Stars Terms and vote Terms

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• Ebobea allows you to send Stars You can buy Stars and send them you can also use a shortcut when commenting on content that accepts Stars Next, enter the number of Stars you wish to send. For example, press 25 to send 25 Stars and show your support by sending Stars. 

• For the Services or events, participating in surveys on the Services, or other opportunities to provide profile or interest information.    , political views, religion, union or guild membership, and professional information (such as your title and employer) from other sources such as public and commercial data sources, affiliates, entities providing conferences and other events, marketers, social media networks, third party advertising partners in accordance with your privacy preferences on such services, and partners such as those providing surveys or operating sweepstakes for or with us. We use this information to update, validate or supplement the information that you provide or we collect automatically, to target our communications so that we can inform you of products, services and offers that may be of interest, and for internal research, analytics and improvement of our Services. If other users of the Services provide information about you, such as your name and mailing address, including to send a gift or to use our send-to-a-friend functionality, we collect that information from such users. 

• Bug detection and error reporting, including to understand and resolve technical issues, app crashes and other issues being reported 

• Audit consumer interactions on the Services including to measure the placement, frequency, efficacy and compliance of advertising and ad impressions 

• Security, Fraud, and Legal Compliance, including by detecting, protecting against, and prosecuting security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity including to: 

• Monitor, prevent, and detect fraud, such as through verifying your identity 

• Combat spam or other malware or security risks 

• Monitor, enforce, and improve the security of our Services 

• Comply with any applicable procedures, laws, and regulations, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process, or in connection with a legal investigation, if in our good faith opinion such is required or permitted by law 

• Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (e.g., to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, Privacy Policies, or other contracts or legal rights) 

• Protect or defend our Services, users, or others 

• Aggregate and/or De-Identified Information. We may aggregate or anonymize information and/or de-identify any information collected through the Services so that such information can no longer reasonably be linked to you or your device (such information, “Aggregate/De-Identified Information”). We may use and disclose this Aggregate/De-Identified Information for any purpose permitted under the law. 

• 4. How We Share the Information Collected

• PMC may disclose information collected from and about you on the Services to other companies or individuals as set forth below: 

• Service Providers. We may provide access to information to vendors that perform services on our behalf, including subscription and order fulfillment, event and travel coordination, managing our email lists and sending email messages on our behalf, processing payments, providing customer support, providing analytics, and performing other administrative services, in order to carry out such services. For example, we use Shopify to power the Rolling Stone Store located at shop.rollingstone.com, the Billboard Store located at shop.billboard.com and the WWD Store located at store.wwd.com. You can read more about how Shopify uses your information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.  

• Our Affiliates. We may disclose information we collect within the PMC family of companies to deliver products and services to you, ensure a consistent level of service across our Services, internal management and administrative purposes on our behalf and enhance our products, services, and your customer experience. 

• Information You Disclose Publicly. You may submit photographs, user profiles, written material, music, video, photos, comments and other content, which may include information relating to your and/or other individual users (collectively, “UGC”) on the Services. We do not control who will have access to the UGC you choose to make public or how they will use it and take no responsibility for ensuring such UGC remains private or is secure. We are also not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any UGC that you disclose or receive through the Services. Please see our Terms of Use for further information about the terms that govern the UGC you post. 

• Other Individuals, Services, and Partners at Your Request. We will disclose your information to other individuals and services at your request. 

• Third Party Contests and Promotions Providers. If you enter a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by a third party, the information you provide via the contest or sweepstakes may be disclosed to that third party for their use subject to their own policies. 

• Third Party Partners to Provide Co-Branded Products and Services. From time to time, we partner with a retailer or other third party to offer products, services, subscriptions, events and summits, and other applications on a co-branded or cross-promotional basis (“Co-Branded Areas”), such as ChartStars in connection with Billboard. The information you provide in connection with Co-Branded Areas may be collected directly by, or disclosed by PMC to, the third party, as well as with any participating sponsors or advertisers of such Co-Branded Areas. These third parties will use your information in accordance with their own privacy policy. 

• For Marketing Purposes. We may disclose your information to third parties whose offerings may interest you such as other marketers, magazine publishers, retailers, participatory databases, event sponsors and non-profit organizations. This includes licensing information about your interests and activities, and marketing segments created with such data, which we may disclose to third parties for their marketing purposes. 

• Third-Party Online Advertisers, Ad Networks and Advertising Partners. As discussed in the “Online Analytics and Advertising” Section below, the Services may integrate third-party advertising technologies that allow for the delivery of relevant content and advertising on the Services, as well as on other websites you visit and other applications you use. These technologies will collect certain information from your use of the Services to assist in delivering such ads and marketing messages and enhancing our information. These third parties include advertising networks, data exchanges, ad servers, certain analytics providers and others. The list of third party providers is found in the Section below entitled “Third Party Cookies”. Except for the choices provided by PMC herein, this Privacy Policy does not govern the use of cookies or other tracking by such third parties. In addition, we sometimes provide certain information (such as email addresses) to service providers, who may “match” this information in hashed form to cookies (or mobile ad identifiers) and other proprietary IDs, in order to provide you with more relevant ads when you visit other websites and mobile applications. 

• For Legal Purposes. By using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that we may access, retain, and disclose the information we collect and maintain about you if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, retention or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process or a regulatory investigation (e.g. a subpoena or court order); (b) enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; and/or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of PMC, its agents and affiliates, its users and/or the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes. 

• Social Networks. As noted above, if you use your login credentials from a social media networking service on a Publication, we may receive information from such service in accordance with its terms and privacy policy and your settings. If you elect to share your information with these social networking sites, we will disclose information to them in accordance with your election. The terms and conditions of these social networking sites will apply to the information we disclose to them. 

• Sales or Transfer of Business or Assets. In connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise, including via bankruptcy) of all or a portion of the business conducted by the Publication to which this policy applies, in which case the company will possess the information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your information as described in this Privacy Policy (the “Acquisition Use”). 

• 5. Legal Grounds for Using (Processing) Your Information

• If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area, our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the information concerned and the context in which we collect it. We collect information from you: 

• Where we need it to perform our contract with you (i.e. our Terms of Service) in order to provide the Services you request; 

• Where the processing is in our legitimate interests (provided that these aren’t overridden by your interests or rights) to secure our Services, prevent misuse, prevent fraud, and resolve technical issues; respond to your requests for information and provide you with more effective and efficient customer service; contact you regarding the Services, as well as surveys, promotions, special events, and other subjects that we think may be of interest to you (in accordance with applicable legal requirements); better understand your interests and improve our Services; personalize the Services; conduct internal business operations in support of our Services, such as auditing, sales and marketing, analytics, and research and development; and establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights; 

• Where we have obtained your consent to send you marketing and other commercial communications and use non-strictly necessary cookies where local law requires such consent for such marketing and cookies (please note these requirements vary by jurisdiction and not all jurisdictions require consent for such uses) or use your information as set forth in a release or in connection with a consent; or 

• To comply with our legal obligations. 

• We may also collect and use personal information in connection with your consent in other circumstances, which will be presented to you at the time of collection. You can revoke your consent at any time, though you might not be able to use a service or feature that requires collection or use of that personal information. 

• 6. Your Rights & Your Choices

• A. Marketing Choices 

• Email. If you want to stop receiving promotional e-mails from us (which we send pursuant to applicable law), click on the “unsubscribe” link in any promotional email from us. Please note that once we receive your request, it may take an additional period of time for your opt-out to become effective. We may still send you transactional communications such as receipts or updates to this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service. 

• SMS Text Communications. You may opt-out of SMS messages from us (which we send pursuant to applicable law) by following the instructions provided in the message or by texting back STOP to the number we send the text from for that particular SMS message. When we receive an opt-out message from you for SMS messages, we may send a message confirming our receipt of your opt-out. 

• B. Cookies 

• You may have the ability to accept or decline (or opt out of) certain cookies for analytics & targeted advertising on our Services depending on your jurisdiction. Some analytics providers we partner with may provide specific opt-out mechanisms. For example, to prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, please see the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. 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 or if you are a user in the European Economic Area, Your Online Choices. Many mobile devices allow you to opt-out of targeted advertising for mobile apps using the settings within the mobile app or your mobile device. For more information, please check your mobile settings. You can also manage your preferences regarding our cookie-based advertising, in the “Cookie Management” section in our Cookie Notice below. Please note that if you exercise the opt out choices above, you will still see advertising when you use the Services, but it will not be tailored to you based on your online behavior over time. 

• C. Privacy Rights  

• Laws in certain jurisdictions grant consumers the right to exercise certain controls and choices regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of your information.  

• If you are a California or Virginia resident, or a resident of the EEA, UK, Canada, or Switzerland, you may request: 

• Access to and/or a copy of certain personal information we hold about you. 

• Correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you. 

• Deletion of certain personal information we have about you. 

• Information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any. 

• Restriction of or objection to certain processing of your information,  

• Withdrawal of your consent to our use of your information for certain processing purposes, where the processing purpose was based on your consent. 

• Residents of California and Virginia also have sale/targeted advertising opt out rights described below.  

• California residents can also:  

• Request information about the categories of personal information we collect, disclose or sell or share about you; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling or sharing your personal information; and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information. Such information is also set forth in this Privacy Policy.   

• Limit processing of sensitive personal information as described in the California Privacy Notice below by clicking on the Your Privacy Choices link in the site footer and following the directions. 

• For additional information and rights for California residents, please see Appendix A: California Privacy Notice below.

• Residents of certain other countries may be able request one or more of the above under applicable law. 

• Applicable law may further provide you with the right to not be discriminated against for exercising your rights. 

• Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain information for legal compliance or in order to provide the Services to you. Your rights and our responses will vary based on your state or country of residency. You may be located in a jurisdiction where we are not obligated, or are unable, to fulfill a request.  In such a case, your request may not be fulfilled. 

• Verification: We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request, which may include, depending on your request and relationship with you verifying your name, email address, address, and/or having you respond to an email from us. 

• California residents are also permitted to designate an authorized agent to submit certain requests on your behalf. In order for an authorized agent to be verified, we may require proof of your written authorization before processing the request. We may also follow up with you to verify your identity before processing the authorized agent’s request.  

• If you would like further information regarding your legal rights or would like to exercise any of them: 

• For California residents, please  click here or call 1 (877) 365-3500.  

• For Virginia residents, please click here. Virginia residents may also appeal the denial of a through such form.

• Please note that we do not use your information to make decisions that produce legal or similar effects based solely on the automated processing of your information.  

• D. Sale/Targeted Advertising Opt Out Rights (California, Nevada, & Virginia Residents) 

• If you are a California or Virginia resident, you also have the right to opt out of our sale of personal information or processing or sharing of your information for online targeted advertising purposes.  

• California and Virginia residents may opt out of the “sale” of their personal information or processing or sharing of your information for online targeted advertising purposes. We sell or share certain of your information to third parties that may directly provide you with offers and promotions and opportunities that may be of interest to you. 

• We also allow third parties to receive certain information, such as cookies, IP address, and/or browsing behavior and information about your potential interess or characteristics, to deliver targeted advertising to you on the Services or other services. This activity may also be considered a sale under applicable law. Advertising, including targeted advertising, enables us to provide you certain content for free and allows us to provide you offers relevant to you.   

• Depending on what Services you use, we may sell the following personal information or share or process it for targeted advertising: 

• Contact information; device information and identifier; connection and usage data; demographic and statistical information, including age, date of birth, gender, income and other personal finance information, religion, union or guild membership, and race or ethnicity; interest information including, health and wellness information, lifestyle information, hobbies, product ownership, purchase history or intentions;, user-generated content, contact information, geolocation, and social media information.