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NPR ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY HIGHLIGHTS

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Note: The NPR Online Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") has been updated with an
effective date of December 21, 2022. Please review the updated Privacy Policy
carefully before using the NPR Services. By using any of the NPR Services, you
consent to the terms of the updated Privacy Policy. This section highlights
important features of the Privacy Policy. Please scroll down to see the full
Privacy Policy or click on "Read more" to learn more about a specific area.

Scope of Privacy Policy

NPR owns, operates, or provides access to NPR.org and NPR's mobile applications,
email newsletters, podcast subscription services, features such as sponsorship
credits and marketing messages, benefits provided by NPR on behalf of the NPR
Network (a collaboration between NPR and participating Member stations), and
other sites, digital platforms and interactive services provided by NPR that
link to or refer to the Privacy Policy (collectively "NPR Services" or "our
Services"). This Privacy Policy applies only to the NPR Services and does not
govern the separate websites, applications, newsletters, platforms and services
of NPR Member stations or of any third parties that may link to or be linked to
from the NPR Services.

NOTICE TO EU USERS: Our handling of information about EU users is governed by
the NPR Privacy Notice for EU Users. This Privacy Policy does not apply to EU
users.

Read More in the Full Privacy Policy ↓

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: This notice provides additional information and
privacy options for California residents.

Read More in the Full Privacy Policy ↓

Children

If you are a parent or guardian, we encourage you to become involved in your
children's online experience, and to share your knowledge and experience with
your young ones. If you are under 13, please do not register for the NPR
Services or provide us with any contact or other information, including your
name, address or email address. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you
must obtain permission from your parent or guardian before registering for the
NPR Services or otherwise sending any contact or other information to NPR.

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Information You Provide Directly Through Our Services

We and our service providers, which only use your data on our behalf, collect a
variety of contact and other information about you that you provide directly
through our Services, including your name, email address, postal address,
telephone number, password, age, payment card information, country of residence,
communications and content preferences, travel-related information, and your
favorite Member stations. We may collect such information when you:

 * Register for an NPR account, NPR podcast subscription service, application
   programming interface (API) content access, or any NPR email newsletter.
 * Email, text or otherwise share a story from any of the NPR Services.
 * Contact us with a message.
 * Make a purchase from the NPR Shop.
 * Post, upload, or otherwise submit a comment, story idea, essay, photo, or
   other content to NPR.
 * Register for an NPR tour, event, travel program, or any contest we sponsor.
 * Apply for a job, internship or fellowship at NPR.
 * If you choose to participate in a survey, we may ask you to provide your date
   of birth, gender, education level, information about your employment, income
   level and other information.
 * Make a donation to NPR or an NPR Member station or submit a related inquiry.
 * Otherwise volunteer information to us or respond to a request for information
   through any of our Services.

If you do not consent to the collection, use or sharing of this type of
information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy, please do not provide
us with such information. By providing such information, you are "opting in" to
the collection, use and sharing of this information in accordance with the
Privacy Policy.

Read More in the Full Privacy Policy ↓

Information Collected Automatically Through Technology

As you navigate our Services, we, service providers, and vendors we work with
also automatically collect a variety of information about your interactions with
our Services. Depending on which NPR Services you use and how you access them,
the information collected automatically may include:

 * The Internet Protocol address (IP address) of your computer or device used to
   access an NPR Service and information about your Internet Service Provider.
 * The website, application, platform or service you visited before and after
   visiting an NPR Service.
 * Information about your computer or mobile device, and its browser, operating
   system, settings and software.
 * Unique device identifiers on your mobile device used to access an NPR
   Service, such as the Google Android Advertising ID. If you have an iOS mobile
   device, we may collect the Apple IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) with your
   consent.
 * Your approximate geographic location information (derived from information
   such as your IP address) and/or more precise location if you have given NPR
   explicit consent to receive this information for an NPR mobile application on
   your mobile device.
 * Automobile make (for certain connected car platforms).
 * The dates, times, duration and frequency of your interactions with our
   Services, any search terms you enter, the media files you listen to,
   download, view, email, text or otherwise share, favorites you select, and
   your navigation path through our Services.
 * Listening and usage data, including information about your interactions with
   NPR podcasts and other media files.
 * Information about your interactions with our email messages.
 * Analytics information to understand our users, for our internal purposes, and
   to customize and evaluate the performance of the Services, content,
   sponsorship credits and marketing messages you receive.

If you do not consent to the automatic collection, use or sharing of this type
of information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy, please do not use
the NPR Services. By using the NPR Services, you are "opting in" to the
automatic collection, use and sharing of this information in accordance with the
Privacy Policy.

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Use of Information

We, service providers, and vendors we work with may use the information
collected from you (whether provided by you directly or automatically collected
through technology) to:

 * Manage, administer, deliver, promote, analyze and improve our Services.
 * Respond to your questions or messages and fulfill your orders or requests for
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 * Customize the content you see and hear on our Services, including offering
   content from NPR Member stations associated with your account or located near
   you and offering other content that may be of interest to you.
 * For providing and managing sponsorship credits and marketing messages,
   including customizing the sponsorship credits and marketing messages you see
   and hear on our Services and on third-party services you may use or visit and
   to measure the performance and effectiveness of such sponsorship credits and
   marketing messages.
 * Recognize you as the same user as you access our Services, content and
   sponsorship credits using different computers, devices and browsers, and to
   deliver our Services, content and sponsorship credits to you on different
   computers, devices and browsers.
 * Send you email newsletters and marketing, fundraising, membership and other
   communications from NPR and our Member stations.
 * Publish, broadcast or otherwise use stories or information you submit to us.
 * Comply with laws and enforce NPR's Terms of Use and other legal rights.
 * Generate aggregate or other information that is not reasonably linkable to
   you or your devices used to access our Services, and use and share that
   information for NPR's purposes.

We also may use the information collected from you in other ways, and for other
purposes, that are described to you at the point of collection or for which we
otherwise have obtained your consent.

Read More in the Full Privacy Policy ↓

Disclosure of Information

Subject to the choices you have to control certain collection and uses of
information as described in the "Your Choices" section of the Privacy Policy, we
reserve the right to share with any third party, in accordance with applicable
law, aggregated or other information that is not reasonably linkable to you or
your device.

We also may share your name, email address, or other information:

 * With our Member stations, who may use this information for internal purposes
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   other communications.
 * With our authorized service providers for purposes of providing services on
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 * Subject to applicable law and your opt-out choices described below, and as we
   deem appropriate, with vendors, including those who provide digital
   sponsorship credits and marketing messages for us, or allow them to directly
   collect, information about your devices and your use of our Services. These
   vendors may use such information pursuant to their own respective privacy
   policies, which we do not control.
 * With our authorized third-party applications for purposes of providing
   certain NPR Services to you on the applications.
 * If we sell an NPR Service or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
 * To protect or defend the rights of NPR, our Member stations, our users or
   others.
 * When required by law or public authorities.
 * With persons we contact on your behalf when you choose to email, text, or
   otherwise share a story or other content through our Services.
 * With other parties if we have disclosed such sharing to you at the time of
   collection of the information or if we otherwise have your consent.

Read More in the Full Privacy Policy ↓

Your Choices

 * If you do not consent to the collection, use or sharing of information as
   described in the Privacy Policy, please do not use the NPR Services or
   provide us with information. By using the NPR Services or providing us with
   information through the NPR Services, you are "opting in" to the collection,
   use and sharing of that information as described in the Privacy Policy.
 * If you provide registration information to us, you can sign in to your NPR
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 * If you do not want us to share your name, contact or other information with
   Member stations, you can contact us.
 * You can stop the delivery of marketing emails or email newsletters from NPR
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 * You can click here to learn how to cancel your podcast subscription services.
 * You have choices about the collection and use of your information by third
   parties for the display of certain personalized or "interest-based" online
   sponsorship credits, as described in our section on "interest-based" messages
   in the "Your Choices" section of the Privacy Policy.
 * If you grant your consent to our collection of your precise mobile device
   location information or Apple IDFA, you can revoke your consent at any time
   by using the privacy settings of your device and/or the settings of the
   applicable NPR mobile application.
 * You have choices to prevent or limit the collection of information through
   cookies, pixel tags and other technology as further described in our section
   on cookies in the "Your Choices" section of the Privacy Policy. Further
   information about our use of cookies, pixel tags and other tracking
   technologies can be found here.

Read More in the Full Privacy Policy ↓

Security and Other Information

 * At NPR, we recognize the importance of privacy to users of our Services.
 * We have adopted safeguards to help protect sensitive information we collect,
   but no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
 * For more information about our privacy practices, please review the Privacy
   Policy. If you have questions, please contact us.

Notice to Users Outside the U.S.

Our Services are controlled and operated within the United States. If you access
our Services outside of the United States, we may transfer the information
collected from you to data centers outside of your home country or jurisdiction.
In particular, your information may be transferred to and processed in the
United States and other jurisdictions where we, our service providers, or
vendors we work with operate, where data protection and other laws may not be
equivalent to those in your jurisdiction. By using the NPR Services, you agree
that your information can be transferred to and used in the United States and in
other jurisdictions where we, our service providers, or vendors operate, as set
forth in the Privacy Policy.

Read More in the Full Privacy Policy ↓

NOTICE TO EU USERS: Our handling of information about EU users is governed by
the NPR Privacy Notice for EU Users. This Privacy Policy does not apply to EU
users.


FULL VERSION OF NPR ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date December 21, 2022

Welcome to the NPR Online Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy
describes the information National Public Radio, Inc. and its affiliated
organizations (owned or controlled by, or under common ownership or control
with, National Public Radio, Inc.) (collectively, "NPR," "we" or "us") collect
or allow others to collect from you and your computer or device used to access
NPR.org or other sites, NPR One or other applications, email newsletters, NPR's
podcast subscription services, features such as sponsorship credits and
marketing messages, benefits provided by NPR on behalf of the NPR Network (a
collaboration between NPR and participating Member stations), digital platforms
or other interactive services provided by NPR that link to or refer to this
Privacy Policy (collectively, the "NPR Services" or "our Services"). This
Privacy Policy also explains how that information may be used and shared and the
choices you have to limit or prevent certain uses or sharing of that
information. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not govern the websites
and services of NPR's Member stations, or the websites and services of third
parties that may link to or be linked to from the NPR Services.

NOTICE TO EU USERS: Our handling of information about EU users is governed by
the NPR Privacy Notice for EU Users. This Privacy Policy does not apply to EU
users.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: This notice provides additional information and
privacy options for California residents. Learn more about your options here.

By using, registering for, or otherwise accessing our Services, you agree to
this Privacy Policy and NPR's Terms of Use and you give your express "opt-in"
consent to the collection, use, storage, sharing, transfer, and processing of
information about you and your interactions with our Services as explained in
this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or NPR's Terms
of Use, please do not use the NPR Services or provide us with your contact or
other information.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Children

NPR cares about protecting the privacy of children. If you are a parent or
guardian, we encourage you to become involved in your children's online
experience, and to share your knowledge and experience with your young ones. If
you are under 13, please do not register for our Services or provide us with any
contact or other information, including your name, postal address or email
address. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you must obtain permission
from your parent or guardian before registering for NPR Services or otherwise
sending any contact or other information to NPR.

Information Collected Through Our Services

Information You Provide Directly Through Our Services

We and service providers, which only use your data on our behalf, will collect
any information that you choose to provide directly through our Services,
including your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, password,
age, payment card information, country of residence, communications and content
preferences, travel-related information and your favorite Member stations. For
example, such information may be collected when you:

 * Register for an NPR account, NPR podcast subscription service, application
   programming interface (API) content access, or any NPR email newsletter.
 * Email, text or otherwise share a story from any of the NPR Services.
 * Contact us with a message.
 * Make a purchase from the NPR Shop.
 * Post, upload, or otherwise submit to NPR a comment, story idea, essay, photo,
   or other content or user-generated material ("User Materials").
 * Register for an NPR tour, event, travel program, or any contest we sponsor.
 * Apply for a job, internship or fellowship at NPR.
 * If you choose to participate in a survey, we may ask you to provide your date
   of birth, gender, education level, information about your employment, income
   level and other information.

Like other non-profit organizations, we also track donation activity on an
individual basis. Accordingly, if you choose to donate to NPR or an NPR Member
station through the NPR Services, or express interest in or request information
about making donations, we may keep a record of these contacts that includes
your name, contact information, information about benefits provided by NPR on
behalf of the NPR Network or an NPR Member station, and other information about
your donation or inquiry. If you choose to donate to an NPR Member station, your
information may be collected by NPR and/or by that Member station and, if
collected by the Member station, subject to the Member station's privacy policy.

We also may ask you to provide other information about yourself for various
other purposes that we specify or make apparent at the time of collection.

Information Automatically Collected Through Technology

We, service providers, and vendors automatically collect certain information
about your computer or device and your interactions with our Services through
access logs, cookies, pixel tags and other tracking technologies. Depending on
which NPR Services you use and how you access them, the information collected
automatically may include:

 * The Internet Protocol address (IP address) of your computer or device used to
   access the NPR Services or play podcasts or other media content downloaded
   through our Services.
 * The domain name of your Internet Service Provider.
 * The website, application, platform or service you visited before and after
   visiting an NPR Service.
 * Search terms you enter using the NPR Services or on a referring website.
 * Your approximate geographic location information (derived from information
   such as your IP address) and/or more precise information about the specific
   location of your device if you have given NPR explicit consent to receive
   this information for an NPR application on your mobile device.
 * The make, model, carrier and unique device identifier for your mobile device,
   the unique advertising identifier (for example, Google Advertising ID) that
   allows mobile applications running on your mobile device to gather data for
   purposes of serving targeted advertising or personalized or "interest-based"
   sponsorship credits, and other information about your computer or mobile
   device and its browser, operating system, settings and software. If you have
   an iOS mobile device, we may collect the Apple IDFA (a unique advertising
   identifier) if you have given NPR consent to receive this information for an
   NPR mobile application on your device.
 * Automobile make (for certain connected car platforms).
 * The dates, times, duration, and frequency of your interactions with our
   Services.
 * Your navigation path through the NPR Services, including any "favorites" you
   select, and patterns in the paths you take.
 * A list of files you download, listen to, view, email, text or otherwise share
   and other content preferences.
 * The amount of time spent listening to or viewing media files or pages.
 * Listening data collected both when you download and listen to podcasts or
   other media files. Listening data includes descriptions of the title,
   episodes, segments and sponsorship credits included in a podcast or other
   media file, time and date stamps for download and playback events (for
   example, when a file is downloaded and when playback of a particular segment
   or sponsorship credit starts, stops, is skipped or is paused), the unique
   advertising identifier for your mobile device (for example, Google
   Advertising ID), session IDs and information about the device or platform
   used to download or play a particular file. The producers of any
   independently produced podcasts we distribute may also collect the same types
   of listening data subject to their own privacy policies, which may differ
   from ours.
 * Information about your interactions with our email messages, such as links
   you click on and whether you open or forward a message, the date and time of
   these interactions, and information about the computer or device you use to
   read emails.
 * Any errors you encountered during your use of our Services.

Our Services also make use of third-party analytics, programmatic digital
sponsorship platforms, cookie data collection (including cookie identifiers),
and linking services (collectively "Analytics & Sponsorship Services"),
including Google Universal Analytics, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest
Reporting, Remarketing with Google Analytics, and Google Ad Manager. These
Analytics & Sponsorship Services may use cookies, pixel tags, and other tracking
and storage technologies to collect or receive information (not including your
name or the email address you register with NPR) from our Services and elsewhere
on the Internet and use that information to analyze and measure our audience and
target and evaluate the effectiveness of sponsorship credits and marketing
messages in our Services. For example, NPR and Analytics & Sponsorship Services
may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and
third-party cookies (such as the Remarketing with Google Analytics and
DoubleClick cookies) together to inform, optimize, and serve sponsorship credits
based on your past interactions with our Services and other websites or
services. Such Analytics & Sponsorship Services may include the collection of
information via third-party cookies and subsequent sharing with supply-side
platforms or services (working with us) and demand-side platforms or services
(working with us and sponsors) to enable interest-based sponsorship. In
connection with an affiliate-marketing relationship with platforms such as Apple
or online retailers, third-party analytics services working with us and such
platform or online retailer may also use cookies to uniquely identify the
browsers of: users who click on marketing messages we display to promote our
podcasts available through Apple Podcasts or iTunes and then later purchase a
podcast subscription through Apple, or users who click on links to an online
retailer in content mentioning books, music, or other related merchandise and
then later purchase that merchandise on the online retailer's site. In addition,
we may use analytics data, including but not limited to, geographic,
demographic, and interest reporting information to recognize and understand user
preferences, make improvements, and for other operational purposes. An Analytics
& Sponsorship Service's ability to use and share information is covered by that
service's terms of use and privacy policy. To learn more about how Google uses
data, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Further information about our use of cookies, pixel tags and other tracking
technologies can be found here and in "Your Choices" section below.

How We Use the Information We Collect

We and service providers and vendors collect and use information to provide you
with a customized interactive experience and to make our Services more valuable
to you. We also may use the information we collect for fundraising purposes to
support our Member stations and public media mission. NPR and service providers
and vendors also may use the information collected through our Services:

 * To manage, administer, deliver, and improve the NPR Services.
 * To respond to your questions or messages.
 * To provide you with personalized features and content, including content from
   NPR Member stations that are associated with your account or located near you
   and other content that may be of interest to you.
 * To publish, broadcast, attribute and otherwise use and license any User
   Materials you submit according to our Terms of Use.
 * To fulfill your NPR Shop orders and other requests.
 * To offer you access to NPR tours, events, and travel programs.
 * To process applications for jobs, internships and fellowships at NPR.
 * To process applications for volunteers for our NPR Ambassador program.
 * To manage contests you enter.
 * To contact you for an online survey, or for other editorial purposes.
 * To recognize you as the same user when you access our Services, content,
   marketing messages and sponsorship credits using different computers, devices
   and browsers, and to deliver our Services, content, marketing messages and
   sponsorship credits to you on different computers, devices and browsers.
 * To provide personalized, "interest-based" or "cross-contextual" digital
   sponsorship credits and marketing messages
 * To save and "remember" your registration information, settings and
   preferences so you do not have to re-enter this information each time you
   visit.
 * With your consent where required by applicable law, to send you NPR email
   newsletters and other communications, including marketing, fundraising,
   membership and other messages from NPR or our Member stations.
 * To understand whether and when you read our email messages and click on links
   in those messages.
 * To control the sequence and frequency of sponsorship credits and marketing
   messages you hear and see, control the platform on which you hear and see
   sponsorship credits and marketing messages, and tailor the content of those
   messages to your perceived interests.
 * To conduct market or audience analysis and related reporting, including
   analysis to evaluate the performance of sponsorship credits and marketing
   messages.
 * To help us measure and analyze user traffic and usage patterns and improve
   the quality and effectiveness of content, features, sponsorship credits,
   marketing messages and other communications.
 * To prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, comply with
   applicable laws, and enforce our Terms of Use or other legal rights.
 * To generate aggregate or other information that is not reasonably linkable to
   you or your devices used to access our Services, and use and share that
   information for NPR's purposes.
 * In other ways and for other purposes that are described to you at the time we
   collect the information or for which we otherwise have your consent.

How We Disclose Information

NPR is committed to maintaining your trust. We want you to understand when and
with whom we and service providers and vendors may share information about you
that is collected through our Services.

User Materials. Any User Materials you submit through our Contact Us page,
social networking services or similar features can be seen, collected and used
by us and anyone else who has access to the applicable service. Such information
is likely to become public and we cannot be responsible for any unauthorized
third-party use. Any User Materials you submit may also be freely used and
shared by NPR and its Member stations and their respective licensees in
accordance with our Terms of Use.

Member stations. NPR may share your name, email address, other contact
information, and information about your subscriptions, benefits (such the NPR+
bundle of sponsorship-free podcasts that NPR may provide to certain donors to
Member stations), listening and usage activity, donations and interests with the
Member stations that are associated with your account, that are local to you, or
that you have donated to using the NPR Services. When we do so, we require those
Member stations to commit to the same policies regarding further sharing with
third parties that we follow under this Privacy Policy. You can contact us any
time if you do not want us to share your name, contact information, or other
information, including information about your donations to NPR, with Member
stations or the NPR Network, or if you want to limit NPR's use of your
information collected on behalf of Member stations. However, if you choose to
donate to an NPR Member station through our Services, your information may be
collected by NPR and/or by that Member station. If your information is collected
by that Member station, the collection of your information is subject to that
Member station's privacy policy.

Authorized service providers and vendors. We may share any information we
collect with service providers or vendors who provide us with specialized
services or otherwise help us operate our Services including, without
limitation, service providers or vendors that provide customer support, email
deployment, account sign-in services, subscription services, payment processing,
order fulfillment, analytics, marketing (including interest-based messages),
suppression list management, travel program, contest management and data
processing services. Subject to applicable law and your opt-out choices
described below, and as we deem appropriate, we may share with vendors,
including those who provide digital sponsorship credits and marketing messages
for us, or allow them to directly collect information about your devices and
your use of our Services. We will not share your name or contact information
with these vendors. These vendors may use such information pursuant to their own
respective privacy policies, which we do not control. For example, we may share
or authorize the collection of such information by vendors that help us analyze
and improve our Services (including sponsorship credits and marketing messages
in our Services), or to tailor sponsorship credits and marketing messages to
your perceived interests. In order to provide sponsorship credits and marketing
messages tailored to your perceived interests, vendors may use and further share
information with other third parties such as supply-side platforms or services
(working with us) and demand-side platforms or services (working with us and
sponsors) in order to enable interest-based sponsorship. As described above, we
may work with third-party analytics services to set tracking cookies or pixels
on browsers of users who click on marketing messages for podcast subscriptions
sold through Apple Podcasts or iTunes, or users who click on links to an online
retailer in content mentioning books, music, or other related merchandise and
then later purchase that merchandise on the online retailer's site. We do this
to measure the performance of these marketing messages and to facilitate the
calculation of commissions we may receive when a person subscribes to one of our
podcasts available through Apple Podcasts or iTunes, or when a person purchases
the mentioned merchandise on the online retailer's site. Our service providers
and vendors include the service providers' or vendors' subcontractors that
provide specialized services to us or otherwise help us operate our Services. If
you wish to make a payment or receive a refund through our Services, your
information will be collected and controlled by the payment processor and not by
us and will be subject to that payment service provider's privacy policy and
practices.

Authorized third-party applications. We may share with authorized third-party
applications information that you provide directly through our Services and
information collected automatically through technology for the purpose of
providing certain NPR Services to you on the applications. In such cases, the
information that we share may include your name, favorite stations, and
listening and usage activity. NPR prohibits the third-party developers of those
applications from accessing, storing or sharing any such non-public information.
However, please be aware that your use of the third-party application is
otherwise subject to the third-party application's privacy policy, which we do
not control and which may differ significantly from ours. NPR is not responsible
for the privacy practices of any third-party application and we recommend that
you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies of any third-party sites,
applications, platforms, and services that you visit or access.

Business transfers. We may share any collected information in connection with a
substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of an NPR Service or
division, a merger, a consolidation, an asset sale, or in the unlikely event of
bankruptcy .

Legal requirements. We and service providers and vendors may disclose any
collected information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, and
other law enforcement measures, and to comply with legal or regulatory
obligations.

Protect our Services and users. We and service providers and vendors may
disclose any collected information to enforce our Terms of Use and to protect
and defend the legal rights, interests, and safety of NPR, NPR Member stations,
their respective employees, agents, contractors, sponsors, listeners and users,
members of the general public, or others.

With your consent. We and service providers and vendors may share any collected
information when you expressly or implicitly consent to such disclosure. For
example, if you use our Services to email or text a story to a friend, we would
disclose your name to that friend together with the content you directed us to
send.

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