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Medium collects a broad range of personal data including reading history, payment information, device and location data, and data from linked third-party accounts such as Google or Facebook, and shares this data with analytics providers, advertising partners, and potential acquirers. EU and California residents have legally supported rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict their data, while users in other jurisdictions have fewer guaranteed protections under this policy. You can submit a data access or deletion request by contacting Medium at privacy@medium.com.
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We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets.
In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring entity or successor as part of that transaction. We will notify you of any such change in ownership or control of your per...
We may share and/or transfer customer information in connection with the sale or merger of our business or assets (subject to local laws). Also, if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control.
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"If Medium is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.— Excerpt from Medium's Medium Privacy Policy
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