Data Used for Sponsored Content on Discord

Bubbles
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Sponsored content is paid for by our partners, such as game developers, who want to offer our users a reward for engaging with their game or related content via Quests while using Discord.

We may tell you about sponsored content that we think will interest you based on your use of Discord and your activities on the services that are associated with your Discord account, as well as data about you that we may receive from advertisers and third-party data providers.  

If you’re not interested in receiving personalized sponsored content based on your use of Discord and your activities on the services that are associated with your Discord account, you can control the use of this data.  

If you’re not interested in receiving personalized sponsored content based on data about you that we may receive from advertisers and third-party data providers—including how you engage with games and other content or services outside of Discord—you can also opt out of this use of your data.

Desktop/Browser 

1. On the Discord desktop app or browser client, go to User Settings > Data & Privacy > How Discord uses your data. 

2. Configure these options:

  • Use data based on my Discord activity to personalize sponsored content: Uses your Discord activity to surface relevant sponsored content.
  • Use data from third party sources about me to personalize sponsored content: Uses your data from advertisers and other third parties to surface relevant sponsored content.

Data & Privacy controls in Data & Privacy

Mobile 

1. On the Discord mobile app, go to Settings > Data & Privacy > How Discord uses your data. 

2. Adjust the Use data based on my Discord activity to personalize sponsored content and the Use data from third party sources about me to personalize sponsored content options to your preference. Learn more about these options as described above.

Data & Privacy controls in Data & Privacy on mobile

Important Notes:

  • If you disable the use of data based on Discord activity to personalize sponsored content, Discord will also disable the use of data from third party sources. By contrast, if you choose not to allow the use of data from third party sources to personalize sponsored content, this will have no impact on personalization based on your Discord activity.

  • This supports an opt out for residents of certain U.S. states who are entitled to an applicable opt out under those state laws (please refer here).

  • If you opt out of personalization using these controls, you may still see sponsored content, like Quests, but they won’t be personalized. For example, you may see a Quest when you’re in a particular server, where anyone in that server sees the same Quest.

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