Optery advertises themselves as a privacy oriented service that helps you remove data from data brokers.

In the policy they mention they send your profile data to Advertising Partners with the purpose of

• Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services • Marketing the Services

Isn’t this almost opposite of the whole purpose of their service? Or am I reading this wrong and this is just because they have to send your data to the brokers to process deletions?

Are there recommended alternatives?

P.S. I reached out to them about this but they haven’t gotten back to me yet

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    Or am I reading this wrong and this is just because they have to send your data to the brokers to process deletions?

    You are reading it correctly.

    If they only used your data to process deletions, it would read along the lines of “data shared with partners as necessary to provide (data deletion, etc) services.”

    It should also normally be followed by a sentence that links to each partners privacy policies, and says that each partner complies with similar restrictions on using your data only for the same purposes listed in the earlier sentence.