Use of Your Information

Depending on how you interact with Wiley, and with your prior consent where necessary, Wiley may use your personal data for purposes of:

• Performing any contract or other transaction we enter into with you;
• Providing, activating, managing and supporting our products or services;
• Notifying you about changes or updates to our Sites, products, or services;
• Communicating with you about our or our partners’ programs or events (including webinars, conferences, or promotional activities such as sweepstakes, contests, or surveys);
• Marketing our Sites, products, or services to you (including by delivering commercial emails, newsletters, targeted advertising, phone calls, and/or SMS messages);
• Operating, evaluating and improving our business (including enhancing and personalizing our Sites, services, products and communications; developing new Sites, services and products; and assessing the effectiveness of our promotions and advertising);
• Performing data analytics for internal research or other business purposes;
• Responding to your inquiries, requests, or other comments;
• Our initiatives such as Open Access, Open Science, or diversity and inclusion initiatives (for example, we may use information such as inferred gender to analyze representation and improve equitable outcomes);
• Detecting fraud, investigating suspicious activity (e.g., violations of our Terms of Use) and otherwise keeping our Sites safe and secure; and/or
• Complying with our legal or regulatory obligations.

In addition, we may use your personal data for other purposes that we may notify you of from time to time where we have a legitimate business interest, your prior consent, or another lawful basis to do so. We use the information collected through automated technologies for the purposes described in the “Information Collected Through Automated Technologies” section above.

Wiley may aggregate or de-identify information so that it can no longer identify you. Subject to applicable laws, Wiley may use this aggregated or de-identified information for analytical purposes, such as developing and improving our products and services, identifying industry trends and developments, and benchmarking. Where permitted by law, we may share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties.

Sharing of Your Information

We may share your personal data as follows:

Within Wiley. We may share your personal data with our subsidiary and affiliate companies for the purposes described in the “Use of Your Information” section above.

With our service providers. We may share your personal data with service providers that perform services on our behalf, including administrative, information technology, website and platform hosting, editing, production, payment, business management, analytics, content management, indexing, archiving, lead generation, and marketing services. Before we share your personal data with any service provider, they must agree to comply with applicable laws, maintain strong data security, and only process personal data as we instruct.

With partner organizations. We may share your personal data with certain partners, including:

• Where a third party such as an academic institution, school, employer, business or other entity has provided you with access to a Wiley product or service (such as through an integration or access code or by other means), we may share information regarding your usage of the product or service, results of assessments taken, and other information you input into the product or service;
• Where you have participated in a program or event in which we partner with third parties (such as a webinar, conference or promotional event), we may share your information with the sponsor of the activity;
• Where you have access to our content or Sites, elected to receive electronic alerts about journals, or your contribution to one of our journals or other works has been accepted for publication, we may share your information with the organization(s) associated with such content or Sites (for example, the journal owner or a society);
• When you elect to publish open access with us, we may share your information with your funder, institution, and/or consortia (or the like), and their service providers, for the purpose of confirming your eligibility for their funding or your participation in open access publishing;
• Where we have partnered with advertising partners to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit our Sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you; and/or
• Where, even if not described above, you have consented to such disclosure or we have a legitimate business interest in making the disclosure.

With other third parties. We may share your personal data where we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to comply with the law or with legal process, to protect and defend our rights and property, to protect the safety or property of our users or the general public, or protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Sites and services. We may also share your personal data in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a transfer of a journal or other assets, merger, acquisition, consolidation, change of control, or other corporate combination.