Tracker List
- Data trader
- Web tool or widget
"ShareThis (www.sharethis.com) is the most innovative sharing platform available for marketers, comprised of a suite of free sharing solutions for publishers, and marketing solutions for advertisers. ShareThis aggregates and analyzes anonymous, non-personally identifiable data about topics that people are sharing, and through what channels they are sharing. We use the data to create better consumer experiences across the ShareThis Publisher Network. For Advertisers, we identify people who might be interested in their ads, and deliver ads to those people through media that we buy."
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Domains
- sharethis.com
Data Collection
- Browser cookies
- IP addresses
Seen here
Industry affiliations and oversight
Opt Out
- This company offers an opt out (not verified to stop tracking)
Do Not Track
- This company does not honor Do Not Track
Policies
- Anonymity
- You are anonymous (identity info is separated from activities or not collected)
- Excerpts
"We also use a 'cookie' to collect Usage Information in order to assemble non-personal, demographic, behavioral and technical information in order to group users that share a common interest into audience segments ('Audience Segment Cookies'). These Audience Segment Cookies do not contain Registration Information; for example, these cookies may disclose that a user located in a geographic area may be interested in cars, but this information does not identify or include the name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address, or user name of any specific individual."
- Sharing
- Your individual activities and interests may be conveyed to others
- Excerpts
"We may share aggregate information about user interests and website visits collected from cookies and Audience Segment Cookies with third party advertisers and publishers. We may also share statistical information about our services with advertisers and publisher.
We may use third-party companies (advertisers, publishers and ad networks) under agreements with us to serve advertisements and/or collect certain information about usage of ShareThis Services on their properties and Web sites; however, no Registration Information is provided by us to such companies. These companies may use such information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Your preferences collected through this process may be used to influence which types of marketing messages you receive across sites that we work with. These companies typically use a cookie or pixel tag to collect this information. Please note, although we do not provide Registration Information when you use ShareThis Services on third party properties, these publisher Web sites and advertisers may independently gain other demographical information about you after they place their own cookies or web beacons, or when we serve advertising information to them based on our Audience Segment Cookies and any pixel tags associated with such cookies. These cookies and pixel tags are not intended to collect personal information from your computer, such as your name, address, e-mail address, user name or phone number; however, these cookies may collect information such as a user's IP address and the location where the user accesses the Internet."
We may use third-party companies (advertisers, publishers and ad networks) under agreements with us to serve advertisements and/or collect certain information about usage of ShareThis Services on their properties and Web sites; however, no Registration Information is provided by us to such companies. These companies may use such information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Your preferences collected through this process may be used to influence which types of marketing messages you receive across sites that we work with. These companies typically use a cookie or pixel tag to collect this information. Please note, although we do not provide Registration Information when you use ShareThis Services on third party properties, these publisher Web sites and advertisers may independently gain other demographical information about you after they place their own cookies or web beacons, or when we serve advertising information to them based on our Audience Segment Cookies and any pixel tags associated with such cookies. These cookies and pixel tags are not intended to collect personal information from your computer, such as your name, address, e-mail address, user name or phone number; however, these cookies may collect information such as a user's IP address and the location where the user accesses the Internet."
- Boundaries
- No use of gov't IDs, financial and insurance numbers, current location or health info
- Excerpts
As an NAI member, this network has agreed to obtain consumer consent before using:
- Social Security Numbers or other Government-issued identifiers
- Insurance plan numbers
- Financial account numbers
- Information that describes the precise real-time geographic location of an individual derived through location-based services such as through GPS-enabled devices
- Precise information about past, present, or potential future health or medical conditions or treatments, including genetic, genomic, and family medical history
- Social Security Numbers or other Government-issued identifiers
- Insurance plan numbers
- Financial account numbers
- Information that describes the precise real-time geographic location of an individual derived through location-based services such as through GPS-enabled devices
- Precise information about past, present, or potential future health or medical conditions or treatments, including genetic, genomic, and family medical history
- Deletion
- Info may be kept up to 12 months
- Excerpts
"Our policy is to delete all Usage Information, Technical Information, Audience Segment Cookies and all other cookies that have been on our severs for twelve (12) months. Although we will use reasonable endeavors to remove such older data, we cannot assure that all such data will be completely purged from our systems."
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