Yelp both collects data about you from third-party sources (such as data brokers and social networks) and shares your data with third parties including advertising partners, analytics providers, and business partners.
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The clause establishes the operational framework by which Yelp may extend usage rights for user-generated public content to external partners, enabling distribution of such content across partner platforms and services without requiring individual user authorization for each third-party use.
Your Yelp profile may be enriched with data purchased from third-party data brokers, and your activity on Yelp may be shared with external advertising networks, creating detailed cross-platform profiles about you. California residents can limit this sharing by opting out via https://www.yelp.com/ccpa_request.
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We may also share your personal information with third parties that assist us in providing our services, or where we are under an obligation to report to. But rest assured: we will only ever share your personal information in the limited circumstances described in this Policy.
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"We may allow third-party partners to use certain content on Yelp, such as by reproducing, adapting, distributing, performing and displaying, some of the publicly available content on the Service, such as your photos, reviews, and other information listed in Section 3 (Data You Share With Us – Public Content).— Excerpt from Yelp's Yelp Privacy Policy
Third-party data sourcing from data brokers and advertising networks creates joint-controller or data-sharing agreement obligations under GDPR, and triggers CCPA/CPRA disclosure obligations regarding categories of third parties and the right to opt out of sharing; due diligence teams should assess Yelp's vendor contracts and data transfer mechanisms.
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The clause establishes the operational framework by which Yelp may extend usage rights for user-generated public content to external partners, enabling distribution of such content across partner platforms and services without requiring individual user authorization for each third-party use.
Your Yelp profile may be enriched with data purchased from third-party data brokers, and your activity on Yelp may be shared with external advertising networks, creating detailed cross-platform profiles about you. California residents can limit this sharing by opting out via https://www.yelp.com/ccpa_request.
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