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"We may share your personal data with our subsidiaries and affiliated companies (collectively, "Dow Jones Affiliates") for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, including for each company's marketing purposes (with your consent if required by applicable law). A list of Dow Jones Affiliates is available in annual reports accessible here."

Personal data is shared broadly across Dow Jones subsidiaries, affiliates, business partners, and third-party advertising networks for marketing and advertising purposes.

"Your activities on other Internet sites or mobile apps, such as information about content, products, services or advertisements you have seen or interacted with, including the content, products or services of our advertisers. ... We also engage third party online advertising companies, advertisers and ad networks to help target our messaging to visitors through interest-based and contextual means. These third parties may collect information about your activities on our Dow Jones Services and on other websites or apps including offline purchases."

Dow Jones and its third-party advertising partners collect and combine user activity across multiple websites, apps, and even offline purchases to build profiles for targeted advertising.

"Location information, including the city, state and zip code associated with your IP address, information derived through wifi triangulation, and precise location information from GPS-based functionality on your mobile apps, with your consent."

The policy discloses collection of precise GPS location data and WiFi triangulation data from mobile devices, going beyond basic IP geolocation.

"Device information, such as unique identifier and connection information, including mobile device advertising IDs (e.g., Apple IDFA or Google AAID); Your device type and settings, software used, browser type and operating system; ... Your phone number and mobile carrier details in connection with some of our mobile apps."

Dow Jones collects mobile advertising IDs, unique device identifiers, phone numbers, and mobile carrier details, which goes beyond what's necessary for a news service.

"Dow Jones may periodically update this Privacy Notice without prior notice to reflect changes in our privacy practices and the Dow Jones Services. If we modify the Privacy Notice, we will update the Effective Date and the changes will become effective as of the date we post such Notice."

Dow Jones explicitly reserves the right to change the privacy notice without prior notice, with changes taking effect immediately upon posting.

"If you wish to delete the personal data we hold about you, please let us know and we will take reasonable steps to respond to your request in accordance with applicable legal requirements. Certain data may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. We may also need to retain certain types of data so that we can provide the Dow Jones Services to you."

The policy provides no specific data retention timelines and includes broad exemptions that allow Dow Jones to retain data even after a deletion request.