Effective Date: July 2024
At McClatchy, we are working hard to make every community stronger and more vibrant, and its citizens better informed. To reach that goal, we want you to understand how we handle your data. Our Privacy Policy is designed to inform you of how we may collect, use, disclose, and store information about you as well as the rights and choices available to you.
McClatchy owns various media publications and properties, a full list of which is provided here. This Privacy Policy applies to all of those publications and properties, which we manage and provide as one company under the McClatchy umbrella.
We recommend that you carefully read this Policy, which highlights key points about our privacy practices.
Why? We want to ensure you know that by visiting or using any website, mobile application, or online service governed by this Privacy Policy, you understand, agree and consent to the processing of information as listed.
Please note that this Privacy Policy is subject to change. We recommend that you review the Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page. If you disagree with any portion of this Privacy Policy, now or as amended by us, your best and only option is to not use the websites, mobile applications, or Services governed by it.
We collect data. In some cases this data isn’t personal, but other times it is. We collect data for a variety of reasons, but mostly for registration. When you sign up for an account or a newspaper or an email newsletter, we need data to provide you with the service. When you use the internet to connect to us, we may collect and analyze information such as an IP address, or unique device identifiers. Like many news organizations, we want data to help deliver information and insights most impactful to our local audiences. Because we strongly believe in being open and transparent about our practices, we provide this policy. Like many organizations, we have worked hard to align our practices with the California Consumer Privacy Act and all other applicable data privacy laws and regulations.
If you have questions about our practices, please let us know at [email protected]. We’re here to help.
This Privacy Policy applies to the information McClatchy collects, including through the various publications and properties we provide. We may collect that information through:
Together, we refer to all of those as the “Services.”
What information do we collect?
It depends. If you subscribe to one or more of our products (newspapers, breaking news alerts, etc.), we must have some information. The information collected depends on the context. During registration we may collect your name, address, username, password, and email address. You may also provide us with information when you post a message on our services; sign up to receive communications from us; register for contests; participate in surveys; purchase a subscription or classified ad; or contact us with a question, comment, or request.
How we collect and store information depends on the Services you use. You can use some of the Services without providing any information aside from what is automatically collected as described below. The following is broken down by (a) information you provide to us and (b) information collected from other sources.
3.1. Information Received Directly from You
3.2. Information Collected Automatically
With Tracking Technologies in Your Web Browser and Mobile Applications (“apps”):
This section refers to data collected from your devices. We track and store data about how you visit and use McClatchy Services, particularly through our websites and apps.
The items we may log include:
We strive to track and list all the data that is collected and used by us. If you are aware of something we missed, please contact us at [email protected] and we will address the issue.
3.3 Information Collected from Other Sources
On occasion, McClatchy may obtain additional information about you from third parties such as partners, researchers, social media networks, and others. Those third parties may include:
We may combine information that we collect from you with information about you that we obtain from such third parties and information derived from any other subscription, product, or service we provide.
We are always improving our products and services, and we create new features regularly. These updates sometimes require us to collect new information or use what we already have differently. If there is a significant or material change in the way we handle your personal information, we will notify you as soon as possible.
So we’ve collected information. What do we do with it?
We provide the McClatchy Services
We use your information to provide you with the Services and help you use and navigate the Services, such as by:
We may also use your information to provide you with or make available to you a service provided by a McClatchy business partner or provided jointly by McClatchy and a McClatchy business partner.
These uses may also involve our internal use of personal information collected through one publication, property, or other component of the Services for another publication, property, or component of our Services. For example, we may use data collected from one website or mobile application to personalize your experience on another website or mobile application.
We Personalize Your Experience
In addition to providing Services, we want to ensure that the experience is tailored to you. We want to better tailor content, features, and advertising, and provide you with a seamless experience across the devices you use to access the Services.
We utilize the information (e.g., the articles you read) to personalize your reading experience using technology like algorithmic recommendations and machine learning. Sometimes, we may use the information we collect (e.g., log-in credentials, IP addresses, hashed email addresses, and unique mobile device identifiers) to locate or attempt to locate similar unique users across multiple browsers or devices (such as smartphones, tablets, or computers) or work with providers that do this. This is how we personalize your experience when using our services and providing content based on your interests or other demographics; articles you might be interested in and de-emphasize articles you’ve already read. We also show you prices, promotions, products, or services we believe you’ll find interesting, based on demographic and usage data.
We Allow You to Share User-Generated Content
We allow you to share content and information from our publication via social media, email, and other means. Any information you disclose in your content becomes public.
We Create, Research and Analyze Products and Services
We analyze data on our users’ subscription, purchase, and usage behaviors. This helps us make business and marketing decisions such as ideal price points for our products and services.
We Carry Out Administrative Tasks
The above activities can involve outside companies, agents, or contractors (“service providers”) to whom we disclose your personal information for only these purposes.
We Offer Contests, Sweepstakes, and Other Promotions
You can take part in our sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions. Some might have additional rules about how we use and disclose your personal information.
Personalized Advertising on McClatchy Services, Creating Audiences for Third-Party Advertisers, and Providing Information or Insights to Our Business Partners
We may use and process your personal information to engage in cross-context behavioral and targeted advertising and disclose your personal information to unaffiliated third party data brokers and advertising networks that enable or participate in targeted and cross-context behavioral advertising and/or that provide online tracking technologies that we use to analyze the Services. The Services we provide are supported by advertising revenue. We gather data and work with third parties to show you personalized ads on behalf of advertisers. We may send you commercial emails on behalf of ourselves, our publications and properties, our affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertisers. Each email we send you should include an opt-out that you can use to stop receiving such communications.
To help ensure that you receive ads that are relevant to your interests, our advertisers’ services, and elsewhere on the Internet, we and third parties (including service providers and advertisers, advertising companies, and other business partners) may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, and devices. We and third parties, including our business partners, may use that information to help understand audience segments (e.g., level of engagement) and to obtain or develop other information or insights about our users. Advertisers may use the segments to determine the audience groups to which they wish to deliver particular ads. For example, we use Google to serve ads on McClatchy Services. Google uses cookies or unique device identifiers, in combination with their own data, to show you ads based on you visiting mcclatchy.com and other sites. You can opt out of the use of the Google cookie by visiting the related Google privacy policy.
We also identify groups of users to whom to serve personalized ads on behalf of our advertisers. To do this, we combine information we collect through surveys or registration with information we collect automatically using tracking technologies while you browse our sites and apps. This combined (or “aggregated”) information is used to build models. These data models are then used to measure users’ attributes, like their demographic information or their interests (again, not as individuals but as a combined group). Working with service providers, we use these measurements to group users by common attributes. Each group is associated with a random ID which is then passed to our ad server for use in targeting ad campaigns on our sites and apps.Another example is our affiliate link vendors, which we use in our guides and product recommendations. McClatchy Services include links that will send you to vendor URLs and other services not operated or controlled by us. These vendors use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your navigation from the McClatchy Services to the merchant you are visiting. If you buy a product after following a link to a link vendor’s URL, we may earn a commission.
We Advertise McClatchy Services to You
We market our properties to you. Sometimes we use marketing vendors to do this.We serve ads through websites, locations, platforms, and services operated and owned by third parties. Often these ads are directed at people who have visited or registered for a McClatchy Service but have not subscribed or purchased anything. The ads are also directed to people with similar traits or behaviors to our subscribers or customers.We direct our advertising to these users by uploading an encrypted customer list to a third party, or by incorporating a tracking technology from a third party onto our McClatchy Service. The third party then matches individuals who appear in both our data and their data. Because of how this matching process works, the third party can’t read our encrypted customer list if they don’t already have it.
We may also transmit to you text message, prerecorded, and other phone communications for marketing, informational, and other purposes, including through automated technology.
We periodically send you targeted email newsletters or promotional emails.. We Aggregate or De-identify Personal Information Into Larger Findings Sometimes we aggregate (i.e., combine) or de-identify (i.e., remove personally identifying data) information so that it can no longer identify you, under applicable laws. The result helps us better understand and represent our users, such as when we measure ad performance, create interest-based segments or compile survey results. Because this information is not personal information, we can use and disclose this aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, unless an applicable law says otherwise.
We Aggregate or De-identify Personal Information Into Larger Findings
Sometimes we aggregate (i.e., combine) or de-identify (i.e., remove personally identifying data) information so that it can no longer identify you, under applicable laws. The result helps us better understand and represent our users, such as when we measure ad performance, create interest-based segments or compile survey results. Because this information is not personal information, we can use and disclose this aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, unless an applicable law says otherwise.
With Service Providers
Service providers are trusted organizations that assist us with certain tasks, such as:
When performing these tasks, service providers often have access to your personal information. We sometimes allow them to use aggregated or de-identified information for other purposes, in accordance with applicable laws.
With Interest-Based Advertisers
To help ensure that you receive ads that are relevant to your interests, we and third parties (including service providers, advertisers, and advertising companies) may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, and devices. We and third parties may use that information to help understand audience segments. Advertisers may use the segments to determine the audience groups to which they wish to deliver particular ads.
With Other Third Parties
There are situations when we disclose your information with third parties beyond our service providers.
We may use cookies, web beacons (also known as pixels), and other technologies to collect information when you use our services. These technologies help us remember you when you visit our services, personalize your experience on the services, learn about how you and others use the services, learn about the devices you use to access the services, and remember your preferences.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website stores on your computer or device in the cookie file associated with the browser that you use to access the website. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies alone generally cannot be used to identify you. But if you choose the “Remember Me” feature or similar features, a cookie will store information that helps remember you, such as your username.
Cookies help us recognize you when you return to our websites and hold information from one visit to the next for your ease of use. Cookies also help us better understand how people use our services through click-stream analysis, which allows us to design a better user experience. We may also disclose information that we collect to third parties, such as service providers, advertisers, and advertising companies as described in this Privacy Policy.
Certain third-party content providers, advertisers, and advertising companies may also place cookies on your computer or mobile device. Those cookies are controlled by the third parties and are not governed by this Privacy Policy.
We and some of our advertisers work with ad networks and ad delivery platforms that place retargeting pixels on users’ computers to gather information about users’ online activities, such as browsing histories and demographic information. This information can be aggregated into audience segments, which help deliver relevant advertising to users visiting our websites and third-party websites that use the same pixels.
Some of our services and communications may contain tiny electronic images known as web beacons. We use web beacons to assist us in delivering cookies on our services and to allow us to count users who have visited those pages. We may include web beacons in email messages to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
If your browser doesn’t accept cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our websites.
Choices Regarding Email, Phone, Mail and Push Notifications
The methods described below are limited to the email address, phone or device used. They will not affect subsequent subscriptions.
We complete any opt-out request as quickly as we can. This opt-out request won’t prohibit us from sending you important nonmarketing notices.
How to Access, Change, Delete, Update or Exercise Your Other Rights in Relation to Your Personal Information
In some parts of the world, you have the right to:
If you’d like to exercise any of the above rights, contact us via this form or by calling us at our toll-free number, 1 (888) 914-9661 PIN: 590 963
In your request, please be specific. State the information you want changed, whether you’d like your information removed or whether there are limitations you’d like us to put on how we use your personal information. Please use the email address linked to that personal information — we only complete requests on the information linked to your email address. To verify your identity, we will send an email to the email address you provide which matches our records and wait for your response. In some instances, we may also ask for additional information to ensure we verify your identity before complying.
You can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do that, please provide the agent with written permission, signed by you, authorizing the agent to submit the request on your behalf. The agent must submit that written permission along with the request. We will contact you to verify your identity — and the authorized agent’s permission — before a response to the request is sent.
We’ll respond to your request in a manner consistent with applicable law.
PLEASE NOTE: In some cases, your request doesn’t ensure complete removal of the content or information (e.g., we need your email address to provide an email newsletter or another user has reposted your content). We might need to keep certain information for recordkeeping purposes, or to complete a transaction you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., if you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you might not be able to change or delete the personal information provided until after the completion of the purchase or promotion).
We have configured our websites to be compatible with the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal and “Do Not Track” browser-based standard signals. We may permit third parties to collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different web sites when access or use a website, mobile application, or online service governed by this Privacy Policy.
Additional notes:
If you are accessing our services from Europe, please see www.youronlinechoices.com. If you are accessing our services from Canada, please see youradchoices.ca.
Opting out does not mean you will no longer receive advertising. It means that the company or companies from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
If you do not wish to allow cookies to be placed on your computer or device, you can configure your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.) to control the use of cookies. Please note that the interest-based advertising opt outs provided in the links above may rely on the use of cookies. If you disable or delete cookies, you may remove your opt-out preferences. Deleting and/or controlling the use of cookies AND visiting the opt-out links above to register your preferences will help to ensure that you do not receive interest-based advertising. Again, this does not mean that you will not receive ads, it simply means that you will not receive ads that are tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
We do not knowingly gather personal information (as defined by the U.S. Children’s Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA) in a manner not permitted by COPPA. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe we have collected information from your child in a manner not permitted by law, contact us at [email protected]. We will remove the data to the extent required by applicable laws.
If you’re a California resident under 18 years old and you’re registered with a McClatchy Service, you can ask us to remove content or information you’ve posted to a McClatchy Service. Email us at [email protected] with “California Under 18 Content Removal Request” in the subject line and tell us what you want removed. We will make reasonable efforts to remove the post from public view, although we cannot ensure the complete removal of the content and may retain the content as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
While we strive to maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information, no information system can be 100% secure. Therefore we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of your information. You are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information.
We may reference or provide links to third-party websites and services. When you access these third-party services, you leave the McClatchy Services and this Privacy Policy will not apply to those third-party websites and services. We are not responsible for, and do not control, the content, security, or privacy practices of these third parties or their websites or services. Please refer to the privacy notices or policies for such third-party services for information about how they collect, use, and process personal information. In some cases, we may also provide you a tablet or other similar devices as a convenience to you in order to help you access McClatchy Services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such tablets or devices generally, the operating systems of such tablets or devices, or any third party applications or services you may access or use through the tablet or device. This Privacy Policy only applies to the McClatchy Services, such as our publications’ mobile applications, that you may choose to access through a tablet or device we provide and with respect to information we automatically collect regarding your use of devices that you may lease from us described in section 3.2 above. You are solely responsible for all use of any tablets and devices we provide, the operating systems of such tablets or devices, and any third party applications or services you may access or use through such tablets or devices. Please refer to the privacy notices or policies of the tablet or device’s manufacturer, tablet or device’s operating systems’ provider, and the provider of any third party applications or services you access or use through the tablet or device for information about how those parties collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal information.
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, our Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
We have created a separate Notice to California Residents FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with CCPA and Shine the Light and to provide you with information concerning our business’s practices, both online and offline, regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and sale of personal Information as defined under the CCPA and of the rights of California consumers regarding their own personal information. This notice also does not apply to personal information we collected about consumers in their capacity as our job applicant, employee, contractor, or an emergency contact, beneficiary, or dependent of one of our applicants, employees, or contractors. Such consumers should refer to our California Human Resources Privacy Policy for more information. Additionally, this section applies only to the extent we direct the purposes and means of processing of personal information and otherwise qualify as a "business" under the CCPA. It does not apply to information we collect, disclose, or otherwise process as a "service provider" under the CCPA on behalf of our customers and business partners.
Click here to access the California Notice of Collection (opens a new tab).
This section is intended to apply to users of our websites covering sports betting ending with /betting/uk, such as www.miamiherald.com/betting/uk.
Legal Bases for EEA, Switzerland, and UK Personal Information Processing
As a general matter, we use, disclose, transmit, transfer, store, and otherwise process your personal information when we have an appropriate legal basis. We may process the information we collect from you for the following purposes.
Storage of EEA, Switzerland, and UK Personal Information
We store personal information for as long as we reasonably need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including provision of the Services and to comply with law, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, as applicable.
Rights of Individuals Located in the EEA, Switzerland, or UK
If you are located in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you may have additional rights to request access to, correction of, erasure of, or the transfer of your personal information, as well as the right to object to or restrict the processing of your personal information. You may exercise these rights, if applicable, by completing the following request form: Request Information/Request Deletion. Individuals located in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK may also have the right to lodge a complaint with an EEA, Swiss, or UK supervisory authority, as applicable.
International Transfers of Personal Information from the EEA, Switzerland, or UK
If we transfer personal information subject to the data protection laws of the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK from the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK to another jurisdiction, we will either transfer such personal information to a jurisdiction deemed to provide an adequate level of protection under applicable data protection laws or rely on a legal framework (a copy of which may be obtainable by contacting us as described in section 13 “Contact Information”) that provides appropriate safeguards, which could include the standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules, or another framework deemed adequate under applicable data protection laws, for transfers to jurisdictions not deemed to provide an adequate level of protection under applicable data protection laws (such as the United States).
Sensitive Personal Information Collection
Some of the information we collect may be defined as sensitive under Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Utah, and Virginia privacy laws. Such information includes precise geolocation information.
Sales
We may disclose your personal information to third parties in exchange for money or other valuable consideration to the categories of third parties described in the Who Do We Disclose Information To? section above.
Privacy Rights
Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, and Virginia privacy laws may provide residents of those states with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information subject to those laws. We have described such privacy rights below as applicable.
As the rights described below are provided by law, there may be limitations or exceptions that apply to your request in accordance with applicable legal requirements. We have described these rights generally, without noting all applicable or potentially applicable limitations or exceptions. When you make a request, we may provide more detailed information regarding any legal requirements applicable to or your request and whether any exception or limitation applies.
Subject to certain limitations and exceptions, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide residents of those states with rights to:
Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their states’ residents with a right to correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature and purposes for processing.
To exercise rights to opt out of personal data sales or processing for targeted advertising, use our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us either using the DSR Webform and completing the fields, or using a method described in the “Contact Information” section above and clearly identifying the exercise of one of your privacy rights as the reason you are contacting us. To appeal a decision regarding a request to exercise these rights, please describe the issue and request an appeal by responding to the communication of our decision, at DSR Webform or otherwise contacting us as described in the “Contact Information” section above.
Deidentified Data
We will maintain and use deidentified information that does not constitute personal information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify such deidentified information except to the extent permitted under applicable law. We process personal information as described in this Policy.
If you are a Colorado resident, you may authorize another person, acting on your behalf, to opt out of exchanges of your personal information for money or other valuable consideration or processing for targeted advertising purposes, including through opt-out preference signals. We will respect an opt-out request received from a person authorized by the consumer to act on your behalf if we can authenticate, with commercially reasonable effort, your identity and the authorized agent's authority to act on your behalf.
We may use commercially reasonable processes to authenticate your identity or the authority of your authorized agent. Those processes will consider the privacy right you seek to exercise, the type, sensitivity, value, and volume of relevant personal information, the level of harm improper access or use could cause, and the cost of authentication. In order to authenticate your request, we may require you to provide information to enable us to match that information to the records we maintain. The information we request for authentication purposes may include your name, email address, phone number, or other information that may allow us to authenticate your identity.
NOTICE: We may sell your sensitive personal data.
Subject to certain exceptions, Nevada also provides its residents with a right to request that we not to exchange certain information about them to another person for money. We must be able to reasonably verify the authenticity of the request and your identity to respond to such a request. To make such a request, please contact us at DSR Webform.