PlanetScale shares your data with advertising companies like Google so they can show you targeted ads on other websites and platforms, and to find other users similar to you.
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Your usage data, identifiers, and behavioral inferences from the PlanetScale platform may be used to target you with advertising on completely separate third-party platforms, which many users would not anticipate from a developer database service.
Your online activity data and behavioral inferences collected while using PlanetScale's services may be shared with advertising partners including Google, enabling cross-platform targeted advertising and lookalike audience targeting, unless you opt out through the website footer or Cookie Policy.
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we may use, retain or share information with law enforcement or others in circumstances where a person's vital interests require protection, such as in the case of emergencies.
The types of third parties your information may be disclosed to include: our resellers and other sales and advertising partners, retailers, advertisers, ad agencies, advertising networks and platforms, information service providers, fraud monitoring and prevention providers, and publishers.
"Interest-based advertising. We may engage third-party advertising companies, such as Google, to display our ads on their online services. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate advertising for our Services to them or similar users on other online platforms.Excerpt from PlanetScale's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages CPRA's definition of 'sharing' personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, which triggers opt-out rights under California Civil Code 1798.120 regardless of whether a sale occurs.
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Your usage data, identifiers, and behavioral inferences from the PlanetScale platform may be used to target you with advertising on completely separate third-party platforms, which many users would not anticipate from a developer database service.
Your online activity data and behavioral inferences collected while using PlanetScale's services may be shared with advertising partners including Google, enabling cross-platform targeted advertising and lookalike audience targeting, unless you opt out through the website footer or Cookie Policy.
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