What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Reddit does with your data
Reddit personalises ads on and off Reddit, receives data about what you do on advertisers' own sites and apps, and shares information with ad, analytics and LLM providers; posts and comments stay public after you delete your account.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Reddit’s own policy says “We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us.”
Our summary the named recipient categories include third-party ad-serving and measurement providers (who may combine the disclosed cookie IDs, IP address or hashed email with data they already hold), audience-measurement partners, age-verification and compliance providers, LLM providers, and any parent, affiliate or subsidiary under common control.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
Reddit’s own policy says “Provide you with relevant advertising, including personalized advertising on and off Reddit;”
Our summary Reddit personalises advertising both on and off its own service, and separately states it infers attributes such as age range, gender and preferred language, and combines interest/demographic data received from advertisers with your account using a hashed email address or mobile-device ID.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
Show me where they say that
Reddit’s own policy says “Similarly, if an advertiser incorporates Reddit’s ad technology, Reddit may receive limited information about your activity on the advertiser’s site or app, such as whether you bought something from the advertiser.”
Our summary third-party sites carrying Reddit embeds or Reddit ad technology report your activity there back to Reddit, including purchases; Reddit also advertises its own services to you on other sites and apps and measures the performance of those ads.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
Show me where they say that
Reddit’s own policy says “We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes and/or if we believe doing so is in accordance with, or as required by, any applicable law.”
Our summary retention is open-ended at Reddit's judgement of business need or legal requirement; posts, comments and messages remain visible after account deletion unless separately deleted first, and identifiers such as the phone number behind a banned account are stored to prevent re-registration.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Reddit’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Processes your face or other biometrics
- Trains AI models on your content
Reddit is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Reddit do with my personal data?
According to Reddit's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 4 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term.
Can I withdraw my consent from Reddit?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Reddit track me for advertising?
Yes — Reddit's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Reddit declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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