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Browsing Data Used for Personalized Advertising

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Users' detailed on-platform behavioral activity — not just purchases — is used to build personalized advertising, meaning routine browsing generates data with advertising value.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium Apr 29, 2026

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.

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Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Your engagement activity on Shein's platform, including browsing and cart behavior, is used to target you with personalized advertising.

How other platforms handle this

Square Medium

we may use this information to make it easier for you to find the people you want to send payments to, for account and identity verification and fraud prevention purposes, to reduce the risk you will send payments to the wrong person, or to provide other personalized services.

Lyft Medium

To grow the Lyft Platform and to share partner opportunities that are relevant to you, we use your personal information, including information we infer about you or receive from marketing parties, to provide Lyft and third party marketing, advertising, and promotions...

Google Cloud Medium

We evaluate Service Data to help us improve the performance and functionality of Cloud Services.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Data about how you engage with our Services, such as browsing, adding to your shopping cart, saving items, placing an order, and returns) for market research, statistical analysis, and the display of personalized advertising...

— Excerpt from Shein's Shein Terms and Conditions

Applicable regulations

CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
ePrivacy Directive
European Union
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union

Provision details

Document information
Document
Shein Terms and Conditions
Entity
Shein
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-036811
Document ID
CA-D-00261
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
ff7d25b646312ea7b5398e6e8e4a8277e6e1be33a20bc33753eca845e5100edb
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 04:29 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Shein
Document: Shein Terms and Conditions
Record ID: CA-P-036811
Captured: 2026-07-09 04:29:08 UTC
SHA-256: ff7d25b646312ea7…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/shein/shein-terms-and-conditions/provision/CA-P-036811/browsing-data-used-for-personalized-advertising/
Accessed: July 12, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Shein's Browsing Data Used for Personalized Advertising clause do?

Users' detailed on-platform behavioral activity — not just purchases — is used to build personalized advertising, meaning routine browsing generates data with advertising value.

How does this clause affect you?

Your engagement activity on Shein's platform, including browsing and cart behavior, is used to target you with personalized advertising.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 276 platforms. See the full comparison.

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