-id="8fbe459" class="elementor-element elementor-element-8fbe459 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor" data-element_type="menu-anchor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div id="Data Storage and Retention" class="elementor-menu-anchor"></div> </div> </div> <div data-id="c9602ae" class="elementor-element elementor-element-c9602ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-element_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Data Storage and Retention</strong></p><p>Your personal data is stored by us on our servers located in the United States, Australia and India. 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