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Summary

This is RunPod Inc.'s privacy policy covering how the company collects and uses personal data from users of its GPU cloud computing platform. The policy authorizes collection of account identifiers, payment and billing data, usage logs, IP addresses, device information, and communications, and permits sharing this data with payment processors, analytics providers, and infrastructure partners, as well as in connection with business transfers. Users in the EU and California are granted specific rights including data access, deletion, and correction requests, which can be submitted by contacting privacy@runpod.io.

Technical / Legal Breakdown

This document is RunPod Inc.'s privacy policy governing the collection, use, storage, and disclosure of personal data from users of its GPU cloud platform, including Pods, Serverless Endpoints, and related infrastructure services. The policy states that RunPod collects account identifiers (name, email, password), billing and payment information, usage and log data, device and browser information, IP addresses, and communications data, and the terms authorize use of this data for service delivery, billing, security, analytics, marketing communications, and product improvement. The policy discloses sharing of personal data with third-party service providers including payment processors, cloud infrastructure providers, analytics vendors, and marketing platforms, and reserves the right to transfer data in connection with corporate transactions such as mergers or acquisitions. The policy asserts applicability of GDPR for EU/EEA users, CCPA/CPRA rights for California residents, and references standard data subject rights including access, deletion, correction, and opt-out of marketing, though the operational mechanisms for exercising some of these rights are not fully specified in the document text. Material compliance considerations include the adequacy of consent mechanisms for marketing communications, the scope of third-party data sharing with analytics and advertising vendors, and the data transfer framework applicable to international transfers from the EU, which requires evaluation under GDPR Chapter V.

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4 important changes detected

5 versions captured · Last updated: June 2026

June 10, 2026

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What changed RunPod updated their RunPod Privacy Policy on June 10, 2026. Change detected: 1 sentence(s) modified. Document contained 278 sentences after update.
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What changed RunPod updated a single sentence in their Privacy Policy on June 2, 2026 that describes their role as a data controller under European data protection law. The only change was a minor correction to quotation mark formatting around 'UK GDPR' (from straight quotes to curly quotes). This is a formatting adjustment with no operational or legal significance.
Why this matters This change is a formatting correction only. The statement describing RunPod's role as a data controller under GDPR remains substantively identical. No changes to data handling practices, rights, or obligations are introduced.
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May 23, 2026 low

RunPod's privacy policy was updated on May 23, 2026, removing marketing and product promotion content that had previously appeared alongside the legal privacy policy text. The change removes 32 sentences …

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May 17, 2026 low

RunPod's privacy policy document was updated on May 17, 2026 with minor navigational and header changes. Two sentences referencing 'Articles: In-depth perspectives, ideas, and updates from our team' were removed, …

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Recent Provision Changes Jun 10, 2026

9 provisions unchanged.

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Archival ProvenanceSource & Archival Record
Last Captured June 10, 2026 01:24 UTC
Capture Method Automated scheduled archival capture
Document ID CA-D-000652
Version ID CA-V-003626
SHA-256 0c0dcb1e01be2cb2e4dea43a89b75099145bebdff905af66b2b8a8590f345027
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