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Pinecone acknowledges it cannot guarantee security, which limits any expectation that safeguards will prevent a breach and is relevant to liability in the event of a security incident.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'we cannot guarantee', so the full scope of the security disclaimer is not visible. The canonical claim is limited strictly to what the quoted language establishes.
While Pinecone maintains safeguards for your personal information, you accept that those safeguards do not come with a security guarantee.
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We employ physical, electronic, and managerial measures to safeguard the data we collect online. However, no company can fully eliminate security risks, so we cannot make guarantees about any part of our services.
we can't promise that this will always be the case or that the services will be without faults. We also rely on some third parties to provide services to you, which can sometimes disrupt our services.
TINDER ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONTENT THAT YOU OR ANOTHER USER OR THIRD PARTY POSTS, SENDS, RECEIVES, AND/OR ACTS ON THROUGH OUR SERVICES, NOR DOES TINDER ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE IDENTITY, INTENTIONS...
"We maintain various physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee...Excerpt from Pinecone's Privacy Policy
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Pinecone acknowledges it cannot guarantee security, which limits any expectation that safeguards will prevent a breach and is relevant to liability in the event of a security incident.
While Pinecone maintains safeguards for your personal information, you accept that those safeguards do not come with a security guarantee.
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