A corporate acquisition could result in your genetic and family history data being controlled by a different company with different privacy practices, making the opt-out opportunity described here particularly important for sensitive data categories.
TikTok
· TikTok Privacy Policy
This provision states that user data may be transferred to a new or acquiring entity even during negotiation stages, before any transaction is completed, and without individual user notice or consent at the time of transfer.
Waze
· Waze Privacy Policy
A corporate acquisition could result in your Waze data, including years of location history, being transferred to a new owner with different privacy practices, and you may have limited ability to prevent this.
A corporate transaction could result in your neighborhood, location, and behavioral data being transferred to a new entity with different privacy practices, potentially with limited user recourse.
A corporate transaction could result in your personal data being transferred to a new entity with different privacy practices, and the policy does not commit to notifying users before such a transfer occurs or providing an opt-out right.
In a bankruptcy or acquisition, your data becomes a corporate asset that can be sold to unknown third parties who may have very different privacy standards.
In a bankruptcy or acquisition scenario, your most sensitive data — including government IDs, financial information, and location history — could be transferred to an unknown entity that may operate under very different privacy practices.
Udemy
· Udemy Privacy Policy
A change in corporate ownership could result in your data being governed by a materially different privacy policy, potentially with broader data-use rights than you originally agreed to.
Gusto
· Gusto Privacy Policy
A corporate acquisition could result in your most sensitive financial data being transferred to a company with entirely different privacy practices, and you would have limited ability to prevent this transfer.
A future acquirer of Uniswap Labs may not share the same privacy commitments, and users have no opt-out right over this type of data transfer.
Gemini
· Gemini Privacy Policy
Sharing personal data with advertising partners means your activity on Gemini may be used to build advertising profiles, and depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to opt out of this.
Zoom
· Zoom Privacy Statement
This provision authorizes the disclosure of behavioral and identifier data to third-party advertising networks, which may include data brokers or ad exchanges that further share this data. This is separate from Zoom's use of your data for its own service delivery.
Data shared with advertising networks can be used to build detailed behavioral profiles about you, and this sharing may persist even after you stop using Calendly.
Fastly
· Fastly Privacy Policy
Cross-site tracking by advertising and analytics companies is a primary mechanism through which personal data is aggregated and profiled at scale. For EU users, this activity typically requires explicit consent under the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR.
This provision authorizes cross-site behavioral tracking and targeted advertising using your personal data, which may affect users who are not expecting their platform usage to feed into advertising profiles.
Canva
· Canva Privacy Policy
This provision authorizes sharing of behavioral and device data with third-party ad and analytics networks, which has implications for CCPA opt-out rights and GDPR consent requirements for tracking-based advertising.
Your browsing behavior, usage data, and interactions on Midjourney may be used to profile you and serve targeted advertising, even if you did not explicitly consent to this beyond using the service.
Your order history, location data, and browsing behavior on DoorDash may be passed to advertising networks, allowing those companies to track your habits across the internet and serve ads based on your food delivery patterns.
The distinction between sharing 'personal information' and 'non-personally identifiable information' with advertising partners matters because aggregated or pseudonymous data shared at scale can sometimes be re-identified, and the boundary is not always clear to users.
Adobe
· Adobe Privacy Policy
This provision means your Adobe usage activity may be disclosed to third-party ad networks, social media platforms, and data brokers for their own marketing purposes, potentially enabling detailed behavioral profiling across platforms.
Sharing your behavioral and device data with external advertising partners means your information leaves Samsung's control and may be used by those third parties for their own advertising and profiling purposes.
Following Poshmark's acquisition by Naver Corporation, this clause means your data can be shared with a large South Korean technology conglomerate and its subsidiaries, with different legal protections applying than under US or EU law.
Amazon's affiliate network is enormous — including AWS, Whole Foods, Ring, Twitch, MGM, Zappos, and many more — meaning your data may be used across a very broad corporate ecosystem, and in a corporate transaction it could pass to entirely new corporate owners.
Sharing data across Disney's full family of companies, which includes ABC, ESPN, Hulu, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and others, means data collected in one context can be used in many others without requiring separate consent for each entity.
In the event Hugging Face is acquired or merges with another company, your personal data (including private content, email address, and payment information) automatically transfers to the new entity, which may have materially different privacy practices.
Affiliate sharing means your data can move across multiple Consensys products and business lines without your specific consent for each transfer, potentially exposing your financial activity data to a wider set of internal systems and personnel than you might expect.
Acorns
· Acorns Privacy Policy
The breadth of service providers receiving your data — including marketing vendors — means your information circulates widely, and the strength of protection depends on contractual commitments Acorns negotiates with each provider.
Square
· Square Privacy Notice
Data sharing with affiliates and a broad range of service providers means your personal information moves beyond Square to a potentially large ecosystem of companies, each with their own data handling practices.
This provision authorizes sharing of personal information with a broad set of third parties beyond direct service delivery, including for marketing and analytics purposes, which affects how user data is used and disclosed.
Venmo
· Venmo Privacy Policy
Your data flows to a wide network of entities beyond Venmo itself, including marketing partners who may use it for advertising, which may not match your expectations when using a payment app.