If you know anything about Personal, you know that the Owner Data Agreement is the foundational document for how we operate. It’s the legally binding contract between you and Personal that says you own your data that you choose to store and manage in your data vault – not us or anyone you share with on Personal. It’s the roadmap for our privacy- and security-by-design platform that is dedicated to protecting the individual.
In addition to the Owner Data Agreement, we have two other documents necessary for any online or mobile company – our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. We posted some changes to them today; nothing has changed in the Owner Data Agreement. Perhaps not exactly world-shaking news, but we believe in sharing these kinds of developments. In the future, we’ll post an archive of them so you can see for yourself how they’ve evolved.
Terms of Use: The primary changes were to add policies for copyright infringement takedown and handling unsolicited business idea submissions and inquiries.
Privacy Policy: We made language about our service consistent with the updated Terms, and added a new FAQ addressing the California “Shine the Light” law, which requires companies to provide transparency in how they share your data. We exceed it at Personal because your data in your vault is yours, and we can’t do anything with it without your explicit permission. While we view these changes as important enough to make, we don’t view them as material.
If you have any questions about these changes or thoughts for improvements, please leave us a comment below or submit your request to privacy@personal.com.
You can’t cancel only deiavctate and there’s nothing that I’ve read that indicates they will stop storing all the information they can get on you from their affiliates.
Thanks for your comment, but I think you missed a few key points about our product. If you delete your account, Personal immediately deletes the data within your vault, and any backup copies will be deleted within 14 days. In addition, our Owner Data Agreement clearly states that all the personal data in your vault is yours, not Personal’s or anyone else’s, and only you choose the data to store in your vault and who can access it.