network.bazaarvoice.com: Bazaarvoice Tracks Your Review Behavior

The network.bazaarvoice.com domain belongs to Bazaarvoice, a platform that collects data on your product review interactions to profile user behavior for marketing. This invasive tracking compromises your privacy. Here’s what it collects and how to resist.

What Is network.bazaarvoice.com?

Bazaarvoice powers customer feedback for brands, and network.bazaarvoice.com logs user interactions like reviews and ratings to build profiles. It disregards your privacy for marketing insights. As Privacy Auditors, we’re concerned about this surveillance.

Data It Collects

When you interact with Bazaarvoice tools, it grabs:

• IP Address: Ties to your approximate location.
• User Interactions: Logs reviews, ratings, and comments.
• Cookie IDs: Uses identifiers for cross-site tracking.
• Device ID: Captures mobile ad IDs like GAID/IDFA.
• Geolocation: Estimates location from IP.
• Browsing Data: Tracks product pages visited.
• User-Agent: Records browser/OS like ‘Chrome 119.0’.
• Session Data: Links actions to a unique identifier.

This builds a detailed profile of your feedback behavior.

Who Gets Your Data?

Your data is shared with:

• Retailer or Brand: Using Bazaarvoice for feedback.
• Third-Party Marketing Partner: In Bazaarvoice’s network.
• Data Analytics Provider: For user profiling.
• Government Entity: Bazaarvoice complies with legal requests.

How to Protect Yourself

Privacy Auditors are committed to your defense. Block network.bazaarvoice.com with:

• Tracker Blockers: Use Privacy Auditor tools to stop scripts.
• VPN Services: Mask your IP with Mullvad.
• Privacy Browsers: Opt for Firefox with tracking protection.
• Cookie Management: Clear cookies regularly.

Combine these for stronger privacy defense.

Sources

• Bazaarvoice Privacy Policy: https://www.bazaarvoice.com/legal/privacy-policy/
• Bazaarvoice Documentation: https://developer.bazaarvoice.com/

This is a legal disclaimer. All information is provided for educational purposes only.