If you use Slack through your employer or another organization, that organization (not Slack) controls your messages and files, and their privacy rules apply to that content, not this policy.
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Most Slack users encounter the service through an employer or organization, meaning their message content is legally under the employer's control and Slack's obligations run to that employer, not the individual user.
Your workplace messages and files in Slack belong to your employer's workspace, meaning your employer may read, export, or delete them, and Slack is not directly accountable to you for how that content is handled.
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If you are an end user in a Workspace not owned by you and wish to update, delete, or receive any information we have about you, you may do so by contacting the organization who owns your ClickUp Workspace.
to request that your data be transferred to a third party (data portability)
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"Slack customers are organizations that use our Services to communicate and collaborate. When Customers use our Services, they may send messages, share files, and engage in other communications as part of their work. Customers control their instances of the Services and their content therein. We provide services to these Customers pursuant to a separate master subscription agreement or other agreement that governs the Services. Customers choose what types of data to collect and process when using the Services. Our Customers' privacy policies—not this Privacy Policy—govern their use of the Services and such Customers' handling of the personal information of end users. If you are an end user of a Customer's instance of the Services, please refer to that Customer's privacy policy and reach out to that Customer for information about how they use and share your information.Excerpt from Slack's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages GDPR Articles 4(7) and 4(8), which distinguish between data controllers and processors.
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Most Slack users encounter the service through an employer or organization, meaning their message content is legally under the employer's control and Slack's obligations run to that employer, not the individual user.
Your workplace messages and files in Slack belong to your employer's workspace, meaning your employer may read, export, or delete them, and Slack is not directly accountable to you for how that content is handled.
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