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Senin, 27 Mei 2019

European Elections: What they tell us about support for Brexit - BBC News

There were two largely separate battles taking place in the European elections in the UK.

The first was for the support of those who voted Leave in the 2016 referendum, many of whom are disappointed that the UK has not yet left the EU.

The second was for the backing of those who voted Remain, many of whom are hoping that the decision to leave the EU might yet be reversed, perhaps via a second referendum.

The outcome of the first battle was decisive and widely anticipated. The second was rather messier, but might have just as important an impact on the debate about Brexit between now and when the UK is due to leave the EU on 31 October.

Leavers vote Brexit Party

Many Leave voters had previously supported UKIP under Nigel Farage's leadership, before backing the Conservatives in the 2017 UK general election.

They switched en masse towards Mr Farage's new organisation, the Brexit Party. With 32% of the vote, its level of support was as much as five points higher than that of UKIP in the last European elections, in 2014.

The Brexit Party performed much better in those areas that voted most heavily for Leave in the 2016 referendum than it did in those places that voted most heavily for Remain.

As a result, the party scored much less well in London (18%) and Scotland (15%) - where a majority voted for Remain - than in the rest of England (36%) and Wales (32%), which had provided the foundations of Leave's success in 2016.

A rebuff for the Tories

Because of this surge, the Conservatives fell to just 9% of the vote.

Governments often perform badly in European elections, as voters take the opportunity to express their disappointment with its performance without the risk that their vote might put the opposition into government.

Yet the rebuff suffered by the Conservatives was far worse than the previous worst snubbing to have been suffered by a government in a European election. That was the 15% to which Labour sunk in 2009, during the darkest days of Gordon Brown's premiership.

It was also easily the Conservatives' worst ever performance in a nationwide election. Its performance was weak everywhere - the party did not manage to come first in a single council area.

In sharp contrast to the position in the 2017 general election, when it was much stronger in Leave-voting areas than in Remain-inclined ones, the party did equally badly in both.

It is an outcome that would seem to confirm the message of the opinion polls that the party has lost the confidence of many Leave voters.

However, dramatic though it was, the outcome of the battle between the Conservatives and the Brexit Party had been widely forecast by the polls.

Indeed, politicians had already begun to react to it in the period between Thursday's vote and last night's count.

It arguably contributed to the downfall of Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday, while many of the candidates to be her successor are arguing that 31 October should be a firm and final deadline for the UK's exit from the EU.

The European election result will simply ensure that that debate continues.

The Lib Dems win Remain

The second contest in these elections was for the support of those who want to remain in the EU.

The polls had suggested that during the campaign Labour, which has been somewhat equivocal in its support for a second referendum, had been losing the backing of Remain supporters to the Liberal Democrats and the Greens.

However, there was disagreement as to whether the Lib Dems would challenge Labour for second place.

In the event, the Lib Dems won this battle hands down.

The party won 20% of the vote, its best European election performance ever, while Labour secured just 14%.

Sir Vince Cable's party not only beat Labour but managed to come a clear first in those places that voted most heavily for Remain including, most remarkably, in London.

There is no doubt that the party was the single most popular party among Remain supporters, a position that had hitherto been enjoyed by Labour.

The Lib Dems, who are themselves about to embark on a leadership contest, will hope the outcome signals that the party is finally recovering from the dramatic decline it suffered following its involvement in the 2010-15 coalition.

However, it was not the only party in favour of a second referendum to do well.

So too did the Greens, whose 12% of the vote was its best European election performance since 1989. However, in its case support was only marginally higher in Remain-voting areas.

In Scotland, the SNP, led by Nicola Sturgeon, won no less than 38% of the vote, its best ever European election result. It is an outcome that confirms its dominance of the electoral scene north of the border.

In Wales, Plaid Cymru also enjoyed some success with 20% of the vote, its highest since 1999.

Labour loses support

Though nothing like as devastating as the loss suffered by the Conservatives, Labour's poor performance could, in truth, also lead to a rethink just as important as that now going on inside the government.

The party's attempt to keep both its Remain and its Leave supporters on board seems to have resulted in a loss of support among both groups.

Although Labour's vote fell most heavily in the strongest Remain voting areas, its vote also fell, by as much as 11 points, in the most pro-Leave areas.

There have already been signals from Labour that it might now fall in more firmly behind the idea of a "confirmatory vote" in which whatever deal is eventually struck with the EU is put before voters in a second referendum.

It will hope that this stance will help reverse the loss of support to the Lib Dems and Greens, without losing it too much ground among its minority of Leave supporters.

Such a development would certainly ensure that the government and the opposition are further apart on Brexit than at any point since the EU referendum.

Minggu, 26 Mei 2019

Tory leadership: Gove will be eighth candidate to enter race - BBC News

Dominic Raab has been making his pitch to become Conservative leader, as Michael Gove becomes the eighth MP to join the race to succeed Theresa May.

Mr Raab told the BBC he would fight for a "fairer" Brexit deal with the EU - but if that were not possible, the UK would leave with no deal in October.

Mr Gove confirmed he would run to "deliver Brexit" and unite the party.

Chancellor Philip Hammond said it would be a "dangerous strategy" to ignore Parliament, which has opposed no-deal.

On Friday, Mrs May announced she would be standing down as Tory leader on 7 June, saying it was time for another prime minister to try to deliver Brexit.

It came after a backlash by her MPs against her plan to get the withdrawal deal she had negotiated with the EU through the Commons, which has already rejected it three times.

The UK is now set to leave the European Union on 31 October, after the original Brexit date of 29 March was delayed twice owing to the parliamentary deadlock.

The delay has meant the UK has had to take part in elections to the European Parliament, three years after it voted to leave the bloc.

Mr Gove, the environment secretary, confirmed on Sunday that he would run for leader, saying: "I believe that I'm ready to unite the Conservative and Unionist Party, ready to deliver Brexit, and ready to lead this great country."

He is expected to outline his pitch later on Sunday.

Former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and former Commons leader Andrea Leadsom revealed their leadership bids in the Sunday newspapers.

Mr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the UK's previous negotiations with the EU over the withdrawal agreement had not been "resolute" enough, and a no-deal Brexit had been taken "off the table".

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"I would fight for a fairer deal in Brussels with negotiations to change the backstop arrangements, and if not I would be clear that we would leave on WTO [World Trade Organization] terms in October."

He added: "I don't want a WTO Brexit but I think unless you are willing to keep our promises as politicians… we put ourselves in a much weaker position in terms of getting a deal."

He said there was "no case for a further extension" past the current date the UK is due to leave the EU, 31 October, adding: "It is very difficult for Parliament now to legislate against no-deal, or in favour of a further extension, unless the executive, unless a resolute prime minister is willing to acquiesce in that - and I would not."

But Chancellor Philip Hammond called for compromise, saying the suggestion that it was possible to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement was a "fig leaf" for "what is actually a policy of leaving on no-deal terms".

That policy was clearly opposed by Parliament, he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.

"This is a parliamentary democracy. A prime minister who ignores Parliament cannot expect to survive very long," he warned.

Former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "31 October is the key date and we are coming out then, and if that means without a deal then that's what it means.

"We won't be asking for any more extensions. If Europe wants to come back to us, the door is open if they want a better deal."

Asked if she favoured a no-deal Brexit, Ms Leadsom said: "Of course, in order to succeed in a negotiation you have to be prepared to leave without a deal, but I have a three-point plan for Brexit, for how we get out of the European Union.

"I'm very optimistic about it. My role as leader of the Commons means that I've had a very good insight into what needs to be done, and I look forward to setting that out once the campaign starts."

They have joined Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, his predecessor Boris Johnson, International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock in the battle for the leadership.

Tory MPs have until the week beginning 10 June to put their name forward, and the party hopes a new leader will be in place by the end of July.

Members will have the final say on who wins, after the shortlist is whittled down to two by a series of votes by Tory MPs.

In the Sunday Telegraph, party chairman Brandon Lewis said the party membership had swelled by 36,000 in the last year - bringing the total to more than 160,000.

Mrs May will continue as prime minister while the leadership contest takes place.

'A tantalising and fascinating contest'

Michael Gove's declaration sets up a tantalising and fascinating contest between two of the architects of the Leave campaign, who fell out so spectacularly during the contest to replace David Cameron immediately after the referendum three years ago.

Mr Gove had been supporting Boris Johnson to be prime minister - until he, "reluctantly but firmly" as he put it, concluded he himself should stand and Mr Johnson should stand aside.

This time, the two men will take each other on. But in these opening skirmishes of this campaign, what is emerging as the central fault line is the instincts of the candidates on a no-deal Brexit.

Some are willing to embrace it, others think it would be a disaster. The outlook of the eventual winner could shape our country for years to come.

Some candidates have stressed the need to get a Brexit deal through Parliament.

Mr Hunt told the Sunday Times he had the business experience to secure an agreement. "Doing deals is my bread and butter," he said.

And in a direct criticism of Boris Johnson, Mr Stewart said: "I would not serve in the cabinet of someone explicitly pushing for a no-deal Brexit."

Mr Hancock said Mrs May's successor must be "brutally honest" about the "trade-offs" required to get a deal through Parliament.

'Machiavelli' attack

Meanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson told the Observer that his party must fully commit to supporting another referendum.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5Live's Pienaar's Politics, Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said the "usual suspects" would blame leader Jeremy Corbyn if Labour performed poorly in the European elections.

He said: "Tom Watson's already out, surprise surprise, trying to take on the role of Prince Machiavelli, but I've got news for Tom. Machiavelli was effective. He's a poor imitation of that. If he's trying to turn Labour members against Corbyn and in his favour, then he's going to lose disastrously.

"Now is the time to hold your nerve, because a general election - which is the only thing that will resolve this situation - is closer now than anything."

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2019-05-26 12:00:21Z
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UK must be ready to leave EU without a deal: leadership contender Raab - Reuters

Dominic Raab, former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union attends "A Better Deal" event in London, Britain, January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must be ready to leave the European Union without an exit deal on Oct. 31, former Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday, as he set out his pitch to succeed Theresa May as prime minister.

“If you’re not willing to walk away from a negotiation, it doesn’t focus the mind of the other side,” Raab told the BBC. “If you do that you can be really credible in Brussels.”

Raab said he would prefer Britain left with a deal but that he did not want to delay the planned Oct. 31 departure date. He also said he believed Britain would only be legally obliged to pay about 14 billion pounds ($18 billion) of the current 39 billion pound exit bill if there was a no-deal Brexit.

Reporting by Kylie MacLellan, writing by David Milliken

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2019-05-26 09:47:00Z
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UK has growing list of candidates trying to succeed Theresa May - New York Post

It’s not quite as crowded as the Democratic presidential primary, but the number of contenders to succeed Theresa May as the UK’s prime minister is growing.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Saturday became the latest candidate for the job to oversee the UK’s chaotic and long-stalled Brexit.

He joins flamboyant former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who has said he will take Britain out of the EU on Oct. 31 even if there is no deal with EU leaders. International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who said Saturday he would not serve in a cabinet under Johnson, is also eyeing the top job.

May announced Friday that she is stepping down as the Conservative Party leader on June 7.

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2019-05-25 16:30:00Z
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Sabtu, 25 Mei 2019

Campaign Aims to Keep Judge’s Copy of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ in U.K. - The New York Times

LONDON — The paperback is not in the best condition.

Sotheby’s, which sold it at auction, notes that the spine is chipped, the pages are starting to come loose and an old paper clip has left a rust mark on the cover. It’s also full of pencil underlinings, with a separate note giving page references for the rude bits.

But this copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover,” by D.H. Lawrence, used in perhaps the most famous British obscenity trial of the past century, is now designated a cultural treasure in Britain. It has been banned by the government from leaving the country until at least August while a crowdfunding campaign races to match its auction price of 56,250 pounds (about $71,000).

“‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was at the heart of the struggle for freedom of expression, in the courts and beyond,” Philippe Sands, the president of English PEN, the free-speech charity running the crowdfunding campaign, said in a statement. “This unique text belongs here, a symbol of the continuing struggle to protect the rights of writers and readers at home and abroad.”

A line outside the Old Bailey in London in October 1960 for public seats to watch the “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” trial.CreditAssociated Press

This was the copy referred to during the case by the judge, Sir Laurence Byrne, and annotated for him by his wife, Lady Dorothy Byrne. (She is also, the Sotheby’s catalog says, “understood to have sewn” a cover-concealing damask bag that the auctioneer sold with the book.)

D.H. Lawrence, who died in 1930, was one of Britain’s most celebrated modernist writers, but the sexually frank “Lady Chatterley” — his 1928 novel about an aristocratic young married woman and her working-class gamekeeper — was long banned in its unexpurgated form in Britain and the United States.

In 1960, after a change in British obscenity law, Penguin Books published a paperback edition, knowing that it was likely to become a test case. The trial in London that autumn, the writer Jan Morris noted in The New York Times after its conclusion, “raised such a furor of clashing opinion as has been experienced only once or twice since the war.”

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D.H. Lawrence, who died in 1930, was one of Britain’s most celebrated modernist writers.CreditElliott & Fry/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images

The defense summoned a formidable array of witnesses — Ms. Morris described them as “both respectable and glittering” — to testify to the book’s merits. They included a Church of England bishop, the novelist E.M. Forster and the writer and academic Richard Hoggart, whose description of the novel as a “puritanical” work that “progressively purified” the four-letter words it used was seen as decisive in persuading the jury.

The lead prosecutor, Mervyn Griffiths-Jones, was mocked for the social assumptions revealed by his opening statement, in which he asked: “Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?”

The jurors were three women and nine men, and domestic servants had vanished from all but the wealthiest homes in Britain in the years after World War II.

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Penguin had 200,000 copies of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” ready to distribute when the trial ended.CreditPeter Dunne/Daily Express, via , via Getty Images

The jury took three hours to acquit Penguin Books. And while the publisher had to pay its own legal costs, it had little to regret from the trial commercially. Its initial printing of 200,000 copies of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” sold out within days of the verdict, and by the following April it had sold nearly two million.

Though restrictions on the novel in the United States had already been shaken by a federal appeals court ruling the previous year, the London trial had a far greater cultural impact, coming to be seen as one of the first signs of the dramatic social changes that Britain underwent in the 1960s.

“Sexual intercourse began,” the poet Philip Larkin declared in his “Annus Mirabilis,” “Between the end of the Chatterley ban / And the Beatles’ first L.P.”

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The initial print run sold out within days of the verdict.CreditDurrant/Daily Express, via Getty Images

Justice Byrne died in 1965, and his “Lady Chatterley” was previously sold at auction by his family in 1993. When it went on sale at Sotheby’s again in October last year, the estimated price was £10,000 to £15,000. It fetched £56,250. The identity of the buyer has not been disclosed.

Exporting artworks and some other cultural items over 50 years old requires a special license in Britain. And the official Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest concluded that the book was an important object at risk of leaving the country.

On May 13, the arts minister, Michael Ellis, imposed an export ban until Aug. 12, with the potential to extend it until Oct. 12 for further fund-raising.

In a statement, Sir Hayden Phillips, the chairman of the reviewing committee, described the book as “the last surviving contemporary ‘witness’” to “one of the most important criminal trials of the 20th century.”

As of Saturday, the campaign had raised £17,258, including £10,000 from Penguin Books and £5,000 from the estate of the poet T.S. Eliot.

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2019-05-25 14:24:42Z
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Race to be new UK prime minister begins - BBC News

Conservative leadership contenders have clashed over Brexit as the race to succeed Theresa May in No 10 begins.

Rory Stewart said he would not serve under rival Boris Johnson because of his backing for a no-deal exit.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the fifth Tory to enter the race, said Mrs May's successor must be more "brutally honest" about the "trade-offs" required to get a deal through Parliament.

The leadership contest will determine who is the UK's next prime minister.

Party bosses expect a new leader to be chosen by the end of July.

Mrs May confirmed on Friday that she will resign as party leader on 7 June, but will continue as PM while the leadership contest takes place.

She agreed with chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady, that the process to choose a new leader should begin the week after she stands down.

Five candidates have, so far, confirmed their intention to stand:

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt
International Development Secretary Rory Stewart
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey

'Fresh face' needed

Announcing his candidacy, Mr Hancock ruled out a snap general election in order to resolve the Brexit stalemate, saying this would be "disastrous for the country" and would risk seeing the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in power "by Christmas".

Instead, he said his focus would be on getting a Brexit deal through the current Parliament and "levelling" with MPs about what this would mean for the UK.

Mr Hancock told Radio 4's Today there was no point in becoming prime minister unless he was straightforward about the trade offs - "between sovereignty and market access and the trade-offs to get a deal through this Parliament".

He also said the party needed a "leader for the future not just for now", capable of appealing to younger voters.

"We need to move on from the horrible politics of the last three years," he said.

"We need a fresh start and a fresh face to ensure this country wins the battles of the 2020s and remains prosperous for many years to come."

'Huge tensions'

Mr Stewart called for politicians to tell the truth about where they stood on Brexit and suggested, for that reason, he could not serve in a cabinet under Boris Johnson.

"It pains me to say it," he told BBC News.

"Boris has many, many qualities but I talked to him a few days ago and I thought he had said to me that he was not going for a no-deal exit.

"He has now come out and said yesterday that he is going for something which I believe is undeliverable, unnecessary and is going to damage our country and economy."

Mr Johnson told an economic conference in Switzerland on Friday that a new leader would have "the opportunity to do things differently".

"We will leave the EU on 31 October, deal or no deal. The way to get a good deal is to prepare for a no deal."

Most bookmakers have Mr Johnson as favourite, in front of former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who has yet to declare his hand.

More than a dozen more senior Conservatives are believed to be seriously considering running - including Sir Graham, who has resigned as chair of the 1922 Committee.

Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has ruled herself out, telling the BBC the party and the country wants "someone who is more enthusiastic about Brexit than I am".

Asked who she would support, she told Radio 4's Today she would "not malign" any of the candidates but would prefer someone who "wants to find a compromise" on Brexit and be realistic about what can be achieved".

Meanwhile, Conservative MP Steve Double criticised those who were not willing to countenance a no-deal Brexit under a new leader.

'Do things differently'

Tory MPs have until the week commencing 10 June to put their name forward, and any of them can stand - as long as they have the backing of two parliamentary colleagues.

The candidates will be whittled down until two remain, and in July all party members will vote to decide on the winner.

The Conservative Party had 124,000 members, as of March last year. The last leader elected by the membership was David Cameron in 2005, as Theresa May was unopposed in 2016.

It will be the first time Conservative members have directly elected a prime minister, as opposed to a leader of the opposition.

Announcing her departure in Downing Street on Friday, Mrs May urged her successor to "seek a way forward that honours the result of the referendum" and seeks "consensus" in Parliament.

Meanwhile, shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggested Labour might need to harden its position on another Brexit referendum if the Tories elected someone willing to pursue a no-deal exit.

Mr McDonnell told Today that "some form of public vote" would definitely be needed in that situation and he would seek to talk to MPs from all parties to potentially try and bring down a government that tried to take the UK out without a deal.

Who are the Conservative members?

Most members of most parties in the UK are pretty middle-class. But Conservative Party members are the most middle-class of all: 86% fall into the ABC1 category.

Around a quarter of them are, or were, self-employed and nearly half of them work, or used to, in the private sector.

Nearly four out of 10 put their annual income at over £30,000, and one in 20 put it at over £100,000. As such, Tory members are considerably better-off than most voters.

Jumat, 24 Mei 2019

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4.2 We share information about you with third parties who partner with us to provide advertisements about products and services that may be of interest to you. This may include third parties who assist us in identifying which ads to deliver and third parties who deliver the advertisements. As described above, our third party partners may use persistent identifiers to track your Internet usage across other websites, online services, email and mobile applications in their networks beyond the Services, and may combine information about you from other sources. We may provide additional information that we have collected about you both directly and automatically to our partners.
Our partners may use the information collected to serve you with targeted advertising, both through our Services and other websites, email, online services or mobile applications. We may also contribute to or participate in cooperative databases, which give other companies access to your information. For more information regarding the partners with whom we share data, please see our Partners List.

We adhere to the principles of the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising and Multi-Site Data and the Network Advertising Initiative’s Code of Conduct, as applicable. See the Opt-Out section (below) to learn about choices available to you with respect to this type of advertising.

4.3 We may aggregate your information into a form where individuals can no longer be identified. Given the aggregated, de-identified information, there are no restrictions under this Privacy Policy on how we may use or disclose such information. For example, we may freely share such information with third parties who may use such data for their own marketing, advertising, research, or other business purposes.

4.4 If you choose to enter a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, your information may be disclosed to third parties who help design, administer and implement the promotion, including in connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment and aggregated data analysis. Your information also may be disclosed as required by law, such as on a winners list.

4.5 We may provide products or services jointly with or through certain third-party businesses, including but not limited to retail businesses. When we provide these products or services, we may give you the opportunity to opt-in to the additional sharing of information with these businesses. Should you choose to do so, information you provide specifically in connection with those products and services may be shared with these businesses and subject to their privacy policies.

4.6 The Services may allow users to post comments and other content to the Services. Any information about yourself that you post to the Services will become public information and will be accessible by other users of the Services. In addition, your user name will be viewable by other users, along with a profile picture if you have chosen to upload one. We have no responsibility to maintain the privacy or security of any such information that you may choose to post to the Services.

4.7 When you use the Services, you may be given the option to subscribe to or to be added to our email list. Your selection will not affect other uses or sharing of your information as described in this this Privacy Policy. Subscriptions to the email list can be cancelled at any time by following the instructions below.

4.8 By providing us with your telephone number, you are authorizing us, our service providers and our and their affiliated companies to deliver or cause to be delivered SMS text messages, texts, push notifications and voice message notifications, including promotional messages, using an automatic telephone dialing system. You are not required to receive such messages as a condition of purchasing any property, goods or services. Registered users may choose not to receive text messages from us by not providing us their cell phone number. You can also cancel the SMS service at any time by replying ‘STOP’ via text. Please note that standard message rates and data charges from your cellular service provider apply to sending and/or receiving text messages. You are solely responsible for such message rates and data charges.

4.9 We may disclose information about you if required to do so by law or on the good-faith believe that such sharing is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or our Services; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the Services, or our users; or (c) act to protect the personal safety of our employees and agents, other users of the Services, or members of the public.

4.10 If we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company or a financing, investment, support or funding, sharing or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be among the assets shared or transferred. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Privacy Policy.

5. Your Security

5.1 We strive to keep your information private and safe. We take commercially reasonable physical, electronic and administrative steps to maintain the security of the information collected. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the transmission of data over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that e-mail is not encrypted and is not considered to be a secure means of transmitting credit card information, so please do not send us your credit card number by email. Any payment transactions will be encrypted.

6. Your Options

6.1 You may choose not to subscribe to email communications other than service-related communications such as payment confirmation. If you do choose to receive email communications such as email newsletters and promotional emails, you may later opt out by following the instructions provided at the bottom of each email, clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of emails we sent you, or by managing your preferences here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/privacy/preferences. Please allow up to ten (10) business days for changes to your email preferences to take effect.

6.2 You can learn more about ad serving companies and the options available to limit their collection and use of your information by visiting the Services for the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Advertising Digital Alliance (EDAA). Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt-out of mobile app tracking by certain advertising networks through your device settings and by resetting the advertiser ID on your Apple or Android device. For more information about how to change these settings go to:

Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228

Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

Windows: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out

The DAA’s AppChoices App provides options regarding the collection of cross-app data for your device.

Additional resources or tools may exist that streamline the process of submitting opt-out requests--for example, TRUSTe’s Ad Preference Manager. We do not review or warrant the representations made by these tools and cannot guarantee the effectiveness.

6.3 To opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features, visit Google’s Ad Settings page. Website users can also access the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser Add-on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en.

6.4 Please note that opting-out of advertising networks services does not mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Services or on other Services, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based advertising from third parties that do not participate in these programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms. If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences. If you use multiple browsers or devices you may need to execute this opt out on each browser or device.

6.5 Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. At this time, we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

6.6 Registered users who have provided their cell phone number to us may remove it from within their personal profile settings. If you prefer not to receive text or wireless promotional communications on your mobile device, you can opt out by replying STOP.

6.7 You may update or delete information from your profile at any time, or request that we do so; however, because we archive past transactions, you cannot delete this information. You may also request that we delete your account entirely by contacting us. Terminating your registration will not necessarily remove previous public comments or other user content on public display on the Services. If you wish to cancel your account on the Services or delete your information previously provided to us, you may send your request here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/privacy/preferences.

6.8 If you do not receive a response from us to any emails you send to us within ten (10) business days, please send us another email, as your original email may not have been received.

7. Children

We do not permit children under 13 years of age to use the Services, and we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose information from anyone under 13 years of age except as part of specific outreach programs with parental permission. If we determine upon collection that a user is under this age, we will not use or maintain his/her Personal Information without the parent/guardian's consent. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 13, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected personal information of a minor without appropriate consent, please notify us at our privacy preferences page: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/privacy/preferences. You may also contact by mail at the following address: Townsquare Media, Inc., ATTN: Privacy, 240 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830.

8. Your California Privacy Rights

8.1 Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to request information from us regarding what categories of personal information we share with third parties who may use the data for direct marketing purposes and all third parties with whom we have shared that data in the past year. If you are a California resident and would like to submit a request, please write to the following address: Townsquare Media, Inc., ATTN: Privacy, 240 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830. You must put the statement “Your California Privacy Rights” in the body of the request and state the name of our website with respect to which you are requesting the information as well as your name, street address, city, state, and zip code.

9. International User Notice

For international users, please note that it may be necessary to transfer your information internationally and, in particular, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States. The laws in the U.S. regarding personal information may be different from the laws of your state or country. Any such transfers will comply with safeguards as required by relevant law. If applicable, you may have a right to claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of relevant data protection laws. By using the Services, you agree to have your information used and transferred to the United States as set forth in this policy.

10. Users in the European Union (EEA) and Switzerland

If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, the following information applies.

Purposes of processing and legal basis for processing: As explained above, we process personal data in various ways depending upon your use of our Services. We process personal data on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary to perform our agreement to provide Services; and (3) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing the Services where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedom related to data privacy

Right to lodge a complaint: Users that reside in the EEA or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here.

Transfers: Personal information we collect may be transferred to, and stored and processed in, the United States or any other country in which we or our affiliates or subcontractors maintain facilities. Upon the start of enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we will ensure that transfers of personal information to a third country or an international organization are subject to appropriate safeguards as described in Article 46 of the GDPR.

Individual Rights: If you are a resident of the EEA or Switzerland, you are entitled to the following rights once the GDPR becomes effective. Please note: In order to verify your identity, we may require you to provide us with personal information prior to accessing any records containing information about you.

• The right to request data erasure. You have the right to have your data erased from our Services if the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, you withdraw consent and no other legal basis for processing exists, or you believe your fundamental rights to data privacy and protection outweigh our legitimate interest in continuing the processing.

• The right to restrict or object to our processing. You have the right to restrict or object to our processing if we are processing your data based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest as an exercise of official authority (including profiling); using your data for direct marketing (including profiling); or processing your data for purposes of scientific or historical research and statistics.

11. Contact

If you have any questions about your privacy or security at the Services, or wish to update your information, please contact us at our privacy preferences page: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/privacy/preferences. You may also write to us at: Townsquare Media, Inc., ATTN: Privacy, 240 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, CT 06830, Fax: 1 (800) 301-6408, and include your name, mailing address and email address in the message. You may call us at 1 (203) 861-0900.

DATE LAST MODIFIED: December 14, 2018

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Privacy Policy (Updated: 12/14/18)

1. Scope

2. Information Collected

3. Use of Your Information

4. Sharing Information With Third Parties

5. Your Security

6. Your Options

7. Children

8. Your California Privacy Rights

9. International User Notice

10. Users in the European Union (EEA) and Switzerland

11. Contact

DATE LAST MODIFIED: December 14, 2018