# Advertising on online platforms 26(1) — DSA — provision context

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Part of **Advertising on online platforms** (DSA, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/dsa/art-26).

## Provision text

### 26(1)

Providers of online platforms that present advertisements on their online interfaces shall ensure that, for each specific advertisement presented to each individual recipient, the recipients of the service are able to identify, in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner and in real time, the following:

a) that the information is an advertisement, including through prominent markings, which might follow standards pursuant to Article 44;
b) the natural or legal person on whose behalf the advertisement is presented;
c) the natural or legal person who paid for the advertisement if that person is different from the natural or legal person referred to in point (b);
d) meaningful information directly and easily accessible from the advertisement about the main parameters used to determine the recipient to whom the advertisement is presented and, where applicable, about how to change those parameters.

## Topics on this provision

- **Recipient** — https://overview.legal/topics/recipient
  A person or body to which personal data are disclosed (Art 4(9) GDPR).

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **Guidelines 3/2025 on the interplay between the DSA and the GDPR** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/51175
- **Guidelines 3/2025 on the interplay between the DSA and the GDPR** §54 (guidance, EDPB) — https://overview.legal/posts/51175
- **Guidelines 3/2025 on the interplay between the DSA and the GDPR** §53 (guidance, EDPB) — https://overview.legal/posts/51175

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