If a third party sues Mixpanel because of data your business sent to Mixpanel or how you used Mixpanel's service, your business must pay Mixpanel's legal costs and any damages.
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The indemnification clause establishes a cost-shifting mechanism whereby customers assume liability for defending Mixpanel against third-party claims connected to the customer's conduct or data, including reasonable attorneys' fees, thereby allocating certain legal and financial risks to the customer rather than Mixpanel.
The updated terms remove a contractual protection that previously prohibited Mixpanel from treating individually identifiable data as Usage Data. Under the revised language, Mixpanel may now classify data that identifies or is attributable to specific individuals as Usage Data, potentially making such data subject to uses and disclosures beyond what the Customer Content exclusion permits. This broadens the category of data Mixpanel may process and analyze under the Usage Data definition. The terms do not provide a mechanism to opt out of this reclassification.
View change record →The updated terms establish an automatic 7% fee increase mechanism that takes effect upon each subscription renewal. Previously, subscription fees remained fixed for the duration of the subscription term, with new pricing becoming effective only at the start of a new subscription term and only if the parties agreed in writing. Under the revised language, fees will now automatically escalate by 7% upon commencement of each renewal term unless the parties expressly agree otherwise in writing. This shifts the default pricing behavior from fixed-term rates to automatic annual escalation.
View change record →Removal of the indemnification clause significantly reduces customer's obligation to defend Mixpanel in litigation related to customer data violations.
View full change record →Businesses using Mixpanel bear all legal and financial responsibility for ensuring the data they send to Mixpanel was lawfully collected — if a regulator or data subject sues over your tracking practices, you indemnify Mixpanel, not the other way around.
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"Customer will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Mixpanel and its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and service providers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to Customer's violation of these Terms or Customer's use of the Service, including, without limitation, Customer Data, any use of the Service's content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms.— Excerpt from Mixpanel's Mixpanel Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates GDPR Art. 28(3)(b), which requires that processors process data only on documented controller instructions, and Art. 82, which governs joint and several liability between controllers and processors. Under CCPA §1798.140(ag), a 'service provider' (Mixpanel's role) is shielded from certain liability only where the controller has not directed unlawful processing — this indemnification reinforces that allocation. FTC Act Section 5 is relevant where customer data practices involve deceptive tracking. (2)
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The indemnification clause establishes a cost-shifting mechanism whereby customers assume liability for defending Mixpanel against third-party claims connected to the customer's conduct or data, including reasonable attorneys' fees, thereby allocating certain legal and financial risks to the customer rather than Mixpanel.
Businesses using Mixpanel bear all legal and financial responsibility for ensuring the data they send to Mixpanel was lawfully collected — if a regulator or data subject sues over your tracking practices, you indemnify Mixpanel, not the other way around.
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