If you are using a website logged in, say google.com. All your activity on google (and beyond with things like cookies, trackers, fingerprinting, browser type - but that’s for another article) are logged and used for personalization. 

This could potentially pose a risk to your privacy. The great thing is most major platforms nowadays offer individuals a way to opt-out of this logging.

Here are ways to protect your personal information:

1. Go to Google.com. Click on the account icon on top right hand corner and click on manage your Google Account

• Select Data and Privacy in the left hand navigation

• Pause: Web & App Activity, Location History, Youtube History
• Turn off: Ad personalization and Personal results in Search

• Audit third-party apps that have access to your google data and remove the ones you don’t use or recognize

• Audit third-party apps that have access to your google data and remove the ones you don’t use or recognize