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A corporate transaction could result in your personal data — including purchase history, location, and live-stream activity — being transferred to an entirely new company with different privacy practices, with limited recourse for users.
Whatnot collects a wide range of personal data including purchase history, payment information, precise location, device identifiers, and behavioral data, and shares this information with advertising partners, analytics providers, and potential business acquirers. Users should be aware that data shared with third-party advertising networks may be used to build profiles and deliver targeted advertising across other platforms. You can opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data for advertising purposes by clicking the 'Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information' link available on the Whatnot platform.
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In the event of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or similar corporate transaction or proceeding, we may transfer or assign your personal information to a successor entity or acquirer.
We may share and/or transfer customer information in connection with the sale or merger of our business or assets (subject to local laws). Also, if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control.
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, c...
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"We may share your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company. In the event that Whatnot is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our users as part of such merger, acquisition, or other change of control.— Excerpt from Whatnot's Whatnot Privacy Policy
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A corporate transaction could result in your personal data — including purchase history, location, and live-stream activity — being transferred to an entirely new company with different privacy practices, with limited recourse for users.
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