“it shall in no event include special categories of personal data (GDPR article 9), personal data relating to criminal convictions and offenses (GDPR article 10), or similarly sensitive personal data subject to Data Protection Laws in any Customer Data.”
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This prohibition shifts responsibility for excluding highly sensitive data categories entirely to the Customer, and any violation would constitute a breach of the Customer's contractual obligations.
Customers are contractually barred from submitting sensitive data categories—such as health, biometric, or criminal-record data—to Pinecone's services.
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"it shall in no event include special categories of personal data (GDPR article 9), personal data relating to criminal convictions and offenses (GDPR article 10), or similarly sensitive personal data subject to Data Protection Laws in any Customer Data.Excerpt from Pinecone's Data Processing Addendum
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This prohibition shifts responsibility for excluding highly sensitive data categories entirely to the Customer, and any violation would constitute a breach of the Customer's contractual obligations.
Customers are contractually barred from submitting sensitive data categories—such as health, biometric, or criminal-record data—to Pinecone's services.
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