PRIVACY POLICY

At Field & Stream, we respect and care about our customer’s privacy and have posted this policy to let you know what kind of information we collect, how it is handled, and with whom it is shared. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how F&S Media IP LLC and its affiliates, including F&S IP Owner LLC (collectively, “F&S,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process information about you in connection with your access to and use of www.fieldandstream.com (the “Website”), including any online shop, membership program, streaming video content, editorial content, and related digital media services (collectively, the “Services”).

Overview of this Policy. This Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and disclose it, the choices available to you, and your rights under applicable law.

Scope. In the course of providing the Website and Services, F&S collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked to an individual (“Personal Information”). This includes information collected in connection with your use of our editorial content, video and streaming media, e-commerce features, memberships, and interactions with advertisements and third-party content.

Changes to this Policy. F&S reserves the right to update this Policy from time to time by posting a new Policy on this page, and in some cases where changes are material. F&S may also contact you via electronic mail or post a notice on the homepage to let you know of such changes. You are advised to consult this Policy regularly

for any changes. Your continued use of the Website after such changes have been made constitutes acceptance

of those changes. You will be directed to the applicable Policy upon your creation of an account which allows you

access to any restricted portion of the Website.

Collection of Information.

1. Information that You Provide. F&S collects any information that you voluntarily provide, including when you submit information requesting a demonstration, joining the e-mail list, or when you use the Services available through the Website. Information that you may provide may include your email address, name, phone number, location, online social accounts, etc. F&S may also collect information that you provide by electronic mail, telephone or other means.
2. Customer Service Communications. We may monitor or record communications (such as customer service calls or support interactions) for quality assurance, training, and operational purposes, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
3. Automatically Collected Information. F&S may automatically collect certain technical information from your computer or mobile device when you use the Website, such as your Internet Protocol address, your web browser type and version, the name and version of your operating system, the pages you view on the Website, the pages you view immediately before and after you access the Website, and the search terms you enter on the Website. This information allows F&S to recognize you and personalize your experience if you return to the Website using the same computer or mobile device, and to improve the Website and the Services.
4. Anonymous or Passive Website Use. You may visit portions of the Website without providing Personal Information. In such cases, we may collect limited information automatically, such as device type, browser type, and general usage data, which does not directly identify you.
5. Information about Legal and Other Materials. In addition, F&S may collect technical information from your computer or mobile device concerning your receipt of communications, access to materials and approval or execution of contracts, consents or other statements or agreements by means of the Website, including the Website’s Terms and Conditions and this Policy.
6. F&S may collect this information using “cookies,” which are small text files that the Website saves on your computer or mobile device, or similar technologies. You can disable cookies in your browser settings, but doing so may affect the functionality of the Website. F&S may also collect information from the Website and the email list using “web beacons,” which are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular website tied to the web beacon, and a description of a website tied to the web beacon or using unique links that can distinguish when individual users click the link. Web beacons and unique links, alone or in conjunction with cookies, may help F&S compile information about your interactions with electronic mail sent to you in connection with the Services. For further information, see the Cookie Policy below.
7. Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising and Tracking. We and our third-party partners may collect information about your activities across websites, devices, and services over time for purposes of analytics, personalization, and advertising. This may include the use of cookies, pixels, SDKs, and similar technologies.
8. Media and Video Viewing Information. F&S may collect information about your interaction with video, audio, and other media content available through the Services, including content viewed, viewing duration, interaction with media players, and related device and session data. To the extent that any applicable law (including the Video Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2710 (“VPPA”)) applies, F&S does not knowingly disclose information that identifies a specific individual as having requested or obtained specific video materials or services, except (i) with your prior consent, (ii) as permitted by applicable law, or (iii) in a manner that does not identify you personally. F&S does not knowingly disclose information that identifies a specific individual as having viewed specific video content to third-party advertising or analytics providers without appropriate consent where required by law. Where required by applicable law, including the VPPA, F&S will obtain any consent required for the collection, use, or disclosure of video‑viewing information through an appropriate consent mechanism. Where required, we will obtain separate consent prior to any disclosure of video viewing information that identifies you personally. F&S does not knowingly use or disclose video viewing information for purposes of targeted advertising in a manner that identifies you personally without appropriate consent where required by law.
9. Content Personalization and Media Delivery. To provide, personalize, and improve editorial, video, and other media content, including recommending content based on your interests and measuring engagement.

Use and Disclosure of Information. F&S may collect, use, share, and otherwise process your personal information for a number of purposes, including, but not limited to:

1. Accessing the Website and Providing and Improving the Services. F&S uses your Personal Information to provide you with the Services, or products, services or information related to the Website:
   1. To administer or otherwise carry out our obligations in relation to any agreement to which we are a party;
   2. To assist you in completing a transaction or order;
   3. To prepare and process invoices and payments;
   4. To respond to queries or requests and to provide support;
   5. To create, manage and audit our customer accounts;
   6. To maintain functionality of our Services and products;
   7. To provide you information regarding our Services and products;
   8. To notify you about changes to our Services and products;
   9. To administer any promotion, contest, survey, or competition; and
   10. To offer products and services to you in a personalized way and to customize your experience when using the Website.
2. We process Personal Information based on applicable legal grounds, including performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations, legitimate interests, and, where required, consent. Analysis. F&S may share aggregated or de-identified information that does not identify you with third parties for analytics, research, or marketing purposes.
3. If you submit your information to F&S, F&S may provide you with information about the Website, Services or required notices. In addition, F&S may use collected information for delivering marketing communications that may be of interest to you. F&S does not sell Personal Information for monetary consideration. However, we may “share” Personal Information with third parties for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising as defined under applicable law. You have the right to ask F&S not to process your Personal Information for marketing purposes. F&S will usually inform you (before collecting your information) if it intends to use your information for such purposes or if it intends to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms F&S uses to collect your information. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting F&S at [email protected], or clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the F&S marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing communications and certain data uses at any time by following the instructions provided in communications or by contacting us.
4. F&S may use your Personal Information for safety and security purposes, including sharing of your information for such purposes, when it is necessary to pursue F&S’s legitimate interests in ensuring the security of the Website and Services, including detecting, preventing and responding to fraud, intellectual property infringement, violations of the Website’s Terms and Conditions, violations of law or other misuse of the Website; and when F&S believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary (A) to protect F&S’s rights or other users of the Website, the integrity of the Website, or your safety or the safety of others, or (B) to detect, prevent or respond to fraud, intellectual property infringement, violations of the Website’s Terms and Conditions, violations of law or other misuse of the Website. While we implement reasonable safeguards, no system can be completely secure. F&S is not responsible for unauthorized access to information where such access is beyond our reasonable control.
5. Account Security. If you believe your account credentials or payment information have been lost, stolen, or compromised, you should contact us immediately so we can take appropriate measures.
6. Service Providers. F&S engages third-party service providers (such as hosting providers and analytics and security providers) to assist in operating and marketing the Services. F&S may also use ecommerce platform providers, payment processors, fraud‑prevention providers, shipping and fulfillment partners, and similar service providers to support purchases, order processing, and customer communications in connection with the Services. F&S’s engagement of third-party service providers is often necessary for F&S to provide the Services to you, particularly where such third-party service providers ensure that the Website and Services are operating and secure. In other cases, F&S has a legitimate interest in third-party service providers that can help improve the Website and the Service.
7. F&S may share Personal Information with its affiliates and related entities for purposes consistent with this Policy.
8. Other Disclosure. F&S may disclose Personal Information about you to others: (a) if F&S has your valid consent to do so; (b) to comply with a valid subpoena, legal order, court order, legal process, or other legal obligation; (c) to enforce any of the F&S terms and conditions or policies; or (d) as necessary to resolve disputes, pursue available legal remedies or defend legal claims. In connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards. Notwithstanding the foregoing, F&S does not disclose Personal Information in a manner that would identify you as having viewed or interacted with specific video content, except as permitted by applicable law or with your consent.

Purchases and E-Commerce. When you make a purchase through the Website, we collect information necessary to process and fulfill your order, including your name, billing and shipping address, payment details, and transaction history. Payment processing may be handled by third-party payment processors, and order fulfillment may be performed by third-party partners. We may also collect information relating to your purchase activity, including products viewed or purchased, to improve our offerings and provide customer support.

Affiliate and Third-Party Retailers. The Website may include links to third-party retailers and affiliate partners (including marketplaces such as Amazon). If you interact with or make purchases through these links, those third parties may independently collect information about you. F&S is not responsible for the privacy practices of such third parties.

Storage

1. Information collected through the Website will be stored in, processed in and subject to the laws of the United States, which may not provide the same level of protection for your information as your home country, and may be available to the United States government or its agencies under a lawful order made in the United States. By using the Website, you consent to such transfer to, storage in and processing within the United States.
2. F&S is committed to protecting your information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Website and its operators maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the information collected through the Website; however, no information or communication Website can be 100% secure, so F&S cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. In addition, F&S is not responsible for the security of information that you transmit to the Website over networks that F&S does not control, including the Internet and wireless networks.
3. F&S retains Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, including to provide Services, complete transactions, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.

Cookie Policy. This section provides F&S’s cookie policy and describes how F&S uses Cookies and similar technologies.

1. F&S uses first-party and third-party cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes: (i) essential website functionality, (ii) analytics and performance measurement, and (iii) advertising and marketing. These technologies may be operated by third parties, including but not limited to Google, Meta, Amazon, and other service providers.
2. Cookies can contain the following information about you and your use of the Website: browser type, search preferences, data relating to which pages of the Website that you have visited and the date and time of your use. F&S uses Cookies for the following purposes: (i) to enable and support security features, prevent fraud, and protect your data from unauthorized access; (ii) to enable features and help us provide you with personalized content, and (iii) to analyze how you use the Website and to monitor site performance. These Cookies help us to identify and fix errors, understand and improve services, research and test out different features, and monitor how you reached the Website.
3. Third-Party Cookies. In addition to those listed in Paragraph 1 of this section, F&S may use any one or more of the following third-party Cookies on the Website:
4. F&S uses ZINIO as digital application (iOS, Android, Windows and Kindle apps) which broadcasts a selection of digital magazine content accessible on any platform that can be read online or offline, synced across multiple devices and searched for archival content. Zinio may utilize web beacons or other cookies in their internal operations. https://support.zinio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004173532-CANDIDATE-PRIVACY-POLICY
5. Beehiiv: If you subscribe to any of the F&S newsletters, F&S uses Beehiiv for correspondence with you. Beehiiv may utilize web beacons or other cookies in their internal operations. See https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy for more details
6. Hotjar provides heatmap analytics about how you are using the website to enable us to improve the website and provide better and more useful information. See https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/6952777582999 and https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/ for details.
7. Opting Out. You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. Where required by law and as made available, you may also manage certain cookies and advertising preferences through the privacy choices tool available on the Website. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work as intended by F&S.

Notice to European Residents: General Data Protection Regulation

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, F&S will process your Personal Information in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

For information submitted using the Website, F&S Media IP LLC is the data controller, as defined under GDPR. In accordance with GDPR, where F&S processes your Personal Information as a data controller, in certain circumstances you will have certain rights, which may include the following:

• right of confirmation;
• right of access;
• right to rectification;
• right to erasure;
• right of restriction of processing;
• right to data portability;
• right to object;
• right to withdraw data protection consent; and
• right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Notice to California Residents: California Consumer Privacy Act

As of January 1, 2020, verified California residents have the right to:

1. request and receive disclosure of our personal information collection practices during the prior 12 months, including the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of sources of such information, our business purpose for collecting or sharing such information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information;
2. request and receive a copy of the personal information we have collected about them during the prior 12 months;
3. request and receive disclosure of our information sharing practices during the prior 12 months, including a list of the categories of personal information sold with the category of third-party recipients and a list of the categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose;
4. request that we not sell personal information about them; and
5. request that we delete (and direct our service providers to delete) their personal information subject to certain exceptions.

For the purposes of this section, “personal information” has the meaning given in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), but does not include certain de-identified or aggregated information, information publicly available in government records, or certain information excluded from the CCPA’s scope.

In order to make a request for disclosure California residents may contact us at [email protected]. We will ask you for information that allows us to reasonably verify your identity (that you are the person about whom we collected personal information) and will use that information only for that purpose. We may request that you submit a signed statement under penalty of perjury that you are the individual you claim to be. We will acknowledge receipt of your request within 10 days and will endeavor to respond within forty-five days of receipt of your request, but if we require more time (up to an additional forty-five days) we will notify you of our need for additional time. For requests that we not sell your information, we will comply with your request within 15 days. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity and confirm that the personal information relates to you.

You may make a request for disclosure of our information collection practices, the information we collected about you, or our sharing practices up to twice within a 12-month period. You may make a request that we not sell information or for deletion of your information at any time.

For requests for a copy of the personal information we have collected during the 12 months prior to your request, we will endeavor to provide the information in a format that is readily useable, including by mailing you a paper copy or providing an electronic copy to your registered account, if you have registered an account with us.

For requests for deletion of your information, please understand that California law permits us to retain certain information and not to delete it under certain circumstances. By way of example, we are not required to comply with a request to delete information if the information is necessary for us to complete a transaction for you or otherwise perform a contract; to detect, protect against, or prosecute security incidents, fraud or illegal activity; to use the information only internally in ways reasonably aligned with your expectations as our customer (such as maintaining sales records), and to comply with legal obligations. If we receive such a request from you, we will notify any service providers we have engaged to delete your information as well.

We will not discriminate against you as a result of your exercise of any of these rights.

Selling Information. We do not sell Personal Information for monetary consideration, but may share Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes.  If, in the future, we enter into arrangements that fall within the definition of a “sale” under the CCPA, we will update this privacy policy and our compliance with the CCPA.

Using an Authorized Agent. You may submit a request through someone holding a formal Power of Attorney. Otherwise, you may submit a request using an authorized agent only if (1) you provide the authorized agent with written permission to make a request and (2) you verify your own identity directly with us. We will require the agent to submit proof to us that they have been authorized to make requests on your behalf.

You have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes.You may exercise this right by using the “Your Privacy Choices” or  “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or mechanism made available on the Website, where required by applicable law.

During the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of information from the listed sources, used it for the listed business purposes and shared it with the listed categories of third parties. The business purposes for which we collect the Personal Information are described in Section 3 above. The categories include information we collect from visitors to our Website, registered users, employees, vendors, suppliers and any other person that interacts with us either online or offline. Not all information is collected about all individuals. For instance, we may collect different information from applicants for employment or from vendors or from customers.