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Reddit

Reddit is a website that is home to thousands of communities for any information you would need. People post, vote, and comment in communities for their interests.

Personal data collected

Reddit collects, shares, and uses personal information from you when you use their website, mobile app, widgets, and other online products or services through them. If you interact with them or receive communications from them, they will collect data from their interaction with you as well. Reddit collects information about you when you create an account, submit content, take any actions on their website, and purchase a service or product from them. This information collected includes your username and password, email address, user account preferences and settings, any posts and comments you make, messages to other users, and your reports and communications with moderators. This content may include video, text, links, images, and gifs.

When you interact with their content, they collect information from you such as your voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. This includes interactions with others, for example following, friending, or blocking. They also collect your interactions with communities, subscriptions, moderator status, and information about any products or services you purchase.

Certain information is collected automatically by Reddit, such as your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information, device IDs, pages visited, links clicked, requested URL, hardware settings, search terms, location information, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Personal data usage

Reddit uses data to:

Cookies and similar tech

Reddit uses cookies and other similar technologies to collect certain information from you, such as preferred languages and other similar settings. They use this information to improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, and improve their services. If you decide to disable cookies, their website may not function properly. They do not respond to Do Not Track signals.

Reddit account

If you decide to delete your account, your profile gets deleted but your posted content does not. You have to delete those individually. Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to open an account with Reddit.

Data shared with Reddit

NAME
CATEGORY
MANDATORY
User ID
App Information
YES
Username
App Information
YES
Types of content you view
App Information
YES
Types of content you engage with
App Information
YES
People you are connected to
App Information
YES
IP address
Device
YES
Language and time zone
Device
YES
Browser type
Device
YES
Name of your mobile operator or ISP
Device
YES
Device locations
Device
YES
Device identifiers
Device
YES
Device settings
Device
YES
Hardware version
Device
YES
Signal strength
Device
Operating system
Device
YES
Battery strength
Device
Billing details
Payment
OPTIONAL
Shipping and contact details
Payment
OPTIONAL
Credit or debit card number
Payment
OPTIONAL
Gender
Personal Information
OPTIONAL
Name
Personal Information
OPTIONAL
Information provided by third-party entity
Third-party
YES
Message sent to you
Third-party
YES
Login time
Time
Sign-up time
Time
Duration of your activities
Time
YES
Frequency of your activities
Time
YES

How to protect your privacy

You can protect your privacy on Reddit by:

How to contact Reddit about your privacy

You can contact Reddit through email (EU:email) or postal mail at:

In the US:
Reddit, Inc.
548 Market St. #16093
San Francisco, California 94104
USA

In the EU:
Reddit, Inc.
c/o First European Data Rep B.V.
Schiphol Boulevard 195
1118 BG Schiphol, The Netherlands

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