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Sportority Inc., and its affiliated companies ("Minute Media," "we," "us," or "our") are dedicated to providing you with transparency and control over our use of your Data, ensuring that your privacy is protected and processed in compliance with applicable data protection laws. In order for us to provide you with our Services, we may collect and process certain information about you and your activities in relation to our Services ("Data"), including information that is considered "personal information" or "personal data" under applicable laws.

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how we collect, use, process, and disclose your information in connection the provision of our services and products, including, without limitation, our print and digital publications such as Sports Illustrated, 90MIN, The Players Tribune, MentalFloss, Fansided and the operation of our websites and mobile apps (hereinafter our "Websites"), where this Privacy Policy is posted or made available (collectively the "Services").

With respect to processing of personal data on residents of the EU, we participate in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework, and comply with the Policies and Specifications and with the Transparency & Consent Framework provided by IAB Europe. Our IAB Europe vendor ID is 918.

In the course of your use of the Services, we may use different technologies and ask you to provide us with certain Data to help us provide and improve the Services, to contact or identify you, to enable you to access certain parts of the Websites as otherwise indicated in this Policy. We may collect the following Data about you in the following ways.

Some of our Services allow you to provide information to us about yourself. This may include:

When you use certain of our Services, including our Websites, our servers automatically collect certain information from your devices, including:

We also collect information regarding your interactions with our Websites and email marketing messages, including interactions with advertisements displayed on the Websites. We and our third-party business partners may collect this information through the use of tracking tools such as cookies, pixels, JavaScript, web beacons, and SDKs. You can learn more about the tracking tools we use by visiting our Cookie Policy. Additionally, residents of some U.S. states, the UK, the EEA and other applicable jurisdictions may use our Cookie Settings tool to learn more and to change their preferences.

We may receive your Data from third parties such as social media platforms (for example your name and username, when you register or log-in to our Services using a social media account), fraud prevention agencies and other business partners such as advertisers or app platforms that may provide us with data such as pseudonymous advertiser identifiers. We may also obtain Data from third-party business partners such as sponsors, promotional partners or other strategic partners,  companies you direct to send information to us, and companies that provide us with information to enhance Data we have about you or your device to better understand our customers and to provide and enhance our Services.  In some cases, we may collect Data from websites and tools offered by companies that are not affiliated with us, but that are linked to or integrated into our Services or provide links to our Services. Your interactions with websites and tools offered by companies that are not affiliated with us are covered by the privacy policies of those companies, not this Privacy Policy.



If you choose to use third party devices and technologies (such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant) in connection with our Services, the operators of those third-party devices and technologies will process your information in connection with their own terms of service and privacy policies, which you should review. Those operators may provide us with certain information related to your use of those devices, including the audio you provide (to learn more about Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant data processing, please visit Google's policies, here and here; and Amazon's policies: here and here).

We may disclose the information we collect from and about you as described below.

We share your information with companies in our group in connection with any of the uses of your Data set out in this Privacy Policy.

Vendors and service providers - we hire vendors and other companies to perform services for us such as creation, maintenance, hosting, delivery and marketing of our Services and provision of third-party advertising. These service providers may have access to your Data so that they may perform these tasks on our behalf, but they are obligated to comply with contractual privacy obligations.

We may disclose your Data to third-party businesses for their own purposes, including marketing products or services to you, showing you relevant advertising, or providing an enhanced experience that integrates with our Services. For example, we may offer content or Activities (e.g., competitions, sweepstakes, promotions, games,) that are sponsored by or co-branded with third parties which may collect or obtain Data from participants. We may also share your Data for Data segmentation, enrichment and optimization purposes, which allow us or our partners to personalize and optimize the Services, advertisements and marketing activities we or they offer you. In some jurisdictions, this is subject to consent or opt-out options set forth in this Policy.

We share Data collected in connection with the Sports Illustrated business with ABG-SI LLC, the owner and licensor of the Sports Illustrated trademarks. ABG-SI acts as a separate "business" / data controller and uses the Sports Illustrated Data in the manner set forth in its Privacy Policy at:https://corporate.authentic.com/privacy-policy

Certain user profile information, including your name, location, and any related video or image content you uploaded to the Services for publication, may be displayed to other users as part of the Services, to facilitate user interaction within the Services or address your request for our Services. Please remember that any content you upload to your public user profile, along with any Data or content that you voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view (e.g., on your published content, forums, discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, etc.) becomes publicly available, and can be collected and used by anyone. Your name/username may also be displayed to other users if and when you send messages or comments or upload images, content or videos through the Services.

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any Data about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect our or a third party's property and rights, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop any activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical, inappropriate or legally actionable. We also may be required to disclose an individual's Data in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including meeting national security or law enforcement requirements.

We may share your Data if we enter into a business transaction such as a merger, divestiture, acquisition, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy, or other sale or transfer or business transaction involving all or part of our company or assets, including for the purposes of determining whether to proceed with such transaction. Any party that acquires our assets as part of such a transaction may continue to use your Data in accordance with the terms of this Policy.

When you register for or enter an Activity through our Services, we may disclose the information you provide for such purposes to certain third-party service providers, participating sponsors, and advertising partners. By entering into any Activity, you agree to the official rules governing that Activity, which may include a requirement that you allow us or the sponsor of that Activity to use and publicly release your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising for or associated with the Activity.

We may otherwise disclose information if you ask or authorize us to do so, including by interacting with third parties on our Websites. We are not responsible for events arising from distribution of your information that you choose to disclose publicly through our services.

We may opt to aggregate and/or de-identify information such that it is no longer able to be linked to you or your device(s). This Policy does not limit our ability to use or disclose such aggregated or de-identified information, which we may disclose in our sole discretion.

A cookie or other tracking technology is a small piece of script or code that is stored on your browser or device to help websites and apps remember you and collect information about your use of the Services.  When you visit or access our Services we use (and authorize third parties to use) pixels, cookies, web beacons, SDKs and other tracking technologies. These technologies help recognize your browser or device and automatically collect information about you, your device and your online behavior to provide certain features on our Services, enhance your navigation in our Services, improve our Websites' performance, maintain your preferences, perform analytics and customize your experience. In addition, we and third-party advertising companies may use this information to help serve advertising tailored to your interests, both on and off our Services. These technologies also help measure interaction with advertisements across our Services, marketing emails and third-party websites, apps, devices and services.

To learn more about how we and our partners use tracking technologies please visit our Cookie Policy. Additionally, please see the US State Supplement and International Supplement for more information about choices individuals residing in certain US states, the UK, the EEA and other relevant jurisdictions have with respect to information collected via these tracking technologies.

You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from us by clicking on the "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email. You also may tell us that you do not want to receive our promotional messages by emailing us at contactus@minutemedia.com (kindly specify the name of the relevant product from which you wish to unsubscribe from). Please understand that it may take us a few days to process any opt out request and that even if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us. If you subscribed to any of our partners' service, please note we will have no control over our partners' communications, and in order to unsubscribe from it please contact the relevant partner or use the "unsubscribe" link in its emails.

If you have opted-in to receive push notification on your device, you can opt-out at any time by adjusting the permissions in your device or uninstalling our relevant app.

You may have more options depending on your mobile device, operating system, or browser. Please review the support materials and/or the privacy settings for the respective devices and systems to learn more about these features and how they apply to targeted advertisements. Blocking cookies may also prevent you from accessing some of our content or Service features.

In some jurisdictions, you may have the right to opt-out from the "sale" (as defined under applicable privacy laws) of your Data to third parties by using our designated tools (such as opt-out banners, cookie preference banners, Do-Not-Sell buttons, etc.), as well as by contacting us in the manner set forth below. Please see our US State Supplement and International Supplement for more information.

In addition to the rights noted above, depending on your country (or in the United States, your US state) of residence, you may be afforded, in accordance with applicable law, certain other rights with respect to your Data, such as the right to:

For more information about what rights may be available to you depending on your country or state of residence, please see the US State Supplement (if you reside in the United States) or the International Supplement (if you reside outside the United States). 

Once we receive your request, we may verify it by requesting information sufficient to confirm your identity. We reserve the right to deny requests as allowed by applicable law, such as where we have a reasonable belief that the request is fraudulent, where your identity cannot be confirmed, or where we must retain your Information consistent with applicable law. Our goal is to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days (for US residents), or 30 days (for UK and EEA residents) of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing within the initial response period. We will deliver our written response, electronically. If reasonably possible, we will provide your Data in a format that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information without hindrance.

In case of rejection, the response we provide will explain the reasons for which we cannot comply with your request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices, although some of the functionality and features available to you may change or no longer be available to you.

We have implemented administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of your Data. Your Data is stored on secure servers and isn't publicly available. While we seek to protect your information to ensure that it is kept confidential, we cannot absolutely guarantee its security. You need to help us prevent unauthorized access to your account by protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your account. You will be solely responsible for keeping your password confidential and for all use of your password and your account, including any unauthorized use. You should also be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the internet. While we strive to protect your Data, we cannot ensure or warrant the security and privacy of your Data or other content you transmit using the Services, and you do so at your own risk.

We will retain your Data for as long as necessary to provide our Services, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. Retention periods will be determined taking into account the type of information that is collected and the purpose for which it is collected, bearing in mind the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy outdated, unused information at the earliest reasonable time. Under applicable regulations, we will keep records containing client personal Data, trading information, account opening documents, communications and anything else as required by applicable laws and regulations.

Some US state laws require us to inform residents of those states about additional privacy information and rights. Please visit our US State Supplement for additional information.

The laws in some countries, including the United Kingdom, countries in the EEA, Brazil and Canada require us to inform residents of those countries about additional privacy information and rights. Please visit our International Supplement for additional information.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.  If you are a parent or guardian and you believe we have collected your child's information, please contact us at contactus@minutemedia.com. 

This Policy is subject to changes from time to time, in our sole discretion. The most current version will always be posted on our Websites (as reflected in the "Last Updated" heading). You are advised to check for updates regularly. Any changes will be effective upon posting of the revised Policy. By continuing to use the Services after that date, you consent to any and all changes, unless applicable law requires us to provide another form of notice and/or obtain your consent to such changes. 

This Policy has been drafted in the English language, which is the original and controlling version of this Policy. All translations of this Policy into other languages shall be solely for convenience and shall not control the meaning or application of this Policy. In the event of any discrepancy between the meanings of any translated versions of the Policy and the English language version, the meaning of the English language version shall prevail.

Please contact us regarding any questions or complaints pertaining to this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices at dpo@minutemedia.com. Please be advised that dpo@minutemedia.com is designated solely for privacy related inquiries of our users, and we reserve the right to not respond to any non-privacy inquiries that are sent via the privacy email address. For any non-privacy inquiries, please see send an email to helpdesk@minutemedia.com.Upon receiving your request, and according to legal obligations to which we are subject, we will first need to verify your request and therefore we may ask you to provide us with additional verification details, as needed. Following our verification process, we will respond to your request within the timeframe required under applicable laws.

Last Updated: April 9, 2024

This US State Supplement provides information for residents of California, Connecticut, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Virginia. In addition, this Supplement will apply to residents of Texas and Oregon as of July 1, 2024 and to residents of Montana as of October 1, 2024. These state laws provide residents certain rights, which you can exercise as set forth below. 

Our general Privacy Policy explains what Data we collect about you, how we collect that Data and why and how we use and disclose that information. Individuals who reside in California, Connecticut, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Virginia should read this Supplement as well as our Privacy Policy to fully understand our collection, use, and disclosure of your Data. 

Any capitalized terms we do not define in this Supplement are defined in our Privacy Policy.

Your rights as specified under state law may include the following:

We do not use or disclose personal information for profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you without either your explicit consent or where otherwise permitted by applicable law. If you are a California resident, additional information about your rights is provided in Section (3) below.

To exercise your rights to delete, access or correct your personal information/data, please send us an email at contactus@minutemedia.com. To prevent fraud and verify your identity, we usually ask you provide an email address when you submit a request. You may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. Depending on the nature of your request, we may ask that you verify that the request comes from you such as by requiring a signed written permission from you that authorizes the agent to act on your behalf. A valid power of attorney will constitute signed written permission, but you are not required to obtain a power of attorney to use an authorized agent. 

If we deny your request or cannot fulfill it, you may appeal our decision by contacting us via contactus@minutemedia.com to ask us to review your request again. Your email should include "Appeal" in the subject line. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment if you exercise any of the rights explained in this US State Supplement. 

Requests to Opt Out of "Sale" of Personal Information/Data or to Limit Use of Personal Information/Data for Targeted Advertising

If you do not want us to "sell" your personal information/data to third parties or if you wish to limit use of your personal information/data for targeted advertising, please use the consent management tool available on the homepages of our Websites.

After you opt-out of "sales," we may continue to share some personal information/data with our partners (who will function as our service providers or processors in such instance) to help us perform business-related functions such as, but not limited to, providing the Services, ensuring that the Services are working correctly and securely, providing aggregate statistics and analytics and/or preventing fraud. If you access this site (or app) from other devices or browsers, visit the links below from those devices or browsers to ensure your choice applies to the personal information/data collected when you use those devices or browsers.

California residents should review the below California-specific disclosures and metrics provided in accordance with California law.

For purposes of this section, the "CCPA" shall mean Consumer Privacy Act, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 et seq., as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, and the regulations promogulated thereunder.

In the preceding 12 months, we have collected, disclosed, and/or sold the following categories of personal information:

We collect personal information from you and from the following categories of services:

Consumer Requests Metrics

We publish metrics regarding the number of requests we have received, complied with (in whole or in part) or denied, and also the median number of days in which we responded to such requests, in the previous year (these metrics are compiled annually and refer to the period between July 1st of the previous year to April 20th of the following year

Requests to Delete

35

Up to 72 hours from the day of applicable request

Requests to Know

Up to 72 hours from the day of applicable request

Requests to Opt Out of Sale

206,768

206,768

Children under 16.

We do not "share" or "sell" (as defined under California law) personal information of children we know are under 16 years of age.

Sensitive Personal Information.

We do not use or disclose "sensitive personal information" (as defined under California law) in any way that would require us to provide an opt-out opportunity under California law. 

Last Updated: April 9, 2024

This International Supplement provides information for residents of certain countries outside the United States which have data protection laws with specific requirements that are addressed in this Supplement, including the UK, the EEA, Brazil and Canada. 

Our general Privacy Policy explains what information we collect about you, how we collect that information and why and how we use and disclose that information. Individuals who reside in the UK, EEA, Brazil and Canada should read this International Supplement as well as our Privacy Policy to fully understand our collection, use, and disclosure of your information. 

Any capitalized terms we do not define in this International Supplement are defined in our Privacy Policy. 

With respect to processing of personal Data on residents of the EU, we participate in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework, and comply with the Policies and Specifications and with the Transparency & Consent Framework provided by IAB Europe. Our IAB Europe vendor ID is 918.

For the purposes of this Supplement, "Process", "Processed" and "Processing" includes the collection, storage, use, disclosure and processing, as applicable, of your Personal Data.

Your Data will be processed with your consent and/or for the purposes and the corresponding legal bases as described in more detail below, as applicable.

Purpose

Legal basis (if and when required under applicable laws)

Provision of our Services; support; service announcements; push notifications; analytics, surveys and research; protecting our interests; enforcing of policies;

We may use your Personal Data, such as your name and email address, for operational purposes, for example, responding to your inquiries. In other instances we may, for example, use your Personal Data to send you notifications and communications if you opted in and/or accepted to receive them from us, or if they are relevant to your use of our Services (such as service announcements).The legal bases for Processing this data are the performance of our contractual obligations towards you; your consent (for example, when you provide Personal Data); compliance with our legal obligations; and our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests in this case are enforcing our policies, protection against fraud and misuse of our Services.

Payments. We collect from our third-party payment processors certain information about your payment instruments for the purpose of completing any transaction requested by you, and sending to you statements, invoices, or receipts.The legal bases for Processing this data are the performance of our contractual obligations; the protection of our legitimate interests, in this case enforcing our policies and preventing misuse of our Services; and compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject.

Improve our Services. We collect and analyze information about you and your usage of our Services to improve the usability and effectiveness of our Services.The legal bases for Processing this data are our legitimate interests, in this case - providing and improving our Services. Where analytics data containing personal data is collected through cookies and similar Tracking Technologies (as further described below) we rely on your consent, where required.

Marketing and Advertising; We may use Tracking Technologies (which may collect Personal Data) in order to provide you with personalized advertisements when you visit our Services.The legal bases for processing this data are your consent (where required) and our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests in this case are providing you with tailored Services, content and advertisements that better correspond with your interests.

Third Party Advertising and Data Segmentation; We may share your personal data with third party ad networks and data segmentation solution companies to enrich, segment or optimize your data for marketing and advertising purposes of ourselves and our business partners.The legal bases for processing this data are your consent (where required) and our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests in this case are providing you with tailored Services, content and advertisements that better correspond with your interests, and assisting our business partners to do the same. As explained below, where applicable, you will have the option to opt-out from such data processing.

Integrity. We may process certain information about you and your usage of the Service in order to keep the integrity and security of the Services, prevent fraud, identify your identity and enforce our policies.The legal bases for processing this data are your consent (where required), compliance with our legal obligations and our legitimate interests. Our legitimate interests in this case are keeping the integrity of our Services and the safety of our end-users.

Compliance with applicable laws, legal and regulatory requirements.We may be required to collect, retain, or share your Personal Data, under applicable laws.

We operate globally, thus any information that we collect, disclose or share, including your personal data, can be stored and processed in various other jurisdictions around the world ("Other Jurisdictions"), including (but not limited to) the United States and Canada, for the purposes detailed in this Policy. We will transfer your personal data only to such countries as approved by the European Commission as providing adequate level of data protection, or enter into legal agreements ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

To the extent that the GDPR or UK GDPR are applicable, we will only transfer or share your Personal Data to Data recipients:

You can obtain more information about our policies and practices with respect to the use of service providers located in Other Jurisdictions by contacting us as described in our Privacy Policy under the "How to Contact Us" heading.

If you reside within the European Union or the UK, you may request to:

  1. Receive confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning you is being processed, and access your stored Personal Data, together with supplementary information.

  2. Receive a copy of Personal Data you directly volunteer to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

  3. Request rectification of your Personal Data that is in our control.

  4. Object to the processing of Personal Data by us.

  5. Request to restrict processing of your Personal Data by us.

  6. Request erasure of your Personal Data.

  7. Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

If you reside in the EEA or UK, we will be the controller of your Personal Data provided to, collected by or for, or processed by us in connection with our Services. In addition to the above mentioned, Partners also act as Data controllers for the personal Data that we share with them and any personal Data that Partners may collect independent of our relationship with them. If you have any questions about the processing of your personal Data by a Partner, you should contact the Partner directly. 

All requests, complaints and queries should be addressed to us by submitting a verifiable consumer request to our email address: dpo@minutemedia.com (please provide the required details as set out below).

We take our obligations seriously and we ask that any concerns are first brought to our attention, so that we can try to resolve them. To the extent you feel unsatisfied with our response to your request to exercise your rights, you may choose to send us a request to appeal our decision. If you are unsatisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with the applicable Data protection supervisory authority. 

Our representative in the European Union is Lionheart Squared (Europe) Ltd., 2 Pembroke House, Upper Pembroke Street 28-32, Dublin, D02 EK84 Ireland, and their email address is: MinuteMedia@lionheartsquared.eu.

Our representative in the United Kingdom is 385-389 Oxford St. London W1C 2NB and their email address is: dpo@minutemedia.com.

In addition, you can exercise your rights via dpo@minutemedia.com, where you can submit a verifiable user request.

Only you or a person legally authorized to act on your behalf may make a consumer request related to your Personal Data ("Request").

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

The Request must:

The following part of this International Supplement complements the general part of the Privacy Policy and addresses the specific disclosure requirements under the Brazilian Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, "LGPD").

The processing of your Personal Data is not a condition for the use our Services. However, parts of our Services may not be available without registration and/or payment, which involve the processing of Personal Data.

If you reside in Brazil, you have the following rights under LGPD:

If you would like to exercise any of any of the rights mentioned in this section, please contact the email address mentioned below: dpo@minutemedia.com (please provide the required details as set out in the UK/EEA section above).

If you are resident in Canada, you may have certain rights (including those described below) with respect to your Personal Data that we Process. To exercise any of your privacy rights, please contact us as at dpo@minutemedia.com.

Personal Data of job candidates who apply for any of our and our affiliated companies' open jobs in the EU or Canada ("Candidates"), is also subject to this Policy, and in addition, to the terms specifically provided in this section, which shall prevail over the rest of the terms of this Policy in case of inconsistency. Within an application of a Candidate, we may collect certain Personal Data about the Candidate, as provided by the Candidate, such as: resume, contact details, occupation data and other related information ("Candidate Data").

Candidates should not apply for a job and provide us with their Data, unless they have read and agreed to this Policy and Comeet's Privacy Policy.

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