Parloa vs. Writer: data protection per plan
Parloa (1 plan) and Writer (2 plans) side by side: DPA, training on inputs, hosting and data retention per plan, based on the providers’ public documents. Without rating.
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| Feature | Parloa | Writer |
|---|---|---|
| Provider based in | Parloa GmbH, Schönhauser Allee 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany | WRITER Inc., 111 Maiden Lane, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA |
| Plans recorded | 1 | 2 |
| Hosting | EU option: Enterprise | mixed: all 2 plans |
| Training on inputs | no: Enterprise | no: all 2 plans |
| DPA | yes: Enterprise | yes: all 2 plans |
| As of | 18 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 |
Plans compared
Comparing: Parloa Enterprise vs. Writer Enterprise
| Feature | ParloaEnterprise (on request) | WriterEnterprise |
|---|---|---|
| yes | yes | |
| Details: DPA available | yes (GTC section 9.1: the parties conclude a data processing agreement that forms part of the contract; according to the Trust Center a pre-signed document for countersignature, text only after access is granted in the Trust Center, not publicly reviewed) Provider’s DPA | yes (Platform Services Agreement, version 2026-08-05, section 5.4: the DPA 'is incorporated by reference into this Agreement'; according to the Terms of Use, the Platform Services Agreement governs Enterprise) Provider’s DPA |
| no | no | |
| Details: Training on inputs | Customer AI Terms V3 2025 section 8.2: Parloa may use input and output 'solely to operate, maintain, and provide the Parloa Products and related services'. Section 8.3: perpetual, royalty-free licence to metadata (including system logs, call IDs, timestamps, SIP headers), also for improving the products and developing new features; by definition, metadata does not include personal data. Section 6.1: products rely on pre-trained models developed independently of the input. An express statement on training by the integrated model providers (e.g. OpenAI, Microsoft) is not publicly documented. | Trust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Platform Services Agreement 5.2: 'Writer will not use any Customer Materials to train its models.'; licence to Customer Materials only to provide and support the platform. |
| differs by plan | EU option | mixed |
| Details: Data residency | Trust Center 'Geographic Location of Data': 'EU customer data stays within EU regions while US customer data remains in US regions'; Microsoft Azure data centres. Sub-processor list: Microsoft, MongoDB, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Deepgram, Twilio each 'EU for EU based'; Datadog, Auth0, Google, Bird, Userlike in the EU; optionally ElevenLabs in the US and Datatrans AG in the United Kingdom; Parloa Group 'US and EU based processing'. Security page: data residency via 'Parloa Zones'. | Sub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'. Enterprise: according to the pricing page, fully managed platform deployment; choice of location not described. |
| list available | list available | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by plan | Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated… | Trust page: 'zero data retention'… |
| Details: Data retention | Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated data management with configurable retention periods, default 30 days; afterwards data is deleted or anonymised. Manual deletion requests via privacy@parloa.com, processed within 30 days after identity verification. Security page: individual retention policies ('Custom data retention'). Backups in multiple locations (period not quantified). | Trust page: 'zero data retention' approach. Help centre 'Setting up data retention' (on certain Enterprise plans): default 'No automatic deletion'; org admins can set deletion after 1, 3, 6 or 12 months for docs, outputs, uploaded files, chat sessions and WRITER Meet notes (Knowledge Graph files excluded). Platform Services Agreement section 9: Customer Materials can be exported for up to 30 days after the end of the contract upon written request, after which WRITER may delete them; upon written request, destruction within 90 days. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data at the customer's request. |
| differs by plan | Not public: individual consumption-based… | custom |
| Details: Price | Not public: individual consumption-based model (voice per minute, chat per interaction), rates according to use-case complexity or agent tier, volume packages with commitments, outcome-based pricing possible; only via sales ('Book a demo'). | Custom, contact sales (pricing page) |
| yes | yes | |
| Details: AI features included | yes (AI agents for phone and chat based on pre-trained language models with RAG, Agent Builder, Performance Lab, Parloa Lens, LLM guardrails, PII/PCI redaction, integrations; choice between AI models possible, Parloa may replace models at any time) | yes (any number of users and teams, unlimited Playbooks, advanced orchestration, audit logs, SSO/SAML, SCIM, 'Works with preferred LLMs') |
| 7 sources | 7 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- Parloa Enterpriseyes
- Writer Enterpriseyes
- Parloa Enterprise
yes (GTC section 9.1: the parties conclude a data processing agreement that forms part of the contract; according to the Trust Center a pre-signed document for countersignature, text only after access is granted in the Trust Center, not publicly reviewed)
Provider’s DPAWriter Enterpriseyes (Platform Services Agreement, version 2026-08-05, section 5.4: the DPA 'is incorporated by reference into this Agreement'; according to the Terms of Use, the Platform Services Agreement governs Enterprise)
Provider’s DPA
Training
- Parloa Enterpriseno
- Writer Enterpriseno
- Parloa Enterprise
Customer AI Terms V3 2025 section 8.2: Parloa may use input and output 'solely to operate, maintain, and provide the Parloa Products and related services'. Section 8.3: perpetual, royalty-free licence to metadata (including system logs, call IDs, timestamps, SIP headers), also for improving the products and developing new features; by definition, metadata does not include personal data. Section 6.1: products rely on pre-trained models developed independently of the input. An express statement on training by the integrated model providers (e.g. OpenAI, Microsoft) is not publicly documented.
Writer EnterpriseTrust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Platform Services Agreement 5.2: 'Writer will not use any Customer Materials to train its models.'; licence to Customer Materials only to provide and support the platform.
Hosting
- differs by plan
- Parloa EnterpriseEU option
- Writer Enterprisemixed
- Parloa Enterprise
Trust Center 'Geographic Location of Data': 'EU customer data stays within EU regions while US customer data remains in US regions'; Microsoft Azure data centres. Sub-processor list: Microsoft, MongoDB, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Deepgram, Twilio each 'EU for EU based'; Datadog, Auth0, Google, Bird, Userlike in the EU; optionally ElevenLabs in the US and Datatrans AG in the United Kingdom; Parloa Group 'US and EU based processing'. Security page: data residency via 'Parloa Zones'.
Writer EnterpriseSub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'. Enterprise: according to the pricing page, fully managed platform deployment; choice of location not described.
Sub-processors
- Parloa Enterpriselist available
- Writer Enterpriselist available
- Parloa Enterprise
- Microsoft (EU for EU customers), MongoDB (EU for EU customers), Datadog (EU), Auth0 (EU), Cloudflare (EU for EU customers), Deepgram Inc. – speech recognition (EU for EU customers), SAP – LLM models (GmbH only, EU)
- Optional: Twilio (EU for EU customers), Google (EU), Bird (EU), Userlike (EU), OpenAI (EU for EU customers), ElevenLabs (US), Datatrans AG (United Kingdom)
- Parloa Group (Parloa Inc and Parloa GmbH): technical support and platform integration, processing in the US and the EU
Writer Enterprise- Amazon Web Services (cloud): USA, EU
- Google Cloud Platform (cloud): USA, EU
- Microsoft Azure (infrastructure): USA
- Baseten (infrastructure): USA
- Cloudflare (infrastructure): worldwide
- Daytona (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Elastic Cloud (infrastructure): USA
- OpenRouter (infrastructure): USA
- Parasail (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Turbopuffer (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Exa.ai (web search): USA
- Tavily (web search): USA
- Recall.ai (services and support): USA, EU
- Snowflake (data warehouse): USA
- Fullstory, Omni, Segment (analytics): USA
- Pylon (customer support): USA
- Sendgrid (email): USA
- Stripe (billing): USA
- Writer, Inc. group companies (services and support): worldwide
Retention
- differs by plan
- Parloa EnterpriseTrust Center 'Data Erasure': automated…
- Writer EnterpriseTrust page: 'zero data retention'…
- Parloa EnterpriseTrust Center 'Data Erasure': automated data management with configurable retention periods, default 30 days; afterwards data is deleted or anonymised. Manual deletion requests via privacy@parloa.com, processed within 30 days after identity verification. Security page: individual retention policies ('Custom data retention'). Backups in multiple locations (period not quantified).Writer EnterpriseTrust page: 'zero data retention' approach. Help centre 'Setting up data retention' (on certain Enterprise plans): default 'No automatic deletion'; org admins can set deletion after 1, 3, 6 or 12 months for docs, outputs, uploaded files, chat sessions and WRITER Meet notes (Knowledge Graph files excluded). Platform Services Agreement section 9: Customer Materials can be exported for up to 30 days after the end of the contract upon written request, after which WRITER may delete them; upon written request, destruction within 90 days. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data at the customer's request.
Price
- differs by plan
- Parloa EnterpriseNot public: individual consumption-based…
- Writer Enterprisecustom
- Parloa Enterprise
Not public: individual consumption-based model (voice per minute, chat per interaction), rates according to use-case complexity or agent tier, volume packages with commitments, outcome-based pricing possible; only via sales ('Book a demo').
Writer EnterpriseCustom, contact sales (pricing page)
- Parloa Enterpriseyes
- Writer Enterpriseyes
- Parloa Enterprise
yes (AI agents for phone and chat based on pre-trained language models with RAG, Agent Builder, Performance Lab, Parloa Lens, LLM guardrails, PII/PCI redaction, integrations; choice between AI models possible, Parloa may replace models at any time)
Writer Enterpriseyes (any number of users and teams, unlimited Playbooks, advanced orchestration, audit logs, SSO/SAML, SCIM, 'Works with preferred LLMs')
Evidence
- Parloa Enterprise7 sources
- Writer Enterprise7 sources
- Parloa Enterprise
- Pricing designed for the work (Consumption-Based Pricing for AI Agents)Pricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms & PoliciesTerms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- General Terms and Conditions of Parloa GmbH, V2 2024 (effective 1 May 2024)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Customer AI Terms for AI-powered Parloa Products, V3 2025Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Parloa Trust Center (Subprocessors, Data Security, Data Privacy, Certificates)Trust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Enterprise Security & GovernanceSecurity page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- AMP – Fair Use and Consumption Policy, V2.1Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Writer Enterprise- Plans & PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Security and trust at WRITERTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy Policy (Effective Date April 17, 2026)Privacy notice, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Subprocessors (Last Updated October 14, 2026)Sub-processor list, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Agreement (as of 2025-12-04)DPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Platform Services Agreement (Version August 5, 2026)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Setting up data retentionHelp centre, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
| Feature | Parloa | Writer |
|---|---|---|
| yesonly plan | yesall 2 plans | |
| Details: DPA available |
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| noonly plan | noall 2 plans | |
| Details: Training on inputs |
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| differs by tool | EU optiononly plan | mixedall 2 plans |
| Details: Data residency |
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| list availableonly plan | list availableall 2 plans | |
| Details: List published |
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| differs by tool | Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated…only plan | Trust page: 'zero data retention' approachall 2 plans |
| Details: Data retention |
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| differs by tool | Not public: individual consumption-based…only plan |
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| Details: Price |
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| yesonly plan | yesall 2 plans | |
| Details: AI features included |
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| 7 sources | 8 sources | |
| Details: Sources with retrieval date |
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Contract / DPA
- Parloayesonly plan
- Writeryesall 2 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
yes (GTC section 9.1: the parties conclude a data processing agreement that forms part of the contract; according to the Trust Center a pre-signed document for countersignature, text only after access is granted in the Trust Center, not publicly reviewed)
Provider’s DPA
Writer- Starter
yes (Terms of Use, version 2026-06-05, apply to free, trial and paid versions except Enterprise: 'When you are acting on behalf of an organization when accessing our Services, our Data Processing Agreement (“DPA”) applies and is incorporated by reference into these Terms.')
Provider’s DPA - Enterprise
yes (Platform Services Agreement, version 2026-08-05, section 5.4: the DPA 'is incorporated by reference into this Agreement'; according to the Terms of Use, the Platform Services Agreement governs Enterprise)
Provider’s DPA
- Enterprise (on request)
Training
- Parloanoonly plan
- Writernoall 2 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
Customer AI Terms V3 2025 section 8.2: Parloa may use input and output 'solely to operate, maintain, and provide the Parloa Products and related services'. Section 8.3: perpetual, royalty-free licence to metadata (including system logs, call IDs, timestamps, SIP headers), also for improving the products and developing new features; by definition, metadata does not include personal data. Section 6.1: products rely on pre-trained models developed independently of the input. An express statement on training by the integrated model providers (e.g. OpenAI, Microsoft) is not publicly documented.
Writer- Starter
Trust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Terms of Use: 'We will not use your Materials to train our models.'; however, Materials may be used to provide, maintain and improve the Services and to develop other products.
- Enterprise
Trust page: WRITER does not train its models on customer data, user inputs or outputs; the customer controls how its data is used. Privacy policy (applies to website visitors and individual accounts): no use of data provided when accessing or using the Services for training, including inputs and outputs. Platform Services Agreement 5.2: 'Writer will not use any Customer Materials to train its models.'; licence to Customer Materials only to provide and support the platform.
- Enterprise (on request)
Hosting
- differs by tool
- ParloaEU optiononly plan
- Writermixedall 2 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
Trust Center 'Geographic Location of Data': 'EU customer data stays within EU regions while US customer data remains in US regions'; Microsoft Azure data centres. Sub-processor list: Microsoft, MongoDB, OpenAI, Cloudflare, Deepgram, Twilio each 'EU for EU based'; Datadog, Auth0, Google, Bird, Userlike in the EU; optionally ElevenLabs in the US and Datatrans AG in the United Kingdom; Parloa Group 'US and EU based processing'. Security page: data residency via 'Parloa Zones'.
Writer- Starter
Sub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'.
- Enterprise
Sub-processor list (as of 2026-10-14): cloud and infrastructure providers with processing locations in the USA and partly the EU (AWS, Google Cloud, Daytona, Parasail, Turbopuffer, Recall.ai) or worldwide (Cloudflare). Whether customers can choose an EU region, and which data is stored where, is not described. Trust page: data is provisioned in an isolated production project; 'Managed, multi-cloud options, including dedicated private cloud deployment'. Enterprise: according to the pricing page, fully managed platform deployment; choice of location not described.
- Enterprise (on request)
Sub-processors
- Parloalist availableonly plan
- Writerlist availableall 2 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
- Microsoft (EU for EU customers), MongoDB (EU for EU customers), Datadog (EU), Auth0 (EU), Cloudflare (EU for EU customers), Deepgram Inc. – speech recognition (EU for EU customers), SAP – LLM models (GmbH only, EU)
- Optional: Twilio (EU for EU customers), Google (EU), Bird (EU), Userlike (EU), OpenAI (EU for EU customers), ElevenLabs (US), Datatrans AG (United Kingdom)
- Parloa Group (Parloa Inc and Parloa GmbH): technical support and platform integration, processing in the US and the EU
Writer- Starter
- Amazon Web Services (cloud): USA, EU
- Google Cloud Platform (cloud): USA, EU
- Microsoft Azure (infrastructure): USA
- Baseten (infrastructure): USA
- Cloudflare (infrastructure): worldwide
- Daytona (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Elastic Cloud (infrastructure): USA
- OpenRouter (infrastructure): USA
- Parasail (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Turbopuffer (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Exa.ai (web search): USA
- Tavily (web search): USA
- Recall.ai (services and support): USA, EU
- Snowflake (data warehouse): USA
- Fullstory, Omni, Segment (analytics): USA
- Pylon (customer support): USA
- Sendgrid (email): USA
- Stripe (billing): USA
- Writer, Inc. group companies (services and support): worldwide
- Enterprise
- Amazon Web Services (cloud): USA, EU
- Google Cloud Platform (cloud): USA, EU
- Microsoft Azure (infrastructure): USA
- Baseten (infrastructure): USA
- Cloudflare (infrastructure): worldwide
- Daytona (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Elastic Cloud (infrastructure): USA
- OpenRouter (infrastructure): USA
- Parasail (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Turbopuffer (infrastructure): USA, EU
- Exa.ai (web search): USA
- Tavily (web search): USA
- Recall.ai (services and support): USA, EU
- Snowflake (data warehouse): USA
- Fullstory, Omni, Segment (analytics): USA
- Pylon (customer support): USA
- Sendgrid (email): USA
- Stripe (billing): USA
- Writer, Inc. group companies (services and support): worldwide
- Enterprise (on request)
Retention
- differs by tool
- ParloaTrust Center 'Data Erasure': automated…only plan
- WriterTrust page: 'zero data retention' approachall 2 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)Trust Center 'Data Erasure': automated data management with configurable retention periods, default 30 days; afterwards data is deleted or anonymised. Manual deletion requests via privacy@parloa.com, processed within 30 days after identity verification. Security page: individual retention policies ('Custom data retention'). Backups in multiple locations (period not quantified).
Writer- StarterTrust page: 'zero data retention' approach; data is stored only for as long as needed to use the platform. Help centre 'Setting up data retention': automatic deletion schedules only 'on certain Enterprise plans'; the default is 'No automatic deletion', content is kept until users delete it manually. Terms of Use: after termination no obligation to retain; WRITER may delete Materials. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data upon the customer's written request, unless the law requires otherwise.
- EnterpriseTrust page: 'zero data retention' approach. Help centre 'Setting up data retention' (on certain Enterprise plans): default 'No automatic deletion'; org admins can set deletion after 1, 3, 6 or 12 months for docs, outputs, uploaded files, chat sessions and WRITER Meet notes (Knowledge Graph files excluded). Platform Services Agreement section 9: Customer Materials can be exported for up to 30 days after the end of the contract upon written request, after which WRITER may delete them; upon written request, destruction within 90 days. DPA section 9: return or deletion of personal data at the customer's request.
Price
- differs by tool
- ParloaNot public: individual consumption-based…only plan
- Writer
- not publicly documentedStarter
- customEnterprise
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
Not public: individual consumption-based model (voice per minute, chat per interaction), rates according to use-case complexity or agent tier, volume packages with commitments, outcome-based pricing possible; only via sales ('Book a demo').
Writer- Starter
not publicly documented (the pricing page shows no price; according to the FAQ, monthly or annual billing per seat with fixed credit limits; 14-day free trial, no credit card required)
- Enterprise
Custom, contact sales (pricing page)
- Enterprise (on request)
- Parloayesonly plan
- Writeryesall 2 plans
- Parloa
- Enterprise (on request)
yes (AI agents for phone and chat based on pre-trained language models with RAG, Agent Builder, Performance Lab, Parloa Lens, LLM guardrails, PII/PCI redaction, integrations; choice between AI models possible, Parloa may replace models at any time)
Writer- Starter
yes (WRITER Agent for chat and automation, up to 5 users, up to 5 Playbooks, up to 3 scheduled routines, 1 team personality profile, basic connectors; AI Studio with limited access)
- Enterprise
yes (any number of users and teams, unlimited Playbooks, advanced orchestration, audit logs, SSO/SAML, SCIM, 'Works with preferred LLMs')
- Enterprise (on request)
Evidence
- Parloa7 sources
- Writer8 sources
- Parloa
- Pricing designed for the work (Consumption-Based Pricing for AI Agents)Pricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms & PoliciesTerms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- General Terms and Conditions of Parloa GmbH, V2 2024 (effective 1 May 2024)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Customer AI Terms for AI-powered Parloa Products, V3 2025Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Parloa Trust Center (Subprocessors, Data Security, Data Privacy, Certificates)Trust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Enterprise Security & GovernanceSecurity page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- AMP – Fair Use and Consumption Policy, V2.1Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
Writer- Plans & PricingPricing page, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Security and trust at WRITERTrust Center, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Privacy Policy (Effective Date April 17, 2026)Privacy notice, retrieved 14 Oct 2026
- Subprocessors (Last Updated October 14, 2026)Sub-processor list, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Data Processing Agreement (as of 2025-12-04)DPA, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Terms of Use (Version June 5, 2026)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Platform Services Agreement (Version August 5, 2026)Terms and conditions, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
- Setting up data retentionHelp centre, retrieved 18 Oct 2026
not documentedmeans: not publicly documented, not verifiable in any provider source. It does not mean “no”.
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