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This means your personal data and content contributions could be used to train AI models, potentially without a clear way to opt out, and may be shared with third-party AI companies whose own privacy practices apply.
Yelp collects a wide range of personal data including precise location, device identifiers, search and browsing history, and user-generated content such as reviews and photos, and the policy permits this data to be used for targeted advertising and AI model training. Users who interact with Yelp's platform should be aware that their content and behavior contribute to both commercial advertising systems and internal AI development, and that some of this data may be shared with third-party advertising networks. You can manage advertising preferences, request data deletion, and opt out of certain data uses by visiting your Yelp account privacy settings or submitting a request to privacy@yelp.com.
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We use Personal Data to detect and prevent fraud, and to develop and improve our fraud detection models and other machine learning systems. This may include using transaction data, device information, and other Personal Data to train and refine our systems.
We use your personal data to develop, train, and improve our artificial intelligence and machine learning models. This includes using your transaction data, behavioral data, and interaction data to enhance our fraud detection, credit assessment, and personalization capabilities. We take steps to pro...
engage in any of the foregoing in connection with any use, creation, development, modification, prompting, fine-tuning, training, testing, benchmarking or validation of any artificial intelligence or machine learning tool, model, system, algorithm, product or other technology ("AI Tool").
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"We may use data, including personal information, to develop, train, fine-tune, evaluate, improve, or otherwise build our machine learning and artificial intelligence models and systems (e.g., recommendation systems, search systems, and AI features), and to provide AI-related features to you through our Service. We may also use third-party artificial intelligence features or models to help provide the Service, such as a third-party large language model. If you use AI-related features within the Service, we will collect, use and share data in connection with your use of those features as described in this Privacy Policy.— Excerpt from Yelp's Yelp Privacy Policy
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This means your personal data and content contributions could be used to train AI models, potentially without a clear way to opt out, and may be shared with third-party AI companies whose own privacy practices apply.
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