Publishers Clearing House Privacy Notice Highlights

Last Updated: April 1, 2011

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This notice provides highlights of the full Publishers Clearing House Online Privacy Statement.

This notice and the full privacy statement apply to those Publishers Clearing House Web sites and services that display or link to this notice.

Intro/Scope: Who we are and what we do.

  • Publishers Clearing House is a multi-channel direct marketer offering valued-based consumer products and magazines.

  • This site is certified by TRUSTe. The TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal indicates that TRUSTe has reviewed our privacy policy and it adheres to TRUSTe’s privacy program requirements. The seal also indicates that this site participates in TRUSTe’s privacy dispute resolution services and is subject to site privacy scans to detect vulnerabilities.

  • By completing and submitting a registration and entry form at pch.com, you signify your agreement to the pch.com privacy policy. To read the full privacy policy click here.

Uses of Information

  • We need to collect certain personal information from our visitors primarily to process and fulfill online sweepstakes entries and online orders for the products and services we offer.

  • We may use the personal data for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes, and to report aggregate information to our marketing partners and others.

  • We gather data in order to better understand our users’ interests and needs and provide them with relevant offers.

  • We will retain your data as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
  • From time to time, we post customer testimonials on our website, which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer’s name. We obtain customer’s consent prior to posting these testimonials.

  • Any personally identifiable information submitted on our blog or chat rooms can be read, collected, or used by other users of this forum. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

  • “ Automatically-collected data” such as IP address, browser type, and ISP, is used to analyze trends, administer the site, and track users’ movement around the site. This data is not linked to personally identifiable information.

  • When you register with pch.com we will email you with offers of interest from pch.com and our marketing partners.

  • When you register with pch.com we may share your name and information with third parties who may contact you by mail with relevant offers. Our ad network partners may, at times, use online behavioral advertising using cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites in order to provide you relevant display advertisements. If you wish to opt-out of online behavioral advertising by pch.com, please click here:

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What information does PCH collect and how do we collect it?

  • We collect personal data from our users through activity on our Site and through the initial registration process for sweepstakes entry and order processing to create a customer profile in order to provide customers with relevant offers.

  • We may, from time to time, ask users to answer optional questions about products and services.

  • Through the use of “cookies” and “pixel tags” we collect personal data on, among other things, Demographics, such as age, gender; Technical information, such as IP address; Reference information, such as name and telephone number.

  • We collect “automatically-collected data,” which includes IP addresses, browser type and clickstream data.This informationis used to analyze trends, administer the site, and track users’ movement around the site.

Who does PCH share this information with?

  • Unless otherwise stated, PCH.com only discloses user information in aggregate form to marketing partners.

  • We may exchange personal data to third parties as outlined in this privacy policy. If you wish to prevent such exchange you may utilize the choice options that are provided to you. The “Your Choices” section of these highlights provides your options.

  • We will only deal with marketing partners who offer products or services that we believe may be of interest to our users.

  • We may share user information with third parties such as credit card processors, e-mail service providers and select marketing partners, to provide order fulfillment, email delivery services and to insure that individuals on the unsubscribe list do not receive electronic commercial mail messages containing Publishers Clearing House advertisements. Your personally identifiable information will be shared with these parties as necessary to provide these services in a safe and secure encrypted manner.

  • We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law.

To learn more about our Privacy Policy, click here.