Last Updated on June 7, 2026
At easy129, our mission is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. We want you to understand how we handle your personal information. We also want you to know your rights and choices.
This policy describes how we handle your personal information when you use the following:
Our websites, like easy129.com
Anywhere we gather information from or about you and refer you to this Privacy Policy
How we handle information about you depends on which easy129 Services you use and how you use them. For example, we use different information about print subscribers than website visitors.
If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@easy129.com . You can also review our Privacy.
Table of Content
What Information Do We Gather About You?
The information we gather about you depends on the context. By and large, it’s information about you that can personally identify you — either on its own or when combined with other information.
The following describes the information we collect and how we obtain it.
(A) Information Collected through Our Services
i. Information You Voluntarily Give Us
If you enroll in a Family Subscription, we will collect the contact information you provide for each subsidiary account holder when you invite them to access the subscription.
If you register for an event or conference, we might ask for additional information (e.g., your company name, your job title or your dietary restrictions). Some events and conferences may have different or additional privacy policies and terms, and we recommend that you review those before you register.
You may voluntarily choose to provide additional personal information in your User Profile.
For User-Generated Content
We offer you the ability to post content that other users can read (e.g., comments or recipe notes). Anyone can read, collect and use any personal information that accompanies your
We do not have to publish any of your content. If the law requires us to take down, remove or edit your content, we will comply.
In certain apps, you may be able to chat with other users of the easy129 Services through direct messages or send other users links to puzzles or games. We collect the content of those messages along with your use of any corresponding chat features—e.g., blocking, muting, or reporting another user to us. We may use automated scanning and moderation technology to monitor users' direct messages to identify any violations of an applicable Acceptable Use Policy and/or our Terms of Service, to help ensure a safe and respectful experience for you and other users.
The value of any financial incentive we offer is reasonably related to the value of any personal information you provide to us. We estimate the value of your personal information by considering, without limitation, the expenses we incur from collecting your personal information and/or providing the financial incentive to you, the revenue generated by your use of the financial incentive, and any improvements we can make to our products and Our Services based on information obtained through the financial incentive program.
Please note that we may provide additional terms that apply to a particular financial incentive. If applicable, those terms will be presented to you at sign up. You may cancel your membership in such Incentive Programs at any time by contacting info@easy129.com.
For Reader Surveys, Research, Panels and Experience Programs
We gather personal information through questionnaires, surveys and feedback programs. Some surveys may include gift cards when you participate, which may be financial incentives, as discussed above.
Surveys and Panels: Some of our surveys and feedback programs, including panels, will request your consent to provide on a purely voluntary basis information regarding your interests in various topics, including travel, entertainment and health and wellness, as well as demographic information, some of which may be considered sensitive under applicable laws such as your age, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, family characteristics and income. We use service provider platforms to support these programs, and personal information is shared with them as described below with respect to service providers in general. We may also use survey providers that have their own independent relationship with you via third party sites or apps, whose practices we don’t control. We encourage you to review their policies.
We target these surveys based on a few factors including information we automatically collect about your interests and usage, as described below. These surveys are used for a variety of purposes described throughout this Privacy Policy including research for marketing of easy129 Services, as well as research for third party advertisers that are interested in targeting ads to groups of easy129 readers.
As described in more detail below, we combine information from these surveys and panels with information collected automatically from easy129 Services and we also apply internal or third party machine learning or artificial intelligence large language models or applications to this information (alone or in combination with other personal information we collect about you). We do this for the purposes of improving our Services, for marketing research, to personalize marketing of easy129 Services to you and/or to create audiences for third party advertisers.
Recording Your Feedback: With your consent, we may record interviews with you and ask for your permission to use your voice and likeness for a variety of purposes including marketing, advertising and/or Times events.
Reader Callouts: If you participate in a reader callout on Our Services, additional terms such as our Reader Submissions terms may apply (and will be posted where we ask you to participate).
During Contact with Our Customer Care teams (including Call Centers (Internal and Offshore), chat (including AI chatbots), and user reports)
We collect information from you when you place an order over the phone or contact customer service through one of our toll-free numbers or via chat. This can include your name, contact information, information about your account and any other information you choose to provide. Information you share will be shared with our service providers including call agents and technology platforms.
We may use AI to provide you with support. For example, we may use AI chatbots. In addition, if you email our Customer Care teams, we may use AI tools to review and respond to your email. When you engage with our AI chatbot, by clicking “Begin Chat”, you consent to being connected to an AI chatbot for New York Times support. This chatbot relies on generative AI to provide you with customer support and answers to common questions. Your chat session will be recorded for quality assurance and training and may be used for training AI models. Please do not provide information in a chat session that you do not want recorded. Similarly, if you e-mail us, you consent to your email being forwarded to an AI tool that relies on generative AI to review and respond to your email with customer support.
We also collect information from you when you submit a report about another user.
Your Contacts and Friends
Some of our apps allow you to connect with other users to become “friends” across our apps. You may be able to provide us with access to your contacts so that you can find your friends and invite others to join the Times Service. If you consent to our accessing the contacts list from your device, we will collect your contacts’ names and contact information. We will not use or store contact list information for any other purposes. If you consent to the linking of your account with a third-party service (like a Facebook account) to access your friends list, we will collect your friends’ names. We also allow you to contact your friends on your own to “friend” each other or to set up leaderboards.
Refer-a-Friend
With your consent, we comply with your requests to collect data about your friends, family or acquaintances (e.g., Refer-a-Friend campaigns). This functionality is only meant for U.S. residents. By using it, you acknowledge and agree that both you and your contacts are based in the United States — and that you have everyone’s consent for us to use their contact information.
If you’d like to invite your friends to use Our Services, we will store this information for the sole purposes of allowing you to send your friends referral offers, for determining whether your friends use Our Services after a referral is sent, and to remind your friends of the referral sent on your behalf.
A Note about Sensitive Personal Information
We generally don’t want to gather sensitive personal information about you. This includes:
Government-issued IDs (such as your driver’s license, passport or social security number)
Your racial or ethnic origin
Your political opinions
Your religion or other beliefs
Your health, biometric or genetic characteristics, including physical characteristics or descriptions
Any trade union membership
Your sexuality (information about your sex life or sexual orientation)
Citizenship or immigration status
Any criminal background
The content of your private communications (other than messages you may send to us or send using a Times Service)
Your precise geolocation (street level, GPS or lat/long data or other data that is derived from a device and that locates you within a geographic area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1,850 feet). We sometimes collect precise geolocation information (which may be considered a sensitive data type) to provide GPS-based location services you choose to enable.
Account access information, such as a username and password (we collect that information only for the accounts you create directly with us and not for any other account you may have with a third party in a personal capacity).
However, as explained in detail above in the section on “Reader Surveys, Research, Panels and Experience Programs,” there are situations when we request certain of the above information (e.g., a reader survey asks about your political leanings or ethnicity). You will always have the option to decline to answer or participate in such surveys, panels or other feedback programs. Outside these situations we would prefer you never share sensitive personal information with us.
Information Collected Automatically
The categories of personal information we collect automatically include:
Identifiers and Device Information
When you access our Services digitally, including our websites, our servers use a variety of technologies to automatically receive, record and/or log information about the device you are using, including unique identifiers. If your browser doesn’t accept our cookies or similar technologies, you can’t access certain parts of our websites.
Your IP address
Cookie identifiers
Your operating system and browser (e.g., type, version, and configuration)
Your browser language
Device identifiers (such as MAC address)
Advertising identifiers
The unique ID that we assign to you when you register, as described above
We combine this data with other information we collect about you.
Geolocation Information
Where applicable, we use location information such as your city, state, zip code, to personalize content provided to you, including, but not limited to, more relevant articles, newsletters, and weather updates. For more information, please read the Personalization F.A.Q. We also use location information such as zip code to show you prices and promotions, as explained in the discussion of Personalization below.
We may also provide you with the opportunity to share your location or other locations of interest to you in your User Profile in Account to have a personalized experience when visiting website. Please do not provide us with street level or other location information that is more granular than city or zip code, we do not want to collect your precise geolocation information for this purpose, and that kind of information may be sensitive under applicable laws.
When you provide us your billing address as a subscriber, we use that information for compliance and/or payment purposes (e.g., to determine applicable notice requirements or to specify billing currency). We may also use your billing address to personalize content for you (e.g., news about weather at that location) and determine your eligibility for a specific Times Service or feature.
Some of our apps can provide content based on your GPS location if you enable this feature. Your GPS location is your precise geolocation, which (as noted above) is considered a type of sensitive personal information. You choose whether to enable GPS features when you first install the app. You can edit that setting on your device at any time. If you enable these features, your GPS location can be found by satellite, cell phone tower or Wi-Fi and used by the app. If you save a location-based search in your history, that data moves to our service provider’s servers for the definition of service provider.
If you do not enable GPS location-based services, or if a specific app does not have location-based features, we don’t collect your precise GPS location. We do collect your IP address, which can establish your approximate location. Ads on our sites and apps may be targeted based on this approximate location but are never targeted by The Times based on your GPS location.
Other Usage Data
We collect information about certain internet and network activity on Times Services, including your interactions with our websites and apps, such as the URLs of any pages you visit on our sites and apps, the URL of the website from which you came to our sites, how long you spent on a page, access times, search queries, and other details about your use of and actions on our Services. This also includes your interactions with marketing and advertisements on Times Services.
As described elsewhere in this Policy, we may use this usage data to personalize or customize content for you that we think you might like based on your usage patterns or for other similar purposes. We may also use it to improve the Times Services — for example, this data can tell us how often users use a particular feature of the Times Services, and we can use that knowledge to make the Times Services interesting to as many users as possible. We also use this information to serve surveys or questionnaires based on your usage patterns. We combine this data with other information we collect about you.
(B) Inferences; Information We Create or Generate
We infer new information from other data we collect, including using automated means such as machine learning, which may include third party machine learning services or large language models. These inferences include information about your likely preferences or other characteristics (e.g., article topics, writers, teams or markets of interest to you). As described below, we use these inferences for purposes of personalization, to improve our services, to market Times Services to you and to create audiences for third party advertisers and for marketing on other sites and services.
(C) Information Collected from Other Sources
i. Other Users
Other users of the Times Service may provide us with your information — for example as part of a refer-a-friend campaign or as they provide access to their contact list or friend list on a third-party service. We will only use information collected from other users for the purposes disclosed to the user.
Privately Owned Databases
Marketing, data analytic and social media-owned databases give us access to a range of information — like public data, survey data and more. This data sometimes includes your mailing address, your gender, your age, your household income and other demographic data. As described elsewhere in this Policy, including Section 2(G) below, we receive information about you from some of our service providers and third parties who assist us with marketing or promotional services related to how you interact with Times Services, advertisements and communications.
Social Media Platforms and Other Third-Party Services
(Social media platforms include services like Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, Snap and other platforms. Third-party services include services like Google and Nook.)
If you provide your social network account credentials to us or otherwise sign in to Times Services through a third-party site or service, you understand some content and/or information in those accounts may be transmitted into your account with us.
You can link your social media or other third-party account to a Times Service. These may include third party-connected devices. By linking that account, you authorize us to collect, store and use any information they may give us (e.g., your email address). You can disconnect your easy129.com registration from third-party accounts at any time.
We also receive information from you when you interact with our pages, groups, accounts or posts on social media platforms. This includes aggregate data on our followers (e.g., age, gender and location), engagement data (e.g., “likes,” comments, shares, reposts and clicks), awareness data (e.g., number of impressions and reach) and individual users’ public profiles.
Workplace and Schools
When your employer or school buys an organization-wide subscription to Times Services, they sometimes provide us with your name and organization email address to grant you access as a user.
What Do We Do with the Information We Collect about You?
We use each of the categories of personal information described above to operate, improve, understand and personalize our Services, and for the following business and commercial purposes. The activities below can involve outside companies, agents or contractors (“service providers”) to whom we disclose your personal information for these purposes (discussed further below in Section 3 of this Privacy Policy).
(A) We Provide the Times Services
We use your information to help you use and navigate Times Services, such as:
Making a Times Service available to you or otherwise meeting or fulfilling the purposes for which you provided the information to us, including charging you for Times Services
Arranging access to your account
Providing customer service
Responding to your inquiries, requests, suggestions or complaints
Completing your payments and transactions
Sending service-related transactional messages (e.g., a change in our Terms of Service, Terms of Sale, or other terms and conditions) and otherwise communicating with you about Services
Saving your reading list, recipes or searches
Displaying your Games (including Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Spelling Bee) stats
Connecting you with “friends” and game opponents
Determining your eligibility to use a Times Service or feature
Letting you take part in paid services, polls, promotions, surveys, panels, research and comments
Creating and managing user profiles and content.
(B) We Personalize Your Experience
We track your interests and reading habits (e.g., the articles you read) to personalize and calibrate your experience using technology like algorithmic recommendations and machine learning, which may include third party machine learning services or large language models. This is how we highlight articles you might be interested in and de-emphasize articles you’ve already read. For more information about content personalization on Our Services. We also show you prices, promotions, products or services we believe you’ll find interesting, based on demographic and usage data, including but not limited to location data such as IP address and zip code.
(C) We Allow You to Share User-Generated Content
Any information you disclose in your content or otherwise via interactive functionality becomes public — along with your chosen display name or username and uploaded photo, if any. Any information you disclose via direct message is available to the recipient of that chat — along with your chosen display name and selected profile picture, if any. Your direct messages may also be monitored by our moderators and monitoring systems (or those of our vendors, if any) to assess your compliance with our Terms of Service, and any applicable Acceptable Use Policies, and other applicable terms and conditions.
(D) We Develop Products and Services, and Do Analysis
We analyse data on our users’ subscriptions, purchases, registered account activity and other usage behaviours. This helps us make business and marketing decisions. This allows us to understand how users interact with Times Services and to improve and develop Times Services, including testing new features, research, surveys, analysis, and product development.
For example, our analysis, which includes the use of technology like machine learning and large language models (proprietary or third party), lets us predict preferences and price points for our products and services. It helps us determine whether our marketing is successful. It also shows us characteristics about our readers, which we share in aggregate with advertisers.
We use our own proprietary analytics services, but we also use third party analytics providers. Google Analytics is one of the analytics providers we use on certain Times Services. You can find out how Google Analytics uses data and how to opt out of Google Analytics.
(E) We Carry Out Administrative or Legal Tasks
For auditing, legal or regulatory purposes: We verify that our internal processes work as intended and comply with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements. More broadly, we process information to comply with legal, regulatory and contractual obligations and to respond to law enforcement requests (our sharing for these purposes is described in Section 3 below).
For upholding our commitments to the New York Times community: When a user or their content is flagged by our or our vendor’s monitoring systems or reported by another user (e.g., indicating a violation of our Terms of Sale, Terms of Service, or the applicable Acceptable Use Policy), we or those systems assess the report and the relevant content, including direct messages sent and received, and take action against violative users and content. We also use certain information—which may include content reported to us, content that violates our Terms of Sale, Terms of Service, any applicable Acceptable Use Policy and other applicable terms and conditions, and other content available on the Our Services—to generate and maintain systems and models that can be automated to promote safety and security of the Times Services, including to detect, classify, and take action against prohibited content or conduct.
For fraud and security monitoring: We detect and prevent cyberattacks or unauthorized robot activities, protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal, or harmful actions, and maintain the safety, security, and integrity.
For customer satisfaction: We assess users’ satisfaction with our Services and our customer care team.
(G) We Allow for Personalized Advertising on Times Services and Create Audiences for Third-Party Advertisers
We gather data and work with service providers and third parties to show you and measure the performance of personalized ads on behalf of advertisers. This data comes from ad tracking technologies set by us or the third party (e.g., cookies), the information you provide (e.g., your email address), your use of Times Services (e.g., your reading and account activity history), information from advertisers or advertising vendors (e.g., demographic data) and anything inferred from any of this information.
For example, we use Google to serve ads on Times Services. Google uses cookies or unique device identifiers, in combination with their own data, to show you ads based on your visit to easy129.com and other sites. You can opt out of the use of certain Google cookies by visiting the related Google privacy policy.
You can find a list of some of the service providers and third parties with whom we work, and opt out links in some cases.
We also identify groups of users to whom to serve personalized ads on behalf of our advertisers. To do this, we combine information we collect through surveys or registration with information we collect automatically using tracking technologies while you browse our sites and apps. This combined information is used to build models. These data models are then used to measure users’ attributes, like their demographic information or their interests. Working with service providers, we use these measurements to group users by common attributes. Each group is associated with a random ID which is then passed to our ad server for use in targeting ad campaigns on our sites and apps.
We may also collect such information (name, email, IP address, phone number and/or information about your browser or operating system) from third parties for the purposes of personalized marketing to you on Our Services and/or to create audiences for third-party advertisers.
For more information about your choices with respect to such processing, please see the What Are Your Rights and Choices? section below.
At easy129 to the merchant you are visiting. If you buy a product after following a link to a link vendor’s URL, we may earn a commission.
Additional Notes:
(H) We Advertise or Market Times Services to You
We market our Times Services to you. Sometimes we use marketing vendors to do this. For example, when you visit Times Services, the Google Dynamic Floodlight tag collects data through redirects of requests from your browser to entities other than Times Services, Google, and the owner or operator of other properties on which The Times may serve marketing using Google.
We serve ads through websites, locations, platforms and services operated and owned by third parties. Often these ads are targeted at people who have visited or registered for a Times Service but have not subscribed to or purchased anything. The ads are also targeted at people with similar traits or behaviours to our subscribers or customers. We use the information described in Section 1 above, including inferences, to build audiences that may be used for purposes of these marketing initiatives. We may also make predictions using machine learning, as described above, based on a combination of different kinds of information, including survey data, to support these marketing initiatives.
We also target our advertising of Times Services to users by uploading a customer list (email addresses) to a third party, or by incorporating a tracking technology from a third party onto our Times Service. The third party then matches individuals who appear in both our data and their data.
(I) We Aggregate (or De-identify) Personal Information into Larger Findings
Sometimes we aggregate or de-identify information so that it can no longer identify you, as defined under applicable laws. This helps us better understand and represent our users, such as when we measure ad performance, create audiences for advertising or marketing interest-based segments or compile survey results. We can use and disclose this aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, unless an applicable law says otherwise. We will maintain and use such information in deidentified form and not attempt to reidentify the information, except where reidentification is allowed by law for purposes.
To Whom Do We Disclose or Share the Information We Gather for Business and Commercial Purposes?
(A)
Our affiliates may access your information for the purposes listed here. Our affiliates include the companies.
(B) With Service Providers
We work with service providers, as defined above, to carry out certain tasks, including the following business purposes:
Maintaining technology and related infrastructure
Offering you customer service
Serving and targeting ads and measuring ad performance (including counting ad impressions of unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions and auditing compliance with these specifications and other standards)
Presenting surveys
List processing and analytics
Assessing compliance with our Terms of Service, applicable Acceptable Use Policies, and other applicable terms and conditions
Managing and analysing research
Managing promotions
Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
When performing these tasks, service providers often have access to your personal information.
We sometimes allow them to use aggregated or de-identified information for other purposes, in accordance with applicable laws.
(C) With Other Third Parties
There are situations when we disclose your information to third parties beyond our service providers. For example, as discussed above in Section 2(G) and (H), we share your email address and other personal information with third parties both for marketing of Our Services across third party sites and services, and to support matching for third party advertising on easy129. Those emails may or may not be hashed when they are shared with third parties.
It is worth noting how practices of certain vendors and changes in law outside of our control have changed what we can say about this. First, as noted elsewhere in this Policy, to the extent regulators take the position that the disclosure of information for matched ads is a “sale,” we will take steps designed to opt you out of such matched ads if you are a resident of an applicable jurisdiction and you exercise your right not to have your personal information “sold.” As noted above, you may also have to contact certain third parties to opt out of such matched ads.
Second, at least one of our vendors uses pseudonymized email addresses they receive from us to power products that they provide to us and their other customers. Therefore, it is possible that your email address, which was shared with our vendor to provide services to us, is being used in pseudonymized form by the vendor to provide products and services to other companies.
While we try to control the behaviour of our vendors that we understand to be service providers, some of those vendors engage in activities beyond our control that may be seen by a regulator as the activities of “third parties,” not service providers.
The following provides more information about the circumstances in which we know we are disclosing personal information to third parties that are not service providers.
i. If you’re a U.S. print subscriber, we may provide your name and mailing address (among other information) to other companies that want to market to you by mail. This may be a “sale” of personal information under the law of some jurisdictions. If you prefer, we don’t share this information, refer below to What Are Your Rights and Choices? below.
We provide information to third party advertisers and their agencies as described in Section 2(G)above. With the evolution of advertising technology, and the deprecation of third-party cookies, our advertising business is also changing, and we share your first party data with advertisers and their agencies in some cases.
We provide information to websites, locations, platforms and services operated and owned by third parties in connection with marketing, as described in Section 2(H)above.
We provide information about our live event and conference attendees (e.g., your name, your company or your job title) to the event sponsors. In those cases, we notify you when you provide us the information.
We process payments you make through Our Services with external services. There are two ways this can happen:
We collect your information and provide it to the third-party service for processing (such as Worldpay).
The third-party service collects your information for processing.
In the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we would have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your information to a third party — such as an acquiring entity and its advisers.
We can preserve or disclose personal information if the law requires us to do so. We can also preserve or disclose personal information if we believe it would be necessary to:
Comply with the law or with legal process
Protect and defend our rights and property
Protect the safety or property of our personnel, users or the public (e.g., if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, we could share your information to help investigations into your actions)
Cooperate with government authorities, which could be outside your country of residence.
We disclose public activities in our RSS feeds, APIs and other distribution formats. Your public activities could thus appear on other websites, blogs or feeds.
As described above in the section on user-generated content, information that you make public or send via direct message chat will be shared with other users, including user profile information. Please remember that any content you upload to your public user profile, along with any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by anyone. Your profile—including display name, selected picture, and gameplay data—will also be available to game opponents, “friends,” and others through leaderboards. Your username may also be displayed to other users when you send messages or comments or upload images or videos through, and other users may be able to contact you through messages and comments.
With your consent, your display name and selected picture will be available to other users if they allow us to access their contacts list and your contact information is on their contact list, or they link their account to a third-party service (like a Facebook account) and you are connected with them on that third-party service. You can change your permissions at any time via the Settings tab in the app.
If you use a promotional or discount code that you receive from another company to purchase, we will share the fact that you redeemed that code with that third party company.
As described above in Section 2(I), we may disclose aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, unless an applicable law says otherwise.
What Are Your Rights and Choices?
We provide a variety of ways for you to control the personal information we hold about you, including choices about how we use that information. In some jurisdictions, these controls and choices are enforceable as rights under applicable law. The choices described below are limited to the specific email address, phone or device used. They won’t affect different email addresses, phones or devices used, or subsequent subscriptions.
(A) In General
Access, Correct, Change/Update, Delete or Restrict Processing of Your Personal Information
In some jurisdictions, you may exercise the following choices:
Access, modify or delete the personal information we have about you
Be informed of or receive an electronic copy of the personal information we have about you, for data portability.
Restrict, or object to, how we process personal information about you
For example, in the European Union and the United Kingdom, you have the right to object to, or obtain a restriction of, the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances; and where the processing is based on your consent, you have a right to withdraw that consent at any time for future processing.
In your request, please be specific. State the information you want changed, whether you’d like your information suppressed from our database or whether there are limitations you’d like us to put on how we use your personal information. Please use the email address linked to that personal information — we only complete requests on the information linked to your email address. To verify your identity, we will email the email address you provide us and wait for your response. In some instances, we may also ask for additional information. This is how we verify your identity before complying. If you use Our Services without creating an account and signing in, there may be no reasonable means by which we can verify your identity or the personal information related to you.
In some jurisdictions, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do that, please provide the agent with written permission, signed by you, authorizing the agent to submit the request on your behalf. The agent must submit that written permission along with the request. We may contact you to verify your identity — and the authorized agent’s permission — before a response to the request is sent.
We’ll respond to your request in a manner consistent with applicable law, including any exceptions that may result in a request being denied in whole or in part.
We might need to keep certain information for recordkeeping purposes, or to complete a transaction you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., if you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you might not be able to change or delete the personal information provided until after the completion of the purchase or promotion).
In some cases, your request doesn’t ensure complete removal of the content or information.
Browser and Platform Controls
Cookie Controls
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can go to your browser settings to learn how to delete or reject cookies. If you choose to delete or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our websites. If you choose to delete cookies, settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, may be deleted and may need to be recreated. For more information, read our Cookie Policy.
In certain jurisdictions, you may also be able to manage your cookie preferences through our consent management platform.
Global Privacy Control
Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating your choice to opt-out from certain types of data processing, including data "sales" as defined under certain laws. In certain territories, when we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.
Do Not Track
Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Unlike the GPC described above, there is not a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal; therefore, our websites do not respond to browser DNT signals. Instead, you can use the range of other tools to control data collection and use, including the cookie controls and advertising controls described above.
Mobile Advertising ID Controls
iOS and Android operating systems provide options to limit tracking and/or reset the advertising IDs.
Opt Out of Targeted Advertising and “Sales or Sharing” of Personal Information
If you are a U.S. resident, you can opt out of targeted advertising and "sales or sharing" (as those terms are defined under applicable law) of your personal information by clicking on the “Your Privacy Choices” link at the bottom of the webpage where your information is being collected or go to “Account” and then “Settings,” and “Privacy Settings” and click the “Your Privacy Choices” link there. California residents can review relevant information relating to California privacy laws below.
Other Rights and Choices
You will not receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights.
This Policy has been designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. If you experience difficulties accessing this Policy, please contact us at info@easy129.com.
In some jurisdictions, you may appeal to us if we refuse to act on your exercise of certain choices described above. To appeal such a refusal, please contact us at info@easy129.com using the subject line “Appeal of Refusal to Take Action on Privacy Request” and provide the relevant information in the email.
In the European Union, you can lodge a complaint with an E.U. data protection authority. In Australia or New Zealand, if you are not satisfied with our resolution of your complaint, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner through their website at www.oaic.gov.au or the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner through their website at www.privacy.org.nz. We encourage you to first contact us with any questions or concerns.
(B) California Privacy Notices and Rights
If you are a California resident, you have certain rights with respect to your personal information.
i. Notice at Collection and Notice of Financial Incentives
At or before the time of collection, you have a right to receive notice of our practices, including the categories of personal information and sensitive personal information to be collected, the purposes for which such information is collected or used, whether such information is "sold or shared" as defined under California law and how long such information is retained. You can find those details in this Privacy Policy by clicking on the above links.
For the Notice of Financial Incentives, see Section 1(A)(i) above.
Rights to Know, Correction and Deletion
You have a right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected about you. You also have a right to request additional information about our collection, use, disclosure, or sale of such personal information. Note that we have provided much of this information in this Privacy Policy. You also have rights to request that we correct inaccurate personal information and that we delete personal information under certain circumstances, subject to several exceptions. Under the CCPA, these rights are subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your personal information to provide you with Our Services or to complete a transaction or other action you have requested. If your request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your request.
Please see Access, Correct, Change/Update, Delete, or Restrict Processing of Your Personal Information above for details, including on how to exercise these rights and how we verify your identity.
Rights Act, or “CCPA” for short in this Policy). To exercise this right, click the "Your Privacy Choices" link on the bottom of the webpage where your information is being collected or go to “Account” and then “Settings,” and “Privacy Settings” and click the “Your Privacy Choices” link there. You can also submit a request to opt-out by emailing us at info@easy129.com. with the subject line “California Resident - Do Not Sell or Share.” Finally, if your browser supports it, you can turn on the Global Privacy Control to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information.
We do not knowingly “sell” or “share” (as those terms are defined by the CCPA) the personal information of minors under 16 years old.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
If you are a California resident, you have a right to limit our use of sensitive personal information for any purposes other than to provide the services or goods you request or as otherwise permitted by law. To opt-out from such additional purposes from The Athletic, contact us via this form.
Authorized Agents
You can designate an authorized agent to make a request to exercise your rights under the CCPA on your behalf. To do that, please provide the agent with written permission, signed by you, authorizing the agent to submit the request on your behalf. The agent must submit that written permission along with the request. We may contact you to verify your identity — and the authorized agent’s permission — before a response to the request is sent.
Non-Discrimination Rights
You may exercise any of your rights listed in this section without fear of unlawful discrimination.
Record of Requests
We keep a record of requests that we received from California residents.
For data deletion, data access, data update, and limit the use of sensitive personal information requests, our readers submit requests through our intake form. In the intake form, they mark whether they reside in California. We then send an identity verification email to the user if required by, and in accordance with, applicable law. If the user does not verify their identity in 45 days, their request will be denied. If the user does verify in 45 days, we begin to fulfil their request.
We have calculated our median process time for verified data deletion, data access, data update, and limit the use of sensitive personal information requests. Any requests completed within the same day are rounded to one day. The median process time is found by organizing the processing time of each request from lowest to