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Third-Party Targeted Advertising and Cross-Device Tracking

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What it is

FanDuel and its advertising partners track your online activity across websites and apps, including using your email address in hashed form as a tracking identifier, to deliver targeted ads to you on other platforms.

This analysis describes what FanDuel'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

ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Cross-device and cross-site advertising tracking using hashed email addresses means your FanDuel activity can follow you across the internet even if you do not use cookies, making it difficult to fully limit tracking through standard browser controls alone.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium Apr 29, 2026

The updated privacy policy no longer explicitly covers the FanDuel Fantasy Picks platform (www.fanduel.com/picks) and its mobile app. Previously, the policy stated it applied to the DFS Site, Skill G…

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Your browsing behavior, device identifiers, location data, and hashed email address may be used to target you with ads across unrelated websites and apps, and FanDuel may use these same mechanisms to advertise on behalf of third-party companies, not just itself.

What you can do

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How other platforms handle this

American Airlines Medium

American gets this information by using technologies, including cookies, web beacons, and mobile device geolocation to provide and improve our Interactive Services and advertising, including across browsers and devices (also known as cross-device linking). This technical information may be combined ...

Palantir Medium

We use Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, LinkedIn Insight Tag, and other third-party analytics and advertising tools to collect information about how visitors use our website. This may include information about your device, browser, IP address, and pages visited.

Windsurf Medium

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store Personal Information, including your browser type, operating system version, domains, IP address, the URL of the page that referred you, referring/exit pages and information about your interactions ...

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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We work with a number of companies that assist in marketing our services to you on third party websites. These companies may collect information about online activities conducted on a particular computer, browser or device over time and across third-party websites or online services for the purpose of delivering advertising that is likely to be of greater interest to you. Just as these technologies may be used to target ads on our websites and apps, we, or our advertising partners, may use these same technologies and data points (e.g., mobile identifiers, cookie identifiers, location-based data), through our Services or through other services, to target advertising (for ourselves or other companies) on other sites or mobile apps. Sometimes, these identifiers may be derived from a hashed or encrypted version of personal information such as your email address.

— Excerpt from FanDuel's FanDuel Privacy Policy

ConductAtlas Analysis

Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Cross-device tracking and the use of hashed email addresses as persistent identifiers implicates CCPA and CPRA definitions of personal information and sensitive data sharing. The FTC has scrutinized cross-device tracking practices and issued guidance on consumer notice requirements. The use of email-derived identifiers for targeted advertising may engage the CAN-SPAM Act and applicable state marketing laws. EU and UK users, if any, would be subject to GDPR and ePrivacy Directive requirements for consent-based tracking. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The use of hashed email addresses as persistent tracking identifiers across platforms is a technically sophisticated practice that consumers are unlikely to anticipate from standard cookie consent disclosures. The policy discloses multiple opt-out pathways but does not guarantee that all advertising partners honor opt-outs, and the opt-outs are browser and device-specific. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: California creates the highest exposure for this practice given CPRA's treatment of sharing personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as a regulated activity requiring opt-out. Colorado and Connecticut have similar requirements. Illinois BIPA may be relevant if biometric-adjacent identifiers are derived from facial recognition in profile photos, though the policy does not assert this. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: The advertising partner ecosystem is not enumerated in the policy, making it difficult for compliance teams to assess the full scope of third-party tracking. Contracts with advertising partners should specify permissible use of user data, including hashed identifiers, and should require partners to honor opt-out signals. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should confirm that advertising partner contracts require compliance with applicable privacy opt-out signals including GPC. The use of hashed email addresses as tracking identifiers should be documented in data flow maps and assessed against state law definitions of personal information sale and sharing.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC has authority over cross-device tracking practices and unfair or deceptive advertising practices including the use of persistent identifiers derived from personal information
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Applicable regulations

CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
TCPA
United States Federal
Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
FanDuel Privacy Policy
Entity
FanDuel
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 9, 2026
Last verified
May 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-007237
Document ID
CA-D-00351
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
b48daa833954c10a3ee302d01c130fdcd39f1fc8b8b2696b6ac743e3cc8857b0
Analysis generated
May 9, 2026 16:29 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: FanDuel
Document: FanDuel Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-007237
Captured: 2026-05-09 16:29:06 UTC
SHA-256: b48daa833954c10a…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/fanduel/fanduel-privacy-policy/third-party-targeted-advertising-and-cross-device-tracking/
Accessed: May 13, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
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Medium
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does FanDuel's Third-Party Targeted Advertising and Cross-Device Tracking clause do?

Cross-device and cross-site advertising tracking using hashed email addresses means your FanDuel activity can follow you across the internet even if you do not use cookies, making it difficult to fully limit tracking through standard browser controls alone.

How does this clause affect you?

Your browsing behavior, device identifiers, location data, and hashed email address may be used to target you with ads across unrelated websites and apps, and FanDuel may use these same mechanisms to advertise on behalf of third-party companies, not just itself.

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