Privacy Policy

Effective Date: February 28, 2025

This Privacy Notice describes Katie Couric Media, LLC (“KCM” or “we”) privacy practices including the types of personal information we collect about you through our website, katiecouric.com (the “Site”). We explain here how we may use your information, with whom we may share it, how we retain this information and the choices available to you regarding our use of personal information. This Privacy Notice also describes the measures we take to safeguard your personal information and how you can contact us for more information about our privacy practices.

This Privacy Notice applies to the Site and any offline data practices of KCM. By accessing the Site from which this Privacy Notice is referenced, you confirm that you have read, understand, and acknowledge the terms of this Privacy Notice.

Information We Process

For the past twelve months we may have processed the following personal information about you from the following sources:

Information We Obtain by Automated Means

Whenever you visit or interact with the Site, such as clicking on sponsored links or advertisements, we may use a variety of technologies including cookies, tracking pixels, mobile identifiers or other technologies to automatically collect information about how you access or use the Site. This may include information about you or your use of the Site and other nonaffiliated websites such as publisher websites. We use this information to better understand, customize and improve the Site and services as well as to manage our advertising and marketing initiatives. The types of personal information we may collect include:

Online identifiers and device details, such as your browser, operating system, online identifiers, device used to access the Site, your device ID, mobile operating system or IP address;
Location information, such as your IP address;
Analytics and log data, including what website you came from and where you go when you leave our site; and
Commercial information, such as shopping tendencies, content viewed, or other consumption or purchasing histories or tendencies;
Browsing activities, such as browsing history and how you navigate and interact with our website.

Information We Collect from Third Parties

We may receive information about you from other sources, for example, we may receive information from our business partners such as affiliate marketing partners, sponsors, social media sites, data aggregators or providers, and marketing analytic vendors. The types of information we receive from third parties may include:

Online identifiers or unique identifiers, (such as IOS identifier for Advertisers, a Google Advertising identifier or other device identifier);
Your account name, profile or alias, posts and other related data on a social media site related to us, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linked In as provided by social media sites.
How you interacted with our advertisements on our sites and other third-party sites, including what was the content of the ad and whether you clicked on it;
Inferences about your past purchasing behavior or shopping history, either specifically or in the aggregate;
Personal information to supplement what we already know about you from third parties such as data aggregators or publishers who link your name or email address to other information they have collected, such as site interaction details (e.g., referring site, number of visits, viewing preferences), browser details, or zip code associated with your IP address.
Analytics regarding your purchasing, browsing, and shopping history.
For job applicants: we may receive personal or professional information from background check providers or other recruitment and employment resources.

How We Use Your Personal Information

How Katie Couric Uses Your Personal Information

Provide our services
- Send you the content you request such as email digests (e.g., Wake-Up Call with Katie Couric) and other marketing or promotional materials;
- Communicate with you and provide customer or technical support;
- Communicate with you to administer your participation in surveys, events, sweepstakes, contests and other programs;
- Send you administrative information (such as information regarding the Site, and changes to our terms, conditions and policies);
- To provide products and services from and communicate with our third-party providers, service providers and business partners;
Operating our business
- Operate, evaluate, develop, manage and improve our business (including operating, administering, analyzing and improving the Site; developing new products and services; evaluating job applications, managing and evaluating the effectiveness of our communications; and performing accounting, auditing, and other internal functions);
- To make decisions related to your application or employment, such as making decisions about your recruitment and verify your employment eligibility;
To improve our Site and services
- To understand your interests, personalize your experience with our Site and make inferences about product and services you may like;
- Perform site analytics (such as market and consumer research, trend analysis, conversions and ad reporting);
To tailor your experience on our site
- For interest-based/targeted advertising–we and our third-party partners may engage in interest-based advertising using personal information gathered across multiple websites, devices, or other platforms to serve you relevant advertising on our Site or on other sites, services and mobile applications or on other devices you may use; and
- We may combine personal information as well such as we may combine personal information that we collect offline with personal information we collect online, we may combine personal information about the different devices you use to connect to our platform, and we may combine personal information that we receive from third parties with personal information we already have about you.
Complying with our obligations
- Protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other criminal activity, claims and other liabilities;
- Comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, contractual obligations and our policies.

We also may use the information we collect about you in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection and obtain your consent as required by applicable law.

Who We May Disclose, Share or Sell your Personal Information With

The recipients of your personal information may include agents, vendors, or other service providers to perform services on our behalf. We may also provide your personal information to business partners, third party providers of products and services, social media partners, or entities in our corporate structure or as part of a reorganization or sale.

We may disclose, share, or sell the following categories of personal information:

Contact information
Demographic information
Content you provide
Online Identifiers and device details
Commercial information
Browsing and analytics data
Geolocation data
Professional or education information
Inferences drawn from any of the above information categories

For the past twelve months we may have disclosed your personal information:

To service providers and business partners: We engage service providers and business partners who perform services on our behalf for operational business purposes, such as email marketing, employment-related services, administration of contests or surveys, data hosting and storage services, and other purposes described in this Privacy Notice. Unless otherwise specified, these companies will only use your personal information in the ways described in this Policy.
To Katie Couric Media Affiliates: We may provide your personal information to Katie Couric parent companies or its subsidiaries and affiliates for internal business and operational purposes.
To comply or cooperate with legal requests: As necessary, Katie Couric Media may provide your personal information to law enforcement authorities or other governmental bodies to comply with a legal obligation, when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
With your consent and at your direction: We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties at which point we will make it clear why we want to share the information. We also disclose information in response to your requests, such as to associate your account with your Social Network account.

Katie Couric Media may share your personal information with third parties in exchange for marketing, analytics, or research services. Some jurisdictions consider such exchanges to be a sale or sharing subject to opt-out. For the past twelve months, we have may shared or sold your personal information, as those terms are defined in applicable laws, to:

Third party advertising companies, corporate sponsors, third party providers, affiliate marketing partners and joint marketing partners for marketing efforts and tailoring the ads served to you on our website or third-party websites based on your interests.
Analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, to help improve the site. To learn more about how Google uses this data please www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.
Vendors that support our targeted advertising initiatives, such as:
- SHE Media: Katiecouric.com is a VIP Publisher of the SHE Media Collective, and as such, places SHE Media’s advertising on the site. SHE Media will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about SHE Media’s data usage, visit https://www.shemedia.com/adservices-privacy-policy.

For more information about your right to opt out of selling or sharing of your personal information please see the “Cookies and Other Online Tracking Tools” section below.

How Long We Retain Your Personal Information

We retain your personal information for so long as needed for the purposes we described in this Notice except when longer retention is required by our compliance policies and efforts toward applicable legal and regulatory requirements. When we no longer have a continuing purpose to use your personal information we delete it, aggregate it or de-identify it.

Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your US jurisdiction, we offer you certain choices and rights in connection with the personal information we obtain about you. Residents of states with applicable privacy regulations may have the right to request the following:

Access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you
Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information that we hold about you.
Correction: Request correction of the personal information we hold about you.
Opt-out of Sale/Share: Opt-out of the use of your personal information for selling, sharing, or cross contextual behavioral advertising.
Additional Details about Our Processing: Request additional details regarding the categories of personal information we process about you or the categories of third parties we share your personal information with.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights

Residents of states with applicable privacy regulations may submit a privacy request by completing this DSR form. Additionally, requests can be submitted by emailing us at p rivacy@katiecouric.com, or by sending us a hard copy of your request by mail to Attn: Privacy Request, Katie Couric Media 75 Varick Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10013.

Authorized Agents: You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on their behalf. Authorized agents should submit requests by emailing our privacy inbox above. When submitting the request, please ensure the authorized agent is identified as an authorized agent and we will take the necessary steps to confirm that the agent will be acting on your behalf.
Non-Discrimination: KCM will not discriminate against you because you made any of these requests.

Fulfilling Privacy Rights Requests

Before we can respond to or fulfill a privacy rights request, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity. The verification steps will vary depending on the sensitivity of the personal information subject to the request. We will only request the minimum amount of personal information necessary to verify your identity and will only use that personal information for verification purposes.

We may deny certain requests, or fulfill a request only in part, based on our legal rights and obligations. For example, we may retain personal information as permitted by law, such as for employment, tax or other record keeping purposes, and to facilitate customer requests.

Cookies and Other Online Tracking Tools

We use first-party and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information that helps us improve the quality of our Site and services and provide you with a better experience. First-party cookies generally support website functionality and collect minimal personal information. Third-party cookies help us in understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Managing Cookies

You can control the placement of cookies on your browser or device through the processes described below. Please be aware that, if you block cookies, certain features on our Site may not work. In addition, options you select relating to cookies and other tracking technologies are browser and device specific. You must exercise these choices on each browser and device you use.

KCM Cookie Preference Center

Depending on your jurisdiction, you can opt-out of the placement of certain cookies through our online cookie management tool. To do so, please see the Your Privacy Choices link in the footer of our site.

Global Privacy Control (“GPC”)

You may choose to use a tool to communicate your choices automatically through an opt-out preference signal, such as GPC, on your browser or device. Katie Couric Media honors GPC signals as a request to opt-out of sharing personal information for purposes of targeted advertising on our website.

SHE Media Cookies

You can remove the SHEMedia advertising cookies on our website by going to Your Privacy Choices as described above or you can submit an opt-out request for contact and other non-cookie or similar tracker based information by emailing privacysupport@sheknows.com. For SHEMedia’s data practices see https://www.shemedia.com/ad-services-privacy-policy.

Subscriber Settings + Unsubscribe

You may opt out of receiving emails or update your preferences through the unsubscribe link in the footer of the emails you receive or by contacting us as specified in the How to Contact Us section below.

Accessing our Sites Globally – Transfer of Data

The Site is governed by and operated in, and in accordance with the laws of the United States. We make no representation that the Site is governed by or operated in accordance with the laws of any other nation. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect may be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the Site, or providing us with any information, you: (1) acknowledge that the Site is subject to the laws of the United States, (2) consent to the collection, processing, maintenance and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other applicable territories in which the privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as or equivalent to those in the country where you reside and/or are a citizen, and (3) waive any claims that may arise under those laws.

Other Online Services and Third-Party Features

Our Site may provide links to other online services for your convenience and information, which are maintained by third parties. These may include third-party features such as apps, tools, payment services, widgets and plug-ins (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram buttons). These online services and third-party features operate independently from us and their privacy practices, including details on the information they may collect about you, is subject to the privacy statements of these parties. KCM is not responsible or liable for these third parties’ information practices. Links to third-party sites do not constitute an assumption of liability for or sponsorship, endorsement or approval of these sites or the content contained on these sites.

How We Protect Personal Information

We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

Children

This Site is not directed to children under 16 years of age and KCM does not knowingly collect or use information from children under 16 obtained through the Site. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 16 we will promptly delete the information from our records and inform that child and/or parent or legal guardian not to use the Site. If you believe that a child under the age of 16 may have provided us with personal information, please contact us as specified in the How to Contact Us section below.

Updates to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time, so we encourage you to review this page at least annually for the latest information about our privacy practices. Changes to this Privacy Notice will be posted on the Site or notice will be provided to you in accordance with applicable law, if such changes are material.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice, please contact us by email at support@katiecouric.com. For privacy related requests, please contact us at privacy@katiecouric.com with “Privacy” in the subject line. You also may write to us at:

Katie Couric Media, LLC
75 Varick Street
12th Floor
New York, NY 10013