Privacy Policy and Your Privacy Rights

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 ## PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
 [CALIFORNIA NOTICE OF COLLECTION]()
+**_Last updated June 28, 2024._**
+**_Last updated October 17, 2024._**
 En español: [POLÍTICA DE PRIVACIDAD Y SUS DERECHOS DE PRIVACIDAD](https://www.latimes.com/espanol/privacidad)
+Los Angeles Times Communications LLC and its Affiliates ("Los Angeles Times," "we," "us," or "our") operate newspapers, and news, entertainment, and informational websites, and other print and digital products and services. In this Privacy Policy, "Affiliates" refers to subsidiaries and entities in which Los Angeles Times or its subsidiaries operate or have an ownership interest.
+Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, L.A. Times Studios, LLC and their Affiliates ("The Times Parties," "we," "us," or "our") operate newspapers, and news, entertainment, and informational websites, and/or other print and digital products and services. In this Privacy Policy, "Affiliates" refers to subsidiaries and entities in which The Times Parties or their subsidiaries operate or have an ownership interest.
+This Privacy Policy applies only to the information Los Angeles Times and its Affiliates collect through the websites, mobile applications, electronic devices, kiosks, and all other print and digital products and services we provide, any other services that display this Privacy Policy, and all of the associated content, functionalities and advertising (collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy governs the Services regardless of how you access them. Some Services may have a specific, separate privacy policy that will govern use of those Services. "Services" include, without limitation, [www.latimes.com](https://www.latimes.com/) and [www.hoylosangeles.com](https://www.hoylosangeles.com/). This Privacy Policy describes:
+This Privacy Policy applies only to the information The Times Parties and its Affiliates collect through the websites, mobile applications, electronic devices, kiosks, and all other print and digital products and services we provide, any other services that display this Privacy Policy, and all of the associated content, functionalities and advertising (collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy governs the Services regardless of how you access them. Some Services may have a specific, separate privacy policy that will govern use of those Services. "Services" include, without limitation, [www.latimes.com](https://www.latimes.com/), [www.hoylosangeles.com](https://www.hoylosangeles.com/) and [studios.latimes.com](https://studios.latimes.com/).
+Certain Services operate as independent controllers of your personal information. L.A. Times Studios, LLC operates as an independent controller of personal information collected through the pages available at studios.latimes.com, the L.A. Times Studios pages or ads on social media, email messages sent by L.A. Times Studios, your offline contacts with and any other service or content offered by L.A. Times Studios (collectively, the "Studios Services"). L.A. Times Studios, LLC operates the Studios Services in accordance with the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy. With respect to the Studios Services, L.A. Times Studios, LLC is referred to in this Privacy Policy as included in "The Times Parties," "we," "us," or "our." In this Privacy Policy, Studios Services are included under "Services."
+This Privacy Policy describes:
 \. the information we collect and how we collect it;
 \. what we do with the information we collect;
 \. how we disclose user information with third parties;
+\. Los Angeles Times' use of online analytics and tailored advertising;
+\. our use of online analytics and tailored advertising;
 \. your Privacy Rights;
 \. California Do-Not-Track disclosure requirements;
 \. how you can access and update your information;
 - download or use one of our mobile applications;
 - connect with the Services or otherwise allow us to access certain information about you via a social networking site (SNS);
 - post user-generated content, including comments, to or on any of our Services;
 - navigate our websites and mobile applications; or
 - submit your information to us for any other reason.
+We may collect and store your user ID associated with an SNS account that you use to sign in to your Los Angeles Times account or connect or use with the Services. When you sign in to your Los Angeles Times account or mobile application with your SNS account information or otherwise connect to your SNS account with the Services, you authorize Los Angeles Times to collect, store, and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information available to Los Angeles Times through the SNS interface, including without limitation any information that you have made public in connection with your SNS account, information that the SNS provides to us, or information that is disclosed as being provided to us or others during the sign-in process. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose information through the Services, such as via an SNS, on message boards, in chat areas or in advertising or notices you post, that information can be viewed publicly and may be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge (or our consent) and may result in data collection by or unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties.
+We may collect and store your user ID associated with an SNS account that you use to sign in to your account with us or connect or use with the Services. When you sign in to your account with us or our mobile application with your SNS account information or otherwise connect to your SNS account with the Services, you authorize us to collect, store, and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information available to us through the SNS interface, including without limitation any information that you have made public in connection with your SNS account, information that the SNS provides to us, or information that is disclosed as being provided to us or others during the sign-in process. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose information through the Services, such as via an SNS, on message boards, in chat areas or in advertising or notices you post, that information can be viewed publicly and may be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge (or our consent) and may result in data collection by or unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties.
 ## 1.2 Automatically-collected information
 ## 1.2.1 Device/usage information
 We may automatically collect certain information about the computer or devices (including mobile devices) you use to access the Services. For example, we may collect and analyze information such as (a) IP addresses, geolocation information (as described in the next section below), unique device identifiers including mobile advertising identifiers and other information about your mobile phone or other mobile device(s), browser types, browser language, operating system, the state or country from which you accessed the Services; and (b) information related to the ways in which you interact with the Services, such as: referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, clicked items, interaction with advertisements, domain names, landing pages, pages and content viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, mouse hover including location and time spent on each area of the page, the date and time you used the Services, the frequency of your use of the Services, error logs, and other similar information. As described further below, we may use third-party analytics providers and technologies, including cookies and similar tools, to assist in collecting and analyzing this information.
+We may also capture other data, such as search criteria and results. In some cases, we will associate this information with a unique Los Angeles Times identifier for our internal use, in which case your Los Angeles Times identifier will be considered Los Angeles Times information, and nothing in this Privacy Policy restricts how Los Angeles Times may use this information.
+We may also capture other data, such as search criteria and results. In some cases, we will associate this information with a unique identifier for our internal use, in which case your unique identifier will be considered our information, and nothing in this Privacy Policy restricts how we may use this information.
 ## 1.2.2 Location information
 We may collect different types of information about your location, including general information (e.g., IP address, ZIP code) and more specific information (e.g., GPS-based functionality on mobile devices used to access the Services), and may use that information to customize the Services with location-based information, advertising, and features. For example, if your IP address indicates an origin in downtown Los Angeles, the Services may be customized with downtown Los Angeles-specific information and advertisements. To do this, your location information may be disclosed to our agents, vendors or advertisers. If you access the Services through a mobile device and you do not want your device to provide us with location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to do this. See your device manufacturer's instructions for further details.
 ## 1.2.3 Cookies and other electronic technologies
 ## 3\. How we disclose user information with third parties.
 We may make your information available to other companies, websites, applications or people in the circumstances described below:
 We may rent, sell, or disclose your information to non-affiliated third parties: (a) to provide services or products that you have requested; (b) when we have your permission; or (c) as described in this Privacy Policy.
+We may disclose your information to any agent or company that is part of Los Angeles Times to provide the Services or advertising or to communicate with you on our behalf.
+We may disclose your information to any agent or company that is part of The Times Parties to provide the Services or advertising or to communicate with you on our behalf.
 We may provide access to or disclose your information to select third parties who perform services on our behalf. These third parties provide a variety of services to us, including without limitation billing, sales, marketing, provision of content and features, advertising, analytics, research, customer service, shipping and fulfillment, data storage, security, fraud prevention, payment processing, and legal services. When you sign up to participate in a contest or sweepstakes, your information may also be provided to our sweepstakes or contest advertisers, operators, or sponsors and the use of that information will be also governed by those advertisers', operators', or sponsors' privacy policies or practices.
 We may disclose your information to third parties for their own and sometimes our own advertising and marketing purposes, with whom we have a contractual relationship, including without limitation third-party advertisers and advertising and list brokering networks.
 We may access, disclose, transfer and preserve your information when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:
+- protect our users and our legal rights, privacy or safety, and that of our subsidiaries, Affiliates, employees, agents, contractors, or other individuals, including by enforcing this Privacy Policy or any applicable Los Angeles Times Terms of Service;
+- protect our users and our legal rights, privacy or safety, and that of our subsidiaries, Affiliates, employees, agents, contractors, or other individuals, including by enforcing this Privacy Policy or any applicable Terms of Service;
 - comply with the law including with subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and other legal processes; and respond to inquiries or requests from government, regulatory bodies, law enforcement, public authorities, or content protection organizations;
 - permit us to pursue available remedies, commence, participate in, or defend litigation, or limit the damages that we may sustain;
+- enforce this Privacy Policy or any applicable Los Angeles Times Terms of Service.
+- enforce this Privacy Policy or any applicable Terms of Service.
+We may disclose your information in connection with any proposed or actual merger, reorganization, transfer of control, a sale of some or all Los Angeles Times assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. We may aggregate and we may de-identify information collected by the Services or via other means so that the information is not intended to identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and we may disclose it to others without limitation for any purpose.
+We may disclose your information in connection with any proposed or actual merger, reorganization, transfer of control, a sale of some or all of our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. We may aggregate and we may de-identify information collected by the Services or via other means so that the information is not intended to identify you. Our use and disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy, and we may disclose it to others without limitation for any purpose.
+## 4\. Los Angeles Times' use of online analytics and tailored advertising.
+## 4\. Our use of online analytics and tailored advertising.
 ## 4.1 Online analytics
 We may use third-party web analytics services on our Services, such as those provided by Google Analytics and similar providers. These service providers use the sort of technology described in Section 1.2 to help us analyze how users use the Services, including by noting the third-party website from which you arrive. The information (including your IP address) collected by the technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Services. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to advertising, as described in the following section. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by [clicking here](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
 ## 4.2 Tailored advertising
+When you use the Services, Los Angeles Times may serve you with ads based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, information you provide such as your age or gender, your searches, demographic and geographic data, user-generated content and other information that you provide to us. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and may be tailored to your interests.
+When you use the Services, we may serve you with ads based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, information you provide such as your age or gender, your searches, demographic and geographic data, user-generated content and other information that you provide to us. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and may be tailored to your interests.
 Also, third parties, including without limitation those whose products or services are accessible or advertised via the Services, may place cookies or other tracking technologies (such as mobile 'SDKs,' which function like a mobile version of a browser cookie and are embedded in mobile applications) on your computer browser, mobile phone applications, or other device to collect information about your use of the Services to (i) inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to our websites and other sites and mobile applications and (ii) report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our websites, mobile applications, and use of our Services. We also allow other third parties (e.g., ad networks and ad servers such as Google AdSense, DoubleClick and others) to serve tailored ads to you on the Services, and to access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Services so that tailored ads may be delivered to you when you are using other websites and mobile applications. We also may disclose to third-party advertisers a hashed version of your email address, which may be identified by a service provider for purposes of delivering tailored advertising on the Services, other websites, and/or mobile applications.
 We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Services by non-affiliated, third-party ad technology, ad servers, ad networks or any other non-affiliated third parties. Those parties that use these technologies may offer you a way to opt-out of ad targeting as described below. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver interest-based advertising, you may visit the [Network Advertising Initiative's Consumer Opt-Out link](https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices), the [Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA's) Consumer Opt-Out link](https://www.aboutads.info/choices/) or [TrustArc's Advertising Choices Page](https://preferences-mgr.truste.com/) to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. You may also use the links available in advertisements that appear in the Services and learn more about our advertising practices through the About Our Ads link that may be available through the Services.
 If you have a Google account, we may use Google Analytics to display advertising to you. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for display advertising or customize Google display network ads by visiting the [Google Ads Settings](https://www.google.com/settings/ads) page. You will need to log in to Google via the Sign In link if you are not already logged in when you visit that page.
 ## 11\. Use of the Services by users from outside the United States.
 The Services are hosted in the United States and locations outside the United States and are governed by United States law. If you are using the Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States and other countries where our servers are located and our databases are operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive or protective of certain rights as those in your country. Under United States law, your information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States. By using the Services, you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties to whom we disclose it as described in this Privacy Policy and processed in those facilities.
 ## 12\. Use of the Services by children.
+The Services are not intended for persons under the age of 13; however, we are providing some family content during this time of the COVID-19 crisis for parents or guardians who are home with their kids. We shall obtain the consent of a parent or guardian to the extent that the parent's or guardian's child under 13 submits personal information to us in connection with such family content. We will retain the information only so long as reasonably necessary to: (1) publish the family content with the consent of the parent(s) or guardian(s); (2) fulfill the request or allow the child to participate in the family content or activity; (3) ensure the security of our users and our online services; and/or (4) as required by law. On the specific pages that contain family content in our online Services, we may also offer family activities such as puzzles and games for children under the age of 13, which only collect persistent identifiers to support the services. Our other games offerings are not intended for use by children under the age of 13. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child in a manner inconsistent with legal requirements, we will either delete the personal information or seek consent from parents or guardians. A parent or guardian may contact privacy@latimes.com to review personal information provided by the parent's or guardian's child, have such information deleted, and/or refuse to allow further collection or use of such information.
+The Services are intended for general audiences, and are not directed to children under the age of 13.
 If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy or practices, please send an email at privacy@latimes.com.
 ## 14\. No rights of third parties.
 This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.
 ## 15\. Changes to this Privacy Policy.
+Los Angeles Times reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, the features of our Services, or advances in technology. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.
+We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, the features of our Services, or advances in technology. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.
 ## 16\. Supplemental Privacy Notice for California Residents
 This Supplemental Privacy Notice supplements the information in our Privacy Policy above and applies solely to California residents. It applies to personal information we collect on or through the Services and through other means (such as information collected offline, in person, and over the telephone), including from our users, subscribers, advertisers and our other customers, as applicable. It does not apply to personal information we collect from our employees or job applicants.
 ## 16.1 Summary of Information We Collect