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Source-backed from Progressive California Privacy Notice and Rights

12
reviewed findings
12
key findings
3
free to read here
3
verified controls

1 of them depends on where you live.

Privacy Snapshot

What the published policy covers, and how much we found under each. Tap one to read it.

  • Location 2 findings
  • Messages 1 finding
  • Sensitive Data 2 findings
  • Tracking 3 findings
  • Advertising & Profiling 1 finding
  • Sharing 3 findings

3 findings, in full

The first 3 of this report’s 12 key findings, complete — claim, reasoning, and the policy’s own wording.

Sharing Control available in some regions Progressive may sell or share your identifiers and online activity for cross-context behavioral advertising

What this means

The categories Progressive names are identifiers, internet and other electronic network activity information, employment-related information and commercial information, and the purpose it names is cross-context behavioral advertising.

Progressive may sell or share identifiers, internet/electronic activity information, employment-related information, and commercial information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

Why this matters

Selling and sharing are the two things a privacy law gives you a right to stop, and this is the list of your data that right covers.

What the policy says

We may sell, or share for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising Purposes, Identifiers, Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information, Professional or Employment-Related Information, and Commercial Information. "Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising" means targeting advertising to a Consumer based on the Consumer's Personal Information obtained from that person's activity across businesses, distinctly-branded websites, applications, or services, other than the business, distinctly-branded website, application, or service …

From Progressive California Privacy Notice and Rights

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Location Progressive may collect location precise enough to place you inside a 1,850-foot circle

What this means

Progressive describes this as sensitive geolocation information: data that can reveal where a consumer is within an area as small as a 1,850-foot radius circle.

Progressive may collect sensitive geolocation information that reveals a consumer's location within an area as small as a 1850-foot radius circle.

Why this matters

A circle that small is a block or a building, not a city, which is the difference between knowing your area and knowing where you are.

What the policy says

"Sensitive Geolocation Information," meaning Personal Information that reveals a Consumer's geolocation within an area that is equal to or less than the area of a circle with a radius of 1850 feet.

From Progressive California Privacy Notice and Rights

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Messages Progressive may collect the contents of your mail, email and texts sent to other people

What this means

This is a sensitive-information category Progressive lists: the contents of a consumer's mail, email and text messages, except where Progressive itself is the intended recipient.

Progressive may collect the contents of a consumer's mail, email, and text messages unless Progressive is the intended recipient.

Why this matters

The exception is the point -- it is what you say to everyone else, not what you say to your insurer.

What the policy says

"Sensitive Communications," meaning the contents of a Consumer's mail, email, and text messages unless we are the intended recipient of the communication.

From Progressive California Privacy Notice and Rights

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9 more key findings a free account opens, by topic

  • Tracking 3
  • Sensitive Data 2
  • Sharing 2
  • Advertising & Profiling 1
  • Location 1

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