TV Privacy Policy

Hubbard Television Group Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 14, 2025

Any users located within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) are prohibited from using our Platforms.  For avoidance of doubt, the Hubbard Television Group (defined below) Platforms are not intended for users located within the EEA.

This is the Privacy Policy for the email newsletters, websites,  mobile apps, and other digital experiences (“Platforms”) operated by KSTP-TV, LLC, KSTC-TV, LLC, WDIO-TV, LLC, KAAL-TV, LLC, KOB-TV, LLC, WNYT-TV, LLC and WHEC-TV, LLC  (collectively, “Hubbard Television Group,”  “our,” “us,” or “we”).  Your privacy is important to us, and we provide this Privacy Policy regarding our collection, use and disclosure practices to help you to make informed decisions regarding use of our Platforms, and exercising choices regarding our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information on our Platforms.

Please see the “Your U.S. State Privacy Rights” section of this Privacy Policy for more information about these rights and how to exercise them.

This Privacy Policy is subject to the Hubbard Television Group’s Terms of Use.

1. What Categories of Personal Information Do We Collect?

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following information:

  • Identifiers and Contact Information.  Such as name, email address, and phone number.
  • Device Information.  Along with the information you give us directly, we collect a variety of information automatically as you use our Platforms. Like other websites and apps, we collect data about the browsers and devices you use to access our Platforms.  The data we collect includes browser or device model and settings, operating system, IP address, unique identifiers assigned to a device or browser, and the version of the app you’re using.
  • Location Information.  For users of our mobile apps, we collect location information from you when you consent or enable our collection of that information via your device settings.
  • Usage Data.  We also collect data about how your browsers and devices interact with our services, crash reports, system activity, viewing preferences, and other information about your interactions with content offered through our Platforms, as well as   the date, time, and the URL of the site you visited before our Platforms.  If you access our Platforms from a mobile or other device, we may also collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, geolocation data (including your precise location), or other usage information for that device.
  • Communications with us.   We collect information about your interactions with us on our Platforms and social media channels, including via chatbot and live chat. By accessing or using any of these communication features, you agree that we may record and retain a transcript of all communications with you. We may also work with trusted service providers to analyze, store, and use this data on our behalf.
  • User-Generated Content. Such as comments, questions, feedback, or information that you choose to provide when you participate in forums or discussions, post comments and reviews, or otherwise submit information to the Platforms. Please be aware that information you post may be viewed, used, or captured by anyone who visits the Platforms; therefore, you should avoid posting sensitive information that you would not want to be available to the public.
  • Survey Information: When you participate in a survey, we collect the responses that you provide either directly or through third parties.
  • Sweepstakes Information.  When you win a sweepstakes or a contest, we collect your age, date of birth, mailing address and social security number in order to fulfill the prize and comply with our legal obligations.
  • Inferences. We use the pieces of personal information collected about you, including data about your activity, to understand and infer your preferences. Inferences may be used to improve our Platforms and make them more useful to you.

Some of the information described above may be considered “sensitive” under the laws of certain jurisdictions (e.g., social security numbers and precise location information) (“Sensitive Information”).

2. How Do We Collect Personal Information? 

  • From you. This includes personal information we collect when you view or consume content, sign up to receive marketing information or newsletters from us, post on our Platforms, link to our social media pages, enter our various sweepstakes and contests, provide your information to us at live events, contact us, or submit a news tip, video, or photo.
  • From third parties and publicly available sources. This includes personal information we collect from other public sources, including, but not limited to, websites that enable social sharing, social media sites, and websites from our service providers, vendors, our affiliates, or other individuals and businesses.
  • From devices you use when you interact with us online. This includes information collected automatically through technologies such as cookies and pixels, which are placed on your device when you interact with our Platforms. For more information about this, please see our “Cookies and similar technologies” section below.

3. How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following reasons, depending on your relationship with us:

  • To provide the Platforms to you and to fulfill your requests for our services, including to maintain our Platforms, troubleshoot, provide customer and technical support.
  • To understand how you interact with our Platforms and to provide you with an interactive online experience, including through personalized or localized Platform experiences and content recommendations.
  • To market and develop the Platforms, and other products and services including to conduct data analysis, test and research, and better understand the interests of our customers, listeners, and Platform visitors.
  • To communicate with you, such as when we respond to your inquiries.
  • To offer you other programs, services or products that we believe may be of interest to you.
  • To serve you targeted advertising or content, including if you give your email address to us or our Advertising Partners e.g., by signing into our website using a third-party account), us or our Advertising Partners may use a “hashed” version of your email address to deliver tailored ads to you on our Platforms or on other websites. Hashing is a process that replaces directly identifying information with a string of numbers and characters.
  • To maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Platforms. We may also use your information to monitor, detect, and prevent fraud and improper or illegal activity.
  • To debug our systems, to secure our online services, including our network and websites, and to debug our online services.
  • To send you news and/or marketing communications (by email, phone, or text) subject to your marketing preferences and choices, including information about us or third-party offerings we think may be of interest to you.
  • To conduct market research and develop quality assurance, including to study, develop, and improve our products and services. We may also aggregate and/or de-identify personal information we collect and use it for any purpose, including product development and improvement activities. We do not attempt to re-identify de-identified data, except as permitted or required by law.
  • To comply with legal requirements and/or to investigate or address claims or disputes relating to your use of the Platforms. This would include the use of your information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to defend ourselves in litigation and investigations, and to prosecute litigations.
  • We may combine information we receive online from you with records from other sources to help us with the purposes described above.

We use your Sensitive Information as follows:

We use your social security number solely in connection with fulfilling our obligations to sweepstakes and contest winners.

When you allow us to collect precise location information in our mobile apps, we use that information to provide you with location-based services, such as information about the weather.  We may also use your location information to deliver localized ads to you.

4. Who Do We Disclose Personal Information To:

We may disclose personal information collected from or about you to any of the following entities and for the following purposes:

  • Service Providers. We provide personal information to vendors, customer support vendors, payment processors, contractors, business and service partners who provide services to us that allow us to provide the Platform to you. Service Providers are only permitted to use your personal information to provide the Services, for internal purposes, and to comply with their legal obligations.
  • Advertising Partners.  Our Advertising Partners help us deliver personalized ads to you on the Platform, as well as on other websites and apps.  We allow our Advertising Partners to collect your personal information using cookies and similar technologies.  If you sign-in to the Platform using a third-party service (such as Google), our Advertising Partners may also capture a hashed version of your email address, which they use to provide their services to us, as well as to their other customers.  We disclose the following categories of personal information to our Advertising Partners: hashed Identifiers; Device Information; Location Information; Usage Data and Inferences.
  • Microsoft. We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement. To opt-out of Microsoft’s use of your data for advertising go to:https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286759
  • Collaborators. We may share personal information with collaborators with whom we jointly develop or promote our services, including sponsorships and co-branded opportunities, contests, and promotions. We disclose the following categories of personal information to our Advertising Partners: Identifiers and Contact Information; Location Information, and Sweepstakes Information.
  • Government, regulatory, or law enforcement agencies. We reserve the right to disclose your information to respond to valid information requests from government authorities and judicial requests, to investigate potential fraud, or where otherwise required by law. We may disclose your personal information where we believe the disclosure is necessary or appropriate to comply with regulatory or legal requirements, or to protect the safety, rights, or property of ourselves and others and to exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.
  • In connection with a merger, acquisition, or business transfer. If we sell all or a part of our company, or are part of a merger, consolidation, restructuring, and/or sale of assets or other corporate change, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
  • At your direction. We may disclose your personal information at your direction or with your consent.
  • The General Public. We may share personal information with the general public if you choose to share personal information when contributing content to our Platforms through a forum, blog, social feature, or the like.
  • Other Sharing. We may disclose your personal information in an aggregated or non-identifying form or otherwise in a form that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

5. Cookies and Similar Technology

We and our Advertising Partners use various tools to collect data when you visit our Platform, including cookies, pixels, local Storage, and other similar technologies. Some of these technologies store data in the browser or on your device. Other technologies may use network-related or other information to recognize your device (e.g., IP address). Our Platforms use these technologies, for example, when you first request a web page and data is then stored on your computer or other device so the website or mobile application can access personal information when you make subsequent requests for pages from that Platform. These technologies may also be used to collect and store information about your usage of the Platforms, such as pages you have visited, other content you viewed, and search history.

We and our Advertising Partners may also use these technologies to gather personal information about how you view and use our Platforms and content and to connect your activity with other data we store about you. We and our Advertising Partners may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The use of these technologies helps us serve you better by understanding what you are interested in, tracking trends, measuring the effectiveness of ads, saving your preferences, and storing information you may want to retrieve on a regular basis. We also allow specific, approved Advertising Partners to collect data from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own similar tools. The Help section of your browser may tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting these technologies, such as cookies. To find out more about cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

This Platform is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Platform, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

6. Notice Regarding Nielsen Market Research and Measurements.

Our Platforms may feature Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, such as Nielsen Ratings. To learn more about the information that Nielsen software may collect and your choices with regard to it, see the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Policy at http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy. To opt out or opt back into Nielsen Measurement, click here.

7. Your Choices

You can opt out of receiving our marketing communications. We may periodically send promotional materials or notifications related to our Platforms. If you no longer wish to receive promotional marketing materials from us, you may opt out of receiving such materials. You may unsubscribe from receiving marketing or other commercial emails from us by following the instructions included in the email. Please allow time for your request to be implemented.

You may unsubscribe from text messages you previously consented to by following the prompt provided on our messages. We will work to comply with your request promptly.

There are certain service notifications and other non-promotional emails that you may not opt out of, such as notifications of changes to our Platforms or policies.

You can control certain cookies and tracking tools. Below, we have described various ways you can control or delete cookies.

  • Your browser or device may give you the ability to control cookies or other tracking tools. How you do so depends on the browser. The following links offer instructions for certain browsers: Chrome; Firefox; Internet Explorer / Edge; Opera; Safari.
  • Depending on the make and model of your phone, you may be able to use device settings to opt out of the use of certain device IDs for targeted advertising.
  • To control flash cookies, you can go here. Why? Because flash cookies cannot be controlled through your browser settings.
  • The Digital Advertising Alliance offers tools to opt out of certain interest-based advertising by visiting https://optout.aboutads.info/ and https://optout.privacyrights.info. Please note that you may continue to receive generic ads that are not based on your preferences.
  • We use Google Analytics on our Services, and to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google, go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

If you block or reject cookies and tracking tools, certain features on our Platform may not work, and not all of the tracking described in this Privacy Policy will stop. Certain options you select are browser and device-specific and are deleted whenever you clear your browser’s cache.

Some browsers permit the user to send a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) preference to websites that the user visits, indicating that the user does not wish to be tracked over time and across websites.  Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret DNT, we do not currently respond to the DNT signal on our websites.

8. Your U.S. State Privacy Rights

Hubbard Television Group runs local television in a limited number of U.S. markets, some of which provide additional rights for their residents.  Residents of Minnesota who interact with the Platforms provided by our stations based in Minnesota have the following rights (each of which is subject to various exceptions and limitations):

  • Access. You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we are processing your personal information and to receive access to the categories of personal information that we are processing about you. You also have the right to receive a list of the specific third parties with whom we share personal information.
  • Correction. You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information collected from you.
  • Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information that we maintain about you.
  • Opt-Out of Sale/Targeted Advertising. You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information and the use of your personal information for targeted advertising.
  • No Discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
  • Appeals. If we deny your request to exercise one of the rights above, you have the right to appeal that request.
  • Submission of Requests.
    • Access, Correction, and Deletion: You may request to exercise the above rights to access, correct, and delete your personal information by submitting a request through the linked form at https://hubbardbroadcasting.com/data-request/. You may also submit a request via email at datarequests@hbi.com. Note that we may deny certain requests, or fulfill a request only in part, based on our legal rights and obligations. For example, we may retain personal information as permitted by law, such as for tax or other purposes.
  • Targeted Advertising/Sale: If you would like to opt out of sale/ targeted advertising, you may do so in the footer or settings menu of the Platform by selecting the Cookie Preferences link.

We also honor the Global Privacy Control, a browser-based opt-out signal. We do not respond to other browser-based signals that do not meet applicable state law requirements, which may include older Do Not Track signals.

Authorized Agents. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. When submitting the request, please ensure the authorized agent identifies himself/herself/itself as an authorized agent and can show written permission from you to represent you. We may contact you directly to confirm that you have authorized the agent to act on your behalf or confirm your identity.

Verification. Whether you submit a request to access, correct, or delete personal information directly on your own behalf, or through an authorized agent, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to responding to your requests. The verification steps will vary depending on the sensitivity of the personal information and the nature of your request.

9. Information Security

We use commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures designed to safeguard information in its possession against loss, theft, unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. However, the confidentiality of information transmitted over the Internet cannot be guaranteed. We urge you to exercise caution when transmitting personal information over the internet. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not gain access to your information; therefore, when submitting personal information to us, you do so at your own risk.

10. Retention

We will retain information for as long as it is reasonably needed or permitted in light of the purposes for which we collected it. We also retain information as required by law. The criteria we use to determine our retention policies include the length of our relationship with you, your requests, your continued use of our Platform, ongoing obligations such as contracts and services, and our legal obligations.

11. Links to Websites

We may provide links to websites and other third-party content (e.g., social media platforms) that are not owned or operated by us. The websites and third-party content to which we link may have separate privacy notices or policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites.

If you provide any personal information through a third-party site, your interaction and your personal information will be collected by and controlled by the privacy policy of that site. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies and practices of any such third parties, which are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

12. Updates to the Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. To the extent permitted by law, any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to the websites and will become effective upon posting. Any changes will be effective only after the effective date of the change and will not affect any dispute arising prior to the effective date of the change.

13. Children’s Information

As set forth in our Terms of Use, our Platforms are for a general audience, are not targeted to children, and do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. If you think that your child provided this kind of information, please contact us at datarequests@hbi.com.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may write to us at our postal address:

Hubbard Television Group

3415 University Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55114
Attn: Legal

datarequests@hbi.com