Hashed email addresses or phone numbers may be shared with third-party advertising companies
To enhance your experience on the Site and other sites, Bloomberg may share information about you along with a hashed version of your email address or phone number with third-party advertising companies. The stated aim is so that they and Bloomberg can facilitate customized ad campaigns and other offers on the Site and on other platforms. Hashing is described as transforming the email into an unrecognizable series of numbers and letters. You may opt out through a linked form and through the designated "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" tool within Bloomberg digital properties.
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we may share information about you along with a hashed version of your email address or phone number with third-party advertising companies so that they and we can facilitate customized ad campaigns and other offers on our Site and on other platforms.
You may opt out by clicking
and also by using the designated “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” tool within Bloomberg digital properties.
Qualifications & exceptions
Described as "may share" and tied to the stated purpose of enhancing your experience and facilitating customized ad campaigns.
The opt-out is through a linked form and the designated tool within Bloomberg digital properties.
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The text does not say what other information about you is shared with the hashed identifier or whether the advertising companies can match the hash to their own records.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Disclosure goes to affiliates, service providers and the party authorizing your use, such as your employer
Bloomberg may disclose the personal information described in the policy, for the business purposes the policy sets out, to three categories of recipients: its affiliates, its designated service providers, and the party authorizing your use of the services and products, such as your employer. The employer example matters for people whose access is arranged through an organization.
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Bloomberg may disclose the personal information described above for the business purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, to the following categories of recipients: (i) our affiliates; (ii) our designated service providers; (iii) the party authorizing your use of the services and products, such as your employer.
Qualifications & exceptions
Disclosure is for the business purposes set out in the policy.
The employer is given as an example of the party authorizing your use, not as the only such party.
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The text does not say what information the authorizing party receives or whether this covers consumer subscribers who have no authorizing party.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Usage information may be disclosed to advertising networks, data analytics providers and social networks
Bloomberg may also disclose to third parties, including advertising networks, data analytics providers and social networks, your use of its or other websites. This includes online identifiers, Internet Protocol address, and internet or other electronic network activity information, and the services provided by Bloomberg, for the business purposes in the policy. The cookies section says partners may use collected information for their own purposes, and the advertisements section says hashed email addresses or phone numbers may be shared with advertising companies.
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Bloomberg may also disclose to third parties, including advertising networks, data analytics providers and social networks, your use of our or other websites, including online identifiers, Internet Protocol address, and Internet or other electronic network activity information, and the services provided by us for the business purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
either on behalf of Bloomberg or for the other parties’ own purposes
we may share information about you along with a hashed version of your email address or phone number with third-party advertising companies
Qualifications & exceptions
Described as what Bloomberg "may" disclose.
The disclosure covers your use of Bloomberg's and other websites, including identifiers, IP address and network activity information.
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The text does not name the advertising networks, analytics providers or social networks.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Sharing with promotional sponsors has its own opt-out, which does not stop all sharing
Bloomberg may disclose personal information, excluding security photographs or video, to a sponsor or other third party, called a Third-Party Provider, that gives you offers or promotions that may interest you. You may instruct Bloomberg at any time not to share personal information with such Third-Party Providers through a link where you submit your email address and select the "Bloomberg on Behalf of Select Partners" option. The opt-out may take some time, and even after it is complete personal information may continue to be shared with affiliates, including affiliated websites under common ownership or control, and with designated service providers. This is a different choice from the earlier opt-out from Bloomberg using your information to provide offers and promotions.
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Bloomberg may disclose your personal information (excluding security photographs or video) with a sponsor or other third party (“Third-Party Provider”) that provides you with offers or promotions that may be of interest to you.
You may instruct Bloomberg at any time not to share your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy with such Third-Party Providers
Please note that (i) this opt-out process may take some time to complete, consistent with applicable law; and (ii) even after such opt-out process is completed, your personal information may continue to be shared with our affiliates (including affiliated websites under common ownership or control) and designated service providers.
You may instruct Bloomberg at any time not to use your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy to provide you with offers and promotions by clicking
Qualifications & exceptions
Security photographs or video are excluded from this sharing.
The opt-out reaches Third-Party Providers only; sharing with affiliates and designated service providers may continue.
The opt-out may take some time to complete.
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The text does not name the sponsors or other third parties.
Information may go to unaffiliated third parties for legal process, protecting Bloomberg or others, and enforcing terms
Bloomberg may disclose personal information to unaffiliated third parties if it believes in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, rule or regulation or respond to a subpoena, court order or other legal process, subject to Bloomberg's Law Enforcement Data Request Statement. It may also disclose to protect the interests, rights, safety or property of Bloomberg or others, and to monitor compliance with and enforce terms of service on this Site.
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Bloomberg may also disclose your personal information to unaffiliated third parties if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with any applicable law, rule, or regulation, or in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process, subject to
(b) protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Bloomberg or others; (c) monitor compliance with and enforce any terms of service on this Site;
Qualifications & exceptions
Disclosure depends on Bloomberg's good-faith belief that it is necessary for the listed reason.
Legal process disclosures are stated to be subject to the Law Enforcement Data Request Statement.
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The Law Enforcement Data Request Statement is linked but not supplied, so what limits it sets are not known from this text.
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
Information may go to unaffiliated third parties to run services, including to a buyer of Bloomberg or a division
On the same good-faith basis, Bloomberg may disclose personal information to unaffiliated third parties to provide its services and products, including allowing a purchaser of Bloomberg or a Bloomberg division to continue to serve you. It may also disclose to perform other related activities including billing and collection, to provide you with offers, promotions or advertisements from Bloomberg, and to operate the systems that provide its services and products properly.
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(d) provide our services and products (including allowing a purchaser of Bloomberg or a Bloomberg division to continue to serve you); (e) perform other activities related to such services and products, including billing and collection; (f) provide you with offers, promotions or advertisements from Bloomberg; or (g) operate the systems that provide our services and products properly.
Qualifications & exceptions
Disclosure depends on Bloomberg's good-faith belief that it is necessary for the listed reason.
The business-transfer wording covers a purchaser of Bloomberg or of a Bloomberg division.
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The text does not say what happens to information if a purchaser continues to serve you, or whether the buyer must follow this policy.
Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception
Information you share through public or shared features becomes available to others and is outside the policy
If you take part in features such as sharing news stories, information that you or others voluntarily disclose becomes available to the public or to other users you designate. If you give designated individuals access, what you post is visible to them for their use. Bloomberg says it is not responsible for information that you or others choose to disclose publicly on the Site, and that neither Bloomberg's nor others' use of that information is subject to this Privacy Policy.
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If you participate in certain features of this Site (e.g., sharing news stories of interest), please note that any information you or others voluntarily disclose through use of these features, becomes available to the public and/or other users whom you have designated.
Bloomberg is not responsible for the information that you or others choose to disclose publicly on this Site, and neither Bloomberg’s nor others’ use of such information is subject to this Privacy Policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to information voluntarily disclosed through features such as sharing news stories.
Visibility depends on whether the feature is public or limited to designated users.
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The text does not list which features make information public.
Sharing & Disclosure · Restriction or exception
Sponsors' and other third parties' own collection and use is not Bloomberg's responsibility
The collection, further use or disclosure of your information by Third-Party Providers or other third parties is stated not to be Bloomberg's responsibility. Instead, it is governed by those third parties' privacy policies. This repeats the earlier advertising statement that third-party service providers' and advertisers' own use and collection is not covered by this policy.
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The collection, further use, and/or disclosure of your information by Third-Party Providers or by other third parties is not the responsibility of Bloomberg. Rather, such collection, use, and/or disclosure is governed by the third parties’ privacy policies.
The use and collection of your information by third-party service providers, and third-party advertisers and their advertising servers is not covered by this Privacy Policy.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to Third-Party Providers and other third parties.
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The third parties' privacy policies are not supplied, so their terms are not known.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Bloomberg says it does not "sell" or "share" data apart from ad technologies, and offers a tool and form
Bloomberg says it does not "sell" personal information for money or "share" it for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising, outside of its use of electronic technologies to provide relevant advertisements. It adds that, to the extent its advertising practices described above amount to targeted advertising or count as "selling" or "sharing" under California privacy law, you may adjust your preferences with the designated tool in Bloomberg's digital properties. You may also use a form's "Do Not Sell/ or Share My Personal Information" option to opt out of future sales in other contexts. Earlier sections describe disclosure to advertising networks and sharing hashed email addresses with advertising companies, so the carve-out for electronic technologies that provide relevant advertisements is material.
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While we do not “sell” your personal information in exchange for money or “share” your personal information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising outside of the use of electronic technologies to provide relevant advertisements, to the extent that certain practices described above relating to advertising constitute targeted advertising, or are considered “selling” or “sharing” under California privacy law, you may adjust your preferences by using the designated tool within Bloomberg’s digital properties.
You may also submit a request by selecting the “Do Not Sell/ or Share My Personal Information” option in this
Bloomberg may also disclose to third parties, including advertising networks, data analytics providers and social networks, your use of our or other websites
Qualifications & exceptions
The statement that Bloomberg does not sell or share is limited by the exception for the use of electronic technologies to provide relevant advertisements.
The tool and form apply to the extent the practices count as targeted advertising, selling or sharing under California privacy law.
The form is described as opting out future sales in other contexts.
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The text does not say whether its advertising practices are considered selling or sharing under California privacy law; it states this only conditionally.
Cross-references
contrast (model-proposed): Hashed email addresses or phone numbers may be shared with third-party advertising companies — contrast: The California section says Bloomberg does not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising outside its use of electronic technologies for relevant advertisements. The advertisements section says information about you with a hashed email address or phone number may be shared with third-party advertising companies for customized ad campaigns. The two pull in different directions; the text itself conditions the California statement on how those practices are classified under California law.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Global privacy control signals are treated as an opt-out of sale or sharing where recognized
Where it recognizes them, Bloomberg treats global privacy control signals as a request to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information. Certain browser plug-ins provide options for sending such signals. Separately, to opt out of further sales or sharing by downstream participants in tailored advertising who sign the IAB Privacy, LLC's Limited Service Provider Agreement, you must click and opt out on each listed participant's digital property.
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Additionally, where recognized, we treat global privacy control signals as a request to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information.
Additionally, certain browser plug-ins provide options for communicating opt-out preference signals such as global privacy control.
To opt-out of further “sales” or “sharing” of your personal information by downstream participants in tailored advertising who are signatories to the IAB Privacy, LLC’s Limited Service Provider Agreement (LSPA), please click and opt out on the listed digital property of the downstream participant.
Qualifications & exceptions
Signals are honored "where recognized".
The downstream opt-out reaches only signatories to the LSPA and must be done at each participant's property.
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The text does not say which signals or browsers are recognized or list the downstream participants.