E-commerce: more on data protection protocols of retailers

 

This post is the last of a series of articles examining the data protection protocols of e-commerce retailers.

Zara
This high street fashion brand will collect your name, language, country, email, payment details, information on orders and returns, browsing data and your tastes/preferences. When Zara saves data, it shares it with marketing and advertising partners. Nonetheless, the firm does not sell it for profit.

Nike
This sports brand asks you to input a surprisingly large amount of information on yourself. These are: your name, email, address, gender, hometown, date of birth, purchase history, payment details, weight, height, and body measurements, fitness activity data. Your interests and preferences are also monitored and stored. While Nike shares this data with advertisers, it does not sell it. Its privacy policy advances that the information “is only given to 'service providers processing personal data for business purposes on Nike’s behalf”.

Shein
This e-commerce website, along with regular consumer details, also automatically saves information on the type of browser and version a customer uses, the computer and connection they browse on, the IP address and whether they accessed the site on their phone. Since its uses Google Ads as its third party advertiser, the firm may share your data with the tech giant.


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