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GDPR special categories include sensitive data such as health, biometric, and racial or ethnic origin data; prohibiting their use restricts how customers may deploy the platform.
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Readers may not use PlanetScale to transmit, store, or process any data that qualifies as a special category of personal data under the GDPR.
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User Content may not: be unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or fraudulent
Therefore, we do not "sell" or "share" data (as defined by applicable law) belonging to minors.
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"(i) to transmit, store or process 'special categories of personal data' (as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679)Excerpt from PlanetScale's Terms of Service
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GDPR special categories include sensitive data such as health, biometric, and racial or ethnic origin data; prohibiting their use restricts how customers may deploy the platform.
Readers may not use PlanetScale to transmit, store, or process any data that qualifies as a special category of personal data under the GDPR.
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