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Third-Party Data Sharing with Advertising Partners

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What it is

Unity shares your data with outside advertising companies, analytics firms, game developers, and other business partners, and those companies may use it under their own separate privacy rules.

This analysis describes what Unity'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

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Once your data is shared with third parties who operate under their own privacy policies, your ability to control how it is used depends on each recipient's practices, and Unity's policy does not fully enumerate these recipients or their data use.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Your device identifier, behavioral data, and advertising profile may be shared with a range of third-party advertising partners and business customers, each of whom may use it independently under their own terms, reducing your practical ability to limit downstream data use.

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
    Visit privacy.unity.com to submit an opt-out of data sharing with advertising partners or a Do Not Sell or Share request if you are a California resident. This is the most direct mechanism to limit Unity's sharing of your data with third parties.

How other platforms handle this

Monday.com Medium

We may share your personal information with third party vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing assistance. We may also share information with advertising and analyt...

Spotify Medium

We receive some of the data mentioned above from third parties. The below table describes the categories of those 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 integrati...

Lime Medium

We may share your information with third-party advertising partners to provide you with targeted advertising. We also work with third-party analytics providers who help us understand how users interact with our Services. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technolo...

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We may share your personal data with third-party advertising partners, analytics providers, and other service providers who assist us in providing our services, including delivering targeted advertisements. We may also share data with our business customers (game developers and publishers) who use our services. These third parties may use your data in accordance with their own privacy policies.

— Excerpt from Unity's Unity Privacy Policy

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Institutional analysis (Compliance & governance intelligence)

REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: GDPR Article 13 requires disclosure of the recipients or categories of recipients of personal data, and GDPR's accountability principle requires controllers to ensure third-party recipients provide sufficient guarantees about data protection. CCPA and CPRA require disclosure of categories of third parties with whom personal information is shared, and sharing for advertising purposes triggers opt-out rights. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices, including sharing data with third parties in ways that exceed the disclosed purposes. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High. The scope of third-party data sharing described in this provision is broad, encompassing advertising partners, analytics providers, and business customers (developers and publishers). The statement that third parties may use data under their own privacy policies creates a potential gap in data governance where Unity's obligations end and the third party's separate regime begins, making it difficult for users to trace their data or exercise rights against downstream recipients. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and EEA users have the strongest rights, including the right to obtain information about recipients. California residents have CPRA rights to know about third-party disclosures and to opt out of sharing. The breadth of the business customer sharing (developers and publishers receiving user data) may create additional disclosure obligations in jurisdictions with comprehensive privacy laws. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Game developers and publishers who receive user data from Unity as part of their SDK or analytics relationship should assess whether this data sharing creates controller-to-controller obligations and whether their own privacy notices adequately disclose receipt of Unity-sourced data. Vendor contracts should specify permitted uses of shared data and impose downstream restriction obligations. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Compliance teams should map all third-party recipients of Unity-sourced data, obtain copies of data processing agreements or data sharing agreements with material advertising partners, and assess whether Unity's list of categories of recipients satisfies GDPR Article 13 specificity requirements. CPRA compliance requires that the categories of third parties receiving shared data be disclosed to California users in the privacy notice.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC has authority over deceptive or unfair data sharing practices, including situations where personal data is shared with third parties beyond the scope of consumer expectations or disclosed purposes.
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Applicable regulations

CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
COPPA
United States Federal
Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
US-KY
Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US
VPPA
United States Federal

Provision details

Document information
Document
Unity Privacy Policy
Entity
Unity
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 8, 2026
Last verified
May 10, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-009034
Document ID
CA-D-00750
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
550d996279ea0b8c6b167a3612cad9e086dba07fd480d6eae9ba2449359871d6
Analysis generated
May 8, 2026 01:34 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Unity
Document: Unity Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-009034
Captured: 2026-05-08 01:34:30 UTC
SHA-256: 550d996279ea0b8c…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/unity/unity-privacy-policy/third-party-data-sharing-with-advertising-partners/
Accessed: May 13, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Unity's Third-Party Data Sharing with Advertising Partners clause do?

Once your data is shared with third parties who operate under their own privacy policies, your ability to control how it is used depends on each recipient's practices, and Unity's policy does not fully enumerate these recipients or their data use.

How does this clause affect you?

Your device identifier, behavioral data, and advertising profile may be shared with a range of third-party advertising partners and business customers, each of whom may use it independently under their own terms, reducing your practical ability to limit downstream data use.

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