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Asana explicitly advises customers not to store financial account numbers, social security numbers, or similar sensitive personal data within the platform, in the context of GLBA compliance.
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This provision places an affirmative advisory obligation on customers regarding data types that should not be stored in Asana, which has implications for acceptable use compliance, liability allocation, and regulated industry customers operating under GLBA or similar frameworks.
Interpretive note: The advisory uses 'should not' rather than a contractual prohibition; whether this creates an enforceable limitation or merely a recommendation requires review of the full Subscriber Terms and DPA.
This provision establishes that customers are advised not to store financial account numbers and social security numbers in Asana. Under these terms, customers who store such data may be operating outside the scope of Asana's intended service use, which may affect liability allocation under the DPA and applicable agreements.
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"Customers should not store sensitive personal data (including financial account numbers and social security numbers) in Asana.Excerpt from Asana's Privacy Statement
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GLBA's Safeguards Rule regarding nonpublic personal information, as well as CCPA and state breach notification laws that impose heightened obligations when financial identifiers or social security numbers are compromised. Relevant enforcement authorities include the FTC for GLBA Safeguards Rule compliance and State Attorneys General for breach notification obligations. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The advisory framing ('customers should not') does not constitute a contractual prohibition in the document as presented, leaving the liability allocation for non-compliance ambiguous. Organizations storing such data in Asana despite this advisory may face questions about due care under applicable regulatory frameworks. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: US-based organizations in financial services and any organization handling social security numbers face heightened exposure under GLBA and state breach notification statutes. California organizations face additional exposure under CCPA's treatment of sensitive personal information categories. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Procurement and data governance teams should review internal data classification policies to confirm that workflows do not route financial account numbers or social security numbers into Asana task fields, comments, or attachments. The advisory should be incorporated into employee data handling training. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations should audit existing Asana workspaces for inadvertent storage of financial identifiers or SSNs, establish data handling procedures that prevent such storage, and confirm whether Asana's DPA or Terms of Service impose any contractual consequences if this advisory is not followed.
This provision places an affirmative advisory obligation on customers regarding data types that should not be stored in Asana, which has implications for acceptable use compliance, liability allocation, and regulated industry customers operating under GLBA or similar frameworks.
This provision establishes that customers are advised not to store financial account numbers and social security numbers in Asana. Under these terms, customers who store such data may be operating outside the scope of Asana's intended service use, which may affect liability allocation under the DPA and applicable agreements.
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