The policy discloses that SHEIN obtains profiling and enrichment data from commercial data brokers and aggregators for purposes including assessing influencer partnership opportunities, informing marketing strategies, and preventing fraud.
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This provision establishes that SHEIN procures third-party commercial data broker profiles on individuals, including those not yet in a direct relationship with SHEIN, which creates compliance obligations under state privacy statutes requiring disclosure of third-party data sources and honoring deletion and opt-out requests for broker-sourced data.
Previously, Shein asked users to explicitly agree or disagree with account persistence for future logins. The updated terms remove this choice entirely. Instead of a consent decision, users now see a promotional discount offer in that location. This means users lose direct control over whether Shein maintains their login session across device visits, which affects convenience and privacy preferences around authentication persistence.
View change record →New explicit disclosure that Shein purchases and uses third-party enrichment data from commercial data brokers to profile users and influencers.
View full change record →Under this provision, individuals identified as potential influencer or partnership candidates may have profiling data collected about them from commercial data brokers without direct interaction with SHEIN's services. The agreement states this data is retained for the period necessary to evaluate partnership opportunities or potential future opportunities.
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Compare across platforms →"Profiles or Enrichment Data from Commercial Data Brokers, such as profiling information regarding influencers and similar persons obtained from commercial data brokers and aggregators to supplement the information we collect, in order to assess partnership opportunities, inform marketing strategies, as well as information that assists us in preventing fraud or other illegal activities.Excerpt from Shein's Terms and Conditions
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This provision establishes that SHEIN procures third-party commercial data broker profiles on individuals, including those not yet in a direct relationship with SHEIN, which creates compliance obligations under state privacy statutes requiring disclosure of third-party data sources and honoring deletion and opt-out requests for broker-sourced data.
Under this provision, individuals identified as potential influencer or partnership candidates may have profiling data collected about them from commercial data brokers without direct interaction with SHEIN's services. The agreement states this data is retained for the period necessary to evaluate partnership opportunities or potential future opportunities.
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