Apple Website Terms of Use

Apple · agreement dated November 20, 2009 · Official agreement

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Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Apple may disclose your information, including your identity, for investigations and to act against people causing harm

Apple may disclose any information it has about you, including your identity, if it determines the disclosure is necessary in connection with an investigation or complaint about your use of the Site, or to identify, contact or take legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with, intentionally or not, the rights or property of Apple or of Site visitors and users, including Apple customers.

Details
Who
Apple
What it covers
any information Apple has about you, including your identity
Condition
Apple determines disclosure is necessary
Why
investigations or complaints about your use; acting against someone causing injury or interference

Supporting quotations

Apple may disclose any information we have about you (including your identity) if we determine that such disclosure is necessary in connection with any investigation or complaint regarding your use of the Site
or to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Apple’s rights or property, or the rights or property of visitors to or users of the Site, including Apple’s customers.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Disclosure depends on Apple's own determination that it is necessary for the stated purposes.

Not stated here

  • The recipients of such disclosures are not named.
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Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice

Apple may disclose information to comply with law or government requests, and for fraud protection

Apple reserves the right at all times to disclose any information it considers necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. Apple may also disclose your information when it determines that applicable law requires or permits disclosure, including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection.

Details
Who
Apple
Why
legal compliance; fraud protection
Condition
Apple deems it necessary, or determines that applicable law requires or permits disclosure

Supporting quotations

Apple reserves the right at all times to disclose any information that Apple deems necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.
Apple also may disclose your information when Apple determines that applicable law requires or permits such disclosure, including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection purposes.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The second sentence covers disclosures the law merely permits, not only those it requires.

Not stated here

  • The companies and organizations involved in fraud-protection exchanges are not identified.
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