The New York Times Company Privacy Policy
The New York Times updated its Privacy Policy effective October 23, 2026. The company now tracks which articles you share and who you share them with, plus your interactions with other Times users, and added a feature that shows you your own usage stats (articles read, comments posted, watching/listening time). Most notably, NYT added a new disclosure: if you interact with other users (e.g., sharing articles or recipes), it may share your name and part of your email address with them so they can identify you. A minor typo was also fixed.
Tracks who you share articles with and your interactions with other users
The Times now explicitly tracks the articles you share, who you shared them with, and your interactions with other users on its platforms, in addition to the browsing data it already collected. This gives the company a more detailed picture of your social activity on their services.
“articles you shared and who you shared them with, your interactions with other Times users”
DATA COLLECTION
Your name and part of your email address may be shared with other users
If you interact with other people on Times platforms, like sharing an article or recipe, the company may now give that person your name and part of your email address so they can identify you. This is new personal contact information being handed to other users, not just the company.
“we may share your name and part of your email address with them so they can identify you”
DATA SHARING
| 1 | _Effective on July 1, 2026_ | |
| 1 | _Effective on October 23, 2026_ | |
± CHANGEDEffective date updated The policy's effective date changed from July 1, 2026 to October 23, 2026. | ||
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| 3 | 3 | At The New York Times Company, our mission is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. We want you to understand how we handle your personal information. We also want you to know your rights and choices. |
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| 5 | 5 | This policy describes how we handle your personal information when you use the following "Times Services": |
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| 7 | 7 | - The New York Times print newspaper, plus our print International Edition |
| 155 | 155 | #### **• Gameplay Data** |
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| 157 | 157 | As one example of the kinds of information we collect as described in this section, when you play games on the Times Services, we collect information about your gameplay, including the words you play on a gameboard, your scores and performance, and statistics about the outcome of your matches. |
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| 159 | 159 | #### **• Other Usage Data** |
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| 161 | We collect information about certain internet and network activity on Times Services, including your interactions with our websites and apps, such as the URLs of any pages you visit on our sites and apps, the URL of the website from which you came to our sites, how long you spent on a page, access times, search queries, and other details about your use of and actions on our Services. This also includes your interactions with marketing and advertisements on Times Services. | |
| 161 | We collect information about certain internet and network activity on Times Services, including your interactions with our websites and apps, such as the URLs of any pages you visit on our sites and apps, the URL of the website from which you came to our sites, how long you spent on a page, access times, search queries, articles you shared and who you shared them with, your interactions with other Times users, and other details about your use of and actions on our Services. This also includes your interactions with marketing and advertisements on Times Services. | |
± CHANGEDBroader tracking of sharing and social interactions The Times now says it collects data on which articles you share, who you shared them with, and your interactions with other Times users, in addition to the browsing and usage data it already tracked. | ||
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| 163 | 163 | As described elsewhere in this Policy, we may use this usage data to personalize or customize content for you that we think you might like based on your usage patterns or for other similar purposes. We may also use it to improve the Times Services - for example, this data can tell us how often users use a particular feature of the Times Services, and we can use that knowledge to make the Times Services interesting to as many users as possible. We also use this information to serve surveys or questionnaires based on your usage patterns. We combine this data with other information we collect about you. |
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| 165 | 165 | ### _**1\. (B) Inferences; Information We Create or Generate**_ |
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| 167 | 167 | We infer new information from other data we collect, including using automated means such as machine learning, which may include third party machine learning services or large language models. These inferences include information about your likely preferences or other characteristics (e.g., article topics, writers, teams or markets of interest to you). As described below, we use these inferences for purposes of personalization, to improve our services, to market Times Services to you and to create audiences for third party advertisers and for marketing on other sites and services. |
| 205 | 205 | - Providing customer service |
| 206 | 206 | - Responding to your inquiries, requests, suggestions or complaints |
| 207 | 207 | - Completing your payments and transactions |
| 208 | 208 | - Sending service-related transactional messages (_e.g._, a change in our Terms of Service, Terms of Sale, or other terms and conditions) and otherwise communicating with you about Times Services |
| 209 | 209 | - Saving your reading list, recipes or searches |
| 210 | 210 | - Displaying your Games milestones and accomplishments, such as Stats, Streaks and Badges |
| 211 | - Showing you how you interact with Times Services, including the number of articles you read within a certain period, how many comments you posted or how long you watched videos or listened to podcast | |
+ ADDEDNew feature showing your own usage stats The Times added a new purpose for using your data: showing you a summary of your own activity, like how many articles you've read, how many comments you've posted, or how long you've watched videos or listened to podcasts. | ||
| 211 | 212 | - Connecting you with "friends" and game opponents |
| 212 | 213 | - Determining your eligibility to use a Times Service or feature |
| 213 | 214 | - Letting you take part in paid services, polls, promotions, surveys, panels, research and comments |
| 214 | 215 | - Creating and managing user profiles and content. |
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| 216 | 217 | ### _**2\. (B) We Personalize Your Experience**_ |
| 342 | 343 | - Protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Times Services |
| 343 | 344 | - Protect the safety or property of our personnel, users or the general public (_e.g._, if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, we could share your information to help investigations into your actions) |
| 344 | 345 | - Cooperate with government authorities, which could be outside your country of residence. |
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| 346 | 347 | ix. We disclose public activities in our RSS feeds, APIs and other distribution formats. Your public activities could thus appear on other websites, blogs or feeds. |
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| 348 | x. As described above in the [section on user-generated content](), information that you make public or send via direct message chat will be shared with other users, including user profile information. Please remember that any content you upload to your public user profile, along with any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view becomes publicly available, and can be collected and used by anyone. Your profile-including display name, selected picture, activity status (such as whether your are currently active or when you were last active), and gameplay data-will also be available to game opponents, "friends," and others through leaderboards. Your username may also be displayed to other users if and when you send messages or comments or upload images or videos through Times Services, and other users may be able to contact you through messages and comments. | |
| 349 | x. As described above in the [section on user-generated content](), information that you make public or send via direct message chat will be shared with other users, including user profile information. Please remember that any content you upload to your public user profile, along with any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view becomes publicly available, and can be collected and used by anyone. Your profile-including display name, selected picture, activity status (such as whether you are currently active or when you were last active), and gameplay data-will also be available to game opponents, "friends," and others through leaderboards. Your username may also be displayed to other users if and when you send messages or comments or upload images or videos through Times Services, and other users may be able to contact you through messages and comments. | |
± CHANGEDTypo fix Corrected 'your are' to 'you are' in the description of profile activity status. | ||
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| 350 | 351 | xi. With your consent, your display name and selected picture will be available to other users if they allow us to access their contacts list and your contact information is on their contact list, or they link their account to a third-party service (like a Facebook account) and you are connected with them on that third-party service. You can change your permissions at any time via the Settings tab in the app. |
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| 352 | 353 | xii. If you use a promotional or discount code that you receive from another company in order to purchase Times Services, we will share the fact that you redeemed that code with that third party company. |
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| 355 | xiii. If you interact with other Times users across our platforms (e.g., by sharing articles or recipes with them), we may share your name and part of your email address with them so they can identify you. | |
+ ADDEDName and partial email shared with other users you interact with The Times added a new rule: if you interact with other users on its platforms, such as by sharing an article or recipe with them, it may share your name and part of your email address with that person so they can tell who you are. | ||
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| 354 | 357 | As described above in [Section 2(I)](), we may disclose aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose, unless an applicable law says otherwise. |
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| 356 | 359 | ## **4\. What Are Your Rights and Choices?** |
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| 358 | 361 | We provide a variety of ways for you to control the personal information we hold about you, including choices about how we use that information. In some jurisdictions, these controls and choices are enforceable as rights under applicable law. The choices described below are limited to the specific email address, phone or device used. They won't affect different email addresses, phones or devices used, or subsequent subscriptions. |
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