Notice to California Residents

 

NOTICE AT COLLECTION AND OVERVIEW

This Notice to California Residents (“Notice”) is FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). 

CALIFORNIA NOTICE AT COLLECTION

If you are a California resident, this section includes information that we provide pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended from time to time (“CCPA”). This section includes information regarding the categories of information to be collected, the purposes for which the categories of information are collected or used, whether the information is sold or shared and how you can opt-out of such sales and sharing by clicking our “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link, and how long the information is retained. You can find those details by clicking on the above links. 

OVERVIEW

This Notice provides information about the categories of personal information that we collect from California residents generally, the purposes for which we use the information, the sources of the information, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose the personal information for business purposes. This Notice also explains “Do Not Sell” and provides you with the ways to exercise your rights. 

This Notice does not apply to personal information we collected or received about consumers in their capacity as our job applicant, employee, contractor, or an emergency contact, beneficiary, or dependent of one of our applicants, employees, or contractors. Such consumers should refer to our California Human Resources Privacy Policy for more information.  Additionally, this Notice applies only to the extent we direct the purposes and means of processing of personal information and otherwise qualify as a "business" under the CCPA. It does not apply to information we collect, disclose, or otherwise process as a "service provider"under the CCPA on behalf of our customers and business partners.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

At various times, we may collect personal information. We may collect, and may have collected  within the last twelve (12) months, the following categories of personal information from consumers (when applicable):

 

Category of Personal Information

Examples

Identifiers

A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifiers (such as device identifiers, internet protocol address, cookies, beacons, pixel tags mobile ad identifiers or similar technology, customer numbers, unique pseudonyms, user aliases, telephone numbers, or other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers that can be used to identify a particular customer or device), online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

Personal information categories listed under the California Customer Records statute

A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Please note that some categories of personal information under this statute may also be included in other categories of personal information.

Characteristics of protected classes under California or federal law

Age (if 40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).

Commercial information

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

Biometric information

Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

Internet or other similar network activity

Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

Geolocation data

Tracking of physical location or movements.

Sensory data

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

Professional or employment-related information

Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

Non-public education information

Education records directly related to a student that are maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

Inferences drawn from other personal information

Creation of a profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA

Biometric information processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer, personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health, personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation, and personal information that reveals a consumer’s Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number, a consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account, a consumer’s precise geolocation, a consumer’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership, contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless we are the intended recipient of the communication, or a consumer’s genetic data.

 

Except as otherwise provided in the California Shine the Light section below, this Notice does not address the following categories of personal information which are not covered by CCPA:

  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • De-identified or aggregated consumer information.Information protected under other laws, such as health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
  • Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994; or
  • Other information explicitly excluded from the scope of the CCPA.

SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the sources described in the Information We Collect and How We Collect It section of our Privacy Policy.

PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE COLLECT, USE, DISCLOSE, AND OTHERWISE PROCESS PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect and use, disclose, or otherwise process personal information, including personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA, we collect for one or more of the business purposes and commercial purposes described in the What Do We Do With the Information We Collect About You? section of our Privacy Policy. Consistent with the preceding sentence, we may collect and use, disclose, or otherwise process personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA for purposes other than performing the services or providing the products you request, for security and integrity purposes, short-term transient uses where the relevant personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA is not disclosed to a third party or used to build a consumer profile, performing services on our behalf, undertaking quality and safety control exercises, and other collection and processing that is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

We intend to retain personal information for as long as we reasonably need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including provision of the Services and to comply with law, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, as applicable.

PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURES

We may disclose personal information to a third party for a business or commercial purpose. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose or a commercial purpose:

  • Identifiers
  • Personal information categories listed under the California Customer Records statute.
  • Characteristics of protected classes under California or federal law.
  • Commercial information.
  • Biometric information
  • Internet or other similar network activity
  • Geolocation data
  • Sensory data
  • Professional or employment-related information
  • Non-public education information
  • Inferences drawn from other personal information
  • Personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA

We may disclose each of these categories of personal information with the categories of third parties described in the Who Do We Disclose Information To? section of our Privacy Policy.

DEIDENTIFIED INFORMATION

We will maintain and use deidentified information that does not constitute personal information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify such deidentified information except to the extent permitted under applicable law. We process personal information as described in this Notice.

PERSONAL INFORMATION SALES AND SHARING FOR CROSS-CONTEXT BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING

The CCPA defines “sale” very broadly in a manner that includes disclosing personal information in exchange for other valuable consideration. Under the CCPA, we may sell personal information. We may also share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes with unaffiliated third parties. Cross-context behavioral advertising means displaying advertising to you based on personal information obtained or inferred from your activities over time across different websites, applications, or other online services we do not operate. We may have sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes the following categories Personal Information in the preceding 12 months:

  • Identifiers
  • Personal information categories listed under the California Customer Records statute.
  • Characteristics of protected classes under California or federal law.
  • Commercial information.
  • Biometric information
  • Internet or other similar network activity
  • Geolocation data
  • Sensory data
  • Professional or employment-related information
  • Non-public education information
  • Inferences drawn from other personal information
  • Personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA

We may disclose each of these categories of personal information with the categories of third parties described in the Who Do We Disclose Information To? section of our Privacy Policy.

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell Personal Information of consumers under 16 years of age or share the personal information of consumers under the age of 16 for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

We may engage in sales of personal information and sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes for purposes such as providing services to our customers, delivering or facilitating cross-context behavioral advertising to users of the Services and users of websites and other online services provided by third parties, and generating revenue.

CCPA CONSUMER PRIVACY RIGHTS

The CCPA provides consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes those CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those CCPA rights.

RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF THE SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION OR SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR CROSS-CONTEXT BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING PURPOSES

You have the right to opt-out of any sales of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, which means displaying advertising to you based on personal information obtained or inferred from your activities over time across different websites, applications, and other online services we do not operate. You may exercise this right by clicking this “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link.  

We have also configured our websites to be compatible with opt-out preference signals, which may allow you to signal a preference to opt out of or restrict our use of tracking technologies that may result in “sales” under CCPA or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. Opt-out preference signals must be in a format commonly used and recognized by businesses and be delivered by a platform, technology, or mechanism that makes clear to consumers that the use of the signal is meant to have the effect of opting the consumer out of sales and sharing of personal information as described above.  If you do not have an account with us or are not logged into your account, your opt-out preference signal will be linked to your browser identifier only and may not be linked to other personal information, such as account information, about you that we process that is not associated with your browser identifier. 

If we receive an opt-out preference signal from you, we may offer you the option to provide additional information to help facilitate your opt-out request. We may also notify you if an opt-out preference signal we receive from you conflicts with your privacy settings or participation in certain programs we offer, and request your consent to sales or sharing of personal information or to affirm your intent to withdraw from any relevant programs.  

Even if you opt out of sharing your personal information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, you may still see our ads online at other sites and apps, and we may still base aspects of ads on your interactions with us and the Services.

RIGHT TO ACCESS AND KNOW ABOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED, DISCLOSED, OR SOLD

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information during the applicable time period for your request. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you, depending on the scope of the request:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you. 
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information about you, selling personal information about you, or sharing personal information about you for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we disclose that personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
  • If we sell personal information about you, share personal information about you for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes, or otherwise disclose personal information about you, a list of the categories of third parties to whom we sold, shared for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes, or disclosed personal information about you identifying the categories of personal information about you that we sold, shared for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes, or disclosed to those parties during the applicable period of time for your request.

RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY

You may request to receive a copy of personal information in a readily usable format to the extent feasible.

RIGHT TO CORRECT INACCURACIES

You may request that we correct your personal information that is inaccurate. We will take into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of our processing when we address your request.

RIGHT TO REQUEST DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Subject to certain exceptions, you have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we collected about you. 

RIGHT TO LIMIT USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DEFINED AS SENSITIVE UNDER THE CCPA

You may limit our use and disclosure of your personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA to performing the services or providing the products you request, for security and integrity purposes, short-term transient uses where the relevant personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA is not disclosed to a third party or used to build a consumer profile, performing services on our behalf,  undertaking quality and safety control exercises, and other collection and processing that is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. You may request to limit our use of your personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA by clicking our Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information link.

RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION FOR THE EXERCISE OF A CONSUMER’S PRIVACY RIGHTS

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment if you exercise any of the rights explained in this Notice.

 

PROCEDURES FOR EXERCISING YOUR CCPA CONSUMER RIGHTS

To exercise the CCPA consumer rights other than the right to opt-out of sales or sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes and the right to limit the use and disclosure of personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

To opt-out of sales or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes, please visit the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link

To limit our use and disclosure of personal information defined as sensitive under the CCPA, please visit the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information link.

In order to protect your personal information, please note that:

  • Only you or an authorized agent you designate to submit requests that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. We may require additional information when requests are submitted through an authorized agent, such as requiring the submission of signed written permission for the agent to act on your behalf, requiring you to verify your identity directly with us, and requiring you to confirm the authorized agent’s permission to act on your behalf directly.
  • You may only make a verifiable consumer request to access or know twice within a 12-month period. 
  • The request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized agent. In order to verify your request, we may require you to provide your name, email address, phone number, or other information to verify your identity. 
  • The description of the request must provide sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. 

It is important to know that you are not required to create an account with us to make a verifiable request. 

If you have a password-protected account with us, we may deliver our written response to that account when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account. 

Unless a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we will not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request. If we determine that a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we will tell you why we made that decision and reserve the right to either refuse to act on your request or charge you a reasonable fee to complete your request.

CALIFORNIA SHINE THE LIGHT

Under the California “Shine the Light” law, California residents who have an established business relationship with us may also have the right to request certain information regarding our disclosures of their personal information (as defined by California Civil Code § 1798.83) during the preceding year for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident who has an established business relationship with us and wish to exercise your rights under that law, please contact the McClatchy Privacy Team at privacy@mcclatchy.com. 

CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE

Please note that this Notice is subject to change. We recommend that you review the Notice from time to time. If we make changes to this Notice, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page. If you disagree with any portion of this Notice, now or as amended by us, your only option is to not use the websites, mobile applications, or online services governed by it.

METRICS

California law may require us to compile certain metrics for the previous calendar year regarding consumer requests and responses. If required by applicable law, we will update this section accordingly.We keep a record of requests that we received from California residents between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions or comments about this Notice, our general Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Last Updated:  27 February 2023