Categories of Third Parties

“Categories of third parties” means types or groupings of third parties with whom the business shares personal information, described with enough particularity to provide consumers with a meaningful understanding of the type of third party. They may include advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers.

TrueVault has mapped hundreds of third party systems and has found the following categorizations to be both understandable and useful: