MASN PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: January 1, 2023
Thank you for visiting masnsports.com. MASN and its
subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “MASN”, “we”, “us” or “our”) are
committed to protecting your information. This Privacy Policy applies to your
access and use of the MASN websites, mobile applications, and other online
programs (collectively “MASN Site”). This Privacy Policy describes how MASN
collects, uses and discloses certain information, and the choices you can make
about that information.
By accessing, visiting or using the MASN Site, you
acknowledge the data collection practices and purposes described in this
Privacy Policy. Please note that if you disagree with anything in this Privacy
Policy, you should not use the MASN Site. This Privacy Policy is part of, and
is governed by, the terms and conditions set forth in our Terms of Use
Agreement located at https://www.masnsports.com/masn-news-information/terms-of-use.html.
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy to
accommodate new technologies, industry practices, regulatory requirements, or
for other purposes. We will provide notice to you if these changes are material
and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent. Notice may
be by email to you at the last email address you provided us, by posting notice
of such changes on the MASN Site, or by other means, consistent with applicable
law.
Table of Contents
1.
1. Information We Collect
2.
2. How We Use Information
3.
3. How We Share Information
4.
4. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Online
Advertising
5.
5. Your Choices, Rights and Controls
6.
6. External Sites
7.
7. Children
8.
8. Security
9.
9. Retention
10.
10. Notice to Virginia Residents
11.
11. Notice to California Residents
12.
12. Contact Us
1.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information from and about you in connection with
your use of the MASN Site. Some of this information may be considered “Personal
Information”. Personal Information is information that identifies an individual
or relates to an identifiable individual. Personal Information includes
“personal data” as that term may be defined under data protection laws. We may
also collect, use, and disclose aggregated or de-identified information that
does not reasonably identify you or your device, and that information is not
considered Personal Information.
We collect Personal Information from the following sources:
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a. Information We Collect Directly from
You: While using the MASN Site, we may ask
you to provide us with certain Personal Information. This may include, but is
not limited to: your name, date of birth, mailing address, telephone number,
e-mail address, username and password (for account administration), financial
account information and other payment information (for order processing). You
may also submit additional personal information to us for the administration of
particular promotional events, such as sweepstakes or contests, when you
contact us seeking customer service, or when you provide us with feedback,
comments or suggestions on our services.
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b. Information We Collect from You
Automatically: As you navigate through and interact
with the MASN Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to
collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and
patterns, including:
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i. Details
of your visits to the MASN Site, including, but not limited to, traffic data,
logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on
the MASN Site;
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ii. Information
about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address,
operating system, and browser type;
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iii. Information
about the type of device you are using, mobile ad identifiers, the time and
length of your visit, the website that referred you to the MASN Site, and the
subject of the ads you click or scroll over;
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iv. Information
about your preferences to make your use of the MASN Site more productive, via
the use of cookies; and
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v. Information
about your location. You can withdraw consent for our collection, use, and
transfer of precise location information by adjusting the location settings on
your device.
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c. Information We Collect from Other
Sources: We acquire information about you from
other trusted sources. These business partners might include companies, such as
your TV or internet service provider, or other streaming media device providers
who make our MASN Site or content available on their devices, mobile phone
carriers, or other companies who provide services to you. We may also collect
information about you from other sources, including service providers, data
licensors and aggregators, marketing companies, advertising partners,
programming distributors, social media platforms, and public databases. The
information our business partners provide us varies depending on the nature of
their services, and may include IP addresses, device IDs or other unique
identifiers, information about your interests, demographic data, purchasing
behavior, and your activities online.
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d. Information from Social Media: When you interact with any of our pages or accounts on a
social medial platform, we may collect the Personal Information that you or the
platform make available to us on that page or account, including your social
media account ID and/or the user name associated with that social media
service, your profile picture, email address, friends list or information about
the people and groups with whom you are connected and how you interact with
them, and any information you have made public in connection with that social
media service.
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2. How We Use Information
We may use Personal Information about you for the purposes
described below, or as otherwise disclosed to you through the MASN Site. We may
use your information in the following ways:
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a. To
process and manage your account and provide you with our services.
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b. To
respond to your inquiries or requests, and to post your comments or statements
on message boards or in our online forums.
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c. To
create and deliver personalized promotions based on your purchases and other
interactions with us.
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d. To
send you communications about offerings from MASN and our affiliated companies.
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e. To
improve our online services, including to perform data analysis, audits, fraud
monitoring and prevention, identify usage trends determine the effectiveness of
our promotional campaigns, and to operate and expand our business activities
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f. To
prevent, investigate, and provide notice of fraud or unlawful criminal
activity. We may use your Personal Information to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected
fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies.
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g. To
comply with legal process and our legal obligations. We may use your Personal
Information to respond to law enforcement requests and as required by
applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
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h. To
ensure compliance with our terms. We may process your Personal Information to
enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us,
including for billing and collection.
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i. As
otherwise provided in our agreements with you. We may use your Personal
Information as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use
Agreement, or at the time such information is collected.
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3. How We Share Information
Except as set forth below, we will not knowingly disclose
your Personal Information to anyone outside of MASN or our affiliated companies
(collectively “MASN”).
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a. To Perform Our Services for You: We may disclose your Personal Information to third-party
service providers to assist us in providing you with our services such as
payment processing, website hosting, professional services, including
information technology services and related infrastructure, customer service,
e-mail delivery, auditing and other similar services necessary to the MASN Site
and services you request.
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b. Corporate Transactions or Events: We may disclose your information to a third party in
connection with a corporate reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture,
assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our
business, assets or stock, including in connection with any bankruptcy or
similar proceedings.
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c. Business Partners: We may share information with our business partners.
Partners may include marketing, audience measurement, or other partners such as
those working with us on co-branded services or events and digital distribution
partners where we make the MASN Site available. Our partners use the
information we give them as described in their privacy policies. The MASN Site
may feature Nielsen proprietary measurement software that will allow you to
contribute to market research, such as Nielsen’s TV Ratings. For more
information about Nielsen digital measurement products, please review Nielsen’s
privacy statement https://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy.
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d. As Part of a Contest, Giveaway,
Sweepstake, or Other Promotion: We may
share your information with sponsors and other partners for contests,
giveaways, sweepstakes and promotions. We may use information you provide to
verify your entry into and eligibility to participate in contests, sweepstakes,
giveaways, or promotions and to inform you if you have won. If your entry
information will be used for any other purposes, we will disclose that in the
applicable rules governing that sweepstake, contest, giveaway, or promotion.
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e. Compliance with Law: We may use or disclose your Personal Information as we deem
necessary or appropriate: (1) under applicable law, including laws outside your
country of residence; (2) to respond to requests from public and government authorities
including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
(3) to comply with subpoenas and other legal processes; (4) to pursue available
remedies or limit damages we may sustain; (5) to protect our operations or
those of any of our affiliated companies; (6) to protect the rights, privacy,
safety or property of MASN or others; and (7) to enforce our terms and
conditions.
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f. Business Partners: We may, from time to time, share the information you
provide to us with carefully selected third party marketing partners that we
believe offer products or services that may be of interest to you. If you would
like us to stop providing your information to our third-party marketing
partners, you may opt-out by emailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or sending a letter to MASN, 333 W. Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
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g. At Your Request: We will share your information if you ask us to. For
example, if you ask us to share your information in order for you to
participate in an interactive service that is operated by a third party.
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h. If You Choose to Use External Sites: The MASN Site may contain links to, or interact with, or be
available on, other sites, software, or services on the Internet which that are
owned and/or operated by affiliates, sponsors, advertisers and other third
parties, such as social media providers, including, but not limited to, Disqus,
Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and cable providers (collectively, the "External
Sites"). If you choose to interact with any such External Sites, you will
share your Personal Information with them, and they may process it in
accordance with their own privacy policies. For more information, please see
the “External Sites” Section of our Terms of Use and the “Social Networking and Third Party Sites” Section of this Privacy Policy.
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4. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Online
Advertising
MASN and our service providers, advertisers, and other third
parties use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., HTTP cookies, HTML 5, flash
local storage cookies, web beacons, GIFs, embedded scripts, ETags/cache
browsers, hashed identifiers, and software development kits) to recognize you
on, off, and across the MASN site and your devices. Cookies are small pieces of
data that we and our agents place in your computer’s browser to store your
preferences.
First-party cookies are placed by us (including through the
use of third-party service providers) and are used to allow you to use the MASN
Site, and our features and to assist in analytics activities. Certain third
parties may place their cookies on your device and use them to recognize your
device when you visit the MASN Site and when you visit other websites or online
services. These third parties collect and use this information pursuant to
their own privacy policies. Third-party cookies enable certain features or
functionalities, and advertising, to be provided on the MASN Site.
The purposes for which we and our partners use cookies and
similar technologies generally fall into the following categories:
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a. Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are used to carry out or facilitate the transmission
of communications over a network and those that are strictly necessary to
provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website).
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b. Functional: These first party cookies allow you to use a feature of the
MASN Site, such as to stay logged in or make purchase.
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c. Performance Cookies: These can be first party or third-party cookies. Such
cookies track information about how the MASN Site are used so MASN can make
improvements and report on our performance. MASN may also use such cookies to
test new ads or features.
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d. Targeting Cookies: These third-party cookies (also called “behavioral” or
“targeted” advertising) are placed by advertising platforms or networks to
deliver ads and track performance or to deliver ads based upon your activities.
We use cookies so that we can improve your online experience
– for example, by remembering you when you come back to visit us, and making
the content you see more relevant to you. Cookies also enable us to track
online purchases made through the MASN Site. We also use cookies and other
technologies to help manage our online advertising program. These technologies
may enable us (or third-party advertising services we work with) to learn which
advertisements bring users to the MASN Site. They also may enable us (or
third-party advertising services we work with) to track the actions of users
online over time and across different web sites or platforms to measure
statistics of our marketing efforts, and to deliver electronic advertisements
that may be more relevant to individual consumers and that will improve the
consumer experience.
We also use third-party analytics such as Google Analytics
to gather and analyze user information. Google Analytics is a web analytics
service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to collect information about use
of the MASN Site. Google may use cookies to collect information about your
purchase history, the content you view, what websites you visit immediately
prior to and after visiting the MASN Site, and your system information and geographic
information. The information generated by the Google cookies about your use of
the MASN Site will be transmitted to and stored by Google. The information
collected by Google allows us to analyze the use of the MASN Site.
You can do the following to limit the use of these
technologies on the MASN Site and elsewhere:
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a. Disabling First-Party Cookies: You can use your browser to enable, disable, or delete
cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually
located within the “Help,” “Tools,” or “Edit” settings). Please note, if you
set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access secure areas
of the MASN Site. Also, if you disable cookies, other parts of the MASN Site
may not work properly. You can find more information about how to change your
browser’s cookie settings at allaboutcookies.org.
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b. Disabling Third-Party Cookies: To opt-out of third-party advertising networks and similar
entities that use advertising cookies on the MASN Site, follow the directions
above or click here: Do Not Share My Personal Information. To opt-out of
third-party advertising networks and similar entities that use advertising
cookies across the web, go to aboutads.info/choices. Once you click the
link, you may choose to opt-out of such advertising from all participating
advertising companies or only advertising provided by specific advertising
entities. For more information about third-party advertising networks and
similar entities that use these technologies, please see aboutads.info/consumers.
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c. Mobile Opt-Out: On many mobile devices, you can control interest-based
advertising through your device’s settings. These options can include resetting
your device’s advertising ID or selecting “Limit Ad Tracking” (for iOS devices)
or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” (for Android devices) in your device
settings. Ad choices settings and options will vary depending on your browser
and device settings, and this is not an exhaustive list. We encourage you to
explore your device and browser settings to better understand your choices.
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d. Opt-Out on Connected Devices: Connected devices (such as tablets, connected TVs, set top
boxes, streaming devices and gaming consoles) may also use an advertising ID or
other methods to identify you or serve you interest-based advertising. In some
cases, you can disable tracking by selecting options like “limit ad tracking”
or disabling options like “interest-based advertising” in your connected
device’s settings. These options will vary by device and we do not control the
policies or practices of third parties’ providing these devices. MASN is not
responsible for tracking on connected devices or our business partners’
services and may not have visibility on choices you may have made with respect
to tracking on connected devices or our business partners' services.
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5. Your Choices, Rights and Controls
You have the following choices regarding your Personal
Information:
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a. To Opt-Out of Marketing Communications:
To stop receiving our promotional
emails, follow the instructions in any marketing email you get from us. You can
also opt-out by emailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or sending a
letter to MASN, 333 W. Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. However, even if you
opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you transactional
messages (e.g., contacting you about any purchases you make).
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b. To Change, Update, or Correct Your
Personal Information: If you have an account or subscription
to one of our services, you can correct information or update account settings
by logging into your account and following the instructions or by contacting
the customer service team.
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6. External Sites
When you sign in or link to the MASN Site through any social
networking service, any information you supply (or have supplied) to us becomes
subject to the privacy policy of that social network/service. We do not control,
and are not responsible for, the privacy practices of such networks or
services. You should consult the privacy policy of such networks/services.
If you post information in a public forum it becomes public
information. In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information in order to
identify you to anyone to whom you send communications through the MASN Site.
The MASN Site may provide links to other sites or services. If you use such
other sites or services, check their privacy policies. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices of any other site or service.
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7. Children
The MASN Site are not intended for children under the age of
sixteen. We will not knowingly collect any personal information from children
under the age of sixteen. If we learn that we have obtained any personal
information about a child under the age of sixteen, we will delete that
information. We never allow interest-based advertising on portions of the MASN
Site that are directed to children or where we know that the user is a child or
a teen under 16.
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8. Security
We strive to use reasonable safeguards to help prevent loss,
misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of Personal
Information provided or collected through our Services. We have adopted
commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security
procedures to help protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorized
access, and alteration. However, no data transmission or storage can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. We want you to feel confident using our Services,
but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to
us.
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9. Retention
We will keep your information only for as long as it is
necessary to fulfill the purposes described above, unless a longer retention is
required or permitted by law. We may delete or de-identify your information if
we receive a verifiable deletion request, subject to exemptions under
applicable law.
Following termination or deactivation of any user account
you may create, unless you request that your information be deleted by
contacting us, we may retain your information for back-up, archival, legal and
audit purposes. In addition, we may retain and continue to use indefinitely all
information contained in your communications to other users of the MASN Site
posted to public or semi-public areas of the MASN Site after termination or
deactivation of your user account.
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10. Notice to Virginia Residents
If you are a Virginia resident, you have specific privacy
rights governed by
Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”), which goes into
effect January 1, 2023, and this section applies to you in addition to the rest
of this Privacy Policy.
MASN collects and may share various categories of Personal
Information when you use the Service, including identifiers, commercial
information, internet or other electronic network or device activity
information, and geolocation data. A more detailed description of the
information MASN collects and how we use it is provided above in Sections 1
& 2 (Information We Collect and How We Use Information). Section 3 (How We
Share Information) describes the categories of third parties with whom we share
Personal Information, and what information may be shared under different
circumstances.
Your Virginia Privacy Rights
Virginia residents have certain rights, many of which are
subject to limitations or exceptions under the CDPA. If you are a Virginia
resident you have the following rights:
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a. Right
to Know: You have the right to know whether their information is be processed
and to access such information
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b. Right
to Correct: You have the right to correct the inaccuracies in their Personal
Information
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c. Right
to Delete: You have the right to request deletion of your Personal Information,
though exceptions under the CDPA and other laws may allow MASN to retain and
use certain Personal Information notwithstanding your deletion request;
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d. Right
to Obtain a Copy of Your Personal Information: You have a right to obtain a
copy of your Personal Information in a portable and, to the extent feasible,
readily usable format
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e. Right
to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising: You have the right to opt-out of the
processing of your Personal Information for targeted advertising, as that term
is defined under the CDPA. We do not engage in targeted advertising without
first obtaining your consent to do so. To change your consent preferences for
targeted advertising, please click the cookie
permissions icon at the bottom of this page.
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f. Right
to Opt-Out of Selling: You have the right to opt-out of the selling of your
Personal Information. We do not sell your personal information.
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g. Right
to Opt-Out of Profiling You have the right to opt-out of the processing of your
Personal Information for profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce
legal or similarly significant effects on you. We do not engage in profiling.
You can learn more about how to submit a data rights
request, or appeal the denial of a request by contacting customer support. You
may also send your request by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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11. Notice to California Residents
If you are a California resident, you have specific privacy
rights governed by the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the
California Privacy Rights Act (together, “CCPA”), and this section applies to
you in addition to the rest of this Privacy Policy.
Below is a summary of the “personal information” categories,
as identified and defined by the CCPA (see California Civil Code section
1798.140 (v)), that we collect, the reason we collect your personal information,
where we obtain the personal information, and the third-parties with whom we
may share your Personal Information.
We generally collect the following categories of personal
information about your when you use the MASN Site: identifiers (such as your
name and contact information); commercial information (such as information
about products or services purchased); Internet or other electronic network
activity information (such as your IP address, device identifier, and other
information captured by online tracking technologies); and inferences drawn
from the information collected about you. When you purchase a product or
service from us, we may also collect commercial information, such as records of
products or services purchased, obtained or considered by you. For more
information about the personal information we collect and how we collect it,
please refer to Section 1, above
We collect the categories of personal information for the
business or commercial purposes described in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy.
In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of
personal information for business or commercial purposes to the following
recipients:
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a. We
share identifiers with: advertising networks, Internet service providers, data
analytics providers, operating systems and platforms, social networks, payment
processors, customer support partners, events and promotions partners, and
fraud prevention partners.
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b. We
share commercial information with: advertising partners, data analytics providers,
payment processors, fulfilment partners, customer support partners, and fraud
prevention partners.
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c. We
share internet and electronic network activity information with: advertising
partners, Internet service providers, data analytics providers, operating
systems and platforms, internet service providers, customer support partners,
and fraud prevention partners.
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d. We
share inferences with: advertising networks, Internet service providers, data
analytics providers, and fraud prevention partners.
Your California Privacy Rights
California residents have certain rights, many of which are
subject to limitations or exceptions under applicable law:
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a. Right
to Know about Personal Information Collected. You have the right to request
that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of
your personal information over the past 12 months.
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b. Right
to Request Deletion of Personal Information. 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, including if we need the Personal
Information for a reason related to our business, such as: providing goods or
services to you; detecting and resolving issues related to security or
functionality; complying with legal obligations; conducting research in the
public interest; exercising free speech or ensuring another’s exercise of free
speech; or using the information for internal purposes that a consumer might
reasonably expect.
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c. Right
to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information: You have the right to correct
inaccurate personal information. In addition to submitting a rights request
using the method described below, if you have an account or subscription to one
of our services, you can correct or delete information or update account
settings by logging into your account and following the instructions or by contacting
the customer service team.
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d. Right
to Opt-out of Sales. You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal
information. We do not sell your personal information.
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e. Right
to Opt-out of Sharing for Cross-Contextual Behavioral Advertising: You have the
right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information for
cross-contextual behavioral advertising. We do not disclose your information
for cross-contextual behavioral advertising unless you direct us to do so.
Therefore, we do not “share” your personal information as such term is defined
under the CCPA. To change your consent preference for disclosing your personal
information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising, please click the cookie permissions icon at the bottom
of this page.
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f. Right
to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: To the extent we
process sensitive personal information (as defined under the CCPA) to infer
characteristics, you have the right to limit our use of sensitive personal
information in that way. We do not
collect or process any sensitive personal information.
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information
of any user under the age of 16.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of
your rights. This means we will not: (a) deny your services; (b) charge you
different prices or rates for goods or services, including granting discounts
or other benefits or imposing penalties; (c) provide you a different level or
quality of services; or (d) suggest that you may receive a different price or
rate for services or a different level or quality of services.
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a
verifiable consumer request to us either by email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,
and putting “California Rights Request” in the Subject line or by mail by
sending a letter to MASN, ATTN:
California Rights Request, 333 W. Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
The verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient
information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom
we collected personal information or an authorized representative. This means
that in making a request you may be required to: provide your email and phone
number, customer information, and/or account sign-up authentication or other
information needed to verify your identity depending on the sensitivity of the
personal information that is the subject of the request.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with
personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the
request and confirm the personal information relates to you. If we are unable
to verify your identity, we reserve the right to deny the request. Making a
verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request
to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
If you choose to use an authorized agent to submit a request
to delete, a requests to correct, or a request to
know, we may require that you: (1) provide the authorized agent written
permission to do so; and (2) verify your own identity directly with us. We will
not require these steps if we have received proof that you have provided the
authorized agent with a power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code
sections 4121 to 4130. We may deny a request from an agent that does not submit
proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
As provided under California Civil Code Section 1798.83,
also known as the “Shine The Light” law, California
residents are entitled to ask us for a notice describing what categories of
personal information we share with third parties or corporate affiliates for
those third parties or corporate affiliates’ direct marketing purposes. That
notice will identify the categories of personal information shared with third
parties and used for direct marketing purposes and the name and address of the
third parties that received such personal information. If you are a California
resident and want a copy of this notice please submit your request by emailing
us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and putting “California Shine the Light
Request” in the Subject line or by sending a letter to MASN, ATTN: California Shine the Light Request, 333 W.
Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
The MASN Site is not designed to respond to “do not track” requests
from browsers.
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12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about how we maintain your
Personal Information, this Privacy Policy, or to exercise any rights granted by
any applicable privacy laws, please contact us by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
