Medium shares your personal information with outside companies that help it run its business, including companies involved in advertising, analytics, fraud prevention, and payment processing.
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Your reading habits, account details, and behavioral data may be processed by companies you have not directly interacted with and whose own privacy practices you may not have reviewed.
The updated policy states that Medium and its vendors may scan, analyze, and review your content, messages, AI interactions, and associated metadata. Data sharing now explicitly includes information you submitted or posted through the service, extending beyond infrastructure support to machine learning model training and improvement. The policy does not indicate an opt-out mechanism or granular user control over this specific use of content.
View change record →This provision means your reading history, account information, and usage behavior may be shared with third-party analytics and advertising companies, potentially enabling cross-site tracking or targeted advertising based on your Medium activity.
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The types of third parties your information may be disclosed to include: our resellers and other sales and advertising partners, retailers, advertisers, ad agencies, advertising networks and platforms, information service providers, fraud monitoring and prevention providers, and publishers.
Protect us, our business, our users, and others, for example to enforce our terms of service, prevent spam or other unwanted communications, and investigate or protect against fraud
we may use, retain or share information with law enforcement or others in circumstances where a person's vital interests require protection, such as in the case of emergencies.
"We share user data with a variety of third parties including our service providers and business partners. Service providers are companies that help us operate our business, including companies that help us with fraud prevention, payment processing, customer service, analytics, and marketing. We may share personal information about you with our service providers as needed to carry out work on our behalf.Excerpt from Medium's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates GDPR Article 28 (processor agreements) and Article 44 (transfers to third countries) where service providers are located outside the EU/EEA.
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Your reading habits, account details, and behavioral data may be processed by companies you have not directly interacted with and whose own privacy practices you may not have reviewed.
This provision means your reading history, account information, and usage behavior may be shared with third-party analytics and advertising companies, potentially enabling cross-site tracking or targeted advertising based on your Medium activity.
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