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The clause establishes the operational mechanism through which Pinterest generates behavioral inferences at scale, enabling the service to construct granular audience segments for content ranking and advertising targeting without requiring explicit user categorization.
Interpretive note: The policy does not specify whether inferences include categories that would qualify as sensitive personal information under GDPR or CPRA, creating ambiguity about the applicable processing obligations for inference-based profiling.
Under this provision, users' platform interactions are subject to inference-based profiling that creates derived interest attributes used for personalizing recommendations and selecting advertisements. The terms authorize combining this inferred data with external information sources to expand the scope of interest classification.
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"We infer information about you based on how you use Pinterest. For example, if you engage with Pins about travel, we may infer you are interested in travel. We use this information to provide more relevant recommendations and advertising. We may combine the information we collect about you with information from other sources to make inferences about your interests, preferences, and other characteristics.— Excerpt from Pinterest's Pinterest Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes the operational mechanism through which Pinterest generates behavioral inferences at scale, enabling the service to construct granular audience segments for content ranking and advertising targeting without requiring explicit user categorization.
Under this provision, users' platform interactions are subject to inference-based profiling that creates derived interest attributes used for personalizing recommendations and selecting advertisements. The terms authorize combining this inferred data with external information sources to expand the scope of interest classification.
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