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Third-Party Service Provider Data Sharing

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What it is

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.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

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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Why it matters (compliance & risk perspective)

Your data flows to multiple third-party vendors you have no direct relationship with, and your protections depend on Cloudflare's contractual enforcement of its vendor agreements — which you cannot independently verify.

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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.

Institutional analysis (Compliance & legal intelligence)

REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Third-party sharing implicates GDPR Art. 28 (processor agreements), Art. 13(1)(e) (transparency about recipients), and Art. 26 (joint controllers where applicable). Under CCPA, disclosure of service provider categories is required under §1798.110(c)(4), and service provider agreements must include the contractual restrictions in §1798.140(ag). FTC Act Section 5 applies to any deceptive representations about the scope or nature of third-party sharing.

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Applicable agencies

  • FTC
    The FTC has authority over deceptive or inadequately disclosed third-party data sharing practices under FTC Act Section 5 and its commercial surveillance enforcement framework.
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Provision details

Document information
Document
Cloudflare Privacy Policy
Entity
Cloudflare
Document last updated
April 29, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
April 18, 2026
Last verified
April 18, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-003015
Document ID
CA-D-00282
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Entity: Cloudflare | Document: Cloudflare Privacy Policy | Record: CA-P-003015
Captured: 2026-04-18 11:44:46 UTC | SHA-256: f8e88ec9d8c545e0…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/cloudflare/cloudflare-privacy-policy/third-party-service-provider-data-sharing/
Accessed: May 2, 2026
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