Target vs eBay

Most disputes must be handled through individual JAMS arbitration, and you waive both class actions and jury trials. This makes it harder to sue in court or join with other users over small-value claims.

Target says it may collect a very broad range of personal data, including purchase history, browsing activity, geolocation, biometrics, sensory data, and inferences. That gives the company a detailed view of your shopping behavior online and in stores.

Target and its partners use cookies, tags, and identifiers to track activity across devices and browsers for advertising and analytics. Your interactions may also be governed by third-party companies’ own privacy practices.

Under some state privacy laws, Target says it 'sells' personal information and shares it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Even if this is a legal definition, it signals advertising-related data disclosures beyond basic service operation.

Depending on your state, Target offers rights to access, correct, and delete personal information, plus opt-outs for targeted advertising, sale, and cross-context sharing. It also provides request methods by web form and phone.

Although Target ignores standard browser Do Not Track signals, it says it treats Global Privacy Control as an opt-out of sale and targeted/cross-context behavioral advertising where required. That is a meaningful modern privacy control.

Target reserves the right to change the terms immediately by posting updates, and continued use means acceptance. That puts the burden on you to keep checking for new rules.

Target can terminate accounts, refuse service, or cancel orders in its sole discretion, including for no reason. This gives users limited contractual protection if access or purchases are interrupted.

If you submit reviews, photos, videos, or other content, you grant Target a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use, modify, sell, and distribute it without compensation. You also waive moral rights in that content.

The policy gives concrete ways to unsubscribe from emails, stop texts, disable push notifications and location sharing, unlink accounts, opt out of Target Circle, and cancel Circle 360 in account settings. This makes privacy and membership choices more actionable.

Target Circle 360 is described as an automatic renewal program with nonrefundable fees. Users should watch for recurring charges and separate cancellation steps.

Target uses automated license plate recognition near stores for fraud prevention and security, which is a surveillance concern, but says access is restricted and the data is stored only briefly. The summary indicates ALPR data is kept about 30 days and not sold.

Most disputes must go to binding individual arbitration after an informal process, unless you opt out in time. This also waives class actions, court access, and jury trial rights for many claims.

Anything you post can be used, adapted, promoted, and sublicensed by eBay indefinitely. Users also waive enforcement of certain IP and moral rights against eBay for that content.

eBay provides the service as-is and disclaims many warranties. Its financial liability is heavily limited, which can make recovery difficult if the platform causes harm.

eBay can limit, suspend, remove listings, reduce discounts, or terminate access largely at its sole discretion. This gives users limited certainty if a moderation or enforcement decision goes against them.

eBay collects a wide range of account, transaction, device, location, financial, communication, and inferred data, including data from third parties. This creates a broad profile of user behavior across the service.

Personal data may be shared with affiliates, service providers, other users, authorities, and advertising partners. This increases downstream data exposure beyond the core marketplace transaction.

Users are offered access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, consent withdrawal, and data portability rights. These are meaningful controls, especially for users in stronger privacy-law regions.

Certain fixed-price listings renew automatically every month until sold or ended. Sellers could incur recurring listing exposure and related fees if they do not manually stop renewal.

eBay automatically scans all messages sent through its platform and may manually review them. Messages can be delayed, withheld, and stored for fraud detection and policy enforcement.

eBay may retain personal data for years after use ends for legal, tax, fraud, and claims reasons. In Europe, retention is generally six to ten years, which is lengthy for many users.

Registered users are told they will be notified of material changes to the privacy notice. That is more transparent than silent policy changes.

eBay openly discloses use of automated decision-making and says it will not make significantly affecting automated decisions unless allowed by law, consent, or contractual necessity. This is useful transparency, though profiling still occurs.