From Strategy to Sustainability: The Role of Marketing Agencies in Achieving Net-Zero Emissions
Sustainability is not just about reducing carbon emissions; it's a fundamental reimagining of business operations. It encompasses environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and economic viability. As consumers become more eco-conscious, they demand transparency and accountability from the brands they support.
In a recent LendingTree survey of 1,048 Americans, 55% said they are willing to spend more on sustainable and eco-friendly products. At the same time, 4 in 10 are willing to go a step further and boycott companies that aren’t so keen on going green.
This shift in consumer behavior has propelled sustainability from a mere buzzword to a business imperative. As the cultural shift towards eco-consciousness continues, marketing agencies are emerging as potential players in driving the transition towards a future of net-zero emissions.
Marketing agencies wield significant influence in shaping consumer perceptions and behaviors. They are the architects behind brand narratives, the creators of compelling campaigns, and the orchestrators of digital engagement. With such influence comes a responsibility to use it for the greater good. Recognizing this, many marketing agencies are aligning their strategies with sustainability goals.
Digital advertising, specifically programmatic advertising, inherently consumes large amounts of energy, harming our environment by emitting greenhouse gasses. Klever set out to change that, and agencies can adopt everyday changes to positively impact our planet significantly.
In this blog post, we'll explore marketing agencies' pivotal role in the journey from strategy to sustainability.
Net-Zero Awareness and Education
One of marketing agencies' primary roles in achieving net-zero emissions is driving awareness and education.
Through targeted campaigns, marketing agencies educate consumers about the importance of sustainability and empower them to make informed choices. Whether highlighting products' environmental impact or promoting eco-friendly alternatives, they have the power to shape consumer preferences toward sustainable options.
Leveraging Technology and Innovation
Technology and innovation are powerful allies in the journey towards net-zero emissions. Marketing agencies leverage cutting-edge tools and platforms to optimize resource efficiency, minimize waste, and reduce carbon footprints. From digital marketing and data analytics to virtual collaboration and remote work solutions, technology enables marketing agencies to operate more sustainably while reaching wider audiences. By embracing innovation, marketing agencies drive efficiency gains and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Collaboration and Collective Action
Achieving net-zero emissions requires collaboration and collective action across the industry. Marketing agencies collaborate with clients, suppliers, and partners to amplify impact and drive systemic change. This collaborative approach extends beyond individual campaigns to industry-wide initiatives and partnerships. By working together towards common goals, marketing agencies help accelerate progress towards a net-zero emissions future.
As a gold sponsor of The Green Media Summit, Klever collaborates, practices alongside, and learns from some of the world’s leading innovators in programmatic advertising. Collaboration and collective action are essential in evoking change within the marketing industry.
Measuring Impact and Driving Accountability
Finally, measuring impact and driving accountability are essential to achieving net-zero emissions. Marketing agencies must employ data-driven approaches to track and evaluate the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives. By analyzing key performance indicators and benchmarking progress against targets, they ensure that efforts yield tangible results. Moreover, marketing agencies advocate for greater transparency and accountability within the industry, pushing for standardized reporting frameworks and disclosure practices.
Agencies don’t have to be experts in net-zero best practices overnight, nor should they have to be. Marketing agencies can maintain their zone of genius while partnering with Klever. We will follow performance metrics such as emissions data and carbon footprint analysis—providing real-time pointers on how your agency can improve its environmental impact.
The first step to reducing emissions is measuring and understanding one's own footprint. We utilize a methodology that powers a robust and detailed emissions model to estimate each ad impression's carbon footprint across digital channels.
Klever tracks the energy consumption and emissions associated with your ad impressions, providing a clear picture of your programmatic campaigns' environmental footprint. With actionable insights, you can optimize your strategies, minimize your environmental impact, and demonstrate your commitment to sustainability.
Advocating for Policy Change
Through industry associations, lobbying efforts, and public advocacy campaigns, marketing agencies push for government regulations and incentives promoting sustainability and renewable energy. By engaging with policymakers and participating in public discourse, marketing agencies amplify the industry's collective voice and drive systemic change at a higher level. Through these advocacy efforts, agencies are shaping the business landscape and contributing to creating a more sustainable and equitable society for future generations.
Marketing agencies amplify key voices in the sustainability movement, drive awareness and education, foster collaboration, and ultimately, measure impact. At this juncture, it's crucial to recognize the importance of collaboration and collective action. We cannot achieve net-zero emissions alone; it requires a concerted effort from all stakeholders, including businesses, governments, nonprofits, and individuals.
Key Takeaways
By leveraging data-driven insights and sustainable practices, Klever Programmatic empowers agencies to reduce their carbon footprint while maximizing impact. Together, we can achieve net-zero emissions.
We empower our clients to make a positive difference through their advertising campaigns. Explore the Klever choice. Get in touch today!
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Klever Programmatic, Inc- Privacy Notice
1. INTRODUCTION
Klever provides trading desk services to support our customers in buying, managing, and optimizing data-driven digital advertising campaigns across multiple platforms, devices and formats. In providing these services we may process your data if you are a user or potential user of our customers’ products, services, websites or media, or if you are or work for one of our customers or other business contacts.
This Privacy Notice explain show Klever uses and protects personal data and information. Klever is committed to respecting all applicable privacy laws and ensuring your data is secure. This Notice does not apply to our processing of data of Klever employees or employment candidates, which will be communicated separately.
Klever may change this Notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check back to ensure that you are up to date with any changes.
2. WHO WE ARE
The entity that takes decisions regarding why and how your personal information is processed (also referred to as a “Data Controller”) is:
Klever Programmatic, Inc. (“Klever”) (incorporated in Canada)
6000 Boulevard Rome, Suite410
Brossard, Québec J4Y 0B6
Canada
We have appointed our Chief Operating Officer as our Privacy Officer to oversee our data processing compliance and to be a point of contact for inquiries, who may be reached at the above addresses.
3. CATEGORIES OF DATA THAT WE PROCESS
A. Internet and media users: In providing our advertising-related services we may have access to data generated by publishers or advertisers from viewers of their websites, apps, connected televisions, or other media. We ourselves do not collect this data, but this data may be disclosed to us by customers or advertising technology partners who work with us on advertising campaigns.
In general, this information relates to online behavior and does not contain real life names or addresses orany other information that could allow anyone directly to identify or contact a particular person. Information we receive may include the following:
- cookie IDs
- device IDs
- advertising IDs (such as mobile advertising IDs)
- mobile device usage data (such as apps used)
- browser and device type, version and settings (“user agent”)
- IP addresses
- location of the device
- webpage browsing information e.g. urls visited or searched
- interactions with ads (e.g. views, clicks, purchases)
- advertising bid requests
- profile data, including likely characteristics, interests orintentions, which either we infer from the above information or is provided tous by customers and partners.
B. Business contacts: If you or your employer is a Klever customer (or potential customer), or one of our suppliers (or potential suppliers), an investor or potential investor, or other business contact, then we will need to collect certain personal contact information in connection with our relationship with you. This information may also come from our third party marketing partners. This may include:
- your name
- company name
- position
- professional qualifications or interests
- mailing address
- web address
- telephone numbers
- e-mail addresses
- details of products and services, and
- information provided to us in the course of correspondence with you (e.g. by email, phone, or online messaging).
4. PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE PROCESS DATA
We collect and use personal data for the following purposes:
A. Internet and media users
- personalizing, targeting and delivering ads
- limiting the number of times ads are seen
- measuring effectiveness and viewability of ads
- measuring clicks, purchases or other actions
- keeping records, reporting to customers and billing for adcampaigns
- making links between devices that might relate to the same users
- preventing fraud or invalid activities.
In Canada, the EU/EEA and UK our legal basis for this data use is your consent, which the relevant publisher or brand needs to have obtained from you in accordance with local laws. You can manage your consents as set out in Section 9.
B. Business contacts
- setting up, renewing, updating, and managing your or your organization’s contract or account with us
- billing and collections for services we provide
- making payments for products and services supplied to us
- evaluating new services and products
- investor relations
- recordkeeping, accounting and meeting other legal requirements
- managing, improving and expanding our business and resources
- communicating with you and managing our relationship with you
- answering inquiries including email, telephone, and chatconversations with sales and customer support staff
- responding to customer services requests
- organizing events such as webinars
- sending promotional communications and offers
- sending PR or company information (e.g. if you are a journalist or influencer)
- asking for feedback on our products and services
- understanding visitors’ navigation on our websites to understand trends and user interests and requirements.
In the EU/EEA and UK our legal basis for this data use is compliance with our legal obligations, performance of our contracts, or our legitimate interests which are compatible with your interests and rights. In Canada our legal basis for this data use is where possible your consent, which may be express or implied in accordance with local laws.
5. MEANS OF DATA COLLECTION AND DATA SOURCES
A. Internet and media users: This data may be disclosed to us by our customers in connection with their ad campaigns, or by or through demand-side platforms (DSPs) or ad exchanges through whom we buy online advertising or receive information in relation to pricing and performance of advertising.
B. Business contacts: We obtain this information directly from you or your employer, for example through exchanging emails or business cards, industry events, online or offline net working, business directories, publicly available information such as your organisation’s website and online channels, requests for proposals, or in-person meetings. In addition, if you visit our website, we may collect data using cookies and similar technologies.
6. RECIPIENTS AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Our corporate headquarters is located in Brossard, Québec, Canada. Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or service providers that we work with, e.g. for audience measurement, secure hosting, data storage, ad exchanges and DSPs.
We also provide data to ourcustomers in relation to their campaigns and contracts with us in order toensure proper billing and improve future campaigns.
Where we send data originating from the EU/EEA, the UK, or Switzerland internationally (other than to Canada or other places that are officially regarded as having adequate data protection laws), we put in place safeguards designed to ensure that data is processed in a way equivalent to the rules applicable under the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulations. These may include standard contract clauses for data transfers as approved by the European Commission or other supervisory authorities. A copy of these safeguards may be made available if we receive a valid request. When transferring data outside Québec or Canada, we will do so where we have assessed any privacy impact and concluded that the data will receive adequate protection.
Occasionally we may receive are quest from a government, law enforcement agency or regulator requesting data from us, and we would normally comply with such request without having to notify you.
7. DATA RETENTION PERIODS
We only retain data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which the data was collected. So we will retain your account data for at least the time that you or your organization has an account or contract with us. If you have subscribed to a newsletter or other communications, we will keep your contact details until you unsubscribe.
We retain device IDs and related data for up to eighteen months for billing and service management purposes. Aggregated and anonymized or statistical data may be retained for a longer period for reporting, testing, tax or legal reasons.
8. SECURITY
Once the retention periods are reached and data is no longer required, such data is anonymized so that it does not relate to any identifiable person and is not used for our services.
We implement and require our third party suppliers to implement security measures, including physical, logical, contractual, and organizational safeguards, to prevent unauthorized access to, loss, misuse, or alteration of the information that we process in connection with our services. We consider these measures to be appropriate given the low levels of sensitivity of the data that we access, and in line with all applicable laws and good industry standards.
9. PRIVACY TRAINING AND GOVERNANCE
We ensure that our personnel in roles that have a need to access personal information have appropriate and recent training regarding provincial, national and international personal information protection laws and practices. We also have in place internal policies which set out our framework for the keeping and destruction of personal information, limiting its collection, use, disclosure and retention, the roles and responsibilities of staff throughout all stages of its processing, including dealing with requests and complaints from individuals, data incident response plans, and all other aspects addressed by this Privacy Notice.
10. COOKIES
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser or device. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends cookie information back to the server to notify the website that it recognizes the user. You can find more information about different types of cookies here:
https://cookieinformation.com/what-is-a-cookie/.
We use cookies when you visit our websites, for the purposes of analyzing use of our websites, and improving and optimizing our websites and services.
You can remove cookies from your web browser by following the directions provided in your browser’s “help” or “settings” sections. Some cookies may be essential for using different features of certain websites, so if you clear all cookies then those features may not work as expected, or you may need to accept some cookies on your next visit. For mobile devices please review the privacy controls within your mobile operating system.
11. YOUR RIGHTS
In relation to online advertising data, there are various methods that enable you to manage consents and data use directly, without contacting publishers or media owners:
- for the USA: www.aboutads.info/choices and www.networkadvertising.org/choices
- for Europe: www.youronlinechoices.com
- for Canada: youradchoices.ca/choices
- for mobile devices: http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice
- for connected TVs: https://www.networkadvertising.org/internet-connected-tv-choices/
Some of these methods may place a cookie on your device to identify you as not wanting to receive targeted ads so, if you change devices or delete cookies, you may need to repeat this process.
In addition, under international data protection laws, including the GDPR in the EU/EEA or the UK and PIPEDA in Canada, you may have various additional rights such as the following:
- to access your personal data
- to require us to correct mistakes in your personal data
- to have personal data concerning you erased (“the right to beforgotten”)
- to receive personal data which you have provided to us (“portability”)
- to object to processing of your personal data for direct marketingor for certain other purposes
- to restrict our processing of your personal data in certaincircumstances
Consumers who are resident in US states such as California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Florida, Oregon, and Montana (and others in the future) may have additional rights under state privacy legislation. Depending on the particular provisions of such local laws, you may have some or all of the following rights:
- to have inaccurate data corrected
- to access and know what personal information we collect and hold, from which types of sources it was obtained, for what purposes, and the types of third parties it is shared with
- to optout of sales or sharing of personal information
- to request deletion of personal information that we collected from you
- to limit use of sensitive information
- to not be discriminated against for exercising your rights (e.g. we would not deny you goods or services, charge you a different price, or provide you a different level of quality).
Where our use or communication of your data is based on your consent, then you can always withdraw that consent (but any processing that took place before withdrawal will still be legal).
If you wish to exercise any of your legal rights, or have another issue or inquiry, it may be easiest to contact the publisher or media provider to whom you originally gave your consent. In other cases, please contact us using the details in this Notice and we will help as far as possible. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on your request. If you believe that we have not respected your rights then you may also have a right to challenge our compliance before the supervisory authority in your country.
12. Additional Information For California Consumers
12.1 Personal Information Collected in the past 12 months
Category
Examples
Source
Business or Commercial Purpose
Categories of third parties disclosed to
Identifiers
Unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address (e.g. device and cookie IDs)
From ads
From our customers From third party data providers
Providing and improving our services which include ad targeting and performance measurement
Providing and improving our services which include ad targeting and performance measurement
Providing and improving our services which include ad targeting and performance measurement
Providing and improving our services which include ad targeting and performance measurement
Providing and improving our services which include ad targeting and performance measurement
Providing and improving our services which include ad targeting and performance measurement
- Our customers
- Our data hosting and storage providers
- Our providers of advertising technology and services such as demand side providers,
data management platforms, and ad networks
- Our data processing service providers (for purposes such as analytics, database management, customer support)
Commercial information
Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies (e.g. sites visited, apps used, searches, views, clicks, and purchases)
As above
As above
As above
Internet or other electronic network activity information
Information regarding interactions with ads, websites and applications (e.g. sites visited, apps used, searches, views, clicks, and purchases)
As above
As above
As above
Geolocation Data
Approximate geolocation from information provided by a device (e.g. IP address)
As above
As above
As above
Sensitive personal information
Information concerning a consumer’s health (where permitted); precise geolocation
As above
As above
As above
Professional or employment-related information
Contact information used for managing and transacting with business contacts (e.g. customers and suppliers)
From individuals directly, e.g. via correspondence, chat, telephone, or web forms. From events and online and offline networking. From private and public sources such as websites and trade directories.
Promoting and managing our business
- Our data processing service providers (for purposes such as analytics, database management, email management, customer support)
- Our other group companies
12.2. Personal Information Sold or Shared in the past 12 months
We have sold and/or shared (with our customers) the following categories of personal information in the past 12 months: (a) Identifiers; (b) Commercial information; (c) Internet or other electronic network activity information; (d) Geolocation Data; (e) Inferences; and (f) Sensitive Personal Data.
12.3. Personal Information disclosed for a business purpose in the past 12 months
We have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose in the past 12 months: (a) Identifiers; (b) Commercial information; (c) Internet or other electronic network activity information; (d) Geolocation Data; (e) Inferences; (f) Sensitive Personal Data; and (g) Professional or employment-related information.
These business purposes comprise:
- Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.
- Helping to ensure security and integrity.
- Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Performing services on our behalf, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on our behalf.
- Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
- Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our Services, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance our Services.
Last updated: July 2024
Privacy - Privacy Notice
1. INTRODUCTION
Klever provides trading desk services to support our customers in buying, managing, and optimizing data-driven digital advertising campaigns across multiple platforms, devices and formats. In providing these services we may process your data if you are a user or potential user of our customers’ products, services, websites or media, or if you are or work for one of our customers or other business contacts.
This Privacy Notice explain show Klever uses and protects personal data and information. Klever is committed to respecting all applicable privacy laws and ensuring your data is secure. This Notice does not apply to our processing of data of Klever employees or employment candidates, which will be communicated separately.
Klever may change this Notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check back to ensure that you are up to date with any changes.
2. WHO WE ARE
The entity that takes decisions regarding why and how your personal information is processed (also referred to as a “Data Controller”) is:
Klever Programmatic, Inc.(“Klever”) (incorporated in Canada)
6000 Boulevard Rome, Suite410
Brossard, Québec J4Y 0B6
Canada
We have appointed our Chief Operating Officer as our Privacy Officer to oversee our data processing compliance and to be a point of contact for inquiries, who may be reached at the above addresses.
3. CATEGORIES OF DATA THAT WE PROCESS
A. Internet and media users: In providing our advertising-related services we may have access to data generated by publishers or advertisers from viewers of their websites, apps, connected televisions, or other media. We ourselves do not collect this data, but this data may be disclosed to us by customers or advertising technology partners who work with us on advertising campaigns.
In general, this information relates to online behavior and does not contain real life names or addresses orany other information that could allow anyone directly to identify or contact a particular person. Information we receive may include the following:
● cookie IDs
● device IDs
● advertising IDs (such as mobile advertising IDs)
● mobile device usage data (such as apps used)
● browser and device type, version and settings (“user agent”)
● IP addresses that reveal approximate location of the device
● webpage browsing information e.g. urls visited or searched
● interactions with ads (e.g. views, clicks, purchases)
● advertising bid requests
● profile data, including likely characteristics, interests or intentions, which either we infer from the above information or is provided to us by customers and partners.
B. Business contacts: If you or your employer is a Klever customer (or potential customer), or one of our suppliers (or potential suppliers), an investor or potential investor, or other business contact, then we will need to collect certain personal contact information in connection with our relationship with you. This information may also come from our third party marketing partners. This may include:
● your name
● company name
● position
● professional qualifications or interests
● mailing address
● web address
● telephone numbers
● e-mail addresses
● details of products and services, and
● information provided to us in the course of correspondence with you (e.g. by email, phone, or online messaging).
4. PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE PROCESS DATA
We collect and use personal data for the following purposes:
A. Internet and media users
● personalizing, targeting and delivering ads
● limiting the number of times ads are seen
● measuring effectiveness and viewability of ads
● measuring clicks, purchases or other actions
● keeping records, reporting to customers and billing for ad campaigns
● making links between devices that might relate to the same users
● preventing fraud or invalid activities.
In Canada, the EU/EEA and UK our legal basis for this data use is your consent, which the relevant publisher or brand needs to have obtained from you in accordance with local laws. You can manage your consents as set out in Section 9.
B. Business contacts
● setting up, renewing, updating, and managing your or your organization’s contract or account with us
● billing and collections for services we provide
● making payments for products and services supplied to us
● evaluating new services and products
● investor relations
● recordkeeping, accounting and meeting other legal requirements
● managing, improving and expanding our business and resources
● communicating with you and managing our relationship with you
● answering inquiries including email, telephone, and chat conversations with sales and customer support staff
● responding to customer services requests
● organizing events such as webinars
● sending promotional communications and offers
● sending PR or company information (e.g. if you are a journalist or influencer)
● asking for feedback on our products and services
● understanding visitors’ navigation on our websites to understand trends and user interests and requirements.
In the EU/EEA and UK our legal basis for this data use is compliance with our legal obligations, performance of our contracts, or our legitimate interests which are compatible with your interests and rights. In Canada our legal basis for this data use is where possible your consent, which may be express or implied in accordance with local laws.
5.MEANS OF DATA COLLECTION AND DATA SOURCES
A. Internet and media users: This data may be disclosed to us by our customers in connection with their ad campaigns, or by or through demand-side platforms (DSPs) or ad exchanges through whom we buy online advertising or receive information in relation to pricing and performance of advertising.
B. Business contacts: We obtain this information directly from you or your employer, for example through exchanging emails or business cards, industry events, online or offline net working, business directories, publicly available information such as your organisation’s website and online channels, requests for proposals, or in-person meetings. In addition, if you visit our website, we may collect data using cookies and similar technologies.
6. RECIPIENTS AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Our corporate headquarters is located in Brossard, Québec, Canada. Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or service providers that we work with, e.g. for audience measurement, secure hosting, data storage, ad exchanges and DSPs.
We also provide data to ourcustomers in relation to their campaigns and contracts with us in order toensure proper billing and improve future campaigns.
Where we send data originating from the EU/EEA, the UK, or Switzerland internationally (other than to Canada or other places that are officially regarded as having adequate data protection laws), we put in place safeguards designed to ensure that data is processed in a way equivalent to the rules applicable under the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulations. These may include standard contract clauses for data transfers as approved by the European Commission or other supervisory authorities. A copy of these safeguards may be made available if we receive a valid request. When transferring data outside Québec or Canada, we will do so where we have assessed any privacy impact and concluded that the data will receive adequate protection.
Occasionally we may receive are quest from a government, law enforcement agency or regulator requesting data from us, and we would normally comply with such request without having to notify you.
7. DATA RETENTION PERIODS
We only retain data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which the data was collected. So we will retain your account data for at least the time that you or your organization has an account or contract with us. If you have subscribed to a newsletter or other communications, we will keep your contact details until you unsubscribe.
We retain device IDs and related data for up to eighteen months for billing and service management purposes. Aggregated and anonymized or statistical data may be retained for a longer period for reporting, testing, tax or legal reasons.
8. SECURITY
Once the retention periods are reached and data is no longer required, such data is anonymized so that it does not relate to any identifiable person and is not used for our services.
We implement and require our third party suppliers to implement security measures, including physical, logical, contractual, and organizational safeguards, to prevent unauthorized access to, loss, misuse, or alteration of the information that we process in connection with our services. We consider these measures to be appropriate given the low levels of sensitivity of the data that we access, and in line with all applicable laws and good industry standards.
9. PRIVACY TRAINING AND GOVERNANCE
We ensure that our personnel in roles that have a need to access personal information have appropriate and recent training regarding provincial, national and international personal information protection laws and practices. We also have in place internal policies which set out our framework for the keeping and destruction of personal information, limiting its collection, use, disclosure and retention, the roles and responsibilities of staff throughout all stages of its processing, including dealing with requests and complaints from individuals, data incident response plans, and all other aspects addressed by this Privacy Notice.
10. COOKIES
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s web browser or device. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends cookie information back to the server to notify the website that it recognizes the user. You can find more information about different types of cookies here.
We use cookies when you visit our websites, for the purposes of analyzing use of our websites, and improving and optimizing our websites and services.
You can remove cookies from your web browser by following the directions provided in your browser’s “help” or “settings” sections. Some cookies may be essential for using different features of certain websites, so if you clear all cookies then those features may not work as expected, or you may need to accept some cookies on your next visit. For mobile devices please review the privacy controls within your mobile operating system.
11. YOUR RIGHTS
In relation to online advertising data, there are various methods that enable you to manage consents and data use directly, without contacting publishers or media owners:
● for the USA: www.aboutads.info/choices and www.networkadvertising.org/choices
● for Europe www.youronlinechoices.com
● for Canada: youradchoices.ca/choices
● for mobile devices: http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice
● for connected TVs: https://www.networkadvertising.org/internet-connected-tv-choices/
Some of these methods may place a cookie on your device to identify you as not wanting to receive targeted ads so, if you change devices or delete cookies, you may need to repeat this process.
In addition, under international data protection laws, including the GDPR in the EU/EEA or the UK and PIPEDA in Canada, you may have various additional rights such as the following:
● to access your personal data
● to require us to correct mistakes in your personal data
● to have personal data concerning you erased (“the right to be forgotten”)
● to receive personal data which you have provided to us(“portability”)
● to object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing or for certain other purposes
● to restrict our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances
Consumers who are resident in US states such as California, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, or Utah (and others in the future) may have additional rights under state privacy legislation. Depending on the particular provisions of such local laws, you may have some or all of the following rights:
● to have inaccurate data corrected
● to access and know what personal information we collect and hold, from which types of sources it was obtained, for what purposes, and the types of third parties it is shared with
● to opt out of sales or sharing of personal information
● to request deletion of personal information that we collected from you
● to limit use of sensitive information
● to not be discriminated against for exercising your rights (e.g. we would not deny you goods or services, charge you a different price, or provide you a different level of quality).
Where our use or communication of your data is based on your consent, then you can always withdraw that consent (but any processing that took place before withdrawal will still be legal).
If you wish to exercise any of your legal rights, or have another issue or inquiry, it may be easiest to contact the publisher or media provider to whom you originally gave your consent. In other cases, please contact us using the details in this Notice and we will help as far as possible. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on your request. If you believe that we have not respected your rights then you may also have a right to challenge our compliance before the supervisory authority in your country.
Last updated: 26 January 2023