Your Privacy Matters
Effective: February 26, 2020
Who Is Meredith?
Meredith Corporation is a publicly held media and marketing services company founded upon
serving our customers and committed to building value for our shareholders. Meredith
Corporation and our brands focus on providing destinations you can trust and rely on for every
stage of your life to connect you to great content, products and services and personalize your
experience with us.
Below is a list of the brands that are a part of the Meredith Corporation
family of companies:
-
National Media Group. Meredith's National Media Group reaches more than 180 million
unduplicated American consumers every month, including nearly 90 percent of U.S.
Millennial women. Meredith is a leader in creating content across media platforms and life
stages in key consumer interest areas such as entertainment, food, lifestyle, home,
parenting, beauty and fashion. Meredith’s National Media Group includes:
- Our Media Brands: Such as PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple and more than twenty others.
- Our Digital Brands: Such as Cozi Inc., Magazines.com, Magazine.store,
PromoCodesForYou, Cooking Light Diet
- Multicultural: Such as People in Espanol, Parents Latina
- Agrimedia: Such as Country Gardens, Successful Farming
- Enthusiast Media: Such as American Patchwork & Quilting, WOOD magazine
- Our Licensed Partners: MarthaStewart.com and RachaelRayMag.com
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Local Media Group.
Meredith's Local Media Group includes 17 television stations in 12
markets reaching more than 11 percent of U.S. households. Meredith's portfolio is
concentrated in large, fast-growing markets, with seven stations in the nation's Top 25 and
13 in Top 50 markets. Meredith's stations produce more than 700 hours of local news and
entertainment content each week, and operate leading local digital destinations.
Meredith’s Local Media Group includes local stations
WGCL,
WPCH,
KPHO,
KTVK,
KMOV,
KPTV,
KPDX,
WSMV,
KCTV,
KSMO,
WFSB,
WHNS,
KVVU,
WALA,
WNEM,
WGGB, and
WSHM.
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Synapse Group Inc - Synapse is a technology-driven partnership marketing company
that helps some of the world’s largest consumer brands earn revenue, drive loyalty and
acquire new customers.
- 4 Your Health, an all-in-one health resource that provides on-demand access to medical care, wellness
information and fitness classes, is part of the Synapse Group Inc.
- Stop, Breathe & Think, a leading mindfulness brand and mobile app, is part of the
Synapse Group Inc.
- Bizrate – Bizrate is a marketing research company that pays members for completing
online surveys about consumer products, services, and brands.
- MNI Targeted Media Inc.
MNI has 50 years’ experience helping clients sell targeted ads
to specific audiences. Its media planning and buying consultative services include all media
platforms, including digital, mobile, social, television, radio, print and outdoor.
Please visit the brands’ privacy policies for additional information about how they collect and use
your information
When Does this Policy Apply?
This Privacy Policy applies when you interact with Meredith Corporation’s Investor Relations
(“Meredith IR”) through our website, and the informational services we offer to our investors and
the general public (our “Services”)
We collect the contact information you provide us when you sign-up to listen to our events and
presentations, or to receive our email alerts and other information.
- To Contact You: To send you emails and other investor-related communications.
- To Analyze and Improve the Website
- Security and Fraud Prevention
- Enforce our legal rights or comply with the
law
- Prevent potentially prohibited or illegal
activities.
Within Meredith The companies owned by
Meredith Corporation may share your personal
information with each other.
Service Providers. We engage Service
Providers to provide services such as mailings,
annual/quarterly reports, earnings releases,
proxy statements and other email
communications related to investor relations.
We may share information we collect about you
with these Service Providers and authorize
them to collect information from you directly to
support the services they provide to us. We do not authorize our Service Providers to share
your information with any other third parties.
Legal Compliance, Business Transfers, and
Other Disclosures. We disclose information
about users of our Services when we believe the
law requires it, for example, to respond to
compulsory process or law enforcement
requests, or protect the rights, property or
safety of users of our Services, the public,
Meredith Corporation and the companies it
owns. Over time, we may reorganize or transfer
various assets and lines of business. We reserve
the right to disclose or transfer any information
we collect to third parties in connection with
any proposed or actual purchase, sale, lease,
merger, foreclosure, liquidation, amalgamation
or any other type of acquisition, disposal,
transfer, conveyance or financing of all or any
portion of Meredith or our affiliates.
What Rights Do You Have?
- Right to Know - You have the right to ask us
to tell you what personal information we
collect use, disclose and sell about you.
- Right to Request Deletion - You have the
right to ask us to delete the personal
information we collect or maintain about you.
- Right to be Free From Discrimination – You
have the right not to be discriminated against
for exercising these rights.
- Right to Access or Correct Your Information - You have the right to request access to and
to edit the personal information that you have
provided to us through our Sites.
- Shine the Light Rights - We do not share
information collected from Meredith IR with
third parties for their direct marketing
purposes.
While these rights are only legally required in certain jurisdictions, we do our best to honor these rights
for all Meredith visitors. To exercise your right to information about our data collection practices on
this site or request deletion of the information on this site, please contact us at privacy@meredith.com.
Do Not Track
We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. Instead, we adhere to the standards set
out in this privacy policy and offer the opt-out choices described above
- Security, Retention and Storage of Information. We use commercially reasonable procedures
to protect the information we collect. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can
we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the
Internet.
- Children's Privacy. We do not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 13 to provide us with
any personal information online. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any
personal information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the
Internet, to us or to anyone else. If you're under 13, please do not register for the Sites or provide us
with any personal information (such as your name, email address or phone number).
- Location of Your Data. Meredith Corporation is a U.S. company and your personal information
will be transferred to, processed, stored and accessed by us, and our Service Providers in the United States
and in other jurisdictions where we or they operate, which may not provide you with the same level of
privacy protection as you are entitled to in your jurisdiction.
- EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Meredith adheres to the principles of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
Framework (“Privacy Shield Principles”) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the
collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union (“EU”) to the
United States, and it is in the process of certifying its compliance with the U.S. Department of Commerce.
If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the
Privacy Shield Principles will govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, please visit the
Privacy Shield website.
Meredith is responsible for the processing of personal information it receives under the EU-U.S. Privacy
Shield Framework, or subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Meredith
complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers from the EU and EEA, including
onward transfer liability provisions.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over Meredith’s compliance with its obligations under
the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. In certain situations, Meredith may be required to disclose personal
information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security
or law enforcement requirements.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, Meredith commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact us at privacy@meredith.com. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not resolved your complaint, you may submit your complaint at no cost to you to JAMS, our independent recourse mechanism, at https://www.jamsadr.com/eu-us-privacy-shield. In the event there are residual complaints that have not been resolved by JAMS, or any other means, you may seek a non-monetary remedy through binding arbitration to be provided to you in accordance with the Privacy Shield Principles.
- Changes to Our Privacy Policy. Digital technology is rapidly evolving. If we decide to
change our Privacy Policy in the future, we'll post the changes here and indicate at the top of the policy
the last date on which it was updated. Unless otherwise noted, all changes will be effective when posted.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about the Meredith Corporation, Privacy Policy or its
implementation please contact us via email at Meredith.human.resources@meredith.com or by writing
to:
Meredith Corporation,
Attn. Human Resources
1716 Locust Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50309