# Privacy Policy Last updated 2026-08-08 · https://humanevents.com/privacy > How we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information across our websites, platforms, and Services. ## In plain terms - We do not sell your personal information for money — and we honor Global Privacy Control automatically. - Analytics and advertising cookies stay off until you turn them on. The cookies we set by default are the functional ones that keep you signed in to read. - You can unsubscribe, request your data, or ask us to delete it at any time. This Privacy Policy explains how **Human Events** handles personal information. Use the navigation to jump to a section, or read it top to bottom. Questions? Reach us at . *Effective July 1, 2026* ## Introduction Human Events (**"we," "our,"** or **"us"**) operates the website https://HumanEvents.com (the "Site"). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal information in connection with our Site and services (collectively, the "Services"). It also explains your choices regarding our use of your personal information and how you can exercise your rights. By using our Site or Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting the updated policy with a revised "Last Updated" date. Your continued use of the Site after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. ## Our Role: Controller Human Events operates with respect to personal information: As a Controller (or "Business" under U.S. state privacy laws) We are the data controller (or "Business" under U.S. state privacy laws) for personal information collected through our Site. This means we determine the purposes and means of processing your personal information and are responsible for complying with applicable privacy laws. We use third-party service providers, including PrivacyReply.com for privacy request management and other technology partners, to help operate our Site and Services. These providers act as processors on our behalf and process your data only as instructed by us. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we process as a controller. If you are a subscriber, website visitor, or end user of one of our clients' services and have questions about how your data is handled, please contact the relevant client directly. ## Information We Collect We collect personal information from various sources and through various means, including directly from you, automatically through technology, and from third parties. ### 3.1 Information You Provide - **Contact and Account Information:** Name, email address, postal address, phone number, job title, company name, and account credentials when you register, request information, subscribe to communications, or engage with us. - **Commercial and Transaction Information:** Purchase or donation history, billing details, subscription plans, service usage, and payment information (processed by our payment processors; we do not store full payment card numbers). - **Communications:** Content of emails, form submissions, support requests, survey responses, and other correspondence you send to us. - **Professional and Employment Information:** Resume, employment history, and qualifications if you apply for a position with us. - **User-Generated Content:** Any content you post, upload, or submit through our platforms or Site. ### 3.2 Information Collected Automatically - **Device and Browser Data:** IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device identifiers, screen resolution, language preferences, and referring URL. - **Usage Data:** Pages visited, links clicked, time spent on pages, navigation paths, search queries, and interaction patterns across our Site. - **Email Engagement Data:** Open events, click-through activity, bounce information, and delivery status for emails sent by us or on our behalf. - **Geolocation Data:** Approximate geographic location derived from IP address, used for content personalization, analytics, and regulatory compliance (such as determining applicable privacy jurisdiction). - **Cookie and Tracking Data:** Information collected through cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and similar technologies, as described in Section 7 below. ### 3.3 Information from Third Parties - **Business Partners and Data Providers:** We may receive personal information from business partners, data brokers, publicly available sources, social media platforms, advertising networks, and analytics providers to supplement the information we collect directly. - **Data Licensees and List Partners:** We may acquire and license personal information—including donor, purchase, and contribution indicators—from and to third-party data partners for marketing and fundraising purposes. - **Single Sign-On Providers:** If you authenticate using a third-party service (such as Google or Microsoft), we receive profile information authorized by your identity provider. ## How We Use Your Information We use the personal information we collect for the following purposes. Where we rely on a specific legal basis under the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it is noted in parentheses. ### 4.1 Service Delivery and Operations - Providing, maintaining, and improving our Site and Services *(Performance of contract; Legitimate interest)* - Processing transactions and managing your account *(Performance of contract)* - Delivering customer support and responding to inquiries *(Performance of contract; Legitimate interest)* - Authenticating users and managing access credentials *(Performance of contract)* ### 4.2 Marketing, Advertising, and Data Services - Sending promotional communications about our products, services, events, and offers *(Legitimate interest; Consent where required)* - Personalizing content and advertisements based on your interests, preferences, and behavior *(Legitimate interest; Consent where required)* - Conducting targeted and cross-context behavioral advertising through our own and third-party advertising networks *(Legitimate interest; Consent where required)* - Measuring and analyzing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns *(Legitimate interest)* - Generating leads and conducting outreach to prospective customers *(Legitimate interest)* - Licensing, renting, or selling personal information—including identifiers and associated attributes such as donor or purchase history, contribution indicators, interest categories, and engagement signals—to third-party organizations for their own marketing, fundraising, advocacy, or outreach purposes *(Legitimate interest; Consent where required)* ### 4.3 Analytics, AI, and Product Improvement - Analyzing usage patterns, trends, and preferences to improve our products and Services *(Legitimate interest)* - Training, developing, and improving AI and machine learning models using aggregated or de-identified data *(Legitimate interest)* - Conducting A/B testing, research, and product development *(Legitimate interest)* - Generating inferences about preferences, behavior, and interests to enhance user experience and service quality *(Legitimate interest)* ### 4.4 Security, Compliance, and Legal - Detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security incidents, and technical issues *(Legitimate interest; Legal obligation)* - Complying with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and governmental requests *(Legal obligation)* - Enforcing our terms of service and other agreements *(Legitimate interest)* - Exercising or defending legal claims *(Legitimate interest)* ### 4.5 Business Operations - Facilitating corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, or asset sales *(Legitimate interest)* - Conducting internal audits, financial reporting, and business planning *(Legitimate interest)* - Managing vendor and partner relationships *(Performance of contract; Legitimate interest)* - Any other purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection or with your consent *(Consent)* ## How We Share Your Information We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients for the purposes described below. We require all recipients to protect personal information in accordance with applicable law and our contractual requirements. ### 5.1 Service Providers and Processors We share personal information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, including cloud hosting, payment processing, email delivery, analytics, customer support, and security. These providers are contractually obligated to use personal information only as instructed. ### 5.2 Advertising and Marketing Partners We may share personal information—including identifiers, internet activity, and inferences—with advertising networks, social media platforms, demand-side platforms, data management platforms, and marketing partners for targeted advertising, audience creation, campaign measurement, attribution, and analytics. This sharing may constitute a "sale" or "sharing" of personal information under certain state privacy laws (see Section 8 for your opt-out rights). ### 5.3 Data Licensing and List Services We may license, rent, or sell personal information—including identifiers and associated attributes such as donor or purchase history, contribution indicators, interest categories, and engagement signals—to third-party organizations for their own marketing, fundraising, advocacy, or outreach purposes. This constitutes a "sale" of personal information under applicable state privacy laws. You may opt out of this sale at any time using the methods described in Section 8. ### 5.4 Analytics Providers We share usage data and device information with analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) to understand how our Site is used, identify trends, and improve performance. ### 5.5 Business Partners and Affiliates We may share personal information with business partners, affiliates, and related entities for joint marketing initiatives, co-branded services, referral programs, and internal business operations. We may also share aggregated, de-identified, or non-personally identifiable information with partners for any lawful purpose. ### 5.6 Partners and Sponsors Where we provide services on behalf of partners and sponsosor, we may share information with those clients as necessary to deliver contracted services, including campaign performance data, subscriber engagement metrics, and delivery analytics. ### 5.7 Professional Advisors We may disclose personal information to attorneys, accountants, auditors, insurers, and other professional advisors as necessary. ### 5.8 Legal and Regulatory Disclosures We may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the rights, property, or safety of Human Events, our users, or the public; to enforce our agreements; or to detect, prevent, or address fraud, security, or technical issues. ### 5.9 Corporate Transactions In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other corporate transaction, personal information may be transferred to the acquiring or successor entity. ### 5.10 With Your Consent or Direction We may share your personal information with third parties when you direct us to do so or provide your consent. ### 5.11 Summary of Sharing Practices - **Identifiers (name, email, IP)** — Recipients: Service providers, ad partners, analytics, business partners, clients, data licensees; Purpose: Service delivery, marketing, analytics, advertising, list licensing; Sale / Share?: Yes (ad partners, data licensees) - **Commercial information (including donor indicators)** — Recipients: Service providers, business partners, clients, data licensees; Purpose: Service delivery, operations, reporting, list licensing; Sale / Share?: Yes (data licensees) - **Internet / network activity** — Recipients: Ad partners, analytics providers, clients; Purpose: Advertising, analytics, campaign measurement; Sale / Share?: Yes (ad/analytics) - **Geolocation (approximate)** — Recipients: Analytics providers, ad partners; Purpose: Personalization, analytics, compliance; Sale / Share?: Yes (ad partners) - **Inferences / profiles** — Recipients: Ad partners, business partners; Purpose: Advertising, personalization, analytics; Sale / Share?: Yes (ad partners) - **Professional / employment info** — Recipients: Service providers; Purpose: Recruiting, HR operations; Sale / Share?: No - **Financial / payment info** — Recipients: Payment processors; Purpose: Transaction processing; Sale / Share?: No ## AI and Automated Processing We may use artificial intelligence and automated decision-making technologies in connection with our services, including content generation, audience segmentation, behavioral predictions, engagement scoring, campaign optimization, and deliverability analysis. These technologies may process personal information to generate inferences, predictions, scores, and recommendations. We use automated processing to improve service quality, personalize experiences, and optimize performance—not to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on individuals without human oversight. You may have the right to opt out of certain automated decision-making or profiling activities, as described in Section 8. ## Cookies and Tracking Technologies We use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, local storage, and similar technologies to collect information about your interactions with our Site and Services. These technologies help us operate the Site, analyze usage, personalize content, and support advertising. ### 7.1 Cookie Categories - **Strictly Necessary** — Required: Yes (always on); Purpose: Essential for site functionality including sessions, security, authentication, and load balancing. These cannot be disabled. - **Analytics** — Required: No; Purpose: Usage tracking and performance measurement via tools such as Google Analytics, including page views, session data, and traffic sources. - **Advertising** — Required: No; Purpose: Ad targeting, retargeting, conversion tracking, and audience building via advertising platforms. - **Functional** — Required: No; Purpose: Enhanced features such as saved preferences, language selection, and personalized settings. ### 7.2 Managing Cookies Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. The "Help" section of your browser toolbar will explain how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to receive notifications when cookies are set, and how to disable cookies altogether. Note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our Site. ### 7.3 Global Privacy Control (GPC) **We recognize the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal.** When your browser transmits a GPC signal (Sec-GPC: 1), we treat it as a valid opt-out of the sale and sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising, as required by applicable state privacy laws. ### 7.4 Do Not Track The Do Not Track (DNT) browser signal is not a legally mandated standard, and there is no industry consensus on how to respond to it. We do not alter our data collection practices in response to DNT signals. We do, however, honor the Global Privacy Control signal as described above. ## Your Privacy Rights Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information. We honor all rights required by applicable law. To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request through the privacy request form on our Site or contact us using the information in Section 14. ### 8.1 Rights Under U.S. State Privacy Laws If you are a resident of a state with a comprehensive privacy law—including but not limited to California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Oregon, Montana, Texas, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland, Kentucky, Rhode Island, and Arkansas—you may have the following rights: - **Right to Know / Access:** Request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, the sources of collection, the purposes for processing, and the categories of third parties with whom we share your data. - **Right to Delete:** Request deletion of personal information we have collected, subject to certain legal exceptions. - **Right to Correct:** Request correction of inaccurate personal information. - **Right to Data Portability:** Request a copy of your personal information in a portable, machine-readable format. - **Right to Opt Out of Sale:** Direct us not to sell your personal information to third parties. - **Right to Opt Out of Sharing for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising:** Direct us not to share your personal information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising (California). - **Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising:** Opt out of processing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes. - **Right to Opt Out of Profiling:** Opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (where applicable). - **Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information:** If we process sensitive personal information, you may request that we limit use to purposes necessary to provide the services you requested. - **Right to Non-Discrimination:** We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights. - **Right to Appeal:** If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision. We will respond within the time period required by applicable law and provide written explanation of our reasoning. To opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, you may: (1) submit a request through our [privacy request form](https://humanevents.com/privacy-compliance-request-form); (2) enable the Global Privacy Control signal in your browser; or (3) contact us using the information in Section 14. ### 8.2 California-Specific Disclosures In the preceding 12 months, we have collected, disclosed for a business purpose, and sold or shared (as defined by the CCPA/CPRA) the categories of personal information described in this Privacy Policy. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. California residents may designate an authorized agent to make requests on their behalf. We may require verification of the agent's authority and the requestor's identity. **Financial Incentives:** We may offer financial incentives, including discounts, coupons, or other benefits, to consumers who provide personal information or opt in to certain data practices. Participation is voluntary. The value of the incentive is reasonably related to the value of the personal information provided. ### 8.3 Rights Under GDPR (EU/EEA and UK) If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have additional rights under the GDPR or UK GDPR: - **Legal Bases:** We process your personal data on the legal bases identified in Section 4. Where we rely on legitimate interest, we have conducted balancing tests to ensure your rights are not overridden. - **Right to Restrict Processing:** Request that we restrict processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. - **Right to Object:** Object to processing based on legitimate interest or for direct marketing purposes. - **Right to Withdraw Consent:** Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing. - **Right to Lodge a Complaint:** You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EU/EEA member state of your habitual residence or place of work. ### 8.4 Verification and Response Timing When you submit a request, we will verify your identity using information associated with your account or through other reasonable means. We will respond within the time periods required by applicable law: generally 45 days for U.S. state privacy law requests (extendable by an additional 45 days with notice) and one month for GDPR requests (extendable by two additional months for complex requests with notice). ## Email and Electronic Communications ### 9.1 Email Processing We use tracking technologies (pixel tags, click-tracking links) to measure email engagement, including whether an email was opened, which links were clicked, and related metrics. This data is used to improve our communications, personalize content, and measure marketing effectiveness. You may opt out of marketing emails at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any email or by contacting us. ### 9.2 SMS/Text Messaging If you opt in to receive text messages from us, we collect your phone number and message content. You may opt out at any time by replying STOP. Standard message and data rates may apply. We will not share your mobile opt-in data with third parties for their own marketing purposes. ## Data Retention We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, to provide our Services, to comply with legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, and to protect our legitimate business interests. Specific retention periods include: - **Account and Customer Data:** Retained for the duration of the business relationship plus three (3) years, or as required by applicable law. - **Marketing and CRM Data:** Retained for up to five (5) years from the date of last interaction, unless you opt out or request deletion. - **Website Analytics Data:** Retained for up to twenty-six (26) months. - **Email Engagement Data:** Retained for up to three (3) years for analytics and deliverability optimization. - **Job Applicant Data:** Retained for up to two (2) years from the date of application. - **Legal and Compliance Records:** Retained as required by applicable law, regulation, or legal process. When personal information is no longer required, we will securely delete or de-identify it in accordance with our data retention and destruction policies. ## International Data Transfers If you access our Site from outside the United States, your personal information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States and potentially other jurisdictions where our service providers operate. For transfers of personal data from the EU/EEA or UK to the United States, we rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission, or other lawful transfer mechanisms as appropriate. You may request a copy of the applicable transfer mechanism by contacting us. ## Children's Privacy Our Site and Services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete such information promptly. If you believe a child under 16 has provided personal information to us, please contact us. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. For purposes of compliance with COPPA, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. ## Security We implement and maintain commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. No method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials. ## Contact Information If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your privacy rights, or have concerns about our data practices, please contact us: Human Events Mailing Address Attn: Privacy , Alabama Get in Touch **Email:** **Phone:** **Privacy Requests:** To exercise your privacy rights, please submit a request [here](https://humanevents.com/privacy-compliance-request-form). **EU/EEA and UK residents:** If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority. ## Do Not Sell or Share Use the Do-Not-Sell control on [this page](https://humanevents.com/do-not-sell) to opt out; Global Privacy Control signals are honored automatically. ## Changes to This Privacy Policy We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date and, where required by law, provide additional notice. Your continued use of our Site after the posting of a revised Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the changes.