Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how Eastern Educational Television Network, Inc., d/b/a/ American Public Television, a Massachusetts nonprofit corporation ("APT" or "we" or "our" or "us") treat certain information collected or provided in connection with an end user's ("you" or "your" or "user") use of APT's website www.CreateTV.com, as well as any other website, page, or digital platform owned or operated by us and any services or products provided thereby (together, the "Site") and all products and services provided by APT in connection with the Site. The information provided in this Policy is designed to inform you of what information we collect, why we collect such information, how we use the information we collect, and the choices we offer, including how to access and update information.

By accessing or using our Site or services you consent to the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, including our collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information as described below. However, this Privacy Policy is not a contract and does not create any legal rights.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

1. Scope

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Personal Information" may include your first and last name, your e-mail address, your home or other physical address, including a street name and name of a city or town, your telephone number, any payment or financial information, or any other identifier that permits us to contact a natural human person, like you, and/or any information that we, or our authorized third-party vendors or partners, maintain that could be used to identify you in combination with any of the identifying information described above, including information that identifies, relates, to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, or as may be relevant under applicable law.

This Privacy Policy applies only to Personal Information. It does not cover data we, or our authorized third-party vendors or partners, collect that cannot be used to identify an individual or to pseudonymous data. Nor does it include encoded or anonymized information or aggregated data which we collect or create about a group or category of services, users, or features that does not contain personally identifying information. We reserve the right to collect and share aggregate, encoded, or anonymized information with potential partners or other third parties without restriction.

2. Changes

This Policy applies to all relevant information collected by or provided to us or our authorized third-party vendors or partners and/or in connection with the Site as of the Effective Date. When we make any material changes to this Policy, we will update the Effective Date above and may also inform you by e-mail sent to the address associated with services or products you may request from us and/or any Account you may open with us. We will treat your continued use of the Site following such notice as your acceptance of the changes.

3. Collected Information

3.1. Information Submitted to Us

We may collect Personal Information you provide to us when you use the Site. We may also collect Personal Information about you from other consumers, prospective consumers, Site users, and other individuals and entities with whom APT has contact (such as those served by internet-connected devices or household recipients of direct mail to "current resident"). We may collect Personal Information in order to improve our Site, to deliver products and services and perform obligations under contracts we have with you, to comply with our own legal obligations, and for other purposes as described below.

For example, we may collect and maintain Personal Information about you to create a personal profile containing purchasing preferences and other information that you voluntarily provide to us if you create an account with us. Examples of the types of information we may collect for this purpose include your first and last name, a valid email address, and geographic location or address, and local public TV station. We may also collect personal preferences, interests, and favorites you select or identify via the Site. Creating an account with us may allow you to make requests or customizations more easily and also allows us to enhance your experience with the Site. Additionally, if you order a product or service from us, we may ask you for information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card number to process your order. We may use your e-mail address to send a confirmation and, if necessary, may use the other information to contact you for help to process any order. As indicated below, we may also use your e-mail address to notify you about special offers and promotions, or via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or potential new services that may be offered. You can choose not to provide such Personal Information, in which case you may not be able to make purchases, or access or use portions of the Site or some of its features.

From time to time, we may provide opportunities to participate in contests or surveys on our site. Users who participate will be asked to provide personally identifiable information to APT. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and users can choose whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). We may use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site, or to send participants an email newsletter. If we use this information for other purposes, we will let you know at the time we provide the opportunity in the contest of survey.

We may also collect, in instances where you have provided it, information about other individuals, including their email address and Personal Information. If you are sharing information with us about any other individuals, you must obtain their consent.

3.2. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

When you use the Site, we may automatically gather certain information from you. This may include usage information, such as information on when, how often and for how long you use the Site and the content you submit and view. This also may include server log data such as the IP address, time zone, operating system, some of the cookies installed on your device, or the webpage you were visiting before you came to our Site. As described below, we may collect this information through a number of means, including server logs, cookies, online tracking mechanisms, and in connection with third parties. We may associate such information with other personally identifiable information we have about you.

3.3. ANALYTICS

We may use certain third party services to assist us in analysis, auditing, research, and reporting regarding the Site. For instance, our web servers may collect "log data." Log data provides aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on the Site. We may use log data for troubleshooting purposes and to track which pages people visit in order to improve the Site. Third-party vendors may also collect aggregate log data independently from us.

Some of the pages on the Site may also contain electronic images known as web beacons that allow us to count the number of users who have visited those pages. These web beacons collect only limited information such as a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. Such web beacons do not carry or collect any Personal Information and you cannot opt-out or refuse them. However, where they operate with cookies, you can render them ineffective by opting out of cookies or changing the cookie settings in your browser.

3.4. COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

We automatically receive and store certain types of information when you visit the Site through the use of cookies, web beacons, or similar programs to collect the information described above. Cookies are strings of text that a website may store on your computer. Cookies enable the Site to keep track of your preferences and activities when you use or visit the Site. /p>

The Site creates session cookies for each visit in order to facilitate your visit. The session cookie expires at the end of the session.

We may also use persistent cookies, which remain on your device for much longer. Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer or computer files.

We use cookies for authentication, to remember your settings, to keep track of your activity during a visit to the Site, to conduct usability tests, to improve Site performance, and to implement certain features of the Site.

We use analytics and customization cookies, including third party cookies like those available with Google Analytics, to gather information on how our Site is being used by our visitors and to measure how popular our marketing campaigns are. We use the data we get to help customize our Site and services for you and make the content you see as relevant as possible. We may also use the data we collect to help identify and prevent fraud, and to track visits from our affiliates or partners.

Social networking cookies allow visitors to share our pages and content through third-party social networking websites. We use social networking cookies with third-parties like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

Targeting/advertising cookies help us to customize and regulate (e.g., by capping the frequency of) the advertisements you receive, provide you with tailored offers, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising. For instance, if we target an ad campaign through an online advertising network, we might use cookies on our Site to estimate how many viewers of the ad later visited our Site – and therefore, how effective the ad campaign was. Or, we might "retarget" visitors to our Site by providing them offers (whether through online display media, email or direct mail) similar to those they viewed or expressed interest in during their Site visits.

You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. In addition, the Site may request your consent to the placement of cookies. If you consent, you may later remove cookies as your browser permits. If you reject or remove cookies, you may still use our Site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our Site may be limited. For more information about the use of cookies and how to block them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, www.youronlinechoices.eu (Europe) or www.aboutads.info/choices (United States).

You may opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from advertising companies that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative or who subscribe to the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices and www.aboutads.info/choices.

Our business partners may also use cookies on our Site for the same general purposes identified in this Privacy Policy, including to improve their own marketing, products or services. Third parties may use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. Third parties we work with may also use other "device-graphing" information in order to make inferences and connections about our customers and potential customers across various devices – such as mobile phones, tablets and browsers. (These companies may, for instance, make inferences that devices seen at a common IP address are used by common users.) Companies that we share information with may use the information we provide to them, often in combination with their existing information, to provide you with more relevant advertising. Please see the "Do not Track" section below for more information regarding personalized advertisements and your "Do not Track" options.

3.5. MARKETING EMAILS AND ADVERTISEMENTS; DO NOT TRACK

We may use third party service providers or content to send or augment our marketing e-mails. While there are no cookies in the e-mail, when an e-mail recipient clicks on a link to the Site included in the e-mail, a persistent cookie may be placed on the user's computer. If used, this cookie measures the effectiveness of our e-mail marketing efforts, helping us to better understand how our users navigate through the Site, and to enhance user experience. To that end, we may collect a variety of information about how users interact with our marketing efforts, including how many times the email is opened and/or clicked, the browser type used, operating system, user email program, etc. This cookie, which may be set by our service providers, may remain on your hard drive for approximately thirty (30) days after the last time you clicked on the coded link in the e-mail, or until you delete it.

In addition, third parties that may assist with our marketing e-mails may use pixel tags that help us send the e-mail in a format you can read, to allow us to know which e-mails you act upon and to better target the content of future e-mails. We may also use these tags to track the aggregate number of e-mails read and whether any of the links in the e-mail were accessed.

We may use third party service providers and/or content to serve, augment, refine, and/or host our advertisements. These third parties may use persistent cookies to track the number of times our Site is accessed and whether the Site was accessed from the advertisement. The cookies generated from these types of advertisements do not contain Personal Information and may remain on your hard drive three (3) or more years unless you delete them. If you do not want Personal Information about you used for this purpose, you may opt-out by following the procedure described in the section of this Privacy Policy titled "VIEWING AND AMENDING INFORMATION". Note, however, that where we use a third party to provide advertising, email marketing, or similar services, each such third party may have its own opt-out process, which it manages and controls. You will need to follow those procedures to opt-out of the services they provide.

Additionally, we may share, exchange, or rent information that may include your name, address, email address, demographic data (such as age, gender, income level, and purchasing profiles), and purchasing behavior with carefully selected third-party organizations including our outside vendors, marketers of products and services potentially of interest to you, and cooperative database services. We may use cooperative databases primarily to identify potential subscribers and customers.

We may also engage third party online advertising technology service providers to help us deliver advertisements to you on websites you visit, including social media sites, after using the Site. This is a common practice known as "re-targeting." For information about these practices, visit the Network Advertising Initiative website at https://www.networkadvertising.org and the Digital Advertising Alliance website at https://digitaladvertisingalliance.org. You may remove yourself from targeted advertising of companies within the Network Advertising Initiative by opting out at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices, or of companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance program by opting out at www.aboutads.info/choices. Like many websites, the Site does not currently respond to "do not track" browser headers, but you can limit tracking through these third-party programs by taking the steps discussed in the section of this Privacy Policy titled "VIEWING AND AMENDING INFORMATION".

3.6. SOCIAL NETWORKING INFORMATION

The Site may include social media features connected with social networking sites such as Facebook and Instagram (such sites, "Social Sites"), including the Facebook Like button, and widgets, such as the ShareThis button or interactive mini-programs that run on the Site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social Site features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Site. Your interactions with these features, including any Personal Information you provide via these features, are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

You may also be able to create an account by logging in through a Social Site such as Facebook. Integration with Social Sites may allow you to automatically populate your profile that may be associated with our Site with information and content from your Social Site account profile and to invite your Social Site connections to join the Site. It also may allow us to better target our advertising within such Social Sites (to the extent enabled by the applicable Social Site). We will use, store, and disclose such information and content obtained in this manner in accordance with this Policy. Please remember that the manner in which Social Sites themselves use, store, and disclose your information and content (including with respect to any choices you may have to limit or control disclosure to us) is governed by the terms and conditions and privacy policies of each individual Social Site and any applicable privacy settings you may be able to control, and not APT.

3.7. CHILDREN UNDER 18

APT does not knowingly collect information from minors and the Site is intended for adults over the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 18 has used the Site and provided personally identifiable information to us through the Site, please contact us at info@APTonline.org and we will work to delete any corresponding account and any such personally identifiable information.

4. USE AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION

In compliance with privacy laws, we only use your Personal Information if we have a proper reason for doing so, e.g.:

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
For the performance of our obligations or contractual arrangements with you or to take steps at your request before entering into contractual arrangements with you;
For our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or
Where you have given consent.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.

We generally process your Personal Information to provide you with the products or services you have requested or purchased from us. We use this information to refine our Site to better tailor them to your needs and to communicate with you about those products or services. Most of the time, APT needs to process your Personal Information to fulfill an order or request via our Site. Sometimes APT has a legitimate interest in processing Personal Information to better understand the needs, concerns, and interests of APT visitors and customers so that we can operate optimally as a business. And sometimes, APT relies upon your consent, in which case we will keep a record of it and honor your choices.

We may use the Personal Information provided or obtained through the Site to:

Create and maintain your profile and user account
Optimize your experience with us
Facilitate your purchases
Process payments
Provide you with customer support
Communicate with you by email, regular mail, telephone, or mobile devices, about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us or from other third parties;
Perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, including by the use of Google Analytics;
Develop and deliver an email newsletter;
Tailor your user experience;
Develop and display third-party content and advertising tailored to your interest in the Site;
Enforce our Terms and Conditions;
Manage our business;
Manage our business;
Send you information you have requested;
Process entries to a competition or promotion;
Carry out obligations under any contract we have with you;
Perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection;
In connection with the creation and maintenance of your user account; and
In connection with the processing and fulfillment of any products or services you purchase.

We generally store Personal Information in the United States as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, as we determine is necessary for business records, and as required under applicable law. However, we may transfer your Personal Information from the United States to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating our business. By providing any information to us, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.

We may, and we may authorize third parties to, create aggregate records from Personal Information by excluding information that makes the information identifiable. We may use and disclose, and authorize third parties to use and disclose, aggregate non-Personal Information at our discretion. We may also combine the information you provide to us over time and we may combine such information with information that is publicly available, collected through cookies and other technologies, and information that we receive from our partners and other third parties. We may use that combined information to better provide you our products and services and to better provide you personalized content, customized content and advertising.

5. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We want you to understand when and with whom we may share personal or other information we have collected about you or your activities on our Site or while using our products or services. We may routinely share Personal Information with:

Our affiliates, joint venturers, and business partners;
Our service providers and those with whom we've contracted in connection with our Site, such as Payment Processors, marketing agencies, promotional partners, and website hosts, and various customer, tech, and operational support;
Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link to your account or third-party Payment Processors;
Credit reporting agencies;
Our insurers and brokers; and
Our financial and legal institutions.

We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us, in our sole discretion. We may disclose and exchange information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy. We may also share personal or other information we have collected about you or your activities on our Site or while using our products or services as you may request or otherwise agree.

We may also use third party services such as Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Any third parties to whom we may disclose Personal Information may have their own privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose Personal Information. Those policies will govern use, handling, and disclosure of your Personal Information once we have shared it with those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit the websites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be located either inside or outside the United States.

We may share aggregated and non-Personal Information we collect under any of the above circumstances. We may also share it with third parties to develop and deliver targeted advertising on the Site and on websites of third parties. You can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative's ("NAI") educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

We may combine Personal Information we collect with additional Personal Information collected from other sources. We also may share aggregated non Personal Information with third parties, including advisors, advertisers, and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors to our Site and the most popular features or services accessed. This information does not contain any Personal Information and may be used to develop website content and services that we hope you and other users will find of interest and to target content and advertising. We may also report aggregated, de-identified data relating to activity on the Site to third parties or the general public. We may combine such data with data obtained from third-party sources in order to generate such reports.

In the event of a merger, sale of capital stock or assets, reorganization, consolidation, or similar transaction involving APT, the information we possess (including personally identifiable information) shall be transferred as a corporate asset to the acquiring entity, provided that such entity will continue to handle such information in accordance with this Policy.

6. VIEWING AND AMENDING INFORMATION

You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our Site because such information may be required in order for you to register an account with us; purchase products or services; participate in a contest, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes; ask a question; or initiate other transactions on our Site.

Please contact us at info@APTonline.org if you no longer wish to receive communications regarding the Site. Opt-out requests may not be able to be immediately processed, and we may also continue to send you other types of transactional and relationship email communications, such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. You may request that we not share your Personal Information with third parties for direct marketing purposes by contacting us at info@APTonline.org. Please also note that changing information in your account or otherwise opting out of receipt of promotional email communications will only affect future activities or communications from us.

Account owners may be able to log into their account and view, amend, or delete their account information. Please note that while changes or deletions to your account or Personal Information may be reflected promptly in active user databases, our servers or our associated third parties may retain previously provided information, and may be required to keep certain information and not delete it (or to keep information for a certain amount of time, in which case APT will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements).

Also, changes to, or deletion of, any account information does not affect any other information collected by APT, which APT may retain and continue to use or disclose in accordance with this Policy. If we have already provided your Personal Information to a third party before you have changed your preferences or updated your account or Personal Information with us, you may have to change your preferences directly with that third party.

We reserve the right to verify the identity of any person making a request to opt-out or to delete or modify Personal Information; provided, however, that we will have no liability of any kind resulting from false or erroneous requests or any change or deletion made by us for any reason.

7. SECURITY; UPDATES

We take reasonable measures to protect your Personal Information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

To mitigate this risk, you should use secure usernames and passwords and carefully protect them from disclosure and implement updated internet security and virus protection on your computer. If you suspect that your computer's security or your information has been compromised or your password accessed or used by an unauthorized third party, immediately change your password.

If we become aware of a security systems breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may post a notice through the Site if a security breach occurs. We may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to use in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

Users should also be aware of how they handle and disclose their Personal Information and should avoid sending Personal Information through insecure e-mail. Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission's website at https://www.business.ftc.gov/privacy-and-security/consumer-privacy for information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.

We also may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do so, we will post the new Privacy Policy on the Site and your continued use of the Site and online products or services associated therewith is deemed to be acceptance of such updates or changes. We encourage you to check the date of our Privacy Policy when you access and use the Site for any updates or changes.

8. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS – YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

The following provisions apply only to residents of the state of California:

8.1. DO NOT TRACK

Section 22575 of the California Business & Professions Code requires website and online service operators to disclose whether they honor web browser "Do Not Track" settings. At this time, no standard has been adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) regarding such practices, and given current industry considerations, APT does not generally respond to "do not track" signals and may collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across different web sites when you visit the Site, for example by using cookies on our Site. We will update our practices and Policy as these standards evolve. For more information about Do Not Track, please visit www.allaboutdnt.org.

8.2. CCPA

If you are a California resident you may have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act:

Right to Know. You have the right to know and see what data we have collected about you over the past 12 months, including:

The categories of Personal Information we have collected about you;
The categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected;
The business or commercial purpose for collecting your Personal Information;
The categories of third parties with whom we have shared your Personal Information; and
The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Information we have collected from you (and direct our service providers to do the same).

Other Rights. You can request certain information about our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. This request is free and may be made once a year. You also have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights listed above.

Certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain types of information so that we can provide our Services to you. If you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use our Services.

Please see below under "How to Exercise your Rights" for information on contacting us to see if you are able to exercise these rights.

For purposes of compliance with the CCPA, in addition to the further details as described in this Privacy Policy, we may make the following disclosures:

We may collect the following categories of Personal Information:

A. Identifiers (e.g., your name, email, address, phone, IP address)

B. Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (e.g. your gender, religion, sexual orientation)

C. Commercial/transactional information (e.g., your purchase information and order history)

D. Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., information about your website or app usage, such as page views and add-to-carts)

E. Geolocation data (e.g., your physical location)

F. Visual information (e.g., any photographs you upload on your account)

G. Inferences (e.g., analytics and preferences)

H. Professional or employment-related information (e.g., employer and business travel details)

We may use and disclose these categories of information to enable use of our sites, services, and products, to communicate with you, to understand how our users interact with our sites, to facilitate bookings, to improve our offerings as otherwise described in this Policy.

California law requires certain disclosures about Personal Information we "sell," which for the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), means making Personal Information available to third parties in exchange for valuable consideration, which some may claim includes allowing advertising companies to collect unique cookie IDs through our sites when you use our Services. Under that interpretation, we may "sell" Personal Information to advertise our products to you. In the preceding 12 months, we may have "sold" the following categories of Personal Information to the following categories of third parties:

Categories: The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

Third Parties: Interest based advertising partners.

You may have the right to opt out of these sales at any time by clicking the "Do Not Sell My Information" link that may be on our Site. We do not knowingly "sell" Personal Information about consumers under the age of 16.

9. NEVADA RESIDENTS

We do not "sell" Personal Information as defined under Nevada's consumer privacy law (SB 220). As an added assurance to individuals who entrust their Personal Information to us, they may sign up for a do not sell my information log that we maintain. To do so, please email us at us info@APTonline.org, and include the reference line "Nevada Do Not Sell". We may contact you for additional information in order to process your request.

10. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

The Site is hosted in and provided from the United States and is intended for visitors located within the United States. If you use the Site from the European Economic Area ("EEA"), the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your Personal Information to the United States. The United States does not have the same data protection laws as the EEA, UK, Switzerland, Canada, and some other regions. Also, we may transfer your data from the United States to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, marketing efforts, and operating our business. By providing your Personal Information to us or our authorized vendors or partners or via the Site, you consent to the transfer of your Personal Information to the United States and the use of your Personal Information, in accordance with this Policy.

If you are a resident of the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, you may have certain additional rights with respect to your Personal Information under the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the "GDPR"). The following terms, if applicable, shall also apply to our collection, use, and retention of the Personal Information of applicable EEA, UK, and Switzerland residents:

Basis for collection. As set out above, we collect and process Personal Information for which you have given your express consent at the time of collection. For example, we collect Personal Information when you elect to participate in one of our promotions. We also collect and process Personal Information in order to improve our services, to deliver services and perform obligations under contracts we have with you, and to comply with our own legal obligations.

Sensitive data. We do not collect sensitive data, for example, biometric data, health data, or data revealing racial or ethnic origin, from visitors to our Site.

Onward transfer. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we only disclose Personal Information to third parties who reasonably need to have access to it for the purpose of the transaction or activity for which it was originally collected or to provide services to or perform tasks or our behalf or under our instruction. All such third parties must agree to use such the Personal Information we provide to them only the purposes for which we have engaged them and they must either: (a) comply with a mechanism permitted by the applicable EEA, UK, & Swiss data protection law(s) for transfers and processing of Personal Information; and (b) agree to provide adequate protections for the Personal Information that are no less protective than those set out in this privacy policy. Where we have knowledge that an entity to whom we have provided Personal Information is using or disclosing Personal Information in a manner contrary to this privacy policy, we will take reasonable and appropriate steps to prevent, remediate or stop the use or disclosure.

Authorized transfer. We also may disclose Personal Information for other purposes or to other third parties when you have consented to or requested such disclosure. Please be aware that we will disclose Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We are not liable for appropriate onward transfers of Personal Information to third parties.

Data processors. We may retain third parties to process or analyze Personal Information we collect from our site. For example, a site may be maintained or hosted by a third party service provider or a promotion may be administered by a sales promotion agency. These suppliers and other third parties who provide services for us are contractually obligated not to use Personal Information about you except as we authorize.

Profiling. We may analyze Personal Information we have collected about you to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information that is relevant to you. We may make use of additional information about you when it is available from external sources to help us do this effectively. We may also use Personal Information about you to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.

Your rights. Your rights include: (a) a right to access your Personal Information; (b) a right to withdraw your consent to the processing of Personal Information about you to which you have previously given consent; (c) a right to object to processing of Personal Information about you for the purpose of direct marketing; and (d) a right to have incorrect Personal Information about you corrected or removed.

If you request to have incorrect Personal Information removed, we may retain some of your Personal Information as necessary for the purposes of our legitimate business interests or in furtherance of public interests in accordance with applicable laws. Any Personal Information you have shared publicly with others may continue to be publicly visible on the site.

You also have the right to obtain a copy of the Personal Information we have about you, although we reserve the right to charge a fee for this depending on the nature and frequency of your request(s) and our cost to provide the information.

If you are located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland and the GDPR applies to you, and you are or have been our customer, we may send you marketing communications based on our legitimate interests, subject always to your right to opt out of such communications. Further, if you are located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland and the GDPR applies to you, we will not share your Personal Information with a third party for such third party's marketing purposes, unless you have specifically consented to us doing so.

You may contact us as indicated below to exercise any of the above rights. We may request specific information from you to confirm your identity, and in some circumstances we may charge a reasonable fee for access to your Personal Information. We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person's behalf. Any Personal Information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.

If you believe that our processing of your Personal Information is inconsistent with your data protection rights under the GDPR and we have not adequately addressed your concerns, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Supervisory Authority of your country.

For purposes of the GDPR, we are a "controller" and you are a "data subject."

11. HOW TO EXERSISE YOUR RIGHTS/QUESTIONS/CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please:

Email/write to us at info@APTonline.org or American Public Television, 55 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110.

Please note that you may only make a CCPA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.

If you choose to contact us directly, you will need to provide us with:

Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number);
Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driver's license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person's behalf.

Any Personal Information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@APTonline.org.

Last updated: 2026-11-02