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DoorDash is using third parties' behavioral data—your contacts' ordering history—to influence what merchants you see, without those contacts' activity being directly attributed to them in communications to you.
If you have synced your contacts, your merchant recommendations are shaped by your contacts' ordering locations, though DoorDash will not tell you which specific contact ordered where or what they ordered.
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we may use this information to make it easier for you to find the people you want to send payments to, for account and identity verification and fraud prevention purposes, to reduce the risk you will send payments to the wrong person, or to provide other personalized services.
"if you have uploaded or synched your contacts, based upon where your contacts have ordered (however, we will not provide you with information on where a specific contact(s) ordered or what a specific contact(s) ordered)Excerpt from DoorDash's Privacy Policy
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DoorDash is using third parties' behavioral data—your contacts' ordering history—to influence what merchants you see, without those contacts' activity being directly attributed to them in communications to you.
If you have synced your contacts, your merchant recommendations are shaped by your contacts' ordering locations, though DoorDash will not tell you which specific contact ordered where or what they ordered.
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