You own your analytics data, but you give Mixpanel a broad license to use it to operate and improve its services on your behalf.
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The scope of 'as otherwise permitted under these Terms and the Privacy Policy' creates ambiguity about whether Mixpanel may use aggregated or anonymized customer data for product improvement, benchmarking, or machine learning purposes — uses that may not be explicitly authorized by customers' own privacy notices.
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While customers retain ownership of their event data, the license grant to Mixpanel is broad enough to permit processing for purposes beyond basic service delivery, which may extend to product improvement or analytics that are not fully covered by your organization's privacy notice to its own users.
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"Customer grants Mixpanel a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, store, transmit, display, and process Customer Data solely to the extent necessary to provide the Service to Customer and as otherwise permitted under these Terms and the Privacy Policy.— Excerpt from Mixpanel's Mixpanel Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This license grant engages GDPR Art. 6 (lawful basis for processing), Art. 28(3)(a) (requirement that processors process data only on controller instructions), and the principle of purpose limitation under Art. 5(1)(b). Where Mixpanel uses customer event data for purposes beyond those instructed by the controller — including product improvement or AI model training — this may constitute unauthorized processing under GDPR. The CCPA §1798.140(ag) definition of 'service provider' requires that data be used only for specified business purposes, and secondary use may disqualify Mixpanel from service provider status. (2)
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The scope of 'as otherwise permitted under these Terms and the Privacy Policy' creates ambiguity about whether Mixpanel may use aggregated or anonymized customer data for product improvement, benchmarking, or machine learning purposes — uses that may not be explicitly authorized by customers' own privacy notices.
While customers retain ownership of their event data, the license grant to Mixpanel is broad enough to permit processing for purposes beyond basic service delivery, which may extend to product improvement or analytics that are not fully covered by your organization's privacy notice to its own users.
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