Do they track you across sites, apps or places?Yes
To Improve Our Sites and Apps When you visit our sites or use our apps, we collect information — such as your IP address, location, times that you visit, and more — to let us know how people navigate our sites and apps and how we can improve them. To Give You Information You Might Actually Find Interesting We use things such as cookies, pixel tags, and similar tools to help us provide better, more relevant content on our sites. So, if you and everyone else are coming to our websites for awesome devices, we’ll know to keep making them.
garmin.com/en-US/privacy/global, lines 213–217
In plain wordsThe company tracks your location and uses tools like cookies to monitor your activity across their services. This allows them to build a profile of your habits and interests to show you targeted content.
Checked, nothing hostile
- Does not say it sells your personal data or shares it with other companies for their own use.
- Does not hand your data to authorities without telling you.
Not covered by these documents
The documents we read do not mention these practices, which usually live in a document we haven’t read yet:
- Do you give up the right to sue?
- Do they get wide rights to what you post or upload?
- Do they refuse to let you delete your account?
- Can they read your private messages?
- Can they change the deal without asking?
- Do they use what you post to train AI?
- Do they lock you in for a year or more?
- Do they refuse responsibility when things break?
- Can they cut you off any time?
- Do they keep your data after you leave?
- Do they use your data to target ads?
- Do they keep rights to your content after you leave?
- Can your name or photo appear in ads?
- Do they combine your data across products?
- Can your data go to a buyer if the company is sold?
- Are they off the hook if your data leaks?
- Does your subscription renew by itself?
- Do you pay their legal bills?
- Must disputes be settled in their chosen court?
- Do they own your ideas and feedback?