“To the extent required by law, Heap supports Customers’ data-protection compliance efforts, but it is up to Customer to ensure the appropriate data protection safeguards are in place before processing personal data from Customer's Visitor.”
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This clause shifts the compliance burden for Visitor data protection onto the Customer rather than Heap, which affects who bears legal and operational responsibility for protecting end-user data.
Heap's customers—not Heap itself—bear the obligation to establish adequate data protection safeguards before Visitor personal data is processed.
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"To the extent required by law, Heap supports Customers’ data-protection compliance efforts, but it is up to Customer to ensure the appropriate data protection safeguards are in place before processing personal data from Customer's Visitor.Excerpt from Heap's Privacy Policy
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This clause shifts the compliance burden for Visitor data protection onto the Customer rather than Heap, which affects who bears legal and operational responsibility for protecting end-user data.
Heap's customers—not Heap itself—bear the obligation to establish adequate data protection safeguards before Visitor personal data is processed.
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