Privacy Statement
Connected Experiences for Retail
Privacy Statement
Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy
statement applies to the data collected by Microsoft through the
Connected Experiences for Retail
site (the “Site”) hosted for Microsoft by Starshot
Ventures inc.; it does not apply to other online or offline Microsoft
sites, products, or services.
Collection of Your Information
We may collect information about your visit to the Site. For example, we
may use Web site analytics tools to retrieve information from your
browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the
keywords you used to find our Site, the pages you view within the Site,
your browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height. Additionally,
we collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every
Web site you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language,
access times and referring Web site addresses.
In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in
your interactions with Microsoft, information collected through one
Microsoft service may be combined with information obtained through
other Microsoft services. We may also supplement the information we
collect with information obtained from other companies. For example, we
may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general
geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain
services to your geographic area.
IF THE SITE USES WINDOWS LIVE ID FOR
AUTHENTICATION:
Use of Your Information
In support of these uses, Microsoft may use your information to provide
you with more effective customer service, improve the Site and any
related Microsoft products or services, perform statistical analysis,
and make the Site easier to use by eliminating the need for you to
repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing the Site to your
particular preferences or interests.
We may use your information to provide you with important information
about the product or service that you are using, including critical
updates and notifications. Additionally, with your permission, we may
send you information about other Microsoft products and services, and/or
share your personal information with Microsoft partners so they may send
you information about their products and services.
Microsoft occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services
on our behalf, such as Web site hosting, packaging, mailing, and
delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and
services, and sending information about our products, special offers,
and other new services. We will only provide those companies the
personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required
to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited
from using that information for any other purpose.
We may access or disclose information about you, including the content
of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond
to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property
of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our
agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on
a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to
protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers or the
public. We may also disclose personal information as part of a corporate
transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.
Information that is collected on the Site may be stored and processed in
the United States or any other country in which Microsoft or its
affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers maintain facilities.
Microsoft abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S.
Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of
data from the European Union.
Control of Your Personal Information
Access to Your Personal Information
Security of Your Information
Use of Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser
setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you are using Internet
Explorer, search for “Cookies” in the Help menu to find detailed
instructions. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to
use interactive features of this or other Web sites that depend on
cookies.
Use of Web Beacons
Microsoft may also employ Web beacons from third parties in order to
help us compile aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of
our promotional campaigns or other operations of our sites. We prohibit
Web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to collect or
access your personal information. We may work with other companies that
advertise on our sites to place Web beacons on their sites in order to
allow us to develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement
on a Microsoft site results in a purchase or other action on the
advertiser's site.
Display of Advertising
When we display online advertisements to you, we will place a persistent
cookie on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time we
display an ad to you. Because we may serve advertisements on many
different Web sites, we are able to compile information over time about
where you, or others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on
the advertisements we display. We use this information to make
predictions about your characteristics, interests, or preferences, and
to display targeted advertisements that we believe may be of interest to
you. We may also associate this information with your subsequent visit,
purchase, or other activity on participating advertisers’ Web sites in
order to determine the effectiveness of the advertisements.
While we may use some of the information we collect in order to
personalize the ads we show you, we designed our systems to select ads
based only on data that does not personally and directly identify you.
For example, we may select the ads we display according to certain
general interest categories or segments that we have inferred based on
(a) demographic or interest data, including any you may have provided
when creating an account (e.g. age, zip or postal code, and gender),
demographic or interest data acquired from other companies, and a
general geographic location derived from your IP address; (b) the pages
you view and links you click when using Microsoft’s and its advertising
partners’ Web sites and services; and (c) the search terms you enter
when using Microsoft’s Internet search services, such as Live Search.
As we serve ads, we take a number of steps designed to protect your
privacy. For example, we store page views, clicks, and search terms used
for ad personalization separately from your contact information or other
data that directly identifies you (such as your name, e-mail address,
etc.). Further, we have built in administrative, technical, and physical
safeguards designed to prevent the unauthorized correlation of this
data. We also give you the ability to opt-out of personalized ads. For
more information or to use the opt-out feature, you may visit our
opt-out page.
We also provide third party ad delivery through our Atlas subsidiary,
and you may read the Atlas privacy statement at
http://www.atlassolutions.com/privacy.aspx.
Although the majority of the online advertisements on Microsoft sites
are displayed by Microsoft, we also allow third-party ad-serving
companies, including other ad networks, to display advertisements on our
sites. These companies currently include, but are not limited to,
24/7 Real Media,
Platform-A,
Bidclix,
BlueStreak,
Burst Media,
DoubleClick,
EuroClick,
Eyeblaster,
EyeWonder,
Interpolls,
Kanoodle,
Mediaplex,
PointRoll,
Yahoo! Publisher Network,
and Zedo.
These companies may offer you a way to opt out of ad targeting based on
their cookies. You may find more information by clicking on the company
names above and following the links to the Web sites of each company.
Some of these companies are members of the
Network Advertising
Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad
targeting from member companies.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
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