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> We're not selling your data, we're transferring it. To be fair, if they get purchased or otherwise change hands, you'd want the data transferred and not dele
by vineyardmike 5y ago
> We're not selling your data, we're transferring it.
To be fair, if they get purchased or otherwise change hands, you'd want the data transferred and not deleted or siloed so it can't be used for its intended purpose.
> in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets.
This reads to me like "if we or our product become part of something else, that something else is now us".
Only the most aggressive reading... "we sell... all or a portion of our assets" can be read as them selling your data for profit. Does that mean they won't? No, but the terms look like they're either hiding it well or it isn't their intention.
I don't have great trust in tech companies, but I have some faith when the marketing is predicated on privacy, that a sale would ruin their reputation.
- lelandfe 5y agoI don't see that as an "aggressive" interpretation of the words – that's the actual provision in the policy. There's a lot in that sentence, let's reduce it to the relevant stuff: > We may transfer your personal data to [third parties] in connection with... a corporate transaction or... we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets I don't understand why a company preaching privacy wouldn't want to show good faith by making an ironclad privacy policy around the same.
- nickff 5y agoMaking the privacy policy more specific than necessary will expose them to many frivolous lawsuits.