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Okta's use of targeting and advertising cookies means user activity is being used for commercial marketing purposes, not solely for service functionality.
Interpretive note: The excerpt also references tracking activity over time and across different channels, which is a distinct effect recorded in omitted_material rather than merged into the canonical claim.
Okta's use of these cookies permits Okta to track activity for marketing purposes across web channels.
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We, or vendors we engage, may automatically collect information about your use of our website or services through cookies and similar technologies. This may include navigational and network-related activity...
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"We use targeting and advertising cookies to help us understand our marketing efforts and to reach potential customers across the web...track your activity overtime and across different channelsExcerpt from Okta's Privacy Policy
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Okta's use of targeting and advertising cookies means user activity is being used for commercial marketing purposes, not solely for service functionality.
Okta's use of these cookies permits Okta to track activity for marketing purposes across web channels.
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