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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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If we're involved in a reorganization, merger, acquisition, sale of some or all of our assets or other business transaction, depending on the circumstances, we may disclose any of the information described in Section 2 above...
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"Social/advertising networks and data analytics providers, to conduct analytics and place advertisements on our behalf on third-party websites and services.Excerpt from Mercury's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “Social/advertising networks and data analytics providers, to conduct analytics and place advertisements on our behalf on third-party websites and services.”
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