Privacy Policy

WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY AFFILIATE WEBSITE PRIVACY NOTICE

Effective Date: April 11, 2023

This privacy notice applies to your access to and use of the affiliate website provided by WarnerMedia Network Sales, Inc. and related companies under common control, and/or any of its subsidiary and affiliated entities located at wbdpartners.com (the “WBD Website” or “Website”). It describes how WBD collects, uses, discloses and otherwise processes Personal Information on the Website and the choices available to you regarding the use of your Personal Information, if you work for an organization we do business with; in other words, it governs our ‘B2B’ relationship and the associated processing of Personal Information. Our family of companies is made up of a number of different legal entities and business units. You can learn more about our legal entities and business units by visiting our affiliates page.

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

In order to access the Website, you must provide certain Personal Information to ensure you are eligible to access the Website and to set up an account. Specifically, you must provide your name, email address, password, job title and function, industry affiliation, phone and fax number, and mailing address. You can choose whether to provide additional information to us when you set up your account, including your company name, designated market area, and subscriber count.

We also collect Personal Information from you, including your name, email address, and phone number, when you contact us with questions or concerns regarding the Website or otherwise communicate with us.

2. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

Directly from you:

  • For example, when you register as a user of one of our Websites, express interest in our products, approach us to solicit interest in one of yours, or send us an inquiry.

From other sources:

  • We work closely with third parties providing services to us, and we may also receive Personal Information about you from them.
  • From other business contacts, for example by a referral or if you are invited to participate in activities on our Website or to attend events.
  • From publicly available sources.

Through your browser or device or through our servers:

If you visit our Websites or use our apps, certain Personal Information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, and we also collect your IP address (this enables us to recognize your computer or device when you use our Website) via our server log files.

Third party links, sponsors and advertisers:

Our products and services may contain links to third party websites or services that are not covered by this Privacy Notice. If you click on any of the links on our Website, you should consult the privacy policies on such third party websites or services before submitting any Personal Information, as we are not responsible for and have no control over the manner in which such websites or services collect, use, disclose, or otherwise process your Personal Information.

3. AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED DATA

Log Files

As is true of most websites, we may gather certain data automatically and store it in log files. This includes IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the Website, to track users’ movements around the Website and to gather demographic information about the Website’s user base.

Cookies

A “cookie” is a small text file that may be used to collect information about your activity on the Website. For example, when someone visits a page on the Website, a cookie is placed on the user’s machine (if the user accepts cookies) or is read if the user has visited the Website previously. We use cookies to identify our users and recognize you when you return to the Website. Cookies also enable us to customize user experiences on the Website. We may link the information we store in cookies to any Personal Information you submit while on our Website.

Web Beacons

We and our service providers may employ a software technology called web beacons that help us better manage content on our Website by informing us on what content is effective. Web beacons allow us to count users who have visited certain pages of the Website and to analyze traffic to our Website. We also use web beacons in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our affiliate marketing campaigns.

4. HOW WE USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use the information we collect to provide and improve the Website, to provide the content you request, and to communicate with you about WBD content.

We may further use your Personal Information in the following manner:

For purposes related to our business relationship:

  • to establish, manage and maintain commercial and legal relationships with you, or the organization you work for or collaborate with, including in connection with a tendering process, contract negotiation, day to day business correspondence, invoices and payments, and completing due diligence activities;
  • to provide you with the information and services that you request or purchase from us or that you provide to us, to communicate with you regarding those services, and to respond to your questions and comments;
  • to host corporate events.

We use your Personal Information in this way either because we have a contract with you (or are considering entering into a contract with you) or for the conduct of our business activities (for example, to manage the contact, or to be able to communicate with certain groups of people in a 'business to business' capacity in order to promote our products and services):

For PR, advertising and marketing purposes, including to measure how effective our marketing communication is:

  • to contact you and let you know about services we offer that we believe you might want to hear about (e.g. to send you marketing materials that we believe will be of interest to you or your organization);
  • to invite you to view our pre-release or premiere content, and to send you related information, such as press releases and newsletters;
  • to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and our advertising (i.e. so that we can tell what interests people and what doesn't);
  • to conduct surveys or obtain your feedback;
  • to develop a more direct relationship with you for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice (such as inviting you to events you may be interested in);
  • to invite you to participate and receive rewards, awards and sponsorships in the course of doing business with us or our partners

For administrative and internal business purposes:

  • to tailor our Website experience and content, to administer, monitor and improve our Website, and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • for our internal business purposes, such as analyzing and managing our businesses, audits and developing new products or services.

It is in our interests as a business to use your Personal Information in this way. For example, we have a clear interest in ensuring that our Website works properly and that our products and services are high quality and efficient.

For security and legal and compliance purposes:

  • as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure;
  • to detect or prevent fraud or other illegal activity;
  • as we believe to be necessary or appropriate in each case in order to comply with laws or legal processes (including laws or legal processes in other countries);
  • to protect our rights or property (or the rights or property of others), and to enforce or defend our rights and pursue available remedies.

In some cases, we will need to use your Personal Information to fulfill a legal obligation (for example, if we receive a legal request from a law enforcement agency), and in other cases (such as the detection of fraud or ensuring the security of the Site) we will rely on our obligations as a business to use your Personal Information in this way.

5. HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share the Personal Information we collect with third parties as follows:

(i) Sharing Personal Information within our group:

  • We are part of a large global group of companies that share various operations and business processes. Accordingly, we may need to share your Personal Information with any member of our group as part of our business relationship with you, or because it is in our legitimate interests to do so. You can see a list of companies within our group that may receive your Personal Information by clicking onto our Affiliates List.

(ii) Sharing with organizations providing services to us:

  • We engage various third parties to provide services to us, and this will often mean that we need to share your Personal Information with them for the purposes outlined in this Notice, such as content hosting providers, event organizers, sponsors, award providers and newsletter platforms.
  • We may also from time to time work with online advertisers, social media platforms and advertising networks to deliver, tailor and measure advertising to you and others both on our Sites and elsewhere on the internet (including on social media platforms).

(iii) Sharing in connection with changes to our group structure or the ownership of our business:

  • We may need to disclose your Personal Information in the event of a business transaction, such as if we or one of our business units or our relevant assets are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or a business reorganization.

(iv) Sharing to comply with laws or protect our legal interests:

  • There may be scenarios where we are subject to a legal obligation to disclose or share your Personal Information, such as: (i) in connection with fraud prevention activities, (ii) where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, (iii) in situations that can involve violations of our terms of use or other rules, (iv) to protect our rights and the rights and safety of others, and (v) as otherwise required by law.

(v) With your consent:

  • On some occasion, we may ask for your consent to disclose Personal Information with third parties.

6. YOUR CHOICES

Cookies

You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but if you do, you may not be able to take advantage of certain features on the Website.

Email Correspondence

If you are subscribed to receive email correspondence from us, you can click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe from those emails. You can also log in to your account to change your email preferences. If you opt out of our promotional emails, we will still send you technical and other service-related communications.

Updating your Personal Information

If you’d like us to update, correct, or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us, or if you’d like to deactivate your account, please send a request to WMPrivacy@warnermedia.com.

7. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our Website may contain links to and advertisements for websites operated by third parties whose privacy practices may differ from ours. While we endeavor to associate only with reputable entities, WBD is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites. We encourage you to check the privacy policies of all websites that you visit.

8. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

WBD operates the Website from servers located in the United States and the information it collects on and through affiliates is processed in servers in the United States and other countries. If you access the Website outside of the United States, you acknowledge that we and our service providers may transfer your Personal Information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction.

9. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may revise this Notice from time to time. When we make such changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Notice. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review our current privacy notice.

10. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ONLY

This supplementary information applies to all candidates for job openings at Warner Bros. Discovery referred to under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) for purposes of providing required notices.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS, METRICS, AND DISCLOSURES

This California Privacy Rights, Metrics, and Disclosure section addresses legal obligations and rights laid out in CCPA and other laws that apply only to California residents. These obligations and rights apply only to California residents and only to information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with California Workforce or their households (“California Information”). It does not apply to information that has been de-identified or aggregated as provided by CCPA.

CCPA Metrics

Regulations require us to provide disclosure of metrics for the previous calendar year regarding the requests by California residents. These metrics report the number of access, deletion and correction requests made, the number fulfilled in whole, or in part, and the number denied. That information can be found by navigating to the CCPA Metric Reporting page.

California Information We Collected

In the year before this section was last updated, we may have collected the following categories of California Information (each described further above under “Personal Information Collected”:

  • Address and other identifiers
  • Unique and online identifiers
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information
  • Biometrics
  • Categories of Personal Information described in California Civil Code § 1798.80
  • Characteristics of protected classifications under law
  • Professional or employment-related information
  • Education information
  • Audiovisual information
  • Geolocation information
  • California Sensitive Personal Information, which includes information revealing Social Security, passport, and other government identification numbers; account log-in and financial account numbers in combination with other information that may provide access to an account (such as log-in credentials for our information systems or direct deposit information); precise geolocation (such as through GPS trackers on company vehicles); racial or ethnic origin; contents of communications for which we are not the intended recipient (such as if an employee uses our information systems for personal communications); information concerning health; and biometric information processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual

Purposes for Collecting California Information

We may have collected, sold, or shared these categories of California Information for the following business or commercial purposes:

  • Performing services on behalf of the business – such as human resources and business process execution and management
  • Helping to ensure security and integrity, such as fraud and crime prevention
  • Debugging errors in networks and systems
  • Marketing and advertising, including targeted advertising
  • Internal research, analytics and development
  • Developing, maintaining, provisioning or upgrading networks, services, or devices
  • Auditing compliance with the CCPA and otherwise fulfilling our legal obligations

We retain California Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. This means that the retention periods will vary according to the type of Personal Information and the reason that we have this Personal Information. Generally, we hold California Information for a (except where applicable law only allows for a shorter period) and for a certain period after termination of employment or engagement.

Sources of California Information

We may have obtained California Information from a variety of sources, including:

  • Directly from you
  • Indirectly, such as through third-party platforms
  • Our affiliates
  • Our joint ventures and promotional and strategic partners
  • Other individuals submitting information about you – such as references and referrals, or our service providers and business partners involved in Personnel matters like recruitment
  • Publicly available sources

Disclosures of California Information:

In the year before this section was last updated, we may have disclosed the following categories of California Information to third parties:

  • Address and other identifiers
  • Unique and online identifiers
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information
  • Biometrics
  • Categories of Personal Information described in California Civil Code § 1798.80
  • Characteristics of protected classifications under law
  • Professional or employment-related information
  • Education information
  • Audiovisual information
  • Geolocation information
  • California Sensitive Personal Information, which includes information revealing Social Security, passport, and other government identification numbers; account log-in and financial account numbers in combination with other information that may provide access to an account (such as log-in credentials for our information systems or direct deposit information); precise geolocation (such as through GPS trackers on company vehicles); racial or ethnic origin; contents of communications for which we are not the intended recipient (such as if an employee uses our information systems for personal communications); information concerning health; and biometric information processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual

We may have disclosed each of these categories of California Information to the following categories of third parties:

  • Affiliates – These entities are associated with us through common ownership. For a list of affiliates, please visit the affiliates’ page.
  • Social Media Platforms – These entities maintain networks connecting individuals and organizations – such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter.
  • Advertising Partners – These entities help us advertise our products or services, as well as connect us with others who want to place advertisements on some of our products or services.
  • Analytics Partners – These entities help us collect data on how our products or services are used, so that we can improve them and better understand our consumers.
  • Service Providers – These entities Process information on our behalf for business purposes.
  • Other third parties to the extent necessary for purposes described in the Purposes for Collecting California Information section above, such as our agents and representatives, successors in interest, and as reasonably necessary to meet our legal obligations.

We may have disclosed each of these categories of California Information for the purposes described in the Purposes for Collecting California Information section.

Selling and Sharing

We do not disclose personal information to third parties in exchange for monetary consideration (e.g., cash payment). However, California law defines ‘sale’ very broadly. It includes the disclosure of personal information in exchange for anything of value. California law also defines “sharing” to mean disclosure of personal information for targeted advertising.

Applying these definitions, in the year before this section was last updated, we may have sold or shared the following categories of personal information to third parties:

  • Identifiers
  • Characteristics of protected classifications
  • Unique and other online identifiers
  • Customer Records and commercial information
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information
  • Biometric information
  • Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
  • Geolocation Data
  • Government identifiers
  • Health information
  • Inferences or audience segmentation
  • Sensitive Personal Information

We may have sold or shared each of these categories of personal information to the following categories of third parties:

  • Affiliates - For a list of affiliates, visit our affiliates page
  • Social Media Platforms
  • Advertising Partners
  • Analytics Partners
  • Promotional Partners

Your Right to Request Disclosure of California Information We Collect and Disclose About You

If you are a California resident, the CCPA grants you the right to request certain information about our practices with respect to California Information. In particular, you can request the following:

  • The categories and specific pieces of your California Information that we’ve collected
  • The categories of sources from which we collected California Information
  • The business or commercial purposes for which we collected or sold California Information
  • The categories of third parties to which we disclosed California Information

You can submit a request to us for the following additional information:

  • The categories of third parties to whom we’ve sold California Information, and the category or categories of California Information sold to each
  • The categories of third parties to whom we’ve disclosed California Information, and the category or categories of California Information disclosed to each

Your Right to Request the Deletion of California Information

Upon your request, we will delete the California Information we have collected about you, except for situations when that information is necessary for us to: provide you with a product or service that you requested; perform a contract we entered into with you; maintain the functionality or security of our systems; comply with or exercise rights provided by the law; or use the information internally in ways that are compatible with the context in which you provided the information to us, or that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us.

Your Right to Ask Us Not to Sell or Share Your California Information

You can tell us not to sell or share (defined by California law to mean that we have disclosed personal information to a third party in exchange for anything of value or for targeted online advertising based on your activities over time across other websites and applications), your personal information according to applicable law, by visiting our Do Not Sell or Share Page (https://www.warnermediaprivacy.com/do-not-sell-or-share-request/).

California has specific rules regarding the use of California Information from consumers under 16 years of age. In particular, if we knowingly collect the California Information of a consumer under the age of 16, we will not share or sell the information unless we receive affirmative permission to do so. If the consumer is between the ages of 13 and 16 years of age, the consumer may provide that permission; if the consumer is under the age of 13, the consumer’s parent or guardian must provide the permission.

As of the Effective Date of this State Supplement, we do not have actual knowledge that we share or sell personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.

Your Right to Limit Our Use of Your California Information for Targeted Advertising

You can ask us not to use your California Information for targeted online advertising, which means we will not use California Information collected by third parties from your activities over time across websites and applications we do not operate to present ads that we think will interest you. Even if you opt out of targeted ads, we will continue to collect and use data for purposes that are not related to targeted advertising, including research, analytics, and internal operations, and to serve you ads based on information we gain from your direct engagement with our content and products. To opt-out of targeted advertising, please visit our Opt-Out page (https://www.warnermediaprivacy.com/opt-out/).

Your Right to Request the Correction of California Information

Upon your request, we will correct (or provide methods for self-correction) of the California Information we have collected about you, taking into account the nature of the California Information and the purposes of the processing, except for situations when: there is a good-faith, reasonable, and documented belief that the request to correct is fraudulent or abusive; where we do not hold the information that is required to be corrected; or the request to correct has denied the same alleged inaccuracy within the past six months of receiving the request.

How to Exercise Your California Rights

You may exercise your rights to request access to your California Information, deletion of your California Information, or correction of your California Information by submitting a request here. You can also contact us at Employee Connections at (US): 818-954-4636 or (US Toll-Free): 888-875-4455 for additional assistance and an agent will assist you with submitting a request.

When you submit a request, you must provide information sufficient to verify you are the person about whom we collected California Information. We will ask you to provide an email address which we will use to contact you to confirm the request was not fraudulently submitted. For your security and protection, we may need to verify your identity via a phone call. We may ask you to submit additional documentation to verify your identity but we will only use this information for the purposes of verifying your identity for your request, security, or fraud-prevention, and not for any other purpose. That additional information will be deleted as soon as practical after verifying your identity.

You may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We will contact your authorized agent to confirm the request was not fraudulently submitted. We will then need to verify your authorized agent’s identity and that they are authorized by you to make the request on your behalf. To do so, we may ask your authorized agent to submit either (1) a valid and notarized power of attorney, or (2) a document of written permission authorizing your agent to act on your behalf, signed and notarized by both you and your agent. In the event your authorized agent is relying on a signed and notarized document of written permission from you, we may also need to verify your identity and/or contact you directly to confirm permission to proceed with the request. Once we have confirmed your authorized agent’s identity and authority to make a request on your behalf, we will start processing the request. Your agent should monitor their email inbox for communications and information during this process.

Your authorized agent can make a request by contacting us here or Employee Connections at (US): 818-954-4636 or (US Toll-Free): 888-875-4455.

Our Support for the Exercise of Your Data Rights

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment if you exercise any of the rights explained in this section of the Privacy Notice. We are committed to providing you control over your California Information, and we will not disadvantage you if you choose to exercise your rights.

11. CONTACT US

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: WMPrivacy@warnermedia.com.