Company: EVC
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-034661
Chunk: 56

Company: ENTRAVISION COMMUNICATIONS CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-06
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 56
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 to enforcement action, fines and reputational harm, resulting in a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Among other things, compliance with such laws and regulations could increase our cost of doing business, limit our ability to collect and process personal data, expose us to regulatory investigations and civil actions, and/or reduce the demand for our advertising technology & services offerings, materially adversely affecting our business, results of operations and financial condition. 

We are subject to new and rapidly evolving legislation and/or regulations, as well as industry standards and consumer preferences, in respect of protection of personal and similar data and any failure by us to comply with these regulations could result in loss of business, reputation and/or fines.

Our ability to optimize the delivery of digital advertisements depends on our ability to successfully leverage data, including data that we collect from advertisers, publishers and third parties, as well as our own operating history. Using cookies and non-cookie based mechanisms, we collect information about the interactions of online users with advertisers and publishers’ digital properties, including, for example, information about the placement of advertisements and users’ interactions with websites or advertisements. The handling and protection of personal information, including but not limited to PII, is regulated in many jurisdictions where we operate, including but not limited to the Delete Act in California, similar state privacy laws throughout the United States, and the GDPR in the E.U. We are also subject to rapidly changing industry standards, consumer preferences, changes in technology, including changes in web browser technology, Global Privacy Control signals, increased visibility of consent or “do not track” mechanisms or “ad-blocking” software, and restrictions imposed by large software companies and platform providers, web browser developers or other software developers.

The cost of such ongoing monitoring and compliance by us may be significant. In addition, any failure by us to comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations in any of the jurisdiction where we do business, or comply with industry standards or consumer preferences in this regard, could subject us to significant penalties, negative publicity and reputational damage with advertisers, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. 

In addition, consumers in some jurisdictions are provided private rights of action under certain laws to file civil lawsuits, including class action lawsuits, against companies that conduct business in the digital advertising industry and personalize or target 

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advertising, including makers of devices that display digital media, providers of digital media, operating system providers, third party networks and providers of Internet-connected devices and related services.

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