Pinecone is obligated to notify business customers of any security breach affecting their personal data, enabling those customers to fulfill their own regulatory breach notification obligations.
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The DPA defines Security Incidents broadly to include accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or unauthorized access to Customer Personal Data. Timely notification enables business customers to comply with their own GDPR Article 33 and Article 34 obligations, which have strict 72-hour supervisory authority notification deadlines.
Interpretive note: The DPA defines Security Incidents but the visible document text does not include an explicit notification timeline from Pinecone to Customer; this may be addressed elsewhere in the Agreement or in supplemental documentation.
Business customers rely on Pinecone's Security Incident notification to trigger their own breach response obligations toward data subjects and regulators. The scope of the Security Incident definition covers a wide range of events beyond unauthorized access, including accidental loss or alteration of Customer Personal Data.
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""Security Incident" means a breach of Pinecone's security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, Customer Personal Data.Excerpt from Pinecone's Data Processing Addendum
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Articles 33 and 34, which require controllers to notify supervisory authorities within 72 hours of becoming aware of a personal data breach, and to notify affected data subjects …
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The DPA defines Security Incidents broadly to include accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or unauthorized access to Customer Personal Data. Timely notification enables business customers to comply with their own GDPR Article 33 and Article 34 obligations, which have strict 72-hour supervisory authority notification deadlines.
Business customers rely on Pinecone's Security Incident notification to trigger their own breach response obligations toward data subjects and regulators. The scope of the Security Incident definition covers a wide range of events beyond unauthorized access, including accidental loss or alteration of Customer Personal Data.
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