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Pinecone retains unilateral authority to revise the DPA through posting, subject to two express constraints, meaning customers have limited ability to negotiate or reject changes that fall within those constraints.
Interpretive note: The excerpt uses ellipsis after condition (b), suggesting there may be additional conditions on permissible modifications that are not visible in the provided text. The canonical claim and derived fields reflect only the two conditions explicitly present.
Pinecone can update the DPA terms unilaterally by posting a revised version, provided those updates stay within the stated limitations on security and processing scope.
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"Pinecone may modify this DPA at any time by posting a revised version...provided that the modifications (a) do not materially diminish the overall security of Services...(b) do not change the scope of Pinecone's processing...Excerpt from Pinecone's Data Processing Addendum
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Pinecone retains unilateral authority to revise the DPA through posting, subject to two express constraints, meaning customers have limited ability to negotiate or reject changes that fall within those constraints.
Pinecone can update the DPA terms unilaterally by posting a revised version, provided those updates stay within the stated limitations on security and processing scope.
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