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This clarification allocates data protection responsibilities between Wix and its Users, defining Wix's operational role as a processor acting under customer direction rather than as an independent controller. The allocation establishes that Users, not Wix, retain primary obligations under data protection regulations regarding lawful basis determination and end-user disclosures.
Website owners using Wix's platform must independently establish the lawful basis for collecting and processing their own end-users' data and must provide appropriate privacy notices to those end-users. Wix's role is limited to processing data according to the website owner's documented instructions rather than making independent determinations about data collection practices.
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"Please note that we are a data processor when processing information about the end-users of our Users' websites, mobile apps and other digital products and services ('Users of Users'). In such cases, the User (the website owner) is the data controller, and is responsible for ensuring the legal basis for processing the personal data of their end-users, and for providing notices regarding the collection and use of that data. We process Users of Users' data on behalf of, and in accordance with, the instructions of our Users.— Excerpt from Wix's Wix Privacy Policy
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This clarification allocates data protection responsibilities between Wix and its Users, defining Wix's operational role as a processor acting under customer direction rather than as an independent controller. The allocation establishes that Users, not Wix, retain primary obligations under data protection regulations regarding lawful basis determination and end-user disclosures.
Website owners using Wix's platform must independently establish the lawful basis for collecting and processing their own end-users' data and must provide appropriate privacy notices to those end-users. Wix's role is limited to processing data according to the website owner's documented instructions rather than making independent determinations about data collection practices.
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