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Ebay Privacy Insights

Updated Nov 18, 2024

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Summary

eBay is an online marketplace that collects extensive user data for providing services, personalization, and marketing purposes. The platform has detailed privacy policies across multiple jurisdictions with clear user rights and opt-out mechanisms.

Safety Concerns

  • Extensive data collection across multiple categories
  • Sharing of personal data with third-party advertisers
  • Potential use of data for targeted advertising

Third Party Sharing

eBay shares user data with various third-party categories including service providers, advertising networks, and affiliated companies

Service Providers

Companies performing functions on eBay's behalf like processing claims, fulfilling orders, sending mail, analyzing data, providing customer service

Data collected:
Personal Identifiers
Transactional Information

Advertising Networks

Third-party advertisers who receive user data for targeted advertising

Data collected:
Device Information
Browsing Activity

Data Collection

eBay collects comprehensive user data across multiple categories to provide marketplace services and personalize user experience

Identifiers

Name, address, email, username, tax identification numbers

Commercial Information

Transaction details, purchases, sales, financial information

Device Information

IP address, device type, browser settings, device identifiers

Geolocation Data

IP address, precise location when mobile services enabled

Demographic Information

Age, gender, nationality, employment status

Sensitive Personal Information

Government ID numbers, financial account details

Opt-Out Options

Opt-out of Data Sale/Sharing

  1. 1Go to eBay's 'Your Privacy Choices' page
  2. 2Toggle switch to 'Out'
  3. 3Log in to associate choice with account

Opt-out of Targeted Advertising

  1. 1Visit eBay AdChoice page
  2. 2Use privacy toggle
  3. 3Use Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal