Terms and Conditions

Terms of use

Welcome to the AP.org website (this “Site”). Use of this Site is conditioned on the acceptance, without modification, of these terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”). By using this Site You represent that You have read and understand these Terms of Use and agree to be bound by them. If You do not wish to bind Yourself to these Terms of Use, do not access or use this Site or access any materials from this Site. AP reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify these Terms of Use at any time, such modification effective immediately upon posting.

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1.1 This Site is owned and operated by The Associated Press and/or its affiliates (collectively, “AP”). All of the content elements displayed and/or downloadable on this Site, including photographic images, graphic images, text, captions, video, audio-visual files, digital files and software (collectively, the “Content”), and all of the features of this Site, including this Site’s designs, trade dress, logos, pages, audio and/or video material, text, data, information, software, data compilations, digital downloads, icons, html code, xml code and products or services obtained from this Site (together with the Content, collectively, the “Site Elements”) is the exclusive property of AP or its licensors. The Site Elements are protected by national and international laws, including copyright, trademark, trade dress and other intellectual property laws. Any Content accessed or downloaded by You (whether or not such access or download was authorized) transfers no right, title or interest in or to such Content or any intellectual property rights therein. All right, title and interest in and to such Content shall remain the exclusive property of AP and/or its licensors. No Content may be used, copied, displayed, transmitted or otherwise exploited via any means except as expressly permitted herein. AP hereby expressly reserves all rights in relation to the Site and Site Elements not expressly granted herein.

1.2 For the protection of AP and its licensors, Content may use electronic measures to protect this Site and the Site Elements. You agree not to, nor attempt to, disable or interfere with any such measures. Any circumvention or interference with such measures may result in civil and criminal penalties.

1.3 For personal, non-commercial use ONLY, You may make a single printed copy of any item of Content on the Site PROVIDED that You do not remove or cause to be removed any copyright, trademark, watermark or other proprietary notices or visual marks or logos from the Content. You may not archive or retain any Content without the express prior written consent of AP to the address shown at Section 10.1 below.

2.1 This Site and Site Elements are intended solely for users of the Site. Any and all access to this Site is provided to You at AP’s sole discretion. You agree that AP shall not be liable to You or any third party for any termination of Your access to this Site. AP reserves the right to modify, update, suspend, discontinue or restrict the use of or access to the Site (or any portion of the Site) at any time and without notice or liability.

2.2 You may not (i) deep link or employ software or any automatic device, technology or algorithm, to “crawl”, “scrape”, search or monitor this Site and/or retrieve or copy Content or related information; (ii) violate the mechanical restrictions of this Site, or bypass other measures employed to prevent or limit access to this Site or Site Elements by hacking or other means; (iii) copy, redirect, or exploit this Site or any Site Elements; (iv) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of this Site or of the network supporting this Site, or seek information on visitors to this Site or personal information of AP’s customers; (v) use or upload to this Site any device, software or routine that would interfere with the proper functioning of this Site, or any transaction conducted via this Site; (vi) copy, modify, or display AP’s name, logo, trademarks or service marks, text, or graphic images in any way, or include AP’s names or trademarks or service marks or any AP executive’s name, or any variation of any of the foregoing, as a meta-tag, hidden textual element, or any other indicator that may create an impression of affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement; (vii) use devices (including software) that are designed to provide repeated automated access to this Site, other than those made generally available by AP, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network related in any way to this Site, without proper authorization from or by AP; (viii) engage in any unlawful or illegal activities in connection with the use of this Site; or (ix) frame this Site or Site Elements using “framing” or any other similar technology.

2.3 AP controls and operates this Site from its offices within the State of New York, United States of America. AP does not claim that this Site and/or any Site Elements are appropriate or available for use in locations other than the United States. If You choose to access this Site from other locations, You do so at Your own initiative and will be solely responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.

3.1 In the course of using this Site, You may receive certain pricing, technical, marketing or other confidential information. “Confidential information” includes any information that is either designated as confidential by AP or that, under the circumstances surrounding its disclosure, a reasonable person would conclude is confidential. You acknowledge that such confidential information constitutes valuable trade secrets of AP and is proprietary to AP. You agree that You will maintain the confidentiality of all such confidential information and that You shall not use or disclose such confidential information without the prior written consent of AP.

4.1 THE SITE AND THE SITE ELEMENTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, AP EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE SITE, THE SITE ELEMENTS AND ANY OTHER PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THIS SITE, WHETHER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES (1) OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE; (2) OF NON-INFRINGEMENT AND TITLE; (3) THAT ANY USE OF THE SITE WILL BE FREE FROM ANY INTERRUPTIONS, DELAYS, INACCURACIES, SERVER DOWN-TIME, ERRORS OR OMISSIONS; (4) THAT THE SITE WILL BE SECURE, OR FREE OF VIRUSES, WORMS OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS; (5) THAT THE SITE AND/OR THE SITE ELEMENTS WILL SATISFY YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS; AND (6) THAT INFORMATION, DATA OR MATERIALS PRESENTED OR DISPLAYED ON THIS SITE ARE CORRECT, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE.

4.2 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL AP OR ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, PARTNERS, LICENSORS, AGENTS OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVES, BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, COMPENSATORY, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, INCOME, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES OR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SITE ELEMENTS. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING OR REPAIRS ARISING FROM USE OF THE SITE.

4.3 Your access to this Site or any Site Element is at Your own risk. You shall be solely responsible for any damage to Your computer systems or loss of data that results from the accessing of any Site Elements. AP shall not be responsible or liable for any damage caused by theft, systems failure, communications line failure or other occurrences beyond the control of AP.

4.4 Although AP endeavors to ensure the accuracy, completeness and reliability of the Content, AP disclaims all representations and warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness and/or reliability of the Content or any data or metadata appurtenant thereof. You assume all risk and responsibility relying on such information. AP also disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness and/or reliability of any search feature provided by this Site and/or any search results.

4.5 This Site may from time to time contain links or pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties. These links do not imply endorsement by AP of the products or services offered by such third party Internet sites. AP does not operate or control in any way any information, products or services on these third-party sites and AP expressly disclaims any responsibility for such third party sites, which are provided for Your convenience on an “as is” basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied. You hereby waive any and all claims against AP regarding the inclusion of links to third party Internet sites or the use thereof.

5.1 This Site contains an extensive archive of news and historical Content. Accordingly, certain Content may describe or depict persons, institutions or events that reflect social attitudes, beliefs and circumstances of a particular place and/or time that may be viewed as insensitive, offensive or inappropriate by You, or the community in or to which You intend to publish, transmit, display or broadcast such Content. AP shall not be liable or responsible to You, or any other person or entity with respect to such Content.

6.1 You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless AP and its officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives from and against any and all claims, actions, proceedings, suits, liabilities, damages, settlements, penalties, fines, losses, or expenses, including attorneys’ fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with its access to Your use of this Site or any Site Elements in violation or breach or alleged violation or breach of these Terms of Use, Your violation, alleged violation or misappropriation of any intellectual property right (including trademark, copyright, patent, trade secrets) or non-proprietary rights of a third party (including defamation, libel, violation of privacy or publicity) or any other applicable laws or regulations.

7.1 If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. The affected provision shall be modified to the extent necessary to make it lawful, not void or enforceable, as the case may be, in such a manner as comes closest to preserving the intentions of such provision.

8.1 These Terms of Use will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. These Terms of Use shall not be governed by the United Nations Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods, the application of which is expressly disclaimed. You agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in New York County in the State of New York. You agree not to bring any of action relating to the use of this Site or the interpretation of these Terms of Use in any court in any jurisdiction other than the state and federal courts located in New York County, State of New York. AP shall have the right to commence and prosecute any legal or equitable action or proceeding before any US or non-US court of competent jurisdiction to enforce these Terms of Use. In any dispute between You and AP where AP prevails, AP shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorney fees, court costs, disbursements, and other legal expenses.

9.1 The failure of AP at any time to require performance by You of any provision of these Terms of Use shall in no way affect the right of AP to enforce the such provision, nor shall the waiver of any breach by You of any provision herein constitute a waiver of any succeeding breach or the provision itself.

10.1 Requests for the archiving, republication or retention of any item of Content accessible on the Site should be submitted by You in writing to AP at the following address: Copyright Team, The Associated Press, 200 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10281, USA or by email to info@ap.org.

10.2 If You have any queries regarding the Site, please submit your query to AP by email to: info@ap.org

10.3 To submit an intellectual property claim please fill out this form

Please complete the form to file your IP claim

College Newspaper digital use terms and conditions

1.1.  Subject to execution of a valid and current College Newspaper Services Agreement (“the Agreement”‘) and to the terms and conditions set forth here, hereby grants to the subscribing college or university (“Subscriber”) a non-exclusive, non-transferable limited license to: publicly perform, publicly display and otherwise include the news, internet and information from the produced online service(s) (”the AP Service”) listed in Exhibit A of the Agreement, on the Subscriber’s Internet Newspaper editions, in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein.

2. 1. Subscriber’s use of the Content in its Internet newspaper editions is limited to news use only and must target the specific news and information in Subscriber’s campus and surrounding local community.

2.2. Subscriber will not archive or otherwise retain any Content in an on-line or wireless electronically retrievable format for retrieval by Users for no more than 30 days without the express written permission of AP; provided that the foregoing limitation shall not apply to any electronic archival of the AP Service Material included in the Subscriber’s newspapers where the archival is of the entire contents of the printed newspaper and the archive is for sole purpose substantiating any stories  published in the newspaper.

2.3. AP shall retain all right, title and interest in and to the Content, including, without limitation, the copyright.

2.3.1. Subscriber may present the Content only within Subscriber’s online newspaper, which shall be branded with the name of the Subscriber.

2.3.2. Subscriber may not co-brand the content with any third party without the express written permission of AP.

2.3.3. Subscriber shall not make the Content available to any other Subscriber, person, or third-party affiliate, except with the express written permission of the AP.

2.3.4. Subscriber may not use the Content for any other purpose or platform not expressly approved herein or in the Agreement, including other URLS, MP3, USB storage devices or other wired or wireless devices, except with the express written permission of AP.

2.4. Nothing herein is intended to restrict Subscriber’s ability to display advertising alongside the Content, or to allow Subscriber to enter into a common relationship in which an entity sponsors one or more sections (e.g., Business News) of Subscriber’s Internet editions.

2.5. AP shall engage in commercially reasonable efforts to reach agreement “with news aggregation sites in order to allow such sites to crawl, search, and otherwise access the Content on Subscriber’s internet editions. If AP is unable to reach such agreements with any particular news aggregation site, AP will then request that Subscriber use commercially reasonable efforts to prohibit such entities (including parents, subsidiaries, separate divisions or business Member) from crawling, searching, indexing, scraping, copying, storing or otherwise accessing the Content on Subscriber’s Internet editions. Subscriber is discharged of its obligations under this Section by displaying a notice against unauthorized crawling, searching, indexing, scraping, copying, storing or accessing the AP Content. The notice may be included as part of the terms and conditions applicable to Users of Subscriber’s internet editions. Nothing herein shall obligate Subscriber to enable any particular entity to crawl, search, index, scrape, copy, store or otherwise access Subscriber’s internet editions.

2.6 Any photos in the Content provided to Subscriber and selected by Subscriber for use as provided herein be made available on Subscriber’s Internet editions at a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels or lower or as notified by AP in its sole discretion from time to time.

2.7 Subscriber may use AP photos for news use only. AP conveys no trademark rights or rights of personality or publicity in the photos. Member shall not associate the photos with the promotion or sale of any product or service or associate the photo with any content that would bring the subject or the AP disrepute.

Subscriber’s rights granted herein are subject to the payment of its Assessment according to Exhibit A of the Agreement and any supplemental Agreements. (collectively “The Assessment”) and to the consideration granted by Subscriber to AP in Section 5. below.

These terms and conditions shall become effective on the start date. and shall continue for the term of the Agreement.

5.1. The Content which appears in Subscriber’s Internet newspaper editions will be labeled as copyrighted AP material and credited to AP as the source material as described in Exhibit B. Subscriber shall incorporate the notice of terms and conditions applicable to the Content as described in Exhibit B. Proper credit and incorporation of the form of notice by Subscriber in its Internet newspaper editions, in accordance with Exhibit B, which may be updated by AP from time to time, is a material part of these terms and conditions and constitutes a portion of the consideration to AP from Subscriber.

5.2. Subscriber agrees to not interfere with any copyright protection mechanism or copyright management information system, including any watermark employed by AP. Subscriber shall not interfere with or impair the function of any digital identification devices provided by AP with the Content.

5.3. Subscriber shall, without cost to AP, use commercially reasonable efforts, when otherwise updating such documents, to make AP a third-party beneficiary of Subscriber’s “Terms of Service” or similar agreements applicable to Users of or other visitors (whether an entity or any digital engine that crawls, searches, indexes, scrapes, copies, stores or transmits Web site content) to Subscriber’s Internet newspaper editions.

5.4. Subscriber will promptly notify AP of any unauthorized use, of which Subscriber becomes aware, of the AP Content. Subscriber agrees, if and when requested by AP, to use reasonable commercial efforts to cooperate in AP’s investigation and prosecution of acts that violate AP’s copyright or other rights in the AP Content.

Exhibit B

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT, NOTICE AND CREDIT

 

Photos:                              Include the credit listed in the caption provided for a particular photo.

 

Text:                                   “(AP)”, or “By The Associated Press”, and the writer’s byline; and/or

 

All other content:           Identify the source of the content, as the same is listed within the metadata and summary with the content.

Subscriber will promptly make all kills, corrections and substitutions, and abide by all advance, hold for release, embargo notices or other restrictions on the AP Content. Subscriber may not use any material from the AP Content in Subscriber’s Internet newspaper editions slugged or identified as “advisory”, “on-line or “not for publication”.

7.1. Subscriber will provide AP access to Subscriber’s Internet newspaper editions without charge, if requested by AP, as it relates to Subscriber’s use of the Content under these terms and conditions. In addition, to assist AP with development of digital products and services that reflect market trends and patterns where commercially practicable and to the extent permitted under its online privacy policy. Subscriber shall provide AP with data that can reasonably inform AP of User interest in the Content. Such data may include the number of registered visitors, page views and other similar statistics provided that, AP’s request for data is not intended to cover any personally identifiable information of visitors to or Users that Subscriber may collet for its own business purpose shall: AP shall: (i) maintain the confidentiality of all data collected under this Section; and (ii) only use such data aggregated with the data from other Subscribers.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO THE WORKS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPLAYED ON THE WEB OR DISTRIBUTED VIA THE INTERNET

(Last Updated Dec. 14, 2007)

The following terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”) — applies to all visitors (which shall include without limitation, persons and representatives of legal entities, whether such representatives are persons or digital engines of any kind, including without limitation ones that crawl, spider, ingest, index, scrape, copy, store, display or transmit digital content) (“You”), and governs Your use of any works of The Associated Press, including without limitation text, data, information, photos, graphics, audio and video material created, gathered, generated and/or provided by The Associated Press (the “AP Works”) and displayed on any website or digital service through which You accessed these Terms and Conditions. When You access such website or digital service You agree that these Terms and Conditions govern Your use of the AP Works and constitute a legally binding agreement between You and The Associated Press (“AP”) whose principle place of business is 450 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001.

You are granted a nonexclusive, nontransferable, limited license to access and use the ap works for the specific uses enumerated in these terms and conditions for personal non-commercial use only. all rights with respect to the ap works not explicitly granted to you are reserved to ap.

You may not use the AP Works in any way that would or does: (1) derogate from AP’s intellectual property rights in and to the AP Works; (2) distort the meaning or cause otherwise non-defamatory, non-infringing content to defame or infringe the intellectual property rights of any person or violate any person’s personal proprietary or privacy rights; or (3) violate any applicable law, regulation or guideline in the relevant jurisdiction. Except as specifically authorized in writing by AP, You may not sublicense, market, sell or distribute the AP Works or any subset thereof or offer to do so in any manner or medium.

All right, title and interest in and to the AP Works shall remain the property of AP and/or its licensors, including without limitation any intellectual property rights which subsist in the AP Works. You agree to comply with any instructions set out in any robots.txt files associated with the AP Works, including any requirements with regard to Your access and use of the AP Works.

You agree not to remove, obscure or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trademark notices) which may be affixed to or contained within the AP Works, or impair or interfere with any copyright protection mechanisms, copyright management information systems or digital identification devices employed by AP in association with the AP Works.

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions grants You any right to use any AP trademark for any purpose. You may not use any AP logo or other AP trademark without signing an AP trademark license agreement.

NO REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR COVENANTS WITH RESPECT TO THE AP WORKS ARE MADE BY AP, ITS LICENSORS AND OTHER CONTENT PROVIDERS. AP AND ITS LICENSORS AND CONTENT PROVIDERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILIT, QUALITY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, AS TO THE SEQUENCE, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, ADEQUACY, ACCURACY AND/OR RELIABILITY OF THE AP WORKS) OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE AP WORKS. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU FROM THE AP WORKS SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE AP WORKS IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE AP WORKS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”

AP AND ITS LICENSORS AND OTHER CONTENT PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY REGARD WITH RESPECT TO YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF AND/OR RELIANCE ON THE AP WORKS (WHETHER IN WHOLE OR IN PART), TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FOR ANY LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES WHETHER BASED ON TORT (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NEGLIGENCE OR STRICT LIABILITY), CONTRACT, OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE LEGAL GROUNDS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY HAD ANY NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

You agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend AP, its directors, officers, employees, subsidiaries, licensors and content providers, in respect of all damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees and litigation expenses, arising out of or as a result of any breach of these Terms and Conditions or otherwise in connection with Your use of the AP Works.

If any provision in these Terms and Conditions is declared to be invalid or unenforceable in any respect by a court of law having jurisdiction to decide, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be removed from the Terms and Conditions without affecting the rest of the terms, which will continue to be valid and enforceable, and a valid and enforceable provision that approximates the intent of the invalid or enforceable provision as closely as possible shall be substituted for the invalid or unenforceable provision.

You agree that AP is entitled to exercise all rights and seek all legal and equitable remedies available to it with respect to the AP Works. You agree that AP’s failure to exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy in these Terms and Condition, shall not constitute a waiver of these rights and remedies by AP. Notwithstanding any choice of law, venue or jurisdiction provisions in association with the website or digital service through which You accessed these Terms and Conditions these Terms and Conditions shall be governed by, construed and take effect in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and jurisdiction for any claims arising under these Terms and Conditions shall lie exclusively with the state and federal courts situated in New York, New York, and all such claims shall be adjudicated under New York law, without reference to its conflict of law principles.

Amazon Skill – AP Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information that The Associated Press and its affiliates (referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as “AP”, “we,” “us,” “our” and other similar pronouns) collect through those AP websites, mobile applications, other digital applications or platforms which make this Privacy Policy available (each such website and mobile application, a “Service”).

This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we may collect, how we may use and disclose the information once it is collected, and, where applicable, how you can stop us from collecting, using, disclosing or continuing to hold your information. We want to ensure that in using any of the Services, you understand the terms of this Privacy Policy, including any subsequent changes made to the Privacy Policy as described in Part 11 below, and are aware of the privacy choices available to you. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information that you may provide to us, or that we may obtain, where a separate privacy policy is made available to you or which do not make this Privacy Policy available.<br>

1. What information may be collected?

User-Provided Information

During your use of a Service (whether as a registered or unregistered user), you may provide us with personal information, such as your name and e-mail address, or other information that could be used to identify you as an individual or allow someone to contact you, as well as any information associated with such information (collectively, “Personal Information”). Personal Information includes both things that specifically identify you (like your real name) and things that don’t specifically identify you, but might be connected back to you (like the IP address of your computer or the device identifier of your smartphone).

Location Data

When using our Services from a mobile device (a “Mobile Service”), you may share the geographic location of your device with us. Your device location may be transmitted to us whenever a Mobile Service is running (even if you are not actively using the Mobile Service or it is running in the background on your device). Your device may continue to transmit its location to us until you change your device settings.

If you set your device not to transmit location information to us, certain features of our Services may not be available or their functions may be limited. For example, you will have to manually enter a location when conducting a search. You should also know that turning off location sharing only prevents your device from sharing its precise location. Your network service provider may still provide general location information (based on access points you’ve connected to, for example). The information provided varies by network service provider. You should check with your network service provider to find out what information is provided and if there are ways for you to limit it.

Service Usage Information

As is typical of many web sites and mobile applications, when you use our Services, we may collect information about your device and your usage of our Services including:

  • Your IP address (which we may associate with your domain name or that of your Internet access provider or wireless carrier, and your location);
  • Unique ID number associated with your device;
  • Other unique identifiers such as advertising identifiers (e.g., “ad-ID” or “IDFA”);
  • Web browser and operating system information;
  • Language of your device;
  • Wireless connections you are using;
  • Referring page that linked you to us;
  • Your activities, including browsing and transaction history;
  • Pages, content, and ads you view or click on during your use of our Services, and when and for how long you do so;
  • The next web site you visit after leaving our web site; and
  • Search terms you enter on our Services or a referral site. In addition, we may deploy tracking technologies through our Services to collect additional information about your use of the Services, as set out in the “Cookies and other tracking technologies” section of this Privacy Policy.

2. How is your information used?

We or our service providers may use the information we collect from or about you to perform the following functions:

  • administer our Services and your account with us;
  • enable you to use our Services and their features;
  • customize our Services to your interests and history with us;
  • localize the content and articles that are displayed to you based on your geographical location;
  • conduct market research;
  • improve or develop new features and offerings in our Services;
  • tailor ads displayed to you in our Services and elsewhere;
  • send you marketing and other communications, including information about products, services, or events that we think might be of interest to you;
  • assess your level of interest in and use of our Services, e-mails, and other messaging campaigns, both on an individual basis and in aggregate;
  • generate analytics reports on the usage of our Services; and
  • respond to your requests, questions, and concerns protecting our rights and property.

We may also use Personal Information to meet our internal and external audit requirements and for information security purposes. Where permissible under applicable law, your Personal Information may be used for other purposes, which will be disclosed to you at the time when your information is collected. There may be instances, however, when we will use your Personal Information for purposes that were not disclosed at the time of the data collection; for example, when doing so is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or requirement. We may use Personal Information to (a) respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include such authorities outside your country of residence; (b) enforce our terms and conditions; and (c) protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, or those of other persons.

Some of the uses specified above are necessary for the performance of a contract between us, or for the provision of a service requested by you. In other cases, the uses are based on our legitimate interests such as marketing our services to people who have expressed an interest in them or similar services.

3. How do we share the information we collect?

We may share your information:

  • with our lawyers, auditors, and other professional advisors, third party advertising companies (including exchanges and brokers) and third party providers of services such as cloud storage, customer relationship management systems, travel and expense management, analytics databases, who need your information to provide services to us (or on our behalf);
  • when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government agency, law enforcement, judicial or public authority, or other legal request, or to comply with the law;
  • in connection with a proposed corporate change or dissolution, including for example a merger, acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, sale of assets or wind down of business.

We may share non-personally identifiable information about usage of the Services (including aggregate data) with others, for their own use, in a de-identified form.

In addition, what you voluntarily post to public areas of our Service may be available to other Service users.

Transfers outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”)

The information described in this section of the Privacy Policy, with respect to the transfer of data outside the EEA, applies to those individuals located in the EEA. To process information of individuals located in the EEA for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, it is sometimes necessary for us to share your personal data outside the EEA, for example:

  • with our offices outside the EEA;
  • with service providers located outside the EEA;
  • if you are based outside the EEA;
  • where we consider that the transfer is necessary for exercising, establishing or defending legal rights including, as appropriate, providing information to respond to a government, law enforcement, judicial or other legal request, or otherwise to comply with applicable law.

Non-EEA countries might not have the same legal framework for data protection as the EEA countries. In particular, the United States, which is the most common destination of our transfers of Personal Information outside the EEA, is not considered to provide a level of personal data protection equivalent to that of the EEA. We will, however, ensure the transfers comply with EU data protection law. Our standard practice is to use standard data protection contract clauses approved by the European Commission as the basis for such data transfers. You may read more about this on the European Commission Justice website at (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm).

If you would like further information, please see “Contact us” section below.

4. How do we secure your Personal Information?

We use reasonable technical, administrative and physical security measures to protect Personal Information collected via our Services. We cannot guarantee that any information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from unauthorized access or use (e.g., by hackers). You use the Services, and send us information, at your own risk.

If you correspond with us by e-mail, text message, or using a “Contact us” feature on our Service, a third party could view the information you send in transit by such means. We have no liability relating to disclosure of your information due to errors, omissions or unauthorized acts or failures to act by third parties during or after transmission.

If you create an account on our Services, you are responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your account password, and you shall be responsible for any activity, including disclosure of your Personal Information, that occurs using your account credentials, whether or not you authorized such activity. Please notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security.

We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. If we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our care may have been compromised, we will endeavor to notify you of that development promptly taking into consideration the circumstances. If we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. Where legally required to do so, we also will notify any applicable regulator.

5. Cookies and other tracking technologies

We, and/or our service providers or partners on our behalf, may use tracking technologies which may run on your device when you use the Services. The circumstances in which we may deploy tracking technologies include:

  • We may use cookies or local shared objects, such as “Flash cookies.” Cookies are small data/text files that store information, such as your preferences and account settings, on your computer. Similar to many other websites, if you have enabled cookies in your browser, we, independently and through enabled third-party tools and programs, collect certain technical information using cookies, such as originating IP address, browser type, browser language, how a user got to the Service (i.e., the URL of the last website you visited), the next website the user visits, what pages are visited, the length of each site visit, and the date and time of the user’s visit. This information helps us track trends and improve user experiences when using the Services
  • HTML5 may be used to store information on your computer or device about your Service usage activities. This information can be retrieved by us to determine how our Services are being used by our visitors, how our Services may be improved, and to customize our Services for our users.
  • We may send instructions to your computer or device using JavaScript or other computer languages to gather the sorts of information described above and other details about your interactions with the Service.

These tracking technologies may be deployed by us and/or our service providers or partners on our behalf. These technologies enable us to assign a unique number to your computer or device, and relate information about your use of the Services to other information about you, including your Personal Information. These technologies also enable us to recognize you when you access our Services using different web browsers or devices.

You can manage website cookies in your browser settings. You always have the choice to have your device warn you each time a cookie is being sent or change these settings by accepting, rejecting, or deleting cookies. If you choose to change your settings, you may find that certain functions and features will not work as intended on the Services. All browser settings are slightly different, so to manage cookies, you should refer to the relevant settings within your browser. If you would like to obtain more detailed information about types of cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your cookie preferences you may want to visit: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Please click below for detailed information on how to disable and delete cookies in some commonly used browsers:

  • Mozilla Firefox®: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11
  • Google Chrome™: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
  • Safari®: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?viewlocale=enUS&locale=enUS

6. Links and connections to Third Party Services

We maintain a presence on social media and other external platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter. We may occasionally incorporate third party social networking features into our Services. This Privacy Policy applies to our use of information you submit to us there, but it does not apply to what those third-party platforms do with your information.

Our Services may allow you to share information with us that you have already provided to a third party social networking platform. For example, you may be able to create an account on our Service or log in to our Service using your Facebook account or other third-party credentials. If you do so, Personal Information or other data that you have provided to the third party may be made available to us by that third party subject to its own privacy policy, terms, and conditions. Privacy policies of social networks and other external platforms explain how those third parties use, protect, and share your information, including any information you share on those platforms from our Services, and we encourage you to read them. The information we receive from these platforms may depend on your privacy settings. Any such information that we obtain will remain subject to that third party’s privacy policy and we will use any such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may also include tools in our Services that allow you to share or publicly post content from our Services to your profile on a third party social network. You may choose to share information about your activities on the Service with such third party platforms and its users, including publishing your information about what content you may have viewed on our Services. If you visit a Service while logged into certain social media platforms, the social media platform may be able to identify your browser and associate the technical information provided by your web browser with other information that they have already collected about you, which may result in their ability to identify you. In addition, when you choose to share information about your activities on the Service with certain social media platforms, AP may send technical information about you to that platform as well as information about what content you are viewing.

Our Service may contain links, banners, widgets, or advertisements that lead to third-party web sites. We are not responsible for these other web sites, and so their posted privacy policies (not this Privacy Policy) will govern the collection and use of your information on them. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of web site visited after leaving our Services to learn about how your information is treated by others.

Our Services may contain certain co-sponsored content and you may be requested to provide additional Personal Information to the co-sponsor of such content. We will disclose to you when you are submitting Personal Information to co-sponsors. The information practices of any third party co-sponsors are governed by their own privacy policies and are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Ad Servers and Networks

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Services.

When you view an advertisement, whether or not you click on it, the advertiser, advertising technology companies, web analytics companies and service providers that perform advertising-related services for us and our business partners may collect some information from or about you. These companies may use information about your visits to the Services, the geographic location where your IP address indicates you are located, as well as other information about (which such companies may obtain via your use of our Services or elsewhere) you in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These advertisements may appear in our Services and on other online properties or mobile applications. These companies may employ cookies, clear GIFs and other tracking technologies to cause relevant ads to be displayed to you. We do not control any such technologies that may appear in our Services or other online properties or mobile applications. The information practices of these third parties are governed by their own privacy policies and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read these businesses’ privacy policies to learn about how they treat your information.

For more information about third-party advertisers and how to prevent them from using your information, visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s site at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the Network Advertising Initiative’s site at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. However, if you opt-out we may still suggest offerings (including content sponsored by third-parties) to you on our Service based on your history or your account preferences.

7. Do Not Track Disclosures

Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” (“DNT”) signals to mobile applications with which the user communicates. We currently do not change our tracking practices (which are explained in more detail under “Service Usage Information” above) in response to DNT settings in your web browser.

Our third party partners, such as web analytics companies and third party ad networks, may collect information about you and your online activities over time and across our Services and other online properties. These third parties may not change their tracking practices in response to DNT settings in your web browser and we do not obligate these parties to honor DNT settings. We utilize Google Analytics for our web analytics and you can opt out of your usage data being included in our Google Analytics reports by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

8. Your rights relating to your Personal Information

You may review, update or correct certain of the Personal Information that is stored in your user account in our Services (if you have one) by using the “Contact Us” information below. We may ask you to verify your identity and to provide other details before we are able to provide you with any information, correct any inaccuracies, or delete any information. Your right to delete information is subject to our records retention policies.

You can opt out of our promotional e-mails by clicking the opt-out/unsubscribe link within the e-mail you receive. Please understand that it may take us a few days to process any opt out request and that even if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions, and communications with us.

In some jurisdictions, including in the countries of the European Economic Area, you have the right, in certain circumstances, to (i) require us delete your Personal Information, (ii) require us to restrict processing of your Personal Information (for example, if you contest the accuracy of that information), (iii) receive a copy of the Personal Information you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or instruct us to transmit that data to a third party; and (iv) object to our continued processing of your Personal Information, for direct marketing (including profiling) or other purposes. You can exercise these rights free of charge by contacting us using the details in the “Contact us” section below.

9. Data Retention

Your Personal Information will be held for the purposes and uses set out in this Privacy Policy and for as long as there is a legal, taxation, accounting, risk management or business requirement to do so. Different retention periods apply to different types of records and data which are dependent on the nature of your interaction with AP.

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by posting the changed Privacy Policy on this page with a new “Last Updated” date. In some cases, we may also tell you about changes by additional means, such as by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address we have on file for you.

11. Children’s privacy

The Services are not aimed at children. If, however, we collect and use information about children, we will comply with industry guidelines and applicable laws.

12. Contact us/complaints

If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy practices, you may contact us at:

The Associated Press 200 Liberty Street New York, NY 10281 +1 212.621.1500

The Associated Press Television News Limited The Interchange, Oval Road, Camden Lock London, NW1 7DZ (44-20) 7482-7400

privacy@ap.org

We hope that can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your information.

Individuals located in the EEA have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority of the EEA state where you work or live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. A list of the supervisory authorities can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm

Effective Date: 25 May 2018

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