Third parties can place Cookies on Mastercard Sites for their own purposes
Third-party Cookies are provided by other companies, such as Mastercard's analytics or advertising partners. They may be placed or accessed through Mastercard Sites either on Mastercard's behalf or for purposes determined by those other parties. First-party Cookies are placed by the Site you are using.
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Who
Other companies such as analytics or advertising partners
Why
On Mastercard's behalf or for purposes determined by those parties
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First-party Cookies are Cookies placed by the Site you are using (for example, by us). Third-party Cookies are Cookies provided by other companies, such as our analytics or advertising partners, and may be placed or accessed through our Sites either on our behalf or for purposes determined by those parties.
Qualifications & exceptions
Third-party Cookies may serve purposes the third party determines, not only purposes set by Mastercard.
Examples given are analytics and advertising partners.
Not stated here
Which third parties place Cookies is shown on each Site's Consent Tool, not in this Notice.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Google and other ad partners decide for themselves how they use the data
Mastercard says Google and its other advertising partners may independently determine how they use information their Cookies collect about you or your device on Mastercard Sites, and it refers you to their privacy notices for more information.
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Who
Google and other advertising partners
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Google and our other advertising partners may independently determine how they use information collected about you or your device by their Cookies on our Sites. See their privacy notices for more information.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to information collected by those partners' own Cookies on Mastercard Sites.
The partners' own privacy notices are the stated source for how they use it.
Not stated here
The partners' privacy notices are not supplied, and the Notice does not limit their uses.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Google may use data from Mastercard Sites as an independent controller
Google may collect or receive information from Mastercard Sites and use it as an independent controller for ad personalisation, measurement and reporting, and to improve its own products. The Notice directs you to Google's Privacy Policy and to Google documentation for users in the EEA and UK for how Google processes this information.
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Who
Google as independent controller
Why
Personalisation of ads, measurement, reporting, improving its products
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Google may collect or receive information from our Sites and use it as an independent controller for personalisation of ads, measurement, reporting and to improve its products.
Qualifications & exceptions
Google uses the information as an independent controller, for its own purposes listed: personalisation of ads, measurement, reporting and improving its products.
Not stated here
Google's Privacy Policy and EEA/UK documentation are linked but not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Mastercard is a joint controller with Meta for Meta Pixel event data
Mastercard says it acts as a joint controller with Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. under the Meta Business Tools Terms for collecting Event Data through the Meta Pixel and sending it to Meta. It points to the Meta Privacy Policy for the information the EU's GDPR requires about Meta Ireland's processing and your rights.
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Who
Mastercard and Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. as joint controllers
What it covers
Event Data collected through the Meta Pixel and transmitted to Meta
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We act as a joint controller with Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.
for the collection of Event Data (as defined in the Meta Business Tools Terms) through the Meta Pixel and its transmission to Meta.
Qualifications & exceptions
Joint control covers collection of Event Data (as defined in the Meta Business Tools Terms) through the Meta Pixel and its transmission to Meta.
The GDPR-required information is stated to relate to Meta Ireland's processing.
Not stated here
The Meta Business Tools Terms and Meta Privacy Policy are linked but not supplied.
Which Sites use the Meta Pixel, and whether joint control applies outside the EU, is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Procedure
Details on how personal information is shared are in another notice
On sharing, this Notice refers you to Mastercard's Global Privacy Notice, or a Site's own privacy notice if it has one, for details about how Mastercard shares Personal Information. The sharing the Notice itself describes concerns third-party Cookies and advertising partners.
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What it covers
Details of how Personal Information is shared
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for details about how we share Personal Information.
Qualifications & exceptions
A Site's own privacy notice replaces the Global Privacy Notice for this purpose where one exists.
Not stated here
How Mastercard shares Personal Information beyond the Cookie and advertising-partner passages is not in this Notice; the Global Privacy Notice is linked but not supplied.