Even if you mark your content as private, Hugging Face reserves the right to access it with or without your consent for security purposes or to comply with legal obligations.
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The provision defines the operational scope of Hugging Face's access rights to user-controlled content, establishing which internal functions and purposes permit platform personnel to view or process otherwise private materials. This affects the practical boundaries between user-controlled and platform-controlled access within the service architecture.
Private repositories, models, or datasets you store on Hugging Face are not fully private from the company itself, and access may occur without your prior consent in certain circumstances.
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Where the law allows us to, we may use the content you and other users have posted for training or to help us to improve the way we filter content on our platform.
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We may use your personal data to personalize your experience interacting with Content, including what Content we recommend, show, or don't show to you.
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The provision defines the operational scope of Hugging Face's access rights to user-controlled content, establishing which internal functions and purposes permit platform personnel to view or process otherwise private materials. This affects the practical boundaries between user-controlled and platform-controlled access within the service architecture.
Private repositories, models, or datasets you store on Hugging Face are not fully private from the company itself, and access may occur without your prior consent in certain circumstances.
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