Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 1, 2023

The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and its subsidiaries including A57 Digital Consulting LLC, d/b/a Long Dash, cares about your privacy and the security of your information. Together, The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and its subsidiaries are referred to below as “The Atlantic,” “we” or “our”.

This Privacy Policy describes the privacy practices of The Atlantic in connection with our print, digital, and live event products and services, including www.TheAtlantic.com and The Atlantic iOS mobile app; other websites and mobile applications we own and operate; newsletters and other content we provide; The Atlantic magazine; live editorial events we host, and any other site or service that posts or links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”). It describes the kinds of information we may gather in connection with the Services, how we use your information, to whom we disclose your information, and how you can manage your information  Our Privacy Policy does not govern or apply to information collected or used by The Atlantic through other means, including when you use any of our websites on which a different privacy policy is posted.

By using our Services, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy, including our use of cookies and similar online tools  If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services  We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our privacy policy from time to time without notice  Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective as of the “last updated” date set forth above. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

If you are a resident of California, please see the Important Information for Users in California Section of this Privacy Policy.

If you are a resident of Virginia, please see the Important Information for Users in California Section of this Privacy Policy.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK”), or Switzerland, please see the Users in the EEA and Switzerland Section of this Privacy Policy.

Our Services are under constant development. This Privacy Policy may therefore be modified and updated on an ongoing basis. Please check back to this page regularly.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.    WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
2.    HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
3.    HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
4.    ONLINE TRACKING
5.    THIRD PARTIES
6.    PRIVACY CHOICES
7.    IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR USERS IN CALIFORNIA
8.    IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR USERS IN VIRGINIA
9.    USERS IN THE EEA, UK, AND SWITZERLAND
10.  CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
11.  OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
12.  CONTACT US

1. WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

We may collect several types of information about you in connection with the Services

Information You Provide to Us  There are a number of circumstances in which you supply us with personal information in connection with the Services, which include:

• Contact data, such as your personal or business contact information such as your name, e-mail address, street address and phone number.
• Registration data, such as information you provide when you register for any of our Services or when you register for events.
• Marketing data, such as information related to your preferences for receiving communications, subscribing to our publications, newsletters and other content, completing surveys, participating in market research, and entering a contest, sweepstakes, or game relating to the Services.
• Communications, such as information you provide when you send us an email, pitch, submit content or post a comment, request for information, or otherwise correspond with us.
• Demographic information, such as your city, state, country of residence, postal code, gender, ethnicity, race, languages spoken, and age.
• Transaction data, such as your order history, products and services you have purchased, subscription records, and information needed to process and fulfill your order, including your order details and delivery address.
• Audience research data, such as occupation, the name of the employer, level of education, income level, and school(s) attended.
• Financial information, such as your financial account numbers or payment card information. (Please note that a third party payment processor is responsible for all collection, processing, and storage of your Financial Information; at no time do we have direct access to or possession of any payment card information.)
• Profile information, such as your username and password that you may set to establish an online account with us, your photograph, interests, social medial account ID and preferences.
• Content you choose to upload to the Services, such as text, images, audio, and video, along with the metadata associated with the files you upload.
• Business Information, such as your job title, employer’s name and contact information, and your business email address, physical address, and telephone number.
• Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Information We Automatically Collect About Your Use of the Services. We, our service providers, and our business providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your activity occurring on or through our websites, such as:

• Device information:  We may collect device identifiers and settings such as your computer or mobile device model, IP address, other unique device identifiers, operating system version, browser type, language, and settings, and device type and settings.
• Usage information:  We may collect information about the Services you use, the time, date, and duration of your use of the Services, your interaction with content offered through the Services, site engagement, search terms used, our referring website, browsing and search history, site and advertisement interactions, and software crash reports. We also collect information stored using cookies, mobile ad identifiers, and similar technologies set on your device  Our servers may automatically keep an activity log of your use of the Services  We may collect such usage information at the individual or aggregate level.
• Location information: We collect and store your device’s source IP address, which may disclose the general location of your device at the time you access the Services and precise location derived from GPS-enabled services.  Advertisements and certain content may be directed to you based on this data.

Information from Third Parties  We may receive information about you from third parties and combine it with information we receive from or about you. For example:

• Information from social media websites:  When you interact with any The Atlantic page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or LinkedIn, or otherwise connect your account on the third-party platform or network to your account through our sites, we may collect the personal information available from that page or platform or that you make available to us on that page or account, including your social media account ID, username, user ID, profile picture, cover photo, and networks to which you belong, friends and connections and contact information  If you choose to link or login to your TheAtlantic.com account with or through a social media platform, The Atlantic and that platform may share certain information about you and your activities. You can read more about your choices in the “Privacy Choices” section. Likewise, we obtain contact details and other personal information regarding media contacts and influencers from a variety of sources including Cision. If you wish to know more about how such information is collected and used, please refer to Cision’s privacy notice at www.cision.com/us/legal/privacy-policy.
• Information from publicly or commercially available sources: We may collect certain information about you from third parties, including business partners (such as advertising and joint marketing partners) data providers (such as information services and data licensors) and public sources (such as blogs, forums or social media platforms).
• Information from other third parties: We may receive certain information about you from third parties if, for example, you are gifted a subscription to The Atlantic.  This may include information such as your name, email address, and physical address.

Other Information We Collect. We also may collect other information about you, your device, or your use of the Services in ways that we describe to you at the point of collection  You may choose not to provide us with certain types of information, but doing so may affect your experience in using the Services.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use your information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

Providing the Services. We use your information to provide you with and personalize the Services, process your subscription, communicate with you, send you electronic newsletters, post content you submit, administer loyalty programs, enable your participation in the Services, and improve the Services  We may also use your information to establish and maintain the Services, provide support, facilitate social features, enable and support security and fraud prevention features, communicate with you about the Services, and provide information about our Services. To enable us to provide these Services, we may use the information we collect to identify you across sessions, browsers, and/or devices.

Providing Customer Support Services  We may use your information in order to provide customer support to you, including without limitation any information you provide to us when you contact us by email, through our online help portal, through our online chat interface, or by phone.

Contacting and Communicating with You about our Services. We may contact or communicate with you (by email, phone, chat, or other medium) concerning: information about your account or any transactions; editorial newsletters and content; invitations to events; offers or announcements about our products or features; offers or announcements about our third party partners’ products or services; communications about your comments or information submissions; online surveys; and legal notices, policy updates, and other important information about the Services  All editorial and commercial email messages include instructions for unsubscribing from such future communications. We also provide personalized content and suggestions to you, including by email, based on your interest and preferences.

Content and Advertising Analytics  We may use your information to help us better understand your use of, and our delivery of, the Services, including content selection, delivery, and reporting; and advertising selection, targeting, delivery, and reporting

Delivering Advertising. We may use your information to facilitate the delivery of targeted advertising, promotions, and offers, on behalf of ourselves and our third party advertisers, both on our websites and elsewhere. Please see the “Third Parties” and “Privacy Choices” sections of this Privacy Policy for further information about our and third parties’ use of cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to provide you relevant ads, as well as information about how to disable cookies and make other choices related to targeted advertising

Auditing and Tracking Our Delivery of Advertising. We may use your information to measure and report on the delivery of advertisements, including without limitation counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.

Delivering Emails on Behalf of Advertisers or Event Underwriters. We may use your information, including the names and email addresses provided to us when you register for our Services (including our live events), to deliver marketing communications we believe may interest you on behalf of advertisers or event underwriters regarding their products or services. (In such instances, we do not share our readers’ information directly with these companies). Many of our readers find this a valuable service. If you do not want your information used for this purpose, you can opt-out of such use by e-mailing us at privacy@theatlantic.com, or calling or writing us at the contact information provided below.

Facilitating Social Media Engagement  We may use your information, including information provided to us by social media platforms, to enable you to log into the Services with a social media service or connect a social media account with the Services, as well to enable you to interact with any The Atlantic page or account on a social media platform.  We may use your information to help us determine which content or advertising to deliver to you on those social media platforms.

Providing Services to our Business Customers  We may use your information to facilitate the provision of services to business customers by our business-focused divisions, including without limitation Atlantic57 (our creative consulting division) and Re:think (our sponsored content studio).

Learning about Our Users and Services. We conduct research on our users’ demographics, interests and behavior, including performing statistical analysis of our users, their use of the Services, and their purchasing patterns. We do this to optimize and improve the Services, our products, and our operations. We may use the information from one aspect of the Services for other aspects of Services. Additionally, data collected from a particular computer, browser or device may be used with another computer, browser or device that is linked to the computer, browser or device on which such data was collected.

Research, Development, and Improving the Quality of our Services  We analyze use of the Services to analyze and improve the Services and to develop new products and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Services.

Debugging. We may use your information to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

To Aggregate Data or Create Anonymous Data  We may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data records from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect  We make personal information into anonymous data by excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you.  We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

Information Security. We may use your information to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity.

Protecting Our Rights, Protecting Others’ Rights and Safety, and Fraud Prevention We may use your personal information as we believe is necessary to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or may be fraudulent or illegal; to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of The Atlantic, its employees, agents, or users. We may also use your personal information to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy, with the Terms and Conditions that govern use of our respective websites, and any other terms of use to which you may agree in the course of using our Services.

Compliance with Law. We may use your personal information as required by law or if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or legal process.

3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

As described below, our information-sharing practices vary based on the type of information and the type of recipient.

Affiliates. We may share your personal information with our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Service Providers. Third party agents and vendors perform functions on our behalf, including, but not limited to, hosting, content syndication, content management tools, social media integration, marketing, analytics, billing and customer service  These entities may have access to personal information if needed to perform their functions  If such access is required, the third parties will be obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of that personal information  They are restricted from using, selling, distributing or altering this data in any way other than to provide the requested services to The Atlantic.

Third Party Content or Advertising Partners. When you use our Services, third parties that provide content, advertising, or functionality to the Services may collect or receive information about you and/or your use of the Services, including through the use of cookies, beacons, and similar technologies  These third parties may use your information to provide you with advertising that is based on your interests and to measure and analyze ad performance, on our Services or other websites or platforms, and combine it with information collected across different websites, online services, and other devices. These third parties’ use of your information will be based on their own privacy policies

Third Party Event Partners or Underwriters. When you register for or attend one of our live events, we may share the information you provide at registration with our event partners or underwriters  These third parties may use your information to provide you with information about their own products and services. If you do not want your information used for these purposes, you can opt-out of such use by e-mailing us at privacy@theatlantic.com, or calling or writing us at the contact information provided below.

Social Media Services. If you log into the Services with a social media service or if you connect a social media account with the Services, we may share information about you or your activities on that social media service, including what you view on our websites and applications, with that social media service and/or its users  Social media services will use that information based on their own privacy policies  If you do not want your information shared in this way, do not connect your social media service account with our Services.

Business Transferees. We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of your personal information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.

Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations. In some cases, we may use or disclose your personal information to a third party if we are required to do so by law or if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law or legal process; to protect and defend our rights or to prevent misuse of our Services; or to protect the personal safety of our employees, agents, partners, the users of the Services, or the public.

Professional Advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes.

With Your Consent or At Your Direction. In addition to the sharing described in this Privacy Policy, we may share your information with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.

4. ONLINE TRACKING

When you use our Services, we and our third party partners (which provide content, advertising, functionality, measurements, or analytics for our Services) may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other similar technologies to track your use of the Services.

What Are Cookies?  Cookies are small text files that are stored in your device’s browser when you visit a website. Cookies make it possible to recognize you as the same user across one or more browsing sessions, and across one or more websites  We and third parties use cookies for a variety of purposes, including remembering your sign-in credentials and preferences so that you do not have to input them each time you use the Services; allowing us and third parties to customize your experience using the Services, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you on our websites and elsewhere online; and allowing us and third parties to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our Services and your experience

What are Beacons?  Web beacons (also called “web tags” or “pixels”) are tiny graphics or scripts that communicate information from your device to a server  Beacons can be embedded in online or mobile content, videos, advertisements, or emails  They allow a server to read certain types of information from your device, such as when you viewed the beacon (and thus the content in which it is embedded) and the IP address of the device on which you viewed the beacon  We and third parties use beacons for a variety of purposes, including to analyze the use of our Services and (in conjunction with cookies) to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you.

What are SDKs? SDKs are third-party computer code that we may incorporate into our mobile applications that may be used for a variety of purposes, including to provide us with analytics regarding the use of our mobile applications, to integrate with social media, add features or functionality to our app, or to facilitate online advertising.

For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

5. THIRD PARTIES

The Services may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties, and other websites, mobile applications, and online services operated by third parties may contain links to our Services  These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party  In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions of their privacy policies  Other websites, mobile applications and Services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information  We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

We rely on third parties to provide many features of our Services using data about your use of our Services and of other websites  These third parties may use cookies, web beacons, or other technologies to collect and process your personal data for the purposes of information storage and access; personalization of our Services; measurement of and analytics regarding the use of our Services; content selection, delivery, and reporting; and advertising selection, targeting, delivery, and reporting

For instance, third party analytics services use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website, in order to help us analyze how users interact with and use the Services, compile reports on the Services’ activity, and provide other data and insights related to the Services’ usage

We also allow our third party partners, third party ad serving networks, and unaffiliated advertisers (collectively, “Advertisers”) to use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to provide ads about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Advertisers may place a separate cookie on your computer, mobile device, or browser, or utilize other data collection and tracking technologies, to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, server being used, area code and zip code associated with your server, and whether you respond to particular ads. Advertisers may collect information about your online activities over time, across different computers, devices, and browsers, and across different websites and other online services  Advertisers may use this information to provide interest-based advertising or other targeted content  

Advertisers may use persistent identifiers, however, to track your internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond our Services  Though we restrict any attempts to re-identify this information, Advertisers may nonetheless be able to do so by combining information they collect about you when you use the Services with information about you obtained from other sources.

In general, the information collected and generated by third parties is processed and stored by the third parties and will be subject to their respective privacy policies (which we do not control and for which we are not responsible)  We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or the information they may collect.

6. PRIVACY CHOICES

There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected by third parties, which we have summarized below  We hope you find this information to be a helpful reference  Please note that using these tools to opt out of tracking and targeting does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Services or on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these programs  It will exclude you, however, from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks and platforms, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms.

Blocking Cookies in Your Browser  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but also usually allow you to modify your settings to disable or reject cookies, including cookies for interest-based advertising  If you delete your cookies or if you set your web browser to decline cookies, however, some features of the Services may not work or may not work as designed.  You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser; links to instructions provided by several of the most common browsers are below. You can also learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org.

• Cookie settings in Google Chrome
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.

Blocking advertising ID use in your mobile settings  Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.

Advertising Industry Opt Out Tools. Many of the third party advertisers that use tracking or targeting tools in connection with our Services either directly, or are members of programs that, offer you additional choices regarding the collection and use of your information  You can learn more about the options available to limit these participating third parties’ collection and use of your information by visiting their websites:

• Opt Out of Interest Based Advertising (National Advertising Initiative)
• Your Ad Choices (Digital Advertising Alliance)
• Your Online Choices (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance)
• Users of our mobile apps may opt out of receiving targeted advertising in mobile apps through participating members of the Digital Advertising Alliance by installing the AppChoices mobile app, available here, and selecting the user’s choices

Platform Opt Out Tools  Google and Facebook offer opt-out features that let you opt-out of use of your information for interest-based advertising.

• Facebook: About Facebook Ads and Facebook Privacy Policy
• Google:  The Services may deliver advertising using the vendor DoubleClick, a Google company. You can read about how DoubleClick uses cookies, use Google’s controls for blocking certain ads, or use Google’s Ad Settings Page to control how DoubleClick personalizes your ad experience  The Services also may use Google Analytics to track your usage, including the stitching of authenticated and unauthenticated sessions (which allows for the combination of data from your use of the Services while not signed in to your Atlantic account with your use of the Services while signed in to your Atlantic account). If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics’ tracking, use this browser add-on provided by Google.

Mobile App Tracking Opt Out Tools  You can learn about your options to opt-out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings  For more information about how to change these settings for Apple, Android or Windows devices, see:

• Apple:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
• Android:  http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
• Windows:  http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out

Social Media Services Settings. If you choose to connect to the Services via a third-party platform or social media network, you may have the ability to limit the information that we may obtain from the third-party at the time you login to the Services using the third-party’s authentication service or otherwise connect your account. Subsequently, you may be able to control your settings through the third-party’s platform or service. For example, you may access and change your settings through the Facebook settings page for Apps and Websites. If you withdraw our ability to access certain information from a third-party platform or social media network, that choice will not apply to information that we have already received from that third-party.

Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers  You can block our websites from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.

Do Not Track Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit  We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals  To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

7. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR USERS IN CALIFORNIA

This section applies only to California residents.  In accordance with the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”),  it describes how we collect, use and share personal information of California residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that personal information.

How We Collect, Use, and Share your Personal Information  We collect the following categories (as defined by the CPRA) of personal information:

• Identifiers (e.g., device identifier, IP address, unique browser ID, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, account login, other unique identifiers, name, site log-in, email address, mailing address (or state / province and country of residence), phone number, images of yourself you provide us for your account page you are creating and completing in order to attend an event we are hosting.

• Commercial information (e.g., subscription records, site engagement).

• Internet or network information (e.g., browsing and search history, site and advertisement interactions, audience research data).

• Geolocation data (e.g., location derived from GPS-enabled services).

• Professional and employment-related information (e.g., information you provide when you apply for a job with us or participate in audience research, as well as information about your job title, income level, and the name of your employer that you provide when you register to attend an event we are hosting or when participating in audience research).

• Financial information (e.g.,  your financial account numbers or payment card information; please note that a third party payment processor is responsible for all collection, processing, and storage of your Financial Information and we do not have direct access to or possession of any payment card information.)

• Education information (e.g., information you provide when you apply for a job with us or when you participate in audience research).

• Protected classification characteristics (e.g., age, ethnicity, race, languages spoken, or gender)

• Inferences (e.g., information about your interests, preferences, and favorites).

The sources from which we collect information are described in Section 1 of this Privacy Policy; the business and commercial purposes for which we collect this information are described in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy; and the categories of third parties to whom we “disclose” the information for a business purpose are described in Section 3 and Section 5 of this Privacy Policy

Your Privacy Rights and How to Exercise Them As a California resident, you have certain rights related to your personal information, which are detailed below.  We encourage you to invoke these rights if you wish to. Rest assured that we will not discriminate or retaliate against you for doing so.

Except where otherwise noted, you can exercise these rights by visiting our Help Center or by contacting us at privacy@theatlantic.com. If you opt to email us, please include as detailed a description of your request as possible.  

You may also allow an “authorized agent” to submit the following requests on your behalf through the same means outlined above. Unless your agent has been given power of attorney, we will additionally need the following items to honor your request:  (1) written authorization, signed by you, allowing them to act on your behalf; (2) proof of your identity; and (3) direct confirmation sent from you to us (without the authorized agent as an intermediary) affirming that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf.

• Access This policy describes the categories of personal information we may collect about you, and how that information is collected, used, and disclosed. We will also provide you with the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you, upon your request.

• Correction If you believe that any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate you may request that we correct it.  You can update some information, like your contact details, yourself by visiting your account page.  For other corrections, please contact  us as described above.

• Deletion You may request that we delete the personal information we hold about you.  Please note that we may need to retain limited amounts of personal information after completing your request for legal compliance purposes.  Additionally, we may postpone completion of your request when your personal information is necessary to fulfill our obligations to you. For example, if you are an active subscriber we may wait until your subscription expires before fulfilling your request.

• Opt out of “Selling” or “Sharing” You have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information.  The CPRA uses the word “sale” to mean our disclosure of your personal information to a third party in exchange for money or any other thing of value.  It does not encompass disclosing your personal information to a third party for other purposes, such as those that enable us to provide our Services.  “Sharing” under the CPRA means our disclosure of your personal information to a third party in order to serve you interest-based targeted advertising.  Likewise, it does not encompass disclosing your personal information to a third party for other purposes.  We do not sell your personal information in the conventional sense (i.e.,  for money), but may disclose certain details to our business partners and underwriters, or to vendors that enable us to serve you interest-based targeted advertisements.  

To opt out of one or both of these practices, please visit this website or email us as described above.  When you opt out of “sales,” we additionally treat your request as one made pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light” law to opt out of  the disclosure of your personal information to third parties for use by the third parties for direct marketing. Please note that after opting out you will continue to see non-targeted advertisements on our Services.

We Do Not Use “Sensitive Personal Information” The CPRA identifies a subset of personal information as particularly sensitive (including information about your health, religion, ethnicity, and sexuality among other topics) if they are used to infer additional characteristics about you.  If a business has such information you can instruct them to only use that information when it is necessary to provide it services.  We do not use “sensitive personal information” as defined by the CPRA.

Information We Disclose To Third Parties As described previously, the CPRA uses the terms “sell” and “share” in unique ways.  Using the CPRA’s definition of those terms, below is a chart of the types of personal information we may have “sold” or “shared,” and the types of third-parties with whom it may have been “sold” to or “shared” with in the 12 months prior to the day this Privacy Policy was last updated.  Please note that the lists below are likely to be overboard for any single person.  Similarly, not every data point that falls into the categories below is necessarily shared with all of the third parties listed.

Category of Personal Information	Third Parties to Whom it May Be “Sold” or “Shared”
Identifiers	Underwriters, Business Partners, Advertisers
Commercial Information	Business Partners, Advertisers
Internet or Network Information	Business Partners, Advertisers
Geolocation Data	Business Partners, Advertisers
Inferences	Business Partners, Advertisers

Notice Regarding Financial Incentives. From time to time, we may offer the opportunity to participate in user research surveys.  As a part of these surveys we may collect Personal Information, including but not limited to demographic information and information about your experiences with our Services.  We use this information to help us gain further insight into and to improve our Services. In some instances, participation in a survey may make you eligible to win prizes, such as gift cards, in a sweepstakes. Under California law, this may be considered a financial incentive in exchange for Personal Information.  The value of a given prize is reasonably related to the value of the information provided. Surveys may be emailed to our users directly or linked to on our website or social media accounts.   

Participation in any survey is voluntary.  You may opt out of receiving surveys from us by emailing research@theatlantic.com.  For more information regarding a sweepstakes linked to a particular survey, please refer to that sweepstakes’ official rules.

Notice Regarding B2B Sites. Three of our websites, www.Atlantic57.com, www.atlanticbrandpartners.com, and advertising.theatlantic.com (the “B2B Sites”), are designed solely for business use and not intended for personal or household use  Accordingly, we treat all information collected from the B2B Sites as pertaining to individuals acting as business representatives, rather than in their individual capacity  We do not “sell” any information collected from your use of the B2B Sites, as that term is defined by the CPRA.

Notice Regarding California Residents We Know to Be Under the Age of 16. California residents we know to be younger than 16 years of age will by default be treated as though they have exercised a request to opt out of the sale of their Personal Information with respect to information provided directly to us (as opposed to information automatically collected from them through technical means). We do not permit such users to opt-in to the sale of their Personal Information, unless they provide proof that they are no longer under the age of 16.

8. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR USERS IN VIRGINIA

This section applies only to Virginia residents.  In accordance with the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA”), it describes how we collect, use and share personal data of Virginia residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that personal data.

Your Privacy Rights and How to Exercise Them  As a Virginia resident, you have certain rights related to your personal data, which are detailed below.  We encourage you to invoke these rights if you wish to. Rest assured that we will not discriminate or retaliate against you for doing so.

Except where otherwise noted, you can exercise these rights by visiting our Help Center or contacting us at privacy@theatlantic.com. If you opt to email us, please include as detailed a description of your request as possible.

• Access Upon request, we will provide you with a copy of the personal data you have given to us.

• Correction If you believe that any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate you may request that we correct it.  You can update some information, like your contact details, yourself by visiting your account page.  For other corrections, please contact  us as described above.

• Deletion You may request that we delete the personal information we hold about you.  Please note that we may need to retain limited amounts of personal information after completing your request for legal compliance purposes.  Additionally, we may postpone completion of your request when your personal information is necessary to fulfill our obligations to you. For example, if you are an active subscriber we may wait until your subscription expires before fulfilling your request.

• Opt out of Targeted Advertising You have the right to opt out of targeted advertising, which the VCDPA defines as advertising based on your online activity on websites or applications other than our own. To opt out, please visit this website or email us as described above.  Please note that after opting out you will continue to see non-targeted advertisements on our Services.

We Do Not Sell Your Personal Data Please note that while we may disclose your data to third parties for other reasons (described further below), we do sell your personal data in any circumstances.

Information We Disclose To Third Parties The chart below details the categories of personal data we disclose to third parties, and the kinds of third parties we disclose that information to.  As a reminder, our service providers enable us to deliver our Services to you.  For example, we use service providers to process your payments, to manage our email communications with you, and to maintain our Services’ safety and security.  Please note that the lists below are likely to be overbroad for any single person.  Similarly, not every data point that falls into the categories below is necessarily shared with all of the third parties listed.  For more information on the categories used in the following charts and the reasons why we share personal data, please review Sections 1-3 of this Privacy Policy.

Category of Personal Information	Third Parties to Whom it May Be Disclosed
Identifiers (such as name, email address, postal address, other contact information, IP address, online identifiers)	Service Providers, Underwriters, Business Partners, Advertisers
Demographic Information (such as your age or gender)	Service Providers, Business Partners, Advertisers
Commercial Information (such as your purchase history)	Service Providers
Financial Information (please note that we do not have direct access to or possession of payment card information)	Service Providers
Internet or Network Information (such as browsing history on our Services and interactions with our Services)	Service Providers, Business Partners, Advertisers
Geolocation Data (inferred from your IP address)	Service Providers, Business Partners, Advertisers
Professional and Employment-Related Information (such as your job level and industry)	Service Providers
Education Information (such as level of education attained and institution attended)	Service Providers
Inferences (such as inferences about your location and preferences)	Service Providers, Business Partners, Advertisers

9. USERS IN THE EEA, UK, AND SWITZERLAND

If you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, the following information applies with respect to personal data collected through your use of our Services.

Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing: We process personal data consistent with our disclosures in this Privacy Policy. We process personal data on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary to perform our agreement to provide Services (such as when you become a Subscriber); and (3) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing the Services where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms related to data privacy  EEA, UK, Swiss users may review or update your preferences regarding how The Atlantic and our third party partners process your personal data at any time by using the tool at the bottom of this page.

Transfers: Personal data we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates or processors maintain facilities. We are no longer participating in the Privacy Shield, but we will ensure that transfers of personal data to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards.

Your Rights: You are entitled to the rights under Chapter III of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, applicable UK data protection law, or Section 2 of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection with respect to the processing of your personal data, which include the right to access and rectify and to request erasure of personal data. To exercise these rights, contact privacy@theatlantic.com and provide as complete a description of your request as possible.

Third Party Processing Partners: Below is a list of the third party data processing partners with which we have a direct relationship, the categories of data processing they provide to us, and links to their privacy policies (which may provide more information about their use of your data and how to exercise your rights to opt-out of that usage)  Please note that this list does not include advertisers (with whom we have no direct relationship) who advertise on our websites through ad serving networks. Because our Services are under constant development, this list may be modified and updated on an ongoing basis.

10. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

The Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. With respect to children we know to be located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland who we also know to be under 16 years of age, and with respect to any child we know to under 13 years of age, we do not knowingly collect information from such children and we do not target the Services to such children. If you are under 13 years of age, or if you are under 16 years of age and are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, do not provide personal information to The Atlantic without providing us with consent from your parents. If we discover that any child under the age of 13 or a child from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information and we do not have parental consent, we will delete that child’s information as soon as reasonably practicable. If you believe that we have been provided with the personal information of a child from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland under the age of 16 without parental consent, or have been provided with the personal information of any child under the age of 13 without parental consent, please notify us immediately at privacy@theatlantic.com.

11. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

How Your Information Is Secured  The security of your personal information is important to us.  We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect  However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. You need to help protect the privacy of your own information. You must take precautions to protect the security of any personal information that you may transmit over any home networks, wireless routers, wireless (WiFi) networks or similar devices by using encryption and other techniques to prevent unauthorized persons from intercepting or receiving any of your personal information. You are responsible for the security of your information when using unencrypted, open access or otherwise unsecured networks.

How Long Your Information Is Stored  The time period for which we keep information varies according to the purpose for which it is used for. 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 will retain it for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data was collected or for which it is to be further processed.

Emails and Newsletters  You may always opt-out of receiving future e-mail marketing messages and newsletters from The Atlantic by following the instructions contained within the emails and newsletters, or by e-mailing, calling or writing us at the addresses in Section 11 of the Privacy Policy below.

Contests, Sweepstakes or Games  When we run a contest, sweepstakes, or game relating to the Services, it will be accompanied by a set of rules. The rules for each contest, sweepstakes or game will specify how the information gathered from you for entry will be used and disclosed if it is different than as described in this Privacy Policy  In conjunction with your entry in such contest or sweepstakes, personal information will be collected only if you voluntarily submit it.

12. CONTACT US

If you have an account with www.TheAtlantic.com, you may review and change your information by logging into your account and editing your account profile

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

ATTN: General Counsel

The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC

600 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20037

Phone: (202) 266-7000

Email: privacy@theatlantic.com

If you have questions about subscriptions to The Atlantic, please contact us at:

Atlantic Customer Care

PO Box 37564

Boone, IA 50037-0564

Phone: +1 (855) 940-0585

Email: support@theatlantic.com

You may review or update your preferences regarding how The Atlantic and our third party partners process your personal data at any time by using the tool available here