CA Privacy Rights/Shine the Light
Your California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) Rights
Categories of Personal Information We Collect
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”) requires specific disclosures for each category of personal information that we collect and may provide to others. Some of the ways in which we provide personal information to others may constitute “selling” or “sharing” for targeted advertising. The table below summarizes our general data handling practices which are more fully described in Sections B, C and D of this Privacy Notice.
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Categories of Sources from Which Personal Information Was Collected (See Section B of this Privacy Notice for additional information) |
Business or Commercial Purpose for Collecting and Providing the Category of Personal Information to Others (See Sections C and D of this Privacy Notice for additional information) |
Categories of Third Parties and Other Entities to Which We Provide Personal Information (See Section D of this Privacy Notice for additional information) |
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| Identifiers (§1798.140 (v)(1)(A) and (B)) which include elements such as: (i) contact information (e.g., name, mailing address, email address, phone number); and (ii) online identifiers (e.g., Internet protocol (IP) address, account numbers, device identifiers such as mobile advertising IDs) |
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| Demographics (§1798.140 (v)(1)(C)) which include elements such as age and gender |
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| Personal Information under subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80 of the California Civil Code (§1798.140 (v)(1)(B)) which includes payment information (e.g., payment card number, expiration date and billing information) |
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| Commercial Information (§1798.140 (v)(1)(D)) which include elements such as: transactional information (e.g., activity, subscriptions, requests, purchases, items in your cart but not completed purchases) |
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| Internet or other electronic network activity (§1798.140 (v)(1)(F)) which include elements such as information about how you use, access, or interact with the Digital Services such as comments, photos, videos and other content you choose to publish on the Digital Services, information about your device, browser or operating system); |
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| Geolocation Data (§1798.140 (v)(1)(G)) which include elements such as location information (e.g., city and state, or precise location information if location services are active on your device) |
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| Audio, Electronic, Visual, Thermal, Olfactory or Similar Information (§1798.140 (v)(1)(H)) which include elements such as recordings of your calls with our call center |
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| Professional or Employment-Related Information (§1798.140 (v)(1)(I)) which include elements such as your professional email address, phone number or other contact information if you have used such professional or employment related personal information to order a subscription, register for an account or to receive communications |
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| Inferences (§1798.140 (v)(1)(K)) which include elements such as inferences regarding your preferences or other characteristics (e.g., cooking enthusiast, travel, food and dining) |
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| Sensitive Personal Information (§1798.140 (ae)(1),(2)) which include elements such as your race or precise geolocation when you enable geolocation on your device. |
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For each of the categories listed above, we will retain your personal information for as long as needed or permitted, depending on the purpose for obtaining that data and consistent with applicable laws. We will keep your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you (e.g. to provide you with the Magazine Services or to complete transactions that you request). Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal information for a period of time that enables us to:
- Maintain business records for analysis, understanding market trends, and/or audit purposes and to improve the Magazine Services.
- Comply with record retention requirements under applicable laws or other relevant legal or regulatory requirements.
- Defend, establish, exercise, or bring any existing or potential legal claims.
- Carry out fraud detection and prevention.
- Deal with any complaints regarding the Magazine Services, our products, and services.
Residents of California may have the following rights:
- Right to know and access your personal information. Under CCPA, you have the right to:
- Know the categories of personal information, including sensitive personal information, which we collect and the categories of sources from which we got the information;
- Know the business or commercial purposes for which we collect and provide personal information to others;
- Know the categories of third parties and other entities to whom we provide personal information; and
- Access the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
To do so, please send us email and include your name, email address, California postal address as well as your subscription account number, if you have an active subscription. You may also exercise your right by calling +1 213-376-2844.
2. Right to deletion. In some circumstances, you may ask us to delete your personal information. To do so, please send us an email and include your name, email address, California postal address as well as your subscription account number, if you have an active subscription. You may also exercise your right by calling 1-800-659-7156.
3. Right to correct your personal information. You may request that we modify or update your personal information if it is inaccurate. Please be aware that not all personal information is able to be corrected, and we reserve the right to deny a request to correct your information where exceptions apply. To request that we modify or update your personal information, please call customer service or email [email protected] and include your name, email and postal address, as well as your subscription account number, if you have an active subscription, and specify the personal information you would like to be corrected and what you would like the change to be. Please note that if you would like to correct the email you use to receive newsletters from us, you must unsubscribe from the newsletters and re-subscribe using your preferred email address.
4. Right to opt out. CCPA provides California residents with the right to limit or opt out of the use of your personal information for certain purposes, including the below:
Please remember that cookie-level opt outs are browser and device-specific and applied to the website (domain) with respect to which you complete your opt-out request. If you use multiple devices such as your smartphone, laptop or tablet or you visit multiple Hearst Magazines websites, you will need to submit separate requests from these devices or for these websites.
Right to Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Advertising: We may “share” your personal information with third parties for targeted advertising purposes or in ways that constitute a “sales” under CCPA. You may request that we not “sell” or “share” your personal information on a going forward basis for these purposes. To do so, please click on the “Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads”) link in the footer of the Hearst Magazine website, and complete the opt out form, including your name, email address, California postal address, as well as your subscription account number, if you have an active subscription. You may also exercise your right by calling 1-800-659-7156. If you reengage with us after opting out of the “selling” or “sharing” of your personal information for targeted advertising, such as by ordering a new subscription, buying a product, signing up for a newsletter and/or entering a sweepstakes or contest you acknowledge that your personal information may be used and shared in accordance with this Privacy Notice, including in ways that may constitute a “selling” or “sharing” under CCPA.
Right to Limit Processing of Sensitive Personal Information: Certain pieces of personal information that we have about you may be considered “sensitive” under CCPA. You may request that we only use or provide this personal information to others for certain purposes, subject to exceptions. To submit a request to limit the processing of this personal information, please click on the “Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads)” link in the footer of the Hearst Magazine website, and complete the opt out form including your name, email address and your California postal address, as well as your subscription account number if you have an active subscription. You may also exercise your right by calling 1-800-659-7156. Certain pieces of information that we use to provide you with access to the Magazine Services (such as account login and payment card information) are not subject to this right to limit.
5. Right to be free from discrimination. You may exercise any of the above rights without fear of being discriminated against.
We use the information you provide to make your CCPA rights requests to verify your identity, locate the personal information we may hold about you and act upon your request. We strongly recommend that you submit the email and postal address that you used when you created accounts, ordered subscriptions or signed up for a newsletter. After you submit a CCPA rights request, you will be required to verify access to the email address you submitted. You will receive an email with a follow-up link to complete your email verification process. You are required to verify your email in order for us to proceed with your CCPA rights requests. Please check your spam or junk folder in case you can't see the verification email in your inbox. If you are a California resident and have any questions regarding your CCPA rights under this Privacy Notice, please contact us at [email protected].
Authorized Agents
For any of the CCPA rights, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In the request, you or your authorized agent must provide information sufficient for us to verify the identity of your agent and that your agent has been properly authorized to act on your behalf; this may take additional time to fulfill your request. If you are an authorized agent working on behalf of a consumer, you will need to fill out the relevant CCPA request form listed above on behalf of the consumer with the consumer’s information. Please note that the consumer you are working on behalf of must have a California postal address and will need to verify access to the email account used to submit the CCPA request in order for us to move forward with processing the request.
Minors
We do not knowingly collect or provide the personal information of minors under the age of 16 to others, without affirmative authorization.
Minors’ Right to Request Deletion of User-Posted Comments
If you are a California resident and registered user on Seventeen.com or Seventeen mobile app and posted comments, content or other information on that site or app when you were under 18 years old, you may request deletion of those comments, content or other information by contacting us at [email protected] and indicate in the subject line “California take-down request.” You must provide us with the live URL where the content resides, a copy of the content you would like deleted (cut and pasted into your email), the date of publication, and - if applicable - the username associated with it. We will remove the posting (except as permitted or required by law). Note that our deletion does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of your content from the internet and comments that may have been posted by others about you or your posting will remain accessible online.
Your Shine the Light California Rights (CA Civil Code § 1798.83)
You may also have the right to request a list of third parties to which certain personal information (as defined by California Civil Code § 1798.83) obtained through a Magazine Service was disclosed to others by Hearst during the preceding year for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please contact us at Hearst Magazines, PO Box 37870, Boone, IA, 50037. For such request, you must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights/Shine the Light” in the body of your request, as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. In your request, you need to attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please also indicate in your request the name of the Magazine Service to which your request applies. Please note that we will not accept requests via the telephone, email, or by facsimile, and we are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, or that do not have complete information.
O. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR EUROPEAN VISITORS
In order to address our legal obligations in Europe (including the UK), Hearst provides the following additional information for Europe-based visitors to Hearst's U.S. Magazine Services.
Who is Responsible for Your Information?
If you use or interact with a Hearst U.S. Magazine Service then the data controller will be Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. (except with respect to Car and Driver and Road & Track, for which U.S. Magazine Service the data controller will be Hearst Autos, Inc.). The contact details for this entity are provided in the “Contact Us” section above.
Legal Bases for Using Your Information
We process personal information for different purposes (as described in the “How We Use Information We Obtain” section, above) on the following legal bases:
- To perform our contractual obligations to you. We and our service providers process your information to perform our contractual obligations to you when we use your information to provide you with the Magazine Services and related content, products or services and to communicate with you. For example, when you purchase a subscription from us, we process your payment and contact information as necessary to confirm the subscription and we process your contact information and other details to provide you with support services you request. We also send you informational communications on this basis, including to confirm a subscription or to notify you of a change to a Magazine Service. Failure to provide requested information could prevent or delay the fulfilment of our contractual obligations.
- To pursue our legitimate interests. We process your information to meet our legitimate interests when we use your information to provide you with the Magazine Services and related content, products or services, to communicate with you and for our advertising and marketing purposes. For example, our legitimate interests include making improvements to, customizing and understanding how you interact with the Magazine Services and related content, products or services, and sending you communications about products and services we think may be of interest to you. To accomplish our legitimate interests, we may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries, service providers and business partners (including for our advertising and marketing purposes) and in the context of a corporate transaction. We maintain safeguards to protect the information we process to pursue our legitimate interests.
- To comply with our legal obligations. We process and share your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations when we use your information to protect our rights or the rights of others and when we share your information with other parties where required by law or as necessary to protect our rights. For example, we are required to collect certain information from you when processing your subscription payment for tax or financial reporting reasons.
- With your consent. We obtain your consent to process your information when we are required to do so by law. If consent is the legal basis on which we process your personal information, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section above.
Your Rights Over Your Information
In certain circumstances, you have a right to access or object to the use of personal information held about you (including in relation to direct marketing). You can also ask us to rectify, update, erase, restrict or to share your information in a usable format with another company. Such requests are subject to applicable law.
We encourage you to contact us to update or correct your information if it changes or if the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate.
If you would like to discuss or exercise such rights, please contact us at contact@allureseason. We will contact you if we need additional information from you in order to honor your requests.
Storing Your Information
We will keep your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you. Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal information for a period of time that enables us to:
- Maintain business records for analysis, understanding market trends and/or audit purposes and to improve the Magazine Services.
- Comply with record retention requirements under applicable laws or other relevant legal or regulatory requirements.
- Defend, establish, exercise or bring any existing or potential legal claims.
- Carry out fraud detection and prevention.
- Deal with any complaints regarding the Magazine Services, our products and services.
We will delete your personal information when it is no longer required for these purposes. If there is any information that we are unable, for technical reasons, to delete from our systems, we will put in place appropriate measures to prevent any further processing or use of the data.
International Data Transfers
Information collected through the Magazine Services will be processed in and subject to the laws of the United States, which may not provide the same level of protection for your personal information as your home country. If we transfer personal data from the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland we put in place safeguards. In particular, such safeguards include the European Commission-approved standard contractual clauses. For more information on these safeguards, please contact us at the details provided in the “Contact Us” section above. We participate in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Swiss-U.S. DPF”). Read our Data Privacy Framework Statement to learn more.
Changes to the Privacy Notice
Where changes to this Privacy Notice have a fundamental impact on the nature of the processing or otherwise have a substantial impact on you, we will give you advanced notice so that you have the opportunity to exercise your rights (e.g. to object to the processing).
Privacy Officer and Complaints
Our Privacy Officer can be contacted at contact@allureseason
We have appointed Hearst España S.L as our data protection representative in the EEA. You can contact Hearst España S.L at or Avda. Cardenal Herrera Oria 3 28034, Madrid, Spain. Please mark all correspondence “ATTN: EEA Representative (Legal Department).”
We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution in the event you have a complaint or concern about privacy. If, however, you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to make a complaint to a data protection authority.
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