Companies/productivity
Slack
Current privacy policylast checked 9/30/2026healthy
What Slack takes from you. Straight from the captured policy. Tap any row for the exact quote.
Account activityHow and when you use your account.Collected
“Slack logs the Workspaces, channels, people, features, content and links that you view or interact with”
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Email addressThe email you sign up or log in with.Collected
“To create or update a Workspace account, you or our Customer (e.g. your employer) supply Slack with an email address”
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IP addressYour network address, which can reveal rough location.Collected
“This data may be combined with Other Information that we collect and might include aggregate-level data, such as which IP addresses correspond to postcodes or countries”
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Your nameYour legal or profile name.Collected
“we may receive the user name and email address of Authorised Users”
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Other dataAdditional data described in the policy.Collected
“Slack may receive data about organisations, industries, lists of companies that are customers, website visitors, marketing campaigns and other matters related to our business from parent corporation(s), affiliates and subsidiaries, our partners or others”
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Payment detailsCards, billing info, or transaction data.Collected
“Customers that purchase a paid version of the Services provide Slack (or its payment processors) with billing details such as credit card information, banking information and/or a billing address”
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Why they use your data.
Legal reasonsComplying with laws and legal requests.Yes
“Slack processes Other Information when we comply with a legal obligation”
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Running the productMaking the service itself work.Yes
“To develop and provide search, learning and productivity tools and additional features”
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SecurityPreventing fraud and protecting accounts.Yes
“To investigate and help prevent security issues and abuse”
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Sharing, retention & your controls.
You can get a copyYou can request the data they hold on you.Good sign
“Owners, administrators, Authorised Users and other Customer representatives and personnel may be able to access, modify or restrict access to Information.”
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You can delete your dataThe policy offers a way to erase your data.Good sign
“The Customer may customise its retention settings and, depending on the Services subscription, apply those customised settings at the Workspace level, channel level or other level. The Customer may also apply different settings to messages, files or other types of Customer Data. The deletion of Customer Data and other use of the Services by the Customer may result in the deletion and/or de-identification of certain associated Other Information.”
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No sharing disclosedThe captured policy doesn't disclose sharing.Disclosed
“The Information that you choose to provide in a community forum, including personal data, will be publicly available.”
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You can opt outYou can say no to some uses of your data.Good sign
“you have a right to object to Slack’s use of your Personal Data for this purpose at any time”
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Shares with third partiesData goes to other companies.Disclosed
“We may engage third-party companies or individuals as service providers or business partners to process Information and support our business.”
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No sharing disclosedThe captured policy doesn't disclose sharing.Unclear
“Slack may share Information with third parties when we have consent to do so or as otherwise permitted in this Privacy Policy.”
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Sells dataThe policy discusses selling personal data.Says no
“Slack does not sell (as such term is defined in the CCPA or otherwise) the personal information that we collect (and will not sell it without providing a right to opt out).”
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What changed.
No published changes yet.
Full evidence record (16 published claims)
purpose · product
We found: disclosed
“To develop and provide search, learning and productivity tools and additional features”
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claim 1c2714a9a8b0748fc8a5a9d2b631b6904477075099496dc4e1dc4dfcb0324648
purpose · security
We found: disclosed
“To investigate and help prevent security issues and abuse”
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claim d64684e475bf5d9c93283b56d92e7d552072a24376b60ee0154b8cb1ffd416bc
sharing · none disclosed
We found: disclosed
“The Information that you choose to provide in a community forum, including personal data, will be publicly available.”
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claim c851ea0ce2c8973fab6c5e03f35a0c17ba5519ba4909860ba4946a2af0cf2a1f
purpose · legal
We found: disclosed
“Slack processes Other Information when we comply with a legal obligation”
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claim e3cb79fc47b27d27e3064aa13d37930d28aa422a631980d8eaf69ee406c7a408
control · access
We found: disclosed
“Owners, administrators, Authorised Users and other Customer representatives and personnel may be able to access, modify or restrict access to Information.”
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claim 2294bc3533f47335c200fe5729f22645b83af46d007586d4682d8404f56120cb
data collected · payment
We found: disclosed
“Customers that purchase a paid version of the Services provide Slack (or its payment processors) with billing details such as credit card information, banking information and/or a billing address”
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claim d45dc5a4eaaf8b7950753950d45db7c5c291576d78de490853dae614931c5876
data collected · name
We found: disclosed
“we may receive the user name and email address of Authorised Users”
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claim 9d8cd165793abe3e414e75e43bce47bb86fb312e3368c25344a89b0e5a72fd9c
data collected · ip address
We found: disclosed
“This data may be combined with Other Information that we collect and might include aggregate-level data, such as which IP addresses correspond to postcodes or countries”
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claim 639b2fb61f07d3e0137e9db097767dc955816ed3e591c90215e738ec1ff0a074
data collected · account activity
We found: disclosed
“Slack logs the Workspaces, channels, people, features, content and links that you view or interact with”
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claim 9a8ee4eb7a28b3b9273314cbfc4f453306e680bfd6165f4ad8fbf86cd75b85b0
data collected · email
We found: disclosed
“To create or update a Workspace account, you or our Customer (e.g. your employer) supply Slack with an email address”
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claim 74601aecaf1c6a571b4e4cda03bdec7d7158f709f904d383a5e43c405a26277f
data collected · other
We found: disclosed
“Slack may receive data about organisations, industries, lists of companies that are customers, website visitors, marketing campaigns and other matters related to our business from parent corporation(s), affiliates and subsidiaries, our partners or others”
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claim 1298d1488598ba17b7e72eafb533cf45e569aadcc2cb3e76aebcc6b59356b443
control · opt out
We found: disclosed
“you have a right to object to Slack’s use of your Personal Data for this purpose at any time”
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claim f4178da6da9dffb8d12d708a90f97bf294acfc151d0ad3912ce4c925bed79d1b
sharing · third party
We found: disclosed
“We may engage third-party companies or individuals as service providers or business partners to process Information and support our business.”
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claim d9c003e87f9db4a95dba283d3e562e89ea3157f53c1ac938529ba0eafa0333db
sharing · sale
We found: not disclosed
“Slack does not sell (as such term is defined in the CCPA or otherwise) the personal information that we collect (and will not sell it without providing a right to opt out).”
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claim 36caa6391c6d18239de3714c1df35323f0bbdf852d5420e561f3962a6659f631
control · deletion
We found: disclosed
“The Customer may customise its retention settings and, depending on the Services subscription, apply those customised settings at the Workspace level, channel level or other level. The Customer may also apply different settings to messages, files or other types of Customer Data. The deletion of Customer Data and other use of the Services by the Customer may result in the deletion and/or de-identification of certain associated Other Information.”
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claim 184c87df51435b71e22d0d01bc905b182e11fdbcdf50990e9983e5fbcd804f8e
sharing · none disclosed
We found: unspecified in the captured policy
“Slack may share Information with third parties when we have consent to do so or as otherwise permitted in this Privacy Policy.”
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