“Google is a processor of Customer Personal Data; (c) Customer is a controller or processor, as applicable, of Customer Personal Data”
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Designating Google Ads as a processor means it must act only on Customer instructions and cannot determine the purposes of processing independently, with distinct legal consequences under data protection law.
Interpretive note: The excerpt also designates the Customer's role, which is recorded in omitted_material as an independent proposition.
Google Ads is bound to process Customer Personal Data only as a processor acting on Customer instructions, not as an independent controller.
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Where we process your personal data, personal information, or personally identifiable information in the provision of Services to you, you acknowledge that Zoom is acting on your behalf and you determine the means and purposes of the processing.
To the extent we treat data as deidentified under the US State Privacy Laws, we will maintain and use that data solely in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify that data with any individuals, other than to assess whether the deidentification process complies with applicable law...
We may also aggregate and/or de-identify your Data and may use such aggregate or de-identified information for any other purposes to the extent permitted under applicable law and not attempt to re-identify the information, unless required by law.
"Google is a processor of Customer Personal Data; (c) Customer is a controller or processor, as applicable, of Customer Personal DataExcerpt from Google Ads's Data Processing Terms
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Designating Google Ads as a processor means it must act only on Customer instructions and cannot determine the purposes of processing independently, with distinct legal consequences under data protection law.
Google Ads is bound to process Customer Personal Data only as a processor acting on Customer instructions, not as an independent controller.
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