WBD US State Privacy Supplement
US State Supplement
Last Updated: August 10, 2026
This US State Supplement provides additional information for residents of California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. If you are a resident of one of these states, you have certain rights as specified under state law, which you can exercise at our Privacy Center.
- Supplement addresses residents of nineteen named US states Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
Our Privacy Policy details what Information we collect about you, including Information considered “personal information” or “personal data” under applicable privacy laws, the sources of that Information, the purposes of use and disclosure, and the categories of third parties that may receive that Information. If you are an adult using our Services, please read this Supplement in combination with our Privacy Policy for a complete understanding of how we collect, use, and share your personal information or personal data.
- Adults are directed to read this Supplement with the WBD Privacy Policy Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
If you are a child using our Services, or a parent or guardian of such a child, please read this Supplement in combination with our Children’s Privacy Policy, which describes how we collect, use, and share personal information or personal data about children.
- Children and their parents are directed to the Children's Privacy Policy Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
We will use the term “personal information” below. Any capitalized terms not defined in this Supplement are defined in the Privacy Policy or the Children’s Privacy Policy, as applicable.
- The supplement uses "personal information"; other capitalized terms are defined in the WBD policies Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
Your Rights
In accordance with applicable law, your rights as specified under state law may include the following:
- Rights list is qualified by applicable state law and presented as non-exhaustive Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
- Right to Delete Your Information. Upon your request, we will delete the personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain legally permissible exceptions.
- Right to delete personal information collected from you, subject to exceptions Retention & Deletion
- Right to Know and Access Your Personal Information. You have the right to ask us to confirm whether we process your personal information (including, where required under applicable law, information about third parties to whom we disclose personal information), to provide more information about how we process and disclose personal information, and for a copy of the personal information we maintain about you.
- Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information. You have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information about you. We also encourage you to check the settings in our apps and websites. Some personal information can be directly changed or corrected by you.
- Right to Opt Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information. You can tell us not to sell your personal information according to applicable law. We do not sell personal information of individuals we know to be children as defined by applicable law.
- Right to opt out of the sale of personal information Sharing & Disclosure
- Right to Limit Use of Your Personal Information for Targeted Advertising. You can ask us not to use or disclose your personal information for targeted advertising. Even if you opt out of targeted advertising, we will continue to collect and use data for other purposes. We do not use or disclose for targeted advertising for personal information of individuals we know to be children as defined by applicable law.
You can tell us not to “sell” your personal information or limit the use of your personal information for targeted advertising by visiting our Data Sell and Share Opt-out page or clicking the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footers of our websites or settings menus of our apps. Our Services also respond to Global Privacy Control signals where appropriate.
- Opt-out channels: request page, footers, app settings and Global Privacy Control Sharing & Disclosure
We do not use or disclose personal information for profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you without either your explicit consent or where otherwise permitted by applicable law.
- No profiling for legal or similarly significant decisions without explicit consent (or legal permission) Inference & Profiling
In accordance with disclosures required by Connecticut law, WBD does not collect, use, and sell your personal information for large language model (LLM) developers to train their foundation LLMs.
- No collection, use or sale of personal information for LLM foundation training Sharing & Disclosure
How to Exercise Your Rights
Visit our Privacy Center to exercise your rights specified under your state's laws. You can also contact us toll free at 1-866-324-3637 or TTY: use 711 and an agent will assist you with submitting a request. When you submit a request, we will usually ask you to provide an email address to verify your identity and prevent fraud. You may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. Depending on the nature of the request, we may authenticate the request, such as by requiring a signed written permission from you that authorizes the agent to act on your behalf. A valid power of attorney will constitute signed written permission, but you are not required to obtain a power of attorney to use an authorized agent.
- Rights may be exercised via the Privacy Center or by toll-free phone/TTY Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
- Requests usually require an email address to verify identity and prevent fraud Security & Safeguards
- Authorized agents may submit requests; written permission may be required, POA permitted but not required Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
If you are the parent or guardian of a minor child, you may also submit a request on behalf of your child. In that event, we will ask you to provide your child’s email address and to submit a signed form authorizing us to proceed with the request regarding your child’s personal information.
- Parents or guardians may submit requests on behalf of a minor child Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
If we deny your request or cannot fulfill it, you may appeal our decision by contacting us via wbdprivacy@wbd.com to ask us to review your request again. Your email should include “Appeal” in the subject line. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment if you exercise any of the rights explained in this US State Supplement.
- Denied or unfulfilled requests may be appealed by email with "Appeal" in the subject line Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
- Right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising this supplement's rights Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
California
Below are several additional California-specific disclosures and metrics provided in accordance with California law.
- California section provides California law disclosures and metrics Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
- Categories of Information: In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information:
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Personal and online identifiers, such as name, address, email address, online identifiers, IP address, account name, and similar identifiers.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Commercial and transactions information, such as records of products or services you obtained or considered and other information about your purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Record-keeping information, such as financial information related to accounts you may have with us.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as your searches on our Services and information about your interactions with our Services, including your interactions with contextual ads that may be shown on our Services.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Demographic information/characteristics such as your age or, if you provide it to us, your gender identity.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Biometric information, if you choose to participate in one of our interactive research studies or other initiatives.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Geolocation data.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as photos, videos, and call recordings.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Inferences drawn from the above information about your predicted characteristics and preferences.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Sensitive personal information, such as your account credentials and race or ethnicity.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Other information about you that is linked to the personal information, such as your date of birth.
- Categories of personal information collected in the last 12 months Data Access & Collection
- Sources of Information. We collect personal information from you and from the following categories of sources:
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Linked sites;
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Our affiliates;
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Our joint-ventures and promotional and strategic partners;
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Information suppliers;
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Distributors and other vendors;
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Other users submitting information about you, such as to invite you to participate in an offering, make recommendations, or share content; and
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Publicly available sources.
- Sources of collected personal information Data Access & Collection
- Disclosure of Information for Business Purposes. In the past 12 months, we may have disclosed for business purposes each of the categories of personal information listed above to the following categories of third parties:
- Our affiliates;
- Service providers;
- Social media platforms;
- Advertising partners;
- Analytics partners; and
- Promotional partners.
- Sales or Sharing of Your Information. California law defines the term “sale” very broadly. It includes the disclosure of personal information in exchange for anything of value. The term “sharing” is defined as disclosure of personal information for personalized advertising which is based on a consumer’s information obtained from the consumer’s activity across non-affiliated websites. Applying these definitions, we may have sold or shared the following categories of personal information in the past 12 months:
- California-law sale/sharing definitions are quoted and then applied Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
- Categories possibly sold or shared in the past 12 months Sharing & Disclosure
- Online identifiers;
- Categories possibly sold or shared in the past 12 months Sharing & Disclosure
- Demographic information;
- Categories possibly sold or shared in the past 12 months Sharing & Disclosure
- Commercial and transactions information;
- Categories possibly sold or shared in the past 12 months Sharing & Disclosure
- Internet or other electronic network activity information;
- Categories possibly sold or shared in the past 12 months Sharing & Disclosure
- Coarse geolocation data; and
- Categories possibly sold or shared in the past 12 months Sharing & Disclosure
- Inferences, such as audience segmentation.
- Categories possibly sold or shared in the past 12 months Sharing & Disclosure
- In the past 12 months, we have sold or shared each of the categories of personal information listed above to:
- Categories sold or shared and their recipient categories Sharing & Disclosure
- Our affiliates;
- Categories sold or shared and their recipient categories Sharing & Disclosure
- Promotional partners;
- Categories sold or shared and their recipient categories Sharing & Disclosure
- Advertising partners;
- Categories sold or shared and their recipient categories Sharing & Disclosure
- Analytics partners; and
- Categories sold or shared and their recipient categories Sharing & Disclosure
- Social media platforms.
- Categories sold or shared and their recipient categories Sharing & Disclosure
- Children. We do not “sell" or "share" (as defined under California law) with third parties the personal information of individuals we know to be children.
- No sale or sharing of personal information of known children Sharing & Disclosure
- Right to Opt Out of the Sale or Sharing of Your Information. If you are a California resident, you can tell us not to “sell” or “share” (as defined under California law) your personal information for the specific purpose of targeted advertising. Even if you opt of "sales" and "sharing", we will continue to collect, use, and disclose data for other purposes, including for providing and personalizing our service, products, and experiences; operating and improving our business; and other business purposes permitted by law and disclosed in our Privacy Policy. WBD does not sell your personal information in exchange for money. You can exercise your right to opt out by taking all of the following steps:
- California residents' right to opt out of sale or sharing for targeted advertising Sharing & Disclosure
- Websites. To opt out of sales and sharing for the specific purpose of targeted advertising on our websites, you can enable a universal opt-out mechanism, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC), or visit the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the footers of our websites. The “Your Privacy Choices” link and GPC apply to “sales” and “sharing” using personal information from this service and this browser by cookies and similar technologies. If you opt out via the link and clear your cache, or use another browser, service, or device, you will need to opt out again. If you have GPC enabled, your opt-out will apply across services on the particular browser(s) and device(s) for which GPC is enabled.
- Applications. To opt out of sales and sharing for the specific purpose of targeted advertising on phone, tablet, computer, or tv devices, you can toggle the privacy choices in the settings of the relevant app. Unless you make your choices while logged into an account, your choices apply to sales and sharing for the specific purpose of targeted advertising using personal information from the device from which you opt out. Some phone, tablet, computer, or tv devices provide additional privacy controls that may also act to limit sales and sharing for targeted advertising by WBD and other app developers. Check your device settings for more information.
- Application opt-out step: toggle privacy choices in the relevant app's settings Sharing & Disclosure
Accounts. Some of our websites and apps also support account-based login. If you have made your choices while you are logged in on a supported service, we will associate your choices with your account across all browsers and devices where you are logged into that service. If you are not logged into your account, you will need to opt out again if you clear your cache or use another browser or device. HBO MaxHBO Max
, Discovery+, Bleacher Report, and CNN support account-based opt-outs that apply to each specific service.
- Account-based opt-outs associate choices with the logged-in account; named services support them Sharing & Disclosure
Opt Out Across the Company. In addition to opting out on specific services, to opt out of other sales and sharing for the specific purpose of targeted advertising where we have associated your personal information with a targeted advertising profile in our systems used across WBD, you must use our Data Sell and Share Opt-out page on the Privacy Center. This opt-out applies across WBD and is not specific to a browser, device, or service. It is not necessary to opt out on the Data Sell and Share Opt-out page if you have already opted out while logged into an account on a supported website or app.
- Company-wide opt-out for cross-WBD targeted advertising profiles uses the Data Sell and Share Opt-out page Sharing & Disclosure
- Right to Know Categories of Information. If you are a California resident, you can ask to receive the categories of your personal information that we have collected, used, disclosed, sold, and shared; the categories of sources from which we have collected your personal information; our purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing your personal information; the categories of personal information we have disclosed or sold; and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed or sold your personal information.
- Sensitive Personal Information. We do not use or disclose “sensitive personal information” (as defined under California law) in any way that would require us to provide an opt-out opportunity under California law.
- Retention of Information: We retain personal information we collect only for so long as reasonably needed to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it. We use reasonable business criteria to establish retention periods for personal information. For example, if you register on our Services, we will store your personal information for as long as needed to maintain your account, fulfill your requests, enforce any applicable terms that govern your use of the Services, maintain appropriate records of the above, or as otherwise required by law.
- Retention limited to as long as reasonably needed; business criteria set periods Retention & Deletion
- Right to Delete for Users Under 18. If you are a registered user of one of our Services, and you are under 18 years of age, you may have the right to request removal of content or personal information posted on our Services. To request this removal, you may contact us at wbdprivacy@wbd.com or at Privacy Office, 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 700, Burbank, CA 91522. Please note that we cannot completely prevent further use or disclosure of that content or information by others once you have shared it in a publicly available forum.
- California Metrics. Please visit our CCPA Metrics Reporting page for metrics for the previous calendar year of the number of access, correction, deletion, and Do Not Sell or Share requests we received, the number fulfilled in whole or in part, and the number denied as well as the average number of days in which we substantively responded.
- California request metrics published on a CCPA Metrics Reporting page Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
Changes or Revisions to this Supplement
From time to time, we may update this US State Supplement. If there are material changes made to this State Supplement, we will provide our users with additional notice. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this Supplement so that you are up to date.
- The supplement may be updated; material changes will bring additional notice Legal Rights & Agreement Rules
How Can You Contact Us?
If you have any questions about this US State Supplement, you can contact us at wbdprivacy@wbd.com or 1-866-324-3637 or TTY: use 711 or at Privacy Office, 4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg. 700, Burbank, CA 91522.
- Questions can be directed to WBD by email, phone/TTY, or postal address Legal Rights & Agreement Rules