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Third-Party Advertising Data Sharing and Combination

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What it is

The policy states that Uber shares user data with third-party advertising platforms for targeted advertising, receives data about users from third-party marketing partners, and combines externally sourced data with Uber-collected data to personalize marketing and advertising across platforms including social media.

This analysis describes what Uber's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology

ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This provision establishes a cross-context behavioral advertising framework that involves both outbound data sharing with advertising partners and inbound receipt of third-party marketing data, creating a data combination practice that is subject to CCPA opt-out rights and GDPR consent or legitimate interest documentation obligations.

Interpretive note: The policy does not name specific third-party marketing data sources, so the full scope of data combination practices cannot be assessed from the document text alone.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Under this clause, Uber may share user identifiers and behavioral data with third-party advertising platforms such as social media networks and receive data from marketing partners to enrich user profiles for targeted advertising. California residents can exercise opt-out rights under the CCPA by submitting a Do Not Sell or Share request through Uber's privacy portal.

What you can do

⚠️ These actions may provide transparency or partial mitigation but may not fully address the underlying issue. Effectiveness varies by jurisdiction and individual circumstances.
  • Opt Out of Arbitration
    Navigate to privacy.uber.com and submit a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information request to opt out of data sharing with advertising partners. California residents can also access this option through the Uber app under Settings > Privacy.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Uber uses the data it collects for various purposes, including to provide, personalize, maintain, and improve our products and services, to carry out research and development, to enable communications between users, to send marketing and non-marketing communications to users, to personalize and improve our marketing communications to users and provide marketing across platforms such as social media, to provide advertising to users on third party platforms, and to analyze and improve our services. We also receive information about you from third parties, such as marketing partners and other sources, and we may combine such information with information we collect from or about you.

— Excerpt from Uber's Uber Privacy Notice

ConductAtlas Analysis

Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

1. REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision implicates the CCPA and CPRA definition of 'sharing' personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, which triggers opt-out rights regardless of monetary consideration. GDPR requires a documented lawful basis for processing personal data for marketing purposes; reliance on legitimate interests requires a balancing test, while consent-based processing requires freely given, specific, and informed consent. The FTC Act's prohibition on unfair or deceptive practices applies to the accuracy and completeness of disclosures about third-party data combination practices. 2. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The combination of first-party Uber data with third-party marketing partner data creates enriched user profiles whose scope may not be fully apparent to users from the policy text alone. Under CPRA, this practice likely constitutes 'sharing' triggering opt-out infrastructure requirements. The policy's reference to third-party sources without naming them creates disclosure adequacy questions under CCPA's categories of sources requirement. 3. JURISDICTION FLAGS: California residents have the strongest statutory opt-out rights under CPRA for this provision. EU and UK residents are protected by GDPR consent or legitimate interest requirements. Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, and other states with comprehensive privacy laws impose analogous opt-out rights for targeted advertising. 4. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Data sharing agreements with advertising and marketing partners should be reviewed to confirm they include appropriate contractual restrictions on secondary use, data security obligations, and representations regarding the lawfulness of inbound data shared with Uber. Service provider versus third-party classification under CCPA affects whether data transfers require opt-out mechanisms. 5. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should audit the Global Privacy Control signal response infrastructure to confirm Uber's systems honor opt-out signals from California and other jurisdictions where required. Records of data-sharing relationships with advertising partners should be maintained to support CCPA categories of third parties disclosure obligations. Consent management platform configurations should be reviewed to ensure EU and UK advertising consent is captured prior to data combination.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC has jurisdiction over advertising data practices and third-party data combination disclosures under the FTC Act
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  • State AG
    State Attorneys General in California and other states with comprehensive privacy laws have enforcement authority over opt-out right compliance for targeted advertising data sharing
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Applicable regulations

BIPA
Illinois, USA
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
TCPA
United States Federal
UK GDPR
United Kingdom
Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
Uber Privacy Notice
Entity
Uber
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 20, 2026
Last verified
May 20, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-012308
Document ID
CA-D-00419
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
98ab5eda80dde6a744e6c0992957b51e74f97e04033aadabfbe41d6a0a7200cc
Analysis generated
May 20, 2026 18:58 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
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Citation Record
Entity: Uber
Document: Uber Privacy Notice
Record ID: CA-P-012308
Captured: 2026-05-20 18:58:29 UTC
SHA-256: 98ab5eda80dde6a7…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/uber/uber-privacy-notice/third-party-advertising-data-sharing-and-combination/
Accessed: June 8, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Uber's Third-Party Advertising Data Sharing and Combination clause do?

This provision establishes a cross-context behavioral advertising framework that involves both outbound data sharing with advertising partners and inbound receipt of third-party marketing data, creating a data combination practice that is subject to CCPA opt-out rights and GDPR consent or legitimate interest documentation obligations.

How does this clause affect you?

Under this clause, Uber may share user identifiers and behavioral data with third-party advertising platforms such as social media networks and receive data from marketing partners to enrich user profiles for targeted advertising. California residents can exercise opt-out rights under the CCPA by submitting a Do Not Sell or Share request through Uber's privacy portal.

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