When you buy from a third-party seller on Walmart's online marketplace, your name, address, and purchase details are shared with that seller, who then follows their own separate privacy rules — not Walmart's.
Your personal information including shipping address and order details is shared with individual Walmart Marketplace sellers when you purchase from them, and those sellers are not bound by Walmart's privacy policy — this creates a data sharing chain that consumers may not be aware of.
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Compare across platforms →Walmart Marketplace hosts thousands of third-party sellers, many of whom are small businesses or international companies with limited privacy compliance infrastructure — once your data is shared with these sellers, Walmart's privacy protections no longer apply and you may have limited recourse.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: CCPA/CPRA third-party disclosure requirements (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.115) require businesses to disclose categories of third parties with whom personal information is shared; marketplace sellers receiving consumer data must be classified as either service providers, contractors, or third parties under CPRA, with different obligations for each classification. FTC Act Section 5 prohibits deceptive practices regarding data sharing representations. EU GDPR Art. 28 requires data processing agreements with all processors — the classification of marketplace sellers as independent controllers (not processors) under GDPR would require joint controller agreements under Art. 26. (2)
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