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Effective: October 4, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

Copyright Clearance Center (\u201cCCC,\u201d \u201cwe,\u201d or \u201cus\u201d) cares about your privacy and wants you to be familiar with how it handles your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we use and disclose the personal information we collect on www.copyright.com<\/a>, a CCC owned and operated website, and any other website where this Privacy Policy is posted or linked (collectively, this \u201cWebsite\u201d), as well as the personal information we may collect or otherwise obtain in connection with the operation of our business. It also describes the choices and rights available to you in relation to your personal information and how you can exercise your choices and rights.<\/p>\n

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

We may collect or obtain information relating to you in a variety of ways. Such information may include personal information (i.e., information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual). Additional details about our collection of personal information can be found below.<\/p>\n

Personal information you provide <\/em><\/p>\n

You may access and read most material on this Website without giving us any information that identifies you. However, when you engage in certain activities on this Website, we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself and\/or your organization by submitting a completed web form. These activities include accessing educational sessions, whitepapers, and other high-value content or seeking and receiving permissions, authorizations, or licenses to use the copyrighted works of the copyright rightsholders we represent. These activities also include requesting to speak with one of our experts. It is completely optional for you to fill out these forms and\/or engage in these activities.<\/p>\n

The information that we request and collect enables us to provide you with the permission, authorization, license, or other information you are seeking. Should you choose not to provide the requested information, however, it may not be possible for CCC to provide those services or information to you.<\/p>\n

Should you choose to take advantage of our services or seek to speak with one of our experts, we may require that you provide us with certain information, such as your name, organization name, mailing address, email address, phone number, username, and password. Should you choose to pay for our services with a credit card, you may be asked to provide a card number, expiration date, and the name and address of the cardholder. If you add an additional user to your account, we will ask for the additional user\u2019s name, phone number, and email address.<\/p>\n

Please note that, in some cases, you may access CCC\u2019s services through the website of a participating copyright rightsholder, such as a publisher or one of our integration partners (e.g., a course management system provider). In those cases, you will be directed to a webpage within this Website, and it is CCC that will be collecting your information, even though you may continue to see the copyright rightsholder\u2019s branding or logo. CCC will share your information with the copyright rightsholder as described in the \u201cDisclosure of Personal Information\u201d section of this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n

Some of our pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to\/from our partners while preserving the look and feel of this Website. Please be aware that you are providing your personal information to these third parties and not to CCC.<\/p>\n

Referrals: <\/em>If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about this Website, we will ask you for your friend\u2019s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting them to visit this Website. We will store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. Your friend may contact us at info@copyright.com to request that we remove their information from our database.<\/p>\n

Single Sign-on<\/em>: You can log in to this Website using sign-in services using your corporate username. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information (such as your name and email address) with us and to pre-populate our sign-up form.<\/p>\n

Personal information collected by automated means<\/em><\/p>\n

Like most websites, when you visit and interact with this Website, we collect certain information automatically about your browser, device, and\/or activity and store such information in log files. This information may include your device\u2019s Internet Protocol (\u201cIP\u201d) address(es), browser type, browser settings, language settings, date(s) and time(s) of your visit(s) to this Website, and the webpage you visited immediately prior to this Website.<\/p>\n

We collect this information through various means, including through cookies and\/or other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons). We do not link this information to other information we collect from or about you.\u00a0 Please see the \u201cCookies and Other Similar Technologies\u201d section below for further information.<\/p>\n

Personal information received from other sources <\/em><\/p>\n

We may supplement the information you provide with commercially-available demographic and address information in order to enhance our ability to serve you.<\/p>\n

We generally do not seek personal information that may be considered \u201csensitive\u201d (e.g., government-issued identification numbers and information related to an individual\u2019s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other similar beliefs, health conditions, criminal background, or sex life\/sexual orientation), and we ask that users of this Website not provide such information on or through this Website.<\/p>\n

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

We use your personal information for the purpose(s) for which it was collected or provided to us. The specific business purposes for which we may use the personal information we collect or otherwise obtain about you are described below.<\/p>\n