“If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern.”
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This hierarchy clause means that external regulatory frameworks—the DPF Principles—override Fastly's own policy terms whenever the two conflict, limiting Fastly's ability to rely on its own policy language against those frameworks.
Readers covered by the DPF frameworks can rely on the DPF Principles as the controlling standard wherever Fastly's privacy policy states something inconsistent with them.
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"If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the EU-U.S. DPF Principles and/or the Swiss-U.S. DPF Principles, the Principles shall govern.Excerpt from Fastly's Privacy Policy
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This hierarchy clause means that external regulatory frameworks—the DPF Principles—override Fastly's own policy terms whenever the two conflict, limiting Fastly's ability to rely on its own policy language against those frameworks.
Readers covered by the DPF frameworks can rely on the DPF Principles as the controlling standard wherever Fastly's privacy policy states something inconsistent with them.
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