Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Pinterest collects identifiers and detailed activity data such as searches, interactions and device information
Among the categories of personal information in its overview table, Pinterest lists identifiers (your name, username, email address, phone number, unique device identifiers and IP address) and internet or network activity: log data, information about your device, information from cookies and similar technologies, and data about how you use the service, including your interactions with Pins or other content, the terms you search for and the choices you select in your settings. The words "such as" mean these are examples within each category, not complete lists.
Supporting quotations
Categories of Personal Information
Identifiers, such as your name, username, email address, phone number, unique device identifiers, and your IP address
Internet or electronic network activity information, such as log data, information about your device, information from cookies and similar technologies, and data about your use of our Services, such as interactions with Pins or other content, terms you search for, and choices you select in your settings.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Examples are introduced with "such as"; the categories may include other data of the same kind.
- The table puts every category, purpose and recipient in one row, so it does not say which purposes or recipients apply to these particular categories.
Not stated here
- The Privacy Policy and any cookie policy that describe cookies and similar technologies in more detail are not supplied here.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Collected commercial information includes purchases you make on third-party advertisers' sites
Pinterest lists commercial information as a category it collects, giving purchases made on third-party advertiser sites as the example. This means the information can describe what you do outside Pinterest, not only on it. The page says elsewhere in the same section that it collects information from partners, advertisers and other third parties, but it does not say exactly how each purchase record reaches Pinterest.
Supporting quotations
Commercial information, such as purchases made on third-party advertiser sites
Qualifications & exceptions
- Purchases on third-party advertiser sites are an example ("such as"), not the full scope of the category.
Not stated here
- How purchase information from advertiser sites is transmitted to Pinterest is not described on this page.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Pinterest collects gender and age, and business accounts in some places may choose to give race or ethnicity
Pinterest lists personal characteristics protected by law as a collected category, with gender and age as examples. Separately, if you have a business account, and depending on where you live, you may choose to provide data about your race or ethnicity. That race or ethnicity data is optional and tied to business accounts in certain locations; the page does not say which locations.
Supporting quotations
Personal characteristics protected by law, such as your gender and age
if you have a business account and depending upon where you live, you may choose to provide data about your race or ethnicity
Qualifications & exceptions
- Race or ethnicity data is provided only by choice, only for business accounts, and only depending on where you live.
- The page separately says Pinterest does not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
Not stated here
- Which places allow business accounts to provide race or ethnicity is not stated.
- What Pinterest does with optional race or ethnicity data is not separately described.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Location comes from your IP address, and precise location only if you choose to share it
Pinterest collects geolocation information based on your IP address. Precise geolocation is collected only if you choose to provide it, when it is shared through your device settings or photos. One listed purpose is customizing your experience based on your precise location, which the page says happens with your consent.
Supporting quotations
Geo-location information based on your IP address, and, if you choose to provide it, precise geolocation data, when shared through your device settings or photos
Customize your experience based on your precise location, with your consent
Qualifications & exceptions
- IP-based location is collected without a stated choice; precise location depends on your choice through device settings or photos.
- Customization based on precise location is described as done with your consent.
Not stated here
- How to withdraw consent to precise-location use is not described on this page.
Data Access & Collection · Company practice
Pinterest collects your photos, profile content and messages, and work info when you link other accounts
Pinterest lists electronic or visual information such as your profile picture or photos; professional or employment information when you link your Pinterest account to other accounts; and other information you choose to provide, such as your bio, Pins, messages, comments and customer service communications with Pinterest. Professional or employment information is tied to linking other accounts, not collected in every case.
Supporting quotations
Electronic, visual, or similar information, such as your profile picture or photos
Professional or employment information, when you link your account to other accounts
Other information you choose to provide, such as your bio, Pins, messages, comments, and customer service communications with us
Qualifications & exceptions
- Professional or employment information is listed only for when you link your account to other accounts.
- Examples are introduced with "such as" and are not complete lists.
Not stated here
- Which linked account types supply professional or employment information is not stated.