AP PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy
Policy applies to information that The Associated Press and its affiliates
(referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as “AP”, “we,” “us,” “our” and
other similar pronouns) collect through those AP websites and mobile
applications which make this Privacy Policy available (each such website and
mobile application, a “Service”).
This Privacy
Policy explains the types of information we may collect, how we may use and
disclose the information once it is collected, and, where applicable, how you
can stop us from collecting, using, disclosing or continuing to hold your
information. We want to ensure that in using any of the Services, you
understand the terms of this Privacy Policy, including any subsequent changes
made to the Privacy Policy as described in Part 11 below, and are aware of the
privacy choices available to you. Please note that this Privacy Policy does
not apply to information that you may provide to us, or that we may obtain,
where a separate privacy policy is made available to you or which do not make
this Privacy Policy available.
User-Provided
Information
During your
use of a Service (whether as a registered or unregistered user), you may
provide us with personal information, such as your name and e-mail address, or
other information that could be used to identify you as an individual or allow
someone to contact you, as well as any information associated with such
information (collectively, “Personal Information”). Personal Information
includes both things that specifically identify you (like your real name) and
things that don’t specifically identify you, but might be connected back to you
(like the IP address of your computer or the device identifier of your
smartphone).
Location
Data
When using our
Services from a mobile device (a “Mobile Service”), you may share the
geographic location of your device with us. Your device location may be
transmitted to us whenever a Mobile Service is running (even if you are not
actively using the Mobile Service or it is running in the background on your
device). Your device may continue to transmit its location to us until you
change your device settings.
If you set
your device not to transmit location information to us, certain features of our
Services may not be available or their functions may be limited. For example,
you will have to manually enter a location when conducting a search. You should
also know that turning off location sharing only prevents your device from
sharing its precise location. Your network service provider may still provide general
location information (based on access points you’ve connected to, for example).
The information provided varies by network service provider. You should check
with your network service provider to find out what information is provided and
if there are ways for you to limit it.
Service
Usage Information
As is typical
of many web sites and mobile applications, when you use our Services, we may
collect information about your device and your usage of our Services including:
· Your IP address (which we may associate
with your domain name or that of your Internet access provider or wireless
carrier, and your location);
· Unique ID number associated with your
device;
· Other unique identifiers such as
advertising identifiers (e.g., "ad-ID" or "IDFA");
· Web browser and operating system
information;
· Language of your device;
· Wireless connections you are using;
· Referring page that linked you to us;
· Your activities, including browsing and
transaction history;
· Pages, content, and ads you view or click
on during your use of our Services, and when and for how long you do so;
· The next web site you visit after leaving
our web site; and
· Search terms you enter on our Services or
a referral site.
In addition,
we may deploy tracking technologies through our Services to collect additional
information about your use of the Services, as set out in the “Cookies and
other tracking technologies” section of this Privacy Policy.
We or our
service providers may use the information we collect from or about you to
perform the following functions:
· administer our Services and your account
with us;
· enable you to use our Services and their
features;
· customize our Services to your interests
and history with us;
· localize the content and articles that are
displayed to you based on your geographical location;
· conduct market research;
· improve or develop new features and
offerings in our Services;
· tailor ads displayed to you in our
Services and elsewhere;
· send you marketing and other
communications, including information about products, services, or events that
we think might be of interest to you;
· assess your level of interest in and use
of our Services, e-mails, and other messaging campaigns, both on an individual
basis and in aggregate;
· generate analytics reports on the usage of
our Services; and
· respond to your requests, questions, and
concerns protecting our rights and property.
We may also
use Personal Information to meet our internal and external audit requirements
and for information security purposes. Where permissible under applicable law,
your Personal Information may be used for other purposes, which will be
disclosed to you at the time when your information is collected. There may be
instances, however, when we will use your Personal Information for purposes
that were not disclosed at the time of the data collection; for example, when
doing so is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or requirement. We may
use Personal Information to (a) respond to requests from courts, law
enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government
authorities, which may include such authorities outside your country of
residence; (b) enforce our terms and conditions; and (c) protect our rights,
privacy, safety, or property, or those of other persons.
Some of the
uses specified above are necessary for the performance of a contract between
us, or for the provision of a service requested by you. In other cases, the
uses are based on our legitimate interests such as marketing our services to
people who have expressed an interest in them or similar services.
We may share
your information:
· with our lawyers, auditors, and other
professional advisors, third party advertising companies (including exchanges
and brokers) and third party providers of services such as cloud storage,
customer relationship management systems, travel and expense management,
analytics databases, who need your information to provide services to us (or on
our behalf);
· when we believe in good faith that
disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect your safety
or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government agency,
law enforcement, judicial or public authority, or other legal request, or to
comply with the law;
· in connection with a proposed corporate
change or dissolution, including for example a merger, acquisition,
reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, sale of assets or wind
down of business.
We may share
non-personally identifiable information about usage of the Services (including
aggregate data) with others, for their own use, in a de-identified form.
In addition,
what you voluntarily post to public areas of our Service may be available to
other Service users.
Transfers
outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”)
The information described in this section of the Privacy Policy, with respect to the transfer of data outside the EEA, applies to those individuals located in the EEA. To process information of individuals located in the EEA for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data outside the EEA, for example:
· with our offices outside the EEA;
· with service providers located outside the EEA;
· if you are based outside the EEA;
· where we consider that the transfer is necessary for exercising, establishing or defending legal rights including, as appropriate, providing information to respond to a government, law enforcement, judicial or other legal request, or otherwise to comply with applicable law.
Non-EEA countries might not have the same legal framework for data protection as the EEA countries. In particular, the United States, which is the most common destination of our transfers of Personal Information outside the EEA, is not considered to provide a level of personal data protection equivalent to that of the EEA. We will, however, ensure the transfers comply with EU data protection law. Our standard practice is to use standard data protection contract clauses approved by the European Commission as the basis for such data transfers. You may read more about this on the European Commission Justice website at (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm).
If you would like further information, please see “Contact us” section below.
We use
reasonable technical, administrative and physical security measures to protect
Personal Information collected via our Services. We cannot guarantee that any
information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our
systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from unauthorized
access or use (e.g., by hackers). You use the Services, and send us information,
at your own risk.
If you
correspond with us by e-mail, text message, or using a “Contact us” feature on
our Service, a third party could view the information you send in transit by
such means. We have no liability relating to disclosure of your information due
to errors, omissions or unauthorized acts or failures to act by third parties
during or after transmission.
If you create
an account on our Services, you are responsible for maintaining the strict
confidentiality of your account password, and you shall be responsible for any
activity, including disclosure of your Personal Information, that occurs using
your account credentials, whether or not you authorized such activity. Please
notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other
breach of security.
We have
procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. If we
believe that the security of your Personal Information in our care may have
been compromised, we will endeavor to notify you of that development promptly taking
into consideration the circumstances. If we have your e-mail address, we may
notify you by e-mail. Where legally required to do so, we also will notify any
applicable regulator.
We, and/or our service providers or partners on our
behalf, may use tracking technologies which may run on your device when you use
the Services. The circumstances in
which we may deploy tracking technologies include:
· We may use cookies or local shared objects,
such as “Flash
cookies.” Cookies
are small data/text files that store information, such as your preferences and
account settings, on your computer. Similar to many other websites, if you have
enabled cookies in your browser, we, independently and through enabled
third-party tools and programs, collect certain technical information using
cookies, such as originating IP address, browser type, browser language, how a
user got to the Service (i.e., the URL of the last website you visited), the
next website the user visits, what pages are visited, the length of each site
visit, and the date and time of the user’s visit. This information helps us
track trends and improve user experiences when using the Services
· HTML5 may be used to store information on
your computer or device about your Service usage activities. This information
can be retrieved by us to determine how our Services are being used by our
visitors, how our Services may be improved, and to customize our Services for
our users.
· We may send instructions to
your computer or device using JavaScript or other computer languages to gather
the sorts of information described above and other details about your
interactions with the Service.
These tracking
technologies may be deployed by us and/or our service providers or partners on
our behalf. These technologies enable us to assign a unique number to your computer
or device, and relate information about your use of the Services to other
information about you, including your Personal Information. These technologies
also enable us to recognize you when you access our Services using different
web browsers or devices.
You can manage
website cookies in your browser settings. You always have the choice to have
your device warn you each time a cookie is being sent or change these settings by accepting, rejecting, or
deleting cookies. If you choose to change your settings, you may find that
certain functions and features will not work as intended on the Services. All
browser settings are slightly different, so to manage cookies, you should refer
to the relevant settings within your browser.
If you would like to obtain more detailed information about types of
cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie preferences you
may want to visit: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please click below for detailed information
on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers:
· Mozilla Firefox®: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
· Microsoft® Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11
· Google Chrome™: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
· Safari®: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
We maintain a
presence on social media and other external platforms, such as Facebook and
Twitter. We may occasionally incorporate third party social networking features
into our Services. This Privacy Policy applies to our use of information you
submit to us there, but it does not apply to what those third-party platforms
do with your information.
Our Services
may allow you to share information with us that you have already provided to a
third party social networking platform. For example, you may be able to create
an account on our Service or log in to our Service using your Facebook account
or other third-party credentials. If you do so, Personal Information or other
data that you have provided to the third party may be made available to us by
that third party subject to its own privacy policy, terms, and conditions. Privacy
policies of social networks and other external platforms explain how those
third parties use, protect, and share your information, including any
information you share on those platforms from our Services, and we encourage
you to read them. The information we receive from these platforms may depend on
your privacy settings. Any such information that we obtain will remain subject
to that third party’s privacy policy and we will use any such information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may also
include tools in our Services that allow you to share or publicly post content
from our Services to your profile on a third party social network. You may
choose to share information about your activities on the Service with such
third party platforms and its users, including publishing your information
about what content you may have viewed on our Services. If you visit a Service
while logged into certain social media platforms, the social media platform may
be able to identify your browser and associate the technical information
provided by your web browser with other information that they have already collected
about you, which may result in their ability to identify you. In addition, when
you choose to share information about your activities on the Service with
certain social media platforms, AP may send technical information about you to
that platform as well as information about what content you are viewing.
Our Service
may contain links, banners, widgets, or advertisements that lead to third-party
web sites. We are not responsible for these other web sites, and so their
posted privacy policies (not this Privacy Policy) will govern the collection
and use of your information on them. We encourage you to read the privacy
statements of web site visited after leaving our Services to learn about how
your information is treated by others.
Our Services
may contain certain co-sponsored content and you may be requested to provide
additional Personal Information to the co-sponsor of such content. We will
disclose to you when you are submitting Personal Information to co-sponsors.
The information practices of any third party co-sponsors are governed by their
own privacy policies and are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
Third-Party
Ad Servers and Networks
We use
third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Services.
When you view
an advertisement, whether or not you click on it, the advertiser, advertising
technology companies, web analytics companies and service providers that perform
advertising-related services for us and our business partners may collect some
information from or about you. These companies may use information about your
visits to the Services, the geographic location where your IP address indicates
you are located, as well as other information about (which such companies may
obtain via your use of our Services or elsewhere) you in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These
advertisements may appear in our Services and on other online properties or
mobile applications. These companies may employ cookies, clear GIFs and other
tracking technologies to cause relevant ads to be displayed to you. We do not
control any such technologies that may appear in our Services or other online
properties or mobile applications. The
information practices of these third parties are governed by their own privacy
policies and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read
these businesses’ privacy policies to learn about how they treat your
information.
For more information about third-party advertisers
and how to prevent them from using your information, visit the Digital
Advertising Alliance’s site at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the
Network Advertising Initiative’s site at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
However, if you opt-out we may still suggest offerings (including content
sponsored by third-parties) to you on our Service based on your history or your
account preferences.
Some web
browsers may transmit “do-not-track” (“DNT”) signals to mobile applications
with which the user communicates. We currently do not change our tracking
practices (which are explained in more detail under “Service Usage Information”
above) in response to DNT settings in your web browser.
Our third
party partners, such as web analytics companies and third party ad networks,
may collect information about you and your online activities over time and
across our Services and other online properties. These third parties may not
change their tracking practices in response to DNT settings in your web browser
and we do not obligate these parties to honor DNT settings. We utilize Google
Analytics for our web analytics and you can opt out of your usage data being
included in our Google Analytics reports by visiting
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
You may
review, update or correct certain of the Personal Information that is stored in
your user account in our Services (if you have one) by using the “Contact Us”
information below. We may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other
details before we are able to provide you with any information, correct any
inaccuracies, or delete any information. Your right to delete information is
subject to our records retention policies.
You can opt out
of our promotional e-mails by clicking the opt-out/unsubscribe link within the
e-mail you receive. Please understand that it may take us a few days to process
any opt out request and that even if you opt out of receiving promotional
correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your
relationship, activities, transactions, and communications with us.
In some
jurisdictions, including in the countries of the European Economic Area, you
have the right, in certain circumstances, to (i) require us delete your
Personal Information, (ii) require us to restrict processing of your Personal
Information (for example, if you contest the accuracy of that information),
(iii) receive a copy of the Personal Information you provided to us in a
structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or instruct us to transmit
that data to a third party; and (iv) object to our continued processing of your
Personal Information, for direct marketing (including profiling) or other
purposes. You can exercise these rights free of charge by contacting us using
the details in the “Contact us” section below.
Your
Personal Information will be held for the purposes and uses set out in this
Privacy Policy and for as long as there is a legal, taxation, accounting, risk
management or business requirement to do so. Different retention periods apply
to different types of records and data which are dependent on the nature of
your interaction with AP.
We may change
this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by
posting the changed Privacy Policy on this page with a new “Last Updated” date.
In some cases, we may also tell you about changes by additional means, such as
by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address we have on file for you.
The Services
are not aimed at children. If, however, we collect and use information about
children, we will comply with industry guidelines and applicable laws.
If you have
any questions or comments regarding our privacy practices, you may contact us
at:
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7482-7400 |
privacy@ap.org
We hope
that can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your
information.
Individuals
located in the EEA have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
of the EEA state where you work or live or where any alleged infringement of data
protection laws occurred. A list of the supervisory authorities can be found
here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm
Effective Date: 25 May 2018
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