“We may receive information about your visits to an advertiser's site, or purchases you made from them, or information about your interests from a third-party service, which we might use to help show you ads on the Service.”
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Pinterest may combine data it receives from external advertisers and third-party services with your on-platform activity to target advertising, meaning your offsite behavior informs the ads you see.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses 'may' twice, indicating both the receipt of data and its use for ads are conditional rather than certain. Both qualifiers are preserved in the canonical claim.
Your visits to advertiser websites, purchases from advertisers, and interest data held by third parties may be shared with Pinterest and used to serve ads to you on the Service.
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Pinterest may combine data it receives from external advertisers and third-party services with your on-platform activity to target advertising, meaning your offsite behavior informs the ads you see.
Your visits to advertiser websites, purchases from advertisers, and interest data held by third parties may be shared with Pinterest and used to serve ads to you on the Service.
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