About Amazon Assistant Privacy

To operate, provide, and improve Amazon Assistant and Amazon’s marketing, products, and services, Amazon Assistant collects and processes browsing information (URLs, search terms, search results, page metadata, and limited page content) from websites for which we may have relevant product or service recommendations. Amazon Assistant does not connect this information to your Amazon account, except when you interact with Amazon Assistant (for example, when you click on a compare result to view the product or service on Amazon).

To supplement our Amazon. in Privacy Notice, here’s a description of the types of personal information Amazon Assistant processes:

1. Information We Collect Automatically. Amazon Assistant automatically collects information about websites you view where we may have relevant product or service recommendations when you are not interacting with Amazon Assistant. We do not connect this information to your Amazon account, except when you interact with Amazon Assistant as described in “Information We Collect When You Interact with Amazon Assistant” below. This information is used to operate, provide, and improve Amazon Assistant’s comparison features and Amazon’s marketing, products, and services (including for business analytics and fraud detection). For example, we collect and process the URL, page metadata, and limited page content of the website you are visiting to find a comparable Amazon product or service for you, along with general information about your browser and OS. Amazon shares this information with Amazon. com, Inc. and subsidiaries that Amazon. com, Inc. controls and that are either subject to the Amazon. in Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in the Privacy Notice.

2. Information We Collect When You Interact with Amazon Assistant: When you interact with Amazon Assistant, we connect browsing information with your Amazon Account. In these cases, Amazon Assistant acts as an extension of the Amazon shopping experience and processes your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Notice. For example, you may interact with Amazon Assistant’s icon, notification features, or any of Amazon Assistant’s comparison features to explore and compare the product or service you are viewing on websites to Amazon’s products and services. In these cases, we will collect and process browsing information related to the Amazon Assistant features you are interacting with (including information on the website you visited, the product or service compared, your Amazon account, and your search query).

What Choices Do I Have? You can control collection of “Information We Collect When You Interact with Amazon Assistant” by disabling the relevant Amazon Assistant features in your Amazon Assistant settings. You can also control collection of “Information We Collect Automatically” by disabling the Configure Comparison Settings.

Amazon Assistant for Mobile Devices: Amazon Assistant helps you discover and compare products and services while shopping on your mobile device, and the descriptions above apply to the content you view in your apps instead of the websites you view. Once you enable it, Amazon Assistant provides comparison features automatically as you shop in supported apps on your device. For supported devices, Amazon Assistant can read apps you view through the accessibility service if you enable your device’s accessibility service for the app, and Amazon Assistant will use that method to collect the information described above. Amazon Assistant mobile app settings allow you to control features and related information collection.

About Amazon Assistant Privacy

Updated: May 22, 2018

Please carefully read the Amazon Assistant Conditions of Use and the conditions of use, privacy policy, and interest-based ads policy (collectively, the “Agreement”) for the relevant Amazon websites for which the Amazon Assistant is or will be configured by you (each an “Applicable Site”) before installing or using the Amazon Assistant. For use with www. amazon. ca, see the Amazon. ca Conditions of Use, the Amazon. ca Privacy Notice, and the Amazon. ca Interest-Based Ads Policy. By clicking the “Install” button (if applicable), or by installing, activating, enabling, using, or otherwise accessing the Amazon Assistant, you accept and agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement, do not click “Install” and do not install, activate, enable, use, or otherwise access the Amazon Assistant.

1. About the Amazon Assistant

The Amazon Assistant is a suite of software applications that supplement your online shopping experience. The Amazon Assistant (together with any updates or upgrades, the "Amazon Assistant”) is offered by Amazon. com. ca, Inc. (such entity, together with its affiliates, “Amazon”, “We”, “Us” or “Our”) when configured for use with www. amazon. ca. You may also elect to reconfigure the Amazon Assistant for another Amazon website at any time. By doing so, you agree to be bound by the conditions of use applicable to using the Amazon Assistant with each Applicable Site.

2. Amazon Assistant Information

Amazon knows that you care about how information about you is collected and processed, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. Information collected through the Amazon Assistant, including personally identifiable information, is subject to the relevant privacy policy for the Applicable Site and our About Amazon Assistant Privacy notice, which are incorporated and form a part of this Agreement.

3. Additional Provisions

These Amazon Assistant Conditions of Use include the conditions of use, the privacy policy, and the interest-based ads policy for the Applicable Site.

Amazon reserves the right to make changes to this Agreement at any time by posting the revised terms on the Applicable Site and/or notifying you of such changes via the Amazon Assistant.

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Amazon is an amazing shopping site. The majority of people will check there before buying any day to day household goods. However sometimes the site feels a bit tricky to search as it? s packed with random items. Amazon Assistant is a handy free browser plugin that make it easier and faster to shop and potentially save you money.

Bring the Deals to You

The idea behind Amazon Assistant is to have it sitting in your browser unobtrusively ready to pop into action when you use Amazon. It? s literally a little assistant which (supposedly) streamlines the shopping process. The layout is pretty minimalist and fits Amazon? s themes well. One of the most useful features is Deal of the Day which displays the best deals to you so you never miss them. You can also get up to date notifications on your orders. Being a plugin it works with your browser so you can do things like instantly save an item from a non-Amazon site to your wish list.

Handy and Helpful

Amazon Assistant is useful for those who shop a lot and hate to miss out on a deal. It? s very good for quick product comparisons. The downside is that it? s a little clunky and makes you go to Amazon? s site to sign in. This software is made by Amazon and it? s free to use so it? s well worth a shot.

What Amazon Thinks You’re Worth

Shoppers were offered a $10 credit in exchange for handing over their browser data. It’s an investment that pays dividends for Amazon.

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The owner of a coffee shop approaches you with a $10 bill in hand. It’s yours if you submit to a battery of questions: How did you hear about the shop? How did you get here? Did you walk or take an Uber? They’re simple-enough questions with simple-enough answers. Of course you take the money.

Repeat this same thought experiment again, online: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos approaches you while you browse, offering you $10 for access to your search history so that the company can find out more about how you shop. In that case, you might have a different reaction.

Amazon’s Prime Day bonanza came with an interesting deal: If users downloaded the Amazon Assistant app to their browser, they would receive a $10 credit.

The Amazon Assistant is a browser extension, shopping assistant, and recommendation tool, all rolled into one. Hover over an item while you’re shopping on another site, and the assistant will compare the item you’re looking at with a similar one available on Amazon. Of course, when Amazon has the cheaper deal, users will likely choose that one instead. But the assistant also allows Amazon access to users’ browser data: the URLs of the pages they visit, the search terms that brought them there, search results and metadata about those pages. Amazon offered the exchange last year as well, for a $5 credit.

In a statement to The Atlantic, a spokesperson for Amazon said that the company values consumer privacy and that the assistant is completely optional. “The use of Amazon Assistant will always comply with our Privacy Policy and About Amazon Assistant Privacy notice. Amazon only collects information from websites customers view where we may have relevant product or service recommendations. We do not connect this information to a customer’s Amazon account, except when they interact with Amazon Assistant,” the spokesperson said.

In an additional statement provided after publication of this article, Amazon clarified that the Assistant does not collect personally identifying information from users. “Product or price data automatically collected by Amazon Assistant is not connected to any customer identifiers,” the statement reads. “We do not use Amazon Assistant information in our advertising business.”

When people talk about “buying” and “selling” data, they’re usually using a shorthand for any number of convoluted algorithmic processes by which big companies profit from user behavior. This is an imprecise metaphor, and companies tend to chafe at it: Amazon’s privacy notice claims that the company is “not in the business of selling” user data, and Mark Zuckerberg says the same of Facebook so often that it’s become something of a running joke.

Both corporations are technically correct. They do not sell user information to third parties—they just generate large chunks of their revenue from using that information to sell targeted advertising. Data and money exchange hands, though not directly, and with many more actors involved than just the user and the company. It doesn’t have to actually buy or sell user data to profit from it.

And besides, these data were never really yours, not exclusively. Google (or Bing or Yahoo) knows the search terms and keystrokes that led to any specific purchase. Amazon isn’t really “buying” data that you “own,” but paying for access to a data vein that other companies are already tapping.

The data exchange isn’t a typical marketplace, and it can’t be understood as such. People don’t “own” their data. Nor does Facebook or Amazon exactly “buy” or “sell” it. They gather as much as they can as an indirect but potent revenue-generating strategy.

For Amazon, the assistant credit isn’t a purchase; it’s an investment. The company is giving you a small amount of money now because, in the future, it will make much more from you. Amazon will use your purchasing data to improve its targeting, slicing its enormous user base into ever more refined categories that can then be targeted ever more specifically. That’s what Amazon is actually “buying” here: the raw materials to supercharge its targeting. Long term, it’s likely to pay dividends: Imagine logging on to Amazon and immediately being served suggestions for products in your precise size, price range, and favorite style. Now imagine that at the scale Amazon is collecting these extra data.

It’s a one-sided deal. Investing in better ad targeting doesn’t come with a concurrent investment in strengthening privacy, or in the ability to shop anonymously or be free from enhanced predictive recommendation algorithms. In fact, investing in one means losing the others. The right to privacy can’t be bought back, but it can be sold.