Case 487: Sensitive data is collected and shared to target advertising

Sensitive data is collected and shared to target advertising

Sensitive data refers to information requiring special protection, such as health data, political and religious beliefs, ethnic origins, sexual life and financial information. The service collects and shares this data with third parties for advertising or marketing.

Classification: blocker

Weight: 50

Service	Title	Status	Author
Follow My Health	". Allscripts may use your PHR Data for marketing and advertising purposes, including sending you customized marketing and advertising communications whether on our behalf or on behalf of third party partners with whom we may engage."	APPROVED	welda Curator
Uber	"<p>We may also send users communications regarding elections, ballots, referenda, and other political and notice processes that relate to our services. For example, Uber has notified some users by email of ballot measures or pending legislation relating to the availability of Uber’s services in those users’ areas.<br>"	APPROVED	Agnes de Lion Staff
Tinder	"Additionally, we use your info to help keep you safe and to provide you with advertising that may be of interest to you."	APPROVED	welda Curator
PayPal	"We may share personal data with:</p> <ol> <li>Other members of the PayPal corporate family</li> <li>Service providers that help us with processing payments, marketing, research, compliance, audits, corporate governance, communications, and security</li> <li>Card networks and payment processors</li> <li>Financial institutions, such as banks we partner with to offer joint products, like Synchrony Bank in connection with PayPal Credit, the PayPal Cashback Mastercard, and the PayPal Extras Mastercard</li> <li>Credit reporting and collections agencies</li> <li>"	DECLINED	louisd
YouGov	">Some of the data that you provide us will fall within what data protection law describes as ‘sensitive’, or ‘special categories of personal data’, such as your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs or information concerning your health or sexual orientation. For example, we may ask you about your voting history or intention, or whether you regard yourself as belonging to a particular religion. We use this information in the same way we use all the other information we collect, but the law requires that we have your explicit consent to collect and use it.</p> <p>Each time we ask questions that fall into one of these categories, if you haven’t consented to our use of data in that category we’ll remind you that we need it. "	APPROVED	Agnes de Lion Staff
BlaBlaCar	" <li>our business partners who may advertise their services on our Platforms and to which you may decide to sign up for: these services may be any service related to our services such as insurance services, banking services, rental services, etc. For instance, we may provide insurance companies such as AXA with some of your information in order to confirm that you are eligible for insurance cover;"	APPROVED	Agnes de Lion Staff
Line Corporation	" <br>In principle, we will not use private posts, as such messages exchanged between users, for any purpose other than distributing such posts. However, in certain countries or regions (*1) for specific services, we may use a part of such information upon obtaining your additional consent for the provision and maintenance of services, development and improvement of services, prevention of unauthorized use, and provision of optimized contents including ads. "	APPROVED	Agnes de Lion Staff
Canvas	" may use Personal Data collected from you and your device to target advertisements"	APPROVED	serph Curator
Credit Karma	"As described in our Privacy Statement, we may use your credit report, credit score, and other information we obtain to analyze, sort, and present certain information or features to you.</p>"	APPROVED	Overtlycovert