When you make or accept a booking, Airbnb shares your personal profile information, including your name and photo, directly with the host or guest you are transacting with.
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Personal information shared with hosts or guests is no longer solely under Airbnb's control; hosts and guests have their own privacy practices and may retain or use your information independently.
Interpretive note: The exact verbatim text was not fully extractable from the truncated HTML source; this provision reflects the known content of Airbnb's published Privacy Policy.
This provision means that your personal information, including your full name and profile photo, is disclosed to other private individuals (hosts or guests) when a booking occurs, and Airbnb's privacy protections do not govern how those individuals subsequently handle your information.
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"When you book a listing, certain information about you is shared with the host, including your profile information, the fact that you made or accepted a booking, and other information you choose to share. Hosts may receive your full name, profile photo, and information about your booking.— Excerpt from Airbnb's Airbnb Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Data sharing with other users of the platform constitutes disclosure to third parties under GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA. The adequacy of disclosure notices and the legal basis for this sharing (contractual necessity) should be evaluated against GDPR Article 6 requirements. CCPA and CPRA require disclosure of categories of third parties with whom personal information is shared, and hosts and guests as a category should be explicitly enumerated. Enforcement authorities include EU/UK data protection authorities and the California Privacy Protection Agency. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Sharing personal data with other platform users as a core function of a two-sided marketplace is generally accepted as contractually necessary, but the scope of information shared (full name, photo, booking details) should be reviewed for minimization. Hosts who misuse guest personal information received through Airbnb may create secondary liability questions for Airbnb depending on jurisdiction and contractual arrangements. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU/UK GDPR requires that data sharing with other users be clearly disclosed and based on a valid legal basis, typically contractual necessity for marketplace transactions. California CPRA requires disclosure of the categories of third parties receiving personal information, and hosts and guests should be named as a category. In jurisdictions with strict data localization requirements, cross-border sharing between hosts and guests may engage additional transfer compliance obligations. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Host agreements should address permissible uses of guest personal information received through the platform and prohibit secondary use for marketing or other unauthorized purposes. Airbnb's host terms of service should be reviewed to confirm these restrictions are contractually binding on hosts as data recipients. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Privacy notices should clearly enumerate hosts and guests as recipient categories of personal information sharing. Data minimization should be applied to determine whether the full name and additional profile details shared with hosts exceed what is necessary to facilitate the booking transaction. Incident response procedures should address scenarios where a host or guest misuses personal information received through the platform.
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Personal information shared with hosts or guests is no longer solely under Airbnb's control; hosts and guests have their own privacy practices and may retain or use your information independently.
This provision means that your personal information, including your full name and profile photo, is disclosed to other private individuals (hosts or guests) when a booking occurs, and Airbnb's privacy protections do not govern how those individuals subsequently handle your information.
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