Manage your privacy and data settings

To provide you with the most inspirational, personalised experience on Pinterest, we use information about your activity off and on Pinterest. For example, if we see you’re into cooking based on what you save on Pinterest, we may suggest food-related Pins, boards, or people we think you might like. You can update your privacy and data sharing settings to adjust how we share and use certain information.

Ads personalisation settings

From your privacy and data settings, you can opt in and out of four different ads personalisation settings:

Option	Use case
Use sites you visit to improve which ads you see on Pinterest	Controls how we use data collected on other websites and apps to improve ads on Pinterest
Use partner info to improve which ads you see on Pinterest	Controls how we use info from our partners for personalised ads (please note that this setting does not apply to information about purchases you initiate on Pinterest)
Use your activity to improve ads you see about Pinterest on other sites or apps you may visit	Controls whether we can use your Pinterest activity to show you ads about Pinterest on other websites and apps
Share activity for ads performance reporting	Controls whether we can share info about you with advertisers, to help them to measure how their ads perform (if you're located in the EU, you're opted out of this setting automatically)

Note: Minors in the EU and UK will be opted out of all ad personalisation settings automatically. You’ll be opted in when you turn 18, but you can adjust this in your settings at any time.

Manage ads personalisation settings

Click in the top right-hand corner to open your menu

Click Settings

Select Privacy and data

Tick or untick the boxes next to each setting you'd like to manage

Click Done

Open the Pinterest app on your device and log in to your Pinterest account

Tap your profile picture in the bottom right-hand corner

Tap in the top right-hand corner

Tap Privacy and data

Tap the toggle next to each setting you'd like to manage

Open the Pinterest app on your device and log in to your Pinterest account

Tap your profile picture in the bottom right-hand corner

Tap in the top right-hand corner

Tap Privacy and data

Tap the toggle next to each setting you'd like to manage

Manage your data and account

If you’d like, you can access, edit or delete your personal data. Our Privacy Policy includes more about how Pinterest processes your personal data and the choices you have about your information. If you live in the EEA or California, review our specific policy sections to learn more about data options available to you.

Inferred signals about you

If you're located in the EU, you can choose whether Pinterest can use certain data to personalise the ideas you see. This data includes things such as Pins you've clicked on before, demographic information and your Pinterest search history. To manage this setting, find Inferred signals about you, then tick or untick the box or toggle the switch.

Cookie preferences

If you’re located in the EU or UK, you can adjust your cookie preferences in your privacy settings by selecting Edit under Cookie Preferences.

Additional privacy options

Make your profile private

You can set your profile to private to control who can see your profile, boards and Pins. Private profiles won't appear in search results on Pinterest or in search engines, but you can invite people you know to follow you.

Edit your profile

You can edit your profile to change what information about you is displayed on your Pins and public profile. For extra privacy, you can change your name.

Use secret boards

You can save Pins to a secret board that only you (and anyone you invite) can view.

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