Last updated: December 31, 2023
Forbes Media LLC ("Forbes", "Company",
"we",
"our",
or "us") understands that privacy is important to our users. This Privacy
Statement describes our
practices regarding the collection, use, sharing, and protection of your personal
information in connection the
services, products, features, and offerings we provide to you (the
"Services"), including without
limitation our print magazine subscriptions, and our digital Services like Forbes.com,
Forbes mobile applications,
Forbes newsletters, Forbes games, podcasts, and Forbes' other digital sites, communications,
and media (the
"Site")
(collectively, the "Properties"). This Privacy Statement also tells you
about the rights and
choices you have with respect to your personal information, how you can assert those rights,
and how you can contact
us to get answers to your questions.
With respect to the personal information that our clients and their vendors collect from you
outside of our
Properties and/or Services ("Service Data"), where permitted by law, we
generally process such
information only as
a "service provider" or "data processor" (as those terms are defined under applicable data
protection laws) on
behalf of our clients, who act as the "business" or "data controller" (as those terms are
defined under applicable
data protection laws). Our clients—for example, companies that use our lead generation
services—are the
parties that control the use of the Service Data and determine the purposes for which we
process such information.
While this Privacy Statement describes how we process Service Data on behalf of our clients,
our clients are
responsible for their own practices in collecting, using, and disclosing information they
collect from you. To learn
more about such clients' use of your information and your rights that you may have over such
information, please
consult the privacy policy of the applicable company or publisher.
Please note that our privacy practices are subject to the applicable laws of the regions in
which we operate.
Accordingly, some additional region-specific terms will only apply to individuals in those
locations, or as required
by applicable laws.
For more information about how users with disabilities can access this Privacy Statement in
an alternative format,
please contact privacyteam@forbes.com
or 866-536-7262.
BY USING OR ACCESSING THE PROPERTIES, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE WITH OUR POLICIES OR
PRACTICES, YOU SHOULD NOT USE OR ACCESS THE PROPERTIES OR PROVIDE US WITH ANY PERSONAL
INFORMATION.
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WHAT OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT COVERS
This Privacy Statement applies only to user information collected or created by us or shared
with us in relation to
our
Properties or Services. While you may encounter links on the Properties to other websites,
such as those relating to
our
third-party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners (e.g., our affiliate network
operators), including when you
sign into Forbes.com
using a social media or digital wallet service, please note that
these websites are not covered by this Privacy Statement (unless otherwise noted on such
site, which may be the case
if, for example, the site is also owned and operated by Forbes).
We may provide different or additional privacy notices in connection with certain activities,
programs, and offerings
(for example, if you submit a job application through the Properties). Additionally, we may
provide additional
"just-in-time" notices or notices at collection that may supplement or clarify our privacy
practices or provide you
with additional choices regarding your personal information.
This Privacy Statement does not apply to the activities of Forbes' third-party sponsors,
advertisers, and other
partners (e.g., our affiliate network operators) that may collect your personal information
while you access or use
such third party's services in connection with your use of our Properties (e.g., social
media and sharing services,
digital wallet logins,
widgets, and/or interactive mini-programs that run on the Properties). This Privacy
Statement also does not apply to
Forbes' third-party licensees, who manage and run their own Forbes-branded services and
sites, some of whom the
Properties link out to. The privacy and information practices of those third parties are not
covered by this Privacy
Statement. To learn more about the policies of such third parties, we encourage you to read
and review the privacy
statements of each third-party service that you may choose to use.
We offer widgets that are hosted on the Properties, such as our embeddable video player. Use
of the Forbes.com
widgets is subject to our Site's Terms of Use, but downloading or embedding
these widgets on
other websites is not covered by this Privacy Statement.
We use the term "personal information" – also called "personal data" or "personally
identifiable information"
in the laws of some jurisdictions – to refer to information that reasonably identifies,
relates to, describes,
or can be associated with you. The following are categories and types of personal
information that we may collect
from or about you, depending on how you interact with the Properties:
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Identifiers, such as your name and email address;
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Contact information, such as your mailing address and telephone number;
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Payment information, such as credit or debit card information;
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Transaction or Commercial information, such as your subscriptions and purchases with
us or your digital
wallet address;
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Profile information, such as photos, videos, or other information about you and your
interests posted or
included in connection with a user profile;
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Job and employment information, such as the name of your company, industry, and job
title;
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Education information, such as school attended and degree obtained;
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Preferences, such as marketing and privacy preferences and choice of subscription;
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Device and online identifiers and related information, including internet protocol
(IP) address, mobile ad
identifiers, data collected from cookies, beacons, and pixel tags, and similar
unique identifiers;
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Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited
to browsing history,
search history, Forbes game statistics (like your score, time played, winning
streak, and ranking compared
to other players), and information regarding your interaction with an internet
website, application, email,
mobile app, or advertisement;
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Geolocation or other information that permits us to determine your location;
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Demographic information, such as your age or the gender you identify as;
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Inferences we may create about you;
If you interact with us on social media or use features such as plugins, widgets, or other
tools made available by
social media platforms or networks in connection with our Properties, or if you choose to
sign up for a paid
subscription via your social media profile, we may collect information that you share with
us on social media or
that such platforms share with us. Please review the privacy policies and settings of the
social media platforms and
networks that you use for more information about their privacy practices. For additional
information, see the
section titled Third-Party Sources below.
If you choose to log into one of our Properties using a digital wallet, we may collect public
data points such as
your
wallet address, the blockchain your wallet is on, your wallet's transactions and transaction
history, and whether
your
wallet holds a Forbes digital collectible.
Where you sign-up for paid subscriptions as a gift option (e.g., on behalf of a friend or
colleague, the gift
recipient), you may provide us with personal information on behalf of the gift recipient.
Personal Information You Provide
We collect personal information that you provide to us directly. This may include, but is not
limited to, information
you provide:
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When you contact us via phone, email or text message, or through other
Internet-enabled communications;
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When you subscribe to one of our print or digital Services;
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When you register to become a member of the Site or create a user profile;
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When you register for one of our live or virtual events;
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On your member profile page and public profile URL (for example, if you choose to add
content to your profile
page, such as photos, videos or other information about you and your interests);
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To enter into a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion, or to apply for consideration in
connection with a Forbes
list or similar accolade (e.g., Under 30 list applications);
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When you order something from the Properties or one of our co-branded websites;
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When you post content to the Properties;
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In your response to surveys that you choose to complete for us;
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If you log into one of our Properties with your digital wallet;
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When you make search queries or play games on the Properties; and
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When you otherwise voluntarily provide us with personal information on or through the
Properties.
You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to
provide the information we
request, you can still access and use portions of the Properties, but you may be unable to
access certain options
and services, such as paid subscription content. If you wish to provide user information to
us about a third party,
such your friend or colleague, in connection with a referral, gift subscription, corporate
subscription,
recommendation,
nomination (e.g., Under 30 list nomination), or other purpose, please only do so if you have
the permission of that
third
party. When you register or become a member of the Site or provide information to Forbes in
any other manner, you
agree to
provide only true, accurate, current and complete information.
Personal Information We Collect Automatically
When you visit our Properties, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our
advertisements or games, we
or third
parties we work with may automatically collect certain information using technologies such
as cookies and other
tracking technologies described below.
"Cookies" are pieces of information that may be placed on your device by a website for the
purpose of collecting data
to facilitate and enhance your communication and interaction with that website. Such data
may include, for example,
the address of the websites you visited before and after you visited our Properties, the
type of browser you are
using, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, what pages in the Properties you visited and
what links you clicked on,
the region where your device is located, and geographic information based on your IP data.
We may store some
information on your device or device hard drive as a cookie or similar type of file (such as
clear gifs, pixels, web
beacons, tags, and similar technologies that work on mobile devices) to collect data related
to usage of the
Properties. We may also use cookies to customize your visit to the Properties (including our
emails) and for other
purposes to make your visit more convenient or to enable us to enhance the Properties.
Cookies fall into the subcategories below:
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Required (sometimes referred to as "Essential"). Certain cookies are used for
specific purposes that
are
essential to your secure use and navigation of the Properties so that we are able to
provide you with the
services
you request. Without them, Forbes may not be able to provide core Property functions
and features to you,
and the
Property would not operate as well as you or Forbes would like. For example, they
enable core functions like
carrying
out network transmissions and enabling you to log in to our systems. They also
enable us to comply with
legal obligations
in regions with laws that apply to cookies, like by maintaining your cookie consent
choices in regions that
require consent
or, in opt-out regions, by preventing advertising-related or other optional digital
trackers from being
placed on your browser
or device if you have opted out. These cookies collect and use information such as
your server preferences,
single-session
data and corresponding identifier, web beacons and log files (detailed below), and
other credential-related
information.
Required cookies cannot be switched off on our Properties.
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Functional. Other cookies may be used to collect and process information about
your
preferences and similar choices in connection with the Properties in order to allow
us to provide enhanced
functionality,
customization and personalization, such as by remembering your login information or
other choices or by
providing you with
more personalized features (e.g., various local preference settings; which
geographically-customized version
of the
Properties and related content you may prefer). Functional cookies include social
media cookies, which
collect information about your social media usage and other data you may have
provided in connection with
such usage (if you access the Site through a social media website or mobile
application, you may have social
media cookies). If you wish to modify or change your social media cookies, please
visit and review the
settings on your applicable social media account(s).
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Analytics. These cookies allow us to better understand our users' actions and
interests, for instance,
by tracking clicks,
visits, and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our
Properties and services.
This allows us to provide
a high-quality experience by customizing our offerings and quickly identifying and
fixing any issues that
arise. For example, we
might use analytics cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which
method of linking between
pages is most effective,
and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.
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Advertising. To help support the Properties and further tailor your
experience, Forbes and its
advertising partners (and/or their third-party analytics providers) may also use
cookies on the Properties
(including in emails) to personalize the content and advertisements you may be
shown. Such advertisements
use cookies to provide you targeted advertisements that may be more consistent with
your interests than
non-targeted advertisements. Certain Forbes advertising partners may also use
cookies to monitor or track
the performance of their advertising content, including native advertising content
(e.g., BrandVoice),
including
how you interact with the advertising content, even in situations where the ad is
displayed on another site.
If you
do not allow these trackers on our Properties, you may still receive advertisements,
but you may receive
less relevant
advertising or content.
In certain countries and U.S. states, you can opt out or set preferences regarding cookies
using our cookie
management tool when a
device you utilize visits our Properties. You may also be able to set preferences related to
certain interest-based
advertisements
and targeted ads by using tools provided by self-regulatory programs like the Digital
Advertising Alliance (DAA)
program at
www.aboutads.info/consumers and the Network Advertising
Initiative at
http://optout.networkadvertising.org/.
To learn how, please see
the Your Choices section below.
The Properties' web and ad servers log information about a user's IP address, browser type,
and the current URL
the user is requesting. This information is always provided by a user's browser and
automatically logged by most
websites. These log files are stored in a secure location and used for internal business
purposes such as internal
analysis of traffic patterns within our Properties.
As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each website you visit.
This information, which
is sometimes referred to as "clickstream data," can be collected and stored by a website's
server. Clickstream
data can tell us the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the
website from which you
linked to the Properties. We may collect and use clickstream data as a form of aggregate
information to anonymously
determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Properties, how visitors navigate
throughout the
Properties, and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors. This
information will be used
to improve our Properties.
We may work with third-party vendors who use the technologies described in this section to
conduct website analytics
to help us track and understand how visitors use our Properties. One such provider is Google
Analytics, a web
analytics service provided by Google LLC ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help
analyze how users use the
Properties. The information generated by these cookies about your use (including your IP
address) will be
transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this
information for the
purpose of evaluating your use of the Properties, compiling reports on activity for its
staff, and providing other
services relating to web page activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this
information to third
parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information
on Google's behalf.
You may refuse the use of such cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your
browser. By using the
Properties and accepting cookies, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google
in the manner and for
the purposes set out above. Please refer to the currently available opt-outs for Google
Analytics by visiting
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
We may obtain Service Data from or on behalf of our clients and their vendors, which we
process on behalf of our
clients in accordance with our contracts with them.
From time to time, we may collect personal information about you from third party sources
(including data append
services such as public or social graph data, data co-ops, or social media websites if
you have chosen to log in or connect your social media with our Properties) which we will
use for our business or
commercial purposes (for example, in order to contact you and/or to better serve you with
content or promotions).
However, we will only use this information where these third parties either have your
consent or are otherwise
legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us. We may also
collect publicly available
information from third party sources. To the extent that such information constitutes
personal
information, we shall use such it in accordance with this Privacy Statement or as permitted
by
law.
When you sign into our Properties or purchase a paid subscription on our Properties using a
social media log-in, you
give permission to that social media company to share certain information with us. For
example, if you sign in or
purchase a subscription using Facebook or LinkedIn, you give permission to Facebook or
LinkedIn (as applicable) to
share with us your email address and certain other information in your social media profile
that you have designated
as public. This will be limited to your full name, age range, profile picture (if you have
one) and link to your
Facebook or LinkedIn profile (as applicable). If you log in or purchase a subscription using
your Google account,
you give Google permission to share personal information with us that you have made public
in your Google profile.
This will be limited to your full name, your email address (and whether your email has been
validated), your age
range, your profile picture (if you have one) and a link to your Google profile. If you log
in or purchase a
subscription using your Apple ID, you give Apple permission to share your personal
information with us (however, you
can choose to hide your email address and Apple will instead create a random email address
so that your personal
email can stay private). This email address will be linked to your account and allow you to
access your subscribed
content.
If you log into one of our Properties using a digital wallet, you give that wallet provider
permission to share
certain
information with us, including public data points such as your wallet address, the
blockchain your wallet is on,
your wallet's
transactions and transaction history, and whether the wallet holds a Forbes digital
collectible.
We will use the information described above to form a profile for your account, to enable you
to purchase a paid
subscription, and/or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Statement. You have the option
to later configure your
Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google settings, or Apple ID to remove permissions for Forbes to
access to this information.
However, this will not affect our ability to use the information that we already received
when you first set up your
account (or purchased a subscription) using that social media login, so long as we use it
for the purposes set forth
in this Privacy Statement.
We may also obtain personal information of subscribers to Forbes licensees after such
licensees stop conducting
business under the Forbes license.
We collect and use personal information for the following purposes:
We may collect information that is not personal information ("non-personal information"),
including information
lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records, or aggregate or
de-identified information.
Because non-personal information does not personally identify you, we may collect, use, and
disclose such
information for any purpose permitted by law. In some instances, we may combine non-personal
information with
personal information. If we combine any non-personal information with personal information,
the combined information
will be treated by us as personal information.
The Properties may offer features that allow you to post content. You should be aware that
personal information which
you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, forum, social
network, or otherwise
online may be viewed and used by others. As a general reminder, please think carefully
before you decide to put
anything on the Internet. For example, if you voluntarily disclose personal information in
chat areas or bulletin
boards (e.g., comment sections), that information could be seen and used by others, and may
result in unsolicited
messages from others. We are not responsible for the information you may choose to submit in
these public forums. To
request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, please
contact us using the
information provided in the section titled Contacting Us. In some cases, for legal retention
purposes or technical
limitations (e.g., the data may not be searchable), we may not be able to remove personal
information voluntarily
disclosed by you in such forums, in which case, we will notify you.
With respect to how we use Service Data, we use that information to provide Services to our
clients.
In addition to using your personal information ourselves, we may send your personal
information and other information
to other companies, affiliates, and third parties in the following instances:
We may share your personal information with service providers who may use your information to
provide us services
including, but not limited to: website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision,
information technology
services, conducting surveys and contests, customer service, email or SMS delivery services,
payment processing and
recouping, auditing, consulting, magazine management and shipping, event management, data
security, and anti-fraud
monitoring. These service providers have access to personal information that is necessary to
perform their
functions, and are prohibited from using your personal information for any other purpose.
We may share personal information with our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries, who process
personal information on
our behalf as our vendor, where necessary to provide a product or service that you have
requested or in other
circumstances with your consent or as permitted or required by law.
We may share personal information with our business partners, which may include information
shared for the purposes
of marketing or interest-based advertising. If you provide any user information via an
advertiser promotion, please
be aware you are directly providing your user information to that advertiser.
We may share certain event registrant user information with sponsors of our live or virtual
events (e.g., attendee
name, title, company name) or with Forbes licensees in circumstances where a licensee works
with Forbes in the
promotion or such an event, subject to applicable law.
We share certain personal information of certain Forbes list nominees and honorees with our
third-party partners in
situations where Forbes partners with a third-party in connection with the creation of such
lists. In such
circumstances, the third party will be named.
For Service Data processed on behalf of our clients, like lead generation data or data
collected in connection with a
survey conducted for a client, we share the Service Data with our clients.
We also make certain information about our print magazine subscribers available for list
renters to engage in direct,
physical mail marketing, but in such circumstances, no personal information is actually made
available to the
renter. Forbes also shares certain personal information about its subscribers with other
publishers
in connection with data co-ops. You can modify your related user information by contacting
Forbes as indicated in
the section Your Choices below.
We may disclose personal information and other information as we believe necessary or
appropriate: (a) under
applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal
process; (c) to respond
to requests from public and government authorities including public and government
authorities outside your country
of residence; (d) to enforce our Terms and Conditions; (e) to protect our operations or
those of any of our
affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our
affiliates, you, or others;
and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may share your personal information and other information with third parties in connection
with a merger,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some
or all of the assets of
the Company, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar
proceeding, in which
information held by the Company about our Properties users is among the assets transferred.
In this case, we may
notify you if applicable law requires.
Forbes may disclose your Personal Information to third parties with your consent or pursuant
to your direction.
DATA SECURITY
We care about the protection of your personal information and use appropriate technical and
organizational security
measures to do so. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to
the risk of processing
of your personal information.
Your user information is stored on Forbes servers located in the United States. We use
industry standard physical,
electronic, and organizational safeguards to protect your user information against loss or
theft as well as
unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. We employ many different
security techniques to protect
such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside of the company. We also
ensure that, in accordance
with good industry practice, we have in place security measures to protect your personal
information from
interception, including in transit between our different systems and devices. This includes
having in place network
protection to deny attackers the ability to intercept data and the encryption of your
personal information while in
transit to deny attackers the ability to read data.
Of course, it's important to keep in mind that no data transmission on the Internet is
guaranteed to be 100% secure.
If you are concerned that your privacy may have been breached or that your interaction with
us is no longer secure,
please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us as provided below.
DATA RETENTION
We will retain your user information for as long as we have an ongoing legitimate business
need to use your user
information (for example you have an active account with us or to comply with applicable
tax, legal, or accounting
requirements). When there is no longer such a need, we will delete it or, if this is not
possible (for example,
because your personal information has been stored in back-up archives), then we will
securely store your personal
information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will
also delete certain user
information we may retain about you upon your request.
INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING
We may ourselves, or with third-party vendors, use personal information to deliver targeted
advertising to you when
you visit other websites or our Properties (including emails). Cookies, clickstream data,
and other similar
technologies described above may be used in this process. For example, if you are searching
for information on a
particular product, we or our vendor may cause an advertisement to appear on other websites
you view with
information on that product. This form of advertising, sometimes called "targeted
advertising," "behavioral
advertising," or "cross-context behavioral advertising," enables us and our vendors to know
your interests in
connection with the delivery of that specific ad. We believe that such advertising is
helpful because you will see
advertisements that are relevant to your interests. We comply with the Self-Regulatory
Principles for Online
Behavioral Advertising as administered by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). If you
would like to opt out of
these interest-based advertisements, please follow the opt-out process described below under
Your
Choices
.
We may use information we have collected to help us, or our third-party vendors, determine if
you have interacted
with our Properties across multiple devices and to match such devices. To accomplish this,
we may rely on
information (including demographic, geographic, and interest-based data) from third parties
such as data vendors,
pursuant to their own privacy policies, or we may use information we collect in conjunction
with such third-party
data. Based on this data, we may then display targeted advertisements across devices that we
believe are associated
and may provide other services to our advertisers to better enable cross-device targeting
and analysis. For further
instructions on restricting our use of certain cross-device data, please see Your Choices
below.
YOUR CHOICES
Consistent with applicable law, you may exercise the options described in this section
regarding your choices with
respect to your personal information and communications from us. You may also have certain
additional rights
available depending on your state or country of residence, as described further below.
Registered forbes.com users may at any time change the information stored in their forbes.com
member profile (such as
name, password, location, country, and the topics and authors they are following) by
visiting their member profile
page. You may also request to delete or modify your personal account and/or any personal
information you may have
voluntarily submitted to us (e.g., information that you provide to register for a Forbes
event) if you wish to do
so, provided we are able to verify your identity in accordance with applicable law.
You may also ask to opt out of direct email marketing, push notifications to your digital
wallets, and SMS
communications from Forbes by following the unsubscribe
instructions contained in the communication you have received. For marketing emails, this is
typically through an
"unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link. To opt out of other forms of marketing, please contact us
using
the information provided in the section titled Contacting Us
below.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland,
California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Utah, Virginia,
or the People's Republic of China, you may have additional rights as set forth in the
subsequent sections of this
Privacy
Statement.
In certain countries and U.S. states, you can opt out or set preferences regarding cookies
when a device you utilize
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If you would like to use your browser to stop or restrict the placement of non-Required
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your web browser
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disabling future cookies,
you may not
be able to access certain areas or features of our Properties or some of the functionality
may be affected.
The online advertising industry provides a service through which you may opt out of receiving
targeted ads from
certain data partners and other advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory
programs. You can opt out
of targeted advertising from certain providers that participate in the Digital Advertising
Alliance (DAA) program
at www.aboutads.info/consumers.
Other providers are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, and you can opt out of
interest-based advertising
by those members by visiting
http://optout.networkadvertising.org/.
Please note that by opting out, you may continue to see generic advertising that is not
tailored to your specific
interests and
activities. Additionally, be advised that these industry opt-out methods will not prevent
the receipt of
interest-based advertising
from other companies that do not participate in these programs.
Cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have
opted out. For example, if
you have opted out on your device browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile
device, and if you opt
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If you are visiting our Properties from a mobile device, the operating system of the device
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regarding how the
device collects and uses your information for interest-based advertising. Please visit
https://thenai.org/opt-out/mobile-opt-out/
for more information. For targeted advertisements delivered through mobile apps, you can
install the DAA's
AppChoices app on your
device to opt out of targeted advertising by certain providers, and can also select a
system-level advertising
preference on
your device (such as "Limit Ad Tracking" on Apple devices or "Opt-out of Interest-Based Ads"
on Android
devices).
While some browsers have a "do not track" (also known as DNT) feature that lets you instruct
websites not to track
your online activities, we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms
transmitted by web
browsers. However, in jurisdictions where required, our Properties are designed to honor
opt-out preference (aka,
Global Privacy Control)
signals.
PRIVACY DISCLOSURES FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS
If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt out of the sale of certain
personal information to third
parties who intend to license or sell that personal information. If you wish to exercise
this right, click here or contact us at 866-536-7262.
CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
While the Properties are available to users globally, our primary audience is located in
North
America. If you submit personal information to Forbes, your personal information may be
processed in a foreign
country where
privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By submitting your
personal information to us you
agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information in a country
other than your country of
residence including, but not necessarily limited to, the United States. Please note that
personal information
transferred to the United States is subject to access by law enforcement.
Where applicable, Forbes may use model clauses approved by the laws of your jurisdiction
(such as Standard
Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission) or other
recognized transfer mechanisms for cross-border data transfers.
LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUESTS
Forbes takes the protection of your personal information very seriously and is committed to
acting as a responsible
data custodian. If we become aware that any law enforcement, regulatory, judicial or
governmental authority
("Authority")
wishes to obtain access to, or a copy of, the personal information that we hold about you
(whether on a voluntary or
mandatory basis) (a "Request"), then we commit to the following: (1) we will investigate the
Request
before responding, to ensure that it is a valid request made under applicable law; and (2)
we will only disclose
personal information to the Authority in response to the Request where we are legally
required to do so and in
accordance with applicable lawful process. The only exception to these commitments is where
we reasonably believe
(in good faith) that the urgent provision of the requested personal information per the
Authority's Request is
necessary to prevent an imminent risk of serious harm to any individual. However, in any
event, we shall never
knowingly disclose personal information in a massive, disproportionate, or indiscriminate
manner, which goes beyond
what is necessary in a democratic society.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
The Properties are intended for people who are at least 16 years of age. If you are less than
16 years old, please do
not send any personal information to us—including information such as your name, address, or
email address. We
do not knowingly collect (nor do we wish to collect) any personal information from children
under the age of 16. If
we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 16, we
will delete that
information from our database and terminate the corresponding account, if any. We encourage
you to discuss the
Properties with your parent or guardian.
NOTICE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVE
We may at times offer our customers programs that provide certain perks associated with us,
such as rewards and
exclusive offers.
We may also provide other programs, such as sweepstakes, contests, or other similar
promotional campaigns
(collectively, the “Programs”).
When you sign up for one of these Programs, we typically ask you to provide your name and
contact information (such
as email address
and/or telephone number). If participating in a program that requires signing up or logging
in with a digital
wallet, we may also
require certain public data like your wallet address, the blockchain your wallet is on, your
wallet’s transactions
and transaction
history, and whether your wallet holds a Forbes digital collectible. Because our Programs
involve the collection of
Personal
Information, they
may be considered a “financial incentive” program under California law or a “bona fide
loyalty program” under
Colorado law. The value
of your personal information to us is exceeded by or related to the value of the free or
discounted products or
services, or other
benefits that you obtain or that are provided as part of the applicable Program, minus the
expense related to
offering those products,
services, and benefits to Program participants. Unless specifically stated otherwise in
connection with a potential
“financial
incentive,” the value of the benefit Forbes may offer to you exceeds the value of the
personal information you
provide as a
participant.
You may withdraw from participating in a Program at any time by contacting us using the
designated method set forth
in the
applicable Program rules. Please read the terms and conditions of each Program to view full
details, including how
to join. You
may also withdraw from or opt into the Program by contacting us at the email address
provided in connection with the
Program. If
none is provided, you may contact us as set forth above in the Contacting Us section.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time in response to changing legal,
technical or business
developments. This Privacy Statement describes our data handling practices for the 12 months
prior to the date on
which it was last updated. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add,
or remove portions from
this Privacy Statement at any time, provided that any such modifications will only be
applied prospectively. We
encourage you to periodically review the Site for the latest information on our privacy
practices. Your continued
use of the Properties following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Statement means
you accept such
changes.
Note on Translated Version(s): For your convenience, Forbes may make translated versions of
this Privacy Statement
available on the Site. In the event that the terms of any such translated version conflict
with the terms of the
English version, the terms of the English version of this Privacy Statement will apply.
If you have any other questions regarding this Privacy Statement or how to remove or modify
your user information or
related consents, please feel free to contact us at privacy@forbes.com or Forbes Media,
Privacy Team - Customer Service, 499 Washington Blvd., Jersey City, NJ 07310.
The data controller of your user information is Forbes Media LLC. You may contact our EU and
UK GDPR Data Protection
Officer at gdpr.dpo@forbes.com and,
if you are writing from the UK, you may contact our UK representative at Forbes Media - UK
Representative, 151
Wardour Street, Offices 201-203, London, W1F 8WE. If you are writing from the EEA, you may
contact our EEA GDPR
Representative at Forbes@LionheartSquared.eu or
Lionheart Squared (FAO Forbes Media), 2 Pembroke House, Upper Pembroke Street 28-32, Dublin,
D02 EK84 Ireland.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA"), amended by the
California Privacy Rights Act
of 2020, provides you with specific rights regarding your Personal Information. This section
describes the rights
that California consumers have and explains how to exercise those rights. For the purposes
of this section,
"Personal Information" does not include: (i) information that is lawfully
made available from
federal, state or local government records; (ii) de-identified or aggregated data; or (iii)
information excluded
from the scope of the CCPA. To be clear, these rights are granted only to the extent that
you are a California
consumer. The rights in this section are not intended to grant you additional rights, but
only your rights under the
CCPA to the extent that we are considered a CCPA business with respect to the applicable
Personal Information.
In order to provide our Services to our clients, we may process Service Data that we receive
from or on behalf of our
clients. If you are a California resident, you may have certain CCPA rights pertaining to
such information. Under
the CCPA, when we act as a "service provider" (not as a "business" or a "third party") over
such information, we
only process your information through our Services as necessary to provide our services to
our clients, at our
clients' direction. If you wish to exercise any of your rights under CCPA regarding such
information, please contact
the relevant business that collected the information from you, who controls and determines
how your information is
processed.
Information We Collect; How We Collect It; How We Use It
To the extent that our collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information is addressed
by a separate privacy
notice,
please consult the terms of that privacy notice for detailed information about our data
practices, including the
categories of
personal information that we collect and disclose. For all other consumers, general
information regarding our
collection, use, and
disclosure of personal information is set forth in the Privacy Statement, and more detailed
information about our
data practices in
relation to specific categories of personal information can be found in the
Personal Information
Processing Chart
.
We may disclose your Personal Information to service providers for a business purpose, or
sell or share your personal
information
to third parties, subject to your right to opt out (see
Right to Opt Out of Selling or
Sharing Your Personal
Information
,
below). Please note that Forbes does not “sell” any of your personal information in exchange
for money. However, the
term “sell”
has a broader meaning under the CCPA than would ordinarily be understood in a non-legal
context. The information
under the
Personal Information Processing Chart
(or as addressed under a
separate
privacy notice, if applicable) describes the entities with which we may disclose your
Personal Information.
Rights to Your Information
-
Right to Know
As a California consumer, you have the right to request that we disclose certain information
to you about our
collection, use, or disclosure of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we
receive and
confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Your Rights, below), and subject to
certain limitations
that we describe below, we will disclose such information. You have the right to request any
or all of the
following:
-
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing that Personal
Information.
-
The categories of third parties with whom we disclose that Personal Information.
-
The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (see
Data Portability
Rights
below).
-
Right to Delete
You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we
collected from you and
retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable
consumer request (see
Exercising Your Rights, below), we will delete (and direct our
service providers to
delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies. However, we
may retain Personal
Information that has been de-identified or aggregated. Furthermore, we may deny your
deletion request if retaining
the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) in order to perform certain
actions set forth under
the
CCPA, such as detecting security incidents and protecting against fraudulent or illegal
activity.
-
Right to Data Portability
You have the right to request a copy of Personal Information we have collected and maintained
about you. The CCPA
allows you
to request your information from us up to twice during a 12-month period. We will provide
our response in a readily
usable
(and usually electronic) format.
-
Right to Correct
You have the right to request the correction of any Personal Information we maintain about
you.
-
Right to Opt Out of Selling or Sharing Your Personal Information
You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information, along with
the right to opt in to
the sale or sharing of such information. We do not sell or share the Personal Information of
consumers we actually
know are
less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the "right to
opt-in") from either
the consumer who is less than 16 (but greater than 13) years of age, or the parent or
guardian of a consumer less
than 13 years of age. To our knowledge, we do not sell or share the Personal Information of
minors under 16 years of
age.
To exercise the right to opt out, you (or your authorized representative) may visit the
following web page:
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal
Information
. Alternatively, you
may submit an opt-out request by contacting us at 866-536-7262. We will also treat opt-out
preference (aka, Global
Privacy Control)
browser signals as valid opt out requests.
You may change your mind and opt back into Personal Information sales at any time by
contacting us at privacy@forbes.com.
-
Right to Limit the Use of Your Sensitive Personal Information
You have the right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information
("SPI") if we are using your
SPI beyond what is reasonable and proportionate to provide the requested goods or services.
You can make a request
for us to limit the use or disclosure of your SPI by visiting the following Internet Web
page: "
Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal
Information
." While we
recognize opt-out
preference signals (aka, Global Privacy Controls) when required to do so by law, given the
specific methods by which
Forbes collects
your SPI in the limited circumstances it collects SPI, opt-out preference signals would be
an ineffective and
technologically
impractical means for honoring limit the use requests. Therefore, please make your request
to limit the use of your
SPI using the above
link.
-
Right to Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights, including but
not limited to, by:
-
Denying you goods or services.
-
Charging you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through
granting discounts or other
benefits, or imposing penalties.
-
Providing you a different level or quality of goods or services.
-
Exercising Your Rights
To exercise the rights described above, please contact us by using the following methods:
After submitting a request, we will take steps to verify your identity in order for us to
properly respond and
confirm that it is not a fraudulent request. In order to verify your identity, we will ask,
at a minimum, that you
provide your name and email address, so that we can match this information with the
information existing in our
systems.
If you are a print subscriber, we may also require your mailing address to find you in our
systems. When providing
us this
information, you represent and affirm that all information provided is true and accurate.
Forbes will send you a verification email to verify that you have access to the email address
you have provided.
Then, as required by the CCPA, Forbes will use this information to verify your identify to a
reasonable or
reasonably high degree of certainty, depending on the request. Depending on how you submit
the request, if we are
able to
verify that you have access to the email address you provided, or if we are able to match at
least two pieces of
personal information to the personal information that we may retain of you, we will honor
your Right to Know
(Categories) request and in most cases, your Right to Delete and Right to Correct requests.
If we are able to match
at least
three pieces of personal information to the personal information that we may retain of you,
we will honor your Right
to Know
(Data Portability / Specific Pieces of Personal Information) requests, and in situations
where we determined that a
reasonably high
degree of certainty was more appropriate, your Right to Delete and Right to Correct
requests. If we are unable to
verify your identity, we will let you know that we are unable to fulfill your request.
Only you, or an agent legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable request
related to your
Personal Information. If you are making a request as the authorized agent of a California
consumer, we will ask you
also submit reliable proof that you have been authorized in writing by the consumer to act
on such consumer's
behalf.
We will make every effort to respond to your request within 45 days from when you contacted
us. If you have a complex
request, the CCPA allows us up to 90 days to respond. We will still contact you within 45
days from when you
contacted us to let you know we need more time to respond.
CALIFORNIA "SHINE THE LIGHT"
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 ("Shine the Light"), California residents have
the right to request in
writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship: (a) a list
of the categories of
personal information, as defined under Shine the Light, such as name, email address, and
mailing address, and the
type of services provided to the customer that a business has disclosed to third parties
(including affiliates that
are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third
parties' direct marketing
purposes; and (b) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above
information, please
contact us at 866-536-7262. If you do not want your personal information shared with any
third party who may use
such information for direct marketing purposes, then you may opt out of such disclosures by
contacting us at
866-536-7262.
VIRGINIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, AND UTAH
PRIVACY RIGHTS
The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data
Privacy Act, the Utah
Consumer Privacy Act, and similar
laws in other U.S.
states ("State Privacy Laws") provide their consumers with specific rights regarding their
personal information. To
the extent that
you are a resident of one of these states, this section describes your rights under the
State Privacy Laws and
explains how you may
exercise these rights.
The categories of personal information we process, our purposes for processing your personal
information, the
categories of personal information that we share with third parties, and the categories of
third parties with whom
we share it are detailed above in our Privacy Statement and in the
Personal
Information Processing Chart
. To the extent that our
personal information processing activities are addressed by a separate privacy notice,
please consult the terms of
that privacy notice
for detailed information about our data practices, including the categories of personal
information that we collect
and disclose.
Rights to Your Information
Certain rights that you may have concerning your personal information are set forth in our
Privacy Statement. State
Privacy Laws provide
you with the following additional rights:
-
Right to data portability. You have the right to access and obtain a
copy of your personal
information that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent
technically feasible,
readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another business
without hindrance, where the
processing is carried out by automated means. You may request such personal
information up to twice
annually, subject to certain exceptions.
-
Right to delete. You have the right to delete personal information
that you have provided by
or that we have obtained about you. Please note that we may deny such request if the
requested deletion
falls under an exception to this right set forth in State Privacy Laws.
Additionally, if you request
deletion of your
personal information and we have obtained such information from a third-party
source, we may retain such
data by keeping a record of the deletion request and the minimum data necessary to
ensure that your personal
information remains deleted from our records and that such retained data is not used
for any other purpose,
or we may opt you out of the processing of such personal information for any purpose
except for those
allowed under State Privacy Laws. Some State Privacy Laws, like those of Utah, limit
this right to only the
data you have
provided us.
-
Right to opt out of selling or sharing. You have the right to opt
out of the processing of
the personal information for purposes of: (i) targeted advertising; (ii) the sale of
personal information;
or (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly
significant effects
concerning you, unless you reside in Utah. As of the latest date of the Privacy
Statement:
-
We DO process personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising;
-
We DO sell your personal information in exchange for monetary or other
valuable consideration (Please
note that we
do not “sell” any of your personal information in exchange for money.
However, the term “sell” has a
broader meaning
under certain State Privacy Laws than would ordinarily be understood in a
non-legal context);
-
We DO NOT engage in profiling decision based on your personal information
that produce legal or
similarly
significant effects concerning you.
-
If you wish to opt out of the processing of your personal information for the
purposes of targeted
advertising please call us at 866-536-7262 or click here.
-
Right to correct. Unless you reside in Utah, you have the right to
correct inaccuracies in
the personal information we
collect from you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the
purposes for which we
process it.
-
Right to nondiscrimination. You have the right not to receive
discriminatory treatment by us
for the exercise of your privacy rights. Unless permitted by State Privacy Laws, we
will not:
-
Deny you goods or services.
-
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through
granting discounts or
other
benefits, or imposing penalties.
-
Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
-
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services
or a different level or
quality
of goods or services.
How to Contact Us About Your Privacy Rights
To exercise any of your privacy rights, or if you have any questions about your privacy
rights, you may
contact us by:
Verification of Your Identity. After submitting a request, we will take
steps to verify your
identity in order for us
to properly respond and confirm that it is not a fraudulent request. In order to verify your
identity, we will ask,
at a minimum,
that you provide your name and email address so that we can match this information with the
information existing in
our systems. If
you are a print subscriber, we may also require your mailing address to find you in our
systems. When providing us
this information,
you represent and affirm that all information provided is true and accurate.
Forbes will send you a verification email to verify that you have access to the email address
you have provided.
Then, as required by
the State Privacy Laws, Forbes will use this information to verify your identify to a
reasonable or reasonably high
degree of certainty,
depending on the request. Depending on how you submit the request, if we are able to verify
that you have access to
the email address
you provided, or if we are able to match at least two pieces of personal information to the
personal information
that we may retain of
you, we will honor your Right to Know requests and in most cases, your Data Portability,
Right to Delete, and Right
to Correct
requests. If we are able to match at least three pieces of personal information to the
personal information that we
may retain of you,
we will honor your Right to Know requests, and in situations where we determined that a
reasonably high degree of
certainty was more
appropriate, your Data Portability, Right to Delete, and Right to Correct requests. If we
are unable to verify your
identity, we will
let you know that we are unable to fulfill your request.
Only you—or for Colorado and Connecticut consumers making an opt-out request, an agent
legally authorized to act on
your behalf—may make a
verifiable request
related to your personal information. If you are making an opt-out request as the authorized
agent of a Colorado or
Connecticut consumer, we
will ask you also submit reliable proof that you have been authorized in writing by the
consumer to act on such
consumer’s behalf.
If you are making a request as the parent or legal guardian of a known child regarding the
processing of that
child’s personal
information, we may ask you to submit reliable proof of your identity.
Our Response Time to Your Request
We will make every effort to respond to your request within forty-five (45) days from when
you contacted us. If you
have a complex request, State Privacy Laws allow us up to ninety (90) days to respond. We
will still contact you
within
forty-five (45) days from when you contacted us to let you know we need more time to respond
and the reason for the
extension.
Your Right to Appeal
If we decline to take action regarding a request that you have submitted, we will inform you
of our reason for
declining to take action and, unless you are a Utah resident, provide instructions for how
to appeal the decision.
In the event that we do not
respond to a request that you make pursuant to one of the privacy rights set forth in this
section, unless you are a
Utah resident, you have the
right to appeal our refusal to take action within a reasonable period of time after you
receive our decision. Within
60 days (45 for residents of Colorado) of our receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in
writing of any action
taken or not taken
in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions.
If the appeal is
denied, we will also
provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or other method through which you may
contact your state
attorney general’s office
to submit a complaint.
EUROPEAN PRIVACY RIGHTS
IF YOU ARE SITUATED IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA, SWITZERLAND, OR THE UNITED KINGDOM, THIS
SECTION APPLIES TO OUR
COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND ADDITIONAL RIGHTS YOU HAVE UNDER
APPLICABLE LAW.
Legal Basis
We will only use your personal data, as that term is defined under the General Data
Protection Regulation
("GDPR"),
when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following
circumstances:
-
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and
your interests and
fundamental rights do not override those interests.
-
Where you have consented to a certain use of your personal data.
-
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
To the extent permitted under applicable laws, we will also process, transfer, disclose, and
preserve personal data
when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary.
Data Controller
Forbes is the data controller of all personal data collected through our Properties or
Services (with the exception
of Service Data, for which Forbes is a data processor). To contact us, please see the
section above titled
Contacting
Us.
If you are situated in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK and have any complaints regarding our
privacy practices, you
have the right to make a complaint at any time to your local supervisory authority. We
would, however, appreciate
the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach your supervisory authority, so
please contact us in the
first instance. If you have a complaint, please contact our privacy manager here: privacy@forbes.com.
Provision of personal data and failure to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law or under the terms of a contract we have with
you, and you fail to
provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are
trying to enter into
with you (for example, to provide you with our services). In this case, we may not be able
to provide certain
services to you.
Collection of personal data from third-party sources
We may obtain personal data and other information about you from public sources and through
our third-party partners
who
help us provide our products and services to you.
Withdrawing your consent
If we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to
withdraw your consent at any
time by contacting us at privacy@forbes.com.
You must, however, specify what processing activity or activities you are withdrawing your
consent from.
Data Transfer
We may transfer personal data from the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK to the USA and other
countries, some of which
have not been determined by the European Commission or the UK to have an adequate level of
data protection. Where we
transfer personal data protected under EEA, Swiss, and UK data protection law to countries
not deemed adequate, we
take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal data will remain protected in
accordance with this Privacy
Statement and applicable laws. The safeguards we use include specific contracts (such as the
UK and EEA Standard
Contractual Clauses) approved by the European Commission or the UK Secretary of State. For
more information about
how we transfer your data, please contact us at privacy@forbes.com.
Forbes participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the “EU-U.S. DPF”), the UK
Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF
(the “UK Extension”), and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the “Swiss-U.S. DPF”), as
set forth by the U.S.
Department of Commerce. Forbes is committed to applying the EU-U.S. DPF's applicable
Principles to personal data we
receive from the European Union in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and to personal data we
receive from the United
Kingdom (and Gibraltar) in reliance on the UK Extension. Likewise, Forbes is committed to
applying the Swiss-U.S.
DPF's applicable Principles to personal data we receive from Switzerland in reliance on the
Swiss-U.S. DPF. For
clarity, Forbes will only rely on the UK Extension and the Swiss-U.S. DPF as transfer
mechanisms under the
applicable UK and Swiss data protection laws, once respectively (i) the adequacy regulations
implementing the data
bridge for the UK Extension enter into force; and (ii) the Swiss Federal Administration's
recognition of adequacy of
the Swiss-U.S. DPF enters into force.
If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the EU-U.S. DPF and/or
the Swiss-U.S. DPF
Principles, the Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework
(“DPF”) program, and to view
our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/.
Forbes is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under each DPF, and
subsequently transfers to
a third party acting as an agent on its behalf.
Forbes complies with the DPF Principles for all onward transfers of personal data we receive
from the European
Union, the UK, Gibraltar, and Switzerland in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF Principles, the UK
Extension and/or the
Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, including the onward transfer liability provisions. In
particular, where we have received
your personal information in the United States in reliance upon the EU-U.S. DPF Principles,
the UK Extension and/or
the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles and we subsequently transfer that information to a third party
acting as an agent, and
such third party agent processes your personal information in a manner inconsistent with
those Principles, we will
remain responsible unless we can prove we are not responsible for the event giving rise to
the damage.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the DPFs, Forbes is
subject to the regulatory
enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Forbes may
be required to disclose
personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet
national security or law
enforcement requirements. Forbes
commits to refer unresolved complaints concerning our handling of personal data received in
reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF to TRUSTe, an
alternative dispute resolution provider based in the United States. If you do not receive
timely
acknowledgment of your DPF Principles-related complaint from us, or if we have not addressed
your DPF Principles-related complaint to your satisfaction, please visit
https://feedback-
form.truste.com/watchdog/request
for more information or to file a complaint. These
dispute
resolution services are provided at no cost to you. Under certain conditions, more fully
described on the
Data Privacy Framework website at,
https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/article/How-to-Submit-a-Complaint-Relating-to-a-Participating-Organization-s-Compliance-with-the-DPF-Principles-dpf,
you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been
exhausted.
Use of your personal data for marketing purposes
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly
around marketing and
advertising:
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Promotional offers from us: We may use your personal data to form a view on what we
think you may want or
need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products,
services and offers may be
relevant for you (we call this marketing). You will receive marketing communications
from us if you have
requested information from us or used our services and, in each case, you have
consented to our use of your
personal data for marketing purposes.
Data Subject Rights
If you are situated in the European Union, Switzerland, or the UK, under the GDPR, as a data
subject, you have the
right to:
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Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access
request"). This
enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check
that we are lawfully
processing it.
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Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to
have any incomplete or
inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the
accuracy of the new data you
provide to us.
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Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove
personal data where
there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to
ask us to delete or
remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object
to processing (see
below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully, or where we are
required to erase your
personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be
able to comply with your
request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if
applicable, at the time of
your request.
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Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate
interest (or those of a third
party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want
to object to processing
on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You
also have the right to
object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In
some cases, we may
demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information
which override your
rights and freedoms.
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Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us
to suspend the processing
of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish
the data's accuracy;
(b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c)
where you need us to hold
the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise, or
defend legal claims; or
(d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have
overriding legitimate
grounds to use it.
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Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will
provide to you, or a third
party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used,
machine-readable format. Note that
this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided
consent for us to use or where
we used the information to perform a contract with you.
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Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal
data. However, this
will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw
your consent. If you
withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to
you. We will advise you
if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
To exercise your rights under the GDPR, click here or contact us by using the
information in the
Contacting Us section in the Privacy Statement. Please note that in order for you to
assert these rights, we may need to verify your identity to confirm your right to access
your personal data. This is
a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no
right to receive it. In
order to verify your identity, we may need to gather more personal data from you than we
currently have.
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a resident of the People’s Republic of China ("PRC"), you have the right to
access, correct, and delete
your personal information under the Personal Information Protection Law ("PIPL"). You can
also request to restrict
or object to certain processing of your personal information, and request a copy of your
personal information. If
you are a close relative of a person in the PRC who is now deceased, you can request to
access, correct, and delete
their personal information. Finally, you have the right to request additional information
about the third parties
that Forbes shares your personal information with.
To exercise these rights under the PIPL, click here or contact us at privacy@forbes.com.
We will need to verify your identify according to applicable law, which may require that we
ask you for additional
information to confirm your identity. We will do our best to respond to your request within
30 days and, in any
event, we will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law. You can modify your
cookie preferences by
following the procedures outlined in the Your Rights section of the Privacy Statement above.
If you cannot understand this Privacy Statement, you are entitled to request explanations of
how we process your
personal information. If you have any questions, please contact us at privacy@forbes.com.
(如果您无法理解本隐私政策并希望获得更多信息，请发送电子邮件至 privacy@forbes.com.)
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information
from the sources described
in the section of
the Privacy Policy above titled How We Collect Your Personal Information.
The chart below describes
our business or commercial purposes
for collecting and disclosing these categories personal information, the parties we have
disclosed such information
to, and whether we
have sold or shared (or otherwise disclosed for targeted advertising) each category of
personal information.
Depending on your level of
interaction with us, we may not have collected your personal information from all of the
categories listed
below
. The categories of
personal information described below are retained and stored for as long as is necessary to
effectuate the business
and commercial
purposes for which they have been collected, and otherwise as described in the section of
the Privacy Policy above
titled
Data Retention.
Please note that Forbes does not “sell” any of your personal information in exchange for
money. However, the term
“sell” has a broader
meaning under applicable privacy laws than would ordinarily be understood in a non-legal
context.
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Category
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Examples
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Business or Commercial Purposes for Collecting Personal
Information
(Forbes may
or
may not use each data type in the "Examples" column for each purpose
listed out)
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Disclosed in the Prior Twelve (12) Months for the Following
Business Purposes
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"Sold" or "Shared" in the prior Twelve (12) Months for the
Following Purposes
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Categories of Third Parties With Whom We Disclose, Sell, or Share
Personal
Information
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Personal identifiers
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A real name, postal address, online identifier, Internet Protocol
address, email address, account
name
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Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide
products and services,
and to
maintain their quality and safety;
to identify and repair errors; to process and fulfill orders and
transactions; for surveys,
sweepstakes, and contests;
marketing and promotions; to enable commenting and communities; for
internal reporting and
service
optimization; to
serve you content recommendations and advertising; auditing related to
counting ad impressions
and
unique visitors;
marketing and promotions; to consider you for a Forbes list or similar
accolade; for lead
generation
services performed
on behalf of our clients; to enhance the information we may have on you;
security and fraud
prevention; to enable
exercise of privacy rights; digital wallet information to allow you to
log into Forbes digital
properties, monitor
whether your wallet contains a Forbes digital collectible, and provide
other benefits related to your use of a
digital wallet; to
verify customer information; to provide customer service
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and
advertising, including targeted
advertising; sharing
event registrant information with event sponsors
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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For the listed Commercial Purposes
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Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
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Personal information covered by the California Customer Records statute
(Cal. Civ. Code §
1798.80(e))
(Some personal information in this category may overlap with other
categories)
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A name, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone
number, credit card number,
debit
card number
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Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide
products and services,
and to
maintain their
quality and safety; to process and fulfill orders and transactions; for
surveys, sweepstakes,
and
contests; marketing
and promotions; to enable commenting and communities; for internal
reporting and service
optimization; to serve you
content recommendations and advertising; to consider you for a Forbes
list or similar accolade;
for
lead generation
services performed on behalf of our clients; to enhance the information
we may have on you;
security
and fraud
prevention; to enable exercise of privacy rights; to verify customer
information; to provide
customer service
Commercial Purposes: sharing event registrant
information with event sponsors
(e.g.,
name, work address, work phone)
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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For name, work address and phone information, only for the listed
Commercial Purposes
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Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
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Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
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Age, race, national origin, citizenship, marital or familial status, sex,
gender, veteran status,
and
other similar information
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Business Purposes: To provide you with products and
services, and to maintain
their
quality and safety;
marketing and promotions; for internal reporting and service
optimization; to serve you content
recommendations and
advertising (e.g., based on age or gender); to consider you for a Forbes
list or similar
accolade;
to provide customer
service
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and
advertising, including targeted
advertising (e.g., based
on age or gender); sharing event registrant information with event
sponsors (e.g., age or
gender)
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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For age and gender information, only the listed Commercial Purposes
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Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
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Commercial information
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Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or
other purchasing or
consuming
histories or tendencies.
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Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide
products and services,
and to
maintain their
quality and safety; marketing and promotions; to process and fulfill
orders and transactions;
for
internal reporting
and service optimization; to serve you content recommendations and
targeted advertising; digital
wallet information to
allow you to log into Forbes digital properties, monitor whether your
wallet contains a Forbes
digital collectible, and provide other
benefits related to your digital wallet; to provide customer service; to
verify customer
information
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and
advertising, including targeted
advertising
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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For the listed Commercial Purposes
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Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
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Internet or other similar network activity
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Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction
with a website, app, or
ad
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Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide
you with products and
services, and to maintain
their quality and safety; to identify and repair errors; for surveys,
sweepstakes, and contests;
marketing and
promotions; for internal reporting and service optimization; to serve
you content
recommendations
and advertising;
auditing related to counting ad impressions and unique visitors;
security and fraud prevention;
to
enable exercise of
privacy rights
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and
advertising, including targeted
advertising
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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For the listed Commercial Purposes
|
Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
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Geolocation data
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Location tracking information
|
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide
you with products and
services, and to
maintain their quality and safety; for internal reporting and service
optimization; to serve you
content
recommendations and advertising; auditing related to counting ad
impressions and unique
visitors;
marketing and
promotions; security and fraud prevention; to enable exercise of privacy
rights
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and
advertising, including targeted
advertising
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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For the listed Commercial Purposes
|
Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
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Sensory data
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Audio, visual, or similar information
|
Business Purposes: To provide you with products and
services, and to maintain
their
quality and safety;
in relation to your user profile, your Forbes list or similar accolade
profile, or when you post
content; customer
service call recordings
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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N/A
|
Forbes affiliates; service providers
|
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Professional or employment-related information
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Employer, employment history, and other employment-related information
|
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide
you with products and
services, and to maintain
their quality and safety; for surveys, sweepstakes, and contests;
marketing and promotions; for
internal reporting and
service optimization; to serve you content recommendations and
advertising; auditing related to
counting ad impressions
and unique visitors; to consider you for a Forbes list or similar
accolade; for lead generation
services performed on
behalf of our clients; to provide customer service; to verify customer
information; to process
and
fulfill orders and
transactions
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and
advertising, including targeted
advertising; sharing
event registrant information with event sponsors
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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For the listed Commercial Purposes
|
Forbes affiliates; service providers; event sponsors; business and
advertising partners
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Inferences drawn from other personal information for profiling purposes
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Used to create a profile reflecting a person's preferences,
characteristics, and behavior
|
Business Purposes: To communicate with you; to provide
you products and
services,
and to maintain their
quality and safety; for internal reporting and service optimization; to
identify and repair
errors;
to serve you content
recommendations and advertising; auditing related to counting ad
impressions and unique
visitors;
for surveys; marketing
and promotions; to provide customer service
Commercial Purposes: to provide marketing and
advertising, including targeted
advertising
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
|
For the listed Commercial Purposes
|
Forbes affiliates; service providers; business and advertising partners
|
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Sensitive personal information
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Racial or ethnic origin; payment card information
|
Business Purposes: We collect your payment card
information to fulfill, process
and
manage transactions,
services, and subscriptions; provide customer service; to verify
identities when required and
permissible; with your
consent, we collect racial or ethnic origin information from event
registrants to track, report
on,
and improve upon
diversity; in connection with considering you for
a Forbes list or similar accolade,
you may provide Forbes with
nationality or immigration status
information; in connection with a
sweepstakes you have won, we
may collect your social security
number if you are required to
complete a W-9 (US only);
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For the listed Business Purposes to be performed on our behalf
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N/A
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Forbes affiliates; service providers
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