GoDaddy - European Supplemental Privacy Notice

GoDaddy maintains a global privacy and data protection program as described in our Global Privacy Notice.

This European Data Protection Notice supplements our Global Privacy Notice by providing additional disclosures required by law in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

When you use services offered by GoDaddy brand, the data controller will be as follows:

EU/EEA: GoDaddy.com, LLC

Switzerland: GoDaddy.com, LLC

UK: GoDaddy.com, LLC

Our data protection officer can be contacted by email at privacy@godaddy.com.

We use personal data (called PII in our global privacy notice) primarily to provide you the services you request. We also use personal data to comply with our legal obligations and protect our legitimate interests, including providing you personalized services, communicating with you, improving our services, and detecting fraudulent and illegal activity. With your prior consent, we also may use your personal data to send you marketing materials and offers.

We use cookies and other online identifiers as part of our services. Please see our Global Privacy Notice section on online identifiers for more information on our use of cookies and other identifiers. Please note that in cases where our cookies process personal data of data subjects in the EU/EEA, Switzerland, and the UK, we collect your consent before using those cookies.

We operate a global business and personal data you provide may be transferred from your country to the United States or to another country where we do business. We make these transfers when necessary to provide our services, to perform our contract with you, or when we have your consent to transfer your personal data to another country.

We transfer personal data outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland to countries that have been determined by the European Commission to offer an adequate level of data protection, including the UK. For countries that have not been deemed to offer an adequate level of data protection, including the United States, we transfer personal data pursuant to a data protection addendum with standard contractual clauses and appropriate supplementary measures including, appropriate technical and organizational measures.

The following describes the status of our compliance with the EU-US and Switzerland-US Privacy Shield Framework:

On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment declaring as “invalid” the European Commission’s Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of 12 July 2016 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. As a result of that decision, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework is no longer a valid mechanism to comply with EU data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States.

Nonetheless, the U.S. Department of Commerce continues to administer the Privacy Shield program. GoDaddy.com, LLC complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States. GoDaddy.com, LLC has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Frameworks, and to view our certification, visit the Privacy Shield Website. 

Residents of the European Union and Switzerland may have the possibility, under certain conditions, to invoke binding arbitration for complaints regarding Privacy Shield compliance not resolved by any of the other Privacy Shield mechanisms. For additional information about this, please see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=ANNEX-I-introduction.

GoDaddy.com, LLC is responsible for the processing of personal information it receives, under the Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. GoDaddy.com, LLC complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal information from the EU and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.

With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, GoDaddy.com, LLC is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, GoDaddy.com, LLC may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, GoDaddy.com, LLC commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. EU and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact us in any manner provided in the “CONTACT US” section below in this Privacy Policy.

GoDaddy.com, LLC has further committed to cooperate with the panel established by the EU data protection authorities (DPAs) and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) with regard to unresolved Privacy Shield complaints concerning data transferred from the EU and Switzerland. If you have not received a timely or satisfactory response from GoDaddy.com, LLC to your question or complaint, please contact the independent recourse mechanism provided by the DPAs or FDPIC, as applicable.

We transfer personal data from the United Kingdom to the EU/EEA and other countries that the European Commission has determined offer an adequate level of data protection pursuant to guidance from the UK government that such transfers are unrestricted.

We transfer personal data outside the United Kingdom to other countries that have not received an adequacy determination from the European Commission pursuant to a data protection addendum and either (1) the 2021 EU/EEA Standard Contractual Clauses or (2) the 2022 UK International Data Transfer Agreement.

Our EU Article 27 Representative is:

GoDaddy Deutschland GmbH
c/o WeWork
Friesenplatz 4M
50672 Cologne, Germany

In the EU/EEA, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

In Switzerland, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Federal Data Protection Information Commissioner.

In the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office.