“We process your personal information on one of the following legal bases: where necessary to enter into or perform under a contract with you...where necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation; for our legitimate interests...”
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Specifying legal bases for processing constrains Datadog to processing personal information only where one of the stated grounds applies.
Interpretive note: The ellipsis in the excerpt suggests additional legal bases may be listed in the full text that are not present in the quoted excerpt. The canonical claim reflects only what the excerpt explicitly states. Confidence is medium because the list as quoted may be incomplete.
Datadog's processing of your personal information is limited to situations where it can rely on contract necessity, a legal obligation, or legitimate interests.
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When we process personal information about you, we do so with your consent or as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; to provide the products and services you use...
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Where necessary, we use your personal data, including Contact Data, Technical Data, Communication Data and Government Identifiers, where necessary, to comply with legal obligations such as tax reporting, regulatory requirements...
"We process your personal information on one of the following legal bases: where necessary to enter into or perform under a contract with you...where necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation; for our legitimate interests...Excerpt from Datadog's Privacy Policy
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Specifying legal bases for processing constrains Datadog to processing personal information only where one of the stated grounds applies.
Datadog's processing of your personal information is limited to situations where it can rely on contract necessity, a legal obligation, or legitimate interests.
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