Privacy Policy
Last updated: 12/30/2025.
This privacy policy contains important information about how we use your personal information. When you use our platforms or otherwise interact with us, whether through websites, mobile apps, or otherwise, online or offline (collectively, “Services”), we may collect information about you, which may include information that may be considered “personal information” under applicable laws. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
We respect the privacy of individuals who interact with our business and where you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner with that information.
In this privacy policy, references to “Daily Kos,” “Kos Media, LLC,” “us,” “we,” or “our” are all references to Daily Kos.
We have prepared this privacy policy to help you understand more about how we collect, use, and disclose information that we may collect in the course of the Services.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about any aspect of this policy or how Kos Media handles your information, please email our privacy team at privacy@dailykos.com.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
We may collect information about you that falls into the following categories:
1) Directly from you (i.e., when you create an account, contact us, complete a survey or petition, or when you make a purchase),
2) From third parties such as social media networks,
3) From the device and browser that you use to access the Service, and
4) From cookies and similar technologies.
Information collected directly from you
Identifiers
Name, contact information such as address, e-mail address, phone number, and social media username or account information
Demographic Information
Sometimes we conduct surveys and may ask you for gender, age, year of birth, zip code, and whether you are a registered voter.
Basic account information
Your username, password, and if applicable, password reminder questions and answers
Payment and contact information
Donation and purchase information for actions taken directly with Kos Media.
Information collected automatically
Information from other sources
We may access information about you from third-party sources and platforms, for example, asking a third-party service provider for demographic information or updated contact information for you. This information may include:
We may use the information that we collect about you:
We may share information that we collect about you:
Some Services are offered to you free of charge because we cover the cost of providing our Services by displaying advertisements. Many of these advertisements are targeted, which means that advertisers tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example, men over 25 years old). The targeted ads on the Services may be provided by us, or they may be provided by a third-party vendor. We may use automated decision-making to customize your experience based on your personal information. You can learn more about targeted ads, including how to opt out of receiving them, below.
We may also participate in affiliate advertising and allow affiliate links to be encoded on some of our pages. This means that we may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via affiliate links and affiliate partners may use cookies to understand your use of the Services.
This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Kos Media, LLC. The Services may include links to other sites or apps or otherwise include features or offerings that are linked from or integrated in the Services that are operated by third-party companies. This can include, for example, payment processing for the Services, donations for the Services, and campaigns and donations organized by third-party companies.
We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party companies. We encourage our users to be aware when they are using third-party offerings in the services, as when you use these offerings, you may be providing information to both us and a third-party company, and you should review the third-party company’s privacy policy to be sure that you know how it will use any data that it collects. Likewise, we encourage our users to be aware when they leave the Services, which may occur during certain payment or donation features as well as certain campaigns or other events that are handled by third-party companies, and you should again review the third-party company’s privacy policy to be sure that you know how it will use any data that it collects
Payments are handled by a third-party payment processor, whose terms and privacy policy will govern your transaction.
We expressly disclaim any and all liability related to your use of any third-party offerings, even if linked from or embedded within the Services, including any liability arising from those third-party companies’ privacy practices.
Email/SMS
You may opt out by clicking “unsubscribe” in email messages or texting STOP to 62340. No purchase necessary. Message & Data Rates May Apply.
Cookies and Other Identifiers
A cookie and other tracking technology is a piece of code that is stored on your computer or device to help websites and apps remember you and collect information about your use of the Services. As mentioned, we use a range of cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. We use these technologies for a variety of purposes, such as to remember you when you return to our websites or to identify your activities as you use the Services. This may involve storing a unique identifier on your computer or device.
You may also receive cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies from third-party network advertisers, including advertising service vendors that serve ads into our website or apps. We and these third-party advertisers may use the information collected by these cookies and technologies to help serve advertising tailored to your interests and measure advertisements across the Services and other websites and apps.
You may be able to opt out of browser cookies delivered through the Services by changing the setting on your web browser. Please be aware that this may disable all cookies delivered to your browser, not just the ones delivered through the Services, and that you may not be able to use all of the Services if you do not allow cookies.
You may disable web beacons in e-mail messages by turning off images in your e-mail client. Please be aware that by turning off images you may not be able to view content from the Services as they were designed to be viewed.
Your web browser may have settings that allow you to transmit a “DO NOT TRACK” signal when you visit various websites or use online services. Like many websites, the website for the Services is not designed to respond to “DO NOT TRACK” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “DO NOT TRACK” signals, visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com/.
Google Ads and Analytics
For more info on how third parties collect and use information, you can go here:
www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
You can visit Google’s Ads Preference Manager to opt out of Google’s use of cookies. You can also visit Network Advertising Initiatives opt-out page to opt out of other third parties’ use of cookies.
We may use certain web analytics services, including Google Analytics, to help us understand and analyze how visitors use our Services. For more information on how Google Analytics uses data collected through our Services, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You may also be able to opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Other Ad Opt Outs
As mentioned, we and other advertisers may deliver advertisements targeted to your interests; and we and other advertisers may work with other third-party vendors to deliver targeted advertising. These vendors may use cookies or other technologies to collect information about your online activity, such as visited websites and pages, as part of assessing ads that are believed to be most relevant for you. Many of these vendors are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, and you can opt out of those vendors’ delivery of targeted advertising to you by visiting www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and https://youradchoices.com/control/.
Please note that there may be limitations to some of these opt-out mechanisms. For example, an opt-out may apply only to the web browser used to activate the opt-out or may not work properly if the browser is set to refuse cookies. Additionally, vendors who are not participants in the Network Advertising Initiative or who contract with other third-party services for hosting ads may not have as ready a mechanism for opting out.
If you would like to access, review, revise or delete personal data we have collected from you, please contact us at: help@dailykos.com.
We retain the information we collect about you for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which we collected the information and to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
We may make backups of certain data, which we may retain for longer than the original data. For retention of backups, we assess the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data, the purposes for which we may need to use such backups and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
As mentioned, we may aggregate and de-identify your information in such a way that you may not reasonably be identified from such aggregated or de-identified data. We may retain such aggregated or de-identified data indefinitely without further notice to you.
We use administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect the information that we collect through the Services. Unfortunately, no security measure is perfect; and we cannot guarantee perfect security or that information will never be accessed or used in an unauthorized way.
This Privacy Notice supplements the information in the Daily Kos Privacy Policy and applies
California residents have the right to:
To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@dailykos.com. We may verify your identity before processing your request.
Kos Media LLC is based and operates in the United States. If you are using our Services outside the United States, please be aware that information that you provide or that we obtain through your use of the Services may be transferred to and processed in the United States. By continuing to use the Services, you acknowledge and agree that your information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions other than your own. Privacy and data protection laws and regulations in the United States may not be equivalent to those in your country of residence.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, including children under the age of 13 to the extent that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act applies or children under the age of 16 to the extent the General Data Protection Regulations apply. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from children under applicable laws without verifiable parental consent, we will delete that information from our database promptly.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updated Privacy Policy will be posted with the new date. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information.
How To You Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, you may contact us at: privacy@dailykos.com.
If you are located in the EEA and have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the manner in which your information is processed or would like to submit a request to us, please contact:
Daily Kos
Re: Privacy Request
GDPR@dailykos.com