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This disclosure signals to European users that transfers of their personal information to the US occur without the baseline protection that an adequacy decision would provide under the GDPR.
RunPod informs you that the US legal regime is not considered by relevant European bodies to adequately protect personal information under GDPR standards.
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We transfer personal data from the European Economic Area and Switzerland to other countries, some of which have not been determined by the European Commission to have an adequate level of data protection. When we do so, we use a variety of legal mechanisms, including contracts
Patreon complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Reddit, Inc., complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
"the US is not the subject of an 'adequacy decision' under the GDPR – basically, this means that the U.S. legal regime is not considered by relevant European bodies to provide an adequate level of protection for personal information...Excerpt from RunPod's Privacy Policy
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This disclosure signals to European users that transfers of their personal information to the US occur without the baseline protection that an adequacy decision would provide under the GDPR.
RunPod informs you that the US legal regime is not considered by relevant European bodies to adequately protect personal information under GDPR standards.
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