Snapchat shares your personal data — including identifiers, interests, and behavioural data — with advertisers and advertising partners to enable targeted advertising on and off the platform.
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This provision establishes the operational framework for third-party data processing, defining the categories of service providers with access to user information and the functional purposes for which that access is granted. It creates a distinction between shared data categories (transaction and behavioral information used for service operations) and protected categories (private communications).
Data about your identity, behaviour, and inferred interests is shared with external advertising partners, reducing your control over your personal information and enabling extensive third-party profiling.
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"We share your information with our service providers, who process that information on our behalf. For example, we rely on such Service Providers to facilitate payments, measure and optimize the performance of ads, or protect the services. We do not share private communications with them.Excerpt from Snapchat's Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes the operational framework for third-party data processing, defining the categories of service providers with access to user information and the functional purposes for which that access is granted. It creates a distinction between shared data categories (transaction and behavioral information used for service operations) and protected categories (private communications).
Data about your identity, behaviour, and inferred interests is shared with external advertising partners, reducing your control over your personal information and enabling extensive third-party profiling.
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