“Each customer controls and is responsible for the information they process using the Subscription Service and for complying with any regulations or laws that require providing notice, disclosure, and/or obtaining consent...”
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HubSpot shifts regulatory compliance obligations for data processed through the Subscription Service entirely onto the customer, not onto HubSpot itself.
Interpretive note: The excerpt also establishes that each customer controls the information they process, which is an independent proposition omitted from the canonical claim and recorded in omitted_material.
The updated policy now explicitly discloses that HubSpot collects Email Engagement Data (such as open, delivery, bounce, and click statuses) from emails sent through its Subscription Services using embedded tracking technologies. This represents formalization of a data collection practice into explicit policy language. However, the policy simultaneously removed a previously stated sentence directing users to a form for removing their personal data from HubSpot's commercial dataset. The updated terms do not indicate an alternative removal mechanism.
View change record →If you are a HubSpot customer, you—not HubSpot—bear legal responsibility for ensuring that your use of the Subscription Service meets applicable notice, disclosure, and consent requirements.
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HubSpot shifts regulatory compliance obligations for data processed through the Subscription Service entirely onto the customer, not onto HubSpot itself.
If you are a HubSpot customer, you—not HubSpot—bear legal responsibility for ensuring that your use of the Subscription Service meets applicable notice, disclosure, and consent requirements.
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