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The clause establishes that customer Personal Data falls within the definition of User Data, meaning all provisions governing User Data—including processing instructions and consent obligations—apply to customer Personal Data.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a partial list excerpt; other categories of User Data exist in the full clause but are not quoted and therefore not stated in the canonical claim.
Customers' Personal Data is treated as User Data under the agreement, subjecting it to all terms that govern how User Data is collected, used, and processed.
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You may give us your Identity Data, Contact Data, Financial Data, Profile Data, and other information by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, e-mail or otherwise.
Automatically collected data may be linked to other Personal Data such as user name, email address and phone number.
If you are an individual user, we collect, use, transfer, disclose and store any personal Data you provide to us in accordance with our privacy policy, (available on our website), and Applicable Privacy Laws.
"User Data includes:...(ii) User's Customers' Personal Data;Excerpt from Stripe's Connect Platform Agreement
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The clause establishes that customer Personal Data falls within the definition of User Data, meaning all provisions governing User Data—including processing instructions and consent obligations—apply to customer Personal Data.
Customers' Personal Data is treated as User Data under the agreement, subjecting it to all terms that govern how User Data is collected, used, and processed.
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