Your Privacy Matters
Effective: February 1, 2021
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 a personalized
experience.
Below is a list of the brands that are a part of the Meredith Corporation
family of companies:
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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:
- Media Brands: Such as PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple and more than twenty others.
- Digital Brands: Cozi Inc., Magazines.com and Magazine.store,
PromoCodesForYou, Cooking Light & cooking Light Diet
- Multicultural Brands: People in Español, Parents Latina
- AgriMedia: Country Gardens, Successful Farming
- Enthusiast Media: American Patchwork & Quilting, WOOD Magazine
- Our Licensed Partners: MarthaStewart.com and RachelRayMag.com
- The Foundry and Foundry360. - The Foundry is Meredith’s state-of-the-art creative lab and content studio. Foundry360 combines data and storytelling to form unparalleled and impactful custom content experiences
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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 the 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 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.
- 4YourHealth, an all-in-one health resource that provides on-demand access to medical care and wellness
information and fitness classes, is part of the Synapse Group, Inc.
- MyLife, a leading mindfulness brand and mobile app, which includes MyLife for Kids, 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 (digital, mobile, social, television, radio, print and outdoor).
Please visit the brand's privacy statements for additional information about how they collect and use
your personal information
When Does This Privacy Statement Apply?
This Privacy Statement 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”).
- Contact Information. We collect the contact information you provide to us when you sign up to listen to our events and presentations or to receive our email alerts and other information.
- Online Identifiers. We have cookies on our website that collect your IP address and any cookie data, which may include your operating system, Internet browser type, and the referring website.
- To Contact You. To send you emails and other investor-related communications.
- To Analyze and Improve the Website.
- To Enhance Security and Fraud Prevention.
- To Comply with Our Legal Obligations. To enforce our legal rights, comply with the law, and prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities.
Our Companies. The companies owned by
Meredith Corporation may share your personal
information with each other when we have the appropriate intracompany contractual protections in place.
Service Providers. We engage service
providers to provide services such as mailings,
annual/quarterly reports, earnings releases,
proxy statements and other email
communications about investor relations.
We may share personal 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 personal 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 Services.
- 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 rights, 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 Statement and offer the opt-out choices described above.
- Security, Retention, and Storage of Information. We use commercially reasonable procedures
to protect the personal information we collect. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can
we guarantee that the personal 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 16 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 16, please do not register for the Services or provide us
with any personal information (such as your name, email address or phone number).
- Location of Your Personal Information. Meredith Corporation is a U.S. company, and your personal information
will be transferred to, processed, stored, and accessed by us, the Meredith Companies and 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. When you visit our Services or use our brands, you consent to the processing of your information in the United States and other jurisdictions as described here.
- 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.
However, we do not rely on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework when we transfer or receive personal information
transferred from the EU. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Privacy Statement 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 European Economic Area (“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 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 Statement. Digital technology is rapidly evolving. If we decide to
change our Privacy Statement in the future, we'll post the changes here and indicate at the top of the page
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 Statement 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