Privacy
Statement
Dynamics Cafe
Privacy Statement
Last updated:
October 2013
Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy
statement applies to the data collected by Microsoft through the
Dynamics Cafe site (the "Site") hosted for Microsoft by
Starshot Ventures Americas LLC; it does not apply to other
online or offline Microsoft sites, products, services or apps.
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Cookies & Similar Technologies
Most Microsoft websites use "cookies," which are small text files placed
on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain text that can be read
by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. That text
often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely
identifies your computer, but may contain other information as well.
Here is an example of the text stored in a cookie that Microsoft might
place on your hard disk when you visit one of our websites:
E3732CA7E319442F97EA48A170C99801
We may use cookies for:
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Storing Your Preferences and Settings. If you enter your city or postal code
to get local news or weather information on a Microsoft site, we may store
that city or postal code in a cookie so that you will see the relevant local
information when you return to the site. This can save you time by
eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information every time you
visit the site.
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Sign-in and Authentication. When
you sign in to a site or service using your Microsoft account, we store your
unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your
hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site
without having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these
cookies are deleted from your computer. We also use cookies to improve the
sign-in experience. For example, your email address may be stored in a
cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie
allows your email address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to
type your password the next time you sign in. If you are using a public
computer or do not want this information to be stored, you can select the
appropriate radio button on the sign-in page, and this cookie will not be
used.
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Targeted Advertising. When we
display online advertisements to you, we will place one or more persistent
cookies on your device in order to recognize your device each time we
display an ad to you. Because we serve advertisements on our own websites as
well as those of our advertising and publisher partners, we are able to
compile information over time about the types of pages, content, and ads
you, or others who are using your computer, visited or viewed. This
information is used for many purposes; for example, it helps us try to
ensure that you do not see the same advertisements over and over again. We
also use this information to help select and display targeted advertisements
that we believe may be of interest to you. You can find more information
about this use of cookies, including how to opt out of receiving targeted
advertising from Microsoft, in the
Microsoft Advertising Privacy Statement.
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Site Analytics. We may use cookies
to count the number of unique visitors to a webpage or service or to develop
other aggregate statistics about the operations of our sites and services.
These analytics help us operate and improve the performance of these sites
and services.
Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed in the following chart.
This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate some of
the reasons we set cookies. If you visit one of our websites, the site
may set some or all of the following cookies:
Cookie name |
Description |
MUID |
Identifies unique browsers to Microsoft sites. It is used for
advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. |
ANON |
Contains the ANID, a unique identifier used to help identify which ads a
user may like. It is also used to preserve a user's choice to opt out of
behaviorally targeted ads from Microsoft, if the user has chosen to
associate the opt-out with his or her Microsoft account. |
CC |
Contains a country code as determined by reverse IP address lookup. |
Microsoft account authentication |
Authentication cookies (for example, RPSTAuth, MSNRPSAuth, KievRPSAuth)
used when a user signs in with a Microsoft account. |
NAP |
Contains an encrypted version of the user's country, ZIP Code, age,
gender, language, and occupation, if known, based on the user's Windows
Live profile. |
MH |
Appears on co-branded sites where Microsoft is partnering with an
advertiser; this cookie identifies the advertiser so the right ad is
selected. |
ACH01 |
Maintains information about which ad and where the user clicked on the
ad. |
TOptOut |
Indicates that the user has indicated he or she does not want to receive
behaviorally targeted ads delivered by Microsoft. |
In addition to the cookies Microsoft may set when you visit our
websites, third parties may also set certain cookies on your hard disk
when you visit Microsoft sites. In some cases, that is because we have
hired the third party to provide certain services on our behalf, such as
site analytics. In other cases, it is because our webpages contain
content or ads from third parties, such as videos, news content, or ads
delivered by other ad networks. Because your browser connects to those
third parties' web servers to retrieve that content, those third parties
are able to set or read their own cookies on your hard disk
How to Control Cookies
· Browser Controls to Block Cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept
cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to block cookies. For
example, in Internet Explorer 9, you can block cookies by taking the following
steps:
1.Click Tools and then select Internet Options.
2.Click the Privacy tab at the top of the window.
3.Move the slider up or down to indicate the rules you want to apply for
blocking cookies.
Instructions for blocking cookies in other browsers are available at
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to sign
in or use other interactive features of Microsoft sites and services that depend
on cookies, and some advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies may
not be able to be respected.
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Browser Controls to Delete Cookies. If you accept cookies, you can delete
them later. For example, in Internet Explorer 9, you can delete cookies by
taking the following steps:
1.Click Tools and then select Internet Options.
2.On the General tab, under Browsing History,
click Delete.
3.On the pop-up, select the Cookies check box.
4.Click Delete.
Instructions for deleting cookies in other browsers are available at
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
Please be aware that if you choose to delete cookies, any settings and
preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, will
be deleted and may need to be recreated.
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Browser Controls for "Do Not Track" and Tracking Protection.
Some newer browsers have incorporated "Do Not Track" features. Most of these
features, when turned on, send a signal or preference to the websites you visit
indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. Those sites (or the third-party
content on those sites) may continue to engage in activities you might view as
tracking even though you have expressed this preference, depending on the sites'
privacy practices.
Internet Explorer 9 and 10 have a feature called Tracking Protection that helps
prevent the websites you go to from automatically sending details about your
visit to third-party content providers. When you add a Tracking Protection List,
Internet Explorer will block third-party content, including cookies, from any
site that is listed as a site to be blocked. By limiting calls to these sites,
Internet Explorer will limit the information these third-party sites can collect
about you. And when you have a Tracking Protection List enabled, Internet
Explorer will send a Do Not Track signal or preference to the websites you
visit. Additionally, in Internet Explorer 10 you may switch DNT "off" or "on"
independently, if you'd like. For more information about Tracking Protection
Lists and Do Not Track, please see the
Internet Explorer privacy statement or
Internet Explorer Help.
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Advertising Opt-Out Controls.
Because cookies may be used for many purposes, users who object to
behaviorally targeted advertising may choose to accept cookies but opt out from
that particular use. Companies in the online advertising industry have developed
guidelines and programs to help protect users' privacy, and these industry
programs include webpages you can visit to opt out from receiving behaviorally
targeted advertisements from all participating companies (including Microsoft).
These pages include:
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Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Consumer Choice Page:
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
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Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Page:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
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In Europe, you may also visit Your Online Choices:
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
Individual advertising companies may also offer their own opt-out capabilities
plus more advanced advertising choices. For instance, Microsoft's advertising
preference and opt-out controls are available at
http://choice.live.com/advertisementchoice/.
Please note that opting out does not mean that you will stop getting ads or see
fewer ads; however, if you do opt out, the ads that you receive will no longer
be behaviorally targeted. In addition, opting out does not stop information from
going to our servers, but it does stop our creation or updating of profiles that
might be used for behavioral advertising.
Our Use of Web Beacons
Microsoft webpages may contain electronic images known as web
beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to help
deliver cookies on our sites, let us count users who have visited those
pages, and deliver co-branded services. We may include web beacons in
our promotional email messages or newsletters to determine whether
messages have been opened and acted upon.
We may also work with other companies that advertise on Microsoft sites
to place web beacons on their sites or in their advertisements to let us
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.
Finally, Microsoft sites may contain web beacons from third parties to
help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the effectiveness of our
promotional campaigns or other website operations. These web beacons may
allow the third parties to set or read a cookie on your computer. We
prohibit third parties from using web beacons on our sites to collect or
access your personal information. Nevertheless, you may be able to opt
out from data collection or use by these third-party analytics companies
by clicking the links for each of the following analytics providers:
1.Omniture
(Adobe)
2.Nielsen
3.Coremetrics
4.Visible
Measures
5.Google
Analytics (requires you to install a browser add-on)
Other Similar Technologies
In addition to standard cookies and web beacons, websites can use
other technologies to store and read data files on your computer. This
may be done to maintain your preferences or to improve speed and
performance by storing certain files locally. But, like standard
cookies, it can also be used to store a unique identifier for your
computer, which can then be used to track behavior. These technologies
include Local Shared Objects (or "Flash cookies") and Silverlight
Application Storage.
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Local Shared Objects or "Flash Cookies." Websites
that use Adobe Flash technologies may use Local Shared Objects or "Flash
cookies" to store data on your computer. Note that the ability to clear
Flash cookies may or may not be controlled by your browser setting for
standard cookies as that may vary by browser.
Manage or block Flash cookies.
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Silverlight Application Storage. Websites or
applications that use Microsoft Silverlight technology also have the
ability to store data by using Silverlight Application Storage.
Manage or block Silverlight Application Storage.
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Information We Collect
Microsoft collects many kinds of information in order to operate
effectively and provide you the best products, services, and experiences
we can. Some of this information you provide directly to us. Some of it
we get by observing how you interact with our products and services.
Some of it is available from other sources that we may combine with the
data we collect directly. Regardless of the source, we believe it's
important to treat that information with care and to help you maintain
your privacy.
What we collect:
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Registration - When you sign up to use our sites or services you may be
required to provide information about yourself, such as your name,
birthdate and postal code.
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Signing in - To access some Microsoft services, you will need to sign in
with an email address and password, which we refer to as your Microsoft
account. If you access our services via a mobile phone, you may also use
your telephone number and a PIN as an alternative credential to your
username and password. By signing in on one Microsoft site or service,
you may be automatically signed into other Microsoft sites and services
that use Microsoft account.
Learn more about Microsoft account privacy.
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Using our sites and services - We collect information that tells us how
you interact with our services, including the browser you're using, your
IP address, location, cookies or other unique IDs, the pages you visit,
and features you use.
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Data from other sources - We may get additional information about you,
such as demographic data we purchase from other companies.
How we collect:
We use a number of methods and technologies to gather information about
how you use our sites and services, such as:
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Web forms, such as when you type information into a registration form
or type a search query into a search box.
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Technologies like cookies and web beacons.
Learn more about these technologies.
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Web logging, which enables us to collect the standard information your
browser sends to every website you visit - such as your IP address,
browser type and language, and the site you came from - as well as the
pages you visit and the links you click while using our sites and
services.
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Software installed on your computer or other device, which may send
back information needed to operate, update, or improve that software.
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How We Use Your Personal Information
Microsoft will use the information collected on this site to operate the
site and to provide the services or carry out the transactions you have
requested or authorized.
Microsoft also uses the information we collect to operate, improve, and
personalize the products and services we offer. Information collected
through one Microsoft service may be combined with information collected
through other Microsoft services to give you a more consistent and
personalized experience in your interactions with us. We may also
supplement this with information from other companies. For example, we
may use services from other companies to help us derive a general
geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain
services to your geographic area.
We also may use the information to communicate with you, for example,
informing you when a subscription is ending, letting you know when
security updates are available, or letting you know when you need to
take action to keep your account active.
Microsoft provides many of our sites and services free of charge because
they are supported by advertising. In order to make these services
widely available, the information we collect may be used to help improve
the advertisements you see by making them more relevant to you.
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Reasons We Share Your Personal
Information
Except as described in this privacy statement, we won't disclose your
personal information to a third party without your consent.
The Microsoft.com Privacy page provides more information on sharing
or disclosing personal information:
• Within Microsoft affiliates and subsidiaries
• As part of a merger or sale of a business
• With vendors and agents of Microsoft
• When required by law or to respond to legal process or lawful
requests, including from law enforcement or other government agencies
• When required to combat fraud or protect our interests
• To protect life and safety
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Communications Preferences
Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal
information you provide on the Site will not be shared outside of
Microsoft and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your
permission.
You can stop the delivery of future promotional email from
Microsoft sites and services by following the specific instructions in
the email you receive. You may also proactively make choices about the
communications you receive through this Site by signing into your
Dynamics Cafe account and updating your preferences.
Please be aware that this privacy statement and any choices you make on
the Site will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have
provided to Microsoft in the context of other, separately operated,
Microsoft products or services.
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Access to Your Personal Information
Customer information is collected by Starshot Ventures America
LLC, a Microsoft vendor. It is stored at Starshot
Ventures America LLC, plus sent back to Microsoft. You can
review and edit the personal information you provided at this Site by
viewing or editing your personal information online at
www.dynamicscafe.com. In order
to help prevent your personal information from being viewed by others,
you will be required to sign in with your credentials (email address and
password). Alternatively, you can contact us by email at
info@dynamicscafe.com and
we will contact you within 30 days regarding your request.
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Display of Advertising
Many of our websites and online services are supported by advertising.
Most of the online advertisements on Microsoft sites and services are
displayed by Microsoft Advertising. When we display online
advertisements to you, we will place one or more persistent cookies on
your computer in order to recognize your computer each time we display
an ad to you. Because we serve advertisements on our own websites as
well as those of our advertising and publisher partners, we are able to
compile information over time about the types of pages, content, and ads
you, or others who are using your computer, visited or viewed. This
information is used for many purposes; for example, it helps us try to
ensure that you do not see the same advertisements over and over again.
We also use this information to help select and display targeted
advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you.
You may opt out of receiving targeted ads from Microsoft
Advertising by visiting our
opt-out page.
For more information about how Microsoft Advertising collects and uses
information, please see the
Microsoft Advertising Privacy Statement.
We also allow third-party ad companies, including other ad networks, to
display advertisements on our sites. In some cases, these third parties
may also place cookies on your computer. These companies currently
include, but are not limited to,
24/7 Real Media,
adblade,
AdConion,
AdFusion,
Advertising.com,
AppNexus,
Bane Media,
Brand.net,
CasaleMedia,
Collective Media,
InMobi,
Interclick,
Jumptap,
Millennial
Media,
nugg.adAG, Mobclix,
Mojiva,
SpecificMedia,
Tribal Fusion,
ValueClick,
Where.com,
Yahoo!,
YuMe,
Zumobi. These
companies may offer you a way to opt out of ad targethttp://www.mojiva.com/ing
based on their cookies. You may find more information by clicking on the
company names above and following the links to the websites of each
company. Many of them are also members of the
Network Advertising Initiative or the
Digital
Advertising Alliance, which each provide a simple way to opt out of
ad targeting from participating companies.
Microsoft Account
Microsoft account (formerly known as Windows Live ID and Microsoft
Passport) is a service that allows you to sign in to Microsoft products,
websites, and services, as well as those of select Microsoft partners.
Creating a Microsoft Account
You can create a Microsoft account by providing an email address, a
password, and other "account proofs," such as an alternate email
address, a phone number, and a question and secret answer. We will use
your "account proofs" for security purposes only - for instance, to verify
your identity in the event that you cannot access your Microsoft account
and need assistance, or to reset your password if you cannot access the
email address associated with your Microsoft account. Some services may
require added security, and in those cases, you may be asked to create
an additional security key. The email address and password that you use
to sign up for your Microsoft account are your "credentials" that you
will use to authenticate with our network. Furthermore, a 64-bit unique
ID number will be assigned to your credentials and will be used to
identify your credentials and associated information.
When you
create a Microsoft account, we will also ask you to provide the
following demographic information: gender, country, birthdate, and
postal code. We may use birthdate to verify that children obtain
appropriate consent from a parent or guardian to use a Microsoft
account, as required by local law. In addition, this demographic
information is used by our online advertising systems to provide you
with personalized advertisements about products and services you might
find useful, but our advertising systems never get your name or contact
information. In other words, our advertising systems do not contain or
use any information that can personally and directly identify you (such
as your name, email address, and phone number). If you prefer not to
receive personalized ads, you may register your preference with your
Microsoft account by visiting
this page
so that whenever you sign into websites or services with your Microsoft
account, our advertising systems will not serve you personalized ads.
For more information about how Microsoft uses information for
advertising, please see the
Microsoft Advertising Privacy Supplement.
You can use an email address provided by Microsoft (such as those ending
in live.com, hotmail.com, or msn.com) or an email address provided by a
third party (such as those ending in gmail.com or yahoo.com) when
signing up for your Microsoft account.
Upon creating a Microsoft account, we will send you an email asking you
to verify that you are the owner of the email address associated with
your Microsoft account. This is designed to verify the validity of the
email address and help prevent email addresses from being used without
the permission of their owners. Thereafter, we will use that email
address to send you communications relating to your use of Microsoft
products and services; we may also send you promotional emails about
Microsoft products and services as permitted by local law. For
information about managing your receipt of promotional communications,
please visit
Communication Preferences.
If you attempt to register for a Microsoft account and find that another
individual has already created credentials with your email address as
the user name, you may contact us and request that the other individual
adopt a different user name so that you may use your email address when
creating your credentials.
Signing in to Software, Sites, or Services with Your Microsoft Account
When you sign in to a site or service by using your Microsoft account,
we collect certain information in order to verify your identity on
behalf of the site or service, to protect you from malicious account
usage, and to protect the efficiency and security of the Microsoft
account service. For instance, when you sign in, the Microsoft account
service receives and logs your credentials and other information, such
as the 64-bit unique ID number assigned to your credentials, your IP
address, your web browser version, and a time and date. Further, if you
use a Microsoft account to sign in to a device or into software that is
installed on a device, a random unique ID is assigned to the device;
this random unique ID will be sent as part of your credentials to the
Microsoft account service when you subsequently sign into a site or
service with your Microsoft account. The Microsoft account service sends
the following information to the site or service that you have signed
into: a unique ID number that permits the site or service to determine
whether you are the same person from one sign-in session to the next,
the version number assigned to your account a new number is assigned
each time you change your sign-in information), whether your email
address has been confirmed, and whether your account has been
deactivated.
Some third-party sites and services that permit you to sign in with your
Microsoft account require your email address in order to provide you
with their services. In those cases, when you sign in, Microsoft will
provide your email address but not your password to the site or service.
However, if you created your credentials with the site or service, it
may have limited access to information associated with your credentials
in order to help you reset your password or provide other support
services.
If you received your account from a third party, like a school, a
business, an Internet service provider, or the administrator of a
managed domain, that third party may have rights over your account,
including the ability to reset your password, view your account usage or
profile data, read or store content in your account, and suspend or
cancel your account. In these cases, you are subject to the
Microsoft Services Agreement and to any additional terms of use from
that third party. If you are the administrator of a managed domain and
have provided your users with Microsoft accounts, you are responsible
for all activity that takes place within such accounts
Please note that sites and services that permit you to sign in with your
Microsoft account can use or share your email address or other personal
information that you provide to them as described in their privacy
statements. They can share the unique ID number provided to them by the
Microsoft account service with third parties only in order to fulfill a
service or transaction that you may have requested. All sites or
services that use the Microsoft account are required to have a posted
privacy statement, but we do not control or monitor the privacy
practices of those sites, and their privacy practices will vary. You
should carefully review the privacy statement for each site you sign in
to in order to determine how each site or service will use the
information it collects.
Accessing Your Personal Information
You can access your personal information by going to the
Microsoft account
page. You can change your user name if your Microsoft account does not
belong to a managed domain. You can always change your password,
alternate email address, phone number, and question and secret answer.
You may also close your Microsoft account by signing in to your
Microsoft account,
and then clicking "Close account." If your account is in a managed
domain, as described above, there may be a special process for closing
your account. Please note that if you are an MSN or a Windows Live user,
if you go to to the Microsoft account page, you may be redirected to the
Microsoft account page for those sites.
More information about Microsoft accounts is available at the
Microsoft account
website.
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Other Important Privacy
Information
Below you will find additional privacy information you may (or may not)
find important. Much of this describes common practices that we want you
to know about but don't think it's necessary to highlight in every one
of our privacy statements. And some of this is just stating the obvious
(for example, we will disclose information when the law requires it),
but our lawyers make us say it anyway. Please keep in mind that this
information is not a complete description of our practices - this is all
in addition to the other, more specific information contained in the
privacy statements for each Microsoft product and service you use.
Sharing or Disclosing Personal Information
In addition to any sharing described in the privacy statement for the
product or service you are using, Microsoft may share or disclose
personal information:
·
With other Microsoft controlled subsidiaries and affiliates.
·
As part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.
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With vendors or agents. Specifically, we may share it with companies
we've hired to provide services on our behalf. When we share information
with these other companies to provide services for us, they are not
allowed to use it for any other purpose and must keep it confidential.
We also may share or disclose personal information, including the
content of your communications:
·
To comply with the law or respond to legal process or lawful requests,
including from law enforcement and government agencies.
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To protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers,
including enforcing the terms governing your use of the services.
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To act on a good faith belief that access or disclosure is necessary
to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the
public.
Please note that our sites may include links to third-party sites whose
privacy practices may differ from those of Microsoft. If you submit
personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed
by the privacy statements on those sites. We encourage you to review the
privacy statement of any site you visit.
Protecting the Security of
Personal Information
Microsoft is committed to protecting the security of your personal
information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to
help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or
disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide
on computer systems that have limited access and are in controlled
facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a
credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through
the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal
information, it is your responsibility to keep your password
confidential. Do not share it. If you are sharing a computer, you should
always log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to
your information from subsequent users.
Where Information Is Stored and Processed
Personal information collected on Microsoft sites and services may be
stored and processed in the United States or any other country where
Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers maintain
facilities. Microsoft abides by the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and
the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department
of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from
the European Economic Area, and Switzerland. To learn more about the
Safe Harbor program, and to view our certification, please visit
http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.
Microsoft may retain your personal information for a variety of reasons,
such as to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce
our agreements, and as long as necessary to provide services. To learn
how to access your personal information, visit
Accessing Your Personal Information.
Changes to Our Privacy Statements
We will occasionally update our privacy statements to reflect customer
feedback and changes in our services. When we post changes to a
statement, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the
statement. If there are material changes to the statement or in how
Microsoft will use your personal information, we will notify you either
by prominently posting a notice of such changes before they take effect
or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to
periodically review the privacy statements for the products and services
you use to learn how Microsoft is protecting your information.
How to Contact Us
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If you have a technical or general support question, please visit
Microsoft Support to learn more about Microsoft Support offerings.
·
If you have a Microsoft account password question, please visit
Microsoft account Help.
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If you have questions about this privacy statement or believe that we
have not adhered to it, please contact us by email at
info@dynamicscafe.com or by postal mail at:
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Starshot Ventures America LLC
1123 W. Washington Blvd., 1st Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60607
To find the Microsoft subsidiary in your country or region, see
http://www.microsoft.com/worldwide/.
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