Khan Academy shares your personal data with outside companies that help run its platform, and also with advertising partners who may use your data to target ads at you.
Your personal data and usage activity on Khan Academy may be shared with advertising partners who can use it to target ads at you, and with analytics vendors who process your data on Khan Academy's behalf — this applies even to student users.
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Compare across platforms →On a platform primarily used by students and minors, sharing data with advertising partners is a significant privacy concern that parents and educators should be aware of, as it may result in behavioral profiling of young users.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Sharing personal data with advertising partners implicates COPPA (16 C.F.R. Part 312) if any child users' data is shared; CCPA/CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.120) grants California residents the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; GDPR Article 6 requires a lawful basis for each category of third-party data sharing; FTC Act Section 5 applies to deceptive or unfair data sharing practices. FERPA prohibits disclosure of education records to third parties without consent, relevant where district accounts are in use. (2)
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