To answer this question, please select “yes” if you do share the piece of personal information selected with anyone outside of your company. If you do not share the piece of personal information selected with anyone outside of your company, you can select “no” to this question. 


Sharing personal information means sending or providing that information to a third party. For example, if you use a third party email marketing provider such as MailChimp or ConstantContact to send email marketing newsletter and you have uploaded the list of emails that the newsletter should be sent to into MailChimp or ConstantContract, this would be considered sharing personal information. 


While many business owners do not think that they share the personal information that they collect, it is actually a very common practice. The following is a list of examples of how websites or applications commonly share personal information: 

  • If you use a content management system such as Wix or Squarespace, that system will automatically receive the personal information that consumers submit on your website; 

  • If you use a customer management system such as Hubspot or Salesforce and input your customer’s personal information into that system, you are sharing personal information with the customer management system; 

  • If you use an analytics services such as Google Analytics, you will share the personal information (such as their IP address) of anyone that visits your website with Google Analytics; 

  • If you input customer’s names or email addresses into an email newsletter sending tool such as MailChimp or ConstantContact, you are sharing personal information with that tool; 

  • If you use a third party website or application development team that can log into your website or application, you are also sharing personal information with that team as they can view it when they log in. 



Related Privacy laws

  • California Online Privacy and Protection Act of 2003 (CalOPPA); 

  • California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA); 

  • Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (DOPPA); 

  • Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A; 

  • Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA); 

  • Colorado Privacy Act; 

  • Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA); 

  • Connecticut SB6; 

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); 

  • United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018 (UK DPA 2018); 

  • Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA); 

  • Quebec Bill 64; 

  • Australia Privacy Act 1988.