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(“Automattic” or “we”) certified certain of our services, in which we act as a data processor, under the </span><span style="font-weight:400">EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss–U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce, as further specified below. To learn more about these Privacy Shield programs, and to view our certification, please visit </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190714210050/https://www.privacyshield.gov/"><span style="font-weight:400">https://www.privacyshield.gov/</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><b>Scope of Personal Data Covered by Automattic’s Privacy Shield Certification</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight:400">Automattic’s </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190714210050/https://wpvip.com/"><span style="font-weight:400">WordPress.com VIP</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> service provides website hosting, support and professional services to enterprises and other high profile, high traffic online publishers.</span></p> <p>The WordPress.com VIP service is primarily an online publishing system, built on the popular WordPress open source platform. VIP clients use the WordPress.com VIP service to build, publish, maintain, and support websites that often serve as the face of their business or publication. In the course of using the service, WordPress.com VIP clients may create and upload data for public dissemination, such as articles and other website content, much of which is ultimately published publicly to their site. VIP clients may also create or collect other types of data, in the course of the operation and use of their site.</p> <p><span style="font-weight:400">In connection with our WordPress.com VIP service, our VIP clients may provide personal data to Automattic about their own customers and end users in participating EU countries and Switzerland that the VIP clients (the data controllers) collect through the operation and use of their websites (“VIP Services Personal Data”). VIP clients may collect VIP Services Personal Data when, for example, (1) an end user creates an account with the VIP client (for clarity, not a WordPress.com account); (2) a VIP client administrator adds content to the site that may include VIP Services Personal Data, or (3) a VIP client provides directory or other information about its end users as part of an intranet (i.e., a website that is only accessible to authorized, internal personnel) used by that VIP client. The type of VIP Services Personal Data varies by each VIP client, but typically includes personal data that allows our VIP clients’ customers and end users to access and use the VIP client’s website, such as a username and e-mail address. Automattic adheres to the principles of the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S Privacy Shield frameworks with respect to VIP Services Personal Data. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400">This Privacy Shield Certification applies to our core WordPress.com VIP services, and does not include any plug-ins provided by third parties or Automattic (e.g., Jetpack and WooCommerce), or any other software or services, that our VIP clients elect to use on their websites. 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