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·Effective 29 December 2025
·AgileBits Inc., doing business as 1Password, is committed to processing your information in ways that respect your privacy and keep it safe. This Privacy Notice explains what information we collect about you and why, how we use it and share it, your rights over it, and how to contact us if you have questions.
·This is a summary of our Privacy Notice. To review our Privacy Notice in full, please scroll down.
·This Privacy Notice is designed to describe:
·As part of providing our Services to you, we may collect information from or about you, including information that is considered Personal Information. "Personal Information" is data that can be used to identify a person individually. That's what this Notice is about - our collection, protection, use, retention, disclosure, and other processing of Personal Information and your rights relating to these activities.
·We collect Personal Information when You give it to us You give it to us We collect it automatically; or We collect it automatically; or We receive it from others We receive it from others
·When you create an account on our site, or sign up to receive offers or information, you give us your Personal Information. We also collect such Personal Information through automated technology such as cookies placed on your browser, with your consent where applicable, when you visit our websites. We also receive Personal Information from business partners and other third-parties, which help us improve our product and associated services, update and maintain accurate records, potentially detect and investigate fraud, and more effectively market our services.
·We share your information with trusted third-parties to help us operate and improve our products, services, and websites. The full Privacy Notice below details how Personal Information is shared.
·You can exercise your data protection rights in various ways. For example, you can opt out of marketing by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in the emails, in your account as applicable, or by contacting 1Password at [email protected]. Our Privacy Notice has more information about the options and data protection rights and choices available to you.
·You can contact us as described below in the Contact Us section to ask questions about how we handle your Personal Information or make requests about your Personal Information.
·This privacy notice explains the information we collect, how we use and share it, how to exercise rights you may have in connection with our websites (including, but not limited to, www.1Password.com, www.1Password.eu and www.1Password.ca) and the related applications and services (collectively, the "Services") operated by Agilebits Inc. doing business as 1Password ("1Password", "We", "Us", or "Our") including our affiliated companies unless otherwise noted. Please also read our Terms of Service, which sets out the terms governing the Services.
·1Password processes your information both for our own business purposes (as a "controller") and in connection with our Services offered to business customers (as a "processor"). This privacy notice applies when 1Password is the controller of your personal data, unless otherwise noted. Where we provide our Services under contract with an organization (for example, your employer), that organization is the controller of your information processed by the Services. We refer to information processed in connection with our Services offered to organizations as "Customer Data." For more information, please see the Notice to End Users, which explains our privacy practices when we are a data processor. This Privacy Notice does not apply to the extent we process your information in the role of a processor on behalf of such organizations.
·Sometimes, we work with other companies and our affiliates to bring our customers and our customer's end-users an unbeatable experience. This policy does not apply to products or services offered by third-parties, or services offered under the Kolide, Inc., brand, each of which has its own terms and conditions and privacy policies (see Kolide Privacy). You should carefully read each third-party's privacy policies and any terms and conditions applicable to the product or service you use.
·1Password is a Canadian company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As the controller of your information, we believe in holding ourselves accountable to you. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices or this Privacy Notice, you can reach us by using the information provided in the Contact Us section.
·We collect personal information about three categories of people: Individuals, Business Account Owners, and Business End Users.
·We collect information from you when you provide it to us or when you use our Services, and from trusted third-parties as further described below.
·We collect information about you when you input it into the Services or otherwise make it available directly to us through your use of our Services.
·Contact Information. We collect your contact details and keep records of your interactions with us. For example, when you provide feedback, participate in a survey, attend our webinars, or request more information about our products and services. Our records may include the following: your name, email, address, phone number, preferred contact method, job title, company name, company size, your responses to our surveys, events attended, and any products or services where you have expressed your interest to us.
·Secure Data is the data you pay us to protect. It includes the information you decide to store within your vaults in your 1Password accounts. Your Secure Data is your property. We claim no rights to it beyond those necessary to deliver Services to you. You may add, modify, and delete Secure Data at your discretion.
·Secure Data is encrypted using secure cryptographic keys that exist only in the possession and under the control of users or admins of their accounts. We have no way of accessing or sharing Secure Data in a readable format or decrypting it, and we never receive copies of unencrypted Secure Data.
·Service Data is the information 1Password collects or generates during the provision and administration of our Services and related technical support, excluding any Customer Data. Service Data includes, but is not limited to:
·We collect information about you when you use our Services, including browsing our websites and taking certain actions within the Services. In some cases, we may ask for permission before we collect your information automatically as described below.
·Diagnostic Data is data we collect to protect, maintain, and improve our Services. Diagnostic Data may include the following information:
·We receive information about you from other Service users, from third-party services, from our related companies, marketing platforms, public databases, and from our business partners. We may combine this information with information we collect through other means described above. This helps us to update and improve our records, identify new customers, advertise to you, and suggest services that may be of interest to you. We receive information from the following sources:
·We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
·To provide our Services to you. We use your information to create an account, which allows you to create and store passwords, Passkeys, and other information in a vault. We use your information to provide you with a rich customer experience that includes troubleshooting and support services. In particular, we use your information to provide you with insights, usage reports and other information related to your account and use of our Services. We use your contact and billing information to process and accept payments for our Services.
·To assist and communicate with you. We use your contact information to provide emergent and proactive service notifications, product updates, schedule calls, and to market and promote the Services, and other commercial products to you, using email, mail, phone, and system notifications in accordance with your permissions. We also use information we collect and receive to provide support services in response to your questions or requests for information. Depending on your request, we may use information we collect about your use of our Services to troubleshoot your concern.
·We may use your communications with us for training and quality assurance, such as to understand and help manage the number of requests received, to ensure the quality and accuracy of the responses that were provided to you, and for dispute resolution purposes. We use automated technology to review your communications and improve your support experience. For example, we may use chatbots or other automated technology to help identify the nature of your request, suggest articles or content to facilitate our responses to you, and obtain feedback from you.
·To market our products and Services. We use information about how you use our sites and Services, such as products or features used, trainings attended, content requested, promotions you've engaged with and browsing activity to optimize the delivery of our advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives. Our Cookie Policy further explains how we use cookies and similar tracking technology to help us market our products to you.
·To operate and improve our Services. We use information we collect and receive about you to conduct surveys, product research, and to measure the effectiveness of our training programs and Services. We may use third-party services to help us collect data or analyze data that we have collected about you. We also use aggregated or otherwise deidentified data to develop insights into how our Services are used.
·To secure our Services. We use information we collect and receive about you to enforce our Terms, prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, combat spam, control access to the Services, and to monitor, enforce, and improve the security of the Services we provide.
·To comply with our legal obligations. We use information we collect and receive about you to protect our and our users' rights and interest, defend ourselves, and respond to law enforcement, other legal authorities, and requests that are part of a legal process. We also use information we collect to comply with security and anti-terrorism, anti-bribery, customs and immigration, and other such due diligence laws and requirements.
·If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, our legal bases for collecting and using personal data as described in this Privacy Notice depends on the personal data and the specific context in which we collect it. In some cases, we may rely on multiple legal bases to process your data. For example, our legal bases to process your personal data include:
·We take reasonable steps to ensure that the information we collect is reliable, accurate, complete, and current for its intended use. If you would like to find out more about the specific legal basis we rely on to process your data for a particular purpose (including any legitimate interests we have in processing that information), please contact us as detailed in the Contact Us section.
·We share your Personal Information as described below and in this Privacy Notice, and as permitted by applicable law.
·AgileBits Inc. Affiliated Companies. We may share your information within the AgileBits companies and in some cases, with prospective affiliates to operate, improve, and market affiliated services to you. This includes affiliate companies that own, operate, or enable us to provide the Services to you. Unless you are notified otherwise, information shared with corporate affiliates will remain subject to this Privacy Notice.
·Account Organizer. Our Services allow you to create accounts on behalf of other individuals though Family accounts. When you create an account on behalf of someone else, we refer to you as an account organizer. If you were invited to use an account created by someone other than yourself, we share certain information we collect about you and your use of our services with your account organizer. For example, we may share whether or not you have accepted an invite, when you last signed in, the number of devices you've signed in with, the number of items in your vaults, including private vaults, whether you have enabled two-factor authentication, and other insights as configured by your account organizer.
·Third-parties Designated By You. We may share your information with other 1Password users, invited guests, or third-parties you have otherwise authorized or provided your consent for us to share information with. For example, when you invite a guest to access your vaults or invite an individual to join your family.
·Business Account Administrators. If you signed up for the Services using an email domain owned by one of our business customers, we may share your contact information including limited technical information with the business account administrator that requested you participate in the Services under a separate agreement. For example, to invite you to join a 1Password Business account, or to enable your administrator to manage your access to authorized services where you may switch between personal and company administered accounts.
·Service Providers. We share information with third-parties in connection with the delivery of Services to you and the operation of our business. These third-party service providers are required to protect information we share with them and may not use any identifying information other than to provide services we contracted them to provide. They are not allowed to use the information we share for purposes of their own direct marketing (unless you have separately consented with the third-party under the terms provided by the third-party).
·Marketing Partners. We may disclose your information to third-party marketing services which help us advertise our services to you. This may be considered a sale or sharing personal information data under applicable privacy laws. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to opt out of having your information shared for this purpose. View our Cookie Policy for more information on our use of tracking technology for the purposes of targeted advertising.
·Legal Obligations. We may disclose your information and associated records to enforce our terms; as necessary to satisfy our tax or other regulatory reporting requirements, including the remission of certain taxes in the course of processing payments; or where we are permitted (or believe in good faith that we are required) to do so by applicable law, such as in response to a subpoena or other legal request, in connection with actual or proposed litigation, or to protect our rights or interests.
·We will comply with applicable laws and the contracts with our customers to provide Service Data and encrypted Secure Data to law enforcement agencies. If permitted, we will notify you of such a request and whether or not we have complied. Your Secure Data remains encrypted with keys which we do not possess, and so we can only hand over Secure Data in encrypted form.
·Corporate Transactions. We may share your Personal Information in connection with any anticipated or actual corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, assignments, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy. In the case of any acquisition, we will inform the buyer it must use your information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice.
·We understand and accept our responsibility to protect your information. We use strict access control mechanisms such as network isolation and encryption to ensure that your information is only available to authorized personnel. Learn more about how 1Password protects your Secure Data.
·We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes set forth in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, or you instruct us to delete your information. We will deidentify, aggregate, or otherwise remove or mask your personal information if we intend to use it for analytical purposes or trend analysis over longer periods of time. Please note that copies of information that you have updated, modified, or deleted may continue to reside in our systems for a period of time, and we may maintain copies of this information as part of our business records.
·Secure Data is hosted where an Individual or Business customer chooses (currently either in the EU, US, or Canada), except to the extent a user utilizes the Item Sharing function in which case the data will be stored in the EU as long as the item is shared.
·Service Data, Diagnostic Data, and other information we process may be accessed from, processed, or transferred to countries other than the country in which you reside or in which the data is hosted. Our employees may access your information from various countries around the world. Those countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.
·Our customer support and email services are hosted primarily in the United States and Canada. Any information you choose to send us through email or our customer support system may pass through and be stored on a variety of intermediate services. If you wish, you may encrypt email to us using our PGP public key.
·We have taken appropriate steps and put safeguards in place to help ensure that any access, processing, or transfer of your information remains protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice and in compliance with applicable data protection law. Such measures provide your information with a standard of protection that is at least comparable to that under the equivalent local law in your country, no matter where your data is accessed from, processed, or transferred.
·Such measures include the following:
·Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights and choices with respect to your information, we've explained your rights and how to exercise them below:
·Limit How We Use Information.
·You can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances (e.g., when you wish to contest the accuracy of your data). You can also ask us to freeze your account at any time by contacting us as described in the Contact Us section of this Privacy Notice. When your account is frozen, you will not be able to provide ongoing or future data to us that is associated with your account.
·If you use 1Password services with an account provided by your employer or an organization that you are affiliated with, please contact your organization. We provide admin tools and support our enterprise customers in responding to data subject requests.
·Our Services are not intended for minors. Those under the age of 16 may not use the services without the consent or authorization of their parent or legal custodian. Family account organizers are responsible for that authorization when they add someone under the age of 16 to an account.
·At our discretion, we may make changes to this Notice and note the date of the last revision. You should check here frequently if you need to know of updates to our Privacy Notice. We maintain the right to send you an email or in app notification informing you of substantive changes. Previous versions will be made available. View archived privacy policies for the 1Password password manager.
·If you have any questions about this Notice or our practices, you can contact us or our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or write us by mail at: Privacy Office
47114711 Yonge St, 10th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M2N 6K8 Canada
·To exercise your rights and choices, email [email protected].
·To send us an encrypted email, use 1Password's PGP public key.
·If you're not satisfied with our response, you have the option of contacting the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
·If you have concerns or complaints about this Notice or practices with regard to that you do not feel you can resolve through contacting us, you should bring those concerns to your local regulatory authority.
·This notice is designed to provide you with important information about your business managed account. 1Password is a processor of personal data that we process on behalf of our business customers. If you use 1Password services with an account provided by your employer or an organization that you are affiliated with, that organization is the controller of your information and the administrator of your account. We refer to personal data processed in connection with our Services offered to businesses as "Customer Data." We only process Customer Data to fulfill our contractual obligations, or as otherwise instructed by our business customers. If you have questions about the processing of your information or would like to exercise your data protection rights, please contact your account administrator. Please note, the 1Password Privacy Notice does not apply to business products or services.
·As an end user of a Business product, your information is subject to the privacy information provided to you by your organization. We recommend that you review your internal privacy policies prior to creating an account with us.
·Your account administrator manages your 1Password account and any information associated with your account. This means that your account administrator can access and process your data, including insights derived from how you use and interact with the Services and any privacy controls associated with your account. Your account administrator controls which services you may access using your account, and can turn off particular services at their discretion. Your account administrator can also delete your account, recover your account and vault contents, or restrict you from accessing any data associated with your account.
·If you have created a free Family or Individual account provided by your account administrator, your personal account is managed exclusively by you and covered by the 1Password Terms and Privacy Notice and cannot be accessed by your account administrator. If you lose access to the organization that you are affiliated with (for example, if you change your employment), you may lose access to 1Password Business products, including your employee vaults and the information contained within those vaults. Your Individual or Family 1Password account and data associated will remain yours, subject to the 1Password Terms.
·Open with a statement of purpose of this document Business accounts Business accounts
·Explicitly discuss philosophy that customer has rights to their own data (spirit of GDPR) Right of Erasure (GDPR) Right of Erasure (GDPR) Right to Access (GDPR) Right to Access (GDPR) Breach notification (GDPR) Breach notification (GDPR)
·We also expanded on how your Secure Data is handled on our end. Archived versions