The policy authorizes Audible to share personal data including identifiers, usage data, and listening history with Amazon.com and its subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes of improving products and services across the Amazon network.
This analysis describes what Audible's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This provision establishes a broad data-sharing authorization that extends personal data collected by Audible to the full Amazon affiliate network, which includes advertising, retail, and cloud services entities. Compliance teams should assess whether this cross-affiliate sharing is adequately disclosed in consent mechanisms and whether it triggers CCPA sale or sharing definitions or GDPR controller-to-controller transfer obligations.
Interpretive note: The scope of Amazon affiliates is not enumerated in the policy, and whether this sharing constitutes sale or sharing under CCPA/CPRA may depend on the purposes for which affiliate entities use the data.
Under this clause, personal data collected through Audible including listening history, account identifiers, and usage data may be shared with Amazon.com and its affiliated entities. The agreement does not limit this sharing to specific operational purposes, which means the data may be used by Amazon affiliates for their own product and advertising functions.
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"Audible shares your personal information with Amazon.com, Inc. and the other subsidiaries and affiliates of Amazon.com, Inc. in order to provide and improve our and their products and services.Excerpt from Audible's Privacy Notice
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates CCPA/CPRA definitions of sharing and sale of personal information, GDPR Articles governing data controller obligations and lawful transfer bases, and FTC Act unfair or deceptive practices standards.
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This provision establishes a broad data-sharing authorization that extends personal data collected by Audible to the full Amazon affiliate network, which includes advertising, retail, and cloud services entities. Compliance teams should assess whether this cross-affiliate sharing is adequately disclosed in consent mechanisms and whether it triggers CCPA sale or sharing definitions or GDPR controller-to-controller transfer obligations.
Under this clause, personal data collected through Audible including listening history, account identifiers, and usage data may be shared with Amazon.com and its affiliated entities. The agreement does not limit this sharing to specific operational purposes, which means the data may be used by Amazon affiliates for their own product and advertising functions.
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