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We use and combine the information you provide us and information about you that we collect automatically and receive from other sources... and combine it with information about the behavior of other users to make sure that your use of the Service is customized to your needs.
We use data for analysis, research and product development, including training machine learning models. This helps us make our services more convenient and easy to use, enhance the safety and security...
We process your data for necessary purposes as described in the main Policy, and for secondary purposes. We use both human and automated means to process your data.
"We may combine personal data from our users with data from external sources (e.g. from publicly available sources).Excerpt from eBay's Privacy Notice
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The clause states: “We may combine personal data from our users with data from external sources (e.g. from publicly available sources).”
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