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This provision establishes the operational mechanism by which user demographic and location data flows to external advertising partners. The conditional consent requirement creates a documented authorization framework that ties data sharing to affirmative user preference settings rather than default data transfer.
Bumble's updated privacy policy discloses that the new BeePitched feature processes personal data including names, phone numbers, photos, and pitch content from users and non-users. According to the policy, this information is used to operate the feature, moderate content, investigate reports, and prevent misuse. Access to pitches is limited to pitch subjects, invited contributors, authorized Bumble personnel, and service providers. The disclosure establishes what data the feature collects and how it is used, but does not describe user controls or settings for opting out of being featured in a pitch.
View change record →Bumble's privacy policy previously disclosed that the company operates servers in the US, UK, and EU. The updated policy removes the UK from this list, stating only US and EU servers. For UK-based users, this change may alter where personal data is actually stored and processed, which can affect data protection rights and latency. UK users may want to review the updated privacy policy to understand the new data storage arrangements and determine whether they align with their privacy expectations.
View change record →UK users may experience a change in data storage and processing infrastructure. The updated policy discloses that servers in the UK are no longer part of Bumble's stated network, meaning UK user data may now be processed and stored in EU data centers instead of potentially UK-based infrastructure. This could have implications for data residency expectations and regulatory compliance frameworks that apply to UK-based data processing. Review Bumble's updated data transfer documentation if you have specific data locality requirements.
View change record →Users whose consent settings enable third-party advertising data sharing will have their gender, age, IP address, and coarse location transmitted to advertisers for ad targeting purposes. Users who do not modify consent settings from defaults, or who do not disable these preferences, operate under a data sharing arrangement with third-party advertising partners.
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"To share targeted third-party advertisements on the App. Gender, Age, IP address, Coarse location. You provide us with your gender and age. You choose to provide us with optional profile information. We get IP address and coarse location data from the device you use to access the Bumble social networking service. When you have given us your consent to do so through Settings preferences under Security and Privacy, or your browser or device privacy preferences.Excerpt from Bumble's Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes the operational mechanism by which user demographic and location data flows to external advertising partners. The conditional consent requirement creates a documented authorization framework that ties data sharing to affirmative user preference settings rather than default data transfer.
Users whose consent settings enable third-party advertising data sharing will have their gender, age, IP address, and coarse location transmitted to advertisers for ad targeting purposes. Users who do not modify consent settings from defaults, or who do not disable these preferences, operate under a data sharing arrangement with third-party advertising partners.
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