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Effective Date: May 16, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes the information Ebony Media Group, LLC. (“EMG”, “Ebony Media Group”, “we”, “our” or “us”) may collect when you visit the website found at https://www.ebony.com/ (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy only covers information collected at the Site and does not cover any information collected at any other website or offline by EMG (unless specifically stated). This Privacy Policy explains EMG’s information collection practices at the Site, such as the types of information EMG collects regarding visitors to the Site and how we may use that information. EMG IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OR PRIVACY PRACTICES OF ANY THIRD PARTY WEBSITE TO WHICH THIS SITE LINKS. Please review this Privacy Policy carefully and the Site’s Terms of Use, which govern your use of the Site. If you do not agree, please do not access or use the Site.

 
Site Functionality and Registration.
Ebony.com is a website that offers a variety of functionality to enthusiasts of Ebony® magazine and other publications created and distributed by EMG. From time to time, the Site may offer information, and/or services through functionality such as a video forums, social networks, advertisements, and co-branded events. In addition, the Site may offer the ability to keep you informed about events featured such as through advertisements, co-branded calls to action, sweepstakes, contests or other promotions (“Promotions”) that may be offered. In order to participate in certain features of the Site, including Promotions, you may register and become a member by developing a profile (“Profile Member”). If you do not wish to register and become a Profile Member, you will not be able to participate in certain features of the Site. EMG reserves the right, in its discretion, to deny access to anybody from becoming a Profile Member and/or participating in any features on or administered through the Site.


What Information Do You Provide Us and How Do We Use It?
The Site may ask you to provide personally identifiable information, which is information that could be used to contact you or identify you personally, such as your name, address, phone number or e-mail address (“Personal Information”) and other information about you, such as demographic information (your gender, zip code or similar information) or certain information about your hobbies, preferences and interests. The Site may collect Personal Information and other information about you at various places and forms on the Site, including registration forms or when you otherwise communicate or interact with us. If we combine demographic information or other information with the Personal Information that we collect from you, we will treat it as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy. Examples of information we may collect include:

  • Information you provide when you contact us or make a query through the Site, such as your name, phone number, and email address;
  • Information you provide when you register for an account through the Site and/or enter a Promotion, including your name, email address, and Site username and password;
  • Information about your communication preferences and preferred email topics;
  • Information we obtain from a third party, such as a third party site, vendor, service provider, analytics partner, marketing or remarketing partner, or other platform provider; and
  • Activity and device information about your use of and interaction with the Site or with communications from our Site, including IP address, geolocation, device data, browser type, operating system, pages visited, links clicked, duration of visit, and how you entered our Site (for example by search, email, advertisement, social media, direct or referral).


EMG may use the information we gather for five (5) general purposes: (1) to process your Registration with the Site, including verifying your e-mail address or mobile phone number is active and valid; (2) to enable you to participate in a variety of online features such as e-newsletters or Promotions; (3) to perform operational activities and to generally enhance the user experience; (4) to enforce applicable Site policies, meet legal obligations in connection with our and/or third party rights; and (5) for other reasons disclosed to you at the time you provide information or as otherwise specifically set forth herein.

This Site may make blogs, message boards and other public forums available to its users. If you post Personal Information online, it will be publicly available and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. We cannot ensure the security of any information you choose to make public. We also cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose Personal Information in these areas.

Also, remember that if you submit comments, ratings, blog entries, text, photographs, videos, music or other user-generated content to the Site (“User Content”), it may be published online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed). Others may have access to User Content and may have the ability to share it with third parties across the Internet. EMG may also publish your name, voice, likeness and other Personal Information with the User Content (or a portion thereof), and EMG may use the User Content, (or a portion thereof) for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional activities. For full terms and conditions regarding User Content you submit to the Site, please review the Site’s Terms of Use.


Cookie and Related Technologies.
EMG may use the following technologies to collect data as you visit the Site.  To learn more about EMG’s use of cookies and your choices, please see the EMG Cookie Policy A cookie stores a small data file on your computer. This file enables us to recognize you each time you visit us. Cookies help us in many ways, for example, by saving your region and language preference and for purposes of collecting non-personal data.

(i) “Cookies” are small pieces of data that a website, when visited by a user, asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information.  Cookies set by EMG are called first party cookies.  Third party cookies are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting.  Cookies can be either persistent or temporary.  A persistent cookie retains user preferences for a particular website, allowing those preferences to be used in future sessions and remains valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date).  Temporary cookies expire at the end of a user session when the browser is closed.
Most internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies.  Cookies are classified in the following categories: Necessary Cookies, Performance Cookies, Functional Cookies, and Targeting Cookies.  You cannot opt-out of Necessary Cookies, but you can opt out of the other cookie categories by clicking on the “cookie settings” button in your browser, in this policy, or in the applicable website cookie notice.  If you decline the use of cookies or set your browser to refuse cookies, then you may not be able to access or use portions of this Site.

(ii) “Web beacons” and “pixels” are small bits of code embedded in web pages or emails that assist in delivering cookies and measuring statistics.  Web beacons and pixels help EMG determine whether a page on this Site has been viewed and, if so, how many times.  EMG may also use web beacons and pixels in email messages to determine what the recipient has done with the message.  Although you cannot decline to receive web beacons and pixels when visiting a web page, you can choose not to receive them by email if you disable HTML images or refuse HTML email messages.

(iii) Google Analytics and Google Advertising Analytics.  The Site uses Google Analytics.  Google Analytics assists EMG with collecting and monitoring data about Site traffic and usage.  Google Analytics collects visitation information and identifiers via browser cookies.  We use Google Analytics for search term optimization, content analysis, website development, and improving the online shopping experience for Site visitors.  You can learn how Google collects and processes data by visiting the following website: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.  If you would like to opt-out of the collection of data by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. 

This Site also uses Google Advertising Analytics Features, which include tracking of advertisements on the Google search engine and on other sites which display custom Google-hosted advertisements, and provide aggregated demographic and interest reporting.  Google Advertising features include Google Demographics and Interest Reporting, Google Display and Search Remarketing, and Google Display Impression Reporting.  Google Analytics Remarketing uses cookies to track users who visit the Site and display ads when users are on other websites or using other devices.

If you would like to opt-out of the Google Advertising Features, you can adjust your Ad Settings and Ad Settings for mobile apps.  For information on how to adjust your Ad Settings, visit the following website: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/2662856?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en.  For information about how to opt out of Google Marketing Platform’s use of cookies, visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.  For more information about targeting and advertising cookies and how to opt out of those, visit optout.aboutads.info.  For more information about Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs, visit the following website: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.  For more information about how Google uses, stores, and discloses your personal information, visit Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

(iv) Other Third Party Analytics.  EMG also engages or may engage Facebook, Bing, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, and other third party service providers and search engines to assist with search term optimization, collecting and monitoring data about traffic to the Site, and to display ads to users when users are on other websites.  These third parties use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect or receive information from EMG, the Site, or elsewhere on the internet, as discussed in this policy, and will use that information to provide measurement services and targeted advertisements.  You have the ability to opt-out of the collection or use of your data for remarketing, retargeting, online behavioral advertising, and interest-based advertising.  You may do so by visiting the following websites: www.networkadvertising.org/choices, www.aboutads.info/choices, or http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

How and When Ebony Media Group Discloses Information to Third Parties.
EMG may share non-personally identifiable information with third parties such as co-branding partners, promotion sponsors, media partners, and wireless service provider partners. EMG may share your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes with your consent. If you elect to receive communications from a third party, your information will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy and not this privacy policy. Therefore, if you later decide that you do not want that third party to use your information, you will need to contact the third party directly.

We may also share the information we have collected about you, including Personal Information, as disclosed at the time you provide your information and as described below or otherwise in this Privacy Policy:

(i) Third Parties Providing Services on our Behalf. We may use third party vendors to perform certain services on behalf of the Site, such as, without limitation, hosting the Site, designing and/or operating the Site’s features (including administering Promotions), order fulfillment, delivery of EMG’s products, services, promotional materials, product offers, clearing and processing credit and debit card payments, enabling EMG to send you e-mail or performing other administrative services on our behalf. We may provide these companies with access to user information, including Personal Information, if necessary to carry out the services they are performing for you or for EMG.
(ii) Administrative and Legal Reasons. We may also transfer and disclose user information, including Personal Information, to third parties: (i) in the event we are required to respond to subpoenas or other legal process or if in our good faith opinion such disclosure is required by law; (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; or (iii) to protect and/or defend the Site’s Terms of Use or other policies applicable to the Site or to protect the personal safety, rights, property or security of any individual. We may also use IP address or other Device Identifiers to identify users, and may do so, and disclose your information, in cooperation with copyright owners, Internet service providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies in our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.
(iii) Business Transfers. EMG may share Personal Information with its subsidiaries and affiliates for marketing purposes and other internal business reasons. EMG also reserves the right to disclose and transfer all information related to the Site, including Personal Information: (i) to a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of the Site or other EMG assets or applicable database; or (ii) in connection with a merger, consolidation, restructuring or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process.
(iv) Promotions. When you sign-up for a Promotion offered on the Site, we may disclose your Personal Information to third parties or the public in connection with the administration of such Promotion, including, without limitation, in connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment, and as required by law or permitted by the Promotion’s official rules, such as on a winners’ list. When you enter a Promotion, you must agree to the official rules that govern that Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, without limitation, except where prohibited by law, allowing the sponsor(s) of the Promotion to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with the Promotion.
(v) Purchases. The “Purchase” function allows you to purchase certain products and services such as licenses to EMG magazines. The Site is designed to give you options concerning the privacy of your Personal Information. If you choose, you can be a Profile Member where you can set up an account and provide your name, phone number and email address. This will allow you to have a customized order page for express ordering and to view your purchasing history. To protect your privacy, we have designed the Profile Membership account process to include certain steps to verify your identity before granting you access or enabling you to make changes to your account. After logging into your account, you will have access to your account information and the ability to view, update or change it at any time. To access your information, you will need to use a password. When purchasing products from the Site, the order form may also ask you to provide a mobile telephone number. A mobile telephone number is requested so we can quickly send content that you might wish to access from your mobile device. You may opt-out of SMS messaging at any time.
(vi) Third Party Ad Server Networks. The Site may use third parties such as network advertisers to serve advertisements on the Site and may use traffic measurement services to analyze traffic on the Site. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to the Site and other websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. The Site’s third party ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies or other technology on your computer. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if you choose to have cookies enabled in your browser such parties may track certain behavioral information regarding users of your computer via a Device Identifier. These third party cookies and other technology are set to, among other things: (a) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third party cookies, web beacons and other third party technology are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one. While we may use a variety of companies to serve advertisements on the Site, you may wish to visit https://thenai.org/opt-out/browser-opt-out/ and http://digitaladvertisingalliance.org/principles, which provide information regarding these practices by Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) and Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) members, and your choices regarding having this information used by companies, including the “opt-out” procedures. This Privacy Policy does not cover the methods for collecting information used by these third party advertisers or the use of the information that such advertisers collect. We make no representations regarding the policies or business practices of such advertisers.

Retention and Sale of Personal Information.
Typically, we retain your Personal Information only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy (or in the case of data provided to us by other companies for data processing, as long as is needed to complete the service), unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Please note that in many situations we must retain all, or a portion, of your personal information to comply with our legal obligations; resolve disputes; enforce our agreements; protect against fraudulent, deceptive, or illegal activity; or for another one of our business purposes. As part of our routine record keeping practices, we may delete certain records that contain Personal Information you have submitted through the Site. We have no obligation to store such Personal Information and disclaim any liability arising out of, or related to, the destruction of such Personal Information. We do not sell or share your Personal Information for monetary consideration.

Links to Third Party Web Sites.
The Site may link to or contain links to third party web sites (“Third Party Sites”) that we do not control or maintain. For example, you may encounter links from sponsors or partners, which may include EMG’s logo or other identifying marks as part of a co-branding arrangement. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any Third Party Sites. We encourage you to note when you leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of all Third Party Sites before submitting any Personal Information.

Data Security.
While we have taken reasonable steps to protect the Personal Information we collect from you on the Site, you should keep in mind that no Internet, wireless or mobile phone transmission is ever completely secure. In particular, unencrypted e-mail and web traffic are subject to potential interception by unauthorized third parties. Likewise, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you disclose to us, or that which we process or store. Accordingly, you disclose your Personal Information at your own risk. Please consider this when you choose the information, if any, you wish to transmit to the Site.

Your Choices/Unsubscribe.
You have some choices about how Personal Information you provide to us or that we collect is used.
(i) Tracking Technologies. You may set your browser to refuse some or all browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how to manage or delete cookies on your browser, visit the browser developer’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that parts of the Website may not be accessible or may not function properly.
(ii) Updating Information. To request access to correct or delete certain Personal Information that you have provided to us, please contact [email protected]. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
(iii) Do Not Track. The Website does not respond to web browser Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
(iv) Marketing and Promotional Emails. You can subscribe to receive marketing and promotional emails. When you subscribe to receive these communications, we will use your email address to confirm your subscription and send the communications to you. By subscribing to receive marketing and promotional emails you consent to our sharing of your email address with our email service provider for purposes of receiving these communications. You may opt out of receiving electronic marketing communications by using the unsubscribe link in our email communications. Please allow a reasonable time to process your request. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving electronic marketing communications from us we may still contact you for non-marketing purposes such as fulfillment and shipping, customer service, notices, or to fulfill legal obligations.

Additional U.S. State Privacy Rights.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

  • Confirm whether we process their personal information.
  • Access and delete certain personal information.
  • Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
  • Data portability.
  • Opt-out of personal data processing for:
    • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
    • sales; or
    • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
  • Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.


The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights or to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, please contact us at 888-588-8698 or [email protected]. EMG will respond to all appeal requests as soon as we reasonably can, and no later than legally required

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: 888-588-8698 or [email protected]. However, please know we do not currently sell or share data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.

For Residents of the U.K. and EEA.
For Residents of the U.K. and EEA. If you reside in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), the following provisions apply to you: 

  • Access. You may request access to your personal information and the following information regarding our use of it: (i) purpose of the use, (ii) categories of personal information used, and (iii) to whom we have disclosed your personal information.
  • Correction. You may request that EMG correct any inaccurate personal information we have.
  • Right to Be Forgotten. You may request that EMG erase your personal information when EMG no longer needs such data.
  • Withdraw Consent. If EMG’s ability to use your personal information depends on consent you have given, you may withdraw such consent.
  • Restriction. You may request that EMG restrict (or suspend) use of your personal information.
  • Object. You may object to EMG’s use of your personal information to perform services you have not requested.
  • Copies and Portability. You may request copies of your personal information that EMG possesses in a structured, commonly used, and machine readable format and you may request that this be transmitted to another controller.
  • Complaint. You may lodge a complaint with the supervising authority of your country.


Consent to Transfer.
EMG operates globally and may transfer your personal information to locations around the world for the purposes described in this privacy policy. Wherever your personal information is transferred, stored or processed by us, we will take reasonable steps to safeguard the privacy of your personal information. Additionally, when using or disclosing personal information transferred from the European Union or United Kingdom, we use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, adopt other means under European Union law for ensuring adequate safeguards, or obtain your consent.

Information You Provide About Others.
We may also provide you opportunities to submit certain Personal Information about other individuals as permitted under applicable law. For instance, you may choose to send a notice through the Sites to a friend regarding products or content offered by the Sites. You agree that you will not abuse this feature by entering names, addresses, e-mail address or other Personal Information of individuals who would not be interested in EMG products and/or for whom you have not obtained prior consent. We will not use the Personal Information of these individuals for any other purpose without their consent except in connection with legal and safety obligations set forth above.

Data Security.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls using SSL technology.
 
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy.
EMG reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy. However, EMG will not use your Personal Information in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time it was collected without your consent.

Children’s Privacy.
The Site is not for children. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children younger than thirteen (13) years of age (“Child”) on the Site. We will delete any Personal Information collected that we later determine to be from a Child.

Contact Us.
You may contact us as at [email protected].
We may also file your comments to improve the Site, or review and discard the information. Please note that information submitted to the Site via a “contact us,” or other similar mechanisms will not necessarily receive a response. We will not use any such information you provide to contact you for marketing purposes unrelated to your request.

Cookie Policy.