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Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement • Slashdot Media

LAST UPDATED: January 06, 2020

At Slashdot Media LLC (“Slashdot Media,” “Slashdot,” “we,” “us” or “our”) we
take your privacy and the security of your information very seriously.

We are committed to good privacy practices regarding your data. Your loyalty as
a customer or visitor is important, and we hope that our concerns regarding your
privacy, as described in this Privacy Policy, demonstrate our commitment to
making your experience with us an enjoyable and satisfying one.

This policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) covers Slashdot owned and operated
websites (“Site” or “Sites”), including SlashdotMedia.com, SourceForge.net,
Slashdot.org, and any services we may offer via these sites or otherwise
(collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is
part of our Terms of Use available at https://slashdotmedia.com/terms-of-use/
which govern your use of the Services, unless you have entered into a separate
written agreement with Slashdot. If you have entered into a separate written
agreement with Slashdot, that separate written agreement shall control, only
those terms within this Privacy Policy that do not conflict with said separate
written agreement shall apply.

If you have any questions regarding this Policy please contact us at
privacy@slashdotmedia.com.

The Policy describes the types of information we gather from people visiting our
Site and/or using our Services and from individual users (“you” or “users”)
interacting with our Site and Services and how we use, transfer, and secure such
information. By accessing any Site or using any Services, you agree to be bound
by this Policy. This Policy does not govern information we receive from third
parties. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use the
Site, or any of our Services. Each time you use any Site, or any Services, the
current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, when you use any
Site or Services, you should check the date of this Policy (which appears at the
top) and review any changes since you last reviewed the Policy.

We encourage you to review the entire Policy. Please click on any of the links
below to review that particular section.


2. WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES DO WE USE?

Our use of such technologies fall into the following general categories:

 1.  The information we gather
 2.  How we use the information we gather
 3.  How we share information we gather
 4.  Cookies, Web Beacons and Similar Tracking Technologies
 5.  Security
 6.  Polls & Sweepstakes
 7.  Social Media Features
 8.  Social Media Logins
 9.  Children
 10. California Residents
 11. Canadian Residents
 12. European Economic Area (EEA) Rights under GDPR
 13. Visitors and Users of our Sites from Outside the United States
 14. Changes to this Privacy Policy
 15. Questions?

Privacy Shield Framework and Related Information


Slashdot complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S.
Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce
regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Data. For purposes of
this Policy, “Personal Data” means information that (i) is transferred from the
EU to the United States, (ii) is recorded in any form, (iii) is about, or
relates to, an identified or identifiable individual, and (iv) can be linked to
that individual. Slashdot has certified to the Department of Commerce that it
adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the
terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy
Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield
Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List.
[https://www.privacyshield.gov/list]

Slashdot is responsible for the processing of Personal Data it receives, under
the Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting
as an agent on its behalf. Slashdot complies with the Privacy Shield Principles
for all onward transfers of Personal Data from the EU and Switzerland, including
the onward transfer liability provisions.

With respect to Personal Data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy
Shield Framework, Slashdot is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of
the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Slashdot may be
required to disclose Personal Data in response to lawful requests by public
authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement
requirements.

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, Slashdot commits to resolve
complaints about our collection or use of your Personal Data. EU and Swiss
individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy
should first contact Slashdot at: Slashdot Media LLC, PO Box 2452, La Jolla, CA
92038 or email us at privacy@slashdotmedia.com.

Further, we require service providers to whom we disclose Personal Data and who
are not subject to laws based on the European Union General Data Protection
Regulation to either subscribe to the United States / European Union Privacy
Shield principles or agree to provide at least the same level of protection for
Personal Data as is required by the relevant Privacy Shield principles, for
instance by entering into Standard Contractual Clauses, as promulgated by the
European Commission. If the third party does not comply with its privacy
obligations, Slashdot will take commercially reasonable steps to prevent or stop
the use or disclosure of Personal Data.

Slashdot has further committed to refer unresolved Privacy Shield complaints to
European Data Protection Authorities (EU DPAs) or the Swiss Federal Data
Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), alternative dispute resolution
providers located in each EU country or Switzerland, respectively. If you do not
receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not
addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, please contact or visit the DPA
in your country (find a EU list here and a Swiss list here) for more information
or to file a complaint. The services of EU and Swiss DPAs are provided at no
cost to you.

Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website
[https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint], you may
invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been
exhausted.


A. THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

We gather the two types of information about users, “Personal Information” which
is information is about, or relates to, an identified or identifiable
individual, or that can be linked to that individual (such as name, email
address, etc.) and “Aggregate Information” which is information that cannot be
used to identify you (such as frequency of visits to one of our Sites, browser
type, etc.) Please note that we may convert Personal Information into Aggregate
information via one or more processes at our discretion.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

Information you give us: In certain areas of the Sites, such as those in which
you register for and complete a profile, post content that you have created
(such as blogs, articles, photos or reviews), create a new account, subscribe to
any of our mailing lists or promotions, or enter contests sponsored by us, or
indicate that you want to receive more information about certain products or
services, we may request that you provide us with certain personal information.
By doing so, depending on the functionality used, you could choose to provide us
one or more categories of Personal Information. Categories of Personal
Information that may be provided, include your username for the Sites or third
party social media services, e-mail address, phone number, name, postcode,
profession, job title, or work experience, or other categories of Personal
Information you may choose to provide. We will, in such situations, seek to
identify which informational items are required and which are optional, based on
the country that you specify or approximate location derived from your IP
address. Further, you may choose to provide Personal Information through
participation in Polls & Sweepstakes, as further explained in the corresponding
section below.

Information we collect about you automatically: When you use the Sites or
Services we may automatically collect technical information and information
about your visit including pages you visited, the order in which they were
visited, page interaction information (such as the links you “clicked” or the
content you viewed or consumed), the type of device you are using, IP address,
operating system, header information and browser software. We may collect
information that allows us to associate you with your social media or other
accounts that you have on other websites. Where such information meets the
definition of Personal Information, such as IP address, we will treat it as
such.

Testimonials and reviews: We post customer testimonials and user reviews on the
Sites. Customer testimonials will be posted only with the customer’s permission.
Testimonials and reviews may contain Personal Information.

Information we receive from other sources: We work closely with third parties
(including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical and
payment services, and advertising networks) and may receive information about
you from them. We may work with third parties to collect information that allows
us to associate you with your social media or other accounts that you have on
other websites.

Categories of Aggregate Information Collected

Aggregate Information: We may collect Aggregate Information that does not
identify you, or aggregate the data we collect from you (including without
limitation the IP addresses, and operating system and browser software type) to
create Aggregate Information to help us identify the most popular areas of the
Sites and determine the effectiveness of our promotional activities. In the
course of aggregating the data, we anonymize and de-identify it so it cannot be
associated with you, which means that Aggregated Data is not Personal
Information. We may disclose Aggregated Data to advertisers to inform them of
the number of people who have seen and/or clicked through their advertisements,
or for other purposes at our discretion.


B. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the different ways we use the
information we gather. Keep in mind that, we: (a) we require the companies to
which we transfer your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws
relating to Personal Information, and more generally, we encourage all third
parties we interact with, including but not limited to advertisers and vendors,
to adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of our visitors and users and to
otherwise handle Personal Information in a responsible manner; and (b) in
accordance with relevant data security and privacy laws, we have put in place
appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to ensure the
security of your Personal Information. However, notwithstanding those measures,
to the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not assume any responsibility for
any actions or omissions of third parties, including the manner in which they
use information received either from us or independently. Nevertheless, in the
event you encounter any third party associated with us, or who claims
association with us, who you feel is improperly collecting or using information
about you, please contact privacy@slashdotmedia.com.

 1. How we use Aggregate Information: As we explain above, Aggregated
    Information does not identify any specific individual and is not Personal
    Information. However, we would like you to understand how we use Aggregated
    Information. We use Aggregated Information to build higher quality, more
    useful Services by performing statistical analyses of the collective
    characteristics and behavior of our visitors and users, and by measuring
    demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Services. We may
    sell, rent or lease statistical information based on this data to
    advertisers, users, and other current and potential business partners. We
    may also use Aggregated Information to inform these third parties as to the
    number of people who have seen and clicked through links to their websites.
    With respect to polls, we will treat information provided by you in
    accordance with this section and Section F (Polls & Sweepstakes) below.
    Circumstances under which we would publicly disclose such Aggregated
    Information include, but are not limited to, sharing poll results on the
    Sites, providing data to our advertisers on user preferences and/or
    demographics, and publicizing overall usage data in press communications.
    Where polls allow users to submit written comments, and where we advise
    users of the possibility of such disclosure at the time they take the poll,
    we reserve the right to disclose and/or commercially exploit any information
    provided by users, provided that no Personal Information identifying a
    specific user is disclosed. Participation in polls is at a user’s option.
    You can use our website without answering polls.
 2. How we use Personal Information: We may use Personal Information a user
    submits for the following purposes related to our business:
    a. To understand a user’s needs and create content that is relevant to the
       user;
    b. To generate statistical studies;
    c. *To build browsing and usage profiles of our users so that we may tailor
       our offers, and share such profiles with our advertisers and data
       customers, so that they may tailor their offers to our users’ interests
       (and we obtain consent when required to create and use these profiles –
       please click here for more information);
    d. *To conduct market research and planning by sending user surveys (with
       your consent where required – please click here for more information);
    e. To improve services, information, and products;
    f. To help a user complete a transaction, or provide services or customer
       support to users and to recipients of our products;
    g. To communicate with users and with recipients of our products and
       Services to provide users with information (by electronic means or
       otherwise) about other services we offer that are similar to those that a
       user has already received or enquired about;
    h. *Where we have a user’s consent to email users about services,
       information, products and offers from our business partners (and as set
       forth in the Section How we share information we gather);
    i. To provide forms, opt-in and opt-out choices appropriate to a visitor’s
       geographical location;
    j. To notify the user of any changes with a Site which may affect the user;
    k. To enforce our Terms of Use for a Site, or any terms or conditions
       applicable to a Site;
    l. To allow the user to purchase products, access services, or otherwise
       engage in activities the user selects;
    m. To allow us to contact you by phone and/or email for purposes of
       completing transactions, providing services. customer support, or
       fulfilling your requests;
    n. To keep track of the consent that you give us to various uses of your
       Personal Information (and any opt-outs that you exercise initially or
       later on, along with requests you make under the section EEA Rights; and
    o. To protect the security or integrity of the Sites or our business.

If you are an EEA user, see EEA Rights for an explanation of the types of legal
basis for the use of your Personal Information. The uses marked above with an
asterisk are based on consent. The other listed uses are based on our legitimate
interests, or are necessary to enter into a contract with you or to perform our
contractual obligations to you.

When we send certain communications (such as a newsletter) to subscribers of our
distribution list, we always allow our users to choose to stop receiving such
newsletters or other communications from us by clicking an “unsubscribe” link at
the bottom of our message.

User names, identifications, and email addresses (as well as any additional
information that a user may choose to post) may be publicly available on a Site
when a user voluntarily and publicly discloses Personal Information, such as
when a user posts Personal Information in conjunction with content subject to an
open source license, uses features to send a message to another user, or as part
of a message posted to a public forum or a publicly-released software
application. Such Personal Information may be used by visitors of these pages to
send unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for any consequences which may
occur from the use of Personal Information that a user chooses to submit to
public pages.


C. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION WE GATHER

We will share your Personal Information with third parties only in the ways that
are described in this privacy statement.

We may share your Personal Information in the following ways:

 1. We may share your Personal Information with third party service providers to
    help us with our business activities such as email marketing, telemarketing,
    offering customer service, or operating a community forum. We include
    provisions within our contract with these companies to ensure that they: (i)
    use your Personal Information only as necessary to provide these services to
    us; and (ii) establish safeguards to protect the confidentiality of the
    information that we provide them.
 2. *We may also share your Personal Information with our advertisers, vendors,
    and customers, including data profiling companies, business-to-business lead
    buyers, and data aggregation companies that track user behavior. We include
    provisions within our contract with these companies to ensure that they: (i)
    use your Personal Information only as permitted by applicable law; and (ii)
    establish safeguards to protect the confidentiality of the information that
    we provide them. Please see Additional EEA Rights, which describes the right
    of users in the European Economic Area to object to the use of your Personal
    Information for profiling.
 3. We may share with unrelated third parties Aggregate Information compiled
    from information collected from users of the Sites, without prior notice to
    you, for any reason in our sole discretion. Aggregate Information is used in
    a collective manner and no single person can be identified by such compiled
    information.
 4. We may share certain data from the Sites with researchers and research
    organizations for the purpose of supporting academic and scholarly research
    on free and/or open source software. We may further choose to establish
    agreements for these parties to act in a clearinghouse capacity and
    authorize them to share this data with other researchers studying free
    and/or open source software. When data from these websites is transmitted to
    researchers, we make commercially reasonable efforts to remove Personal
    Information from data fields designed to capture Personal Information (other
    than user names and information that users have made publicly available
    through one of the Sites). We, however, do not guarantee the complete
    removal of information that may identify a user, particularly in cases where
    the user has provided that information in comment fields or other fields not
    specifically designed for the collection of identifiers.
 5. We may disclose information submitted by or concerning any visitor or user
    as we reasonably feel is necessary to protect our systems, servers, networks
    or business, to protect and defend our rights or property and/or the rights
    or property of third parties (as permitted by law), and/or to detect,
    prevent or otherwise address security or technical issues;
 6. We may also disclose your Personal Information as required by law or
    regulation, such as to comply with legal processes and/or to meet national
    security or law enforcement requirements, when we believe in good faith that
    disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the
    safety of others, investigate and address fraud, or respond to a government
    request. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who
    may be using our systems, servers, networks or the Services for illegal
    activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal
    activity to law enforcement for investigation or prosecution, or to suspend
    or terminate your use of the Sites in connection with any suspected illegal
    or infringing activity or if you are in violation of our Terms of Use
    Agreement or other published guidelines.
 7. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of
    our assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on any
    applicable Site of any change in ownership or uses of your Personal
    Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal
    Information. Slashdot reserves the right to assign, sell, license, or
    otherwise transfer to a third party your Personal Information in connection
    with an assignment, sale, joint venture, or other transfer or disposition of
    any portion or all of Slashdot or its affiliated entities’ assets or stock.


D. COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Please review our Cookie and Opt Out Choices Statement for detailed information
about our use of cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies, as well
as to learn about your choices to opt out of or turn off cookies, web beacons
and other tracking technologies.

Tracking and “Do Not Track” Features. When you visit our Sites, we may
automatically collect the name of the website you visit from (called the
“referring page”) and the name of the website you choose to visit immediately
after ours (called the “exit page”), and we may collect information about other
websites you have recently visited. We will not be able to identify you from any
of the information we collect in this way. Certain browsers have a “Do Not
Track” feature that allows you to tell websites or applications that you do not
want to have your online activities tracked. Please consult the “Help” section
of your browser for more information. Please note that at this time our Sites
generally do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

Interest-Based Advertising. We may also participate in interest-based
advertising using cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies. This
means that you may see advertising on our Sites tailored to how you browse or
shop, or you may see our advertising on other websites based on your browsing
behavior. Some websites where we may advertise belong to ad networks that use
your web browsing history to choose which ads to display on their network
websites; these ads include advertising for Slashdot and our Sites. Other
websites where you see our ads may use interest preferences that you have chosen
on those websites, as well as registration and other information about you, to
choose which ads to display to you. Some internet browsers, websites, and mobile
devices offer opt-outs for interest-based advertising. Please refer to the
website that you are visiting, your browser and/or your device settings, and our
Cookie and Opt Out Choices Statement available at
https://slashdotmedia.com/cookie-statement-and-opt-out-choices/ for additional
information.

You can opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from third parties who are
members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital
Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral
Advertising by visiting the opt-out pages on the NAI
website[https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/] and DAA website
[https://www.aboutads.info/choices/]. EEA users can learn more about
interest-based advertising– and opt-out – at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

Please review our Cookie and Opt Out Choices Statement for more information.

Third party website links & subdomains: Links to third party websites or widgets
to enable sharing of information through social networks on the Sites are
provided solely as a convenience to the user. When a user uses these links, the
user leaves the Sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies or
statements of the other websites. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy
Policy do not apply to these third party websites. We have not reviewed all of
these third party sites and do not control, and are not responsible for, any of
the third party sites, their content, or their privacy practices. We do not
endorse or make any representations about the third party websites, or any
information, services, or products found on the websites. If a user decides to
access any of the linked websites, we encourage the user to read their privacy
statements. The user accesses such websites at user’s own risk.

With respect to SourceForge.net, we deliver the following services via
subdomains:

 * Integrated communications;
 * Internet access;
 * Information sharing between developers and end users; and
 * Downloads through third-party mirror providers.

Any Personal Information you provide using any third party content, software,
services, and other products are subject to that third party’s policies
governing privacy and security.


E. SECURITY

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. When you enter
Personal Information on our web forms, we encrypt the Personal Information
during transmission.

We follow generally accepted standards to protect Personal Information submitted
to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of
transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure,
however. Therefore, while we will put in place appropriate technical and
organizational measures designed to ensure the security of your Personal
Information we cannot guarantee that, notwithstanding such compliance by us,
information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of
any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. It is your
responsibility to protect the security of your login information. Please help
keep your account safe by using a strong password. We advise that you do not
make any confidential information publicly available through our Sites.

If you have any questions about security on our Sites, you can contact us at
privacy@slashdotmedia.com.


F. POLLS & SWEEPSTAKES

Occasionally, we may conduct polls in order to better deliver advertisements and
content and to better understand your needs relating to the Services. We will
not share your survey information with any third party, except in aggregate
form.

From time to time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests
or polls on one of our Sites. If you participate, we will request certain
Personal Information from you. Participation in these polls or contests is
completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose
this information. The requested information typically includes contact
information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information
(such as postcode). Any Personal Information that you submit in connection with
these activities will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy unless
the terms or rules which apply to those contests or polls state otherwise. To
the extent that those terms conflict with this Privacy Policy, the terms which
govern that particular promotion or sweepstakes will prevail – please remember
to read them carefully. We may use the Personal Information we collect to notify
contest winners and award prizes, to monitor Site use, to personalize the Sites,
to send participants an email, and to measure participants’ demographics,
interests and opinions. We may use a third party service provider to conduct
these polls or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’
Personal Information for any other purpose. We will not share the Personal
Information you provide through a contest or poll with other third parties
unless we give you prior notice and you have consented. Currently, we offer
contests and sweepstakes only to residents of the U.S.A.


G. SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES

The Sites include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and
widgets, that run on our Sites. These features may collect your IP address,
which pages you are visiting on our Sites, and may set a cookie to enable the
features to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either
hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Sites. Your interactions with
these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it,
and not by this Privacy Policy.


H. SOCIAL MEDIA LOGINS

You may be able to log in to our Sites using sign-in services such as Facebook
Connect, Google, Twitter or LinkedIn. These services will authenticate your
identity and provide you the option to share certain personally identifiable
information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign
up form. Social media services may give you the option to post information about
your activities on the Sites to your profile page to share with others within
your network.


I. CHILDREN

Services are not available to children under 18 years of age. We do not
knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18
years of age. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has
provided Personal Information to us, please contact us. We will take reasonable
steps to investigate and if it is confirmed that we possess personally
identifiable information of a child under 18 years of age, we will delete
information and terminate the child’s account from our databases. We may require
additional information to confirm that the request is a bona fide request from
an appropriate person concerning a child under the age of 18.


J. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, residents of
California have the right to request from a business, with whom the California
resident has an established business relationship, certain information with
respect to the types of personal information the business shares with third
parties for direct marketing purposes by such a third party and the identities
of the third parties with whom the business has shared such information during
the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and
want a copy of this notice, please submit a request by writing to: Slashdot
Media, LLC dba Slashdot Media, PO Box 2452, La Jolla, CA 92038. In your request,
please specify that you want a “Your Slashdot Section 1798.83 California Privacy
Rights Notice.” Please allow 30 days for a response.

California Consumer Privacy Act Rights. Under the California Consumer Privacy
Act (“CCPA”), California residents have certain rights regarding their Personal
Information. If you would like to exercise these rights on or after January 1,
2020, please contact us using the email address, toll-free phone number,
physical mailing address, or the interactive Do Not Sell My Information form
listed within the “Contact Information” section below. For your own privacy and
security, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the
requested information, as provided for by the CCPA. It may take us some time to
respond to your request, but we will do so within the requirements of the CCPA.

This Policy provides you disclosure regarding the Personal Information we
collect from you and the purposes for doing so. Please see “Information We
Gather” section above. The CCPA grants you specific rights, including the
following:

 * Right to request disclosure as to Personal Information we have collected
   about you:
 * Upon a verifiable request, made through one of the methods provided within
   the “Contact Information” section below, we will disclose to you the items
   listed below, one or more of which may be provided by reference to this
   Policy:
   * The categories of Personal Information it has collected about you.
   * The categories of sources from which the Personal Information was
     collected.
   * The business purpose behind collecting the Personal Information.
   * The categories of third parties with whom Slashdot has shared the
     information.
   * The specific pieces of Personal Information Slashdot has collected about
     you.
   * Right to opt out of the sale of your information. To exercise this right,
     please visit our opt-out portal.
 * Right to request deletion: upon a verifiable request, made through one of the
   methods provided within the “Contact Information” section below, we will
   delete personal information we have regarding you and direct our service
   providers to delete your personal information from their records, to the
   extent provided by the CCPA.
 * Right to be free from discrimination: Slashdot will not discriminate against
   you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.
 * CCPA Contact Information: Slashdot can be reached by telephone at
   1-800-552-9000; by email at privacy@slashdotmedia.com; by mail at PO Box
   2452, la Jolla, CA 92038, Attention: Privacy Compliance, or via an online
   interactive portal.

What We May Need From You

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your
identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any
of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data
is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also
contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to
speed up our response.

Time Limit to Respond

We will respond to all legitimate requests within forty-five days, or as
permitted by the CCPA.


K. CANADIAN RESIDENTS

Canadian citizens, except under circumstances defined by law, are entitled to
access their own Personal Information, to the extent covered by applicable law,
collected by Slashdot by writing to: Slashdot Media, LLC dba Slashdot Media, PO
Box 2452, La Jolla, CA 92038. If you believe that the Personal Information about
you that we have collected is incomplete or inaccurate, please contact us and we
will correct the information upon verification of the omission or error and of
the identity of the person requesting the change.


L. EEA RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR

Users who are resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) have additional
rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable law.
EEA users benefit from our certification to Privacy Shield, which is described
at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

To make this section more reader-friendly, we use everyday words such as use,
transfer and storage to describe what we do with your Personal Information – but
this Notice covers processing of any kind that is subject to EEA data protection
law.

Slashdot processes Personal Information as a “processor,” “joint controller,”
and as a “controller” under the European Union’s General Data Protection
Regulation. A “controller” is an entity that determines the purposes for which
and the manner in which any personal information is processed. Any third parties
that act as our service providers are “data processors” that handle your
Personal Information in accordance with our instructions. With respect to your
Personal Information that you enter or that is received through our Sites,
Slashdot is the controller.

How we will use and share your Personal Information: We will use and share your
Personal Information as described in this section and elsewhere in this Privacy
Policy.

How we secure your data: See our description of our security practices here.

Basis for processing of your Personal Information: We rely on three primary
bases for processing EEA Personal Information.

 * The first one is our legitimate interests, which we weigh against any risks
   to your rights. By “legitimate interests,” we mean the ordinary needs and
   objectives of a business that offers the types of services available on our
   Sites, including security, quality assurance (such as preventing the
   dissemination or malware and misuse of our Sites and services), customer
   service, communicating with users to better serve them, and improving and
   developing new products and services.
 * The second one is when processing is necessary to enter into or perform a
   contract with you.
 * The third basis is consent – you will know when we are relying on consent
   because we will have expressly asked you for your consent (and if you don’t
   give us consent, we won’t perform the processing in question). Also, the
   sections titled “How we use Personal Information” and “How we share
   information we gather” flag the uses that are based on consent by marking
   them with an asterisk.
 * We may also process your Personal Information on the basis that we need to do
   so to fulfill our legal obligations. We expect this would be a rare
   situation.

Revoking your consent: If you have given us consent to process your Personal
Information, you can withdraw it by emailing us at privacy@slashdotmedia.com.
You can withdraw your consent at any time, although your withdrawal will not
apply to processing that took place with your consent before you withdrew it.

“Special” or “sensitive” personal data: We do not intentionally collect any
Personal Information that is considered “special” or “sensitive” under the GDPR,
including racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or
philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, genetic data, biometric data or
data concerning health or anything to do with a person’s sexuality. We also do
not collect information about criminal convictions or offenses. We request that
you refrain from sharing any such Personal Information via the Sites or in
connection with our Services.

Access, correction, restriction and deletion. Your right to access your data
and/or correct your data, and how to make a request, is described in the section
titled “Access.” You may request a copy of your Personal Information, and we
reserve the right to charge a reasonable administrative fee for providing a copy
to you, as permitted by applicable law. You may also request that your data be
deleted, and we will comply with your deletion request unless applicable law
permits us to refuse the request, in which case we will tell you that we have
rejected your request and give you the reasons why. You may request that the use
of your Personal Information be restricted, subject to Article 21 of the GDPR.
If you make a data restriction request, we will discuss it with you and, in any
event, we will comply with any obligations we may have under Article 21 of the
GDPR. Where appropriate, we may address your request by de-identifying the data
such that it no longer identifies you, consistent with applicable law.

Data Portability. The GDPR provides certain rights relating to data portability.
You may request data portability to the extent provided by applicable law.

Profiling. Paragraph (b) under the section titled “How we share information we
gather” describes how we use Personal Information for profiling, and how we
share profiles with third parties. You can opt out of profiling for direct
marketing at any time by contacting us at privacy@slashdotmedia.com and we will
honor your request. When we engage in profiling for other purposes that don’t
involve direct marketing, we will consider your request and honor it unless we
determine that we have compelling legitimate in continuing the profiling that
override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the
continued profiling is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of
legal claims. We expect that this would be rare, but one example might be
profiling to prevent fraud or the misuse of our Sites and Services. We will
explain our reasoning to you if we reject your request to stop profiling.

How long we keep your Personal Information: We retain your personal data as long
as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. We
retain your personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to
provide you Slashdot Services, or as otherwise required by applicable law or
related legal purposes. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no
longer use your identifiable personal data to provide you Slashdot Services,
contact us at privacy@slashdotmedia.com. We will retain and use your information
as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce
our agreements.

Who will receive your Personal Information: See “How we share information we
gather’.

Data transfers to third countries: We provide our Sites and related services
from the USA and may use service providers in various countries that do not
provide the same level of data protection as is in your country.

Complaints: You have the right to make a complaint under the GDPR to your local
data protection authority. Our e-mail address for complaints, requests or
questions relating to this Privacy Notice is privacy@slashdotmedia.com

Finally, we want to make it clear that nothing in this section is intended to
limit any other right that applies to you under any other section of this
Privacy Policy.


M. VISITORS AND USERS OF OUR SITES FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

Canadian citizens, except under circumstances defined by law, are entitled to
access their own Personal Information, to the extent covered by applicable law,
collected by Slashdot by writing to: Slashdot Media, LLC dba Slashdot Media, PO
Box 2452, La Jolla, CA 92038. If you believe that the Personal Information about
you that we have collected is incomplete or inaccurate, please contact us and we
will correct the information upon verification of the omission or error and of
the identity of the person requesting the change.


N. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information
practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to
the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on the
Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically
review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Note that,
by using the Services, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you
do not agree to this Policy, please do not use the Services. Your continued use
of the Services subsequent to changes to this Policy will mean that you accept
the changes; therefore, please bookmark this page and review it periodically. If
you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or any other privacy
issues in connection with the Services, please e-mail us at
privacy@slashdotmedia.com.


O. CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or to exercise your rights hereunder,
unless another mechanism is provided, should be directed to
privacy@slashdotmedia.com. You may also contact us at Slashdot Media, LLC dba
Slashdot Media, PO Box 2452, La Jolla, CA 92038.

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