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Website: http://sharethis.com/

About Us: http://secure.sharethis.com/about/

In Their Own Words

"ShareThis offers the most innovative sharing platform for today's social audience. ShareThis allows users to share content from anywhere to anyone while simultaneously enabling publishers and advertisers to tap the value of sharing...The business end of ShareThis involves developing informational insights from data that can be used in online advertising models."

Industry affiliations

What does this company do?

Ad network
Seller of aggregated publisher ad inventory from many websites. Many ad networks use proprietary technology and partner with data aggregators to target ads.

What data does this company collect?

Data Collected
Anonymous: Ad Views, Browser Information, Date/Time, Demographic Data, Hardware/Software Type, Internet Service Provider, Interaction Data , Page Views

Pseudonymous: IP Address (EU PII), Search History, Clickstream Data

Data Sharing
Anonymous data is shared with 3rd parties.

Data Retention
12-18 Months

Data Use
Analytics Measurement, Content Customization,

Opt-out policy

This company provides a cookie based opt-out. An "opt-out cookie" is set by the browser. This provides a request that ads should not be customized through your web browsing activities and preferences. You will continue to receive ads but this company will not use this information to select behavioral ads you see online. You must opt-out again if cookies are deleted and required for each browser type and new computer. Third party cookies must be accepted for opt-out to work.

Your choices

We believe this company facilitates or engages in 3rd party interest-based targeting.

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Privacy contact

• Privacy
  ShareThis, Inc.

  4009 Miranda Avenue
  Suite 200
  Palo Alto, CA, 94304-1227
  
  
• Email: privacy@sharethis.com
• Privacy contact URL: http://sharethis.com/feedback

Privacy policy

Privacy policy: http://sharethis.com/privacy

Opt-out cookies

Serving domain(s): sharethis.com

When you opt out of being tracked and/or targeted by this company, an "opt-out cookie" is set in your web browser. The details of this cookie are below. Click here for more information about what this means. ^*

Browser cookies

• Name: st_optout
• Host: sharethis.com
• Path: /
• Content: true
• Expiration date: 2021-05-16 00:00:00

Flash cookies/LSOs

No LSO usage.

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