Third parties including advertising networks and social media companies use their own tracking technologies on American's websites and apps to collect information about your visits, independent of what American itself collects.
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Third-party trackers on aa.com operate under their own privacy policies, meaning data about your visit may be collected and used by entities you have no direct relationship with and whose data practices American does not control.
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When you visit aa.com or use the American Airlines app, third-party advertising and analytics companies automatically collect data about your activity on those platforms, and that data is governed by the third parties' own privacy policies rather than American's.
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"When you use our Interactive Services, we and third parties on our Interactive Services may automatically receive information using tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and similar technologies (collectively, 'Cookies'). This information includes your browser type, IP address, type of operating system you use, the name of your internet service provider, mobile advertising identifiers, and pages visited on our Interactive Services. Some of our Interactive Services include social network or other [... document truncated ...]Excerpt from American Airlines's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Third-party tracking on American's owned digital properties engages the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR for EU/EEA users, requiring informed consent for non-essential cookies placed by third parties.
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Third-party trackers on aa.com operate under their own privacy policies, meaning data about your visit may be collected and used by entities you have no direct relationship with and whose data practices American does not control.
When you visit aa.com or use the American Airlines app, third-party advertising and analytics companies automatically collect data about your activity on those platforms, and that data is governed by the third parties' own privacy policies rather than American's.
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