Target shares your personal data with numerous outside companies that help run its business — including payment processors, data analytics firms, and marketing companies — with a contractual requirement that they only use your data for Target's purposes.
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This clause establishes the operational scope of data sharing within Target's service delivery ecosystem. It creates a contractual framework governing how third-party vendors access and use personal information in the course of providing specified business functions.
Your personal information is shared with Target's network of service providers across payment processing, analytics, and marketing functions — the contractual 'purpose limitation' provides some protection but does not prevent broad internal use of your data across Target's vendor ecosystem.
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We share Personal Data with vendors, service providers, and agents who work on our behalf and provide us with services related to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.
We will disclose personal information to companies that help us run our business to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, deception, illegal activity, misuse of Adobe Services and Software, and security or technical issues.
We also require these service providers to protect your personal information to at least the same standards that we do.
"We share personal information with service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analytics, marketing, advertising, cloud computing, and customer service. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide services to us.Excerpt from Target's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Service provider data sharing implicates CCPA/CPRA §1798.140(ag) (service provider definition and limitations), which requires written contracts prohibiting service providers from selling or sharing data or using it for their own commercial purposes.
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This clause establishes the operational scope of data sharing within Target's service delivery ecosystem. It creates a contractual framework governing how third-party vendors access and use personal information in the course of providing specified business functions.
Your personal information is shared with Target's network of service providers across payment processing, analytics, and marketing functions — the contractual 'purpose limitation' provides some protection but does not prevent broad internal use of your data across Target's vendor ecosystem.
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