With your permission, Amazon may pass your payment and contact details to skill sellers
When you buy from the provider of a Third-Party Service (for example ordering food through a restaurant's skill) using payment information stored in your Amazon account, Amazon may, with your permission, share your payment information (such as account number, expiration date and billing address) with third-party payment processors designated by that provider to complete the transaction. With your permission, Amazon may also share with the provider the Amazon account information needed to complete the transaction, which may include your name, email address, shipping address and phone number, billing address and phone number, and the last four digits of your payment method.
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If you purchase products or services from the provider of a Third-Party Service (for example, if you order food through a restaurant’s skill) using payment information stored in your Amazon account, with your permission we may share with third-party payment processors (designated by that Third-Party Service provider) your payment information (e.g., account number, expiration date, and billing address), to complete the transaction.
With your permission we may also share with the provider of a Third-Party Service your Amazon account information necessary to complete a transaction, which may include your name, email address, shipping address and phone number, billing address and phone number, and the last four digits of your payment method.
Qualifications & exceptions
Sharing is conditioned on your permission and on the purpose of completing the transaction.
Full payment details go to the payment processor designated by the provider; the provider itself receives account details and only the last four digits of the payment method.
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How your permission is asked for, and how the provider and processor use the data, is not stated here.
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Some Alexa calling services use third-party providers who receive details like phone numbers
Certain Alexa Communication services are provided by Amazon's third-party service providers, and Amazon may give them information, such as telephone numbers, to provide those services. Alexa Communication is only available on select Alexa Enabled Products, and features may vary.
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Certain Alexa Communication services are provided by our third-party service providers, and we may provide them with information, such as telephone numbers, to provide those services.
Alexa Communication is only available on select Alexa Enabled Products, and features may vary.
Qualifications & exceptions
Purpose limited to providing the communication services.
Telephone numbers are an example; other information may also be provided.
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The providers are not named.
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Registering for Alexa calling exposes your name and number to other users
To register for Alexa Communication you provide your phone number, which AMCS verifies by SMS (carrier charges may apply). Other users who know your contact details can contact you through Alexa Communication. Your registration name and contact details may be used to identify you to other users, for example when you message someone who does not already have your details, and your phone number may appear as caller ID on your outbound calls to phone numbers.
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You provide your phone number when registering for Alexa Communication. AMCS will verify this number by sending you an SMS message (carrier charges may apply).
Other users who know your contact details will be able to contact you using Alexa Communication.
Your registration name and contact details may be used to identify you to other users, such as when you send a message to a recipient who does not already have your contact details.
Your phone number also may be displayed as a caller ID on your outbound calls to phone numbers.
Qualifications & exceptions
Carrier charges may apply to the verification SMS.
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Whether you can hide your number or name from other users is not stated here.
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Drop In lets permitted people connect to your device instantly, household-wide
Drop In is optional. It lets users with Drop In permission connect instantly to your Alexa Enabled Products for a voice or video chat without you having to do anything. Permission spreads by household: if you grant Drop In permission to yourself, everyone in your household also gets it, and if you grant it to a contact, everyone in that contact's household also gets it. Users with permission may see an indicator showing whether your device has been recently active, based on your Alexa Interactions and the motion sensors on Echo Show.
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The optional Drop In feature allows permissioned users to instantly connect to your Alexa Enabled Products for a voice or video chat without you needing to take any action.
If you grant Drop In permission to yourself, anyone in your household also receives Drop In permission; and if you grant Drop In permission to a contact, anyone in that contact’s household also receives Drop In permission.
Users with Drop In permission may see an indicator to let them know if your device has been recently active. This indicator is based on your Alexa Interactions and motion sensors on Echo Show.
Qualifications & exceptions
Drop In is optional and works only for users you have given permission.
Granting permission to one contact extends it to everyone in that contact's household.
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Third-party skills may get a voice ID-based identifier for you
If Alexa recognizes your voice while you use a third-party skill, that skill may receive a numeric identifier that lets it tell you apart from other users in your household, to personalize your experience. You can turn off this voice ID-based personalization of third-party skills (or delete your voice ID) in your Alexa profile settings.
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If Alexa recognizes your voice when you are using a third-party skill, that skill may receive a numeric identifier that allows it to distinguish you from other users in your household to better personalize your experience.
You can delete your voice ID or turn off personalization of third-party skills based on voice ID in your Alexa profile settings.
Qualifications & exceptions
Only when Alexa recognizes your voice while you use a third-party skill.
What is shared is described as a numeric identifier, not your voice recording.
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When Sidewalk is on, your devices share bandwidth and approximate location
If Amazon Sidewalk is turned on, it uses a small portion of your internet bandwidth and the approximate location of your compatible Alexa Enabled Products and Ring devices linked to your Amazon account. This helps keep other devices connected to the internet and helps find lost items by reporting their approximate locations to their owners. You can adjust Sidewalk in Account Settings in the Alexa App.
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If Amazon Sidewalk is turned on, Sidewalk will use a small portion of your internet bandwidth and the approximate location of your compatible Alexa Enabled Products and Ring devices linked to your Amazon account to help keep other devices connected to the internet and find lost items by reporting their approximate locations to the owner.
You can adjust your Sidewalk settings in Account Settings in your Alexa App.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies only if Sidewalk is turned on; you can adjust it in Account Settings in the Alexa App.
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These terms do not say whether Sidewalk is on by default or quantify the "small portion" of bandwidth.
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Using a skill lets Amazon exchange your request details with that skill
When you use a Third-Party Service (an Alexa skill or other service provided by a third party), Amazon may exchange related information with that service, such as your ZIP code when you ask for the weather, your custom music stations, information about your smart home and other Auxiliary Products, or the content of your requests, which may include text transcripts. You are responsible for any information you choose to give the third party while using its service.
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If you use a Third-Party Service, we may exchange related information with that service, such as your ZIP code when you ask for the weather, your custom music stations, information about your Auxiliary Products, or the content of your requests, which may include text transcripts.
When using a Third-Party Service, you are responsible for any information you choose to provide to the third party.
“Third-Party Service” means any Alexa skill or other service or application provided by a third party that we make available to you for use on or through Alexa.
Qualifications & exceptions
The listed items are examples ("such as"), not a complete list.
Information you choose to provide directly to the third party is your responsibility.
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How each third party uses the information depends on its own terms, which were not supplied.
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Using Alexa directs Amazon to share your requests with third-party answer sources
Alexa may itself use certain Third-Party Services to answer your requests, including to bring in relevant information from the web. By using Alexa, you are treated as directing Amazon to share your requests and related information with those Third-Party Services. This is separate from skills you choose to use: it covers Third-Party Services that Alexa draws on to answer your requests, and using Alexa counts as your direction to share.
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to provide information in response to your requests, including relevant information from the web, and by using Alexa, you are directing us to share your requests and related information with these Third-Party Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to "certain" Third-Party Services that Alexa uses to provide information in response to your requests; the list is on a linked page.
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The linked page naming these Third-Party Services was not supplied, so which providers receive requests is not known from this source.