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The updated privacy policy now discloses that cookies from Facebook Ads, Bing Ads, Braze, Google Ads, and LinkedIn Ads serve an additional purpose: 'SaleOfInfo'. This means data collected through these cookies may be sold or shared with third-party commercial partners, beyond their existing use for advertising and analytics. Under the revised policy, Mercury treats data from these cookies as subject to potential sale or commercial sharing. You can review Mercury's full privacy policy to understand your data rights and any available opt-out mechanisms.
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"Where required by applicable law, we honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC), and rely on consent for the use of non-essential cookies.Excerpt from Mercury's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “Where required by applicable law, we honor legally recognized opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC), and rely on consent for the use of non-essential cookies.”
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