White Girl Records

Privacy Notice

What Information We Obtain

  • Information you provide when you use the Digital Services, including when you sign up for newsletters, order subscriptions, create an account or register for a membership through the Digital Services. This may include your contact, payment or demographic information.
  • Information you submit when you choose to participate in a survey, sweepstakes, contest, promotion, event or similar initiative.
  • Information you give us about others, such as a friend’s contact information when you order a gift subscription.
  • Information collected by automated means such as cookies or pixels. This may include information about your device and browser, including IP address or mobile device advertising identifiers, as well as information about how you and others use, interact with or respond to the Digital Services. This collection may take place while you are using a Digital Service or while the Digital Service is running in the background of your device.
  • Precise location information associated with your device when location services are active.
  • Information we obtain from other sources, such as business partners, data suppliers and social media platforms.

How We Use Information We Obtain

  • To process your requests and provide you with the Digital Services, including to deliver customized content or recommendations. Note that we use your payment card information (such as your card number and expiration date) for limited purposes such as to process your transaction (including recurring payments, if applicable), to provide you with the requested products or services and to protect our rights or the rights of others.
  • To learn about users of the Digital Services and analyze how you and others interact with and respond to the Digital Services.
  • To communicate with you, including to send you marketing and promotional communications.

How We Share Information

  • Within the White Girl Records family of companies.
  • With service providers that perform services or handle transactions on our behalf.
  • With advertisers, advertising- and marketing-related services providers and partners as well as companies that help us learn how you and others interact with our content.
  • With social media platforms and similar services, including when you interact with our Digital Services that integrate tools and services provided by social medial platforms.
  • With business partners, such as when we partner with a third party to offer products or services on a co-branded basis.
  • Other parties when required by law or as necessary to protect our rights, and in the context of corporate transactions.
  • With your consent or otherwise at your direction.

Information you give us

We may ask you to provide information about yourself when you use the Digital Services. For example, to subscribe to one of our newsletters, you will need to give us an email address. You may not be able to use certain features if you choose not to submit the requested information.

The information you give us may include details such as:

  • Contact information (e.g., name, mailing address, email address or phone number).
  • Demographic, interests and household information (e.g., age, gender or education).
  • Payment information for subscriptions or purchases made through the Digital Services (e.g., payment card number, expiration date and billing information).
  • Comments, photos, videos and other content or information you choose to publish on the Digital Services or otherwise share with us.
  • Information you provide when you choose to participate in surveys, polls, sweepstakes, contests or promotions (including information about your participation in activities that may generate loyalty or rewards points).
  • Location information, which may include precise location information when you permit the Digital Services to access device location. To prevent the collection of precise location information, please refer to instructions provided by your mobile service provider or device manufacturer.
  • Other information you may allow us to access through your device’s permissions settings, such as your contacts or address book.
  • Transactional and activity information (e.g., requests, searches or orders).

Information you give us about others

You may give us information about other people, such as the name and email of a friend or contact with whom you want to share an article or the name and address of a gift subscription recipient. Do not give us information about others unless you are authorized or have their consent to do so. We will use their information for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.

Information automatically collected

The Digital Services automatically log certain information about visits to the Digital Services, such as the number and frequency of visitors, technical information about browsers and devices used to access the Digital Services, and information about crashes or other technical issues. In addition, we and third parties may automatically collect certain information through automated means about your activities over time across the Digital Services as well as across third-party sites, apps or other media. The tools that collect this information vary depending on the Digital Services and include technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, local shared objects (including HTML5 cookies) and software development kits (“SDKs”). These technologies may be included in our web pages, mobile apps, emails, and other digital content. The tools may assign or collect unique cookie IDs or other identifiers associated with your browser or device. The tools may collect information while you are using our Digital Services or while they are running in the background of your device.

The information automatically collected may include:

  • Information about your computer, device, browser and operating system (e.g., type, model, or version).
  • Internet protocol (IP) address, which may be used to derive your general geographic area (e.g., city and country).
  • Device identifiers (e.g., mobile advertising IDs).
  • Information about your interactions with the Digital Services, including browsing activities and clickstream data that reflect the content you have accessed, clicked on, or viewed.
  • Information about how you accessed the Digital Services, including details about websites or apps visited immediately before or after accessing aDigital Service.
  • Demographic, interests and household information.
  • Information about your interactions with email messages and other communications, such as whether you opened or forwarded the email or clicked on links contained in the email.

HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We may share the information we obtain with:

  1. Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We work closely with affiliates and subsidiaries within the White Girl Records family of companies with whom we share your information as necessary or appropriate to operate the Digital Services.
  2. Service Providers. In connection with the operation and provision of the Digital Services, we engage various third parties to provide services or handle transactions on our behalf, such as payment card processing, email distribution, list processing, postal mailing, cloud computing, analytics, digital content performance measurement, ad serving and managing sweepstakes, contests, promotions or events. These service providers use the information we provide to them as necessary or appropriate for the performance of their services.
  3. Advertisers, Advertising- and Marketing-Related Service Providers and Partners. We may provide your information to advertisers, advertising agencies, ad networks, ad exchanges, marketing businesses, technology vendors and other entities that create, deliver and assess advertising or marketing campaigns, including interest-based ads.
  4. Content Measurement Companies. We and third parties seek to measure the performance of content across the internet, including on the Digital Services. We may include third-party measurement software in the Digital Services to enable market research or to measure digital and video content consumption.
  5. Social Media Platforms. If you interact with social media widgets, share content using social media share buttons, or access features of the Digital Services that contain content or features provided by Social Media Platforms, the relevant Social Media Platforms may collect information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the Social Media Platforms that you engage with as we are not responsible for their privacy practices.
  6. Business Partners. We may provide your information to business partners including, without limitation, joint marketing partners and content sponsors, for various purposes. For example, we may partner with a third party to offer products on a co-branded, co-sponsored or cross-promotional basis that involves the sharing of information. These initiatives may be offered on the Digital Services or on other media.
  7. Other Parties When Required by Law or As Necessary to Protect Our Rights. We may share your information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend our legal rights, the privacy or safety of our employees, users of the Digital Services or other individuals and entities, or to comply with or enforce applicable industry standards, law or legal process, including responding to court orders, warrants, subpoenas and other requests from public and government authorities.
  8. Corporate Transactions. We reserve the right to transfer any of the information we have about you to proceed with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition or other disposition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation.
  9. With Your Consent or Otherwise at Your Direction. In addition, we may share your information with third parties when you consent to or request such sharing.

About

Edna Giannone is the deputy editor at the White Girl Records and a longtime product tester, reviewer, writer, and editor of beauty, and lifestyle content. Previously, she worked as Beauty Editor and launched the Beauty vertical, and has covered lifestyle and travel trends. She’s a graduate of NSU University School of journalism.