PRIVACY POLICY

Date Last Updated: June 7, 2024

Brooklyn Media Enterprises, LLC, a BSE company (referred to throughout this privacy policy as “BME,” “we,” and “our”) cares about your privacy and the security of your information. This privacy policy details our practices in connection with our print, digital, and live event products and services, including Brooklyn Magazine, bkmag.com, our mobile applications and any other content we provide (collectively, the “Services”) as they relate to your personal information. This privacy policy describes the kinds of personal information we may gather about you in connection with the Services, how we use that information, to whom we disclose it, and how you can manage it.

BME is part of the BSE family. BSE is an entertainment platform comprised of venues, professional sports franchises, and emerging businesses. As a result, we may share personal information across the BSE family to improve our products and services, provide you with tailored content, and for other purposes described in this privacy policy, at the time of collection, or in the BSE privacy policy available at bseglobal.net.

Our Services are constantly under development, which may cause our privacy information practices to change from time to time. We will update this privacy policy with any changes we make, so please visit this page often to stay current. Any changes to this privacy policy will become effective as of the date “last updated” noted above. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of changes to this privacy policy will mean you acknowledge those changes.

If you are a resident of California, Connecticut, or Virginia, please see the Additional Information for Users in Certain US Jurisdictions section of this privacy policy.

1) Personal Information Collected

Information You May Provide

When you use our Services, you may voluntarily provide us with certain pieces of information about yourself, including the following.

Contact Information – If you create an account on our website or mobile app, subscribe to Brooklyn Magazine, register for one of our live events, or participate in one of our surveys or contests we may ask you for your contact information, which may include your name, email address, phone number and physical address.

Billing Information – If you purchase one of our products or register for certain live events, we may collect your billing information, which may include your name, email address and billing address. While you may enter your credit or debit card information on our website or mobile app, we do not have direct access to or possession of that information beyond the last four digits of your card. Instead, a third-party payment processor is responsible for the processing and storing of your payment information.

Demographic information – If you register for a live event or participate in one of our surveys, we may ask you to tell us more about yourself, such as your job title, your place of employment, the industry in which you work, your age or your gender.

Communication Information – We collect information about you when you communicate with us, such as by contacting us with customer service questions, including the content of the communications and any contact information you provide.

Business Information – If you have a professional relationship with us, we may collect information such as your job title, your place of employment, the industry in which you work, and your business email address, physical address and telephone number.

Profile Information – If you create or use an account on our Services, we may collect information such as your username, password, photographs, interests, preferences and any other information you choose to provide. When you link an existing account from a third-party platform, we may additionally collect information such as that account’s ID information and associated preferences.

Personal Information Collected Automatically

We automatically collect certain pieces of information about you when you use our Services. Much of this information is collected via cookies, as discussed further below in this privacy policy.  This information includes the following:

Device Information – This lets us know how you are accessing our Services and may include information such as the kind of device you are using, your operating system, your browser, your mobile carrier, certain device settings, referral URLs, your IP address and other unique device identifiers.

Usage Information – This lets us know how you are interacting with our Services and may include information such as which parts of our Services you visit, how long you visit, your search history within our Services, and how you interacted with advertisements.

Location Information – We collect your device’s IP address when you use our Services. Your IP address may disclose or allow us to infer the general location of your device at the time you access our Services.

Inferred Information – In order to better understand our audience, we may infer some information about you, such as your age, gender, education level and household composition, based on your survey responses.

Personal Information Collected from Third Parties

Social Media and Other Third-Party Platforms – If you interact with our pages or accounts on social media platforms (such as Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, LinkedIn, etc.), we may collect personal information about you available on that platform. This may include your social media account ID, username, user ID, profile picture, cover photo, networks to which you belong, friends, connections and contact information.  Additionally, you may choose to log-in to our Services using your account on certain social media or other third-party platforms, in which case we and that platform may share certain information about you based on your online viewing activities. You can read more about your choices further below in this privacy policy.

Publicly or Commercially Available Sources – We may obtain contact details and other personal information of media contacts and influencers from a variety of publicly or commercially available sources.

2) How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the purposes described below or as otherwise described to you at the point of collection.

Providing the Services – Your personal information helps us to provide you with our Services such as giving you access to the Services, fulfilling your subscription, maintaining your account, processing your payments, providing you with customer support, and allowing you to participate in surveys, contests and other promotions.

Personalizing the Services – Your personal information allows us to give you a customized experience with our Services, including offering you content recommendations, promotions, and advertisements that are more relevant to you.

Communicating with You – Your personal information, such as your contact details, allows us to communicate with you in a variety of ways. We may send you Brooklyn Magazine, newsletters, and updates; inform you about content, products and promotions that may be of interest; provide you with invoices and payment reminders; send you surveys; and provide you with customer support.

Advertising – We may use your personal information to deliver advertisements that are of interest to you, both on our own behalf and on behalf of third parties. Please see additional details regarding how personal information is used for interest-based advertising in the section below titled, “Privacy Choices Regarding Personalized Advertisements.” We may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of a given advertising campaign (for example, by measuring the number of unique viewers for that advertisement). We may also email you on behalf of our advertisers or event sponsors to inform you about their products or services and offers that may be of interest. You can opt out of such communication at any time by emailing us at privacy@bseglobal.net or contacting us as described in the “Contact Us” section below.

Social Media – We may use your personal information, including information provided to us by social media or other third-party platforms, to enable you to log into our Services, to connect your social media account to our Services, or to enable you to interact with our social media accounts and activity. We may also use your information to help us determine what content or advertising to deliver to you on those social media platforms.

Analytics, Research, and Development – We may use your personal information to learn more about who uses our Services and how they use it. This helps us to make business and marketing decisions, improve our current products and develop new ones that will be of interest to you. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified, or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes.

Maintenance and Security, Compliance with Law – We may use your personal information to assist us in maintaining and securing our Services, including evaluating our security systems, debugging, detecting security incidents, preventing malicious, fraudulent and illegal activities, enforcing our Terms of Service and our other legal rights, protecting the rights and safety of us and others, or to comply with laws and regulations.

With Your Consent – We will disclose your personal information in accordance with your prior direction or, in some cases, we may specifically ask you for your consent to collect, use, or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

3) How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal information with third parties as described elsewhere in this privacy policy or at the point of collection. In general, the reasons we may share your personal information falls into one or more of the following categories:

The BSE Family – We may share your personal information with our holding companies, affiliates, and subsidiaries, including to cross promote and for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Service Providers – We may share some of your personal information with service providers who perform functions on our behalf to help us to offer our Services and manage our business. This includes:

• Processing payments
• Fulfilling purchase orders
• Managing email communications
• Providing customer service
• Storing data
• Building and distributing surveys
• Conducting research and development
• Running analytics
• Serving advertisements and measuring performance of advertisements
• Maintaining the safety and security of our Services

Content or Advertising Partners – Third parties that provide content, advertising or functionality to the Services may collect or receive information about you and/or your use of the Services, including through the use of cookies, beacons, and similar technologies (please review Section 5 of this privacy policy, “Privacy Choices Regarding Personalized Advertisements,” to learn more). These third parties may use your information to provide you with advertising that is based on your interests; to measure and analyze ad performance on our Services or other websites or platforms; and may combine it with information collected across different websites, online and offline services, and other devices. These third parties’ use of your information will be subject to their own privacy policies.

Event Partners and Sponsors – When you register for or attend one of our live events, we may share some of your registration information, such as your email address, with our event partners or sponsors. They may use this information to let you know about their products and services.

Social Media – If you access our Services via a social media service or if you connect a social media account with our Services, we may share information about you or your activities on that social media service, including what you view on our websites and applications, with that social media service and/or its users.  Social media services will use that information subject to their own privacy policies. If you do not want your information shared in this way, do not connect your social media service account with our Services, or log out of your social media service before using our Services.

For Legal Compliance or Public Interest – We may share your personal information when we believe it is necessary to comply with laws or legal processes; to protect and defend our rights or to prevent misuse of our Services; or to protect the personal safety of our employees, agents partners, other users of our Services or the public.

Corporate Transactions – We may disclose your personal information to third parties in connection with any business transaction (or potential transaction) involving a merger, acquisition, sale of shares or assets, financing, consolidation, reorganization, divestiture, or dissolution of all or a portion of our business (including in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings)

At Your Direction – We may also share your personal information with third parties when you instruct us to do so.

4) How Long Your Information Is Stored

There is no singular retention period for personal information we may hold about you. In general, we store your information for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it. We may also keep information for longer when it is necessary to fulfill a legal, accounting, or reporting requirement, to establish and defend legal claims, for fraud prevention purposes, or as long as required to meet a legal obligation. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

5) Privacy Choices Regarding Personalized Advertisements

When you visit our website or use our mobile application, we and our third-party partners may use online tracking technology such cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other similar technologies to analyze your use of our Services and your engagement with advertisements, and to serve you interest-based advertisements. The following explains cookies in greater detail and provides you with information on how to opt out of cookies.

Types of Online Tracking Technologies

• Cookies – Cookies are small text files stored in your device’s browser when you visit a website. Cookies make it possible to recognize you as the same user across one or more browsing sessions, and across one or more websites. We and our partners use cookies for a variety of purposes, including remembering your sign-in credentials and preferences so that you do not have to input them each time you use our Services; allowing us and third parties to customize your experience using the Services, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you on our website and elsewhere online; and allowing us and third parties to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our Services and your experience. For more information on cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
• Web Beacons – Web beacons (also called “web tags” or “pixels”) are tiny graphics or scripts that communicate information from your device to a server. Beacons can be embedded in online or mobile content, videos, advertisements or emails. Beacons allow a server to read certain types of information from your device, such as when you viewed content that contains a beacon and the IP address of the device on which you viewed it. We and third parties use beacons for a variety of purposes, including to analyze the use of our Services and to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you.
• SDKs – SDKs are third-party computer code that we may incorporate into our mobile applications that can be used for a variety of purposes, including to provide us with analytics regarding the use of our mobile applications, to integrate with social media, to add features or functionality to our app or to facilitate online advertising.

How to Opt-Out

There are a number of ways to opt out of having your online activity and device data collected by third parties, which we have summarized below. We hope you find this information to be a helpful reference. PLEASE NOTE HOWEVER: Using these tools to opt out of tracking and targeting does not mean that you will receive no advertising while using our Services. Instead, you will cease receiving advertisements tailored to your interests.

• On Your Browser
• Changing your browser settings – Most web browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but typically allow you to change your settings to disable or reject them. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser; links to instructions provided by several of the most common browsers are below. You can also learn more at www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note, however, that if you reject or disable cookies, some features of our Services may not work or may not work as designed.
• Cookie settings in Google Chrome
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
• Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS
• Using Privacy Plug-ins or Browsers – You can block our website from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with default privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
• Advertising Industry Opt-Out Tools. Many of the third-party advertisers that use tracking or targeting tools in connection with our Services offer you additional choices regarding the collection and use of your information. You can learn more about the options available to limit these participating third-party advertisers’ collection and use of your information by visiting their websites:
• On Your Browser:
• Opt Out of Interest Based Advertising (National Advertising Initiative)
• Your Ad Choices (Digital Advertising Alliance)
• Platform-Specific Opt-Outs. If you choose to connect to our Services via a third-party platform or social media network, you may have the ability to limit the information that we obtain from the third-party, either at the time you login to our Services or subsequently via your settings on the third-party platform or network. Additionally, some third-party platforms or social media networks have features that allow you to opt-out of interest-based advertising. Below are links to further information on platforms that integrate with our Services:
• Facebook – About Facebook Ads and Facebook Privacy Policy
• Google – Our Services may deliver advertising using the vendor DoubleClick, a Google company. You can read about how DoubleClick uses cookies, use Google’s controls for blocking certain ads, or use Google’s ad settings page to control how DoubleClick personalizes your ad experience  The Services also may use Google Analytics to track your usage, including the stitching of authenticated and unauthenticated sessions (which allows for the combination of data from your use of the Services while not signed in to your Atlantic account with your use of the Services while signed in to your Atlantic account). If you wish to opt-out of Google Analytics’ tracking, use this browser add-on provided by Google.
• On Your Mobile Device:
• Mobile app users may opt-out of receiving targeted advertising from advertisers who are participating members of the Digital Advertising Alliance by installing the AppChoices mobile app, available here, and making your selection from among the various options presented there.
• Block Advertising ID – Your mobile device settings may permit you to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device for interest-based advertising purposes.
• Opt-Out via Advertising Networks – You can learn about your options to opt-out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings. For more information about how to change these settings visit the links below:
• Apple Devices
• Android Devices
• Microsoft Devices

6) Contests, Sweepstakes or Games

When we run a contest, sweepstakes or game relating to the Services, it will be accompanied by a set of rules. The rules for each contest, sweepstakes or game will specify how the information gathered from you for entry will be used and disclosed if it is different than as described in this Privacy Policy. In conjunction with your entry in such contests or sweepstakes, personal information will be collected only if you voluntarily submit it.

7) Contact Us

If you have an account with us, you may review and change your information by logging into your account and editing your account profile.

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Brooklyn Media Enterprises, LLC
168 39^th Street, 7^th Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11232
Email: privacy@bseglobal.net

8) Additional Information for Users in Certain U.S. Jurisdictions

This section only applies to residents of California, Connecticut, and Virginia. Residents of these U.S. states are afforded additional rights in accordance with their respective state data privacy laws. It describes how we collect, use, and share personal information in operating our business as well as your individual rights with respect to your personal information.

How We Collect, Use, and Share your Personal Information

We may collect the following categories of personal information about you:

• Identifiers (e.g., device identifier, IP address, unique browser ID, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, account login, other unique identifiers, name, site log-in, email address, mailing address (or state / province and country of residence), phone number, images of yourself you provide us for your account page you are creating and completing an order to attend an event we are hosting.
• Commercial information (e.g., subscription records, site engagement).
• Internet or network information (e.g., browsing and search history, site and advertisement interactions, audience research data).
• Geolocation data (e.g., location information inferred from your IP address).
• Professional and employment-related information (e.g., your job title, income level, and the name of your employer).
• Financial information (e.g., your financial account numbers or payment card information; please note that a third-party payment processor is responsible for all collection, processing, and storage of your financial information and we do not have direct access to or possession of any payment card information.)
• Education information (e.g., highest level of education attained).
• Protected classification characteristics (e.g., age and gender)
• Inferences (e.g., information about your interests, preferences, and favorites).

The sources from which we collect information and additional details on the information we collect are described in Section 1 of this privacy policy; the business and commercial purposes for which we collect this information are described in Section 2 of this privacy policy; and the ways in which we may share this information are described in Section 3 of this privacy policy. We do not knowingly “sell” or “share” the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

Your Privacy Rights and How to Exercise Them. As a California, Connecticut, or Virginia resident, you have certain rights related to your personal information, which are detailed below. We encourage you to invoke these rights if you wish. Rest assured that we will not discriminate or retaliate against you for doing so.

Except where otherwise noted, you can exercise these rights by calling us toll free at 888-845-3162 or by completing our interactive webform available by clicking here: Your Privacy Choices. When submitting your request, please include as detailed a description of your request as possible.

Upon receiving certain types of requests, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can move forward. Typically, this will involve asking you to confirm information we already have on file about you. We will never ask you for sensitive information such as your credit card, driver’s license, or social security numbers for verification purposes.

You may also allow an “authorized agent” to submit a request on your behalf through the same means outlined above. Unless your agent has been given power of attorney, we will additionally need the following items to honor your request:  (1) written authorization, signed by you, allowing them to act on your behalf; (2) proof of your identity; and (3) direct confirmation sent from you to us (without the authorized agent as an intermediary) affirming that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf.

Types of Rights

• Access This privacy policy describes the categories of personal information we may collect about you, and how that information is collected, used, and disclosed. We will also provide you with the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you upon your request.

• Correction If you believe that any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate you may request that we correct it. You can update some information, like your contact details, yourself by visiting your account page. For other corrections, please contact us as described above.

• Deletion You may request that we delete the personal information we hold about you. We fulfill these requests by erasing the data or by anonymizing it such that you can no longer be identified. We will not attempt to re-identify anonymized data. Please note that we may need to retain limited amounts of personal information after completing your request for legal compliance purposes. Additionally, we may postpone completion of your request when your personal information is necessary to fulfill our obligations to you. For example, if you are an active subscriber we may wait until your subscription expires before fulfilling your request.

• Opt out of “Selling”, “Sharing”, or Using for Targeted Advertising You have the right to opt out of the “sale” of your personal information, or the “sharing”/use of it for targeted advertising. Under some of these state laws, the word “sale” means our disclosure of your personal information to a third party in exchange for money or any other thing of value, while others only consider it a “sale” if money was exchanged. For the purposes of this privacy policy, when we say “sale,” “selling,” or “sold,” we mean in the broader sense: the exchange of personal information for money or any other thing of value. However, “selling” does not encompass disclosing your personal information to a third party for other purposes, such as those that enable us to provide our Services.

Sharing or using your personal information for targeted advertising means our disclosure of your personal information to a third party in order to serve you interest-based advertisements.

To opt out of “sharing”/use of personal information for targeted advertising through the use of cookies, please select your preferences by clicking “Cookie Settings” at the bottom of our website. Please note that after opting out you will continue to see non-targeted advertisements on our Services.

To opt out of “sales,” please call us toll-free at 888-845-3162 or complete our interactive webform available by clicking here: Your Privacy Choices.

Additionally, when residents of California opt out of “sales,” we also treat your request as one made pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light” law to opt out of the disclosure of your personal information to third parties for their use for direct marketing.

If your request related to any of the rights detailed above is denied, you may appeal that decision by emailing us at privacy@bseglobal.net.

Information We Disclose To Third Parties

The chart below details the categories of (1) personal data we disclose to third parties, (2) third parties we disclose that information to for a business purpose, and (3) third parties we “sell” or share it with for targeted advertising. It reflects these practices over the 12 months prior to the day this privacy policy was last updated. As a reminder, our service providers enable us to deliver our Services to you. For example, we use service providers to process your payments, to manage our email communications with you, and to maintain our Services’ safety and security. Please note that the lists below are likely to be overbroad for any single person. Similarly, not every data point that falls into the categories below is necessarily shared with all of the third parties listed. For more information on the categories used in the following chart and the reasons why we share personal data, please review Section 1 and Section 3 of this privacy policy, respectively.

Other Information for California Residents

The following information applies to California residents only.

Notice Regarding Financial Incentives for California Residents – From time to time, we may offer the opportunity to participate in user research surveys. As a part of these surveys we may collect Personal Information, including but not limited to demographic information and information about your experiences with our Services. We use this information to help us gain further insight into and to improve our Services. In some instances, participation in a survey may make you eligible to win prizes, e.g, gift cards, in a sweepstakes. Under California law, this may be considered a financial incentive in exchange for Personal Information. The value of a given prize is reasonably related to the value of the information provided. Surveys may be emailed to our users directly or linked to on our website or social media accounts.

Participation in any survey is voluntary. You may opt out of receiving surveys from us by emailing privacy@bseglobal.net. For more information regarding a sweepstakes linked to a particular survey, please refer to that sweepstakes’ official rules.

Other Information for Nevada Residents

Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A allows Nevada residents to opt-out of the “sale” of certain types of personal information. Subject to several exceptions, Nevada law defines “sale” to mean the exchange of certain types of personal information for monetary consideration to another person. If you are a Nevada resident who wishes to exercise your “sale” opt-out rights, please submit your request to privacy@bseglobal.net with “Nevada Opt-Out” in the subject line.