10 Total
2 High severity
8 Medium severity
0 Low severity
Summary

Target's privacy policy describes how Target collects and uses personal information across its stores, website, mobile app, Target Circle loyalty program, Target Plus marketplace, and RedCard financial products. The policy states that Target collects identifiers, payment information, biometric data including face geometry from beauty try-on tools, precise geolocation, browsing activity, purchase history, and inferences about consumer preferences, and authorizes sharing this data with advertising and analytics partners, marketplace sellers, and loyalty program partners. California residents and residents of several other states are granted specific rights to access, correct, delete, or opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information through mechanisms described in the policy.

Technical / Legal Breakdown

This document is Target Corporation's privacy policy governing the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal information across Target's retail, digital, and loyalty program ecosystems, with stated legal bases including consent, contractual necessity, and compliance with applicable law. The policy states that Target collects identifiers, contact information, payment card data, biometric identifiers (including face geometry data from beauty try-on features), precise geolocation, browsing and search history, purchase history, inferences drawn from personal information, and sensitive personal information such as health-related data; the terms authorize sharing of this data with advertising partners, analytics providers, data brokers operating as service providers, Target Plus marketplace sellers, and loyalty program partners including Ulta Beauty and Marriott. Notably, the policy discloses the collection of biometric identifiers and face geometry data in connection with augmented reality beauty features, which engages state biometric privacy statutes (including the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and similar laws in Texas and Washington) that impose consent, retention, and destruction obligations that may constrain how the terms apply in practice. The policy engages the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by CPRA, state consumer protection statutes, and the FTC Act; California residents receive enumerated rights including the right to know, correct, delete, opt out of sale or sharing, and limit use of sensitive personal information, while residents of additional states including Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and others receive analogous state-law rights under frameworks the policy acknowledges by reference to a state privacy rights table.

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45 important changes detected

45 versions captured · Last updated: July 2026

What changed The provided diff context contains primarily technical HTML and JavaScript code from Target's website infrastructure rather than substantive privacy policy content changes. The BEFORE and AFTER sections show identical core privacy policy text ('At Target, we want you to know how we collect, use, share, and protect information about you') with only minor timestamp and data structure differences in the backend payload. No material changes to privacy commitments, data handling practices, consumer rights, or disclosure obligations are evident in the detected modification.
Why this matters The detected change appears to be a technical infrastructure or formatting update to Target's privacy policy page rather than a substantive modification to privacy commitments or consumer rights. The core privacy policy language stating Target's intent to explain how information is collected, used, shared, and protected remains unchanged. No new obligations, restrictions, or expanded permissions are evident in the modified content.
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What changed Target's privacy policy page was updated on July 3, 2026, but the provided HTML diff shows only technical asset and script changes, CSS file references, and cached query data updates that reflect routine web infrastructure maintenance. No substantive policy language modifications affecting data collection, use, sharing, retention, or user rights are evident in the detected changes.
Why this matters No material changes to Target's privacy practices, rights, or obligations are evident from this update. The detected modifications appear to be technical updates to page infrastructure, asset references, and cached data. The underlying privacy policy terms remain unchanged.
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July 2, 2026 low

Target updated its Privacy Policy on July 2, 2026, with 5 sentences modified across 313 total sentences in the document. The DIFF context provided consists of HTML markup, JavaScript configuration, …

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July 1, 2026 low

Target's Privacy Policy was updated on July 1, 2026. The change involved modifications to 5 sentences across the policy document, which now contains 313 total sentences. The specific substantive changes …

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June 30, 2026 low

Target's Privacy Policy page on its website was updated on June 30, 2026, with minor technical modifications to the underlying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript infrastructure. Five sentences were modified within …

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June 29, 2026 low

The provided diff context contains HTML/JavaScript markup rather than actual privacy policy text changes. The detected change notes that 4 sentences were modified in Target's Privacy Policy, updated on June …

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June 28, 2026 low

Target's Privacy Policy webpage was updated on June 28, 2026. The change appears to be primarily technical and formatting-related, affecting the HTML structure and asset loading of the page rather …

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June 26, 2026 low

Target's Privacy Policy webpage was updated on June 26, 2026. The change detection identified 5 sentences modified in the document, which now contains 313 total sentences. The specific content changes …

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June 25, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy was updated on June 25, 2026. The change detection shows 4 sentence modifications in a 313-sentence document, but the diff context provided consists almost entirely of unrelated …

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June 24, 2026 low

Target updated its privacy policy landing page and global navigation banners. The change involves technical updates to the HTML document structure, including modifications to feature flag configurations, webpack bundle identifiers, …

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June 23, 2026 low

The detected change involved modifications to 5 sentences in Target's privacy policy document structure, captured on June 23, 2026. The core policy content appears substantively unchanged based on the provided …

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June 22, 2026 low

Target updated its Privacy Policy on June 22, 2026. Five sentences were modified in the document, which now contains 313 sentences. The change detection system identified modifications to the policy …

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June 22, 2026 low

Target's Privacy Policy webpage was updated on June 22, 2026. The detected changes involve modifications to 5 sentences within the policy document, which now contains 313 total sentences. The changes …

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June 21, 2026 low

Target updated its Target Privacy Policy on June 21, 2026. The change involved 5 sentence modifications within the 313-sentence document. The document continues to describe how Target collects, uses, shares, …

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June 21, 2026 low

The DIFF data provided is HTML/JavaScript infrastructure code rather than privacy policy text. The document structure shows Target's privacy policy page framework was updated between June 15, 2026 and June …

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June 19, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 19, 2026. Change detected: 5 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 18, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 18, 2026. Change detected: 5 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 18, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 18, 2026. Change detected: 5 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 17, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 17, 2026. Change detected: 5 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 16, 2026 low

Target updated its Privacy Policy on June 15, 2026, making 7 sentence-level modifications across 313 total sentences. The specific changes detected in the provided diff involve updated links to state-specific …

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June 16, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy page was updated on June 16, 2026, but the provided diff consists primarily of HTML markup and JavaScript configuration changes rather than substantive policy language changes. The …

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June 15, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 15, 2026. Change detected: 21 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 15, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 15, 2026. Change detected: 4 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 14, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 14, 2026. Change detected: 4 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 13, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 13, 2026. Change detected: 5 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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June 12, 2026 low

The change detected in Target's privacy policy document appears to be a removal of a prehydration script element (`<script id="beacon-prehydration">`) that was present in the before version but absent in …

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June 12, 2026 low

Target added a new beacon tracking script to its website that fires on page prehydration, based on the insertion of a `<script id="beacon-prehydration">` tag that calls `/api/beacon/top-of-funnel?beaconType=prehydration&formFactor=desktop`. This technical change …

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June 12, 2026 low

The change detected in Target's privacy policy involves technical updates to the website backend, including modified CSS stylesheets and JavaScript bundle hashes. The actual policy content remains substantively the same …

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June 11, 2026 low

The captured document is a web page snapshot showing Target's Privacy Policy landing page with no substantive policy language changes detected between the two HTML versions. The change metadata indicates …

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June 11, 2026 low

The change detected involves modifications to Target's privacy policy page HTML and associated server-side rendering data captured on June 11, 2026. The diff shows updates to backend configuration variables (geographic …

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June 10, 2026 low

This change involves modifications to four sentences in Target's Privacy Policy published on June 10, 2026. The diff context provided consists primarily of HTML markup and JavaScript code rather than …

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June 10, 2026 low

The detected change is within the HTML/web framework code that serves Target's privacy policy page, not within the privacy policy document itself. The diff shows changes to server-side location variables …

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June 10, 2026 unknown

Target updated their Target Privacy Policy on June 10, 2026. Change detected: 136 sentence(s) added, 114 sentence(s) removed, 120 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 313 sentences after update.

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May 16, 2026 low

Target updated its privacy policy on May 16, 2026, by modifying footer navigation and promotional content. The previous version included links to 'Gift Ideas for Mom', 'Last update: March 5, …

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May 11, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy homepage was updated on May 11, 2026 to add a timestamp and navigation links. The policy now displays 'Last update: March 5, 2026' and includes explicit references …

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May 6, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy was updated on May 6, 2026 with minor changes to webpage content and formatting. One sentence was added and one was modified in the policy document. These …

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May 2, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy was updated on May 2, 2026 with minor editorial changes: one sentence was removed and one sentence was modified. The document now contains 290 sentences. Based on …

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April 19, 2026 low

Target updated the promotional content examples in their privacy policy's introductory section on April 19, 2026. The change replaced references to 'Easter Basket Ideas' and 'Health & Wellness' with 'Gift …

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April 13, 2026 low

Target modified one sentence in its privacy policy on April 13, 2026. The specific language change was not detailed in the change summary provided. Without visibility into the exact text …

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April 8, 2026 low

Target removed the word 'Health &' from a navigation menu in their privacy policy on April 8, 2026. The section previously read 'Health & Wellness' and now reads 'Wellness'. This …

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April 7, 2026 low

Target removed two promotional gift-idea categories (Easter Basket Ideas and Gift Ideas for Grads) from the navigation menu in their privacy policy document. This appears to be a formatting or …

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April 6, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy navigation menu was updated on April 6, 2026 to include a new shopping category link for 'Gift Ideas for Grads' in the page header. This is a …

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April 1, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy was updated on April 1, 2026, but the detected change appears to be a formatting or navigation element addition rather than a substantive policy modification. The update …

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March 20, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy update on March 20, 2026 involved removing a line of unrelated marketing content (Easter, Gift Ideas, Deals promotions) and modifying how sponsored content appears in the document. …

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March 19, 2026 low

Target's privacy policy was updated on March 19, 2026 with minor editorial changes to the policy interface. One sentence was removed from a 'Loading' placeholder section, and new content describing …

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Recent Provision Changes Jul 4, 2026

10 provisions unchanged.

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High — 2 provisions
Medium — 8 provisions

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Mapped Governance Frameworks

CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
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Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
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CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
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FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
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Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
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Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
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Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US
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Archival ProvenanceSource & Archival Record
Last Captured July 4, 2026 00:35 UTC
Capture Method Automated scheduled archival capture
Document ID CA-D-000260
Version ID CA-V-004464
SHA-256 1c200ef3672dffbea4a1fbc87a7a8a043346cd5fed3d4bdc9166c7762c3adcd7
✓ Snapshot stored ✓ Text extracted ✓ Change verified ✓ Hash verified

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