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Caroline is our guest blogger, tuning in with dispatches from CareRight meet-ups, wellbeing tips for home life, and invitations to share your own experiences.

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“I’ll share the small wins, the big milestones, and the practical advice we hear from families every week.”

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+Store and/or access information on a device
Vendors can:
  • Store and access information on the device such as cookies and device identifiers presented to a user.
+Select basic ads
To do basic ad selection vendors can:
  • Use real-time information about the context in which the ad will be shown, to show the ad, including information about the content and the device, such as: device type and capabilities, user agent, URL, IP address
  • Use a user’s non-precise geolocation data
  • Control the frequency of ads shown to a user.
  • Sequence the order in which ads are shown to a user.
  • Prevent an ad from serving in an unsuitable editorial (brand-unsafe) contextVendors cannot:
  • Create a personalised ads profile using this information for the selection of future ads without a separate legal basis to create a personalised ads profile.
  • N.B. Non-precise means only an approximate location involving at least a radius of 500 meters is permitted.
+Create a personalised ads profile
To create a personalised ads profile vendors can:
  • Collect information about a user, including a user's activity, interests, demographic information, or location, to create or edit a user profile for use in personalised advertising.
  • Combine this information with other information previously collected, including from across websites and apps, to create or edit a user profile for use in personalised advertising.
+Select personalised ads
To select personalised ads vendors can:
  • Select personalised ads based on a user profile or other historical user data, including a user’s prior activity, interests, visits to sites or apps, location, or demographic information.
+Create a personalised content profile
To create a personalised content profile vendors can:
  • Collect information about a user, including a user's activity, interests, visits to sites or apps, demographic information, or location, to create or edit a user profile for personalising content.
  • Combine this information with other information previously collected, including from across websites and apps, to create or edit a user profile for use in personalising content.
+Select personalised content
To select personalised content vendors can:
  • Select personalised content based on a user profile or other historical user data, including a user’s prior activity, interests, visits to sites or apps, location, or demographic information.
+Measure ad performance
To measure ad performance vendors can:
  • Measure whether and how ads were delivered to and interacted with by a user
  • Provide reporting about ads including their effectiveness and performance
  • Provide reporting about users who interacted with ads using data observed during the course of the user's interaction with that ad
  • Provide reporting to publishers about the ads displayed on their property
  • Measure whether an ad is serving in a suitable editorial environment (brand-safe) context
  • Determine the percentage of the ad that had the opportunity to be seen and the duration of that opportunity
  • Combine this information with other information previously collected, including from across websites and appsVendors cannot:
    • Apply panel- or similarly-derived audience insights data to ad measurement data without a Legal Basis to apply market research to generate audience insights (Purpose 9)
+Measure content performance
To measure ad performance vendors can: To measure content performance vendors can:
  • Measure and report on how content was delivered to and interacted with by users.
  • Provide reporting, using directly measurable or known information, about users who interacted with the content
  • Combine this information with other information previously collected, including from across websites and apps.Vendors cannot:
  • Measure whether and how ads (including native ads) were delivered to and interacted with by a user.
  • Apply panel- or similarly derived audience insights data to ad measurement data without a Legal Basis to apply market research to generate audience insights (Purpose 9)
+Apply market research to generate audience insights
To apply market research to generate audience insights vendors can:
  • Provide aggregate reporting to advertisers or their representatives about the audiences reached by their ads, through panel-based and similarly derived insights.
  • Provide aggregate reporting to publishers about the audiences that were served or interacted with content and/or ads on their property by applying panel-based and similarly derived insights.
  • Associate offline data with an online user for the purposes of market research to generate audience insights if vendors have declared to match and combine offline data sources (Feature 1)
  • Combine this information with other information previously collected including from across websites and apps. Vendors cannot:
  • Measure the performance and effectiveness of ads that a specific user was served or interacted with, without a Legal Basis to measure ad performance.
  • Measure which content a specific user was served and how they interacted with it, without a Legal Basis to measure content performance.
+Develop and improve products
To develop new products and improve products vendors can:
  • Use information to improve their existing products with new features and to develop new products
  • Create new models and algorithms through machine learningVendors cannot:
  • Conduct any other data processing operation allowed under a different purpose under this purpose

Special Purposes

+Ensure security, prevent fraud, and debug
To ensure security, prevent fraud and debug vendors can:
  • Ensure data are securely transmitted
  • Detect and prevent malicious, fraudulent, invalid, or illegal activity.
  • Ensure correct and efficient operation of systems and processes, including to monitor and enhance the performance of systems and processes engaged in permitted purposesVendors cannot:
  • Conduct any other data processing operation allowed under a different purpose under this purpose.Note: Data collected and used to ensure security, prevent fraud, and debug may include automatically-sent device characteristics for identification, precise geolocation data, and data obtained by actively scanning device characteristics for identification without separate disclosure and/or opt-in.
+Technically deliver ads or content
To deliver information and respond to technical requests vendors can:
  • Use a user’s IP address to deliver an ad over the internet
  • Respond to a user’s interaction with an ad by sending the user to a landing page
  • Use a user’s IP address to deliver content over the internet
  • Respond to a user’s interaction with content by sending the user to a landing page
  • Use information about the device type and capabilities for delivering ads or content, for example, to deliver the right size ad creative or video file in a format supported by the deviceVendors cannot:
  • Conduct any other data processing operation allowed under a different purpose under this purpose

Features

+Match and combine offline data sources
Vendors can:
  • Combine data obtained offline with data collected online in support of one or more Purposes or Special Purposes.
+Link different devices
Vendors can:
  • Deterministically determine that two or more devices belong to the same user or household
  • Probabilistically determine that two or more devices belong to the same user or household
  • Actively scan device characteristics for identification for probabilistic identification if users have allowed vendors to actively scan device characteristics for identification (Special Feature 2)
+Receive and use automatically-sent device characteristics for identification
Vendors can:
  • Create an identifier using data collected automatically from a device for specific characteristics, e.g. IP address, user-agent string.
  • Use such an identifier to attempt to re-identify a device.Vendors cannot:
  • Create an identifier using data collected via actively scanning a device for specific characteristics, e.g. installed font or screen resolution without users’ separate opt-in to actively scanning device characteristics for identification.
  • Use such an identifier to re-identify a device.

Special Features

+Use precise geolocation data
Vendors can:
  • Collect and process precise geolocation data in support of one or more purposes.N.B. Precise geolocation means that there are no restrictions on the precision of a user’s location; this can be accurate to within several meters.
+Actively scan device characteristics for identification
Vendors can:
  • Create an identifier using data collected via actively scanning a device for specific characteristics, e.g. installed fonts or screen resolution.
  • Use such an identifier to re-identify a device.
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