ShareThis Privacy Notice

DATED 2017-08-10 · VERSION 20171101_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20170701_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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+ShareThis takes privacy seriously. This Privacy Notice governs the main privacy principles and details we apply to the data we collect through the ShareThis social sharing tools.
+ShareThis takes privacy seriously. This Privacy Notice governs the main privacy principles and details we apply to the data we collect through the ShareThis social sharing tools for publishers.
 To access our Website Privacy Notice, which governs our corporate website only, please scroll down to the Website Privacy Notice Paragraph or [click here.]() To access information for Publishers, please [click here](https://sharethis.com/publisher/).
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 ## About ShareThis Sharing Tools
+ShareThis provides customizable social sharing tools, making sharing simple. You can easily share anything on the web with your friends on social sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Email, Digg, Reddit and more through one tool. In addition to the sharing service offered directly to you, our technology also allows us to gather information from publishers (websites that deliver content, such as articles and videos) that use our ShareThis Icon or our advertising technology, and enables ShareThis, our publishers, advertisers, and data partners to facilitate the delivery of relevant, targeted advertising, analytics, and data modeling based on social sharing.
+ShareThis provides a customizable social sharing tool, making sharing online content simple. You can easily share anything on the web with your friends on social sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Email, Digg, Reddit and more through one tool ("ShareThis Icon"). In addition to the sharing service offered directly to you, our technology also allows us to gather information regarding the browsing and sharing from those websites that use our ShareThis Icon or our advertising technology ("Publishers"), and enables ShareThis, Publishers, advertisers, and data partners to facilitate the delivery of relevant, targeted advertising, analytics, and data modeling based on social sharing (ShareThis Icon and all applications, services and other technology provided by ShareThis to Publishers, collectively "ShareThis Publisher Applications"). You can recognize the websites which use the ShareThis Publisher Applications by the ShareThis Icon on the website.
+Our aim is to enable advertisements by displaying products and/or services that you might be interested in, based on your recent browsing and/or sharing behavior, without identifying who you are by name, email or phone number. This is often called interest-based advertising ("IBA") or online behavioral advertising ("OBA"). For example, if you visit and browse on Website A which uses a ShareThis tool, on a subsequent online visit to Website B, you may see ads personalized by your social sharing and/or browsing history on Website A but not personalized based on your name or other personally identifying information. For more information on IBA/OBA, [click here](http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising).
+Our aim is to enable advertisements by displaying products and/or services that you might be interested in, based on your recent browsing and/or sharing behavior, without identifying who you are by name, email or phone number. This is often called interest-based advertising ("IBA") or online behavioral advertising ("OBA"). For example, if you visit and browse on Website A which uses ShareThis Publisher Applications, on a subsequent online visit to Website B, you may see ads personalized by your social sharing and/or browsing history on Website A but not personalized based on your name or other personally identifying information. For more information on IBA/OBA, [click here](http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising).
 ## Our Technology
 We collect information via technical cookies placed on your browser, pixel tags, HTTP headers (or other communication protocols), and browser identifiers. We do not use flash cookies or other locally stored objects (LSO) that may be used to circumvent user opt-out choices.
 ## Data Collection and Use
 We collect registration information and usage information. Your registration information is not connected to usage Information. For usage information, we use data that does not directly identify an individual (Non-Personally Identifiable Information, or Non-PII). We collect and use technical data relating to a certain amount (not all!) of your browsing navigation to display personalized advertisements, provide analytics, and data modeling based on social sharing, by us or third parties.
 ## User Choices
+If you do not want to receive advertisements based on usage data collected by ShareThis, on your current browser, you can opt out by clicking the button below.
+If you do not want to receive advertisements based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis, on your current browser, you can opt out by clicking the button below.
+Note:
+Each environment is separate. If you do not want to receive ads based on Usage Data collected by ShareThis whatever device or browser used, you must disable our services for each device and each internet web browser.
+Also note:
+Opting out does not mean you will stop seeing advertisements, but that the advertisements you do see will not be influenced by the Usage Data collected by ShareThis. It also does not affect your registration information. For canceling or deleting your registration information, see Data Security and Retention.
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 ## Corporate Website Collection and Use
+You can browse the ShareThis corporate website (ShareThis.com) without providing any personally identifiable information (PII). You may choose to provide PII to us voluntarily if you interact with ShareThis.com in certain ways, such as apply for employment with ShareThis, or posting a question in the forum, or using one of our contact forms.
+You can browse the ShareThis corporate website (ShareThis.com) without providing any personally identifiable information ("PII"). You may choose to provide PII to us voluntarily if you interact with ShareThis.com in certain ways, such as apply for employment with ShareThis, or using one of our contact forms. To facilitate your purpose in communicating with us, the PII collected in is your name and email address.
 ## Data Sharing or Disclosure
+We share non-personally identifiable usage data, including audience segments, with advertisers, publishers (websites with our ShareThis icon), and other data partners (all, our customers) for interest-based advertising, analytics and data modeling.
+We share non-personally identifiable Usage Data, including audience segments, with advertisers, Publishers, advertisers, and other data partners (all, "Our Customers") for interest-based advertising, analytics and data modeling.
 ## Data Security and Retention
 The security of your information is a high priority to ShareThis. We have implemented industry-standard security measures, as appropriate for the sensitivity of the data.
 ## Commitments to Privacy Standards
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 Please note we may update or change this privacy notice. If we revise our privacy notice, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and to other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes, we will notify you by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective.
+**Effective Date: 08-22-2016, updated April 7, 2017**
+**Effective Date: 08-22-2016, Updated August 10, 2017**