When personal data is transferred from the EU, UK, or Switzerland to countries without adequate data protection laws (such as the United States), Pinecone relies on Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum as the legal mechanism to authorize those transfers.
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The incorporation of EU SCCs (Implementing Decision 2021/914) and the ICO UK Addendum provides the legal transfer mechanism for cross-border data flows from the EU, UK, and Switzerland to Pinecone's operations, which are based in the United States. Compliance with these transfer mechanisms requires that the relevant annexes be properly completed with data flow descriptions and security measures.
Interpretive note: The DPA references SCC incorporation but the visible document text does not confirm whether Annex I and Annex II are pre-completed or require separate negotiation and completion by the Customer, creating uncertainty about the operational completeness of the transfer mechanism.
Business customers transferring personal data from the EU, UK, or Switzerland to Pinecone rely on these SCCs and the UK Addendum as the legal basis for the transfer. If these mechanisms are not properly executed or if they are invalidated, the transfers may lose their legal basis under European Data Protection Laws.
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""Standard Contractual Clauses" or "SCCs" means the standard contractual clauses annexed to the European Commission's Implementing Decision 2021/914 of 4 June 2021, as may be amended, superseded or replaced from time to time. "UK Addendum" means the International Data Transfer Addendum (version B1.0) issued by the Information Commissioners Office under S.119 (a) of the UK Data Protection Act 2018, as updated or amended from time to time. "European Transfer" means a transfer (directly or via onward transfer) of personal data that is subject to European Data Protection Laws to a third country outside the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland which is not subject to an adequacy determination by the European Commission, United Kingdom or Swiss authorities (as applicable).Excerpt from Pinecone's Data Processing Addendum
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages GDPR Chapter V (international data transfers), specifically the SCC mechanism under Article 46(2)(c) of the EU GDPR, and the equivalent UK GDPR transfer mechanism.
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The incorporation of EU SCCs (Implementing Decision 2021/914) and the ICO UK Addendum provides the legal transfer mechanism for cross-border data flows from the EU, UK, and Switzerland to Pinecone's operations, which are based in the United States. Compliance with these transfer mechanisms requires that the relevant annexes be properly completed with data flow descriptions and security measures.
Business customers transferring personal data from the EU, UK, or Switzerland to Pinecone rely on these SCCs and the UK Addendum as the legal basis for the transfer. If these mechanisms are not properly executed or if they are invalidated, the transfers may lose their legal basis under European Data Protection Laws.
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