Your Privacy Choices — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Montana Residents Only
Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information or Sharing or Processing of Personal Information for Targeted Ads
If you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Montana, or Texas resident, you may opt out of certain processing of your personal information, including for targeted advertising, under applicable law. Targeted advertising is when we or our partners display ads to you based on your personal information that is collected across different businesses.
As explained in our Privacy Policy, the Washington Post and our advertising partners collect certain information from our visitors, such as device identifiers, cookies, advertising IDs, IP addresses and usage activity. We and our partners share this information with third parties or combine it with information from other businesses to deliver more relevant (targeted) ads to you and for related advertising activities. We may also share or use hashed contact information for this purpose. This activity is known as “sharing” or processing your personal information for targeted ads and may be considered “selling” your personal information under applicable law.
You can opt out of this activity for cookies and other identifiers by turning the toggle off (grey); to opt out for your contact information you must also log in below. Even if you opt out, you will still see advertising, it just may be less relevant to you, or it may be personalized for you based only on the data that the Washington Post has collected about you.
Unless you sign in, you must opt out on each device and each browser where you want your choice to apply. Your preference may be lost if you clear or your browser is set to clear cookies. To save your preference everywhere you get The Washington Post, please sign in to your account.
We also use LiveIntent to deliver personalized ads in some of our email newsletters. To manage the data that LiveIntent may use to display email ads to you, please visit LiveIntent here. You can also visit LiveIntent's Ad Choices page. You must exercise your preferences through LiveIntent because we do not store LiveIntent preferences in your Washington Post account.
If you have enabled a legally recognized browser-based opt out preference signal (such as Global Privacy Control) on your browser, we recognize such preference in accordance and to the extent required by applicable law. You will need to turn this on for each browser you use. To learn more about the GPC, visit the Global Privacy Control website.
- Even if you opt out through a method above, we can still deliver ads to you, including contextual ads or ads based on our first-party data about you; conduct cross-device tracking to serve you first-party ads directly, or use information for non-targeted ad purposes.
- These rights only apply to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Montana, Oregon, and Texas residents, if we reasonably determine you are not a resident of one of these states, your selection may be reset.
- We may still disclose personal information as permitted by law, including with our service providers to help us perform certain functions such as analytics, providing and securing ads, and/or reducing ad fraud.
- The above choices will not opt you out of the use of previously shared information or, unless you browser-based opt out, targeted ads conducted on other sites. To learn more about interest-based advertising across sites and additional opt-out choices, visit DAA WebChoices Browser Check, NAI’s Opt-Out of Internet-Based Advertising, and the AppChoices app.
If you have any other questions or requests, please contact us.