User Agreement Privacy Policy Content Policy Moderator Guidelines Transparency Report 2017 Transparency Report 2018REDDIT, INC.REDDIT PRIVACY POLICY EffectiveDecember 12, 2017.June 8, 2018. Last Revised May 25, 2018 We want you to understand how and why Reddit, Inc. (“Reddit,” “we” or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when youaccess anduseReddit’sour websites, mobile apps, widgets, and other online products and services (collectively, the "Services") or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us. This Privacy Policy applies to all of ourServices,Services includingthose that maintainReddit Gifts, which maintains a separatePrivacy Noticeprivacy notice that incorporates this Privacy Policy by reference.INFORMATIONWHAT WE COLLECT INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US We collect information you providedirectlyto us directly when you useourthe Services.Depending on which Service you use, we may collect different information about you.This includes:INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR USE OF THE SERVICESWe collect the content and other informationAccount information. To create an account, you must providewhen you use our Services. This includes information used to create your account (e.g.,ausername, passwordusername andatpassword. Your username is public, and it doesn’t have to be related to youroption,real name. You may also provide an emailaddress),address. We also store your user accountpreferences, the content of private messages between youpreferences andother users or communities (e.g., modmail), and the content of information you post to the Services (e.g., text, photos, videos, links). TRANSACTIONAL INFORMATIONsettings.IfContent youpurchase products or services from us (e.g., Reddit Gold), we willsubmit. We collectcertain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and information abouttheproduct or servicecontent youare purchasing. Payments are processed by third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe and PayPal), so please refersubmit to theapplicable processor’s termsServices. This includes your posts and comments including saved drafts, your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and modmail), and your reports and other communications with moderators andprivacy policy for more information about how payment information is processedwith us. Your content may include text, links, images, gifs, andstored. OTHER INFORMATIONvideos.You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we mayActions you take. We collect informationwhenabout the actions youfill out a form, participate in contests, sweepstakes or promotions, apply for a job, communicatetake when using the Services. This includes your interactions withus via third-party sitescontent, like voting, saving, hiding, andservices, request customer support or otherwise communicatereporting. It also includes your interactions withus. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLYother users, such as following, friending, and blocking. We collect your interactions with communities, like your subscriptions or moderator status.WhenTransactional information. If youaccesspurchase products oruse our Services,services from us (e.g., Reddit Gold or Reddit Ads) or sign up as a potential advertiser on Reddit Ads, wemay also automaticallywill collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and information aboutyou. This include LOG AND USAGE DATAthe product or service you are purchasing. Payments are processed by third-party payment processors (e.g., Stripe and PayPal), so please refer to the applicable processor’s terms and privacy policy for more information about how payment information is processed and stored.WeOther information. You maylogchoose to provide other informationwhen you access and use the Services. Thisdirectly to us. For example, we mayinclude your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, devicecollect information(e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL, hardware settings, and search terms. Exceptwhen you fill out a form, participate in Reddit-sponsored activities or promotions, apply forthe IP address used to create your account, Reddit will delete any IP addresses collected after 100 days.a job, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us. INFORMATIONCOLLECTED FROM COOKIESWE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLYWe may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests. WeWhen you access or usethis information to improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, and improve the quality ofourServices. For example,Services, westore and retrievemay also automatically collect information aboutyour preferred language and other settings. For more information on how you can disable cookies, please see “Your Choices” below. INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM INTEGRATIONSyou. This includes:WeLog and usage data. We mayreceivelog informationabout you from third-party websites that integrate our Services, including our widgets, buttons, and advertising technology. For example,when youvisit a website that uses our comment-embed widget, weaccess and use the Services. This mayreceiveinclude your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device informationabout(e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, theweb page you visited. You can control how we use this information to personalize the Servicesrequested URL, hardware settings, and search terms. Except foryou by adjustingthe IP address used to create yourpreferences here. LOCATION INFORMATIONaccount, Reddit will delete any IP addresses collected after 100 days.WeInformation collected from cookies and similar technologies. We may receiveand processinformationabout your location. For example, with your consent, we may collect information about the specific locationfrom cookies, which are pieces of data yourmobile device (for example, by using GPS or Bluetooth). You can revoke this consent at any time by changing the preferences on your device, but doing so may affect your abilitybrowser stores and sends back touse all of the featuresus when making requests, andfunctionality of our Services.similar technologies. Wemay also receive locationuse this informationfrom you when you choosetoshare such information on our Services, including by associatingimprove your experience, understand user activity, personalize contentwith a location, orand advertisements, and improve the quality of our Services. For example, wemay derivestore and retrieve information about yourapproximate location frompreferred language and other settings. For more informationabout you, including your IP address. INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCESon how you can disable cookies, please see “Your Choices” below.WeLocation information. We may receiveinformation about you from other sources, including from other usersandthird parties, and combine thatprocess informationwith the other information we haveaboutyou.your location. For example, with your consent, we mayreceive demographiccollect information about the specific location of your mobile device (for example, by using GPS orinterestBluetooth). We may also receive location informationaboutfrom youfrom third parties,when you choose to share such information on our Services, includingadvertisers, and combine itby associating your content withour own data usingacommon account identifier such as a hash of an email addresslocation, ora mobile-device ID. You can control howweuse thismay derive your approximate location from other informationto personalize the Services for you by adjustingabout you, including yourpreferences here. SOCIAL SHARINGIP address. INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OTHER SOURCES We mayoffer social sharing features orreceive information about you from otherintegrated toolssources, including from other users and third parties, and combine thatlet you share contentinformation with the other information we have about you. For example, we may receive demographic oractionsinterest information about youtake onfrom third parties, including advertisers, and combine it with our own data using a common account identifier such as a hash of an email address or a mobile-device ID. You can control how we use this information to personalize the Serviceswithfor you by adjusting your preferences here. Linked services. If you authorize or link othermedia. Yourservices (e.g., third-party apps or websites) to access your Reddit account, Reddit receives information about your use ofthese features enablesthat service when it uses that authorization. Linking services may also cause thesharing of certainother service to send us informationwithabout yourfriends or the public, depending on the settings you establishaccount withthe third partythatprovides the social sharing feature. For moreservice. To learn how information is shared with linked services, see “How Information About You Is Shared” below. Information collected from integrations. We also may receive information aboutthe purposeyou, including log andscope ofusage datacollectionandprocessing in connection with social sharing features, pleasecookie information, from third-party websites that integrate our Services, including our embeds, buttons, and advertising technology. For example, when you visit a website that uses Reddit embeds, we may receive information about theprivacy policies ofweb page you visited. You can control how we use this information to personalize thethird parties that provide these social sharing features (e.g., Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter).Services for you by adjusting your preferences here. HOW WE USE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU We use information about you to: Provide, maintain, and improve the Services; Research and develop new services; Help protect the safety of Reddit and our users, which includes blocking suspected spammers, addressing abuse, and enforcingthe Redditthe Reddit useragreement;agreement and our other policies; Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices and other support and administrative messages; Provide customer service; Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events, and provide other news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to opt out of these communications, see “Your Choices” below); Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services; and Personalize the Services and provide advertisements, content and features that match user profiles or interests. (for information about how to manage the types of advertisements you experience on our Services, see “Your Choices” below). HOWWE SHAREINFORMATION ABOUT YOU IS SHARED When you use the Services, certain information may be shared with other users and the public. For example: When you submit content (such as a post or comment or public chat) to the Services, any visitors to and users of our Services will be able to seethe content of your posts and comments,that content, the username associated withyour posts or comments,the content, and the date and time you originally submitted thepost or comment.content. Reddit allows other websites to embed public Reddit content via our embed tools. Reddit also allows third parties to access public Reddit content via the Reddit API and via other similar technologies. Although some parts of the Services may be private or quarantined, they may become public (e.g., at the moderator’s option in the case of private communities) and you should take that into consideration before posting to the Services. When you send privatemessages ormessages, messages via modmail, or private chats, the recipients of those messages will be able to see the content of your message, your username, and the date and time the message was sent. Keep in mind that additional users may be invited to join a private chat after you send a message. Moderators may elect to have modmail forwarded to their email accounts and, as a result, any modmail received by these moderators will be subject to the terms and policies of the moderator’s email provider. When other users view your profile, they will be able to see information about your activities on the Services, such as your username, prior posts and comments, karma, trophies, moderator status, Reddit Gold status, and how long you have been a member of the Services. If you choose to make the information public, your profile may also include your voting history. We offer social sharing features that let you share content or actions you take on our Services with other media. Your use of these features enables the sharing of certain information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these social sharing features (e.g., Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter). Please note that, even when you delete your account, the posts, comments and messages you submit through the Services may still be viewable or available on our servers. For more information, see “Your Choices” below.We willOtherwise, we do not share, sell, or give awayany of our users’your personal information to thirdparties,parties unless one of the following circumstances applies:Except as it relates to advertisers and our ad partners, we may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us;With linked services. If youparticipate in contests, sweepstakes, promotions, special offers, or other events or activities in connectionlink your Reddit account withour Services, we maya third-party service, Reddit will share the information you authorize withentitiesthatpartner with us to provide these offerings; We may share information (and will attempt to provide you with prior notice, to the extent legally permissible)third-party service. You can control this sharing as described inresponse to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements; We may share information in response to an emergency if we believe it's necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person; We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements, rules, or other Reddit policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others; We may share information between and among Reddit, and its current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership; and We may share information with your consent or at your direction."Your Choices" below.WeWith our partners. We may shareaggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonablyinformation with vendors, consultants, and other service providers (but not with advertisers and ad partners) who need access to such information to carry out work for us. The partner’s use of personal data will beusedsubject toidentify you. ADS AND ANALYTICS PARTNERSappropriate confidentiality and security measures.We may partnerTo comply withthird-party advertisers, ad networks, and analytics providers to deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests and to better understand your use oftheServices. These third partieslaw. We maycollectshare informationsent by your computer, browser, or mobile devicein response to a request forcontent, such as unique identifiers, your IP address,information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, orotherrequired by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. To the extent the law allows it, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice before disclosing your information in response to such a request. Our Transparency Report has additional information aboutyour computer or device. For example: ADVERTISERS AND AD NETWORKShow we respond to government requests.Our ad partners and ad networksIn an emergency. We mayuse cookies and use related technologies to collectshare informationwhen ads are deliveredif we believe it's necessary toyou on our Services, but Reddit does not linkprevent imminent and serious bodily harm toor provide them with your actual Reddit account details. This means that Reddit does not share your individual account browsing habits with advertisers. Reddit cannot see advertisers’ cookies and advertisers will not see Reddit cookies. ANALYTICS PARTNERSa person.We use analytics partners (such as Google Analytics) to help analyze usageTo enforce our policies andtraffic forrights. We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with ourServices. As an example, we may use analytics partnersuser agreements, rules, or other Reddit policies, or toanalyzeprotect the rights, property, andmeasure, in the aggregate, the numbersafety ofunique visitors to our Services.ourselves and others.For more information about how youWith our affiliates. We maycontrol the collection and/or use ofshare informationfor advertisingbetween and among Reddit, and any of our parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control andanalytics purposes, please see “Your Choices.” SECURITYownership.We take reasonable measures to help protectWith your consent. We may share information about youfrom loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. CHILDREN UNDER 13with your consent or at your direction.AlthoughAggregated or de-identified information. We may share information about you that has been aggregated or anonymized such that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, wewelcome users from all walks of life, Reddit is not intended or directed at individuals undermay show theagetotal number of13. Therefore, individuals under the age of 13 may not create an account or otherwise access or usetimes a post has been upvoted without identifying who theServices. YOUR CHOICESvisitors were.As a Reddit user, you have choices about how to protect and limit the collection, use, and disclosure of, information about you. This includes: PREFERENCESADS AND ANALYTICS PARTNERS We mayprovide youpartner withtoolsthird-party advertisers, ad networks, andpreference settings that allow youanalytics providers toaccess, correct, delete,deliver advertising andmodifycontent targeted to your interests and to better understand your use of the Services. These third parties may collect informationassociated withsent by your computer, browser, or mobile device in response to a request for content, such as unique identifiers, your IP address, or other information about youraccount. ACCOUNT INFORMATIONcomputer or device. For example: ADVERTISERS AND AD NETWORKSYouOur ad partners and ad networks maydelete your account information at any time by logging into your accountuse cookies andfollowing the steps under “Preferences.” When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visiblerelated technologies to collect information when ads are delivered toother users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messagesyousubmitted prioron our Services, but Reddit does not link todeletingor provide them with your actual Reddit account details. This means that Reddit does not share your individual account browsing habits with advertisers. Reddit cannot see advertisers’ cookies and advertisers willstill be visible to others, unless you delete such content. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes after you delete your account. COOKIESnot see Reddit cookies. ANALYTICS PARTNERSMostWe use analytics partners (such as Google Analytics) to help analyze usage and traffic for our Services. As an example, we may use analytics partners to analyze and measure, in the aggregate, the number of unique visitors to our Services. YOUR CHOICES As a Reddit user, you have choices about how to protect and limit the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you. ACCESSING AND CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION You can access and change certain information through the Services. See our Help Center page for more information. DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferences page. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes after you delete your account. CONTROLLING LINKED SERVICES’ ACCESS TO YOUR ACCOUNT You can review the services you have linked to your account and revoke access to individual services here. CONTROLLING THE USE OF COOKIES Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject first- and third-party cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.ADVERTISINGCONTROLLING ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS Some analytics providers we partner with may provide specific opt-out mechanisms and we may provide, as needed and as available, additional tools and third-party services that allow you to better understand cookies and how you can opt-out. For example, you may manage the use and collection of certain information by Google Analytics here. We also offer you choices about receiving personalized advertisements. You can adjust how we personalize advertisements for you by visiting your adspreferences here.preferences here. You may also generally opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from certain third-party advertisers and ad networks. To learn more about these advertisements or to opt out, please visit the websites ofthe Digitalthe Digital AdvertisingAlliance and the NetworkAlliance and the Network AdvertisingInitiative.Initiative, or if you are a user in the European Economic Area, Your Online Choices. DO NOT TRACK Most modern web browsers give you the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the websites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no accepted standard for how a website should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal. Instead, in addition to publicly available third-party tools, we offer you the choices described in this policy to manage the collection and use of information about you.PROMOTIONALCONTROLLING PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS You may opt out of receiving some or all categories of promotional communications from us by following the instructions in thosecommunications.communications or by updating your email options in your account preferences here. If you optout,out of promotional communications, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as information about your account or your use ofourthe Services.MOBILECONTROLLING MOBILE NOTIFICATIONS With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERSCONTROLLING LOCATION INFORMATIONWe are based inIf you initially consent to our collection of location information, you can subsequently stop theUnited Statescollection of this information at any time by changing the preferences on your mobile device. OTHER INFORMATION INFORMATION SECURITY We take measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For example, we use HTTPS while information is being transmitted. We also enforce technical and administrative access controls to limit which of our employees have access to non-public personal information. You can help maintain the security of your account by configuring two-factor authentication. DATA RETENTION We store the information we collect for as long as it isgovernednecessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required byU.S.law. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS We are based in the United States and we process and store information on servers located in the United States. We may store information on servers and equipment in other countries depending on a variety of factors, including the locations of our users and service providers. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, where you may not have the same rights as you do under local law. In connection with Reddit's processing of personal data received from the European Union and Switzerland, we adhere to the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Program (“Privacy Shield”) and comply with its framework and principles.ForPlease direct any inquiries or complaints regarding our compliance with the Privacy Shield principles to the point of contact listed in the “Contact Us” section below. If we do not resolve your complaint, you may submit your complaint free of charge to JAMS. Under certain conditions specified by the Privacy Shield principles, you may also be able to invoke binding arbitration to resolve your complaint. We are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission. If we share EU or Swiss data with a third-party service provider that processes the data solely on our behalf, then we will be liable for that third party’s processing of EU or Swiss data in violation of the Privacy Shield principles, unless we can prove that we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage. For more information about the Privacy Shield principles and to view our certification, please visit the U.S. Department ofCommerce’s PrivacyCommerce’s Privacy Shield website. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR EEA USERS Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent. These rights can be exercised using the information provided under “Your Choices” above or using the contact information provided at the end of this document. EEA users also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local supervisory authority. As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA only where we have legal bases for doing so. Our legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. We process your information on the following legal bases: You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose; We need to process the information to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services; It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, and marketing and promoting the Services; We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations. CHILDREN Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the Services. Additionally, if you are in the EEA, you must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use the Services, or we need to have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to r/announcements, the front page of the Services or sending you a notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. By continuing to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy. CONTACT US If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at legal@reddit.com or at:Please direct any inquiries or complaints regarding our compliance with the Privacy Shield principles to the point of contact listed in the “Contact Us” section below. If we do not resolve your complaint, you may submit your complaint free of charge to JAMS. Under certain conditions specified by the Privacy Shield principles, you may also be able to invoke binding arbitration to resolve your complaint. We are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the Federal Trade Commission. If we share EU or Swiss data with a third-party service provider that processes the data solely on our behalf, then we will be liable for that third party’s processing of EU or Swiss data in violation of the Privacy Shield principles, unless we can prove that we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage. CHANGESReddit, Inc. 548 Market St. #16093 San Francisco, California 94104 Wemay change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we makehave also appointed achange to this policy that,representative inour sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to r/announcements,thefront page of the Services or sending you a notification). We encourage youEU toreview the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informedreceive inquiries about ourinformation practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy. CONTACT USdata practices:If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email legal@reddit.com.Reddit, Inc. c/o First European Data Rep B.V. eurepresentative@reddit.com Schiphol Boulevard 195 1118 BG Schiphol, The Netherlands
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