What type of data Amazon, eBay and AliExpress online marketplaces collects

Last updated on August 24th, 2020 at 04:02 pm

Survey shows that more than 50% of e-commerce sales were made through online marketplaces in 2019 and billions of people visit these sites/ apps of these online marketplaces. Around the world, there are 153 online big marketplaces but you know, which are top three?

Amazon holds the top position and it is visited by around 6 Billion per month. Japan’s PayPayMall is the second highest visited site by more than 2 Billion per month. eBay is the third largest online site which is visited by around 1.6 Billion per month. Mercado Libre operates in the South America but it is the fourth largest online market place which is visited by more than 660 million per month.

All these online market places collects various types of data which they have declared in their Privacy Policy on their websites. The link of Privacy Policy is placed bottom of the website, if you click it, is will show you all details.

They collect following types of data

Following Information you provide to them:

• Contact information: Name; address; phone number; email address, social media accounts.
• Purchase and/or payment information including: credit card/ debit card/ net banking/ Mobile Wallets etc.
• ID (such as a passport/Aadhar etc) for identification verification in certain circumstances, when you apply for after-sales services.
• Others: Marital status, nationality, gender, date and/or year of birth, annual income, monthly spending and user preferences.

Information that they collect automatically:

• Personal information like IP addresses, Device type, unique device identification numbers, Browser type, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location), browsing patterns, Browser software, operating system, software and hardware attributes, pages viewed, number of sessions and unique visitors.
• If you have not disabled Cookies then
• Session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Your personnel data is shared with many agencies including Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, many more Social Media sites, and VKontakte, and providers of analytics services relating to users’ behavior, in order to tailor the content you see when visiting these online marketplace or Social media for their targeted advertising. 

For more details about Privacy policy, Click here Amazon, eBay ,AliExpress and Rakuten

If you are online, nothing is confidential, your every activity is recorded and advertisements are served you on websites, you visit.

You may control your privacy a little by disabling cookies, stopping websites to collect your information by disabling it on their sites but still few personnel information about you is collected. Next time, before you browse any online marketplace site/ app, see the privacy policy and then proceed.