Slack shares personal data with its parent company Salesforce and affiliated entities for business operations, product integration, and potentially marketing purposes.
This analysis describes what Slack's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
This provision establishes the scope of entities within the corporate structure that may access user data under the privacy policy. It expands the class of entities permitted to receive information beyond Slack itself to include related corporate entities under common ownership or control.
Your Slack data — including usage patterns and profile information — may be shared with Salesforce and its family of companies, potentially combining your Slack activity with data held in other Salesforce products. This expands the scope of who has access to your data beyond Slack itself.
How other platforms handle this
Protect us, our business, our users, and others, for example to enforce our terms of service, prevent spam or other unwanted communications, and investigate or protect against fraud
we may use, retain or share information with law enforcement or others in circumstances where a person's vital interests require protection, such as in the case of emergencies.
we may share data between our affiliates for the safety and security of our users and may take necessary actions if we believe you have violated these Terms, including banning you from our Services and/or our affiliates' services...
"Slack may share Information with our corporate affiliates, parents and/or subsidiaries.Excerpt from Slack's Privacy Policy
Affiliate data sharing between Slack and Salesforce entities must be evaluated under GDPR's purpose limitation and data minimisation principles, and CCPA's definition of 'sharing' with affiliated entities.
Enforcement risk, jurisdiction flags, contract triggers, and due diligence action items.
Search "[your state] attorney general consumer complaint" to find your state's direct complaint form
ConductAtlas detected a major restructuring of Meta’s privacy policy that removed detailed consumer rights disclosures and relocated them to separate documents.
Your genetic data may be transferred to a new owner as a business asset. Here is what the Terms of Service actually say and what you can do right now.
Get the research letter
Companies change their terms quietly. We read every version and catch what actually changed. One email a week on the changes that matter and what they mean.
This provision establishes the scope of entities within the corporate structure that may access user data under the privacy policy. It expands the class of entities permitted to receive information beyond Slack itself to include related corporate entities under common ownership or control.
Your Slack data — including usage patterns and profile information — may be shared with Salesforce and its family of companies, potentially combining your Slack activity with data held in other Salesforce products. This expands the scope of who has access to your data beyond Slack itself.
ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 287 platforms. See the full comparison.
No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Slack.