Spotify shares your personal data with and receives data from advertising partners, analytics providers, payment processors, technical service partners, and third-party apps or devices you connect to your account.
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The policy authorizes data flows to and from multiple categories of third parties, including advertising partners who may share audience data with Spotify to enable targeted advertising; the scope of these flows determines what data about you is available to external parties and for what purposes.
Your personal data, including usage behavior and device information, may be shared with advertising partners, analytics providers, payment partners, and technical service partners; advertising partners may also send data about you to Spotify to enable interest-based ad targeting, subject to your tailored advertising preferences.
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"We receive some of the data mentioned above from third parties... If you connect your Spotify account to a third party application, service or device, we may collect and use information from them. This collection is to make the integration possible... We work with technical service partners that give us certain data. This includes mapping IP addresses to non-precise location data (e.g., country or region, city, state). This makes it possible for Spotify to provide the Spotify Service, content, and features.Excerpt from Spotify's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Third-party data sharing for advertising purposes constitutes 'sharing' of personal information under CCPA/CPRA, triggering opt-out rights and disclosure requirements.
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The policy authorizes data flows to and from multiple categories of third parties, including advertising partners who may share audience data with Spotify to enable targeted advertising; the scope of these flows determines what data about you is available to external parties and for what purposes.
Your personal data, including usage behavior and device information, may be shared with advertising partners, analytics providers, payment partners, and technical service partners; advertising partners may also send data about you to Spotify to enable interest-based ad targeting, subject to your tailored advertising preferences.
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