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Please click on on the NPR Privacy Snapshot for an outline of our privateness practices, and proceed studying our Privateness Coverage beneath.

Privateness Coverage Scope

Welcome to the NPR Privateness Coverage. This Privateness Coverage describes the private data Nationwide Public Radio, Inc. and its affiliated organizations (collectively, “NPR,” “we” or “us”) gather or enable others to gather. This private data could also be collected from you and your pc or machine used to entry NPR.org or different websites, the NPR App or different functions, electronic mail newsletters, NPR’s podcast subscription companies, options equivalent to sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages, advantages supplied by NPR on behalf of the NPR Community (a collaboration between NPR and taking part Member stations), digital platforms, or different interactive companies supplied by NPR that hyperlink to or discuss with this Privateness Coverage (collectively the “NPR Providers” or “our Providers”).

This Privateness Coverage additionally explains how private data could also be used and shared and the alternatives you must restrict sure makes use of or sharing of that data.

This Privateness Coverage applies solely to the NPR Providers and doesn’t govern the separate web sites, functions, newsletters, platforms and companies of NPR Member stations or of any third events which will hyperlink to or be linked to from the NPR Providers.

If in case you have questions on this Privateness Coverage, please contact us.

Desk of Contents

Private Data Collected Via Our Providers

Data You Present

We and our service suppliers, which solely use your information on our behalf, could gather any data that you simply select to offer instantly via our Providers, once you interact with our Providers to:

• Register for an NPR account, NPR podcast subscription service or profit supplied by NPR on behalf of the NPR Community (such because the NPR+ bundle of sponsorship-free podcasts that NPR could present to sure donors to Member stations), software programming interface (API) content material entry, or any NPR electronic mail publication.
• Register for an NPR tour, occasion, journey program, or any contest we sponsor.
• Contact us with a message.
• Take part in a survey.
• Make a purchase order from the NPR Store.
• E mail, textual content or in any other case share a narrative from any of the NPR Providers.
• Put up, add, or in any other case undergo NPR a remark, story thought, essay, photograph, or different content material or user-generated materials (“Consumer Supplies”).
• Apply for a job, internship or fellowship at NPR.
• Categorical curiosity in donating to or donate to NPR or an NPR Member station.
• In any other case volunteer data to us or reply to a request for data via any of our Providers.

We additionally could ask you to offer different details about your self for numerous different functions that we specify or make obvious on the time of assortment.

Once you interact with our Providers, you might present the next kinds of private data:

• Contact particulars and profile and account data, equivalent to your title, electronic mail deal with, postal deal with, phone quantity, password, age, nation of residence, travel-related data, or your favourite Member stations.
• Fee data, equivalent to fee card particulars and billing data.
• Communications and content material preferences, together with once you contact us with questions, suggestions or in any other case in a message to NPR, in your engagement with our Providers, or in connection along with your registration for an NPR account, NPR podcast subscription service or profit supplied by NPR on behalf of the NPR Community, software programming interface (API) content material entry, or any NPR electronic mail publication.
• Advertising and marketing information, equivalent to your preferences for receiving our electronic mail newsletters and different communications, together with advertising and marketing, fundraising, membership and different messages, and particulars about your engagement with them.
• Job applicant information once you use the Careers part of the web site, equivalent to your employment historical past, and as in any other case described within the Job Candidates part beneath.
• Donation data. In case you select to donate to NPR or an NPR Member station via the NPR Providers, or specific curiosity in or request details about making donations, we could maintain a file of those contacts that features your title, contact data, details about advantages supplied by NPR on behalf of the NPR Community or an NPR Member station (such because the NPR+ bundle), and different details about your donation or inquiry. In case you select to donate to an NPR Member station, your data could also be collected by that Member station, topic to the Member station’s privateness coverage, and could also be shared with NPR to offer you advantages on behalf of the Member station or to offer you NPR Providers.
• Occasion information, equivalent to the data you present to an occasion venue or us once you register for an occasion or an NPR tour. This data could embody data collected to buy or receive a ticket or display screen guests for safety functions.
• Survey information, equivalent to the data you present once you take part in a survey. This may increasingly embody data equivalent to date of delivery, gender, details about your employment, schooling degree, revenue degree, geographic location, and demographic data equivalent to race and ethnic origin and sexual orientation. The place required beneath relevant legislation, we’ll solely course of demographic data along with your express consent.
• Contest information that you simply present to take part in a contest, equivalent to details about those that appeared in your submission or helped you put together it.
• Consumer Supplies that you simply submit, add, or in any other case undergo NPR.
• Different information not particularly listed right here, which we’ll use as described on this Privateness Coverage or as in any other case disclosed on the time of assortment.

Data Routinely Collected Via Know-how

We, our service suppliers, and our distributors routinely gather sure details about your pc or machine and your interactions with our Providers via entry logs, cookies, pixel tags and different monitoring applied sciences. Relying on which NPR Providers you employ and the way you entry them, the data collected routinely could embody:

• The Web Protocol deal with (IP deal with) of your pc or machine used to entry the NPR Providers or play podcasts or different media content material downloaded via our Providers.
• The area title of your Web Service Supplier.
• The web site, software, platform or service you visited earlier than and after visiting an NPR Service.
• Search phrases you enter utilizing the NPR Providers or on a referring web site.
• Your approximate geographic location data (derived out of your IP deal with) and/or extra exact details about the particular location of your machine when you have given NPR express consent to obtain this data for an NPR software in your cellular machine.
• The make, mannequin, provider and distinctive machine identifier in your cellular machine, the distinctive promoting identifier (for instance, Google Promoting ID) that enables cellular functions operating in your cellular machine to collect information for functions of serving focused promoting or personalised or “interest-based” sponsorship credit, and different details about your pc or cellular machine and its browser, working system, settings and software program. If in case you have an iOS cellular machine, we could gather the Apple IDFA (a novel promoting identifier) when you have given NPR consent to obtain this data for an NPR cellular software in your machine.
• Car make (for sure linked automotive platforms).
• The dates, occasions, length, frequency and different particulars of your interactions with our Providers.
• Your navigation path via the NPR Providers, together with any “favorites” you choose, and patterns within the paths you are taking.
• A listing of information you obtain, hearken to, view, electronic mail, textual content or in any other case share and different content material preferences.
• The period of time spent listening to or viewing media information or pages.
• Listening information collected each once you obtain and hearken to podcasts or different media information. Listening information consists of descriptions of the title, episodes, segments and sponsorship credit included in a podcast or different media file, time and date stamps for obtain and playback occasions (for instance, when a file is downloaded and when playback of a specific section or sponsorship credit score begins, stops, is skipped or is paused), the distinctive promoting identifier in your cellular machine (for instance, Google Promoting ID), session IDs and details about the machine or platform used to obtain or play a specific file. The producers of any independently produced podcasts we distribute can also gather the identical kinds of listening information topic to their very own privateness insurance policies, which can differ from ours.
• Details about your interactions with our electronic mail messages, equivalent to hyperlinks you click on on and whether or not you open or ahead a message, the date and time of those interactions, and details about the pc or machine you employ to learn emails.
• Any errors you encountered throughout your use of our Providers

We make use of third-party companies, equivalent to analytics, programmatic digital sponsorship platforms, cookie information assortment (together with cookie identifiers), and linking companies (collectively, “Analytics & Sponsorship Providers”). These Analytics & Sponsorship Providers could embody:

• Google Analytics 4, Google Common Analytics, Google Analytics Demographics and Curiosity Reporting, Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Advert Supervisor, and the companies of our different distributors. These Analytics & Sponsorship Providers could use cookies, pixel tags, hash values, and different monitoring and storage applied sciences to gather, obtain, or share data (this shared data doesn’t embody your unhashed title or electronic mail deal with you register with NPR) from our Providers and elsewhere on the Web and use that data to investigate and measure our viewers and goal and consider the effectiveness of sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages in our Providers.
• First-party cookies (such because the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such because the Remarketing with Google Analytics and DoubleClick cookies) that could be used collectively to tell, optimize, and serve sponsorship credit based mostly in your previous interactions with our Providers and different web sites or companies.
• In reference to an affiliate-marketing relationship with platforms equivalent to Apple or on-line retailers, third-party analytics companies working with us and such platforms or on-line retailers can also use cookies to uniquely establish the browsers of (i) customers who click on on advertising and marketing messages we show to advertise our podcasts out there via Apple Podcasts or iTunes after which later buy a podcast subscription via Apple, or (ii) customers who click on on hyperlinks to a web based retailer in NPR content material mentioning books, music, or different associated merchandise after which later buy that merchandise on the web retailer’s web site.
• Once you use our Providers and enter your electronic mail deal with on our Providers (both to log in, or to enroll in a publication, or take related actions), we could share with distributors, equivalent to LiveRamp, data that we gather from you, equivalent to a hash worth based mostly in your electronic mail deal with, IP deal with, or details about your browser or working system. These distributors, equivalent to LiveRamp, act as “joint controllers” (as relevant relying on the legislation the place you reside) in processing this data. Distributors, like LiveRamp, use this data to create a web based identification code that we could retailer in our first-party cookie for our use in on-line, in-app, and cross-channel sponsorship and advertising and marketing messages, and for the aim of recognizing your gadgets. This code doesn’t comprise any of your instantly identifiable private data and won’t be utilized by distributors, equivalent to LiveRamp, to find out your title or electronic mail deal with, or to in any other case instantly establish you. The identification code could also be shared with sponsorship distributors to allow “interest-based” and focused sponsorship and advertising and marketing messages.
• As well as, we could use analytics information, together with however not restricted to, geographic, demographic, and curiosity reporting data to acknowledge and perceive person preferences, make enhancements, and for different operational functions.

An Analytics & Sponsorship Service’s means to make use of and share data is roofed by that service’s phrases of use and privateness coverage. To study extra about how Google makes use of information, go to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Detailed data on LiveRamp’s information processing actions is obtainable in LiveRamp’s privateness coverage: https://liveramp.com/privacy/.

Additional details about our use of cookies, pixel tags and different monitoring applied sciences may be present in our Cookie Policy and within the “Privacy Rights and Choices” part beneath.

Data We Acquire From Different Sources

• Platform and public media single sign-on and sharing instruments. Our Providers enable customers to check in to their NPR accounts utilizing their credentials from platforms equivalent to Apple, Fb, and Google or from public media organizations equivalent to our Member stations or PBS (every an “SSO Supplier”). In case you check in to our Providers via an SSO Supplier, we’ll obtain your electronic mail deal with and sure profile data from such SSO Supplier in accordance with its privateness coverage and your SSO Supplier account privateness settings. Any data that we gather out of your SSO Supplier account could rely upon the privateness settings you will have chosen with that SSO Supplier, so please seek the advice of the relevant SSO Supplier’s privateness and information insurance policies to discover ways to handle these settings. In case you use instruments on our Providers that assist you to share tales or different content material with your mates and followers on an SSO Supplier’s platform equivalent to Fb, Flipboard, or Google, that motion and any data you share could also be utilized by the SSO Supplier in line with its personal privateness coverage.
• Member stations. We could receive private data from our Member stations to offer companies on their behalf in accordance with their privateness insurance policies or to offer our Providers to you as in any other case described on this Privateness Coverage.
• Different third events. We could receive private data from different third events, equivalent to sponsorship and advertising and marketing distributors, occasion venues, publicly-available sources and information suppliers.

How We Use the Private Data We Gather

We and repair suppliers and distributors gather and use private data to offer you a custom-made interactive expertise and to make our Providers extra invaluable to you. We additionally could use this data for fundraising functions to assist our Member stations and public media mission.

NPR and repair suppliers and distributors additionally could use the data collected via our Providers:

To carry out contractual obligations beneath our Terms of Use, together with:

• To handle, administer and ship the NPR Providers.
• To publish, broadcast, attribute and in any other case use and license any Consumer Supplies you submit in line with our Terms of Use.
• To satisfy your NPR Store orders and different requests.
• To give you entry to NPR excursions, occasions, and journey applications.
• To handle contests you enter.

It’s in our legit enterprise pursuits to make use of private data:

• To answer your questions or messages.
• To offer you personalised options and content material, together with content material from NPR Member stations which might be related along with your account or situated close to you and different content material that could be of curiosity to you. For instance, we could observe your selections with respect to listening information, web sites visited, Member station chosen, and search phrases with the intention to derive your pursuits and preferences.
• To avoid wasting and “bear in mind” your registration data, settings and preferences so that you shouldn’t have to re-enter this data every time you go to.
• To know whether or not and once you learn our electronic mail messages and click on on hyperlinks in these messages.
• To enhance the NPR Providers.
• To course of functions for jobs, internships and fellowships at NPR.
• To course of functions for volunteers for our NPR Ambassador program.
• To contact you for a web based or telephone survey and course of your responses, or for different editorial functions (or along with your consent the place required).
• To generate combination or different data that’s not fairly linkable to you or your gadgets used to entry our Providers, and use and share that data for NPR’s functions. For instance, we could share or authorize the gathering of such data by service suppliers or distributors that assist us analyze and enhance our Providers, present us and different digital media organizations with rankings and rating information, or assist us to create personalised content material.

We, our service suppliers, and our third-party sponsorship or advertising and marketing distributors could gather and use private data for the next advertising and marketing, sponsorship, analytics, and operational functions, on the premise of our legit enterprise pursuits or consent the place required by legislation:

• To offer personalised, “interest-based” or “cross-contextual” digital sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages.
• To acknowledge you as the identical person once you entry our Providers, content material, advertising and marketing messages and sponsorship credit utilizing totally different computer systems, gadgets and browsers, and to ship our Providers, content material, advertising and marketing messages and sponsorship credit to you on totally different computer systems, gadgets and browsers.
• To ship you NPR electronic mail newsletters and different communications, together with advertising and marketing, fundraising, membership and different messages from NPR or our Member stations.
• To manage the sequence and frequency of sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages you hear and see, management the platform on which you hear and see sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages, and tailor the content material of these messages to your perceived pursuits.
• To conduct market or viewers evaluation and associated reporting, together with attribution, conversion, and different evaluation to guage the efficiency of sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages.
• To assist us measure and analyze person site visitors and utilization patterns and enhance the standard and effectiveness of content material, options, sponsorship credit, advertising and marketing messages and different communications.

The place we search your consent, you might withdraw your consent at any time.

We use private data for compliance and safety functions in our legit enterprise pursuits, together with:

• To stop probably prohibited or unlawful actions, adjust to relevant legal guidelines, lawful requests and authorized course of, equivalent to to answer subpoenas or requests from authorities authorities.
• To implement our Terms of Use or different authorized rights.
• To guard our, your or others’ rights, privateness, security or property (together with by making and defending authorized claims).
• To audit our inner processes for compliance with authorized and contractual necessities and inner insurance policies.

How We Disclose Private Data

NPR is dedicated to sustaining your belief. We wish you to grasp when and with whom we and repair suppliers and distributors could share private details about you that’s collected via our Providers.

The general public or different people

Any Consumer Supplies you submit via our Contact Us web page, social media companies or related options may be seen, collected and utilized by us and anybody else who has entry to the relevant service. Any Consumer Supplies you submit can also be freely used and shared by NPR and its Member stations and their respective licensees in accordance with our Terms of Use. You might also select to share tales or different content material with your mates and followers on social media companies. As well as, we could share your data with different people at your route. For instance, in the event you use our Providers to electronic mail or textual content a narrative to a buddy, we might disclose your title to that buddy along with the content material you directed us to ship.

Member stations

NPR could share your title, electronic mail deal with, different contact data, and details about your subscriptions, advantages (such because the NPR+ bundle), listening and utilization exercise, donations and pursuits with the Member stations which might be related along with your account, which might be native to you, or that you’ve donated to utilizing the NPR Providers. Once we accomplish that, we require these Member stations to decide to the identical insurance policies relating to additional sharing with third events that we observe beneath this Privateness Coverage. Member stations could use this data for inner functions and to ship you electronic mail newsletters and advertising and marketing, fundraising, membership and different communications. If you don’t want us to share your data with Member stations, you’ll be able to contact us to decide out as set out within the Privacy Rights and Choices part beneath.

Licensed service suppliers

We could share any data we gather with service suppliers who present us with specialised companies or in any other case assist us function our Providers together with, with out limitation, service suppliers that present buyer assist, electronic mail deployment, account sign-in companies, subscription companies, fee processing, order success, analytics, advertising and marketing, sponsorship, suppression checklist administration, journey program, contest administration and information processing companies.

Sponsorship and advertising and marketing distributors

Topic to relevant legislation and your opt-out selections described beneath and in our Cookie Policy, and as we deem acceptable, we could share with sponsorship and advertising and marketing distributors, together with those that present digital sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages for us, or enable them to instantly gather details about your gadgets and your use of our Providers. We won’t share your title or contact data in unhashed type with these distributors. These distributors could use such data pursuant to their very own respective privateness insurance policies, which we don’t management.

• For instance, we could share or authorize the gathering of such data by distributors that assist us analyze and enhance our Providers (together with sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages in our Providers), or to tailor sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages to your perceived pursuits. So as to present sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages tailor-made to your perceived pursuits, distributors could use and additional share data with different third events equivalent to supply-side platforms or companies (working with us) and demand-side platforms or companies (working with us and sponsors) with the intention to allow “interest-based” sponsorship.
• As described above, we may fit with third-party analytics companies to set monitoring cookies or pixels on browsers of customers who click on on advertising and marketing messages for podcast subscriptions bought via Apple Podcasts or iTunes, or customers who click on on hyperlinks to a web based retailer in content material mentioning books, music, or different associated merchandise after which later buy that merchandise on the web retailer’s web site. We do that to measure the efficiency of those advertising and marketing messages and to facilitate the calculation of commissions we could obtain when an individual subscribes to certainly one of our podcasts out there via Apple Podcasts or iTunes, or when an individual purchases the talked about merchandise on the web retailer’s web site.
• For instance, as described above, once you enter your electronic mail deal with on our Providers (both to log in, or to enroll in a publication, or take related actions), we could share with distributors, equivalent to LiveRamp, data that we gather from you, equivalent to a hash worth based mostly in your electronic mail deal with, IP deal with, or details about your browser or working system. Distributors, like LiveRamp, use this data – which doesn’t comprise your instantly identifiable private data and which these distributors won’t use to find out your title or electronic mail deal with, or to in any other case instantly establish you – to create a web based identification code that we could retailer in our first-party cookie for our use in on-line, in-app, and cross-channel sponsorship and advertising and marketing messages, and for the aim of recognizing your gadgets. The identification code could also be shared with sponsorship distributors to allow “interest-based” and focused sponsorship and advertising and marketing messages.

Fee processors

In case you want to make a fee or obtain a refund via our Providers, your data might be collected and managed by the fee processor and never by us and might be topic to that fee service supplier’s privateness coverage and practices.

Skilled advisors

We could share with skilled advisors, equivalent to legal professionals, auditors, bankers and insurers, the place vital, in the middle of the skilled companies that they render to us.

Licensed third-party functions

We could share with licensed third-party functions data that you simply present instantly via our Providers and knowledge collected routinely via expertise for the aim of offering sure NPR Providers to you on the functions. In such circumstances, the data that we share could embody your title, favourite Member stations, and listening and utilization exercise. NPR prohibits the third-party builders of these functions from accessing, storing or sharing any such data. Nevertheless, please remember that your use of the third-party software is in any other case topic to the third-party software’s privateness coverage, which we don’t management and which can differ considerably from ours. NPR shouldn’t be chargeable for the privateness practices of any third-party software, and we suggest that you become familiar with the privateness insurance policies of any third-party websites, functions, platforms, and companies that you simply go to or entry.

Enterprise transfers

We could share any collected data in reference to a considerable company transaction, such because the sale of an NPR Service or division, a merger, a consolidation, an asset sale, or within the unlikely occasion of chapter.

Authorized necessities

We and repair suppliers and distributors could disclose any collected data to answer subpoenas, court docket orders, authorized course of, and different legislation enforcement measures, and to adjust to authorized or regulatory obligations.

Defend our Providers and customers

We and repair suppliers and distributors could disclose any collected data to implement our Terms of Use and to guard and defend the authorized rights, pursuits, and security of NPR, NPR Member stations, their respective workers, brokers, contractors, sponsors, listeners and customers, members of most people, or others.

Wi-fi carriers and vehicle producers

Wi-fi carriers and vehicle producers additionally could gather contact and different data and exact location information from our cellular companies customers via processes we don’t management. You need to verify the privateness insurance policies of your wi-fi carriers and vehicle producers for added data.

Podcast producers

We could share with third-party producers listening, utilization and different information that doesn’t establish you that we gather via your interplay with the podcasts and different media information produced by these third-party producers.

Bitly

NPR makes use of a service known as Bitly to create shortened uniform useful resource locators (URLs – the addresses of particular person net pages) for our content material in order that it may be shared simply, significantly via social media. Bitly collects data as our shortened URLs are shared and clicked on, together with IP addresses, common location data, the time and day every shortened URL is accessed, and the social media or different channels via which our content material is shared. If in case you have established a separate account with Bitly, Bitly could affiliate the foregoing data with private data it has saved in your Bitly account in accordance with Bitly’s personal privacy policy. To share our content material with out utilizing Bitly, copy the total URL of the story you need to share out of your browser and paste it into your electronic mail, textual content or social media message.

Aggregated and nameless data

Topic to relevant legislation and your opt-out selections described beneath, and as we deem acceptable, we could share with third events or enable them to gather instantly aggregated or different data that’s not fairly linkable to you or your gadgets. These third events could use such data pursuant to their very own respective privateness insurance policies, which we don’t management. For instance, we could share or authorize the gathering of such data by service suppliers or distributors that assist us analyze and enhance our Providers, present us and different digital media organizations with rankings and rating information, or assist us to create personalised content material. We can also share or authorize the gathering of such data by sponsors or their companies to assist them measure the impression of their sponsorship campaigns.

Privateness Rights and Selections

You may have the next selections to replace, right and restrict the gathering and use of knowledge gathered via our Providers.

Cookie Settings & Decide Out

• Handle cookie settings and decide out of interest-based sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages on NPR.org. You possibly can handle your cookie settings, together with accepting or rejecting cookies, by clicking the “Cookie Settings & Decide Out” button above. Clicking on that button, and following the directions, can even assist you to decide out of the sharing of your data with our sponsorship distributors for supply of “interest-based” sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages on NPR.org. In case you decide out, these distributors could proceed to serve you non-personalized, non-interest-based sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages on NPR.org. Be aware that this decide out is a cookie-based course of and can solely have an effect on the particular pc, machine, and browser on which your opt-out alternative is utilized. In case you subsequently delete your browser cookies or in case your browser cookies expire, you will want to decide out once more. For extra data relating to the cookies and related applied sciences used within the NPR Providers and the best way to decide out of interest-based sponsorship and advertising and marketing messages, learn our Cookie Policy.

• Blocking promoting ID use in your cellular settings. Your cellular machine settings can present performance to restrict use of the promoting ID related along with your cellular machine for interest-based sponsorship functions.

  For iOS cellular gadgets, go to “Settings” out of your machine’s residence display screen, scroll down to search out and choose “Privateness,” after which choose “Monitoring” to regulate monitoring permission. For Android cellular gadgets, go to “Google Settings” in your machine, choose “Advertisements”; and click on the choice labeled “Delete promoting ID.” (Please be aware these settings assist you to decide out of interest-based messages for all functions, not simply NPR’s cellular functions. These machine settings choices could change sooner or later or in any other case could differ for sure gadgets; seek the advice of your machine producer’s assist literature for essentially the most present data.) As famous above, in the event you decide out, you should still obtain the identical variety of sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages as earlier than however they might not be as related to your pursuits. As a result of these decide out mechanisms are particular to the machine on which they’re exercised, you will want to decide out on each machine that you simply use. For extra data relating to the cookies and related applied sciences used within the NPR Providers and the best way to decide out of “interest-based” sponsorship and advertising and marketing messages, learn our Cookie Policy.

• Replace or delete registration data. Register to your NPR account or contact us to delete, right, or replace any registration data you supplied to us or to cancel your NPR account or different NPR registrations. You possibly can click on here to discover ways to cancel your podcast subscription Providers or NPR+ bundle.
• Decide out of sharing donation data. You possibly can decide out of sharing your donation data on the time you make a donation or you’ll be able to contact us at any time in case you are a donor to NPR and don’t need us to share your title, contact data or different data with any Member station or the NPR Community, or if you wish to restrict NPR’s use of your data collected on behalf of Member stations. Nevertheless, in the event you select to donate to an NPR Member station via our Providers, your data could also be collected by NPR and/or by that Member station. In case your data is collected by that Member station, the gathering of your data is topic to that Member station’s privateness coverage.
• Decide out of sharing data with Member stations. You possibly can contact us any time if you don’t want us to share your title, electronic mail deal with, different contact data, and details about your subscriptions, advantages (such because the NPR+ bundle), listening and utilization exercise, donations (described above) and pursuits, with Member stations or the NPR Community. If you wish to restrict NPR’s use of your data collected on behalf of Member stations, you’ll be able to contact us any time as effectively.
• Decide out of sharing for publication “interest-based” sponsorship. To decide out of the sharing of your data with our publication sponsorship vendor for supply of “interest-based” sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages via our electronic mail newsletters, please contact us or electronic mail us at privacy@npr.org.
• Decide out of selling communications. You possibly can cease the supply of selling, fundraising, membership and different emails or electronic mail newsletters from NPR by following the unsubscribe directions in any such electronic mail you obtain or by contacting us. Chances are you’ll proceed to obtain Providers-related and different non-marketing emails.
• Decide out of sharing exact location data. In case you consent to our assortment of your exact machine location via an NPR cellular software, you’ll be able to withdraw your consent at any time and forestall the additional assortment of your exact location by accessing the privateness settings of your cellular machine and/or the settings of the NPR cellular software.

We additionally give you selections that have an effect on how we deal with the private data that we management. Relying on the relevant legislation in your jurisdiction and the character of your interactions with our Providers, you might request the next in relation to non-public data:

• Data about how we’ve collected and used private data. We now have made this data out there to you with out having to request it by together with it on this Privateness Coverage.
• Entry to a duplicate of the private data that we’ve collected about you. The place relevant, we’ll present the data in a transportable, machine-readable, readily usable format.
• Correction of private data that, beneath relevant legislation, is inaccurate or old-fashioned.
• Deletion of private data that we now not want to offer the Providers or for different lawful functions.
• Decide out of the sharing of your private data. We share private data with sponsorship and advertising and marketing distributors that show or serve focused sponsorship and advertising and marketing messages to customers across the net and different on-line companies. You possibly can restrict on-line monitoring by clicking on the “Cookie Settings & Decide Out” button above, as described in our Cookie Policy, or by clicking “Your Privateness Selections” within the footer of our web site. To decide out of the sharing of hash values based mostly in your electronic mail deal with with our sponsorship distributors, equivalent to LiveRamp, for supply of “interest-based” sponsorship credit and advertising and marketing messages, please additionally contact us or electronic mail us at privacy@npr.org.
• Further rights, equivalent to to object to and request that we limit our use of private data.

To make a request, please electronic mail us or write to us as supplied within the How to Contact Us part beneath. We could ask for particular data from you to assist us verify your id. To your safety, we could solely act on requests with respect to the registration information related to the actual electronic mail deal with that you simply use to ship us your request, and we could ask you to confirm your id earlier than implementing your request. We are going to attempt to comply along with your request as quickly as fairly practicable, or comply as required by legislation. We could have to retain sure data for recordkeeping functions and/or to finish any transactions that you simply started previous to requesting an replace or cancellation. Relying on the place you reside, you might be entitled to empower an “licensed agent” to submit requests in your behalf. We would require licensed brokers to substantiate their id and authority, in accordance with relevant legal guidelines. You’re entitled to train the rights described above free from discrimination.

In some situations, your selections could also be restricted, equivalent to the place fulfilling your request would impair the rights of others, our means to offer a service you will have requested, our means to adjust to our authorized obligations and implement our authorized rights, or could intervene with our rights to free speech and free press or to have interaction in different protected journalism actions. If you’re not glad with how we deal with your request, you might submit a criticism by contacting us as supplied within the How to Contact Us part beneath. Relying on the place you reside, equivalent to in the event you reside within the European Financial Space or United Kingdom, you will have the suitable to complain to a knowledge safety regulator the place you reside or work, or the place you are feeling a violation has occurred.

Safety

We make use of administrative, technical, and bodily safeguards in an effort to safe the data we gather. These safeguards differ based mostly on the sensitivity of the data. As a result of no safety system is impenetrable, nevertheless, we can not assure the safety of our databases or that data you provide won’t ever be intercepted, accessed, or disclosed in a fashion that’s inconsistent with this Privateness Coverage. As a result of most electronic mail and cellular transmissions are usually not encrypted, it is best to take particular care in deciding what data you ship to us by way of electronic mail, textual content message, or different cellular transmissions.

Youngsters‘s Privateness

NPR cares about defending the privateness of youngsters. Our Providers are usually not meant to be used by kids beneath 18 years of age. If we study that we’ve collected private data via the Providers from a baby beneath 18 with out the consent of the kid’s dad or mum or guardian as required by legislation, we’ll delete it.

Retention of Private Data

The place required beneath relevant legal guidelines, we retain private data for so long as is critical to carry out the processing described on this Privateness Coverage, in accordance with our retention insurance policies, and with relevant legal guidelines and regulatory obligations or till you withdraw your consent (the place relevant).

To find out the suitable retention interval for private data, we think about the quantity, nature, and sensitivity of the private data, the potential threat of hurt from unauthorized use or disclosure of private data, the needs for which we use private data and whether or not we will obtain these functions via different means, and the relevant authorized and regulatory necessities.

Hyperlinks to and from Different Websites and Providers

Our Providers comprise hyperlinks to different websites, functions, platforms and companies operated by third events whose privateness insurance policies we do not management and should differ considerably from ours. As an illustration, clicking or tapping on a sponsorship credit score or some third-party logos on the NPR Providers will take you to a completely totally different web site or service which will gather, use and share data in ways in which NPR wouldn’t. You additionally could entry NPR content material and the NPR Providers from a third-party web site or service which will gather, use and share data in ways in which NPR wouldn’t. NPR shouldn’t be chargeable for the content material or privateness practices of those third-party companies and we suggest that you become familiar with the privateness insurance policies of any such websites or companies you go to or entry.

Job Candidates

Once you go to the Careers portion of the web site, we gather the data that you simply present to us in connection along with your software for a job, internship, or fellowship at NPR. This consists of however shouldn’t be restricted to enterprise and private contact data, skilled credentials and expertise, instructional and work historical past and different data of the sort that could be included in a resume. This may increasingly additionally embody demographic data that you simply voluntarily present. We use this data on the premise of our legit enterprise pursuits to facilitate our recruitment actions and course of employment functions, equivalent to by evaluating a job candidate for an employment exercise, to watch recruitment statistics and to answer surveys. We can also use this data to offer improved administration of the Providers and as in any other case vital (i) to adjust to related legal guidelines equivalent to authorities reporting or to answer subpoenas or warrants served on us, (ii) to guard and defend our or others’ rights or property, (iii) in reference to a authorized investigation, and (iv) to analyze or help in stopping any violation or potential violation of the legislation, this Privateness Coverage or our Terms of Use.

Modifications to This Privateness Coverage

NPR reserves the suitable to alter this Privateness Coverage at any time. Any adjustments might be posted to this web page, so please verify again periodically. Your use of our Providers constitutes consent to the Privateness Coverage then in impact. Please learn our Terms of Use to grasp further phrases and circumstances that apply to your use of our Providers.

Worldwide Information Transfers

Our Providers are managed and operated inside the USA. Any data we gather could also be transferred to, and processed, saved, and accessed by, us, our service suppliers, and distributors in the USA and in different jurisdictions the place we, our service suppliers, or distributors function. These jurisdictions could have information privateness legal guidelines that might not be as protecting as these of your house jurisdiction, and courts and different authorities could, in sure circumstances, be entitled to entry details about you topic to such information privateness legal guidelines.

Once we interact in cross-border information transfers, we’ll make sure that related safeguards are in place to afford enough safety for private data and we’ll adjust to relevant information safety legal guidelines, specifically by counting on an EU Fee or UK authorities adequacy resolution or on contractual protections for the switch of private data. For extra details about how we switch private data internationally, please contact us as set out within the How to Contact Us part beneath.

The way to Contact Us

Accountable entity. Nationwide Public Radio, Inc. is the entity chargeable for the processing of private data beneath this Privateness Coverage (as a controller, the place supplied beneath relevant legislation).

Contact us. If in case you have any questions or feedback about this Privateness Coverage, our privateness practices, or if you need to train your rights with respect to your private data, please contact us, electronic mail us at privacy@npr.org, or write to us at:

Nationwide Public Radio, Inc.
Attn: Information Safety Officer
1111 North Capitol Road, NE
Washington, DC 20002, USA

Privateness Snapshot

Here’s a high-level snapshot of our privateness practices, however please learn the whole Privateness Coverage for full data.