Privacy Policy

Hugging Face · agreement dated March 28, 2023 · Official agreement

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Security & Safeguards · Permission or license

Information may be used for security; disclosure without consent is separately reserved for security purposes

The Company may use information to ensure and maintain security on its Services or Website, which may include detecting, preventing, investigating or otherwise addressing fraud or security issues. In the sharing section, the Company separately reserves the right, in the event of any fraud, security threats or incidents, to disclose your information without your consent for the purposes of ensuring and maintaining security on its Website and for all of its Users, and of detecting, preventing, investigating or otherwise addressing fraud or security issues.

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to ensure and maintain security on our Services or Website, which may include detecting, preventing, investigating or otherwise addressing fraud or security issues,
In the event of any fraud, security threats or incidents, we reserve the right to disclose your information without your consent for the purposes of ensuring and maintaining security on our Website and for all of our Users, and detecting, preventing, investigating or otherwise addressing fraud or security issues.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The disclosure right is stated for "any fraud, security threats or incidents" and is limited to the security purposes named in that paragraph.

Security & Safeguards · Company practice

The Company uses industry-standard safeguards but states it cannot guarantee absolute security or confidentiality

The Company says it follows generally accepted industry standards, including appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards, to protect Personal Information. It also states that no method of transmission over the Internet or of electronic storage is fully secure, and that while it strives to use commercially acceptable means, it cannot guarantee absolute security or confidentiality of Personal Information. Questions about security can be sent to privacy@huggingface.co.

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The Company follows generally accepted industry standards, including the use of appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards, to protect Personal Information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. Therefore, while the Company strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect Personal Information, the Company cannot guarantee its absolute security or confidentiality. If you have any questions about security, you can contact the Company at privacy@huggingface.co.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The safeguards commitment is paired with an express statement that absolute security or confidentiality is not guaranteed.

Security & Safeguards · Company commitment

In an incident affecting Personal Information, the Company says it will act promptly to address it and notify you

The Policy says that in the event of an incident affecting your Personal Information, the Company will act promptly "acceptable means" to identify and address the incident, and to notify you. The wording of this sentence is garbled in the source ("act promptly acceptable means"), so the exact standard for how the Company acts is unclear.

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In the event of an incident affecting your Personal Information, we will act promptly acceptable means to identify and address the incident, and to notify you.

Not stated here

  • The sentence is grammatically incomplete as written. It sets no deadline for notification and does not describe how notice will be given.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You are solely responsible for the security of your device and the confidentiality of your password

The Policy tells you that certain Personal Information and other information you provide while using the Services may be stored on your device, even if the Company does not collect it. It says you are solely responsible for keeping your device secure from unauthorized access, and that you remain responsible for the confidentiality of your password or any other information that should reasonably be held confidential.

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Please be aware that certain Personal Information and other information provided by you in connection with your use of the Services may be stored on your device (even if that Information is not collected by the Company). You are solely responsible for maintaining the security of your device from unauthorized access. Similarly, you also remain responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password or any other information that should reasonably be held confidential.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The device responsibility is stated as "solely responsible"; the password and confidentiality responsibility is stated as "remain responsible".