Airbnb Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 74/100)

Airbnb uses tracking technologies for advertising and analytics, sharing data with third parties like Google and Facebook, while providing various opt-out tools for users.

Standard cookie policy. Shares data for ads. Provides opt-out mechanisms.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
YES
Forced arbitration
UNCLEAR
Trains AI on your content
YES
Collects biometric data
UNCLEAR
Shares data with government
UNCLEAR
Easy to cancel
UNCLEAR
Tells you before changes
UNCLEAR
Deletes data on request
UNCLEAR

What the terms actually say

Section 1 — Why Airbnb uses these technologies

for purposes of our own customer support, analytics, research, product development, the development and improvement of our AI, and regulatory compliance.

Airbnb reserves the right to use your data and interactions to train and improve their artificial intelligence models.

Section 7 — Third Parties

Airbnb allows third parties to collect data on our behalf and discloses certain data to third parties for the purposes described above... including advertising on and off the Airbnb Platform

Airbnb shares your activity data with third-party advertising partners to track you across different websites and devices.

Section 11 — Opting out of data sharing from devices

You may review and choose to opt-out of certain Technologies used within our Airbnb app by going to your Profile, then Privacy, then Third-party tools.

Airbnb provides a clear, in-app path to manage and opt-out of certain third-party tracking technologies.

Section 7 — Third Parties

You can control Google’s advertising directly with Google through its Ads Settings, and you can limit Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On.

The policy provides specific instructions and links to opt-out of tracking by major third-party partners like Google.

Last reviewed 2026-10-06 under rubric v3.5.

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