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# SECOPS PRIVACY NOTICE

**Effective Date: February 6, 2025**

**This SecOps Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes how we collect and process your personal information in relation to the SecOps services described at https://cloud.google.com/terms/secops/services (the “SecOps Services”). This Privacy Notice does not apply to any other Google services.**

We offer the SecOps Services to our customers either
directly or via our authorized partners. Where we refer
to our customers in this notice, we also mean our
partners and their customers.

If European Union (EU), UK or Swiss data protection law
applies to the processing of personal information
relating to you, you can review the
European Privacy Standards and GDPR
section below to learn more about your rights and
Google’s compliance with these laws.

If the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) applies
to the processing of personal information relating to
you, please review the
U.S. State Privacy Law Requirements
section below.

This Privacy Notice applies solely to the personal
information Google collects or generates during the
provision and administration of the SecOps Services and
related technical support, excluding Customer Data and
Partner Data. Customer Data and Partner Data are defined
and governed by our agreement(s) with our customers
covering the SecOps Services. For more information about
how we process Customer Data and Partner Data, see our
Data Processing Addendum for SecOps Consulting Services and Managed Services,
Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Customers),
and
Cloud Data Processing Addendum (Partners).
This Privacy Notice also applies to the extent there is
personal information in threat intelligence we obtain from
third party sources.

The personal information collected under this Privacy
Notice consists of:

- **Account information. **We collect the data you or
your organization provide when creating an account for
SecOps Services, entering into a contract with us for
SecOps Services, or using community features of SecOps
Services (usernames, names, contact details, job titles,
profiles and comments).

- **SecOps payments and transactions.** We keep
reasonable business records of charges, payments, and
billing details and issues.

- **SecOps settings and configurations.** We record
your configuration and settings, including resource
identifiers and attributes, and service and security
settings for data and other resources.

**Technical and operational details of your usage of SecOps Services.**
We collect information about usage, operational status,
software errors and crash reports, authentication
details, quality and performance metrics, and other
technical details necessary for us to operate and
maintain SecOps Services and related software. This
information includes device identifiers, identifiers
from cookies or tokens, and IP addresses.

- **Your direct communications.** We keep records of
your communications and interactions with us and our
partners (for example, when you provide feedback, ask
questions or seek technical support).

- **Threat intelligence information**. We collect
information about confirmed and potential cyber threats,
including attackers’ techniques, patterns, and behaviors
and information used to carry out the attack (for
example, phishing emails, malicious or target IP
addresses, and compromised credentials or
government-issued identifiers).

Google processes personal information under this Privacy
Notice for the following purposes:

- **Provide the SecOps Services you request.** We use
personal information primarily to deliver the SecOps
Services that you and our customers request. This
includes processing personal information as needed to
conduct checks before extending credit to certain
customers, to bill for the SecOps Services used, to
ensure those services are delivered or working as
intended, to detect and avoid outages or other technical
problems, and to secure your data and services.

**Make recommendations to optimize use of the SecOps Services.**
We use personal information to provide you and our
customers with recommendations (for example, suggesting
ways to better secure your account or data, reduce
service charges or improve performance, or optimize your
configurations), and providing information about new or
related products and features. We also evaluate your
responses to our recommendations and other feedback (if
you choose to provide it).

- **Maintain and improve the SecOps Services.** We
evaluate personal information to help us improve the
performance and functionality of SecOps Services. As we
improve SecOps Services for you, this will improve them
for our customers, and vice versa.

- **Provide and improve other services you request.**
We use personal information to deliver and improve other
services that you and our customers request, including
Google or third-party services that are enabled via the
SecOps Services, administrative consoles, application
programming interfaces (APIs) or command line interfaces
(CLIs), or the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace or
Google Workspace Marketplace.

- **Assist you.** We use personal information to
provide technical support for SecOps Services that you
and our customers request, and to assess whether we have
met your needs. We also use personal information to
improve our technical support, inform you and our
customers about updates to SecOps Services and send
other notifications relating to the SecOps Services.

**Protect you, our users, customers, the public, and Google.**
We use personal information to detect, prevent, and
respond to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical
issues that could harm you, other users, our customers,
the public, or Google, making our services safer, more
reliable, and enabling them to provide better security.

- **Comply with legal obligations.** We use personal
information to comply with our legal obligations (for
example, where we’re responding to legal process or an
enforceable governmental request, or meeting our
financial record-keeping obligations).

We’ll ask for your consent before using your personal
information for a purpose that isn’t covered in this
Privacy Notice.

To achieve these processing purposes, we use algorithms
to recognize patterns, engage in manual review (such as
when you interact directly with our billing or support
teams or when analysts evaluate threat intelligence to
derive threat detection rules), aggregation or
anonymization to eliminate personal information (such as
to enable publication of information about attackers), and
combination with information from other Google products
and services. We also use personal information for
internal reporting and analysis of applicable product and
business operations.

We maintain servers around the world, and information
about you may be processed on servers located outside of
the country where our users and customers are located.
Data protection laws vary among countries, with some
providing more protection than others.

Regardless of where your information is processed, we
apply the same protections described in this privacy
notice. We also comply with certain legal frameworks
relating to the transfer of data, such as the frameworks
described below.

- Adequacy decisions

The European Commission has
determined that certain countries outside of the European
Economic Area (EEA) adequately protect personal
information, which means that information can be
transferred from the European Union (EU) and Norway,
Liechtenstein, and Iceland to that third country without
any further safeguard being necessary. The UK and
Switzerland have approved similar adequacy decisions. We
rely on the following adequacy decisions in some cases:

1.
European Commission adequacy decisions

2.
UK adequacy regulations

3.
Swiss adequacy decisions

- Standard contractual clauses

Standard contractual clauses
(SCCs) are written commitments between parties that can be
used as a ground for data transfers from the EU to third
countries by providing appropriate data protection
safeguards. SCCs have been approved by the European
Commission and can’t be modified by the parties using them
(you can see the SCCs adopted by the European Commission
here,
here,
and
here).
Such clauses have also been approved for transfers of data
to countries outside the UK and Switzerland. We rely on
SCCs for our data transfers where required. If you want to
obtain a copy of the SCCs, you can
contact us.

- Data Privacy Frameworks

As described in our
certifications,
we comply with the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy
Frameworks (DPF) and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S.
DPF as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce
regarding the collection, use and retention of personal
information from European Union member countries
(including EEA member countries), Switzerland and the UK
respectively.

As relevant to the SecOps
Services, Google LLC has certified its adherence to the
DPF. Google remains responsible for any of your personal
information that is shared under the Onward Transfer
Principle with third parties for external processing on
its behalf, as described in the
How We Share Your Information
section of this notice. To learn more about the DPF,
please visit the
DPF website.

If you have an inquiry
regarding our relevant DPF certifications, we encourage
you to
contact us.
Google is subject to the investigatory and enforcement
powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). You may
also refer a complaint to your local data protection
authority and we will work with them to resolve your
concern. In certain circumstances, the DPF provides the
right to invoke binding arbitration to resolve complaints
not resolved by other means, as described in
Annex I to the DPF Principles.

We build SecOps Services with strong security features to
protect your data. The insights we gain from providing our
services help us detect and automatically block security
threats from ever reaching you. We work hard to protect
the personal information we hold from unauthorized access,
alteration, disclosure, or destruction, including by:

- Encrypting personal information at rest and while in
transit between our facilities;

- Regularly reviewing our personal information
collection, storage, and processing practices, including
our physical security measures, to prevent unauthorized
access to our systems; and

- Restricting access to personal information to Google
employees, contractors, and agents who need it in order
to process that information for us. Anyone with this
access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality
obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they
fail to meet these obligations.

We instruct our affiliates to process personal
information for the purposes listed under
Why We Process Your Information above,
in compliance with this Privacy Notice and appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.

We do not share personal information with companies,
organizations, or individuals outside of Google except in
the following cases:

- When you procure third-party services

We share your information
outside of Google when you or our customer choose(s) to
procure a third-party service through Google Cloud
Platform, the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace or the
Google Workspace Marketplace, or use a third-party
application that requests access to your information.

- With your consent

We’ll share your information
outside of Google where we have obtained your consent.

- With your administrators and authorized resellers

When you use the SecOps
Services, your administrator and resellers authorized to
manage your or your organization’s account will have
access to certain personal information. For example, they
may be able to:

1. View account and billing
information, activity and statistics

2. Change your account
password

3. Suspend or terminate your
account access

4. Access your account
information in order to satisfy applicable law,
regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental
request

5. Restrict your ability to
delete or edit your information or your privacy settings.

- For external processing

We do not sell your personal
information to any third parties.

We share your information
with trusted third party providers to process it for us as
we instruct them and in compliance with this Privacy
Notice and appropriate confidentiality and security
measures. In particular, we share your information with
our third party providers when you request technical
support services (we share the information you provide in
the support ticket, and those providers may communicate
with you or your administrator in that ticket, including
providing updates and closing the ticket) and professional
services (we share your contact details to enable
communication and collaboration).

- For legal reasons

We share personal information
outside of Google when we have a good-faith belief that
access to or disclosure of that information is reasonably
necessary to:

1. Comply with applicable
law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable
governmental request.

2. Enforce applicable
agreements, including investigation of potential
violations.

3. Detect, prevent, or
otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.

4. Protect against harm to
the rights, property or safety of Google, our customers,
users, and the public as required or permitted by law.

If Google is involved in a reorganization, merger,
acquisition, or sale of assets, we’ll continue to ensure
the confidentiality of the personal information covered by
this Privacy Notice and give affected users notice before
such information becomes subject to a different privacy
notice.

Your organization may allow you to access and export your
data in order to back it up or transfer it to a service
outside of Google. Some SecOps Services may enable you to
directly access and download the data you have stored in
the services.

You and your organization’s administrator may be able to
access certain types of data directly from the SecOps
Services, such as your account information, billing
contact information, payment and transaction information,
or certain product and communication settings and
configurations.

If you’re otherwise unable to access your data, you can
always request it
here.

We retain personal information for different periods of
time depending on the type of data, how we use it, and how
you configure your settings. When we no longer need such
personal information, we delete or anonymize it.

For each type of personal information and processing
operation, we set retention timeframes based on the
purposes for which we process it, and ensure that the
information is kept for no longer than necessary. We
retain most types of personal information for a set period
of up to 180 days (the exact number depends on the
specific type of data). However, some information may be
kept for longer periods where there is a business need. We
generally have longer retention periods (which can be over
a year) for personal information that is kept for the
following purposes:

- **Security, fraud and abuse prevention. **We retain
personal information to protect Google, users,
customers, and the public from security threats
(including when it is necessary to protect against
fraudulent attempts to gain access to user accounts), or
to investigate violations of applicable SecOps Services
agreements. Usually, the personal information retained
where there is reason to suspect fraud or abuse would
include device identifiers, identifiers from cookies or
tokens, and IP addresses, as well as log data about
usage of the SecOps Services.

**Complying with legal or regulatory requirements. **We
retain personal information when required by an
enforceable legal process, such as when Google receives
a lawful subpoena.

**Complying with tax, accounting or financial requirements.**
When Google processes a payment for you, or when you
make a payment to Google, we retain personal information
about those transactions (including billing
information), typically for a minimum of five years, as
required for tax or accounting purposes, or to comply
with applicable financial regulations.

At the end of the applicable retention period, we follow
detailed protocols to make sure that the personal
information is securely and completely deleted from our
active systems (the servers Google uses to run
applications and store data) or retained only in
anonymized form. After completion of these steps, copies
of the data will remain for a limited period in our
encrypted backup systems (which we maintain to protect
this information from accidental or malicious deletion and
for outage and disaster recovery purposes), before being
overwritten by new backup copies.

You may delete your SecOps Services community account,
including your comments made in the community, using
available account tools. If you delete your community
account, comments that you do not delete will no longer be
attributed to you, but are retained to protect the
security and integrity of the community.

**Exercising your data protection rights**

If European Union (EU), UK or Swiss data protection law
applies to the processing of personal information relating
to you, you have certain rights, including the rights to
access, correct, delete and export that information, and
to object to or request that we restrict processing of
your personal information.

Google Cloud EMEA Ltd will be the data controller
responsible for your personal information. However, where
our customer has entered into an agreement covering SecOps
Services with a different Google affiliate, that affiliate
will be the data controller responsible for processing
your personal information in connection with billing for
the SecOps Services only.

If you want to exercise your data protection rights with
regard to personal information we process in accordance
with this Privacy Notice, and you are not able to do so
via the tools available to you or your organization’s
administrator, you can contact us at
our contact email address.

You can always contact your local data protection
authority if you have concerns regarding your rights under
local law.

**Our grounds for processing your personal information**

When we process personal information for the purposes
described in this Privacy Notice (see
Why We Process Your Information above),
we rely on the following legal grounds:

**Purpose**
**Types of Personal information Processed**

**Legal Grounds**

Provide SecOps Services you request.

The following types of personal information, as
necessary for the purpose:

- Account information

- SecOps Services payments and transactions

- SecOps Services settings and configurations

- Technical and operational details of your
use of SecOps Services

- Your direct communications

- Threat intelligence information

Where necessary for our legitimate interests in
fulfilling the contractual obligations which we
owe to our customer to provide the SecOps
Services.

Make recommendations to optimize use of SecOps
Services.

The following types of personal information, as
necessary for the purpose:

- Account information

- SecOps Services payments and transactions

- SecOps Services settings and configurations

- Technical and operational details of your
use of SecOps Services

- Your direct communications

- Threat intelligence information

When we’re pursuing legitimate interests in
offering the best service we can, and ensuring
our customers know how to get the most out of
our services.

In some cases we will seek your consent to send
you marketing communications.

Maintain and improve SecOps Services.

The following types of personal information, as
necessary for the purpose:

- Account information

- SecOps Services settings and configurations

- Technical and operational details of your
use of SecOps Services

- Your direct communications

- Threat intelligence information

Where necessary for our legitimate interests in
offering the best services we can, and continuing
to improve the SecOps Services to meet our
customers’ needs.

Provide and improve other services you request.

The following types of personal information, as
necessary for the purpose:

- Account information

- SecOps Services settings and configurations

- Technical and operational details of your
use of SecOps Services

- Your direct communications

- Threat intelligence information

Where necessary for our legitimate interests in
fulfilling the contractual obligations we owe to
our customer to provide the SecOps Services, and
where necessary for our legitimate interests in
offering the best services we can, and continuing
to improve the SecOps Services to meet our
customers’ needs.

Assist you.

The following types of personal information, as
necessary for the purpose:

- Account information

- SecOps Services payments and transactions

- SecOps Services settings and configurations

- Technical and operational details of your
use of SecOps Services

- Your direct communications

- Threat intelligence information

Where necessary for our legitimate interests in
fulfilling the contractual obligations we owe to
our customer to provide the SecOps Services.

Protect you, our users, customers, the public,
and Google.

The following types of personal information, as
necessary for the purpose:

- Account information

- SecOps Services payments and transactions

- SecOps Services settings and configurations

- Technical and operational details of your
use of SecOps Services

- Your direct communications

- Threat intelligence information

Where necessary for Google’s legitimate interest
to protect against harm to the rights, property
and safety of Google, and where necessary for
Google’s and third parties’ legitimate interests
to protect against harm to our users, our
customers and the public, including criminal acts
and rights violations.

Comply with legal obligations.

Depending on the specific legal obligations,
following types of personal information:

- Account information

- SecOps Services payments and transactions

- SecOps Services settings and configurations

- Technical and operational details of your
use of SecOps Services

- Your direct communications

- Threat intelligence information

When we have a legal obligation to do so. For
example, where we’re responding to legal process
or an enforceable governmental request, or
retaining information relating to your purchases
and communications to meet our record-keeping
obligations.

**Additional information (Switzerland)**

If Swiss data protection law applies to the processing of
your personal information, the following additional
information is relevant.

We also disclose your personal information to service
providers, partners and other recipients (see
How We Share Your Information)
that are located or process information in any country in
the world.

We comply with certain legal frameworks relating to the
transfer of information as described in the
Where We Store Your Information
section. We may also transfer your information to a third
country based on an exception provided for by the Swiss
Federal Data Protection Act.

An exception may apply in the event of legal proceedings
abroad, in cases of overriding public interest or if the
performance of a contract with you or in your interest
requires disclosure, if you have consented, if the
information has been made generally available by you and
you have not objected to the processing, or the disclosure
is necessary in order to protect the life or the physical
integrity of you or a third party and we can't get consent
within a reasonable period of time, or the information
originates from a register provided for by Swiss law which
is accessible to the public or to persons with a
legitimate interest, provided that the legal conditions
for the consultation of such register has been met in the
specific case.

If Brazilian data protection law applies to the
processing of your personal information, you have certain
rights, including the rights to access, correct, delete or
export that information, as well as to object to or
request that we restrict processing of that information.
You also have the right to object to the processing of
your information or to export your information to another
service.

For users based in Brazil, the data controller
responsible for information we collect under this Privacy
Notice is Cloud Brasil Computação e Serviços de Dados
Ltda. The Data Protection Officer is Kristie Chon Flynn.
If you want to exercise your data protection rights
with regard to personal information we process in
accordance with this Privacy Notice and are not able to do
so via the tools available to you or your organization’s
administrator, you can always contact us via
our contact email address.
And you can contact your data protection authority if you
have concerns regarding your rights under Brazilian law.

In addition to the purposes and grounds described in this
Privacy Notice, we may process personal information on the
following legal grounds:

**Where necessary for the performance of a contract with you ******

We may process your
information where necessary for us to enter into a
contract with you or to comply with our contractual
commitments to you.

- **When we’re complying with legal obligations **

****We’ll process your
information when we have a legal obligation to do so.

- **When we’re pursuing legitimate interests **

****We may process
personal information based on our legitimate interests and
those of third parties while applying appropriate
safeguards that protect your privacy. This means that we
process your information in the interests of providing
SecOps Services you request; making recommendations to
optimize use of SecOps Services; maintaining and improving
SecOps Services; providing and improving other services
you request; assisting you; and protecting against harm to
the rights, property or safety of Google, our users, our
customers, and the public, as required or permitted by
law.

Some U.S. state privacy laws require specific
disclosures.

These laws may include

- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA);

- Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA);

- Colorado Privacy Act (CPA);

- Connecticut Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and
Online Monitoring (CTDPA);

- Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)

- Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR);

- Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA);

- Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA); and

- Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MTCDPA).

This Privacy Notice is designed to help you understand
how Google handles personal information in relation to the
SecOps Services:

- We explain the categories of personal information
Google collects and the sources of that information in
Personal Information We Collect.

- We explain the purposes for which Google collects
and uses personal information in
Why We Process Your Information.

- We explain when Google may disclose information in
How We Share Your Information.
Google does not sell your personal information to any
third parties. Google also does not “share” your
personal information as that term is defined in the
CCPA.

- We explain how Google retains personal information in
Retention and Deletion of Personal Information.
Google may also de-identify personal information about
you so that the information can no longer be linked to
you. When we de-identify personal information, we
maintain policies and technical measures to avoid
re-identifying that information.

U.S. state privacy laws also provide the right to request
information about how Google collects, uses, and discloses
your personal information. And they give you the right to
access your personal information, sometimes in a portable
format; to correct your personal information; and to
request that Google delete that information. They also
provide the right to not be discriminated against for
exercising these rights. Finally, the CCPA treats certain
kinds of information, like account credentials and
government-issued identifiers, as sensitive; when we
collect this information, we only use it for purposes
permitted by the CCPA, like to protect against security
threats, abuse, and illegal activity.

We provide the information and tools described in
Access to Your Information
so you can exercise your access rights via the SecOps
Services, and access your other rights by
contacting Google.
When you make a request, we’ll validate your request by
verifying your identity (for example, by confirming that
you’re signed in to your SecOps Services account).

If you have questions or requests related to your rights
under U.S. state privacy laws, you (or your authorized
agent) can also
contact us.
And if you disagree with the decision on your request, you
can ask us to reconsider it by responding to our email.

Some U.S. state privacy laws require a description
of personal information practices using specific
categories. This table uses these categories to organize
the information in this Privacy Notice.

Categories of personal information we collect

Business purposes for which personal information
may be used or disclosed
Parties to whom personal information may be
disclosed

**Identifiers and similar information** such
as your username, name, phone number, address,
and job titles, as well as unique identifiers
tied to the browser, application, or device
you’re using.

**Demographic information**, such as your
preferred language and age.

**Commercial information** such as records
of charges, payments, and billing details and
issues.

**Technical and operational details of your usage of SecOps Services**,
such as information about your usage,
operational status, software errors and crash
reports, authentication details, quality and
performance metrics, and other technical details
necessary for us to operate and maintain the
SecOps Services and related software. This
includes device identifiers, identifiers from
cookies or tokens, and IP addresses.

**Approximate location data**, as may be
determined by IP address, depending in part on
your device and account settings.

**Audio, electronic, visual, and similar informatio**n,
such as audio recording of your calls with our
technical support providers.

**Inferences** drawn from the above, like
aggregated performance metrics for a new product
feature to determine product strategy.

**Protecting against security threats, abuse, and illegal activity**.
Google uses and may disclose personal
information to detect, prevent and respond to
fraud, abuse, security risks, and for protecting
against other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent,
or illegal activity. For example, to protect our
services, our customers, or the public, we may
receive or disclose information about IP
addresses that malicious actors have
compromised.

**Auditing and measurement**. Google uses
personal information for analytics and
measurement to understand how our services are
used, and to provide you and our customers with
recommendations and tips. We may disclose
non-personally identifiable information publicly
and with partners, including for auditing
purposes.

**Provide and maintain our services, and to assist you**.
Google uses personal information to provide
SecOps Services and related technical support,
and other services you request, and ensure they
are working as intended, such as tracking
outages or troubleshooting bugs and other issues
that you report to us.

**Improve the SecOps Services and other services you request**.
Google uses personal information to improve
SecOps Services and other services you request,
and to develop new products, features and
technologies that benefit our users and
customers.

**Use of service providers**. Google shares
personal information with service providers to
perform services on our behalf, in compliance
with this Privacy Notice and other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures. For
example, we may rely on service providers to
help provide technical support.

**Legal reasons**. Google also uses personal
information to satisfy applicable laws or
regulations, and discloses information in
response to legal process or enforceable
government requests, including to law
enforcement.

**We do not disclose personal information to companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Google except in the following cases:**

**When you procure third-party services**.
We disclose personal information outside of
Google when you or our customers choose(s) to
procure a third-party service through Google
Cloud Platform, the Google Cloud Platform
Marketplace or the Google Workspace Marketplace,
or use a third-party application that requests
access to your information.

**With your consent**. We’ll disclose your
personal information outside of Google when we
have obtained your consent.

**With your administrators and authorized resellers**.
When you use SecOps Services, your administrator
and resellers authorized to manage your or your
organization’s account will have access to
certain personal information.

**For external processing**. We disclose
personal information to trusted third party
providers to process it for us as we instruct
them and in compliance with this Privacy Notice
and appropriate confidentiality and security
measures. In particular, we disclose your
information to our third party providers when
you request technical support services (we
disclose the information you provide in the
support ticket) and professional services (we
disclose your contact details to enable
communication and collaboration).

**For legal reasons**. We disclose personal
information outside of Google when we have a
good-faith belief that access to or disclosure
of that information is reasonably necessary to:

- Comply with applicable law, regulation,
legal process, or enforceable governmental
request.

- Enforce applicable agreements, including
investigation of potential violations.

- Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud,
security, or technical issues.

- Protect against harm to the rights, property
or safety of Google, our customers, users, and
the public as required or permitted by law.

Data protection laws in certain countries in this region may, in some cases,
require Google to obtain your consent to collect and process your personal
information. By accessing and using any of the SecOps Services, you agree
that Google may process your personal information in accordance with this
Privacy Notice. In particular, you can find information about:

- The categories of personal information Google collects and the sources of
that personal information in Personal Information We Collect.

- The purposes for which Google collects and uses personal information in
Why We Process Your Information.

- When Google may disclose personal information in How We Share Your Information.

- How you can access personal information relating to you in Access to Your Information.

- How Google retains personal information in Retention and Deletion of
Personal Information.

If Japanese data protection law (the Act on the
Protection of Personal Information, “APPI”) applies to the
processing of your personal information, we provide the
following additional information for users of the SecOps
Services residing in Japan.

**Controller of your information**. Personal
information provided to or gathered by Google under this
Privacy Notice is controlled primarily by Google LLC,
located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA
94043 United States, representative is Sundar Pichai, CEO.

**Purpose of collection and use of personal information. **We
collect and use your information for the purposes set out
here
and here.

**Measures undertaken to protect retained personal information.**

***Establishment of general policy***

We establish and publish this Privacy Notice outlining
our general policy relating to personal information
processed in relation to the SecOps Services.

***Establishment of internal policy relating to handling of personal information***

Google establishes internal policies about handling
measures and persons in charge and their responsibility
etc. with regard to the acquisition, utilization, records,
provision, deletion etc. of personal information.

***Internal organization as security control action***

****Google has large security and privacy teams
responsible for developing, implementing, and reviewing
internal personal information handling processes. Google
employees are trained to report suspected incidents
involving personal information, which may be done through
various channels such as through dedicated email addresses
or digital platforms. A dedicated team assesses reported
incidents, and as appropriate a coordinated team is
assigned to manage the overall incident, including
liaising with Legal and the product team as part of the
investigation and response. The team on-call for an
incident is assigned on a daily rotation. Incident
responses may follow either a standard or an expedited
route, depending on the severity and priority assigned to
the incident.

***Personnel measures as security control action***

Google conducts periodical training for our employees
about matters to consider when handling personal
information.

***Physical measures as security control action***

Google takes measures to prevent unauthorized persons
from accessing personal information in any situation and
to prevent theft or loss of devices and electronic media
for handling personal information.

***Technical measures as security control action***

Please see
here
and
here
for further information on the security measures
undertaken to secure, retain and delete your information.

***Research of external environment***

Data protection laws vary among countries, with some
providing more protection than others. Google has
established a personal information protection system to
ensure your information is accorded protections equivalent
to APPI, as described in this Privacy Notice. Regardless
of where your information is processed, Google applies the
same personal information protection measures globally. We
also comply with certain legal frameworks relating to the
transfer of data, such as the European frameworks. For
more detail, please see
here.

**Contact information**. For any inquiries or requests
about your personal information under this Privacy Notice
and related rights under applicable law, please email
appi-inquiries-external@google.com.

This Privacy Notice applies to the SecOps Services. This
Privacy Notice doesn’t apply to:

- Products, sites, or services which are covered under a
different privacy notice;

- The information practices of other companies and
organizations that advertise the SecOps Services, or

- Services offered by companies or individuals other
than Google.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. We
will not make any significant changes without notifying
you in advance by posting a prominent notice on this page
describing the changes or by sending you a direct
communication. We encourage you to regularly review this
Privacy Notice, and we will always indicate the date the
last changes were published.

SecOps Service
Contact Email

Mandiant Services and GTI
privacy@mandiant.com

Google Security Operations
chronicle-support@google.com

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