Information We Collect   How We Use Information How We Use Information if you order products from us or if you participate in a contest, promotion or survey, we may ask for - Contact information such as your name, e-mail address, street address - Demographic information such as year of birth, gender, street address, - Professional Information such as job title and industry and related information. - Payment information, such as your credit card number and expiration date, where appropriate to process a financial transaction you have requested. User-Generated Content: such as when you comment on articles, participate in message boards, and submit images, photos, videos, or other content to the Services, when you enter a contest or participate in a promotion, when you post an online ad, or otherwise engage with the Services. Please review our Discussion and Submission Guidelines for more information about our practices applicable to content that you submit to certain areas of our Services.   Automatically Collected Information.&nbsp;In addition to the information you provide to us directly  As discussed further below, we and our service providers (which are third party companies that work on our behalf), may use of cookies, web beacons, and other technologies, as detailed in the &nbsp;Online Tracking and Advertising&nbsp. section below, to assist in collecting this information. For example, we may collect:   Device information— such as your hardware model, IP address, other unique device identifiers Location information— such as your computer’s IP address,  your mobile device’s GPS signal or information about nearby WiFi access points and cell towers that may be transmitted to us when you use certain Services.    Information From Third-Party Sources.&nbsp;We may receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources, as permitted by law, which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you. We may periodically contact you with offers and information about the Services and our affiliates, including in connection with your accounts, online surveys, legal notices, news stories, new features that you are entitled to access, and other important information. You may opt out of receiving commercial email messages from us by following the instructions contained in those email messages. We may use your information to facilitate the delivery of targeted ads, promotions, and offers to you, on behalf of ourselves and advertisers, on and off the Services. We may share information within our family of affiliated companies.  Business Partners. We may also share your information with business partners to provide you with services that you request. We may share the information we collect with vendors providing contractual services to us, such as hosting vendors, advertising service providers, and list managers.  We may share your personal information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety, or property of the Services, our employees or agents or users or to comply with applicable law or legal process, including responding to requests from public and government authorities. This information may be combined with information collected across different websites, online services, and other linked or associated devices. We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event that we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization.   For users in the EEA and Switzerland: Please see our Third-Party Partners page for a list of partners that provide certain features or functionality on the Services (e.g., content, analytics, advertising, and social media plug-ins) that may use your data, as well as more information about these partners’ use of your data and your rights. This Privacy Policy does not govern these third party’s content or services Targeted Advertising. You may choose whether to receive some forms of targeted advertising from many ad networks, audience segment providers, ad serving vendors, and other service providers by visiting websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to the websites with which the user communicates. Because of differences in how web browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether they even are aware of them. Because there currently is no industry standard concerning what, if anything, websites should do when they receive such signals, the Services currently do not take action in response to these signals.  We do however respond to the Global Privacy Control signal for California residents,  We, our service providers, and third parties that provide content, advertising, or functionality or measure and analyze ad performance on our Services, may use cookies, web beacons, mobile ad identifiers, and similar technologies to facilitate administration and navigation on the Site, to better understand and improve our Services, to determine and/or improve the advertising shown to you here or elsewhere Cookies can help us and third parties understand which parts of our Services are the most popular because they help us see which pages and features visitors access and how much time they spend on the pages. If you disable browser cookies or flash cookies, it may interfere with the proper functioning of the Services.  We, along with third parties, also may use technologies called beacons (or “pixels”) that communicate information from your device to a server. Beacons can be embedded in online content, videos, and emails, The following information applies to California residents regarding “personal information” (as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)). This information and the rights discussed below do not apply to information collected from or about our employees, former employees, candidates, contractors, service providers, or business contacts. We may share the following categories of information for such advertising with advertising networks and providers, certain analytics providers, and social media networks, which may be considered a sale (as defined by California law)  device information and identifiers, such as IP address, and unique advertising identifiers and cookies. usage information, such as browsing history or app usage. location information, such as city. and inference data.  If you are a California resident and would like to opt out of our use of your information for such purposes (to the extent this is considered a sale), you may do so as outlined on the following page: Do Not Sell My Personal Information. If you are a user in the EEA or Switzerland, the following information applies with respect to personal data collected through your use of our Services. Under applicable law, The Washington Post is considered the “data controller” of the personal information we handle under this Policy. In other words, The Washington Post is responsible for deciding how to collect, use and disclose this information, subject to applicable law. Our contact information appears at the end of this Policy.  

Summary:
Details are provided about what kind of information they collect. Information is provided about how your personal data is used. Your personal information is used for many different purposes. Extra data may be collected about you through promotions. Many different types of personal data are collected. You are tracked via web beacons, tracking pixels and device fingerprinting. Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location. This service receives your precise location through GPS coordinates. Information is gathered about you through third parties. Your personal data may be used for marketing purposes. You can opt out of promotional communications. Your personal data is used to employ targeted third-party advertising. This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation. This service shares your personal data with third parties that are not involved in its operation. This service reserves the right to disclose your personal information without notifying you. Your profile is combined across various products. Your personal data may be sold or otherwise transferred as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction. This Service provides a list of Third Parties involved in its operation.. The service informs users that its privacy policy does not apply to third party websites. You can opt out of targeted advertising. Do Not Track (DNT) headers are ignored and you are tracked anyway even if you set this header.. Global Privacy Control signals are respected. Third-party cookies are used for advertising. Third-party cookies are used for statistics. Blocking first party cookies may limit your ability to use the service. Tracking pixels are used in service-to-user communication. The service claims to be CCPA compliant for California users. Your Personal data may be sold unless you opt out if you're a California Resident. The service claims to be GDPR compliant for European users.