Bloomberg or a service provider collects information you provide and information from other sources
Bloomberg, or where relevant a designated service provider, collects personal information that you choose to provide or that it receives from other sources. The text names the ways information may be given: through this Site, on third-party websites and applications when subscribing digitally to Bloomberg.com or Bloomberg Businessweek, by registering for services and products, by requesting services or products, by entering a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, and offline in connection with a Bloomberg Businessweek print subscription.
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Bloomberg, or where relevant a designated service provider, collects personal information that you choose to provide or we receive from other sources.
This may include personal information you provide through this Site, on third-party websites and applications when subscribing digitally to Bloomberg.com or Bloomberg Businessweek, through registering for our services and products, through requesting certain Bloomberg services or products, by submitting the information to enter a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion or offline in connection with your Bloomberg Businessweek print edition subscription.
Qualifications & exceptions
The collector can be Bloomberg or, where relevant, a designated service provider.
Collection through third-party websites and applications is described for digital subscriptions to Bloomberg.com or Bloomberg Businessweek.
Not stated here
The text does not say which third-party websites and applications are involved or what those third parties collect themselves.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Contact details, account credentials and online identifiers may be obtained
Bloomberg and designated service providers may obtain, in connection with this Site, names, email and postal addresses, account names and passwords or other contact information. They may also obtain a signature, an online identifier, an Internet Protocol address or similar identifiers. The wording is "may obtain", so the list shows what can be collected rather than what is collected from every user.
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We and designated service providers, may obtain the following types of personal information in connection with this Site:
Name, email address, postal address, account names and passwords, or other contact information
Signature, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, or other similar identifiers
Qualifications & exceptions
Described as types that Bloomberg and designated service providers "may obtain", not as collected from every user.
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The text does not say which items apply to which products or whether a signature is collected for any particular service.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Browsing history, search history and reading habits are collected, including through heatmaps and session replay
The list of personal information includes internet or other electronic network activity information. This covers browsing history, search history, preferences and a user's interactions, including reading habits, with a website, application or advertisements. The same item says it also includes a user's interactions captured through heatmaps and session replay.
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Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, preferences, and information regarding a user’s interaction (including reading habits) with an Internet website, application, and/or advertisements, which also includes a user’s interactions through heatmaps and session replay.
Qualifications & exceptions
Listed as information Bloomberg and designated service providers may obtain, using the "including, but not limited to" wording, so the list is not stated to be complete.
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This item does not say how long heatmap or session replay data is kept or which tool records it; a later cookies section names Microsoft Clarity as a tool that captures how users interact with the Services.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Professional, education, demographic, financial and geolocation information may also be obtained
Other listed categories are professional, industry, employment-related or education information, demographic information, and billing information, credit card number or other financial information. The financial item adds that this may include personal financial information if you submit it in a survey on the Site. Geolocation is also listed, without further detail in the list.
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Professional, industry, employment-related, or education information
Demographic information
Billing information, credit card number or other financial information, which may include personal financial information if submitted by you in a survey on the Site
Geolocation
Qualifications & exceptions
Financial information is tied in the list to billing and credit card details, and may include personal financial information only if the user submits it in a survey on the Site.
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The geolocation item gives no detail about precision, device or when location is collected; the cookies section separately refers to geolocation data.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Audio, electronic or visual information is listed, with no detail on what it covers
The list includes "audio, electronic, visual or similar information". The list does not describe what this covers, from whom, or in which services.
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Audio, electronic, visual or similar information
Qualifications & exceptions
Wording is broad ("or similar information") and unexplained in the list.
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What audio, electronic or visual information is collected, in which situations, and how long it is kept are not stated in this section.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Personal information also comes from you, authorized others, site activity and business partners
Personal information is obtained directly from you, from others authorized to provide it, from activity on the Site, and from other parties Bloomberg works with. The named partner types are service providers, business partners, advertisers, advertising technology providers, advertising servers, data analytics providers and social networks. So information about a person can arrive from companies the person has never dealt with directly.
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Personal information is obtained directly from you, from others authorized to provide the information, from activity on the Site, and from other parties with whom we work, such as service providers, business partners, advertisers, advertising technology providers, advertising servers, data analytics providers, and social networks.
Qualifications & exceptions
The partner list is introduced with "such as", so it is not stated to be exhaustive.
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The text does not say which specific partners provide data or which categories each partner supplies.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Bloomberg and its partners may use cookies, logs, web beacons and pixels to collect information about you
Bloomberg and the parties it works with, such as service providers, business partners, advertisers, ad technology providers and advertising servers, may place, view or use cookies, web server logs, web beacons, pixels or other electronic technologies. These collect statistical and other information about you and how you use this Site. So partners as well as Bloomberg itself may be collecting this information on the Site.
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Bloomberg and the parties with whom we work (e.g., service providers, business partners, advertisers, ad technology providers and advertising servers) may place, view, and/or use “cookies”, web server logs, web beacons, pixels or other electronic technologies to collect statistical and other information about you and your use of this Site.
Qualifications & exceptions
The partner list uses "e.g.", so it is not stated to be exhaustive.
The wording is "may place, view, and/or use", describing what is permitted rather than what happens to every visitor.
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The text does not name the partners that place or use these technologies, except tools named in the next paragraph.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Collected technical and usage data includes IP address, device ID, location, pages, searches and downloads
The information collected through these technologies may include IP address, browser type, language, operating system, mobile device, device ID and geolocation data, plus the state or country from which you accessed the services. It may also include which pages you visited and when, the websites you visited just before and after, the number of links you click, the functions you use, the databases you view, the searches you request, the types of articles you read, the data you save or download, and how many times you view an advertisement.
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This information may include information about the IP address of your computer, browser type, language, operating system, your mobile device, device ID, geolocation data, the state or country from which you accessed this Site’s services, the webpages visited, the date and the time of a visit, the websites you visited immediately before and after visiting this Site, the number of links you click within this Site, the functions you use on this Site, the databases you view and the searches you request on this Site, the types of articles you read, the data you save or download from this Site and the number of times you view an advertisement.
Qualifications & exceptions
Introduced with "may include", so the list shows what can be collected.
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The text does not say how precise the geolocation data is, or how long this usage data is kept.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Google Analytics, Parse.ly and Microsoft Clarity are named analytics tools; opt-out links are given for the first two
The text gives opt-out links for Google Analytics and for Parse.ly analytics. It also says Bloomberg uses Microsoft Clarity to capture how you use and interact with its Services, and that Microsoft Clarity uses cookies to capture this information, with a link to Microsoft's privacy statement for more information.
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To opt out of Google Analytics please click
To opt out of Parse.ly analytics, please click
We also use Microsoft Clarity to capture how you use and interact with our Services. Microsoft Clarity uses cookies to capture this information.
Qualifications & exceptions
Opt-out links are stated for Google Analytics and Parse.ly; the passage names no opt-out for Microsoft Clarity.
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The passage does not say what Microsoft Clarity records on Bloomberg's behalf, or whether any opt-out for Clarity exists; the Microsoft privacy statement is linked but not supplied.
Data Access & Collection · User right or choice
You can disable cookies and geolocation collection in your browser or device, but must do so for each one
Most browsers accept cookies by default, but you can usually set a browser to disable cookies or alert you when cookies are sent. Most mobile devices let you disable collection of geolocation information from the device. The settings must be made for each browser on each device you use, so using several browsers or devices means repeating the steps. Depending on your jurisdiction, additional cookie management tools may be available.
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If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to disable cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Likewise, most mobile devices allow you to disable the ability for geolocation information to be collected from your mobile device.
You need to set each browser, on each device you use to surf the Web.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may be able to utilize additional cookie management tools.
Qualifications & exceptions
Described as what a browser or device usually allows, not as a control run by Bloomberg.
Settings apply separately to each browser and each device.
Additional tools depend on the user's jurisdiction.
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The text does not say which additional tools exist or in which jurisdictions.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Third-party advertising companies' web beacons help recognize browsers and measure which banner ads bring users
Bloomberg may use web beacons provided by third-party advertising companies to help manage and optimize its online advertising and product performance. The beacons let the parties recognize a browser's cookie when the browser visits the Site and learn which banner ads bring users to the Site.
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We may use Web beacons, provided by third-party advertising companies, to help manage and optimize our online advertising and product performance. Web beacons enable us to recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits this Site, and to learn which banner ads bring users to this Site.
Qualifications & exceptions
Described as something Bloomberg "may" use.
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The text does not name the third-party advertising companies.
Data Access & Collection · Company commitment
The Site is not directed at children under 16, and Bloomberg says it does not knowingly sell or share their data
The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under the age of 16. Bloomberg says it has no actual knowledge that it "sells" or "shares" personal information of children under 16. If you know that a child under 16 has submitted personal information, you can contact Bloomberg through the methods listed above so it can delete the information.
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The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under the age of 16, nor do we have actual knowledge that we “sell” or “share” the personal information of children under the age of 16.
If you have knowledge that a child under the age of 16 has submitted personal information to us, we request that you contact us via one of the methods listed above so that we may delete the information.
Qualifications & exceptions
The statement about selling or sharing is limited to Bloomberg's actual knowledge.
Deletion follows from a request from someone with knowledge of a child's submission.
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The text does not describe any age check or what Bloomberg does if it learns a child under 16 has registered.