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Slack Uses Data To Develop Search And Productivity Tools

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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

Slack's use of Other Information to shape search results means user behavior and metadata can influence what content is surfaced to Authorized Users.

Interpretive note: The excerpt contains a second independent proposition — making service suggestions based on historical use and predictive models — which was omitted from the canonical claim and recorded in omitted_material.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 3328 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Your Other Information may be used by Slack to determine and rank what search results you see, including content, channels, and expertise.

How other platforms handle this

MyFitnessPal Medium

We use your personal information to send you newsletters and other promotional communications, including information about MyFitnessPal's new offerings, features, offers, events, webinars, and other information.

Lyft Medium

We may infer certain information from your interactions with the Lyft Platform and other personal information available to us. For example, if you frequently ride to or from airports, we may infer you are a frequent traveler.

Square Medium

we may use this information to make it easier for you to find the people you want to send payments to, for account and identity verification and fraud prevention purposes, to reduce the risk you will send payments to the wrong person, or to provide other personalized services.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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We may: improve search functionality by using Other Information to help determine and rank the relevance of content, channels or expertise to an Authorized User; make Services or Third-Party Service suggestions based on historical use and predictive models...

— Excerpt from Slack's Slack Privacy Policy

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Colorado AI Act
US-CO
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
ePrivacy Directive
European Union
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
Slack Privacy Policy
Entity
Slack
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 7, 2026
Last verified
May 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-031986
Document ID
CA-D-00192
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
257c3df8c163d6b7cd5088cc1ab5b799eb8d2cd3f2c533ba3772a0ac8b767be5
Analysis generated
May 7, 2026 06:09 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Slack
Document: Slack Privacy Policy
Record ID: CA-P-031986
Captured: 2026-05-07 06:09:29 UTC
SHA-256: 257c3df8c163d6b7…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/slack/slack-privacy-policy/provision/CA-P-031986/slack-uses-data-to-develop-search-and-productivity-tools/
Accessed: July 12, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
Medium
Categories

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Slack's Slack Uses Data To Develop Search And Productivity Tools clause do?

Slack's use of Other Information to shape search results means user behavior and metadata can influence what content is surfaced to Authorized Users.

How does this clause affect you?

Your Other Information may be used by Slack to determine and rank what search results you see, including content, channels, and expertise.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 278 platforms. See the full comparison.

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