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Processing of personal data in such circumstances will be subject to the contractual arrangements between us relating to any services we provide on your behalf.</p> <p> </p> <h3>How Do We Use Personal Information?</h3> <p>We use personal information:</p> <ul> <li>For our legitimate interests, namely: <ul> <li>To provide our Services;</li> <li>To process payments and collect amounts owing to us;</li> <li>To respond to your requests and questions and provide customer support;</li> <li>To manage everyday business needs;</li> <li>To analyze or improve our Services and our tools, software and products;</li> <li>To detect and prevent fraud and for safety and security purposes;</li> <li>To protect D-Wave, its affiliates, our Services and users; and</li> <li>To monitor your use of our Services and your compliance with any contracts you have with us and to enforce the terms of any contracts you have with us;</li> </ul> </li> <li>To perform a contract to which you are subject;</li> <li>To comply with our legal obligations, including to comply with all applicable laws and regulations; and</li> <li>Where you have provided your consent, for example where you have agreed to us sending you promotional materials.</li> </ul> <p>If you change your mind about the consent provided in this Privacy Policy for the collection, use, processing and transfer of your personal information, you may withdraw your consent by contacting us in writing and we will stop doing so. However, if you withdraw your consent, this may impact the ability for us to be able to provide Services to you.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Sharing of Information</h3> <p>We may share personal information with our affiliates, including D-Wave Commercial Inc., D-Wave Quantum Services Europe Limited, D-Wave UK Ltd. and D-Wave Japan Co., Ltd. and our service providers (including our affiliates acting in this capacity) that perform services on our behalf, such as marketing, analytics, payment processing, website hosting, customer support, information technology and/or data hosting or processing services or similar services. We may do so where necessary for our legitimate interests in providing Services or for performance of a contract.</p> <p>Personal information may be used and disclosed in connection with the proposed or actual financing, securitization, insuring, sale, assignment or other disposal of all or part of D-Wave or our business or assets, for the purposes of evaluating and/or performing the proposed transaction. Assignees or successors of D-Wave or our business or assets may use and disclose your personal information for similar purposes as those described in this Privacy Policy. We may do so where necessary for our legitimate interests to run, grow, and develop our business.</p> <p>We, and our service providers and affiliates, may disclose personal information where required by law, including as required by the laws applicable to our service providers and affiliates located outside of your country of residence.</p> <p>We may disclose personal information in other circumstances, with your consent. If you have given your consent for us to use your personal information in a particular way, but later change your mind, you should contact us and we will stop doing so.</p> <p> </p> <h3>International Transfers</h3> <p>Some of our service providers or affiliates may be located outside of your country of residence, including in Canada and/or the United States. As a result, your personal information may be collected, used, disclosed, stored and processed outside of your country of residence for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and you hereby consent to the transfer of your personal information for these purposes</p> <p>If you are a user in the European Economic Area (EEA), we may transfer your personal information to Canada pursuant to an <a rel="noopener" href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32002D0002" target="_blank">adequacy decision</a>. We may transfer your personal information to Privacy Shield-certified processors in the United States. 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All personal information collected by us will be retained only so long as it is necessary for the purposes for which such information was collected.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Rights</h3> <p>Under certain jurisdictions, you may benefit from certain rights granted by applicable law but subject to limitations therein to the extent permitted by law. These rights may include a right of access, rectification, restriction, opposition, erasure or portability, or the right not to be subjected to automated decision-making.</p> <p>If you are a user in India, you will be provided with the right to access and review your personal information, to the full extent required by law.</p> <p>If you want to exercise any of the rights available to you or find out more, please contact us. We handle requests in line with the timeframes set by applicable laws. We may need to request additional information from you for the purpose of identifying you. Certain exemptions may apply to your request; if so, we will inform you when responding to your request.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Security</h3> <p>Personal information is maintained on our servers or those of our service providers and is accessible to our authorized employees, representatives and agents. We maintain technical, physical, and administrative security measures designed to provide appropriate protection for your information against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. The security measures include firewalls, data encryption, physical access controls to our data centers, and information access authorization controls.</p> <p> </p> <h3>Children's Privacy</h3> <p>We do not knowingly collect information from individuals under the age of 18 or other individuals who are not legally able to use Services. 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