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<p>Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace.
Consumer Reports and its corporate affiliates (which we refer to in this policy as “CR”, “we” or “us”) publish our organization’s privacy principles and apply them to the way in which we treat your information.
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<p>This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we collect about you and your devices, the sources from which we collect them, how and for what purposes your information may be used, when your information may be disclosed, how it is protected, and how you can control the use and disclosure of your information.</p> Scope <p>This Privacy Policy covers the Consumer Reports family of digital services, print publications and our other products, services and programs, and associated online and mobile websites, applications and digital tools (including those related to our consumer policy and mobilization activities) that refer to or provide an authorized link to this Privacy Policy (collectively "CR Products").<br>
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This Privacy Policy applies to information collected about you and your devices when you engage with us.</p> Information Collected <p> Information you give us <br>
When you purchase a subscription from us or otherwise engage with CR, you may give us different types of information including the following:<br>
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<li>Audio, electronic, visual or similar information such as your photograph, an audio recording or a video of you</li>
<li>Billing information, subscription preferences and payment card (credit or debit) information where needed for payment</li>
<li>Information about you and your household, including birthday and demographic information (e.g., age, gender and geographic location)</li>
<li>Commercial information, such as your experiences with specific consumer products and services, including product models you own or have considered</li>
<li>Your opinions, actions and experiences regarding various topics and consumer policy issues, including information provided via our website and through social media channels</li>
<li>Inferences based on the information we collect from or about you to create a profile reflecting your interests and preferences.</li>
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<p>You may choose to provide us with certain “sensitive information” to use in our reporting about consumer matters and in our advocacy work.
We request that you not provide us with any Social Security number, financial account information, or similar sensitive data when sharing your experiences with us.</p>
<p>We may match the information we collect from you directly with the information we receive about you from other sources, and use such information along with information from those other sources.</p>
<p>Information collected when you use our products and services<br>
We and our service providers collect certain information automatically about your online activities and your devices through technical means, including through the use of cookies, web beacons, and other technologies.
This information may include the following:</p>
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<li>Geo-location information which includes information about your real-world location at a given time based on latitude and longitude, as well as your general geographic area or more precise information about your street-level location. .
Geo-location information may be derived from your IP address, which can be used to identify your general geographic area at a city or postal code level, from our online and mobile websites, applications and digital tools, which may collect precise information about your computer’s or device’s geographic location, and through other means.
Information about your interactions with our content, Consumer Reports ads and communications, including the areas you visit on CR digital services and which of our Consumer Reports ads and content you see on other organizations’ websites (such as the Consumer Reports Facebook page) and whether you open email messages from us or click on Consumer Reports ads served by our ad partners when you visit other websites on which our ads appear.</li>
<li>Device information, including the device type you use to access our digital services, your device’s operating system, and unique device identifier information (which is a unique alphanumeric character string associated with an individual user’s smartphone or similar handheld device).</li>
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<p>Information we obtain from other sources <br>
We collect additional information about you from other sources to help us correct and supplement our records, improve the quality of our products or services, and personalize your experience.
These sources include service providers who provide us with your IP address in order to customize our service.
payment service providers who provide us with information to process your payment.
data providers who provide us with demographic, interest based and online advertising related data.
organizations with which we have a business relationship to provide products and services to you.
and information available through publicly available sources such as open government databases and publicly available posts on social media platforms.</p>
<p>The type of additional information we collect from these sources include your updated mailing address, payment card information, information from social media sources, engagement with our content (for example, comments or shares on our Facebook page), information about products and services you access through our business partners (for example, if you purchase a vehicle through our Car Buying service), information about your interests (e.g., pets, sports, travel, and cars), demographic data (e.g., age, gender, general income bracket, ethnicity, and children in household), and for certain of our consumer policy and mobilization activities, your legislative district information.</p>
<p> </p> How We Use Your Information <p>Use of Information<br>
The information we collect is used for a variety of purposes.
These include:</p>
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<li>Supporting consumer policy and mobilization activities, such as running campaigns on consumer policy issues, and informing our efforts to recruit, train and connect our consumer activists;</li>
<li>Customizing CR Products to provide you with a richer, more relevant experience;</li>
<li>Conducting research including providing consumer insights and data to manufacturers, regulators, researchers and other third parties to help improve the marketplace;</li>
<li>Contacting you regarding your use of CR Products and matters that affect you, including to inform our testing, reporting and editorial, and consumer policy and mobilization activities;</li>
<li>Responding to your requests and comments and providing you with customer support;</li>
<li>Updating and maintaining the accuracy of your information;</li>
<li>Operating, optimizing and improving CR Products, including by conducting research and analytics;</li>
<li>Conducting marketing and fundraising activities, including providing information about products and services that may be of interest to you (including services and benefits from our business partners), serving Consumer Reports ads, and managing sweepstakes and other promotional activities;</li>
<li>Providing others with your information for the limited purposes described in this Privacy Policy, as may be described to you when collecting your personal information, or otherwise with your express consent.
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<p> </p> Disclosure of Information <p>
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Personal information you submit to a CR publication or elect to post in a public area of a digital service is public. .
If you don’t want people to know your name, email address, or other information that identifies you personally, do not include that information in your public posts. </p>
<p>We may share information collected from or about you with others, including business partners, service providers, social networking services, industry experts, and other third parties, for the purposes described below.</p>
<p>Sharing With Business Partners <br>
Our business partners are third parties CR works with to offer you products and services, such as car-buying services available through our website.
You may be asked to provide information about yourself in order to obtain these products and services.
When you do so, your information is shared with both CR and the business partner, and may be governed by the user agreement and privacy policy of both CR and our business partner.
CR may share information about you with our business partners to fulfill your request for products and services, and our business partners may share certain information about you with us that you provide to them when you use its products and services.</p>
<p>Sharing With Service Providers <br>
We may share your information with third-party service providers who help us with specialized services such as payment processing, analytics and member support.
Additionally, we authorize certain service providers to use aggregated, anonymous information derived from data collected when you use the products and services they support on our behalf. </p>
<p>We will take reasonable steps to help ensure that where personal information is shared, it is treated securely and in accordance with this notice and applicable laws.
For more on disclosure to third parties, please see our Cookie Policy.</p>
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<p>We may share de-identified individual-level or aggregated information with manufacturers, regulators, researchers and other third parties for research purposes to help improve the marketplace.
Information shared in this way will not identify you individually. </p>
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<b>Sharing For Consumer Policy and Mobilization Purposes </b>
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When you participate in a consumer policy campaign such as by signing a petition or sending a message to a policy decision-maker or government entity, it may be necessary to include your name, address and/or other personal information with your submission.
Petitions and comments filed with government entities, together with any included personal information, become a matter of public record and may be viewable online after submission.
Sometimes CR works with other advocacy organizations to coordinate our shared policy efforts.
If you provide your information to us as part of a joint-petition or other coordinated action, it may be shared with these other organizations.</p>
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<b>Sharing For Fundraising Purposes</b> <br>
We share certain donor data (such as full name, mailing address and donation information, but not your email address, telephone number(s) or any financial account information) with other organizations. </p>
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If you subscribe to Consumer Reports magazine or any of our other print publications, we may exchange or rent your name and mailing address (but not your email address) with other companies that offer products or services through direct mail.
We screen all such offers and strive to select trustworthy, reputable companies which offer high quality products or services of interest to you.
If you prefer not to receive these offers, please go to Choice/Opt Out for instructions. </p>
<p>Promotional Offers, Sweepstakes, or Contests <br>
If you enter a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, your information may be disclosed to third parties who help administer the promotion, including for winner selection, prize fulfillment and aggregated data analysis.
Your information also may be disclosed as required by U.S.
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We may share your information among our corporate affiliates, which are related legal entities. </p>
<p>Substantial Corporate Transactions <br>
We may share your information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, which may include the sale of one or more of our businesses, a merger, the creation of a separate business to provide certain of our products and services, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.<br>
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If we engage in any of these types of transactions, your information will be subject to our privacy policy in effect prior to the time of the transfer of that information.<br>
We will notify you if we transfer ownership or control of your personally identifiable information to an unaffiliated third party in connection with a substantial corporate transaction.</p>
<p>Legal Requirements <br>
We may access, preserve and disclose your information if we believe that we are required to do so by applicable law, such as to comply with a search warrant, court order, subpoena, or request from law enforcement, to enforce our legal rights and agreements (including CR's User Agreement), and to defend against legal claims.</p>
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We may disclose your information to investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected illegal activities, including fraud, to protect the legal rights, safety and property of CR and its employees, agents and contractors, and in connection with any safety or security concerns involving our users or the public.</p>
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Certain third parties such as ad networks that serve CR ads, analytics companies and social networking platforms may collect information through cookies, web beacons, mobile ad identifiers, and other technologies that track your online activities across CR and other online services, including information about your interactions with our ads, our content and the websites you visit.<br>
The information they collect about you may be aggregated with data these companies collect about you across different websites, online services (including social media services), and your associated devices.
These third parties use your information for their business purposes and in accordance with their own privacy policies. For more information, please see CR’s Cookie Policy.</p>
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We collect the following personal information about you in the context of our text messaging program: your name, mobile phone number, text message contents and texting preferences (opt-ins and opt-outs).
We use this information to manage our text messaging program, including to send you text messages.
We may share this information with our corporate affiliates, third parties in the context of the sale of our business or its assets, corporate restructuring or liquidation, and otherwise to the extent permitted or required by applicable law. .
If fees are charged to your wireless account invoice, we may provide information to your carrier about them.
Your wireless carrier may also collect data about your wireless device usage, and its practices are governed by its own policies.
We take measures to protect your sensitive personal information but cannot guarantee its security in transit or storage.</p>
<p>Please go to the Choice/Opt Out section to learn more about how you can opt out of our information-sharing practices. </p> Choice/Opt Out <p>As a non-profit membership organization engaged in ongoing consumer product testing, news reporting and consumer advocacy, we often engage with consumers like you online and through other communication channels.
Your feedback and involvement are critical to our work on your behalf.</p>
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If you purchase or subscribe to one of our print publications, we may also share your postal mail contact information with third parties for their marketing purposes as described above under Sharing For Marketing Purposes.<br>
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You may see ads for Consumer Reports on other websites and online properties you visit.
Ads for CR Products may be customized to your interests and preferences based on information collected as you browse online, a practice that is often referred to as interest-based advertising.
Tracking technologies like cookies and web beacons are used for these purposes.
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Certain third parties that provide us with analytics services employ their own tracking technologies, such as cookies, when you visit our websites and other digital services.
Those third parties are able to collect information about your online activities across our digital services and other websites and online services.
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If your computer or device is equipped with GPS, connects with wireless access points or hot spots, or communicates through cell towers or satellites, then your computer or device is able to use these features to determine its precise geographic location.
The geographic location will be transmitted to CR in real time in accordance with the privacy settings you have set on your computer or device, and will continue to transmit the information to us until you have updated your settings to no longer do so. </p>
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If you create an account on a CR website, you are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password and for any activity that occurs using your account credentials.
Please notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security.</p> Children's Privacy <p>CR Products are intended for general audiences and are not directed to children.
If you are the parent or guardian of a child under age 13 and believe your child has provided us with his or her personal information, please contact us.
You must be 18 or older to participate in certain activities, such as contests and sweepstakes.</p> Third Party Sites and Services <p>CR’s websites and other products contain links to websites, applications and services and incorporate social networking features maintained by third parties that operate under their own privacy policies.
Similarly, if you purchase a CR Product or communicate with us through a third party, then that third party’s privacy policy will control any information you provide to that company.
We encourage you to review the third party’s privacy policy before submitting your personal information.</p>
<p> </p> Your Privacy Rights and Choices <p>We believe that consumers should know what information is being collected about them and how that information is being used. .
We also believe that consumers should be able to access their information and delete it whenever possible.
Please go here if you would like to access or delete your information.</p>
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<p> </p> Your California Privacy Rights <p>
<b>California Consumer Privacy Act</b>
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<p>The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires that companies covered by the law make certain disclosures regarding the personal information they collect, sell and disclose with respect to California residents. .
For purposes of this “California Consumer Privacy Act” section, we will refer to companies that are covered by the CCPA as “California Covered Companies”.
As a not-for-profit organization, CR is not covered by the CCPA, but we make the following disclosures consistent with our role as marketplace leader:</p>
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<li>We collect the following categories of personal information and disclose them for a business purpose:</li>
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Customer Records provision such as payment information
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histories
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We use and disclose this information for the business purposes
described in this policy, including to audit the CR Products,
detect security incidents and prevent fraud, debug and repair
errors, maintain your account, provide customer service,
process and fulfill orders, verify customer information, conduct
research, undertake activities to improve the CR Products,
market the CR Products, and understand how users interact with
the CR Products.
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Additionally, we sell the following categories of personal information with respect to our print members:
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purchased or obtained
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The CCPA also gives California residents certain rights in relation to the use and disclosure of their personal information by California Covered Companies.
These rights include the following:
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<li>Access: California residents have the right to request that California Covered Companies disclose to them, twice in a 12 month period, the personal information those companies have collected from them during the prior 12 months.
This may include:</li>
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<li>Deletion: California residents have the right to request that California Covered Companies delete personal information collected from them, subject to certain exceptions.</li>
<li>Opt-Out of Sale: California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information.</li>
<li>Freedom from Discrimination: California residents have the right to be free from discrimination for exercising their privacy rights.</li>
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<b>How to Submit a Request</b>
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<li>Submit an access request here, or call us at +1(800)333-0663 (Monday-Friday 8 AM - 8 PM and Saturday 9:30 AM - 6 PM)</li>
<li>Submit a deletion request here, or call us at +1(800)333-0663 (Monday-Friday 8 AM - 8 PM and Saturday 9:30 AM - 6 PM)</li>
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You may use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.
If you choose to do so, we may request confirmation from you directly as to the agent relationship.
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<b>California Shine the Light Law</b>
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<p>Under California law, residents of the State of California may request from us once per year and free of charge a list of all third parties to whom your personal information has been disclosed during the preceding year for those third parties' direct marketing purposes.
If you are a California resident and want such a list, please submit your request in writing in one of the following two ways:</p>
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Email us at: legaldept@consumer.org or write to us at:</p>
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Attn: Legal Department<br>
101 Truman Avenue<br>
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For all requests, you must put the statement "Your California Privacy Rights" in the subject line of your request and include your name, street address, city, state, and zip code.</p> Special Terms for Residents of the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom <p>The following section applies to persons in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland (“Data Subjects”):</p>
<p>Lawful Basis for Processing Personal Information <br>
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), entities like CR that act as data controllers – meaning those entities that determine the purpose and means of processing of personal information -- must have a lawful basis for processing that information.
In order to provide Data Subjects with CR Products and otherwise comply with our legal obligations, CR needs to collect and process certain types of personal information from Data Subjects.
The lawful bases that we rely upon to process the personal information held about Data Subjects are as follows:</p>
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<li>To carry out our obligations arising from our agreements with Data Subjects, such as membership, subscriptions and donations, and to take steps at Data Subjects’ request prior to entering into such agreements.</li>
<li>To send communications to Data Subjects about our activities and offerings to the extent we have Data Subject consent or when doing so is in our legitimate interests (and not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of Data Subjects).</li>
<li>To comply with our legal obligations.</li>
<li>For consumer policy and mobilization purposes carried out in CR’s legitimate interests and in compliance with your fundamental rights and freedoms.</li>
<li>For direct marketing purposes carried out in CR’s legitimate interests and in compliance with your fundamental rights and freedoms.</li>
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Personal Information Retention <br>
We shall retain your personal information for so long as is required for the purposes of the relevant agreement between you and CR (see our User Agreement) and/or in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements and tax and accounting rules.
We will endeavor not to keep personal information in a form that allows a Data Subject to be identified for any longer than is reasonably necessary for achieving the permitted purposes.
At the end of the applicable retention period, we may destroy, erase from our systems, or anonymize personal information as part of such efforts.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the personal data, the purposes for which we process the personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.<br>
<br> Storage and Transfer of Personal Information <br>
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect Data Subjects’ personal information, prevent unlawful or unauthorized processing of personal information, and prevent unauthorized disclosure of, or accidental loss of, or damage to, such information.</p>
<p>We may process personal information in, and transfer personal information to, countries that may not guarantee the same level of protection for personal information as the country in which Data Subjects reside, and which may not have received an adequacy decision from the European Commission.</p>
<p>Personal information will also be processed by staff who work for us and operate outside the European Economic Area.
This includes staff engaged in, among other things, the provision of administration and support services.
All such staff are subject to appropriate confidentiality and security obligations.</p>
<p>We restrict access to non-public personal information about Data Subjects to those of our employees and agents who need to know the information to enable us to provide services.</p>
<p>For more information about steps we take to protect your personal data, please click here.<br>
<br> Rights in relation to Personal Information <br>
Data Subjects have certain rights in relation to their personal information, including the right to be informed about the collection and use of their personal information, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.<br>
These include, where certain conditions are met:</p>
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<li>the right to request access to the personal information we hold about them</li>
<li>the right to have inaccurate information about them amended or updated</li>
<li>the right to object to processing of personal information about them</li>
<li>the right to withdraw consent at any time (where relevant)</li>
<li>the right to have personal information about them erased or to restrict processing in certain limited situations</li>
<li>the right to lodge complaints with applicable data supervisory authorities.</li>
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<p>Data Subjects should use the contact information below to get more information and/or to make a formal request.</p>
<p>We will endeavor to keep the personal information we store about Data Subjects reasonably accurate and up-to-date by enabling Data Subjects to correct it by request or by logging into My Account and correcting it directly.
Data Subjects should notify us if any of their personal information changes or if they become aware of any inaccuracies in the personal information we hold about them.</p>
<p> </p> How to Contact Us <p>If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you can reach us in any of the ways described in our Member Support portal.<br>
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If you feel that we have not followed our Privacy Policy, please let us know by emailing us at privacy@consumer.org and we will do our best to address your concerns.
You may also contact:<br>
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<li>The Direct Marketing Association's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at ethics@the-dma.org</li>
<li>Your state or local consumer protection office</li>
<li>The Better Business Bureau (BBB), or</li>
<li>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by phone at (202) 326-2222 or online at http://www.ftc.gov.</li>
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Any disputes regarding this Privacy Policy are subject to our User Agreement.
Changes to this Privacy Policy <p>We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time.
When we do, we will let you know by posting the changed Privacy Policy on this page with a new “Effective Date.” In some cases (for example, if we significantly expand our use or sharing of your personal information), we may also tell you about changes by additional means, such as by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address we have on file for you, by asking for your consent, or by other means consistent with applicable law.
In some cases, we may request your consent to the changes.
If you use the CR Products or other products and services after the new Effective Date, you are deemed to have consented to our updated privacy policy, provided that we will obtain your affirmative consent where legally required and otherwise subject to applicable law.</p> <p> </p>
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