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* FORBES MEDIA PRIVACY STATEMENT
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Forbes Media LLC ("Forbes", "Company", "we", "our", or "us") understands that
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* Inferences we may create about you;
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Properties. We may collect and use clickstream data as a form of aggregate
information to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each
page of our Properties, how visitors navigate throughout the Properties, and
how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors. This
information will be used to improve our Properties.
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transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google
will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the
Properties, compiling reports on activity for its staff, and providing other
services relating to web page activity and internet usage. Google may also
transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or
where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. You may
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browser. By using the Properties and accepting cookies, you consent to the
processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set
out above. Please refer to the currently available opt-outs for Google
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* Service Data
We may obtain Service Data from or on behalf of our clients and their
vendors, which we process on behalf of our clients in accordance with our
contracts with them.
* Third-Party Sources
From time to time, we may collect personal information about you from third
party sources (including data append services such as public or social graph
data, data co-ops, or social media websites if you have chosen to log in or
connect your social media with our Properties) which we will use for our
business or commercial purposes (for example, in order to contact you and/or
to better serve you with content or promotions). However, we will only use
this information where these third parties either have your consent or are
otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information
to us. We may also collect publicly available information from third party
sources. To the extent that such information constitutes personal
information, we shall use such it in accordance with this Privacy Statement
or as permitted by law.
When you sign into our Properties or purchase a paid subscription on our
Properties using a social media log-in, you give permission to that social
media company to share certain information with us. For example, if you sign
in or purchase a subscription using Facebook or LinkedIn, you give permission
to Facebook or LinkedIn (as applicable) to share with us your email address
and certain other information in your social media profile that you have
designated as public. This will be limited to your full name, age range,
profile picture (if you have one) and link to your Facebook or LinkedIn
profile (as applicable). If you log in or purchase a subscription using your
Google account, you give Google permission to share personal information with
us that you have made public in your Google profile. This will be limited to
your full name, your email address (and whether your email has been
validated), your age range, your profile picture (if you have one) and a link
to your Google profile. If you log in or purchase a subscription using your
Apple ID, you give Apple permission to share your personal information with
us (however, you can choose to hide your email address and Apple will instead
create a random email address so that your personal email can stay private).
This email address will be linked to your account and allow you to access
your subscribed content.
If you log into one of our Properties using a digital wallet, you give that
wallet provider permission to share certain information with us, including
public data points such as your wallet address, the blockchain your wallet is
on, your wallet's transactions and transaction history, and whether the
wallet holds a Forbes digital collectable.
We will use the information described above to form a profile for your
account, to enable you to purchase a paid subscription, and/or as otherwise
set forth in this Privacy Statement. You have the option to later configure
your Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google settings, or Apple ID to remove
permissions for Forbes to access to this information. However, this will not
affect our ability to use the information that we already received when you
first set up your account (or purchased a subscription) using that social
media login, so long as we use it for the purposes set forth in this Privacy
Statement.
We may also obtain personal information of subscribers to Forbes licensees
after such licensees stop conducting business under the Forbes license.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect and use personal information for the following purposes:
* To communicate with you, which may include:
* Contacting you about and providing you and our clients with our
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* Responding to your direct inquiries, requests, issues or feedback, and
providing customer service;
* Adding you to our mailing or SMS lists and sending you emails, push
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* For users who have opted into receiving communications about Forbes'
third-party partners, sending you information about third-party partners
that we think you may be interested in;
* To provide our products and services, which may include:
* Operating the Properties, and providing you with any specific services
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* Creating, maintaining, and otherwise managing your account, profile, or
subscription;
* Delivering content and product and service offerings relevant to your
interests;
* Fulfilling your orders and/or completing the transactions you have
requested, processing your payments, and providing you receipts and
order updates;
* Providing a game leaderboard or a forum for discussion or community for
Forbes honorees, asking questions, posting photos and reviews, and
sharing experiences;
* Considering you for and/or naming you to a Forbes list or other similar
accolade (e.g., Under 30);
* Organizing and managing live or virtual events;
* Shipping you our print magazine;
* Providing Forbes honorees with online profiles;
* For marketing, advertising, and promotional purposes, which may include:
* Marketing our goods and services or goods and services of those of our
affiliates, business partners, and other third parties;
* Providing you advertising for products and services that may be of
interest to you;
* Targeting relevant content and advertising to you on our Properties and
elsewhere where we may be acting as a third party;
* Administering sweepstakes, contests, and other similar promotions;
* Conducting insights research for ourselves and our clients;
* Tracking clicks on affiliated links;
* Mailing you promotions or advertisements;
* For analytics, enhancement, and personalization, which may include:
* Identifying trends and making inferences about you and your interactions
with us or our affiliates or our business partners;
* Conducting research and analytics to improve our services and product
offerings or those of our affiliates and business partners;
* Understanding how you interact with our Services (including our
Properties), advertisements, and communications with you to determine
the appeal of our products or services, and to improve our Services and
marketing campaigns;
* Personalizing your experience to save you time when you visit our
Properties, and to customize the marketing and advertising that we show
you;
* Better understanding our customers' needs;
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* Enhancing the information we may have with information from third
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exercising our rights, and to defending against a legal claim;
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or change of control of the Company or the division responsible for the
services with which your information is associated;
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* Maintaining records related to business process management, sales, loss
and fraud prevention, and to invoice and collect amounts owing to us;
* Providing and maintaining the functionality of our Properties, including
identifying and repairing errors or problems; and
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We may collect information that is not personal information ("non-personal
information"), including information lawfully made available from federal,
state, or local government records, or aggregate or de-identified
information. Because non-personal information does not personally identify
you, we may collect, use, and disclose such information for any purpose
permitted by law. In some instances, we may combine non-personal information
with personal information. If we combine any non-personal information with
personal information, the combined information will be treated by us as
personal information.
The Properties may offer features that allow you to post content. You should
be aware that personal information which you voluntarily include and transmit
online in a publicly accessible blog, forum, social network, or otherwise
online may be viewed and used by others. As a general reminder, please think
carefully before you decide to put anything on the Internet. For example, if
you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin
boards (e.g., comment sections), that information could be seen and used by
others, and may result in unsolicited messages from others. We are not
responsible for the information you may choose to submit in these public
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community forum, please contact us using the information provided in the
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technical limitations (e.g., the data may not be searchable), we may not be
able to remove personal information voluntarily disclosed by you in such
forums, in which case, we will notify you.
With respect to how we use Service Data, we use that information to provide
Services to our clients.
HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
In addition to using your personal information ourselves, we may send your
personal information and other information to other companies, affiliates,
and third parties in the following instances:
* Service Providers
We may share your personal information with service providers who may use
your information to provide us services including, but not limited to:
website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, information
technology services, conducting surveys and contests, customer service, email
or SMS delivery services, payment processing and recouping, auditing,
consulting, magazine management and shipping, event management, data
security, and anti-fraud monitoring. These service providers have access to
personal information that is necessary to perform their functions, and are
prohibited from using your personal information for any other purpose.
* Corporate Affiliates
We may share personal information with our corporate affiliates and
subsidiaries, who process personal information on our behalf as our vendor,
where necessary to provide a product or service that you have requested or in
other circumstances with your consent or as permitted or required by law.
* Business and Advertising Partners
We may share personal information with our business partners, which may
include information shared for the purposes of marketing or interest-based
advertising. If you provide any user information via an advertiser promotion,
please be aware you are directly providing your user information to that
advertiser.
We may share certain event registrant user information with sponsors of our
live or virtual events (e.g., attendee name, title, company name) or with
Forbes licensees in circumstances where a licensee works with Forbes in the
promotion or such an event, subject to applicable law.
We share certain personal information of certain Forbes list nominees and
honorees with our third-party partners in situations where Forbes partners
with a third-party in connection with the creation of such lists. In such
circumstances, the third party will be named.
For Service Data processed on behalf of our clients, like lead generation
data or data collected in connection with a survey conducted for a client, we
share the Service Data with our clients.
We also make certain information about our print magazine subscribers
available for list renters to engage in direct, physical mail marketing, but
in such circumstances, no personal information is actually made available to
the renter. Forbes also shares certain personal information about its
subscribers and visitors with other publishers in connection with data
co-ops. You can modify your related user information by contacting Forbes as
indicated in the section Your Choices below.
* Legal Compliance and to Defend Our Rights
We may disclose personal information and other information as we believe
necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside
your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond
to requests from public and government authorities including public and
government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our
Terms and Conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our
affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or
that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue
available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
* Business Transfers
We may share your personal information and other information with third
parties in connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring,
reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the
assets of the Company, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy,
liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which information held by the Company
about our Properties users is among the assets transferred. In this case, we
may notify you if applicable law requires.
* Consent
Forbes may disclose your Personal Information to third parties with your
consent or pursuant to your direction.
DATA SECURITY
We care about the protection of your personal information and use appropriate
technical and organizational security measures to do so. These measures are
designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing
of your personal information.
Your user information is stored on Forbes servers located in the United
States. We use industry standard physical, electronic, and organizational
safeguards to protect your user information against loss or theft as well as
unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. We employ many
different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access
by users inside and outside of the company. We also ensure that, in
accordance with good industry practice, we have in place security measures to
protect your personal information from interception, including in transit
between our different systems and devices. This includes having in place
network protection to deny attackers the ability to intercept data and the
encryption of your personal information while in transit to deny attackers
the ability to read data.
Of course, it's important to keep in mind that no data transmission on the
Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you are concerned that your
privacy may have been breached or that your interaction with us is no longer
secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us as
provided below.
DATA RETENTION
We will retain your user information for as long as we have an ongoing
legitimate business need to use your user information (for example you have
an active account with us or to comply with applicable tax, legal, or
accounting requirements). When there is no longer such a need, we will delete
it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal
information has been stored in back-up archives), then we will securely store
your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until
deletion is possible. We will also delete certain user information we may
retain about you upon your request.
INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING
* Targeted Advertising / Behavioral Advertising
We may ourselves, or with third-party vendors, use personal information to
deliver targeted advertising to you when you visit other websites or our
Properties (including emails). Cookies, clickstream data, and other similar
technologies described above may be used in this process. For example, if you
are searching for information on a particular product, we or our vendor may
cause an advertisement to appear on other websites you view with information
on that product. This form of advertising, sometimes called "targeted
advertising," "behavioral advertising," or "cross-context behavioral
advertising," enables us and our vendors to know your interests in connection
with the delivery of that specific ad. We believe that such advertising is
helpful because you will see advertisements that are relevant to your
interests. We comply with the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online
Behavioral Advertising as administered by the Digital Advertising Alliance
(DAA). If you would like to opt out of these interest-based advertisements,
please follow the opt-out process described below under Your Choices.
* Cross Device Matching
We may use information we have collected to help us, or our third-party
vendors, determine if you have interacted with our Properties across multiple
devices and to match such devices. To accomplish this, we may rely on
information (including demographic, geographic, and interest-based data) from
third parties such as data vendors, pursuant to their own privacy policies,
or we may use information we collect in conjunction with such third-party
data. Based on this data, we may then display targeted advertisements across
devices that we believe are associated and may provide other services to our
advertisers to better enable cross-device targeting and analysis. For further
instructions on restricting our use of certain cross-device data, please see
Your Choices below.
YOUR CHOICES
Consistent with applicable law, you may exercise the options described in
this section regarding your choices with respect to your personal information
and communications from us. You may also have certain additional rights
available depending on your state or country of residence, as described
further below.
* Rights and Opt-Outs
Registered forbes.com users may at any time change the information stored in
their forbes.com member profile (such as name, password, location, country,
and the topics and authors they are following) by visiting their member
profile page. You may also request to delete or modify your personal account
and/or any personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to us
(e.g., information that you provide to register for a Forbes event) if you
wish to do so, provided we are able to verify your identity in accordance
with applicable law.
You may also ask to opt out of direct email marketing, push notifications to
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information provided in the section titled Contacting Us below.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom,
Switzerland, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Utah,
Virginia, or the People's Republic of China, you may have additional rights
as set forth in the subsequent sections of this Privacy Statement.
* Cookies, Tracking, and Interest-Based Advertising
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some of the functionality may be affected.
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out of receiving targeted ads from certain data partners and other
advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can
opt out of targeted advertising from certain providers that participate in
the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) program
at www.aboutads.info/consumers. Other providers are members of the Network
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those members by visiting http://optout.networkadvertising.org/. Please note
that by opting out, you may continue to see generic advertising that is not
tailored to your specific interests and activities. Additionally, be advised
that these industry opt-out methods will not prevent the receipt of
interest-based advertising from other companies that do not participate in
these programs.
Cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you
wish to have opted out. For example, if you have opted out on your device
browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device, and if you
opt out on one of your devices, that opt out may not be effective on all of
your devices.
If you are visiting our Properties from a mobile device, the operating system
of the device may offer you options regarding how the device collects and
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device (such as "Limit Ad Tracking" on Apple devices or "Opt-out of
Interest-Based Ads" on Android devices).
* Do Not Track
While some browsers have a "do not track" (also known as DNT) feature that
lets you instruct websites not to track your online activities, we do not
respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web
browsers. However, in jurisdictions where required, our Properties are
designed to honor opt-out preference (aka, Global Privacy Control) signals.
PRIVACY DISCLOSURES FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS
If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt out of the sale of
certain personal information to third parties who intend to license or sell
that personal information. If you wish to exercise this right, click here or
contact us at 866-536-7262.
CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
While the Properties are available to users globally, our primary audience is
located in North America. If you submit personal information to Forbes, your
personal information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws
may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By submitting your
personal information to us you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing
of your personal information in a country other than your country of
residence including, but not necessarily limited to, the United States.
Please note that personal information transferred to the United States is
subject to access by law enforcement.
Where applicable, Forbes may use model clauses approved by the laws of your
jurisdiction (such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European
Commission) or other recognized transfer mechanisms for cross-border data
transfers.
LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUESTS
Forbes takes the protection of your personal information very seriously and
is committed to acting as a responsible data custodian. If we become aware
that any law enforcement, regulatory, judicial or governmental authority
("Authority") wishes to obtain access to, or a copy of, the personal
information that we hold about you (whether on a voluntary or mandatory
basis) (a "Request"), then we commit to the following: (1) we will
investigate the Request before responding, to ensure that it is a valid
request made under applicable law; and (2) we will only disclose personal
information to the Authority in response to the Request where we are legally
required to do so and in accordance with applicable lawful process. The only
exception to these commitments is where we reasonably believe (in good faith)
that the urgent provision of the requested personal information per the
Authority's Request is necessary to prevent an imminent risk of serious harm
to any individual. However, in any event, we shall never knowingly disclose
personal information in a massive, disproportionate, or indiscriminate
manner, which goes beyond what is necessary in a democratic society.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
The Properties are intended for people who are at least 16 years of age. If
you are less than 16 years old, please do not send any personal information
to us—including information such as your name, address, or email address. We
do not knowingly collect (nor do we wish to collect) any personal information
from children under the age of 16. If we learn we have collected any personal
information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information
from our database and terminate the corresponding account, if any. We
encourage you to discuss the Properties with your parent or guardian.
NOTICE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVE
We may at times offer our customers programs that provide certain perks
associated with us, such as rewards and exclusive offers. We may also provide
other programs, such as sweepstakes, contests, or other similar promotional
campaigns (collectively, the “Programs”). When you sign up for one of these
Programs, we typically ask you to provide your name and contact information
(such as email address and/or telephone number). If participating in a
program that requires signing up or logging in with a digital wallet, we may
also require certain public data like your wallet address, the blockchain
your wallet is on, your wallet’s transactions and transaction history, and
whether your wallet holds a Forbes digital collectable. Because our Programs
involve the collection of Personal Information, they may be considered a
“financial incentive” program under California law or a “bona fide loyalty
program” under Colorado law. The value of your personal information to us is
exceeded by or related to the value of the free or discounted products or
services, or other benefits that you obtain or that are provided as part of
the applicable Program, minus the expense related to offering those products,
services, and benefits to Program participants. Unless specifically stated
otherwise in connection with a potential “financial incentive,” the value of
the benefit Forbes may offer to you exceeds the value of the personal
information you provide as a participant.
You may withdraw from participating in a Program at any time by contacting us
using the designated method set forth in the applicable Program rules. Please
read the terms and conditions of each Program to view full details, including
how to join. You may also withdraw from or opt into the Program by contacting
us at the email address provided in connection with the Program. If none is
provided, you may contact us as set forth above in the Contacting Us section.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to
changing legal, technical or business developments. This Privacy Statement
describes our data handling practices for the 12 months prior to the date on
which it was last updated. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to
change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Statement at any
time, provided that any such modifications will only be applied
prospectively. We encourage you to periodically review the Site for the
latest information on our privacy practices. Your continued use of the
Properties following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Statement
means you accept such changes.
Note on Translated Version(s): For your convenience, Forbes may make
translated versions of this Privacy Statement available on the Site. In the
event that the terms of any such translated version conflict with the terms
of the English version, the terms of the English version of this Privacy
Statement will apply.
CONTACTING US
If you have any other questions regarding this Privacy Statement or how to
remove or modify your user information or related consents, please feel free
to contact us at privacy@forbes.com or Forbes Media, Privacy Team - Customer
Service, 499 Washington Blvd., Jersey City, NJ 07310.
The data controller of your user information is Forbes Media LLC. You may
contact our EU and UK GDPR Data Protection Officer
at gdpr.dpo@forbes.com and, if you are writing from the UK, you may contact
our UK representative at Forbes Media - UK Representative, 151 Wardour
Street, Offices 201-203, London, W1F 8WE. If you are writing from the EEA,
you may contact our EEA GDPR Representative at Forbes@LionheartSquared.eu or
Lionheart Squared (FAO Forbes Media), 2 Pembroke House, Upper Pembroke Street
28-32, Dublin, D02 EK84 Ireland.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"), amended by the
California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, provides you with specific rights
regarding your Personal Information. This section describes the rights that
California consumers have and explains how to exercise those rights. For the
purposes of this section, "Personal Information" does not include: (i)
information that is lawfully made available from federal, state or local
government records; (ii) de-identified or aggregated data; or (iii)
information excluded from the scope of the CCPA. To be clear, these rights
are granted only to the extent that you are a California consumer. The rights
in this section are not intended to grant you additional rights, but only
your rights under the CCPA to the extent that we are considered a CCPA
business with respect to the applicable Personal Information.
In order to provide our Services to our clients, we may process Service Data
that we receive from or on behalf of our clients. If you are a California
resident, you may have certain CCPA rights pertaining to such information.
Under the CCPA, when we act as a "service provider" (not as a "business" or a
"third party") over such information, we only process your information
through our Services as necessary to provide our services to our clients, at
our clients' direction. If you wish to exercise any of your rights under CCPA
regarding such information, please contact the relevant business that
collected the information from you, who controls and determines how your
information is processed.
Information We Collect; How We Collect It; How We Use It
To the extent that our collection, use, and disclosure of Personal
Information is addressed by a separate privacy notice, please consult the
terms of that privacy notice for detailed information about our data
practices, including the categories of personal information that we collect
and disclose. For all other consumers, general information regarding our
collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is set forth in the
Privacy Statement, and more detailed information about our data practices in
relation to specific categories of personal information can be found in the
Personal Information Processing Chart.
We may disclose your Personal Information to service providers for a business
purpose, or sell or share your personal information to third parties, subject
to your right to opt out (see Right to Opt Out of Selling or Sharing Your
Personal Information, below). Please note that Forbes does not “sell” any of
your personal information in exchange for money. However, the term “sell” has
a broader meaning under the CCPA than would ordinarily be understood in a
non-legal context. The information under the Personal Information Processing
Chart (or as addressed under a separate privacy notice, if applicable)
describes the entities with which we may disclose your Personal Information.
Rights to Your Information
a. Right to Know
As a California consumer, you have the right to request that we disclose
certain information to you about our collection, use, or disclosure of your
Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm
your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Your Rights, below), and
subject to certain limitations that we describe below, we will disclose such
information. You have the right to request any or all of the following:
* The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
* The categories of sources from which the Personal Information is
collected.
* Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing
that Personal Information.
* The categories of third parties with whom we disclose that Personal
Information.
* The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (see
Data Portability Rights below).
b. Right to Delete
You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information
that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once
we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Your
Rights, below), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete)
your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.
However, we may retain Personal Information that has been de-identified or
aggregated. Furthermore, we may deny your deletion request if retaining the
information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) in order to
perform certain actions set forth under the CCPA, such as detecting security
incidents and protecting against fraudulent or illegal activity.
c. Right to Data Portability
You have the right to request a copy of Personal Information we have
collected and maintained about you. The CCPA allows you to request your
information from us up to twice during a 12-month period. We will provide
our response in a readily usable (and usually electronic) format.
d. Right to Correct
You have the right to request the correction of any Personal Information we
maintain about you.
e. Right to Opt Out of Selling or Sharing Your Personal Information
You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal
Information, along with the right to opt in to the sale or sharing of such
information. We do not sell or share the Personal Information of consumers we
actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative
authorization (the "right to opt-in") from either the consumer who is less
than 16 (but greater than 13) years of age, or the parent or guardian of a
consumer less than 13 years of age. To our knowledge, we do not sell or share
the Personal Information of minors under 16 years of age.
To exercise the right to opt out, you (or your authorized representative) may
visit the following web page: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.
Alternatively, you may submit an opt-out request by contacting us at
866-536-7262. We will also treat opt-out preference (aka, Global Privacy
Control) browser signals as valid opt out requests.
You may change your mind and opt back into Personal Information sales at any
time by contacting us at privacy@forbes.com.
f. Right to Limit the Use of Your Sensitive Personal Information
You have the right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal
information ("SPI") if we are using your SPI beyond what is reasonable and
proportionate to provide the requested goods or services. You can make a
request for us to limit the use or disclosure of your SPI by visiting the
following Internet Web page: "Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal
Information." While we recognize opt-out preference signals (aka, Global
Privacy Controls) when required to do so by law, given the specific methods
by which Forbes collects your SPI in the limited circumstances it collects
SPI, opt-out preference signals would be an ineffective and technologically
impractical means for honoring limit the use requests. Therefore, please make
your request to limit the use of your SPI using the above link.
g. Right to Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights,
including but not limited to, by:
* Denying you goods or services.
* Charging you different prices or rates for goods or services, including
through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
* Providing you a different level or quality of goods or services.
* Suggesting that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or
services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
h. Exercising Your Rights
To exercise the rights described above, please contact us by using the
following methods:
* Calling us at 866-536-7262; or
* Visiting our California Resident CCPA Request Form to submit a request.
After submitting a request, we will take steps to verify your identity in
order for us to properly respond and confirm that it is not a fraudulent
request. In order to verify your identity, we will ask, at a minimum, that
you provide your name and email address, so that we can match this
information with the information existing in our systems. If you are a print
subscriber, we may also require your mailing address to find you in our
systems. When providing us this information, you represent and affirm that
all information provided is true and accurate.
Forbes will send you a verification email to verify that you have access to
the email address you have provided. Then, as required by the CCPA, Forbes
will use this information to verify your identify to a reasonable or
reasonably high degree of certainty, depending on the request. Depending on
how you submit the request, if we are able to verify that you have access to
the email address you provided, or if we are able to match at least two
pieces of personal information to the personal information that we may retain
of you, we will honor your Right to Know (Categories) request and in most
cases, your Right to Delete and Right to Correct requests. If we are able to
match at least three pieces of personal information to the personal
information that we may retain of you, we will honor your Right to Know (Data
Portability / Specific Pieces of Personal Information) requests, and in
situations where we determined that a reasonably high degree of certainty was
more appropriate, your Right to Delete and Right to Correct requests. If we
are unable to verify your identity, we will let you know that we are unable
to fulfill your request.
Only you, or an agent legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a
verifiable request related to your Personal Information. If you are making a
request as the authorized agent of a California consumer, we will ask you
also submit reliable proof that you have been authorized in writing by the
consumer to act on such consumer's behalf.
We will make every effort to respond to your request within 45 days from when
you contacted us. If you have a complex request, the CCPA allows us up to 90
days to respond. We will still contact you within 45 days from when you
contacted us to let you know we need more time to respond.
CALIFORNIA "SHINE THE LIGHT"
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 ("Shine the Light"), California
residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they
have an established business relationship: (a) a list of the categories of
personal information, as defined under Shine the Light, such as name, email
address, and mailing address, and the type of services provided to the
customer that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates
that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar
year for the third parties' direct marketing purposes; and (b) the names and
addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please
contact us at 866-536-7262. If you do not want your personal information
shared with any third party who may use such information for direct marketing
purposes, then you may opt out of such disclosures by contacting us at
866-536-7262.
COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, OREGON, TEXAS, UTAH, VIRGINIA AND SIMILAR U.S. STATE
PRIVACY RIGHTS
The Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, the Oregon
Consumer Privacy Act, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, the Utah
Consumer Privacy Act, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, and such
other U.S. states that have comparable consumer privacy laws ("State Privacy
Laws") provide their consumers with specific rights regarding their personal
information. To the extent that you are a resident of one of these states,
this section describes your rights under the State Privacy Laws and explains
how you may exercise these rights.
The categories of personal information we process, our purposes for
processing your personal information, the categories of personal information
that we share with third parties, and the categories of third parties with
whom we share it are detailed above in our Privacy Statement and in the
Personal Information Processing Chart. To the extent that our personal
information processing activities are addressed by a separate privacy notice,
please consult the terms of that privacy notice for detailed information
about our data practices, including the categories of personal information
that we collect and disclose.
Rights to Your Information
Certain rights that you may have concerning your personal information are set
forth in our Privacy Statement. State Privacy Laws provide you with the
following additional rights:
* Right to know. You have the right to know whether we process your personal
information. If you are a resident of Oregon, you also have the rights to
(i) confirm additional information about the categories of personal
information we have processed about you; and (ii) obtain a list of third
parties to which we have disclosed personal information of Oregon
consumers.
* Right to data portability. You have the right to access and obtain a copy
of your personal information that you previously provided to us in a
portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format
that allows you to transmit the data to another business without
hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means. You may
request such personal information up to twice annually, subject to certain
exceptions.
* Right to delete. You have the right to delete personal information that
you have provided by or that we have obtained about you. Please note that
we may deny such request if the requested deletion falls under an
exception to this right set forth in State Privacy Laws. Additionally, if
you request deletion of your personal information and we have obtained
such information from a third-party source, we may retain such data by
keeping a record of the deletion request and the minimum data necessary to
ensure that your personal information remains deleted from our records and
that such retained data is not used for any other purpose, or we may opt
you out of the processing of such personal information for any purpose
except for those allowed under State Privacy Laws. Some State Privacy
Laws, like those of Utah, limit this right to only the data you have
provided us.
* Right to opt out of selling or sharing. You have the right to opt out of
the processing of the personal information for purposes of: (i) targeted
advertising; (ii) the sale of personal information; or (iii) profiling in
furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant
effects concerning you, unless you reside in Utah. As of the latest date
of the Privacy Statement:
* We DO process personal information for the purposes of targeted
advertising;
* We DO sell your personal information in exchange for monetary or other
valuable consideration (Please note that we do not “sell” any of your
personal information in exchange for money. However, the term “sell” has
a broader meaning under certain State Privacy Laws than would ordinarily
be understood in a non-legal context);
* We DO NOT engage in profiling decision based on your personal
information that produce legal or similarly significant effects
concerning you.
* If you wish to opt out of the processing of your personal information
for the purposes of targeted advertising please call us at 866-536-7262
or click here. For residents of Colorado, we will also treat opt-out
preference signals as valid opt-out requests to the extent required by
Colorado law.
* Right to correct. Unless you reside in Utah, you have the right to correct
inaccuracies in the personal information we collect from you, taking into
account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for which
we process it.
* Right to nondiscrimination. You have the right not to receive
discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights.
Unless permitted by State Privacy Laws, we will not:
* Deny you goods or services.
* Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including
through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
* Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
* Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or
services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
How to Contact Us About Your Privacy Rights
To exercise any of your privacy rights, or if you have any questions about
your privacy rights, you may contact us by:
* Calling us at 866-536-7262; or
* Visiting Your Privacy Rights to submit a request.
Verification of Your Identity. After submitting a request, we will take steps
to verify your identity in order for us to properly respond and confirm that
it is not a fraudulent request. In order to verify your identity, we will
ask, at a minimum, that you provide your name and email address so that we
can match this information with the information existing in our systems. If
you are a print subscriber, we may also require your mailing address to find
you in our systems. When providing us this information, you represent and
affirm that all information provided is true and accurate.
Forbes will send you a verification email to verify that you have access to
the email address you have provided. Then, as required by the State Privacy
Laws, Forbes will use this information to verify your identify to a
reasonable or reasonably high degree of certainty, depending on the request.
Depending on how you submit the request, if we are able to verify that you
have access to the email address you provided, or if we are able to match at
least two pieces of personal information to the personal information that we
may retain of you, we will honor your Right to Know requests and in most
cases, your Data Portability, Right to Delete, and Right to Correct requests.
If we are able to match at least three pieces of personal information to the
personal information that we may retain of you, we will honor your Right to
Know requests, and in situations where we determined that a reasonably high
degree of certainty was more appropriate, your Data Portability, Right to
Delete, and Right to Correct requests. If we are unable to verify your
identity, we will let you know that we are unable to fulfill your request.
Only you—or for Colorado and Connecticut consumers making an opt-out request,
an agent legally authorized to act on your behalf—may make a verifiable
request related to your personal information. If you are making an opt-out
request as the authorized agent of a Colorado or Connecticut consumer, we
will ask you also submit reliable proof that you have been authorized in
writing by the consumer to act on such consumer’s behalf. If you are making a
request as the parent or legal guardian of a known child regarding the
processing of that child’s personal information, we may ask you to submit
reliable proof of your identity.
Our Response Time to Your Request
We will make every effort to respond to your request within forty-five (45)
days from when you contacted us. If you have a complex request, State Privacy
Laws allow us up to ninety (90) days to respond. We will still contact you
within forty-five (45) days from when you contacted us to let you know we
need more time to respond and the reason for the extension.
Your Right to Appeal
If we decline to take action regarding a request that you have submitted, we
will inform you of our reason for declining to take action and, unless you
are a Utah resident, provide instructions for how to appeal the decision. In
the event that we do not respond to a request that you make pursuant to one
of the privacy rights set forth in this section, unless you are a Utah
resident, you have the right to appeal our refusal to take action within a
reasonable period of time after you receive our decision. Within 60 days (45
for residents of Colorado) of our receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in
writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including
a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If the appeal is
denied, we will also provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or
other method through which you may contact your state attorney general’s
office to submit a complaint.
EUROPEAN PRIVACY RIGHTS
IF YOU ARE SITUATED IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA, SWITZERLAND, OR THE UNITED
KINGDOM, THIS SECTION APPLIES TO OUR COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR
PERSONAL DATA AND ADDITIONAL RIGHTS YOU HAVE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
Legal Basis
We will only use your personal data, as that term is defined under the
General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), when the law allows us to. Most
commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
* Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have
entered into with you.
* Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third
party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those
interests.
* Where you have consented to a certain use of your personal data.
* Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
To the extent permitted under applicable laws, we will also process,
transfer, disclose, and preserve personal data when we have a good faith
belief that doing so is necessary.
Data Controller
Forbes is the data controller of all personal data collected through our
Properties or Services (with the exception of Service Data, for which Forbes
is a data processor). To contact us, please see the section above titled
Contacting Us.
If you are situated in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK and have any
complaints regarding our privacy practices, you have the right to make a
complaint at any time to your local supervisory authority. We would, however,
appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach your
supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance. If you
have a complaint, please contact our privacy manager here:
privacy@forbes.com.
Provision of personal data and failure to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law or under the terms of a
contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested,
we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter
into with you (for example, to provide you with our services). In this case,
we may not be able to provide certain services to you.
Collection of personal data from third-party sources
We may obtain personal data and other information about you from public
sources and through our third-party partners who help us provide our products
and services to you.
Withdrawing your consent
If we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you have the
right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at
privacy@forbes.com. You must, however, specify what processing activity or
activities you are withdrawing your consent from.
Data Transfer
We may transfer personal data from the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK to the
USA and other countries, some of which have not been determined by the
European Commission or the UK to have an adequate level of data protection.
Where we transfer personal data protected under EEA, Swiss, and UK data
protection law to countries not deemed adequate, we take appropriate
safeguards to ensure that your personal data will remain protected in
accordance with this Privacy Statement and applicable laws. The safeguards we
use include specific contracts (such as the UK and EEA Standard Contractual
Clauses) approved by the European Commission or the UK Secretary of State.
For more information about how we transfer your data, please contact us at
privacy@forbes.com.
Forbes participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Data
Privacy Framework (the “EU-U.S. DPF”), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF
(the “UK Extension”), and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the
“Swiss-U.S. DPF”), as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Forbes is
committed to applying the EU-U.S. DPF's applicable Principles to personal
data we receive from the European Union in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and to
personal data we receive from the United Kingdom (and Gibraltar) in reliance
on the UK Extension. Likewise, Forbes is committed to applying the Swiss-U.S.
DPF's applicable Principles to personal data we receive from Switzerland in
reliance on the Swiss-U.S. DPF. For clarity, Forbes will only rely on the UK
Extension and the Swiss-U.S. DPF as transfer mechanisms under the applicable
UK and Swiss data protection laws, once respectively (i) the adequacy
regulations implementing the data bridge for the UK Extension enter into
force; and (ii) the Swiss Federal Administration's recognition of adequacy of
the Swiss-U.S. DPF enters into force. If there is any conflict between the
terms in this Privacy Policy and the EU-U.S. DPF and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF
Principles, the Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Data Privacy
Framework (“DPF”) program, and to view our certification, please visit
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/. Forbes is responsible for the
processing of personal data it receives, under each DPF, and subsequently
transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Forbes complies
with the DPF Principles for all onward transfers of personal data we receive
from the European Union, the UK, Gibraltar, and Switzerland in reliance on
the EU-U.S. DPF Principles, the UK Extension and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF
Principles, including the onward transfer liability provisions. In
particular, where we have received your personal information in the United
States in reliance upon the EU-U.S. DPF Principles, the UK Extension and/or
the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles and we subsequently transfer that information
to a third party acting as an agent, and such third party agent processes
your personal information in a manner inconsistent with those Principles, we
will remain responsible unless we can prove we are not responsible for the
event giving rise to the damage. With respect to personal data received or
transferred pursuant to the DPFs, Forbes is subject to the regulatory
enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain
situations, Forbes may be required to disclose personal data in response to
lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or
law enforcement requirements. Forbes commits to refer unresolved complaints
concerning our handling of personal data received in reliance on the EU-U.S.
DPF, the UK Extension, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF to TRUSTe, an alternative
dispute resolution provider based in the United States. If you do not receive
timely acknowledgment of your DPF Principles-related complaint from us, or if
we have not addressed your DPF Principles-related complaint to your
satisfaction, please visit https://feedback- form.truste.com/watchdog/request
for more information or to file a complaint. These dispute resolution
services are provided at no cost to you. Under certain conditions, more fully
described on the Data Privacy Framework website at,
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/article/How-to-Submit-a-Complaint-Relating-to-a-Participating-Organization-s-Compliance-with-the-DPF-Principles-dpf,
you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures
have been exhausted.
Use of your personal data for marketing purposes
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses,
particularly around marketing and advertising:
* Promotional offers from us: We may use your personal data to form a view
on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you.
This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant
for you (we call this marketing). You will receive marketing
communications from us if you have requested information from us or used
our services and, in each case, you have consented to our use of your
personal data for marketing purposes.
Data Subject Rights
If you are situated in the European Union, Switzerland, or the UK, under the
GDPR, as a data subject, you have the right to:
* Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject
access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data
we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
* Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This
enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you
corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you
provide to us.
* Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to
delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us
continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or
remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right
to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your
information unlawfully, or where we are required to erase your personal
data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be
able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons
which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
* Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a
legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something
about your particular situation which makes you want to object to
processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental
rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are
processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some
cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to
process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
* Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you
to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following
scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where
our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c)
where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you
need it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; or (d) you have
objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have
overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
* Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We
will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data
in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this
right only applies to automated information which you initially provided
consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a
contract with you.
* Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process
your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any
processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw
your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services
to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw
your consent.
To exercise your rights under the GDPR, click here or contact us by using the
information in the Contacting Us section in the Privacy Statement. Please
note that in order for you to assert these rights, we may need to verify your
identity to confirm your right to access your personal data. This is a
security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person
who has no right to receive it. In order to verify your identity, we may need
to gather more personal data from you than we currently have.
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a resident of the People’s Republic of China ("PRC"), you have the
right to access, correct, and delete your personal information under the
Personal Information Protection Law ("PIPL"). You can also request to
restrict or object to certain processing of your personal information, and
request a copy of your personal information. If you are a close relative of a
person in the PRC who is now deceased, you can request to access, correct,
and delete their personal information. Finally, you have the right to request
additional information about the third parties that Forbes shares your
personal information with.
To exercise these rights under the PIPL, click here or contact us at
privacy@forbes.com. We will need to verify your identify according to
applicable law, which may require that we ask you for additional information
to confirm your identity. We will do our best to respond to your request
within 30 days and, in any event, we will respond within the timeframe
required by applicable law. You can modify your cookie preferences by
following the procedures outlined in the Your Rights section of the Privacy
Statement above.
If you cannot understand this Privacy Statement, you are entitled to request
explanations of how we process your personal information. If you have any
questions, please contact us at privacy@forbes.com.
(如果您无法理解本隐私政策并希望获得更多信息，请发送电子邮件至 privacy@forbes.com.)
PERSONAL INFORMATION PROCESSING CHART
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal
information from the sources described in the section of the Privacy Policy
above titled How We Collect Your Personal Information. The chart below
describes our business or commercial purposes for collecting and disclosing
these categories personal information, the parties we have disclosed such
information to, and whether we have sold or shared (or otherwise disclosed
for targeted advertising) each category of personal information. Depending on
your level of interaction with us, we may not have collected your personal
information from all of the categories listed below. The categories of
personal information described below are retained and stored for as long as
is necessary to effectuate the business and commercial purposes for which
they have been collected, and otherwise as described in the section of the
Privacy Policy above titled Data Retention.
Please note that Forbes does not “sell” any of your personal information in
exchange for money. However, the term “sell” has a broader meaning under
applicable privacy laws than would ordinarily be understood in a non-legal
context.
Category
Examples
Business or Commercial Purposes for Collecting Personal Information (Forbes
may or may not use each data type in the "Examples" column for each purpose
listed out)
Disclosed in the Prior Twelve (12) Months for the Following Business Purposes
"Sold" or "Shared" in the Prior Twelve (12) Months for the Following Purposes
Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Disclose, Sell, or Share Personal
Information
Personal identifiers
A real name, postal address, online identifier, Internet Protocol address,
email address, account name
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide products and services,
and to maintain their quality and safety; to identify and repair errors; to
process and fulfill orders and transactions; for surveys, sweepstakes, and
contests; marketing and promotions; to enable commenting and communities; for
internal reporting and service optimization; to serve you content
recommendations and advertising; auditing related to counting ad impressions
and unique visitors; marketing and promotions; to consider you for a Forbes
list or similar accolade; for lead generation services performed on behalf of
our clients; to enhance the information we may have on you; security and
fraud prevention; to enable exercise of privacy rights; digital wallet
information to allow you to log into Forbes digital properties, monitor
whether your wallet contains a Forbes digital collectable, and provide other
benefits related to your use of a digital wallet; to verify customer
information; to provide customer service
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and advertising, including targeted
advertising; sharing event registrant information with event sponsors
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For the listed Commercial Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
Personal information covered by the California Customer Records statute (Cal.
Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
(Some personal information in this category may overlap with other
categories)
A name, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number,
credit card number, debit card number
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide products and services,
and to maintain their quality and safety; to process and fulfill orders and
transactions; for surveys, sweepstakes, and contests; marketing and
promotions; to enable commenting and communities; for internal reporting and
service optimization; to serve you content recommendations and advertising;
to consider you for a Forbes list or similar accolade; for lead generation
services performed on behalf of our clients; to enhance the information we
may have on you; security and fraud prevention; to enable exercise of privacy
rights; to verify customer information; to provide customer service
Commercial Purposes: sharing event registrant information with event sponsors
(e.g., name, work address, work phone)
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For name, work address and phone information, only for the listed Commercial
Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Age, race, national origin, citizenship, marital or familial status, sex,
gender, veteran status, and other similar information
Business Purposes: To provide you with products and services, and to maintain
their quality and safety; marketing and promotions; for internal reporting
and service optimization; to serve you content recommendations and
advertising (e.g., based on age or gender); to consider you for a Forbes list
or similar accolade; to provide customer service
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and advertising, including targeted
advertising (e.g., based on age or gender); sharing event registrant
information with event sponsors (e.g., age or gender)
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For age and gender information, only the listed Commercial Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
Commercial information
Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other
purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide products and services,
and to maintain their quality and safety; marketing and promotions; to
process and fulfill orders and transactions; for internal reporting and
service optimization; to serve you content recommendations and targeted
advertising; digital wallet information to allow you to log into Forbes
digital properties, monitor whether your wallet contains a Forbes digital
collectable, and provide other benefits related to your digital wallet; to
provide customer service; to verify customer information
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and advertising, including targeted
advertising
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For the listed Commercial Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
Internet or other similar network activity
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction
with a website, app, or ad
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide you with products and
services, and to maintain their quality and safety; to identify and repair
errors; for surveys, sweepstakes, and contests; marketing and promotions; for
internal reporting and service optimization; to serve you content
recommendations and advertising; auditing related to counting ad impressions
and unique visitors; security and fraud prevention; to enable exercise of
privacy rights
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and advertising, including targeted
advertising
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For the listed Commercial Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
Geolocation data
Location tracking information
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide you with products and
services, and to maintain their quality and safety; for internal reporting
and service optimization; to serve you content recommendations and
advertising; auditing related to counting ad impressions and unique visitors;
marketing and promotions; security and fraud prevention; to enable exercise
of privacy rights
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and advertising, including targeted
advertising
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For the listed Commercial Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
Sensory data
Audio, visual, or similar information
Business Purposes: To provide you with products and services, and to maintain
their quality and safety; in relation to your user profile, your Forbes list
or similar accolade profile, or when you post content; customer service call
recordings
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
N/A
Forbes affiliates; service providers
Professional or employment-related information
Employer, employment history, and other employment-related information
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide you with products and
services, and to maintain their quality and safety; for surveys, sweepstakes,
and contests; marketing and promotions; for internal reporting and service
optimization; to serve you content recommendations and advertising; auditing
related to counting ad impressions and unique visitors; to consider you for a
Forbes list or similar accolade; for lead generation services performed on
behalf of our clients; to provide customer service; to verify customer
information; to process and fulfill orders and transactions
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and advertising, including targeted
advertising; sharing event registrant information with event sponsors
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For the listed Commercial Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
Inferences drawn from other personal information for profiling purposes
Used to create a profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics,
and behavior
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide you products and
services, and to maintain their quality and safety; for internal reporting
and service optimization; to identify and repair errors; to serve you content
recommendations and advertising; auditing related to counting ad impressions
and unique visitors; for surveys; marketing and promotions; to provide
customer service
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and advertising, including targeted
advertising
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
For the listed Commercial Purposes
Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
Sensitive personal information
Racial or ethnic origin; payment card information
Business Purposes: We collect your payment card information to fulfill,
process and manage transactions, services, and subscriptions; provide
customer service; to verify identities when required and permissible; with
your consent, we collect racial or ethnic origin information from event
registrants to track, report on, and improve upon diversity; in connection
with considering you for a Forbes list or similar accolade, you may provide
Forbes with nationality or immigration status information; in connection with
a sweepstakes you have won, we may collect your social security number if you
are required to complete a W-9 (US only);
For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
N/A
Forbes affiliates; service providers
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