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Legitimate interests

A business’s own good reasons for using data, as a lawful basis. They fit a use that is small, expected and easy to stop. Seedlark relies on them for its analytics cookie and for emails about its own plans. Privacy Notice, paragraph 3.2 · Chapter 7 · see Lawful basis, Right to object

Explained in Chapter 7, Privacy Notices under UK GDPR: Not a Consent Form, of Consumer Terms.

The main page for this term is Legitimate interests, in Data Protection.

How it comes up, in Chapter 7
Legitimate interests are a business’s own good reasons for using data. They fit a use that is small, expected and easy to stop. That is how paragraph 3.2 describes Seedlark’s two such uses.
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