Slack User Terms of Service (workspace users)

Slack — User Terms · agreement dated February 17, 2023 · Official agreement

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What you submit is Customer Data that the Customer owns and controls

When you submit content or information to the Services, such as messages or files, the terms call it 'Customer Data'. You acknowledge and agree that the Customer owns this Customer Data and that the Contract gives the Customer many choices and control over it. As examples, the Customer may add or remove access, turn third-party integrations on or off, manage permissions, retention and export settings, transfer or assign workspaces, share channels, or merge your workspace or channels with others. These choices and instructions may lead to access, use, disclosure, modification or deletion of some or all Customer Data, which includes what you contributed.

Details
Who
Customer
What it covers
Customer Data: messages, files and other content or information submitted by Authorized Users
What it does
Provision or deprovision access, manage integrations, permissions, retention and export, transfer, share or consolidate workspaces
Condition
Customer's choices and instructions under the Contract

Supporting quotations

When an Authorized User (including, you) submits content or information to the Services, such as messages or files (“Customer Data”), you acknowledge and agree that the Customer Data is owned by Customer and the Contract provides Customer with many choices and control over that Customer Data.
Customer may provision or deprovision access to the Services, enable or disable third party integrations, manage permissions, retention and export settings, transfer or assign workspaces, share channels, or consolidate your workspace or channels with other workspaces or channels
these choices and instructions may result in the access, use, disclosure, modification or deletion of certain or all Customer Data

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The list of Customer choices is introduced as examples, not a complete list.
  • The terms say these choices 'may result in' access, use, disclosure, modification or deletion; they do not say these happen in every case.
  • Covers content submitted by any Authorized User, including you.

Not stated here

  • The scope of Customer controls beyond the examples depends on the Contract and the Customer's settings, which are not in this document.
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