{"id":140387,"date":"2023-03-09T06:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/?page_id=140387"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:38:56","slug":"dsa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/dsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Sharing Addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"
EFFECTIVE: March 5, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n THIS DATA SHARING ADDENDUM <\/strong>(including its Annexes attached hereto and referenced herein) (\u201cDSA<\/strong>\u201d) to the Agreement is entered into as of the Addendum Effective Date by and between: (1) Scaled Agile, Inc.<\/strong>, a Delaware corporation with its principal business address at 4845 Pearl East Circle, Suite 101 Boulder, CO 80301 (\u201cSAI<\/strong>\u201d); and (2) the entity or other person who is a counterparty to the Agreement into which this DSA is incorporated and forms a part (\u201cCustomer<\/strong>\u201d), together the \u201cparties<\/strong>\u201d and each a \u201cparty<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Definitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.1 In this DSA the following terms shall have the meanings set out in this Section 1, unless expressly stated otherwise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) \u201cAddendum Effective Date\u201d <\/strong>means the effective date of the Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) \u201cAgreement<\/strong>\u201d means the SAFe Enterprise Agreement, Partner Program Agreement, piplanning.io Agreement and\/or other agreement entered into by and between the parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) \u201c<\/strong>Applicable Data Protection Laws”<\/strong> means all laws governing the privacy, confidentiality, and security of Personal Data under the Agreement, including, to the extent applicable to the relevant Personal Data\/Processing, the GDPR, the FADP or the CCPA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) \u201cCCPA”<\/strong> means the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”), and any binding regulations promulgated thereunder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e) \u201c<\/strong>Clauses”<\/strong> means the clauses of the SCCs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (f) \u201c<\/strong>Controller”<\/strong> means the party that determines the means and purposes for Processing Personal Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (g) \u201c<\/strong>Customer Provided Data”<\/strong> means electronic data or information provided by Customer to SAI to the extent such electronic data or information constitutes Personal Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (h) \u201c<\/strong>Data Subject”<\/strong> means an identified or identifiable natural person to whom Personal Data relates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (i) \u201c<\/strong>EEA”<\/strong> means the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (j) \u201cFADP<\/strong>\u201d means the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection of 19 June 1992 and its revised version of 25 September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (k) \u201cFDPIC<\/strong>\u201d means Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (l) \u201cGDPR\u201d <\/strong>means, as applicable to the Processing concerned: (i) Regulation (EU) 2016\/679 of the European Parliament and of the Counsel of 27 April 2016 (\u201cEU GDPR<\/strong>\u201d), and\/or (ii) the EU GDPR as it forms part of the laws of the United Kingdom by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, including, in each case, any applicable national implementing or supplementary legislation (e.g., the UK Data Protection Act 2018), and any successor, amendment or re-enactment, to or of the foregoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (m) \u201cInformation Security Incident\u201d <\/strong>means a breach of SAI\u2019s security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, Customer Provided Data (to the extent it constitutes Personal Data) in SAI\u2019s possession, custody or control. Information Security Incidents do not include unsuccessful attempts or activities that do not compromise the security of Customer Provided Data (to the extent it constitutes Personal Data), including unsuccessful log-in attempts, pings, port scans, denial of service attacks or other network attacks on firewalls or networked systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (n) \u201c<\/strong>Personal Data”<\/strong> means any information that constitutes “personal data,” “personal information,” or similar information governed by Applicable Data Protection Laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (o) \u201c<\/strong>Processing”<\/strong> means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (p) \u201cRestricted Transfer\u201d <\/strong>means the disclosure, grant of access or other transfer of Personal Data under this Agreement to any person located in: (i) in the context of the EEA, any country or territory outside the EEA which does not benefit from an adequacy decision from the European Commission (an \u201cEEA Restricted Transfer<\/strong>\u201d); (ii) in the context of the UK, any country or territory outside the UK, which does not benefit from an adequacy decision from the UK Government (a \u201cUK Restricted Transfer<\/strong>\u201d); and (iii) in the context of Switzerland, a country or territory outside of Switzerland which does not benefit from an adequacy decision from the Swiss Government (a \u201cSwiss Restricted Transfer<\/strong>\u201d), in each case, which would be prohibited without a legal basis under the GDPR and\/or FADP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (q) \u201cSAFe Platform<\/strong>\u201d means SAI\u2019s web-based SAFe Enterprise platform, piplanning.io platform and\/or other designated websites designed to achieve and sustain business agility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (r) \u201c<\/strong>Security Measures”<\/strong> has the meaning given in Section 2.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (s) \u201c<\/strong>SCCs”<\/strong> means the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission pursuant to implementing Decision (EU) 2021\/914.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (t) \u201c<\/strong>UK Transfer Addendum”<\/strong> means the template Addendum B.1.0 issued by the United Kingdom\u2019s Information Commissioner\u2019s Office and laid before Parliament in accordance with s119A of the Data Protection Act 2018 on 2 February 2022, as it is revised under section 18 of the Mandatory Clauses included in Part 2 thereof (the “UK Mandatory Clauses”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n (u) \u201c<\/strong>User Personal Data”<\/strong> means (i) Customer Provided Data; and (ii) Personal Data which SAI receives from time to time directly from users, or is otherwise derived from users, via the SAFe Platform or otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.2 The parties acknowledge and agree that the parties:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n (a) are independent Controllers in respect of User Personal Data; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) shall comply with their respective obligations as independent Controllers under Applicable Data Protection Laws.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n 1.3 For the avoidance of doubt, the parties acknowledge and agree that the parties are not “joint Controllers” as such term is interpreted under Applicable Data Protection Laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Data Security.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.1 SAI will implement and maintain administrative, technical, physical, and organizational measures designed to protect User Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, User Personal Data as described in Annex 3 (Security Measures) (the \u201cSecurity Measures<\/strong>“). SAI may update the Security Measures from time to time, provided the updated measures do not decrease the overall protection of User Personal Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.2 SAI will notify Customer without undue delay of any Information Security Incident affecting Customer Provided Data of which SAI becomes aware to the extent that Customer Provided Data constitutes Personal Data. Such notifications will describe available details of the Information Security Incident, including steps taken to mitigate the potential risks and steps SAI recommends Customer take to address the Information Security Incident. SAI\u2019s notification of or response to an Information Security Incident will not be construed as SAI\u2019s acknowledgement of any fault or liability with respect to the Information Security Incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.3 Customer agrees that, without limitation of SAI\u2019s obligations under this Section 2, Customer is solely responsible for its use of the Services, including (a) making appropriate use of the Services to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk in respect of the Customer Provided Data; (b) securing the account authentication credentials, systems and devices Users uses to access the Services; (c) securing Customer\u2019s systems and devices that SAI uses to provide the Services; and (d) backing up Customer Provided Data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SAI will provide Customer with assistance reasonably necessary for Customer to perform its obligation under Applicable Data Protection Laws to fulfill requests by Data Subjects to exercise their rights under Applicable Data Protection Laws with respect to Customer Provided Data in SAI\u2019s possession (\u201cData Subject Requests<\/strong>“). Customer shall compensate SAI for any such assistance at SAI\u2019s then-current professional services rates, which shall be made available to Customer upon request. If SAI receives a Data Subject Request, SAI will notify Customer and Customer will be responsible for responding to any such request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.1 Where SAI is certified under a scheme (such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, UK Extension and\/or Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (as applicable)) that benefits from an adequacy decision from the European Commission, UK Government and\/or Swiss Government (as applicable) (each a \u201cTransfer Scheme<\/strong>\u201d), SAI will rely on the Transfer Scheme to appropriately safeguard Restricted Transfers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.2 To the extent that the transmission of Personal Data under this DSA constitutes an EEA Restricted Transfer and is not otherwise appropriately safeguarded under a Transfer Scheme, the parties shall comply with their respective obligations set out in the SCCs, which are deemed to be populated in accordance with Part 1 of Annex 2 (Restricted Transfer Details), entered into with effect from the first date of any such EEA Restricted Transfer and incorporated by reference into this DSA. To the extent of any conflict or inconsistency between the SCCs and this Agreement, the SCCs will govern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.3 To the extent that the transmission of Personal Data under this DSA constitutes a UK Restricted Transfer and is not otherwise appropriately safeguarded under a Transfer Scheme, the parties shall comply with their respective obligations set out in the SCCs, which are deemed to be varied to address the requirements of the UK GDPR in accordance with the UK Transfer Addendum and populated in accordance with Part 2 of Annex 2 (Restricted Transfer Details), entered into with effect from the first date of any such UK Restricted Transfer and incorporated by reference into this DSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.4 To the extent that the transmission of Personal Data under this DSA constitutes a Swiss Restricted Transfer and is not otherwise appropriately safeguarded under a Transfer Scheme, the parties shall comply with their respective obligations set out in the SCCs, which are deemed to be populated in accordance with Part 1 of Annex 2 (Restricted Transfer Details), varied to address the requirements of the FADP in accordance with Part 3 of Annex 2 (Restricted Transfer Details), entered into with effect from the first day of any such Swiss Restricted Transfer and incorporated by reference into this DSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5 SAI may on notice vary this Section 4 and replace the SCCs or the UK Transfer Addendum with: (i) any new or replacement set(s) of standard contractual clauses; or (ii) any other transfer mechanism that enables the lawful transfer of Personal Data under this Agreement in compliance with Chapter V of the GDPR and\/or the FADP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Customer represents and warrants to SAI that Customer Provided Data does not and will not contain any Social Security numbers or other government-issued identification numbers, protected health information subject to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or other information regarding an individual\u2019s medical history, mental or physical condition, or medical treatment or diagnosis by a health care professional; health insurance information; biometric information; passwords to any online accounts; credentials to any financial accounts; tax return data; any payment card information subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard; Personal Data of children under 16 years of age; or any other information that falls within any special categories of data (as defined in the Applicable Data Protection Laws). Customer shall ensure (and is solely responsible for ensuring) that it has given such notices to and obtained such consents and permissions from third parties (including, without limitation, Data Subjects), and has reserved all rights, in each case, as may be required under Applicable Data Protection Laws or otherwise for Customer to provide Customer Provided Data to SAI as contemplated by the Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The total combined liability of either party and its affiliates towards the other party and its Affiliates, whether in contract, tort or any other theory of liability, under or in connection with this DSA will be limited to the limitations on liability or other liability caps agreed to by the parties in the Agreement; provided that <\/strong>nothing in the Agreement or this DSA will affect any party\u2019s liability to Data Subjects under the third-party beneficiary provisions of the SCCs, where applicable, to the extent limitation of such rights is prohibited by Applicable Data Protection Laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.1 For purposes of this Section 7, the terms \u201cbusiness,\u201d \u201ccommercial purpose,\u201d \u201csell,\u201d \u201cshare\u201d and “service provider” shall have the respective meanings given thereto in the CCPA, and “personal information ” shall mean Customer Provided Data that constitutes \u201cpersonal information\u201d governed by the CCPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.2 In respect of any Processing by SAI of Personal Data not in relation SAI\u2019s provision of those elements of the Services to Customer, SAI (A) does not act as a service provider; (B) independently determines the purposes and means of such Processing; (C) shall comply with Applicable Data Protection Laws; and (D) shall apply technical and organizational safeguards to any relevant Personal Data that are no less protective than those required by this DSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.3 SAI (a) acknowledges that personal information is disclosed by Customer only for limited and specified purposes described in the Agreement; (b) shall comply with applicable obligations under the CCPA and shall provide the same level of privacy protection to personal information as is required by the CCPA; (c) agrees that Customer has the right to take reasonable and appropriate steps to help to ensure that SAI\u2019s use of personal information is consistent with Customer\u2019s obligations under the CCPA; (d) shall notify Customer in writing of any determination made by SAI that it can no longer meet its obligations under the CCPA; and (e) agrees that Customer has the right, upon notice, including pursuant to the preceding clause, to take reasonable and appropriate steps to stop and remediate unauthorized use of personal information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.4 It is the parties\u2019 intent that with respect to any personal information within the scope of this Section 7, SAI is a service provider. SAI shall not (A) sell such personal information; (B) retain, use or disclose such personal information for any purpose other than for the specific purpose of (i) enrolling and authenticating Users in the Courseware, the Courses, and the SAFe Platform; and (ii) performing its other obligations and exercising its rights under the Agreement, including retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for a commercial purpose other than the provision of the Services; or (C) retain, use or disclose such personal information outside of the direct business relationship between SAI and Customer. SAI hereby certifies that it understands its obligations under this Section 7.4 and will comply with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.5 The parties acknowledge that SAI\u2019s retention, use and disclosure of personal information authorized by Customer\u2019s instructions documented in the DSA are integral to SAI\u2019s provision of the Services and the business relationship between the parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.6 SAI agrees to cooperate in good faith with Customer concerning any amendments as may be necessary to address compliance with the CCPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n3. SAI\u2019s Data Subject Request Assistance.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
4. Data Transfers.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
5. Customer Responsibilities.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
6. Liability.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
7. CCPA.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
ANNEX 1 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
DATA SHARING DETAILS <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
PART 1: DETAILS OF THE PARTIES <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n