Microsoft Privacy

This is Microsoft's global Privacy Statement covering consumer products, enterprise services, AI features, devices, and developer platforms including Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Bing, Copilot, Teams, Xbox, and OneDrive. The statement authorizes Microsoft to use personal data including prompts, browsing history, voice data, location, and file content to develop and train AI models including large language models, with an opt-out available in some markets but not universally applied. The document also discloses that personalized advertising data is shared with named third-party partners including Facebook, Yahoo, Xandr, Taboola, Outbrain, and The Trade Desk, and that Microsoft may access and disclose personal data including email and file content based on a self-assessed good faith belief standard covering safety, security, rights protection, and legal compliance.

This document is Microsoft's global Privacy Statement (last updated June 2026), governing the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of personal data across Microsoft's full product ecosystem including consumer services, enterprise software, devices, AI/Copilot features, and developer platforms. The statement asserts that Microsoft collects identifiers, contact details, payment data, biometric data, voice data, location data, browsing history, content of files and communications, and inferred interests, and uses this data to provide products, improve and train AI models including large language models, deliver personalized advertising, and conduct business operations including fraud detection and legal compliance. The document discloses AI model training using user data with an opt-out mechanism in certain markets, advertising data sharing with named third parties including Facebook, Yahoo, Xandr, Taboola, Outbrain, and The Trade Desk, and reserves the right to access and disclose content including emails and files under a good faith belief standard that encompasses a broad range of circumstances beyond law enforcement orders. The statement engages GDPR, CCPA and U.S. state privacy laws, COPPA, Brazil's LGPD, Japan's Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and the EU-U.S., UK Extension, and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks; compliance obligations vary significantly by jurisdiction and product context. Material considerations include the breadth of data categories collected across interconnected products, the conditional nature of AI training opt-outs by market, and the assertion that enterprise agreement terms supersede this privacy statement where conflicts arise.

The agreement establishes that Microsoft collects a broad range of personal data across interconnected products including identifiers, biometric data, voice recordings, precise location, browsing history, and the content of emails, files, chats, and documents. Under these terms, Microsoft may use this data to develop and train AI models including large language models, with opt-out available in some but not all markets, and may share data for personalized advertising with named third-party companies including Facebook, Yahoo, Xandr, Taboola, Outbrain, and The Trade Desk. You can opt out of personalized advertising at the Microsoft personalized ads and offers page, manage AI training participation through the Microsoft Privacy Dashboard where available, and exercise data access, correction, deletion, and portability rights through the privacy support and requests page or by contacting Microsoft directly.