8 Total
3 High severity
5 Medium severity
0 Low severity
Summary

This is Target's Privacy Policy, explaining how the company collects and uses your personal data including your purchase history, location, browsing behavior, device identifiers, and even inferences about your lifestyle when you shop in-store, online, or use the Target app or Target Circle loyalty program. The most important thing to know is that Target shares your personal information — including purchase history and behavioral inferences — with advertising partners through its Roundel retail media network, and you must actively opt out to limit this data sharing. California, Virginia, Colorado, and Connecticut residents can submit a privacy rights request at Target's privacy portal to access, delete, or opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal data.

Technical Summary

This document is Target Corporation's consumer-facing Privacy Policy governing the collection, use, and sharing of personal information across Target's retail, digital, and loyalty program touchpoints, with legal basis rooted in U.S. consumer protection and state privacy statutes rather than any single federal omnibus framework. The policy creates obligations for Target to provide transparency about data practices and grants consumers rights including access, deletion, correction, and opt-out of data sale/sharing, while obligating users to provide accurate information and accept Target's data practices as a condition of service use. Notably, Target explicitly describes sharing consumer data with advertising partners, data brokers functioning as 'service providers,' and retail media network participants (Roundel), and retains inferences derived from purchase history and browsing behavior — practices that create heightened CCPA/CPRA exposure and reputational risk around behavioral profiling at mass-market scale. The policy engages CCPA/CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100 et seq.), the Virginia CDPA, Colorado CPA, Connecticut CTDPA, and other emerging state comprehensive privacy laws, as well as COPPA (children's data), the FTC Act Section 5 (unfair/deceptive practices), and CAN-SPAM/TCPA for marketing communications; material compliance considerations include the adequacy of Target's opt-out mechanisms for cross-context behavioral advertising, its data retention practices, and the scope of its retail media data sharing with third-party advertisers through Roundel.

Institutional Analysis

REGULATORY EXPOSURE: This policy engages CCPA/CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §§1798.100–1798.199.100) enforced by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and California AG, requiring opt-out rights for…

REGULATORY EXPOSURE: This policy engages CCPA/CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §§1798.100–1798.199.100) enforced by the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and California AG, requiring opt-out rights for sale and sharing of personal information and sensitive data use limitations; Virginia CDPA (Va. Cod…

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Evidence Provenance
Captured April 1, 2026 06:07 UTC
Document ID CA-D-000260
Version ID CA-V-000412
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SHA-256 c0dab7d90ce884da0e1b061eea5ee69b030ffcd4af221db04be5a3f056c736e8
✓ Snapshot stored ✓ Text extracted ✓ Change verified ✓ Cryptographically signed
Change Timeline
Analyzed Changes

2 changes analyzed since monitoring began.

What changed Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on April 01, 2026. Change detected: 1 sentence(s) added, 1 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 291 sentences after update.
Consumer impact Target made a minor formatting or content change to their privacy policy, swapping out a 'Sponsored' label for a list of promotional content categories. This change does not appear to affect your personal data rights, how your information is collected, or how it is shared. No action is needed in response to this update.
Why it matters The removal of a 'Sponsored' label could slightly reduce transparency about commercially promoted content, though this change has no impact on how Target handles your personal data.
What changed Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on March 20, 2026. Change detected: 1 sentence(s) removed, 1 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 290 sentences after update.
Consumer impact Target's March 20, 2026 privacy policy update removed a list of promotional content categories and added a 'Sponsored' label to a loading element. This change does not affect how Target collects, uses, or shares your personal data. There is no action consumers need to take in response to this update.
Why it matters This change does not materially affect Target shoppers' privacy rights or data practices. It is a cosmetic update to navigational or UI elements embedded in the policy document.
High Severity — 3 provisions
Medium Severity — 5 provisions