The policy states that third-party advertising networks place cookies on users' devices to collect data and build behavioral profiles for targeted advertising on Walgreens' website and third-party websites, and that some of these networks participate in opt-out programs operated by the Digital Advertising Alliance and Network Advertising Initiative.
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This provision authorizes third-party advertising networks to build behavioral profiles from user data collected across Walgreens and unaffiliated websites, and discloses that opting out of interest-based advertising does not stop data collection for analytics and fraud prevention purposes.
Under this provision, third-party advertising networks operating on Walgreens' website may collect user data across sessions and websites to build behavioral profiles for targeted advertising. The policy states that opting out of interest-based advertising stops ad personalization but not the continued collection of user data for other permitted purposes including analytics.
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Compare across platforms →"We may also use third-party advertising networks to serve advertisements on our behalf. The cookies received with the banner advertisements served by these networks may be used to collect and build behavioral profiles by these companies to deliver targeted advertisements on our website and unaffiliated websites. [...] These third-party advertisers may be participants in the Digital Advertising Alliance and/or the Network Advertising Initiative, which allow users to opt out of ad targeting from participating companies.Excerpt from Walgreens's Privacy Policy
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This provision authorizes third-party advertising networks to build behavioral profiles from user data collected across Walgreens and unaffiliated websites, and discloses that opting out of interest-based advertising does not stop data collection for analytics and fraud prevention purposes.
Under this provision, third-party advertising networks operating on Walgreens' website may collect user data across sessions and websites to build behavioral profiles for targeted advertising. The policy states that opting out of interest-based advertising stops ad personalization but not the continued collection of user data for other permitted purposes including analytics.
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