Inference & Profiling · Company practice
Pinterest collects inferences that it or others draw about your interests or preferences
Pinterest lists inferences as a category of personal information: conclusions that Pinterest or others draw or derive about users, such as your interests or preferences. The inferences can come from others, not only from Pinterest itself.
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Inferences we or others draw or derive about users, such as your interests or preferences
Qualifications & exceptions
- Interests and preferences are examples ("such as").
Not stated here
- Who the "others" drawing inferences are is not stated in this row.
Inference & Profiling · Company commitment
Pinterest says it does not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you
Pinterest states that it does not collect or process sensitive personal information about you for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. This is a purpose limit: it does not say Pinterest collects no sensitive personal information, and the overview table lists optional race or ethnicity data for some business accounts. The page does not define "sensitive personal information."
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We do not collect or process sensitive personal information about you for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Limited to collection or processing for the purpose of inferring characteristics; other uses of sensitive information are not addressed by this sentence.
Not stated here
- The page does not define which data counts as sensitive personal information.
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