If Runway is sold, merged, or goes through a financing event, your personal data may be shared with or transferred to the acquiring company or prospective buyers, including in the event of bankruptcy.
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This provision permits disclosure of user personal data, including biometric data and user content, to unaffiliated third parties in connection with corporate transactions, including to prospective counterparties before any transaction is finalized. The scope of data transferable as a business asset is not specifically limited.
In the event of a sale, merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy involving Runway, your personal data including account information, content, and potentially biometric data may be transferred to a new owner or unaffiliated parties, who would then be subject to their own privacy practices.
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"We may disclose information about you in the context of actual or prospective business transactions (e.g., investments in Runway, financing of Runway, public stock offerings, or the sale, transfer or merger of all or part of our business, assets or shares), for example, we may need to disclose certain information about you to prospective counterparties and their advisers. We may also disclose information about you to an acquirer, successor, or assignee of Runway as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, and/or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information about you is transferred to one or more unaffiliated parties as one of our business assets.Excerpt from Runway's Privacy Policy
1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Business asset transfers involving personal data engage GDPR Articles 13/14 (transparency requirements for new controllers), and may implicate CCPA provisions regarding the transfer of personal information to third parties.
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This provision permits disclosure of user personal data, including biometric data and user content, to unaffiliated third parties in connection with corporate transactions, including to prospective counterparties before any transaction is finalized. The scope of data transferable as a business asset is not specifically limited.
In the event of a sale, merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy involving Runway, your personal data including account information, content, and potentially biometric data may be transferred to a new owner or unaffiliated parties, who would then be subject to their own privacy practices.
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