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Business customer responsible for lawful basis to provide data

High severity High confidence Explicit document language Common · 297 of 352 platforms

Key Facts

Who is responsible for ensuring a lawful basis to provide Personal Information to Mercury?
Mercury requires that the business customer is responsible for ensuring it has a lawful basis to provide Personal Information to Mercury.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

The clause places legal compliance responsibility for data transfers squarely on business customers, not on Mercury, for any Personal Information they supply.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium Jul 24, 2026

The updated privacy policy now discloses that cookies from Facebook Ads, Bing Ads, Braze, Google Ads, and LinkedIn Ads serve an additional purpose: 'SaleOfInfo'. This means data collected through these cookies may be sold or shared with third-party commercial partners, beyond their existing use for advertising and analytics. Under the revised policy, Mercury treats data from these cookies as subject to potential sale or commercial sharing. You can review Mercury's full privacy policy to understand your data rights and any available opt-out mechanisms.

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Clause Stability Stable

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Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 6356 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

If you are a business customer, Mercury requires you — not Mercury — to establish and ensure a lawful basis for any Personal Information you provide to Mercury.

How other platforms handle this

ClickUp Medium

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy does not govern all the information ClickUp may process. Our commitment to customers and service providers is governed by a separate Data Protection Addendum.

Perplexity AI Medium

Additional terms and conditions from Merchants will apply to any purchases you make using ProShop, and you are responsible for reviewing and complying with such additional terms and conditions

ActiveCampaign Medium

You agree that we may, but have no obligation, to identify you as a customer of ActiveCampaign and that ActiveCampaign may, in its sole discretion, refer to you by name, trade name, trademark, logo and other proprietary marks or words...

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the business customer is responsible for ensuring it has a lawful basis to provide Personal Information to Mercury.

Excerpt from Mercury's Privacy Policy

Provision details

Document information
Document
Mercury Privacy Policy
Entity
Mercury
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-069408
Document ID
CA-D-00530
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
f8b49beb208e6c3f2b9fb8ddafa22b88d22bbef9e6d3e086c87840d1d5a282f8
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 08:43 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
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Citation Record
Entity: Mercury
Document: Mercury Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-069408
Captured: 2026-07-09 08:43:59 UTC
SHA-256: f8b49beb208e6c3f…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/mercury/mercury-privacy-policy/provision/CA-P-069408/business-customer-responsible-for-lawful-basis-to-provide-data/
Accessed: Aug. 24, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Mercury's Business customer responsible for lawful basis to provide data clause do?

The clause places legal compliance responsibility for data transfers squarely on business customers, not on Mercury, for any Personal Information they supply.

How does this clause affect you?

If you are a business customer, Mercury requires you — not Mercury — to establish and ensure a lawful basis for any Personal Information you provide to Mercury.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 297 platforms. See the full comparison.

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