Security & Safeguards · Company practice
Pinterest reviews your activity and messages to detect spam, enforce its terms and address risk
Pinterest uses your information to review your activity and messages on the Services to detect spam, enforce its Terms and policies, or detect activity that poses a risk to the community or the public. This can include working with law enforcement to keep Pinterest safe. It also analyzes users' log data and device information to identify and investigate suspicious behavior or violations of its policies or Terms.
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Review your activity and messages on our Services to detect spam, enforce our Terms and policies, or activity that poses a risk to our community or the public.
This can include working with law enforcement to keep Pinterest safe.
Analyze users’ log data and device information to identify and investigate suspicious behavior or violations of our policies or Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The text includes 'messages' among what is reviewed; it does not say whether this is automated or by people.
Not stated here
- The source does not say how messages are reviewed or under what limits.
Security & Safeguards · Company practice
Safety on legitimate interests: law enforcement and researchers, log analysis, message review, age verification
For EEA, Swiss and UK residents, making and keeping Pinterest safe is listed as based on legitimate interests: working with law enforcement and researchers (requests for account information from police or courts, or from researchers who study activity on Pinterest), analyzing log data and device information to investigate suspicious behavior, reviewing activity and messages to detect spam or activity that poses a risk to safety, and conducting age verification, which may include facial age estimation and matching your face against a government ID. The interests relied on are securing systems and fighting spam, threats, abuse or infringement and promoting safety, and ensuring Services are used in line with the Terms.
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Work with law enforcement and researchers. We may get requests for account information from law enforcement authorities like the police or courts, or from researchers to study activity on Pinterest.
Analyze users’ log data and device information to identify and investigate suspicious behavior or violation of our policies or Terms.
Review your activity and messages on our Services to detect spam or activity that poses a risk to the safety of you, our community and/or members of the public.
Conduct age verification. This may include facial age estimation and matching your face against a government ID.
It is in our interest and in the interest of Pinterest users to secure Pinterest systems and fight spam, threats, abuse or infringement activities and promote safety and security on Pinterest.
It is also in our interest and the interests of other users to ensure our Services are used in accordance with our Terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Applies to residents of the EEA, Switzerland and the UK.
Not stated here
- The source does not say what information is given to researchers.
Security & Safeguards · Company commitment
Added transfer protections: encryption, pseudonymisation, challenging disproportionate or unlawful government requests
Pinterest says it identifies and uses additional protections as appropriate for each data transfer. It gives examples: technical protections such as encryption and pseudonymisation, and policies and processes to challenge disproportionate or unlawful government authority requests.
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We also identify and use additional protections as appropriate for each data transfer.
technical protections, such as encryption and pseudonymisation
policies and processes to challenge disproportionate or unlawful government authority requests.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Protections are applied 'as appropriate' for each transfer, with these as examples.