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Business Tool Terms and Conditions

Effective Date: August 7, 2025

Last Revised: July 7, 2025

These Reddit Business Tool Terms (“Business Tool Terms”) govern your access to and use of tools that enable you to share data with us, or enable us to access data, for measurement, targeting, and other advertising purposes. These tools include the Reddit Pixel, Reddit’s advertising APIs, postback URLs, SDKs, data clean rooms, Reddit Custom Audiences, and similar tools provided by third parties in connection with your use of the Ads Services (collectively, “Business Tools”). These Business Tool Terms are incorporated into the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement and are subject to all terms and conditions, policies, rules, and other provisions in the Ads Services Terms. Any terms that are capitalized but not defined in these Business Tool Terms are defined in the Ads Services Terms. 

ARBITRATION NOTICE: YOU ARE BOUND BY THE ARBITRATION PROVISION SET FORTH IN THE REDDIT ADVERTISING SERVICES AGREEMENT. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO USE BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTES RATHER THAN JURY TRIALS OR CLASS ACTION. UNLESS YOU OPT-OUT PURSUANT TO SECTION 18 OF THE REDDIT ADVERTISING SERVICES AGREEMENT, YOU AND REDDIT WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO RESOLVE DISPUTES IN A TRIAL, CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION.

1. Your Use of the Business Tools and Sharing of Business Tool Data with Reddit

When you use the Business Tools, you may share with us or enable us to access Event Data and Customer List Data (each defined below) (collectively, “Business Tool Data”).

  • Event Data” means data about users of your websites, hosted applications, mobile applications, and other surfaces owned or operated by you (collectively, “Your Properties”) and actions such users take on Your Properties for Reddit to match with information about users who saw or interacted with your Ads on Reddit. Event Data includes: (i) actions users take on or with respect to Your Properties (e.g., add to cart, purchase, and application downloads); (ii) other conversion events (e.g., offline purchases and conversions occurring through other channels like televisions or gaming devices); and (iii) matching parameters (e.g., email addresses, cookie IDs, and device IDs).
  • Customer List Data” means data provided by you or any third party that enables an individual to be directly identified (e.g., email addresses, device IDs, and phone numbers) for Reddit to match with information about Reddit users to create Custom Audiences (defined below).

2. Reddit’s Use of Business Tool Data

You agree that Reddit may use Event Data, either alone or in combination with other metrics collected by Reddit, to:

  • Measure the impact and performance of your Ads (e.g., by allowing you to track actions that visitors to Your Properties take after seeing or clicking an Ad on Reddit);
  • Provide and improve the Ads Platform and Ads Services, including by optimizing the Ads Platform, Ads Services, and advertising decisioning; 
  • Create targeting audiences of individuals who visit Your Properties (“Retargeting Audiences”); 
  • Create lookalike targeting audiences (“Lookalike Audiences”) of Reddit users with similar characteristics to the members of your Retargeting Audiences; and
  • Comply with applicable laws or regulations and provide safety, security, and fraud prevention services.

You agree that Reddit may use Customer List Data, either alone or in combination with other metrics collected by Reddit, to:

  • Create targeting audiences of Reddit users whose information matches (or does not match) your Customer List Data (“Custom Audiences”); 
  • Create Lookalike Audiences of Reddit users with similar characteristics to the members of your Custom Audiences; and
  • Comply with applicable laws or regulations.

Retargeting Audiences, Lookalike Audiences, and Custom Audiences are referred to collectively in these Business Tool Terms as “Audience Segments.”

3. Restrictions on the Use of the Business Tools

You will not (and will not permit anyone else to) do any of the following:

  • Use the Business Tools to create any Ads or Ads Materials, or make any trafficking or targeting decisions (including the creation and targeting of Audience Segments), in violation of our Advertising Policies (including our Targeting Guidelines);
  • Reference in your Ads or Ads Materials any selection criteria or presumed knowledge about any individual based on your use of the Business Tools; or
  • Use Audience Segments for any purpose other than to target your Ads to Reddit users and in connection with your use of the Ads Services.

Reddit will not:

  • Retain unmatched Customer List Data after the match process to create an Audience Segment is complete;
  • Permit other Advertisers to use your Audience Segments to target Ads to Reddit users, unless expressly approved by you in writing; or
  • Share Customer List Data or Audience Segments with third parties except for: (i) service providers as necessary to perform the match process to create Audience Segments; and (ii) as required by applicable laws or regulations (including Data Protection Laws).

4. Measurement Partners

You may use third-party measurement partners that have been approved by Reddit and agree to act as your service provider (“Measurement Partners”) to provide you with Campaign Metrics. If you use a Measurement Partner, you agree that:

  • You will provide Reddit, at our request, with Campaign Metrics you receive from a Measurement Partner;
  • All restrictions on the use of Campaign Metrics in the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement apply to Campaign Metrics you receive from a Measurement Partner; and
  • Charges will be determined exclusively by Reddit and paid in accordance with the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement, and in no event based on any third-party reporting or metrics.

5. Data Clean Rooms; Other Third-Party Partners

You may use third-party data clean rooms or similar secure environments that have been approved by Reddit (collectively, “Data Clean Rooms”) to provide you with Campaign Metrics or to create and activate Audience Segments. If you use a Data Clean Room, you agree that:

  • You will not access or use any Data Clean Room to engage in practices otherwise prohibited by these Business Tool Terms, the Ads Services Terms, or our Policies or that circumvents any privacy, security, or technical controls implemented by Reddit;
  • If you use a Data Clean Room to create and activate Audience Segments, you represent and warrant that the data you contribute to such Data Clean Room: (i) has been collected and processed in compliance with applicable laws and regulations (including Data Protection Laws); (ii) is provided in compliance with applicable laws and regulations (including Data Protection Laws); and (iii) does not include any sensitive or special category data as defined by applicable laws or regulations (including Data Protection Laws);
  • All restrictions on the use of Campaign Metrics in the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement apply to Campaign Metrics you receive from a Data Clean Room; and
  • Charges will be determined exclusively by Reddit and paid in accordance with the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement, and in no event based on any third-party reporting or metrics.

You may otherwise access third-party partners that have been approved by Reddit to provide additional services to you in connection with your use of the Ads Services and/or Business Tools (“Third-Party Supplemental Partners”). If you use a Third-Party Supplemental Partner, you agree that:

  • You will not use any Third-Party Supplemental Partner to engage in practices otherwise prohibited by these Business Tool Terms, the Ads Services Terms, or our Policies or that circumvents any privacy, security, or technical controls implemented by Reddit;
  • All restrictions on the use of Campaign Metrics in the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement apply to Campaign Metrics you receive from a Third-Party Supplemental Partner; and
  • Charges will be determined exclusively by Reddit and paid in accordance with the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement, and in no event based on any third-party reporting or metrics.

The platforms, products, and services provided by Third-Party Supplemental Partners, Data Clean Rooms, and Measurement Partners are Third-Party Platforms and are subject to the terms governing Third-Party Platforms in the Reddit Advertising Services Agreement.

6. Privacy

You and Reddit agree to Process any Personal Data which may be provided by you or on your behalf pursuant to these Business Tool Terms and the Reddit Advertising Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”). The DPA is expressly incorporated herein by reference and applies in addition to these Business Tool Terms. For the avoidance of doubt, no other data processing agreement will apply to Personal Data provided by you or on your behalf pursuant to these Business Tool Terms.

7. Representations and Warranties

You represent, warrant, and covenant to Reddit that:

  • Your use of the Business Tools will comply with all applicable laws and regulations (including Data Protection Laws), these Business Tool Terms, the Ads Services Terms, our Targeting Guidelines, and our Privacy Policy;
  • You will not use the Business Tools to share with Reddit any data that you know or reasonably should know is or includes sensitive data or special categories of data (as defined under any applicable laws or regulations (including Data Protection Laws), including data that is based on or includes: 
    1. an alleged or actual commission of a crime; health, genetic, or biometric information;
    2. information about individuals under the age of 13;
    3. information about individuals collected from an online service directed to children or minors under the age of 18 (or the applicable age of consent in the country or locality where such information is received or sent);
    4. financial status; 
    5. racial or ethnic origin; 
    6. religious or philosophical beliefs or preferences or political opinions; 
    7. sex life or sexual orientation; or 
    8. trade union membership.
  • You will prominently disclose to and obtain any legally required consent from users of Your Properties in compliance with applicable laws and regulations (including Data Protection Laws) that the users’ information may be shared with and used by third parties for the purposes specified under these Business Tool Terms, including for measurement, targeting, and other advertising purposes;
  • You will not place the Reddit Pixel or any other Business Tool (as applicable) on any website or mobile application that you do not own and operate without the prior written permission of the owner of such website or mobile application;
  • You will secure and maintain all necessary legal bases, rights, licenses, and consents from your end users to use the Business Tools and to share with Reddit the Business Tool Data;
  • You will provide your end users with clear, prominent, and legally sufficient instructions regarding how to opt out of such data collection and use, including instructions for opting out of sales, sharing, and targeted advertising;
  • You will not share Business Tool Data with Reddit that includes any data related to users who have not provided consent or who have revoked consent to process their data; and
  • You will either: (i) remove the Personal Data of users who have opted out of, or otherwise withdrawn their consent for, the disclosure of their information to Reddit for any targeted advertiser; or (ii) use the Limited Data Use Flag to indicate applicable users’ opted out status.

If you are an Agency or any other third party acting on an Advertiser’s behalf, you represent and warrant to Reddit that:

  • You are authorized to use the Business Tools, and share or enable access to, Business Tool Data, on Advertiser’s behalf; and 
  • You will only use or share Business Tool Data with or on behalf of such Advertiser.

8. Modification and Termination

You may discontinue your use of the Business Tools at any time by no longer sharing Business Tool Data with Reddit. If you decide to discontinue your use of the Business Tools, you will immediately remove any Business Tools from Your Properties (as applicable).

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