For users in the EU, UK, and Switzerland, Pinecone identifies three legal grounds for processing personal data: contract performance, legitimate interests, and consent, and provides rights including access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, and objection.
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This provision establishes the legal bases Pinecone relies on to process European users' personal data under GDPR and UK GDPR, and identifies the data subject rights available, including the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
Interpretive note: The policy does not describe international data transfer mechanisms for EU-to-US transfers, creating uncertainty about GDPR Chapter V compliance. The lead supervisory authority within the EU is not identified.
EU, UK, and Swiss users have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, and port their personal data, and the right to object to processing conducted on legitimate interests grounds, including direct marketing; requests can be submitted to privacy@pinecone.io.
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You may contact our privacy team with any requests of disclosure, correction, or deletion of your personal information. You may also request suspension of use or suspension of sharing of your personal information with certain third parties.
If you choose to reveal any personal information about yourself to other users, you do so at your own risk. We strongly encourage you to use caution in disclosing any personal information online.
When you are asked to provide information, you may decline to do so; but if you choose not to provide information that is necessary to provide some of our Services, you may not be able to use those Services.
"We provide important information for individuals located in the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland and United Kingdom (collectively, "Europe" or "European") below. Legal basis for processing. We process your personal information on the following legal bases: Performance of a contract when we provide you with products or services, or communicate with you about them. This includes when we use your personal information to take and handle orders, and process payments. Legitimate interests: We may process your personal information when it is necessary for our legitimate interests in order to: understand and improve our Services and Website, for direct marketing purposes, and for fraud detection and prevention purposes. Consent: Where required by law, or sometimes when you have expressly given it to us and we've asked for it.Excerpt from Pinecone's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), UK GDPR, and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection.
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This provision establishes the legal bases Pinecone relies on to process European users' personal data under GDPR and UK GDPR, and identifies the data subject rights available, including the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
EU, UK, and Swiss users have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, and port their personal data, and the right to object to processing conducted on legitimate interests grounds, including direct marketing; requests can be submitted to privacy@pinecone.io.
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