Pinterest (US)
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The clause
Some of these activities may be considered "targeted advertising" "sharing" or "selling" as those terms are defined under certain state privacy laws in the US. You can opt out of Pinterest using and disclosing your information for these purposes. To do so, visit your Privacy and Data Settings.
How this grade was reached
The three axes
Each is evidenced separately and may have been read on a different day. The date under each clause is the date of that clause, not of this page.
What refusing costs you
A setting, depth unverified
Some of these activities may be considered "targeted advertising" "sharing" or "selling" as those terms are defined under certain state privacy laws in the US. You can opt out of Pinterest using and disclosing your information for these purposes. To do so, visit your Privacy and Data Settings.
Who receives you
Sold on
- Advertising partners, on and off Pinterest, Facebook Ads and Google Marketing Platform (named examples), Advertisers receiving performance data, Vendors processing on Pinterest's behalf
To do this, we disclose information such as cookie IDs, your IP address, or a hashed version of your email address to third parties, such as Facebook Ads, Google Marketing Platform, and others who may combine that information with other information they already have about you and deliver ads about Pinterest to you.
Whether the refusal covers everything
The document does not address 5 points about what the refusal covers.
- Whether it applies to data already collected
- Whether it covers in-store purchases
- Whether it covers profiles inferred about you
- Whether it binds a device or your account
- Whether it expires
Note that you will still see ads on our Services, but they will not be informed by offsite data.
Who receives you
Pinterest (US) doesn't publish a count of who receives this data.
- Google (US)Graded C
- Meta (US)Graded C
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