Your employer (as the Slack Customer) has full administrative control over your workspace, including the ability to access, monitor, export, or delete your messages and files.
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This provision defines the data governance model for enterprise deployments, establishing the employer as the data controller within the workspace infrastructure. The administrative authority granted to employers affects how personal data, communications, and work product are managed, retained, and potentially transferred or deleted.
Employees using Slack at work have no independent privacy rights under this agreement; the subscribing organization controls all workspace data and can access, export, or delete employee messages at any time.
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This provision defines the data governance model for enterprise deployments, establishing the employer as the data controller within the workspace infrastructure. The administrative authority granted to employers affects how personal data, communications, and work product are managed, retained, and potentially transferred or deleted.
Employees using Slack at work have no independent privacy rights under this agreement; the subscribing organization controls all workspace data and can access, export, or delete employee messages at any time.
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