Cloudflare shares your personal information with third-party companies that help run its business — including payment processors, marketing firms, and analytics providers — though it says those companies are required to protect your data and not use it for their own purposes.
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This provision establishes the operational scope and governance framework for third-party data access within Cloudflare's service delivery model. The clause implements a principle of data minimization and contractual obligation on downstream processors, creating institutional requirements for how service providers must handle personal information.
Removal of contractual requirements for third-party data protection and purpose limitation weakens binding obligations on service providers handling personal data.
View full change record →Your personal data is shared with an unspecified number of third-party vendors for purposes including marketing and data analysis, creating additional exposure points beyond Cloudflare itself, with no mechanism for you to see or approve those vendors.
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We share Personal Data with vendors, service providers, and agents who work on our behalf and provide us with services related to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.
we may use, retain or share information with law enforcement or others in circumstances where a person's vital interests require protection, such as in the case of emergencies.
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"We may share your personal information with third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These third parties are only provided with access to personal information needed to perform these functions and are required to protect it in the same manner we do and are not permitted to use it for other purposes.Excerpt from Cloudflare's Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes the operational scope and governance framework for third-party data access within Cloudflare's service delivery model. The clause implements a principle of data minimization and contractual obligation on downstream processors, creating institutional requirements for how service providers must handle personal information.
Your personal data is shared with an unspecified number of third-party vendors for purposes including marketing and data analysis, creating additional exposure points beyond Cloudflare itself, with no mechanism for you to see or approve those vendors.
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