Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

We share personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:

We share personal information with other users of the Services. For example, if you use our Services to publish content, post comments or send private notes, certain information about you will be visible to others, such as your name, photo, bio, other account information you may provide, and information about your activities on our Services (e.g., your followers and who you follow, recent posts, claps, highlights, and responses).

We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information, such as information you submitted or posted through our Service, in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing, and to train, test, and improve technology, including machine learning models and algorithms. We and these vendors, service providers, and consultants may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata.

We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If we are going to disclose your personal information in response to legal process, we will give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we are prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our Services that we believe are improper.

We may share personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies , if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Medium, our users, the public, or others.

We share personal information with our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.