Patagonia DIGITAL

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

• Patagonia Works is a California benefit corporation and holding company whose disclosed entities include Patagonia, Inc. for apparel and equipment and GPIW for retail stores ¹.

• Patagonia’s 2025–26 corporate statement identifies Ventura, California, as its global headquarters for product design and procurement and describes international subsidiaries and branches in California, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, plus wholesale distributors in more than 40 countries ¹.

• Patagonia’s privacy notice describes collection of account and contact information, payment and purchase data, browsing and device information, IP-derived general location, call-recording data, and inferred preferences ².

• The privacy notice identifies categories of providers receiving personal information, including analytics, technical-support, payment, fulfilment, platform, and social-network providers, without naming the relevant vendors or identifying Israeli processing, storage, or routing ².

• No public evidence identified of a Patagonia licensing, subscription, integration, managed-service, systems-integrator, IT-outsourcing, or transformation-consultancy relationship involving a specifically identified Israeli-origin enterprise-technology vendor.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

• Patagonia’s 18 December 2024 Montebelluna-store CCTV notice documents CCTV processing at that specific store and states that processing is performed by a service provider under a data-processing agreement ³.

• The Montebelluna notice does not identify the CCTV provider, hardware supplier, analytics functionality, biometric capability, or Israeli origin of the service ³.

• Patagonia’s privacy notice documents broad customer and device-data processing but does not disclose facial-recognition, biometric-identification, gait-analysis, or behavioural-retail-analytics tools ².

• No public evidence identified of Patagonia use of facial recognition, biometric identification, gait analysis, Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax, predictive policing, sentiment monitoring, social-media monitoring, or workforce-surveillance systems.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

• Patagonia’s privacy notice states that it is U.S.-based and that personal information may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the United States and other jurisdictions ².

• The notice does not identify cloud providers, data-centre locations, processor locations, subprocessor lists, data-residency commitments, contractual access locations, or Israel as a processing jurisdiction ².

• Patagonia’s facilities disclosure identifies U.S. distribution centres and more than 100 stores globally, while not disclosing Israeli data-centre, colocation, or cloud-facility operations ⁴.

• No public evidence identified that Patagonia participates in Project Nimbus, another Israeli-government cloud initiative, or a data-sovereignty or resilience service for Israeli state or military bodies.

• The supplied document-scoped review found no Patagonia reference in the UN report addressing Project Nimbus and related cloud, surveillance, and AI issues ⁵.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

• No public evidence identified of Patagonia contracts, partnerships, or service agreements with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israel Defense Forces, intelligence agencies, policing bodies, or other Israeli security institutions.

• No public evidence identified that Patagonia technology has been deployed for Israeli military, intelligence, policing, surveillance, offensive-cyber, or digital-weapons applications.

• Patagonia is privately held, and the reviewed materials do not provide SEC-style ownership, proxy, lobbying, or technology-vendor disclosures ^{6, 1}.

• Patagonia states that the Patagonia Purpose Trust holds 2% of the company and all voting stock, while Holdfast Collective holds 98% and all non-voting stock ⁷.

• Patagonia’s FY2023–24 benefit-corporation report identifies Holdfast Trust, Chalten Trust, Sojourner Trust, Wilder Trust, and Tail Wind Trust within the Holdfast Collective ownership structure ⁶.

• Holdfast Trust’s FY2024 filing identifies it as a 501(c)(4), names Four Seas LLC doing business as Holdfast Collective as institutional trustee, and reports approximately $63.31 million in revenue, $38.40 million in expenses, and $1.44 billion in net assets ^{8, 9}.

• Holdfast Trust’s FY2023 filing reports approximately $41.38 million in revenue, $36.08 million in expenses, and $1.42 billion in net assets ^{8, 10}.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

• No public evidence identified of Patagonia provision of AI or machine-learning systems, computer vision, automated decision support, training-data access, autonomous tracking, or target-generation capability to Israeli state, military, or security bodies.

• The supplied document-scoped review found no Patagonia mention in UN Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23, including its discussion of surveillance, AI, cloud infrastructure, and Project Nimbus ⁵.

• The reviewed public disclosures do not identify whether unnamed analytics, platform, technical-support, or other service providers use AI-enabled functions on Patagonia’s behalf ².

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

• No public evidence identified of a Patagonia Israeli R&D centre, engineering office, innovation lab, accelerator programme, acquisition of an Israeli technology company, strategic investment in an Israeli technology startup or fund, or technology co-development arrangement with an Israeli-domiciled company or research institution.

• Patagonia’s corporate statement does not identify an Israeli subsidiary, branch, office, or distributor, although this disclosure alone does not establish their absence ¹.

• An Israeli retailer describes itself as operating in Israel’s technical board-sports market and states that it imports or distributes Patagonia wetsuits among several brands ¹¹.

• The distributor disclosure supports a product-distribution claim only and does not identify a Patagonia technology relationship, Israeli R&D activity, data processing, state-sector relationship, or settlement location ¹¹.

• Patagonia’s current materials identify Yvon Chouinard as founder and Ryan Gellert as CEO ^{7, 12}.

• Patagonia’s FY25 climate-risk report states that the Purpose Trust elects the board and that the board’s Finance, Risk and Impact Committee reviews ESG risks and opportunities ¹³.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

• The supplied deterministic full-text review found no Patagonia mention in the 2023 UN settlement-business database, which is a finding limited to that specific document rather than a database-wide conclusion ¹⁴.

• The supplied deterministic full-text review found no Patagonia mention in the 2025 UN settlement-business database, which is likewise limited to that specific document ¹⁵.

• The supplied document-scoped review found no Patagonia mention in UN Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23 ⁵.

• No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment, or sanctions campaign specifically concerning Patagonia technology provision to Israeli state entities or operations in occupied territory.

• No public evidence identified of a regulatory inquiry, legal action, export-control action, or sanctions investigation involving Patagonia technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.

• The document-scoped findings do not establish absence from historic or future UN database iterations, regulator databases, court records, procurement portals, or all civil-society research ^{5, 14, 15}.