Microsoft combines data from different contexts and third parties, with some separation safeguards
Microsoft combines data collected from different contexts or obtained from third parties to give you a more seamless, consistent and personalized experience, to make informed business decisions and for other legitimate purposes. Its example is Microsoft Store using information about the apps and services you use to recommend apps. It says it uses technological and procedural safeguards to prevent certain data combinations, for example storing data from unauthenticated users separately from account information that directly identifies you, such as name, email address or phone number.
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We combine data collected from different contexts or obtained from third parties to give you a more seamless, consistent, and personalized experience, to make informed business decisions, and for other legitimate purposes.
We use technological and procedural safeguards to prevent certain data combinations
we store data collected from unauthenticated users separately from account information that directly identifies you
Qualifications & exceptions
Safeguards prevent "certain" combinations, not all.
"Other legitimate purposes" is open-ended.
Not stated here
The text does not list which combinations are prevented beyond the unauthenticated-user example.
Linking & Identification · Company practice
Third parties that set cookies on Microsoft sites follow their own privacy policies and may combine data across sites
Besides its own cookies, Microsoft uses cookies from third parties to enhance its sites. Some third parties can set cookies when you visit Microsoft sites, for example companies hired for site analytics and companies that deliver content like videos, news or ads. These companies use the data they process under their own privacy policies, which may enable them to collect and combine information about your activities across websites, apps or online services. Microsoft says which third-party cookie types may be used depends on the context, service or product, and on your settings and permissions.
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we also use cookies from third parties to enhance the services on our sites. Some third parties can also set cookies when you visit Microsoft sites.
These companies use the data they process in accordance with their privacy policies, which may enable them to collect and combine information about your activities across websites, apps, or online services.
The following types of third-party cookies may be used, depending on the context, service or product, as well as your settings and permissions:
Qualifications & exceptions
Third parties may collect and combine information about your activities across websites, apps or online services under their own policies.
Which types are used depends on context, product and your settings and permissions.
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Personalized ads combine cookies with data like your IP address; opting out stops cookie data being used
Personalized ads use cookies combined with information collected when your browser interacts with Microsoft sites, such as your IP address. Microsoft states that data from cookies will not be used for personalized ads if you opt out of receiving them. It points to the personalized ads and offers settings page and its Opting Out section.
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Personalized ads use cookies combined with information we collect when your browser interacts with our sites (like your IP address.)
Data from cookies will not be used for personalized ads if you opt-out of receiving such ads.
Qualifications & exceptions
The opt-out promise is about cookie data and personalized ads.
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You can sync third-party contacts and calendars to Teams, and removing them can affect other Microsoft apps
You can choose to sync contacts from third-party providers and unsync them from Teams or remove them from all Microsoft apps and services. You can choose to sync your Teams calendar with third-party calendars and stop at any time by removing the third-party account from Teams. Removing a third-party account from Teams may affect your experience on other Microsoft apps and services that use the same account, including where you consented to use third-party data in them.
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You can also choose to sync contacts from third-party providers. You can choose to unsync your third-party contacts on Teams or remove third-party contacts from all Microsoft apps and services.
removing a third-party account from Teams may impact your experiences on other Microsoft apps and services that also use that account
You can stop syncing your Teams calendar anytime by removing a third-party account from Teams.
Qualifications & exceptions
Removing a third-party account in Teams can affect other Microsoft apps that use it.
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Windows creates an advertising ID that Microsoft, third-party apps and ad networks can use, and you can turn it off
Windows generates an advertising ID for each user on a device, which Microsoft, third-party apps and advertising networks can use to provide relevant ads and personalized experiences in apps and across the web, similar to how websites use cookies. App developers and ad networks can also use it for their own purposes, subject to their own privacy policies and the controls described. The setting applies to Windows apps using the advertising identifier, and you can turn off use of the ID in the Windows Settings app.
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Windows generates an advertising ID for each user on a device, which Microsoft, third-party apps, and advertising networks can use to provide relevant ads and personalized experiences on apps and across the web, similar to how websites use cookies.
App developers and advertising networks can also use it for their own purposes, subject to their own privacy policies and the controls described below.
You can turn off use of the advertising ID in the Windows Settings app.
Qualifications & exceptions
Developers and ad networks may use the ID for their own purposes under their own policies.
The setting applies to Windows apps that use the advertising identifier, not other personalized advertising.
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Personalized offers may also combine web activity, other Microsoft product use, purchases and third-party site data
In addition to device information and diagnostic data, Microsoft may use or combine data from other Microsoft products and your account to personalize offers: web activity, if you give Edge permission to collect it for personalized search, ads and news; information about your use of other Microsoft products and services, including Bing, Microsoft 365, Xbox and Microsoft websites such as MSN.com; subscription and purchase history; and data from third-party websites that may be shared with Microsoft. It may also use your interactions with tips, recommendations and promotions to provide and improve personalized offers and similar messages in other Microsoft products.
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we may use or combine the following data from other Microsoft products and your account with Windows diagnostic data to personalize offers:
Web activity, if you give Microsoft Edge permission to collect your web activity for personalized search, ads, and news.
Info about your use of other Microsoft products and services, including Microsoft Bing, Microsoft 365, XBOX, and Microsoft websites, such as MSN.com.
Subscription and purchase history.
Data from third-party websites which may be shared with Microsoft.
We may also use information about your interactions with tips, recommendations, and promotions to provide and improve the personalized offers and similar messages in other Microsoft products.
Qualifications & exceptions
Edge web activity is used only if you give Edge permission.