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title: "Pinterest: what refusing costs you"
url: "https://isitsellingme.com/entity/pinterest/"
grade: "B"
category: "Social"
last_checked: "2026-09-18"
---

# Pinterest

**Grade B.** What refusing costs you: A setting, depth unverified.

Social · UK

## The clause

> You can control how we use this information to personalise your experience and the ads you see on Pinterest in your Privacy and Data Settings.

Source: https://policy.pinterest.com/en-gb/privacy-policy, checked 18 September 2026. Archived copy: https://github.com/jgarpotter/isitsellingme-archive/blob/main/captures/platforms/pinterest/policy/2026-09-18T110813Z.html

## How this grade was reached

- Base grade B, from what refusing costs you.
- Final grade B.

## The three axes

### What refusing costs you

Finding: A setting, depth unverified.

> You can control how we use this information to personalise your experience and the ads you see on Pinterest in your Privacy and Data Settings.

Source: https://policy.pinterest.com/en-gb/privacy-policy, checked 18 September 2026. Archived copy: https://github.com/jgarpotter/isitsellingme-archive/blob/main/captures/platforms/pinterest/policy/2026-09-18T110813Z.html

### Who receives you

Finding: Named third parties.
Categories: Facebook Ads, Google Marketing Platform, Advertisers and other partners.

> 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.

Source: https://policy.pinterest.com/en-gb/privacy-policy, checked 18 September 2026. Archived copy: https://github.com/jgarpotter/isitsellingme-archive/blob/main/captures/platforms/pinterest/policy/2026-09-18T110813Z.html

### Whether the refusal covers everything

Finding: The document does not address 6 points about what the refusal covers.
- Not stated: Whether it applies to data already collected
- Not stated: Whether it covers in-store purchases
- Not stated: Whether it covers data bought about you
- Not stated: Whether it covers profiles inferred about you
- Not stated: Whether it binds a device or your account
- Not stated: Whether it expires

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Page: https://isitsellingme.com/entity/pinterest/
How grades work: https://isitsellingme.com/methodology/
Last checked: 18 September 2026