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"Parse csv" action without third party, privacy concerns

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Right now I have a flow that looks like this:

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In short, when a .csv file is saved in a sharepoint drive, it emails me with an html table in the email, showing me what was in the csv.  Works great.

My concern is that my data has to go through a third party action.  That 'encodian' step.  Encodian has a page on data security and to be honest it sounds good, but if someone at my organization saw I was sending data through a third party they might be concerned.  
I guess my question is two fold:
1- I didnt install it or anything myself, it was just there.  Does that mean someone at my organization already put it in our software? And/or its somewhat trusted by Microsoft?
2- Is there an alternative way to do this without using Encodian? Ideally that is about as straightforward? I see articles like this that would probably get me through it but I'll be honest, I barely accomplished this flow and had to ask for help on here and stackoverflow to do it.  Is there a push button step like Encodian but thats not third party?

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    takolota1 Profile Picture
    4,980 Moderator on at

    It may not be as easy to understand as Encodian, but there is this template where you can insert the dynamic content for the CSV file data, set your parameters, set the expressions for the column numbers you want, & get a JSON output that you can then use Parse JSON on to get the outputs in your dynamic content.

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Cookbook/CSV-to-Dataset/td-p/1508191

    It’s good if you need to process larger files with more challenging issues like in-data commas.

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    50 on at

    Thank you.  I actually really like it and after having posted this question I ran the security concerns by my supervisor.  She is not worried about those and thinks its fine, BUT we are probably going to run into a usage limit for the free account I created.  It looks like for a free account you get 50 'actions' per month and we're going to hit at least 60.  Probably wont want to upgrade to paid account.  Think I'll look for a non-third party way.

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