Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement

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Effective Date: June 2012
Last Updated: January 1, 2023

Your privacy is important. This Privacy Statement explains how we, the Thomson Reuters group of companies, handle your personal information in connection with the website, application (including a mobile application), product, or service that links to this Privacy Statement and the administration of the employment relationship with our employees (we call these our “Services”). It applies generally to the following groups:

  • Customers and users (including prospective customers and users);
  • Employees;
  • Third party business partners; and
  • Other individuals who interact with us or whose personal information we maintain.

This Privacy Statement does not apply to any website, application, product, or service that links to its own privacy statement or that is offered by third parties, in which clicking on third party links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect, use, or share data about you. We encourage you to read their respective privacy statements.

Who is Thomson Reuters and how can I contact you?

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian corporation, and the Thomson Reuters group of companies is made up of numerous legal entities with offices located across the globe. Please see our full list of locations here.

Thomson Reuters acts as a controller of your personal information where we determine how and why personal information can be used, and the Thomson Reuters company that provides the specific Service (as identified therein) is the primary controller of your personal information. This Privacy Statement, however, does not apply where we act as a processor or service provider to another controller (such as our customers).

Any comments, complaints, or questions may be emailed to privacy.issues@thomsonreuters.com or mailed to or Chief Compliance Officer and Data Protection Officer: Thomson Reuters, c/o Chief Compliance Officer, Landis + Gyr-Strasse 3, 6300 Zug, Switzerland.

What personal information do you collect and process?

Generally, we collect, use, disclose and process personal information in the following categories:

Category

Examples

Name & Contact Information

Name, address, phone number, social media user ID, email address

Account Information

Account ID, User ID, account profile, settings and preferences, purchase history, subscriptions, and registrations

Security Information

User credentials (username and password) and similar security information, individual network activity in security and audit logs

Billing & Payment Information

Payment and payment card information or bank account information, billing contact details, ship to and bill to information

User Contributions & User Content

Personal information in content and communications uploaded, sent, shared, or inputted through our Services or via our networks and infrastructure, including feedback you provide to us and the content of communications between you and us or sent via our network and Services

Device & Browser Information

Network and internet service provider (ISP) information, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, device and browser identifiers, device and browser information, advertising identifiers, cookie/tracker identifiers and related information

Usage and Browsing Information

Usage, search, and browsing history, user journey history (including clicks, navigation, user actions, interactions, and session replays), usage and diagnostics analytics and metrics, including on our Services and on our internal networks and corporate devices by employees, contractors, and site visitors.

Location Data

Region, country, state, and coarse and precise geolocation data

Demographic Information

Age, date of birth, marriage status, gender, physical characteristics, military status, political, religious, or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, union membership

Pictures, audio, video recordings

Pictures, audio recordings, video recordings, including footage from CCTV and other security cameras used at our locations and events

Inferences from Personal Information

Profiles reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Career, Education, and Organization Information

Affiliated organizations (such as employer, industry associations, or licensing bodies) and status, position and title, information about colleagues and contacts, career and education history, professional certifications and licenses, employee identification number, employee record (including performance and compensation information), job application information

Background Checks

Information from background checks, including criminal history

Health, Benefits, and Insurance Information

Enrollment and participation in insurance or benefits programs, personal information of beneficiaries, family members, emergency contacts, or dependents, medical records, disability information

Identity Information

Government identification, governmental identifiers (such as tax identifiers, social security or national insurance numbers, and passport or driver’s license numbers)

Financial Information

Financial status, tax returns and related information, financial filings, credit standing, payroll and related information

Legal Information

Legal status, immigrations status, legal court cases and proceedings, governmental records, personal property or real estate records, liens & judgments, death records, public filings, driving records, licenses and registrations, and criminal information (such as arrests, charges, convictions, and incarceration records)

(For California residents, our required disclosures under CCPA/CPRA are as described in our California Statement.)

A note on children’s online privacy.
Our online Services provide information solutions intended for professionals and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of sixteen (16).

How do you collect personal information?

  • Direct Interactions: You provide your personal information when you interact with us, such as when you register for Services, fill in forms, communicate with us, apply for jobs, and work for us.

  • User Contributions: We collect your personal information when you or others upload, share, send, or input that information through our Services or networks, or when you or they communicate with us.

  • Automatically: We automatically collect personal information about you when you interact with us, such as when use our Services, visit our offices or events, open emails or view advertisements from us, or communicate with us. We may collect some of this personal information by using cookies and other similar technologies, and we recommend you review our Cookie & IBA Statement for more information.

  • Third Party or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive your personal information from third parties, such as our third party business partners (including data brokers and advertising partners), your organizations, governmental agencies who publish public records, and other publicly or generally available sources (including online websites).

How do you use personal information?

This section includes details of the purposes for which we use personal information and the different legal reasons (also called legal basis) for processing that personal information.

Purpose

Legal Basis

  • To fulfil our contractual obligations, including to register your account and provide our Services and to fulfill our obligations as an employer

  • Communicate with you about our Services and process related transactions

  • For any purpose with your consent or to follow your instructions

  • Our performance of a contract

  • As outlined in your consents or instructions

  • To operate, improve, and/or personalize our Services, corporate networks and devices, offices, events, and related infrastructure

  • Develop new products, services, content, and other offerings

  • Monitor the usage of our Services, corporate networks and devices, offices, events, and related infrastructure

  • Audit usage of our Services, corporate networks and devices, offices, events, and related infrastructure, including consumer interactions

  • Ensure the security of our Services, corporate networks and devices, offices, events, and related infrastructure

  • Detect fraud and abuse, including for our Services, corporate networks and devices, offices, events, and related infrastructure

  • Manage our internal operations (such as account administration, corporate asset deployment, billing, troubleshooting, repair)

  • Our performance of a contract

  • As outlined in your consents or instructions

  • To pursue legitimate interests

  • Provide our Services to third parties where our Services and content includes your personal information. Under some local privacy laws, this may constitute a “sale” of personal information.

  • Our performance of a contract

  • As outlined in your consents or instructions

  • To pursue legitimate interests

  • Send you personalized and interest-based advertising and marketing

  • Improve and develop new marketing campaigns, segments, and materials

  • To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition, or complete a survey

  • As outlined in your consents or instructions

  • To pursue legitimate interests

  • Manage the applicant and employee relationship (such as for the application process, background checks, onboarding process, employee management)

  • Provide, manage, and/or improve the benefits made available to employees

  • To improve our employee experience

  • Communicate with you regarding recruiting and alumni purposes, as well as human resources administration

  • Our performance of a contract

  • As outlined in your consents or instructions

  • To pursue legitimate interests

  • Exercise our rights and/or protect our or others’ rights or property

  • Effectuate the sale, merger, acquisition, or other disposition of our business

  • Advance our other commercial and economic interests as permitted by law

  • For other purposes as required by or permitted by law

  • To pursue legitimate interests

  • To comply with our legal obligations

  • To protect your vital interests or those of another person

Who do you share personal information with?

  • Your organizations and contacts.

  • Affiliates within the Thomson Reuters group of companies.

  • Third party business partners that support our business, such as our content and other partners, vendors and subcontractors, analytics providers, advertising and marketing agencies, credit agencies, and other third parties we engage.

  • Third parties to market their products or services to you.

  • Third party customers and users where the Services and content includes your personal information, such as when we aggregate information from various public and private sources to create listings, reports, profiles, and directories (like attorney and legal professional directories), in which this content may be made available to all users of those Services. Under some local privacy laws, this may constitute a “sale” of personal information.

  • With governmental agencies and third parties involved in our sale or purchase of a business or assets, including in connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, or other disposition of assets.

  • With law enforcement, government agencies, or other third parties in order to comply with any law, court order, legal request, or other legal process, as well as to enforce our agreements or protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, employees, customers, or others (including for the purposes of cybersecurity, fraud protection, and credit risk reduction).

  • With others when necessary to fulfill your consents or to follow your instructions.

Where do you store personal information?

As described above, we are a global organization so your personal information may be transferred outside of your home country and may be stored in and accessed from multiple countries, including the United States. When you interact with us, you authorize us to transfer your personal information outside of your home country and you acknowledge the risk that we may transfer your personal information to countries that may provide less protection than your home country’s privacy laws and we may not be able to prevent government authorities in some countries from accessing your personal information.

What steps do you take to secure personal information?

We work to implement technical and organizational measures designed to protect the security of personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. The security of your information also depends on you: you are responsible for using unique, strong usernames and passwords for each of your accounts, and for keeping those usernames and passwords confidential. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or cybersecurity measures contained on our Services, and any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.

How long do you retain personal information?

We retain personal information as required by our enterprise records retention schedule, which varies by Service, business function, country, record classes, and record types. We calculate the retention period based upon the time the personal information is needed to: (a) fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, (b) meet the timelines required or recommended by regulators, professional bodies, or associations, (c) comply with applicable laws, legal holds, and other legal obligations (including contractual obligations), and (d) comply with your requests.

What rights do I have over my personal information?

Your local privacy laws may grant you rights with respect to your personal information, and we will not knowingly discriminate against you because you have exercised any of your privacy rights. These rights differ based on the local laws that apply to you, but could include one or more of the following:

  • Right to confirm we process your personal information and, if so, to access, correct, complete, object to or restrict the processing of, and delete certain personal information we hold about you, including the rights to receive your personal information in a portable copy. To submit a request, you can contact us through our Data Subject Rights Portal.
  • To opt-out of marketing emails from us, in which you may email us or click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email that you receive from us.
  • Nevada and Virginia residents and, beginning on July 1, 2023, Colorado and Connecticut residents and, beginning on December 31, 2023, Utah residents may also have the right to opt-out of the use of their personal information for targeted advertising (including online behavior advertising) and/or opt-out of the sale of their personal information by clicking this “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link or calling us at 1-866-633-7656.

California residents may have the rights as described in our California Statement; and requests for our Public Records Products can be submitted as described in our Public Records Privacy Statement.

IMPORTANT: These rights are not absolutely guaranteed and there are several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request. We are only required to honor these rights to the extent we act as a controller of that data and the requested rights have been granted and apply to you under applicable data protection laws. Please consult your local data protection laws to determine what rights may be available to you and when access to these rights is limited. You may appeal an adverse decision on your requests by emailing or writing to us; and you have the right to lodge a complaint to your local regulator if you are not satisfied with our responses to your requests or how we manage your personal information. However, we encourage you to first contact us so we can address your concerns directly.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement is expected to change over time. We reserve the right to update it at any time, for any reason. We will notify you of changes to our Privacy Statement by updating the “Last Updated” date and posting the updated Privacy Statement on this page. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and terms and conditions, but you should check our Services frequently to see the current Privacy Statement and any changes made to it.

If there are any differences between the English version of our Privacy Statement and a version translated in another language, the English version controls.

Supplemental Privacy Statements

Depending on the specific Service you are using or specific interactions you have with us (such as when you apply for a job or work for us), we may provide different or supplemental privacy statements that describe and govern how we use your personal information. When we do so, those different or supplemental privacy statements apply to that specific Service or those specific interactions. Of note, please review these supplemental privacy statements:

  • For our Risk & Fraud Prevention products (we call these our “Public Records Products”), including Westlaw Public Records and CLEAR), please review our supplemental Public Records Privacy Statement.
  • For more information on our use of cookies and other automated technologies as well as interest-based advertising, please review our Cookie & IBA Statement.

Supplemental Privacy Statement for California consumers under CCPA/CPRA 

This Supplemental Privacy Statement for California Consumers under CCPA/CPRA (“California Statement”) supplements our Privacy Statement and further explains required disclosures about how we collect, disclose, and sell the personal information of California consumers and the rights that California consumers may have under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA/CPRA”) where we act as a business under CCPA/CPRA. When we use the term “personal information” in this California Statement, we are using that term as CCPA/CPRA defines it, which generally means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. However, personal information does not include publicly available, deidentified, or aggregate consumer information (which are all defined in CCPA/CPRA). 

What categories of personal information do you collect and who do you share it with or sell it to?

In general, the categories of personal information we collect, sources of that information, business and commercial purposes for why we collect and use it, and who we share it with, as well as our personal information retention practices, are as outlined in our Privacy Statement.

California law, however, requires we restate some of this information for specific categories that are defined in CCPA/CPRA. The type of personal information we collect and how we handle that personal information, including if we share or sell that personal information, depends on how you are specifically interacting with us and which Services you are inquiring about. In general, we have collected, disclosed for a business purpose, and sold the following categories of personal information and sensitive personal information from California consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Categories of Personal Information Collected

Category of Personal Information

Examples as Defined in CCPA/CPRA

Collected

A. Identifiers

Real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.


B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)

Name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).

D. Commercial information

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

E. Biometric information

Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

F. Internet or other similar network activity

Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

G. Geolocation data

Physical location or movements.

H. Sensory data

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

I. Professional or employment-related information

Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information

Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

L. Sensitive personal information

Social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; user name, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin; religious or philosophical beliefs; union membership; genetic data; contents of consumer’s mail, email, and text messages unless Thomson Reuters is the intended recipient of the communication; processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer; and personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health, sex life, or sexual orientation.


Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for a Business Purpose

Category of Personal Information

Disclosed

A. Identifiers

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

D. Commercial information

E. Biometric information

F. Internet or other similar network activity

G. Geolocation data

H. Sensory data

I. Professional or employment-related information

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information

L. Sensitive personal information


Categories of Personal Information Sold

Category of Personal Information

Sold

A. Identifiers

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute, Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law

D. Commercial information

E. Biometric information

F. Internet or other similar network activity

G. Geolocation data

H. Sensory data

I. Professional or employment-related information

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information

L. Sensitive personal information

Your privacy rights

If you are a California consumer, you may have one or more of the following rights under CCPA/CPRA:

  • Right to confirm we process your personal information and, if so, to request we disclose to you: (1) the categories of personal information we collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; (4) the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information; and (5) the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

  • Right to access (which may include a portable copy), correct, complete, or delete specific pieces of personal information we hold about you.

  • Right to limit our use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information.

  • Right to opt-out of the sale of personal information, as sale is defined under CCPA/CPRA.

  • Right to opt-out of the sharing of personal information, as sharing is defined under CCPA/CPRA.

  • Right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under CCPA/CPRA

  • Additionally, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 may permit you the right to request information regarding the personal information about you we disclose to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

To make a request, you can contact us through our Data Subject Rights Portal, by emailing us at privacy.issues@thomsonreuters.com, or by calling us at 1-866-633-7656. Requests to opt-out of the sale and sharing of personal information can also be submitted by clicking this “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information and Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” link.

Please provide us enough information to verify your identify. We will use information you provide to us to verify your request. If we cannot initially verify your identity, we may request additional information to complete the verification process, such as, for example, a copy of your driver’s license and/or a recent utility or credit card bill. You can designate an agent to make a request on your behalf by either: (1) having your agent send us a letter, signed by you, certifying that the agent is acting on your behalf and showing proof that they are registered with the California Secretary of State; or (2) by you and the agent executing and sending us a notarized power of attorney stating that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf. Please note that we may still require you to verify your identity before we process a request submitted by your agent.

IMPORTANT: These rights are not absolutely guaranteed and there are several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request. We are only required to honor these rights to the extent that we act as a business/controller under CCPA/CPRA and the requested rights have been granted and apply to you under CCPA/CPRA. Please consult CCPA/CPRA to determine what rights may be available to you and when access to these rights is limited. You may appeal an adverse decision on your requests by emailing or writing to us; and you have the right to lodge a complaint to the California Attorney General if you are not satisfied with our responses to your requests or how we manage your personal information. However, we encourage you to first contact us so we can address your concerns directly.

CCPA Consumer Request Metrics for 2022

This California Statement was last updated on January 1, 2023.


Cookie & IBA Statement

This Cookie & IBA Statement supplements our Privacy Statement and specifically explains how we and our third-party business partners deploy cookies and other tracking technologies (which we call “Tracking Technologies”), including for interest-based advertising (IBA), as well as the options you have to control them.

What are cookies and other tracking technologies?

 “Cookies” are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your browser, computer, or other device. The cookies we use may include “flash cookies” (or “local shared objects”) and “HTML5 cookies” that store information on your device (outside of your browser) and are specific to content supported by Adobe® Flash or HTML5. We and our third-party business partners may also use other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” (also known as “tags” and “pixels”) which are small images embedded in our Services, content, or emails, as well as “embedded scripts” which are pieces of code that are temporarily downloaded onto your device. These other tracking technologies are often used in conjunction with cookies, but may be stored on your device in a different manner from cookies so disabling cookies may not also disable these tracking technologies.

These Tracking Technologies may be operated and set by us (known as “first party trackers”) or by our third party business partners, such as social media networks, advertising networks, and content providers, (known as “third party trackers”); and can be set either for a single visit (through a “session tracker”) so they are deleted after that visit or remain on your device to persist for multiple repeat visits (through a “persistent tracker”).

Why do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?

We use Tracking Technologies for several different purposes: these technologies are widely used to remember you and your preferences and understand how you interact with us so that we may perform essential functions (such as to provide our Services or deliver content and allow users to register and remain logged in), personalize our Services and content and ensure a quality, consistent, and efficient experience for our users, analyze your usage of our Services and interactions with content (including emails), and to deliver and measure advertising (including IBA).

How can you control the use of Tracking Technologies?

You may wish to restrict the use of cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most modern browsers allow you to change your cookie and other tracker settings, and you can usually find these settings in the options or preferences menu of your browser. Flash cookies can only be deleted within Adobe Flash rather than via your browser, and please refer to this Adobe help page for information on how to manage Flash cookies. Additionally, you can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on.

You may also see a “cookie banner” on some of our Services, which allows you to manage our use of cookies and other Tracking Technologies – click on the banner for more information regarding which cookies are used on that particular Service and what you may disable, but please note that you cannot disable any Tracking Technologies that are categorized as strictly necessary.

Please be aware that some of the features of our Services may not function correctly if you disable all cookies or other technologies.

Do you honor Do Not Track Signals?

Generally, we do not currently respond to, or take any action with respect to web browser “do not track” signals; however, in some instances, our third party business partners who integrate within our Services will honor do not track signals.

What is Interest-Based Advertising?

Interest-based advertising” (IBA) is also commonly referred to as “targeted advertising”, “online behavioral advertising”, and “personalized advertising”, and it generally means the delivery of personalized or targeted advertising to you that are tailored to your specific interests and demographics. IBA may also include analytics and reporting related to those advertisements (such as ad measurement and attribution, segmentation, and market research).

We may send you IBA based on the use of Tracking Technologies and other information you make available to us when you interact with our Services, our content, and our advertisements. We engage various third party business partners to serve you IBA and we may share with those third party business partners certain information about you and our Tracking Technologies to do so. Some of these third parties will deploy their own Tracking Technologies on our Services and content when doing so, in which they automatically receive your IP address, browser or device information, and other information from these Tracking Technologies. Some of our third party business partners (and their business partners) may also use or provide us with additional information about you that they have independently collected, from offline and online sources, to better target and provide you with more relevant and useful advertising. Some of these third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites. Please note that we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, and their privacy practices are not covered by this Privacy Statement.

How can you opt-out of IBA?

In addition to the above, you may also be able to choose not to receive IBA from participating companies that participate in either:

  • The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), in which you may opt-out of IBA using this DAA tool; and/or

  • The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), in which you may opt-out of IBA using this NAI Opt Out Tool and, for those in the EU/EEA, this tool; and/or

  • The AppChoices App for opting out on mobile devices.

Certain mobile devices may have an advertising identifier that allows companies to serve IBA to a specific mobile device using that identifier. Depending on your specific device, you may be able to limit advertising, sharing of that advertising identifier, or reset the advertising identifier, as well as choose to turn off the device’s location tracking – including precise geolocation tracking – on your mobile device or for certain applications. See your device manufacturer to understand what options are available to you. For more details on your choices regarding use of your web browsing activity for IBA you may also visit the following sites: networkadvertising.org, optout.aboutads.info, youradchoices.com, and youronlinechoices.eu.

Next, some of our Services may also display Do Not Sell My Personal Information or Do Not Share My Personal Information links (or similarly named links), in which clicking those links may allow you to opt-out of the “sharing” or “selling” of your personal information as required by certain local privacy laws. Doing so may limit the manner in which we and our third party business partners may use your personal information in connection with IBA.

Please note that some of the options described above are browser-specific or device-specific, so you may need to opt-out again if you use a different device or change browsers. Please also note that, even if you opt-out of receiving IBA, you may still receive advertisements and marketing materials, but they may not be personalized to you specifically.

This Cookie & IBA Statement was last updated on January 1, 2023.


Informational Content Privacy Statement

1. Introduction

As a global business information services company, we proudly distribute informational content within our Services. This Informational Content Privacy Statement supplements the above Privacy Statement and further explains how we distribute and curate this informational content as part of our Services.

2. Why does Thomson Reuters publish informational content?

Thomson Reuters publishes various types of content, such as statutes, laws, regulations, rules, court cases, opinions, expert analysis, articles, forms, public records, treatise, dictionaries, and many other types of information, that we believe have professional and jurisprudential value for our customers or the general public.

3. How does Thomson Reuters obtain informational content?

Thomson Reuters obtains informational content in a number of ways – sometimes we purchase or license the content from others, sometimes we receive the content pursuant to a contract where we are required to curate and distribute the content, sometimes we commission the content ourselves, and sometimes the content is collected from a number of public sources, like public records, journalistic sources, and information in the public domain. Any personal information contained in informational content that is subsequently distributed by Thomson Reuters originates from the original text of the informational content.

4. How does Thomson Reuters curate informational content?

In addition to distributing the informational content, Thomson Reuters curates the content – in other words, Thomson Reuters prepares and provides summaries, metadata, or other related information concerning the original content. For example, reported cases in our legal products might include a headnote, key cite, and other metadata, as well as the original full-text court case. In many cases, Thomson Reuters prepares the curation of the content. Any personal information contained in the curation is derived from personal information included in the original information content supplied by the source of that content.

5. Does Thomson Reuters edit or change the substances of the original information content?

Except for clerical/typographical errors and format changes in compliance with editorial house styles and except as directed by source of the original information content, Thomson Reuters does not edit or change the substance of the original information content in most cases.

6. What if I want to change or delete my personal information contained in the information content or just want the informational content removed?

In many cases, we are not the source of the information content and Thomson Reuters is not obliged to change or delete the substance of the original content including any personal information unless we receive a verified request from the source of the information content, such as, for example, a court order from the court that issued the court case in the first place.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the substance of any informational content or your personal information as contained in that information content, please contact the source of the informational content and work with them directly to resolve your questions or concerns.

This Informational Content Privacy Statement was last updated on January 1, 2023.