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We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice as is described above.

## How We Disclose Your Personal Data

We disclose your Personal Data to categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Some of these disclosures may constitute a "sale" of your Personal Data as defined under applicable laws. For more information, please refer to the state-specific sections below.

- Service Providers. These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include:
  - Hosting, technology and communication providers.
  - Providers of artificial intelligence or machine learning models
  - Payment processors.
    - If you are using our Services on a fee-basis, our payment processing partner Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe") collects your voluntarily-provided payment card information necessary to process your payment.
    - Please see Stripe Terms of Service and Stripe Privacy Policy for information on its use and storage of your Personal Data.
- Analytics Partners. These parties provide analytics on web traffic or usage of the Services. They include:
  - Companies that track how users found or were referred to the Services.
  - Companies that track how users interact with the Services.
- Authorized authentication providers (e.g. GitHub OAuth)

### Fulfilling Legal Obligations

We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in relation to the activities set forth under "Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms" in the "Our Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data" section above.

### Business Transfers

Personal Data collected may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which such third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). In such an event, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices as authorized or mandated by applicable law.

## Data that is Not Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

## Tracking Tools and Opt-Out

The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, "Cookies") to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s).

### We use the following types of Cookies:

- Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our Services. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
- Functional Cookies. Functional Cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our Services, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to our Services. These Cookies help us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Title: Data Disclosure, Legal Obligations, Business Transfers, and Data Tracking
Summary
The document outlines how Zed discloses personal data to service providers (hosting, AI/ML, payment processors), analytics partners, and authorized authentication providers. Data may be shared to fulfill legal obligations. In case of business transfers (merger, acquisition), data may be transferred to a third party with notification. Aggregated, anonymized data can be used and shared for business purposes without identifying individuals. The services use cookies for essential and functional purposes. Essential cookies are required for using the site, while functional cookies personalize it.