1. SCOPE OF THIS B2B PRIVACY POLICY

This A+E Global Media™ B2B Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) covers individuals who interact with A&E Television Networks, LLC and its affiliates (“A+E Global Media”, “we”, or “us”) in a business-to-business context and explains how A+E Global Media collects, uses and discloses personal information when you visit or interact with our business-to-business websites, mobile apps, smart TV apps, and other online services (collectively, the “Sites”).

This Privacy Policy does not cover information collected about you as a user of A+E Global Media consumer, personnel, or personnel-applicant sites, apps, or other online services. To learn more about our information practices in those situations, please read our online privacy policies posted at those locations.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will revise the date at the top of the policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our privacy practices and the choices available to you.

 

2. TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND WHY

The personal information that we collect about you in the context of your business interactions with A+E Global Media broadly falls into the following categories:

Personal information that you provide voluntarily

Certain parts of our Sites may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily. For example, we may collect the following information:

  • Your first and last name, mailing address (or your company's mailing address), company name, job title, email address, phone number, account username and password;
  • Any correspondence you have with us by phone, email, web form, messaging platforms, or otherwise;
  • Information you provide to us when responding to a poll or survey; and
  • Information that you provide to us when reporting a problem, giving feedback, or requesting technical support for our Sites.

Personal information that we collect automatically

When you visit our Sites, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. This information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.

Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser type, broad geographic location (e.g., country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our Sites, including the pages accessed and links clicked (including date and time), videos, shows or content you watch or interact with on our Sites, pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies, as explained further under the “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” heading below.

Personal information that we obtain from third-party sources

From time to time, we may receive personal information about you from third-party sources (including our other websites or apps, or from third parties), but only where we have checked that these third parties either have your consent or another legal basis, or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us. We may combine and use this information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Ways we use personal information

Regardless of how we have received your personal information, we use your personal information for our business purposes in the following ways:

  • To communicate with you about our business-to-business products and services, to enable you to submit inquiries and enable us to respond, and register an account with us (where applicable);
  • To subscribe you to our business-to-business marketing communications;
  • To perform our contractual obligations to you or your company;
  • To analyze and understand your use of, and interest in, our business-to-business products and services;
  • To organize and/or host events;
  • To enable us to provide and maintain our Sites, including administration and internal operations, such as troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and to let you know if there are any service issues or errors with the Sites;
  • To notify you about changes to our Sites;
  • To comply with legal and regulatory requirements; and
  • To complete a merger or sale of assets or other corporate transaction.

In general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.

 

3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may share or disclose your personal information with the categories of recipients described below.

  • To our group companies and partners, and to third-party service providers who provide data processing services to us (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of, our Sites), or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Policy or notified to you when we collect your personal information.
  • To any law enforcement, government agencies, courts, or similar, where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or those of our customers or other third parties, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person.
  • To an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

 

4. COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Our Sites may use cookies and other tracking technologies to enable certain features and functionality and to allow us to collect analytics about your use of the Sites. The technologies we may use are described below.

  • Cookies. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently provide reporting information and recognize you when you visit. Your browser may allow you to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Sites.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Sites may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Sites or opened an email that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Sites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, or to improve Site performance.

The following applies to cookies and other tracking technologies on specific A+E Global Media Sites:

The Stan

  • We have partnered with a service provider, Orange Logic LLC (“Orange Logic”), to host, maintain and manage The Stan. Descriptions of how Orange Logic uses cookies and other tracking technologies on The Stan can be found at their ‘Cookie Policy’ located at https://www.orangelogic.com/cookie-policy. Note, The Stan only uses strictly-necessary cookies and does not use any other optional Orange Logic cookies, such as analytics cookies, that may be mentioned in that Cookie Policy. 

 

5. STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.

 

6. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a business-to-business product or service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

 

7. ADDITIONAL CALIFORNIA DISCLOSURES

If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights and protections under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”) regarding the processing of your personal information.

We do not “sell” or “share” your Personal Information, as those terms are defined by the CCPA. Please note that the CCPA definitions of “sale” and “share” do not include, for example, the transfer of personal information as an asset that is part of a merger, bankruptcy, or other similar transaction involving all or any portion of our business. We do not process your “sensitive” personal information, as that term is defined by the CCPA.

Subject to the CCPA, you may have the data protection rights described below.

  • Right to know/access. You have the right to request from us (up to twice per year and subject to certain exemptions): (i) categories of personal information about you we have collected; (ii) the sources from which we have collected that personal information; (iii) our business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or disclosing that personal information; (iv) the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed that personal information; and (v) a copy of the specific pieces of your personal information we have collected.
  • Right to delete. Subject to certain conditions and exceptions, you may have the right to ask us to delete certain personal information we have collected from you.
  • Right to correction. You may have the right to ask us to correct inaccuracies in the personal information we have collected.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights with respect to your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “Contact Us” heading below. We respond to all valid requests in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may verify your request by asking you to provide certain information. Any request to exercise your rights will be assessed by A+E Global Media on a case-by-case basis. There may be circumstances in which we are not legally required to comply with your request because of a relevant legal exemption under applicable law. We will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

You may also designate an authorized agent to exercise privacy rights on your behalf by providing the authorized agent signed permission to submit the request on your behalf. If an authorized agent submits a request on your behalf, we may need to contact you to verify your identity and protect the security of your personal information. If you are an authorized agent seeking to make a rights request, follow the instructions provided under the “Contact Us” heading below.

 

8. ADDITIONAL EEA/UK DISCLOSURES

If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”; collectively, “EEA/UK”) you have certain rights and protections under the law regarding the processing of your personal information.

Legal basis for processing personal information

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you or your employer, (ii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights, or (iii) where we have your consent to do so.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you or your employer, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).

If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will normally be to operate our Sites, manage our relationship, provide you with our business-to-business products and services, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities. We may have other legitimate interests and if appropriate we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.

If you have questions about the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “Contact Us” heading below.

Your privacy rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the privacy rights described below.

  • Right to access. You have the right to request information about which personal information is processed by us.
  • Right to delete. Subject to certain conditions and exceptions, you may have the right to ask us to delete certain personal information we have collected from you.
  • Right to correction. You may have the right to ask us to correct inaccuracies in the personal information we have collected.
  • Right to object to processing of your personal information. You may have the right to ask us to refrain from particular processing activities.
  • Right to withdraw your consent. If we have collected and processed your personal information based on your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights with respect to your personal information, you can do so at any time by following the instructions provided under the “Contact Us” heading below. We respond to all valid requests in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may verify your request by asking you to provide certain information. Any request to exercise your rights will be assessed by A+E Global Media on a case-by-case basis. There may be circumstances in which we are not legally required to comply with your request because of a relevant exemption under applicable law.

You may also have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

International transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).

Specifically, our website servers are located in the United States, and our group companies and third-party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information we may process it in any of these countries.

However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These include implementing appropriate data transfer agreements incorporating the EEA/UK’s Standard Contractual Clauses or other approved mechanism for transfers of personal information and further details can be provided upon request.

 

9. CHILDREN

Our Sites(s) are not intended for, or directed toward, individuals under 18 years of age, nor does A+E Global Media knowingly collect or store personal information from individuals under 18 in connection with these Sites. If you are under 18 years of age, you are not permitted to use the Sites. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a Site visitor under the age of 18, we will delete that information from our records.

 

10. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

Our Sites may contain links to websites and apps operated by third parties. If you follow a link to any third-party website or app, please note that the third-party’s privacy notice will apply. We are not responsible for the collection, use, or sharing of your personal information by these third parties.

 

11. YOUR UNSUBSCRIBE OPTIONS FROM MARKETING

We may use your personal information to contact you with business-to-business marketing emails containing information that might be of interest to you. You can unsubscribe from such marketing emails using the “unsubscribe” link or instructions provided in each marketing email; if you unsubscribe, you will still receive account-related emails for any account you have created.

 

12. CONTACT US

To exercise privacy rights you may have under Section 7 (Additional California Disclosures) or Section 8 (Additional EEA/UK Disclosures):

  • Individuals may use the data subject rights (DSR) webform located at: aegm.com/b2b-dsr.
  • Authorized agents may email us at privacy@aegm.com, with the following subject heading: “B2B Authorized Agent DSR Request”.  Please attach legal documentation establishing your authority to act as an agent.

For any other questions related to this Privacy Policy, you may email: privacy@aegm.com, with the subject heading: “B2B Privacy Policy Question”.