45 ENTITIES TRACKED · 45 COUNTEDLAST BUILD 6 SEPT 2026 · 13:19 UTC
Is It Selling Me?
CGrade C

Pinterest (US)

Social · US

The clause

Some of these activities may be considered "targeted advertising" "sharing" or "selling" as those terms are defined under certain state privacy laws in the US. You can opt out of Pinterest using and disclosing your information for these purposes. To do so, visit your Privacy and Data Settings.

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How this grade was reached

  1. BBase grade, from what refusing costs you. The scale.
  2. −1Recipients are sold to, or described only by category rather than named. Rule.

1 modifier applied. Final grade C.

The three axes

Each is evidenced separately and may have been read on a different day. The date under each clause is the date of that clause, not of this page.

What refusing costs you

What does saying no cost you?

A setting, depth unverified

Some of these activities may be considered "targeted advertising" "sharing" or "selling" as those terms are defined under certain state privacy laws in the US. You can opt out of Pinterest using and disclosing your information for these purposes. To do so, visit your Privacy and Data Settings.

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Who receives you

Who else receives you, by name?

Sold on

  • CategoriesAdvertising partners, on and off Pinterest, Facebook Ads and Google Marketing Platform (named examples), Advertisers receiving performance data, Vendors processing on Pinterest's behalf

To do this, we disclose information such as cookie IDs, your IP address, or a hashed version of your email address to third parties, such as Facebook Ads, Google Marketing Platform, and others who may combine that information with other information they already have about you and deliver ads about Pinterest to you.

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Whether the refusal covers everything

Does the refusal actually cover everything?

5 gaps in what the refusal covers.

  • GapDoes not apply to data already collected
  • GapDoes not cover in-store purchases
  • GapDoes not cover profiles inferred about you
  • GapBinds one device, not your account
  • GapExpires and must be renewed

Note that you will still see ads on our Services, but they will not be informed by offsite data.

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Who receives you

Pinterest (US) does not publish a count of who receives this data.

Of those, we grade these

Right of reply

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