ShareThis Privacy Notice
DATED 2021-09-27 · VERSION 20211001_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20210801_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT
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| 1 | 1 | Privacy (2021) |
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| 3 | 3 | **Please click the following links to read our Privacy Policy in other languages:** **[Confidentialité](https://pcdn.sharethis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Privacy-Policy-3.30.20-French-v1.pdf) (Français), [Privacidad](https://pcdn.sharethis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Privacy-Policy-3.30.20-Spanish-v1.pdf) (Español), [Privacy](https://pcdn.sharethis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Privacy-Policy-3.30.20-Italian-v1.pdf) (Italiano), [Privacidade](https://pcdn.sharethis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Privacy-Policy-3.30.20-Portuguese-V1.pdf) (Português), [Datenschutz](https://pcdn.sharethis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Privacy-Policy-3.30.20-German-v1.pdf) (Deutsche), [プライバシー](https://pcdn.sharethis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Privacy-Policy-3.30.20-Japanese-V1.pdf) (日本語).** |
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| 5 | ### **Updated June 1, 2021** | |
| 5 | ### **Updated September 27, 2021** | |
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| 7 | 7 | ShareThis takes privacy seriously. This Privacy Notice sets out what data we collect, how we collect it, why we process it, who we may share it with and, where the data we collect is personal data, your rights with respect to such personal data. ShareThis may change this Notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are up to date with any changes. |
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| 9 | 9 | ShareThis is committed to processing information in accordance with applicable laws (including where applicable the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("**GDPR**") and the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") and as described in this Privacy Notice. For specific information about how ShareThis adheres to the GDPR and your rights as an EEA data subject please click **[here.]()** For information about how ShareThis adheres to the CCPA, please click **[here]().** |
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| 11 | 11 | To access information for Publishers, please visit the Publisher Information page [**here**](https://www.sharethis.com/publisher/)**.** |
| 101 | 101 | To serve you personalized advertisements and provide a seamless online experience, third party data partners that we work with may link your identifiers on the different environments you use. We may enable the linking of our Usage Data through cookie syncing. We do not use plain text information that may be used by ShareThis to identify you such as your name or address to operate the linking. Our data partners may use exact linking methods by leveraging the pseudonymous data collected through our technology such as advertising partner identifiers. |
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| 103 | 103 | You can manage cookies, change consents or opt out of personalized ads using the mechanisms described in '[User Choices'](). |
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| 105 | 105 | **1.4 How we use Usage Data and Profile Information** |
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| 107 | In addition, we may license portions of this data to our partners for their use for targeted advertising, analytics and modeling. Where allowed by law, our customers may use this data for other uses such as addressing fraud, enhancing their security efforts or understanding macro investment trends. | |
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| 107 | 109 | Our customers who we share your data with may use this information to generate their own Profile Information. They may independently gain other demographical information about you through their own cookies or web beacons and combine it with the data we provide to them. The use of cookies and pixel tags by these third-party advertisers, publishers, and ad networks are subject to their own privacy policies. Please refer to the 'Recipients of Your Data' section of this Privacy Notice for more information about who we disclose your data to. |
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| 109 | 111 | **2\. Children** |
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| 111 | 113 | ShareThis does not intentionally collect data from children and does not tailor any Profile Information to enable targeting of children under 16 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may be processing data of children you are responsible for, please see the section on User Choices and Rights, or contact us directly. |
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| 241 | 243 | Starting January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides additional privacy protections for California data subjects and users, including: |
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| 243 | 245 | - the right to see what data we have about you, your computer or device (i.e., the right to know), |
| 244 | 246 | - the right to delete the data we have about you, your computer or device (i.e., the right to delete), and |
| 245 | 247 | - the right to opt-out of the sale of data about you, your computer or device to certain third parties (i.e., the right to opt-out from sales of your information). |
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| 247 | The CCPA defines personal information broadly. And as such, almost all of the information web collect is considered personal information under the CCPA. California data subjects may send an email to [privacy@sharethis.com](mailto:privacy@sharethis.com) to exercise those rights of visit our data subject access page at [CCPA GDPR Data Subject Access Request](https://sharethis.com/ccpa-gdpr-data-subject-access-request-page/). California data subjects may also call us on our toll free CCPA privacy hotline at 1-800-272-1765. | |
| 249 | The CCPA defines personal information broadly. And as such, almost all of the information we collect is considered personal information under the CCPA. California data subjects may send an email to [privacy@sharethis.com](mailto:privacy@sharethis.com) to exercise those rights of visit our data subject access page at [CCPA GDPR Data Subject Access Request](https://sharethis.com/ccpa-gdpr-data-subject-access-request-page/). California data subjects may also call us on our toll free CCPA privacy hotline at 1-800-272-1765. | |
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| 249 | 251 | We do not treat users that exercise any of the above rights differently. However, we may not be able to honor a right if doing so would violate applicable law. ShareThis does not sell data collected via our website or the data we use to operate our business. However, we transfer personal information collected via the ShareThis Publisher Applications to third parties and as such are considered to have sold data over the past twelve months under California law, including any of the Usage Data, Profile Information and/or audience segments. |
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| 251 | 253 | **Your California Data Subject Access and Deletion Rights** |
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| 253 | 255 | The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides certain rights to California consumers - including the right to know the personal information that we may have about you, and the right to delete that information. ShareThis is committed to transparency, and we want California consumers to have access to personal information that we may have about them and/or the devices that they may use to access the Internet. We generally ask only for the minimum information necessary to help us process a subject access or deletion request and will keep information pertaining to your request for up to two years. If you are a customer of ShareThis with a login and password to the ShareThis platform, we ask that you first direct your request to the person or persons at your organization that administers the relationship with ShareThis. |
| 307 | 309 | AppNexus: [https://www.appnexus.com/platform-privacy-policy](https://www.appnexus.com/platform-privacy-policy) |
| 308 | 310 | Eyeota : [https://www.eyeota.com/privacy-policy](https://www.eyeota.com/privacy-policy) |
| 309 | 311 | Oracle: [https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/privacy-policy.html](https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/privacy-policy.html) |
| 310 | 312 | Lotame: [https://www.lotame.com/about-lotame/privacy/](https://www.lotame.com/about-lotame/privacy/) |
| 311 | 313 | Nielsen: [https://www.nielsen.com/ssa/en/legal/privacy-policy/](https://www.nielsen.com/ssa/en/legal/privacy-policy/) |
| 312 | 314 | Retargetly: [https://retargetly.com/privacy-policy](https://retargetly.com/privacy-policy) |
| 313 | 1plusX: [https://www.1plusx.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.1plusx.com/privacy-policy/) | |
| 315 | 1plusX: [https://www.1plusx.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.1plusx.com/privacy-policy/%20) | |
| 314 | 316 | AptivIO: [https://aptiv.io/privacy-policy](https://aptiv.io/privacy-policy) |
| 315 | 317 | Dunn & Bradstreet: [https://www.dnb.com/ca-en/utility-pages/privacy-policy.html](https://www.dnb.com/ca-en/utility-pages/privacy-policy.html) |
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| 317 | 319 | **2\. Other third party agents and service providers** |
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| 319 | 321 | We share the data described in this Privacy Notice trusted agents with data storage and processing facilities such as Amazon Web Services who are required under contract to only process data according to our written instructions and we require them to use data only for the purposes of providing services to us and to implement security controls and to maintain the confidentiality of that information. Here are the categories of service providers utilized by ShareThis: |
| 451 | 453 | The Federal Trade Commission has investigation and enforcement authority over our compliance with the Privacy Shield. |
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| 453 | 455 | If you believe we have not respected your rights or otherwise not handled data correctly, then we encourage you to contact us directly and we will do everything possible to help. |
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| 455 | 457 | However, where you still have a complaint, then you have the right to raise the matter with the Supervisory Authority (or data protection agency) in your country for resolution. |
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| 457 | **Last Updated: June 1, 2021** | |
| 459 | **Last Updated: September 27, 2021** | |
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| 459 | 461 | **Contact** |
| 460 | 462 | ShareThis, Inc. |
| 461 | 463 | 3000 El Camino Real |
| 462 | 464 | 5 Palo Alto Square, Suite 150 |
| 463 | 465 | Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA |