Pinecone states it may receive personal information about you from marketing partners, data brokers, publicly available sources, and business partners, not just directly from you.
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The policy authorizes Pinecone to obtain personal data about individuals from data providers and marketing partners, meaning individuals may have personal data held by Pinecone without having directly interacted with the company.
Your name, contact information, or other personal data may be held by Pinecone based on information purchased or received from third-party data providers or marketing partners, independent of any direct interaction with Pinecone's website.
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We will also provide an individual opt-out choice, or opt-in for sensitive data, before we share your data with third parties other than our agents, or before we use it for a purpose other than which it was originally collected.
to request that your data be transferred to a third party (data portability)
Your organization may allow you to access and export your data in order to back it up or transfer it to a service outside of Google.
"We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources. For example, a business partner may share your contact information with us if you are attending a jointly sponsored corporate event or have otherwise expressed interest in learning specially about our services. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties such as marketing and advertising partners, publicly-available sources and data providers.Excerpt from Pinecone's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Under GDPR, the receipt of personal data from third parties requires a lawful basis and, where the data subject has not been notified of the original collection, a transparency obligation to inform the …
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The policy authorizes Pinecone to obtain personal data about individuals from data providers and marketing partners, meaning individuals may have personal data held by Pinecone without having directly interacted with the company.
Your name, contact information, or other personal data may be held by Pinecone based on information purchased or received from third-party data providers or marketing partners, independent of any direct interaction with Pinecone's website.
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