RingCentral Data Processing Addendum

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Last Updated: October 1, 2024
This Data Processing Addendum (“DPA”) is made by and between RingCentral and Customer (each a "Party", together the "Parties"), and is supplemental to the agreement executed between the Parties to which it is attached (“Agreement”) for the provision of the Services to Customer. 
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this DPA have the same meanings as set out in the Agreement.
1.   Definitions
 
1.1.   For the purposes of this DPA:
 
    (a)   "Affiliate" means a person or entity that is controlled by a Party hereto, controls a Party hereto, or is under common control with a Party hereto, and “control” means beneficial ownership of greater than fifty percent (50%) of an entity’s then-outstanding voting securities or ownership interests.
    (b)   "Agreement" means the main written or electronic agreement between Customer and RingCentral for the provision of any of the RingCentral services to the Customer (each a "Service" and collectively the "Services"). 
    (c)   "Applicable Data Protection Laws" means all data protection and privacy laws (including the GDPR) applicable to RingCentral in the processing of Personal Data under this DPA.
    (d)   "Controller" shall mean the entity which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.
    (e)   "Customer Personal Data" means any Personal Data that RingCentral processes as a processor under the Agreement. 
    (f)   "GDPR" means (i) the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data,   (ii) any Applicable Data Protection Laws implemented by European Union member states,  (iii) the UK Data Protection Act (DPA 2018), as amended, and the GDPR as incorporated into UK law as the UK GDPR, and (iv) the Swiss Federal Acts on Data Protection (the “FADP”); all as amended from time to time.
    (g)   "Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, as defined by Applicable Data Protection Law. 
    (h)   "Processor" means the entity which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.
    (i)   "Security Incident" means a breach of security leading to any accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of or access to Customer Personal Data that compromises the privacy, security, or confidentiality of such Personal Data.
    (j)   “Services” means the RingCentral services as described in Annex I.
 
 
2.   Scope of DPA
 
2.1   This DPA will apply to the extent that RingCentral processes Customer Personal Data on behalf of a Customer as a Processor, as defined by Applicable Data Protection Law, where such processing is further detailed in Annex I. Any processing of Personal Data as a Controller by RingCentral is out of scope of this DPA.
 
 
3.   Roles and Responsibilities
 
3.1   Parties' Roles. As between the Parties and for the purposes of this DPA Customer shall be the Controller of the Customer Personal Data processed by RingCentral under the Agreement as a Processor on Customer's behalf. RingCentral will comply with the obligations of a Controller under the GDPR to the extent it processes Personal Data as a Controller for RingCentral’s legitimate business purposes, including as necessary for the operation of the offered cloud-based communications, and as necessary to comply with applicable law.
 
3.2   Obligations of the Customer. Customer undertakes to:
 
    (a)   Ensure that it may lawfully disclose the Customer Personal Data to RingCentral for the purposes set out in the Agreement.
    (b)   Comply with applicable data protection laws in its use of the Services, and its own collection and processing of Personal Data including Customer Personal Data. Customer acknowledges and confirms, as relevant, that Customer has informed its employees (current and future) and its works council as applicable, that as part of the Services, Customer has access to the traffic data; and
    (c)   Process special categories of Personal Data or sensitive data (as defined by Applicable Data Protection Laws), or Personal Data concerning children or minors, or related to criminal convictions and offenses, lawfully and relying on a valid legal basis in accordance with Applicable Data Protection Laws. The Parties acknowledge that the Services are not designed to recognize and/or classify such data.
 
3.3   Purpose Limitation. Except where otherwise required by applicable law, RingCentral shall process the Customer Personal Data (i) in accordance with Customer's documented instructions (which instructions are set out in the Agreement, this DPA and Customer's configuration and use of the Services, in accordance with the applicable terms of use), (ii) for the purposes of providing, monitoring, supporting, improving, and maintaining the Services.
 
3.4   Confidentiality of Processing. RingCentral shall ensure that any person that it authorizes to process the Customer Personal Data shall be subject to a duty of confidentiality (either a contractual or a statutory duty). 
 
3.5   Security. RingCentral will maintain appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard the security of Customer Personal Data. RingCentral’s security measures are set out in the RingCentral Security Addendum at https://netstorage.ringcentral.com/documents/trust-center-security-addendum.pdf. RingCentral will maintain an information security and risk management program based on commercial best practices to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of Customer Personal Data with administrative, technical and physical measures conforming to generally recognized industry standards and practices.
 
3.6    Security Incidents. Upon becoming aware of a Security Incident, RingCentral shall notify Customer without undue delay at the contact information that Customer has provided in the Administrative Portal and shall provide such timely information as Customer may reasonably require, including to enable Customer to fulfill any data breach reporting obligations under Applicable Data Protection Laws.
 
3.7   Provision of Security Reports. RingCentral will select an independent, qualified third-party auditor to conduct, at RingCentral’s expense, at least annual audits of the security of the Services and environments, in accordance with internationally recognized standards such as ISO27001, the SOC 2, Type II standards or its equivalent. Upon Customer request and under Non-Disclosure Agreement, RingCentral will provide a copy of the most recent audit reports (or similar security attestation) to document compliance with the foregoing requirement, where such certification is available. Such audit report is RingCentral’s Confidential Information and Customer will not distribute to any third party without RingCentral’s written approval.
 
3.8   Audits.
 
    (a)   Both Parties acknowledge that it is the Parties' intention ordinarily to rely on the provision of the security reports at Section 3.7 above to verify RingCentral's compliance with this DPA.
    (b)   Additionally, Customer may request, but not more than once during each twelve (12) month period, RingCentral to complete a Customer provided information security program questionnaire, limited in scope to the actual services/environments related to the Services provided to Customer (“Security Review”).
    (c)   After Customer’s review of RingCentral’s audit report or similar attestation, and of the completed information security questionnaire (including any changes introduced by RingCentral to address any gaps), if, to the extent required by Applicable Data Protection Laws, additional information is reasonably necessary to demonstrate compliance with RingCentral’s obligations pursuant to Applicable Data Protection Laws and this DPA, Customer may request in writing to perform an audit (including inspections) of RingCentral pursuant to the audit request procedure below, no more than once every twelve (12) month period, unless a supervisory authority specifically requires that an audit is carried out of RingCentral or in response to a Security Incident.
    (d)   In order to exercise its right to audit pursuant to this section, Customer must provide RingCentral with a written detailed request, including the explanation of gaps in RingCentral’s provided audit reports and in the Security Review that render the audit necessary to demonstrate RingCentral’s compliance with this DPA or with applicable law.
    (e)   The audit may be performed by Customer or a third-party auditor (any such third party under strict confidentiality obligations, including requirements that individual auditors appointed have not performed audits of any of RingCentral’s competitors in the previous twelve (12) months and that they will be prohibited from performing such audits in the twelve (12) months following RingCentral’s audit) solely at Customer's expense. RingCentral may object in writing to any third-party auditor if the auditor is, in RingCentral’s reasonable opinion, not suitably qualified or independent, a competitor of RingCentral, or otherwise manifestly unsuitable. Any such objection by RingCentral will require the Customer to appoint another auditor or conduct the audit itself.
    (f)   RingCentral and Customer will agree in advance upon the scope and timing of the audit, not to occur sooner than thirty (30) days from the date of the written request for an onsite audit under 3.8(d), to protect the confidential and proprietary Information of RingCentral and other Parties, to minimize disruption to RingCentral’s business, to limit the scope to the actual services/environments related to the Services provided to Customer under the Agreement, and to agree on a reasonable duration of the audit.
    (g)   The audit performance will occur during regular business hours for the RingCentral personnel involved and the Parties agree that RingCentral will make available material for Customer’s review, but not for Customer to retain. RingCentral may charge a reasonable fee for costs incurred in connection with any such audit based on RingCentral’s professional services rates, unless the audit shows a material breach on the part of RingCentral. RingCentral will provide the Customer with details of any applicable fee, and the basis of its calculation, in advance of any such audit.
    (h)   All information provided or made available to Customer pursuant to this section shall be deemed Confidential Information of RingCentral.
 
3.9   Cooperation and Data Subjects' Rights. It is the Customer’s responsibility to respond to any data subject request. Some of the RingCentral Services may provide direct technical means to enable Customer to fulfil its duties to respond to requests from data subjects under Applicable Data Protection Laws. If Customer is unable to address the data subject's request through such technical means, or where such functionality is not available, RingCentral shall, taking into account the nature of the processing, provide reasonable assistance to Customer, to enable Customer to respond to such data subject requests. In the event that such request is made directly to RingCentral, RingCentral shall promptly direct the data subject to contact the Customer.
 
3.10   Deletion or Return of Data. Upon termination or expiry of the Agreement, RingCentral shall delete Customer Personal Data (including copies) in RingCentral's possession or, at Customer’s request, provide options to return the Personal Data to the Customer, save to the extent that RingCentral is required by applicable law to retain some or all of the Customer Personal Data.
 
 
4.   GDPR Obligations
 
4.1 Applicability. This Section 4 shall apply to the processing of Customer Personal Data that is subject to the protection of the GDPR.
 
4.2   Subprocessors. Customer agrees that RingCentral and its Affiliates may engage RingCentral Affiliates and third- party subprocessors (collectively, "Subprocessors") to process the Personal Data on RingCentral's behalf. Depending on the scope and the nature of the subprocessing, RingCentral shall impose data protection terms on such Subprocessors that protect Customer Personal Data to an equivalent standard provided for by this DPA and shall remain liable for any breach of the DPA caused by a Subprocessor. The Subprocessors engaged by RingCentral in respect of each of the Services at the time of the Agreement are noted on the RingCentral Subprocessor list available at https://www.ringcentral.com/legal/dpa-subprocessor-list.html.
 
4.3   Subprocessor Notification. RingCentral may, by giving reasonable notice to the Customer, add or replace the Subprocessors. If the Customer objects to the appointment of an additional Subprocessor within thirty (30) calendar days of such notice on reasonable grounds relating to the protection of the Customer Personal Data, then the Parties will discuss such concerns with a view to achieving resolution. If such resolution cannot be reached, then RingCentral will either not appoint the Subprocessor or, if this is not possible, Customer will be entitled to suspend or terminate the affected RingCentral Service without penalty with a thirty (30) day written notice to RingCentral. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of an unforeseeable force majeure (such as a RingCentral Subprocessor failure) that can provoke a degradation or interruption of the Service, RingCentral reserves the right to immediately change the failing Subprocessor in order to maintain or restore the standard conditions of the Service. In this situation, the notification of Subprocessor change may be exceptionally sent after the change.
 
4.4   Data Protection Impact Assessments. RingCentral shall, to the extent required by the GDPR, and upon Customer's request and at Customer’s expense, provide Customer with reasonable assistance with data protection impact assessments or prior consultations with data protection authorities that Customer is required to carry out under GDPR in relation to the scope of the Services provided to Customer under the Agreement.
 
4.5   International Transfers. RingCentral may transfer and process Customer Personal Data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, in accordance with the applicable Subprocessor list, to locations where RingCentral, its Affiliates or its Subprocessors maintain data processing operations.
 
    (a)   Data Privacy Framework. RingCentral complies with and has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce its adherence to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF). RingCentral’s Notice of Certification applies  to the Services.
    (b)   Standard Contractual Clauses. To the extent that RingCentral processes (or causes to be processed) any Customer Personal Data originating from the EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom in a country that has not been recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for Customer Personal Data, and that the Data Privacy Framework as described above does not apply, RingCentral will put in place such measures as are necessary to ensure the transfer is in compliance with Applicable Data Protection Laws, which include the execution of the applicable EU Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or the putting in place of any other valid transfer mechanism.
 
4.6   Data Disclosure Requests. If RingCentral receives a request from a law enforcement or other government authority to disclose Personal Data that RingCentral is processing on the Customer's behalf, RingCentral will notify and provide the Customer with the details of the data disclosure request prior to disclosing any Personal Data, unless legally prohibited or where an imminent risk of serious harm exists that prohibits prior notification.
 
 
5.   Miscellaneous
 
5.1   Unless the above explicitly states otherwise the terms and conditions of the Agreement shall apply to the DPA. In case of any conflict between the terms of the Agreement, any security related terms included in the DPA or the Agreement, and the terms of this DPA, the terms of this DPA prevail with regard to Personal Data processing activities.
 
5.2   The governing law and forum that apply to the Agreement also apply to this DPA.
 
5.3   Contact information for privacy inquiries: [email protected].
Annex 1
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESSING
Purpose of Processing
The purpose of the processing activities carried out by RingCentral is the provision of any of the following:
  1. 1. Cloud-based communications and collaboration services for high-definition voice, video, SMS, chat messaging and collaboration, conferencing, online meetings, and fax;
  2. 2. Customer contact center services and an omni-channel customer communication management platform that unifies all customer-facing communication channels, including voice, email, SMS, website, mobile app, chat and social media communications, onto a single platform, enabling community responses to customer service inquiries;
  3. 3. Virtual events and presentation services;
  4. 4. Professional services;
    5. Any other Services as specified in the Agreement unless otherwise governed by specific data protection terms.
    all the above as specified in the Agreement, collectively (the “Services”).
     
    Services may include dashboards providing various metrics and insights on customers’ communications, some of which are based on a conversation intelligence platform involving artificial intelligence.
     
    Data Processing
    The data processing impacts the following categories of data subjects:
  • Customer's employees and authorized users who use the Services in connection with the business of the Customer;
  • Any other individuals who are involved in or referred to in the content of communications or collaborations taking place through the Customer's use of the Services.
Customer Personal Data
As applicable to the Services, the categories of Customer Personal Data processed may include, but are not limited to:
  • Service account data which may comprise any of the following: name; telephone number; email address; physical address; title; role; profile information; application settings, login credentials (user ID, log in, account, passwords);
  • Usage data which may comprise any of the following: device information (such as IP address, ISP, device and operating system type, operations system and client version, client version, type of microphone or speakers, connection type and related information, etc.); connection type and related information (e.g., connected over WiFi); system logs, including usage logs, backend logs, client logs; cookie identifiers; communications metadata, including Call Detail Records (CDRs) and traffic data; 
  • User generated content which may comprise any of the following: participants’ names or phone numbers; chat messages; text of inbound and outbound faxes; voicemails; text of inbound and outbound SMS; meetings notes; audio/video streams in transit;  meeting or call recordings; content of contact center interactions (e.g., emails, social media posts, call recordings, chat, etc.); transcriptions of recorded calls or meetings; summaries of recorded calls or meetings; meeting history; shared files, pictures, and links; message attachments, such as notes, tasks, events, code snippets, and .gifs; folder creations; search history; online presence and status messages; user feedback.
  1. Any other type of Personal Data as needed for the performance of the Services
 
Special Categories of Customer Personal Data
The Services are not designed to recognize and/or classify data as special categories of data or sensitive data (as defined in the GDPR or in other Applicable Data Protection Laws), nor as Personal Data concerning children or minors, or related to criminal convictions and offenses. Insofar as Customer processes special categories of Personal Data, Customer undertakes to process this category of Personal Data lawfully, and in particular to rely on a valid legal basis in accordance with Applicable Data Protection Laws.
 
Processing Operations
RingCentral processes Customer Personal Data for the purposes of providing and maintaining the Services to which the Customer has subscribed, including any ancillary or related Services under the scope of the Agreement, which may include collection,  storage, transmission, recording, transcription, publishing, displaying; retrieval; consultation; combination; structuring; adaptation.
 
Duration of the Processing
Customer Personal Data will be processed for the term of the Agreement, or as otherwise required by law or agreed between the Parties.
Annex 2
RingCentral Customer United States Privacy Terms
This United States Privacy Addendum (“US Privacy Terms”) is made by and between RingCentral and Customer (each a “Party”, together the “Parties”), and is supplemental to the Data Processing Addendum (“DPA”) as appended to the Agreement (defined below), executed between the Parties, for the provision of the Services to Customer.
 
Where US State Privacy Laws apply to RingCentral’s processing of Customer Personal Data on behalf of Customer, the terms of this US Privacy Terms, which forms part of the DPA will apply and will supplement as appropriate the provisions of the DPA. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event RingCentral’s processing of Customer Personal Data on behalf of Customer is not subject to US State Privacy Laws, then this US Privacy Terms will not apply.
 
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this US Privacy Terms shall have the same meanings as set out in the Agreement.

 

1. Definitions

 

 

  1. 1.1. Agreement shall mean and refer to the main written or electronic agreement between Customer and RingCentral for the provision of any of the RingCentral Services to the Customer.

  1. 1.2. CPPA shall mean and refer to the California Privacy Protection Agency, which is vested with the full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to implement and enforce the CPRA.

  2. 1.3. CPRA shall mean and refer to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, and any implementing regulations promulgated thereunder. 

  3. 1.4. Customer Personal Information shall mean and refer to any Personal Information that RingCentral processes on behalf of Customer as a Service Provider under the Agreement. 

  4. 1.5. Personal Information shall mean and refer to any information relating to an identified or identifiable person or individual and also includes personal data, as defined by applicable US State Privacy Laws. 

  5. 1.6. Sell shall have the same meaning as set forth in the CPRA. 

  6. 1.7. Share shall have the same meaning as set forth in the CPRA.

  7. 1.8. Service Provider shall mean and refer to a service provider or subcontractor, as defined by applicable US State Privacy Laws, that processes Customer Personal Information on Customer’s behalf or on RingCentral’s behalf, where RingCentral is a Service Provider to Customer, for the purposes of the Agreement. 

  8. 1.9. US State Privacy Laws shall mean and refer to all United States data protection and privacy laws which may be applicable to RingCentral in the processing of Customer Personal Information as part of the performance of the Services provided to Customer under the Agreement.

2. Scope of US Privacy Addendum

  1.     2.1. These US PrivacyTerms will apply only to the extent that RingCentral processes Customer Personal Information on behalf of a Customer as a Service Provider under US State Privacy Laws, where such processing is described in Annex I of the DPA.

3. Roles and Responsibilities

 

3.1. Purpose Limitation. RingCentral shall process the Customer Personal Information for the purposes of the performance of the Services as described in the Agreement and the DPA except where otherwise required or permitted by US State Privacy Laws. Such purposes include providing, monitoring, supporting, improving, and maintaining the Services, including through automated means such as artificial intelligence.

3.2. CPRA. For the purposes of Customer Personal Information subject to the CPRA, RingCentral will:

  1. 3.2.1. Comply with the applicable CPRA obligations. 
  2. 3.2.2. Provide the same level of privacy protection as required by CPRA.
  3. 3.2.3. Notify the Customer if it can no longer meet its CPRA obligations. 
  4. 3.2.4. Not Sell or Share Customer Personal Information. 
  5. 3.2.5. Not retain, use, or disclose Customer Personal Information for any other purpose other than as agreed upon in the Agreement, outside the direct business relationship between the Parties, or as permitted by CPRA. 
  6. 3.2.6. Not combine Customer Personal Information it receives from, or on behalf of, Customer with Personal Information it receives from, or on behalf of, another person, or collects from its own interaction with the End User, subject to the exceptions under CPRA, including that RingCentral may combine Customer Personal Information to perform any business purpose as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations, California Code of Regulations, Title 11, Division 6, Chatpter 1, sections 7000 et seq.  
  7. 3.2.7. Cooperate with Customer, upon Customer’s reasonable notice, to determine reasonable and appropriate steps to stop and remediate unauthorized use of Customer Personal Information, to the extent there is any unauthorized use of Customer Personal Information.

  1. 4. Service Providers

    1. 4.1. Notification. Where required by US State Privacy Laws, RingCentral will notify Customer before it engages another Service Provider. Where required by US State Privacy Laws, RingCentral will allow Customer thirty (30) calendar days to object to such engagement on reasonable grounds relating to the protection of Customer Personal Information.
    2. 4.2. Agreements. RingCentral shall impose data protection terms on such Service Providers that protect Customer Personal Information to an equivalent standard provided for by these US Privacy Terms.

  1. 5. Audits

    1. 5.1. Where required by US State Privacy Laws, RingCentral will cooperate with Customer to make available all information in RingCentral’s possession to demonstrate compliance with its obligations under US State Privacy Laws as applicable. Additionally, both Parties acknowledge it is the Parties’ intention ordinarily to rely on the provision of the security reports in Section 4 of the DPA to verify RingCentral’s compliance with these US Privacy Terms and applicable US State Privacy Laws.

  1. 6. US Educational Institutions

    1. 6.1. COPPA. Information about usage of the Services in accordance with COPPA requirements is available on the Children’s Privacy Notice and School/Parental Notification, located at https://www.ringcentral.com/legal/childrens-privacy-notice-school-parental-notification.html, and incorporated by reference. If applicable, Customer hereby agrees to obtain and provide, or cause a School Partner to obtain and provide, verifiable consent to RingCentral’s collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Data in accordance with the Children’s Privacy Notice and School/Parental Notification. If Customer is purchasing RingCentral for Education, pricing tiers are described more fully at https://www.ringcentral.com/office/industry-solutions/education-cloud-phone-systems.html
    2. 6.2. FERPA.  For the purposes of the Agreement, if Customer is an educational agency or institution subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g (FERPA), RingCentral shall operate as a school official with legitimate educational interests in obtaining or accessing Personally Identifiable Information, including Education Records pertaining to students (as those terms are defined under FERPA). RingCentral shall only use or disclose such Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with the requirements of 34 C.F.R. § 99.33(a) (governing the use and redisclosure of Personally Identifiable Information from Education Records) as is reasonably necessary to provide the MVP Services or for RingCentral to otherwise perform its obligations under the Agreement. Customer acknowledges RingCentral is under its direct control with respect to the use and maintenance of Education Records, and Customer agrees to be solely responsible for protection of Personally Identifiable Information from Educational Records.

  1. 7. Miscellaneous

    1. 7.1. Unless the above explicitly states otherwise the terms and conditions of the Agreement, shall apply to the US Privacy Terms. In case of any conflict between the terms of the Agreement, the terms of the RingCentral Security Addendum, the terms of the DPA, and the terms of these US Privacy Terms, the terms of these US Privacy Terms prevail with regard to Personal Information processing activities subject to US State Privacy Laws.
    2. 7.2. The governing law and forum that apply to the Agreement also apply to these US Privacy Terms.
    3. 7.3. Contact information for privacy inquiries: [email protected].