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This clause prevents advertisers from collecting data from third-party websites they do not control, limiting the potential for unauthorized data harvesting via Meta's tracking infrastructure.
Meta prohibits advertisers from deploying their pixels on unowned websites, including through intermediaries, restricting the scope of permissible pixel placement.
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You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
Send content created in Mailchimp through another service.
"You (or partners acting on your behalf) may not place pixels associated with your Business Manager or ad account on websites that you do not own.Excerpt from Meta's Business Tools Terms
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This clause prevents advertisers from collecting data from third-party websites they do not control, limiting the potential for unauthorized data harvesting via Meta's tracking infrastructure.
Meta prohibits advertisers from deploying their pixels on unowned websites, including through intermediaries, restricting the scope of permissible pixel placement.
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