Privacy policy
, “Affiliates” refers to subsidiaries and entities in which Los Angeles Times or its subsidiaries operate or have an ownership interest. This applies only to the information Los Angeles Times and its Affiliates collect through the websites, mobile applications, electronic devices, kiosks, and all other print and digital products and services we provide, any other services that display this , and all of the associated content, functionalities and advertising .
This governs the Services regardless of how you access them. Some Services may have a specific, separate privacy policy that will govern use of those Services. This describes:3. how we disclose user information with third parties;6. California Do-Not-Track disclosure requirements;9. linked sites and advertisements; embedded video player;11. use of the Services by users from outside the United States;15. changes to this ; and1. The information we collect and how we collect it. How we collect and store information depends on the Services you use. You can use some of the Services without providing any information other than that automatically collected as described below.We may collect information about you during your use of the Services, including but not limited to your name, username, password, email address, postal address, phone number, mobile phone number, payment information, gender, birth year, and information you provide or post on our Services or allow us to access, such as photos, video and/or audio, when you do certain things, such as:enter a sweepstakes or contest or register for a promotion; participate in voting or polling activities, surveys or similar activities where users are asked to respond to a variety of questions;download or use one of our mobile applications; connect with the Services or otherwise allow us to access certain information about you via a social networking site ;navigate our websites and mobile applications; orWe may collect and store your user ID associated with an SNS account that you use to sign in to your Los Angeles Times account or connect or use with the Services. When you sign in to your Los Angeles Times account or mobile application with your SNS account information or otherwise connect to your SNS account with the Services, you authorize Los Angeles Times to collect, store, and use in accordance with this any and all information available to Los Angeles Times through the SNS interface, including without limitation any information that you have made public in connection with your SNS account, information that the SNS provides to us, or information that is disclosed as being provided to us or others during the sign-in process. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose information through the Services, such as via an SNS, on message boards, in chat areas or in advertising or notices you post, that information can be viewed publicly and may be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in data collection by or unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties.We may automatically collect certain information about the computer or devices you use to access the Services. For example, we may collect and analyze information such as IP addresses, geolocation information , unique device identifiers including mobile advertising identifiers and other information about your mobile phone or other mobile device, browser types, browser language, operating system, the state or country from which you accessed the Services; and information related to the ways in which you interact with the Services, such as: referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, clicked items, interaction with advertisements, domain names, landing pages, pages and content viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, mouse hover including location and time spent on each area of the page, the date and time you used the Services, the frequency of your use of the Services, error logs, and other similar information. As described further below, we may use third-party analytics providers and technologies, including cookies and similar tools, to assist in collecting and analyzing this information. We may also capture other data, such as search criteria and results. In some cases, we will associate this information with a unique Los Angeles Times identifier for our internal use, in which case your Los Angeles Times identifier will be considered Los Angeles Times information, and nothing in this restricts how Los Angeles Times may use this information.We may collect different types of information about your location, including general information and more specific information , and may use that information to customize the Services with location-based information, advertising, and features. For example, if your IP address indicates an origin in downtown Los Angeles, the Services may be customized with downtown Los Angeles-specific information and advertisements. To do this, your location information may be disclosed to our agents, vendors or advertisers. If you access the Services through a mobile device and you do not want your device to provide us with location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to do this. See your device manufacturer’s instructions for further details.When you use the Services, we use persistent and session cookies and other similar tracking technologies to: store your username and password; monitor and analyze the usage of our sites and Services by collecting the information discussed in section 1.2.1 above; customize the Services to your explicit and inferred preferences; and tailor advertising displayed by the Services, as well as advertisements that may be displayed on other websites or mobile applications. We along with our vendors may also use other Internet technologies, such as Flash technologies, Web beacons or pixel tags, and other similar technologies, to deliver or communicate with cookies and track your use of the Services, as well as serve you ads and personalize/customize your experience when you are using our Services and/or when you are on other websites when those cookies can be accessed. We also may include Web beacons in email messages, newsletters and other electronic communications to determine whether the message has been opened and for other analytics, personalization and advertising. As we adopt additional technologies, we may also gather additional information through other methods. We may sometimes target ads to you through ‘onboarded’ audiences: to do this, we may disclose information you have provided to us to service providers, who will de-identify the information and associate it with cookies that enable us to reach you with display media. We may also help these service providers place their own cookies, by deploying a cookie that is associated with a ‘hashed’ value associated with interest-based or demographic data, to permit advertising to be directed to you on other websites, applications or services. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies by visiting the Help portion of your browser’s toolbar. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in, customize, or use some of the interactive features of the Services, and the advertisements you see may not be as relevant to you. Please note that limiting third-party cookies through your browser controls will not necessarily opt you out of first- or third-party interest-based advertising, as some technologies may not respond to these browser controls. To opt-out of interest-based advertising that is enabled by many industry platforms and providers , please see the choices we have described in Section 4.2, in particular the DAA’s opt-out page.We may obtain additional information about you from third parties such as marketers, partners, researchers, social networks, data services companies and others. We may combine information that we collect from you with information about you that we obtain from such third parties and information derived from any other subscription, product, or service we provide. Our Services may allow you to disclose 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 for our Services or log in to our Services using your Facebook account or other third party credentials. If you do so, information that you have provided to the third party may be made available to us by that third party subject to that third party’s own privacy policy, terms, and conditions, and you authorize us to collect, store and use any information they may give us .Sometimes, we may use the information we collect – for instance, log-in credentials, IP addresses, hashed email addresses, and unique mobile device identifiers – to locate or try to locate the same unique users across multiple browsers or devices , or work with providers that do this, in order to better tailor content, features, and advertising, and provide you with a seamless experience across the devices you use to access the Services.We use the information that we collect for the following purposes:to send you information about your relationship or transactions with us;to notify you about new features of the Services, special events, or products, services, and special offers;to contact you with information that we believe will be of interest to you;to generate and review reports and data about our user base and usage patterns of the Services; to perform analytics and research aimed at improving the accuracy, effectiveness, usability, or popularity of the Services; to offer, manage, monitor and improve the content and features of the Services or develop new Services; to allow us to personalize or otherwise provide the content and advertising that you see on the Services and on other websites and mobile applications and to understand how users interact with and use our advertisements and Services;to administer and troubleshoot the Services; to associate your activities, customize content or tailor advertising across different devices and browsers that you use to access the Services ; and to send you offers and advertisements through various channels , whether on our behalf or on behalf of marketing partners with whom we may engage. The Services are supported by advertising revenue. We may send you commercial emails on behalf of ourselves, our Affiliates, and advertisers. Each such email we send you will have an opt-out that you can use to stop receiving such communications.We may make your information available to other companies, websites, applications or people in the circumstances described below: We may rent, sell, or disclose your information to non-affiliated third parties: to provide services or products that you have requested; when we have your permission; or as described in this . We may disclose your information to any agent or company that is part of Los Angeles Times to provide the Services or advertising or to communicate with you on our behalf. We may provide access to or disclose your information to select third parties who perform services on our behalf. These third parties provide a variety of services to us, including without limitation billing, sales, marketing, provision of content and features, advertising, analytics, research, customer service, shipping and fulfillment, data storage, security, fraud prevention, payment processing, and legal services. When you sign up to participate in a contest or sweepstakes, your information may also be provided to our sweepstakes or contest advertisers, operators, or sponsors and the use of that information will be also governed by those advertisers’, operators’, or sponsors’ privacy policies or practices. We may disclose your information to third parties for their own and sometimes our own advertising and marketing purposes, with whom we have a contractual relationship, including without limitation third-party advertisers and advertising and list brokering networks. We may access, disclose, transfer and preserve your information when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to: protect our users and our legal rights, privacy or safety, and that of our subsidiaries, Affiliates, employees, agents, contractors, or other individuals, including by enforcing this or any applicable Los Angeles Times Terms of Service; comply with the law including with subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and other legal processes; and respond to inquiries or requests from government, regulatory bodies, law enforcement, public authorities, or content protection organizations; permit us to pursue available remedies, commence, participate in, or defend litigation, or limit the damages that we may sustain;We may disclose your information in connection with any proposed or actual merger, reorganization, transfer of control, a sale of some or all Los Angeles Times assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. We may aggregate and we may de-identify information collected by the Services or via other means so that the information is not intended to identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not subject to any restrictions under this , and we may disclose it to others without limitation for any purpose.We may use third-party web analytics services on our Services, such as those provided by Google Analytics and similar providers. These service providers use the sort of technology described in Section 1.2 to help us analyze how users use the Services, including by noting the third-party website from which you arrive. The information collected by the technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Services. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to advertising, as described in the following section. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on byWhen you use the Services, Los Angeles Times may serve you with ads based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, information you provide such as your age or gender, your searches, demographic and geographic data, user-generated content and other information that you provide to us. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and may be tailored to your interests. Also, third parties, including without limitation those whose products or services are accessible or advertised via the Services, may place cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer browser, mobile phone applications, or other device to collect information about your use of the Services to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to our websites and other sites and mobile applications and report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our websites, mobile applications, and use of our Services. We also allow other third parties to serve tailored ads to you on the Services, and to access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Services so that tailored ads may be delivered to you when you are using other websites and mobile applications. We also may disclose to third-party advertisers a hashed version of your email address, which may be identified by a service provider for purposes of delivering tailored advertising on the Services, other websites, and/or mobile applications. We neither have access to, nor does this govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Services by non-affiliated, third-party ad technology, ad servers, ad networks or any other non-affiliated third parties. Those parties that use these technologies may offer you a way to opt-out of ad targeting as described below. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver interest-based advertising, you may visit the
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