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The provision establishes operational mechanisms for users to exercise data subject rights under privacy frameworks. It obligates Microsoft to provide access, deletion, and portability tools or assistance, and to honor withdrawal of consent and objections to data processing.
The updated policy establishes additional grounds on which Microsoft may retain personal data. While the prior version tied retention to specific user expectations and available deletion controls, the revised language authorizes retention for 'operating our business, meeting our contractual and legal obligations, improving and developing our products and services, protecting the safety and security of our systems and customers, and resolving disputes.' This expands the stated purposes beyond transaction fulfillment and legal compliance. The updated policy directs users to product-specific documentation for retention details rather than providing explicit deletion procedures and timelines in the privacy statement itself.
View change record →The updated policy now grounds data retention in five broad business purposes: operating the business, meeting contractual and legal obligations, improving and developing products and services, protecting system and customer safety, and resolving disputes. Previously, the policy articulated specific criteria for determining retention periods, including customer expectations for retention until manual deletion, availability of automated deletion controls, and data sensitivity. The revised language removes these granular criteria and instead requires users to consult individual product documentation to understand when their specific data will be deleted. This shifts the burden of finding retention timelines from the main policy statement to separate product-specific documents.
View change record →The updated Privacy Statement removes previously stated language about additional rights available to European Economic Area users, narrowing the policy's explicit protections in that region. Simultaneously, the revised terms now explicitly authorize Microsoft to contact users via auto-dialer and prerecorded voice for marketing purposes, provided the user has consented to receive marketing communications to the phone number supplied. This establishes Microsoft's contractual permission to initiate automated marketing calls using artificial intelligence-generated voice technology where user consent to marketing contact has been given.
View change record →Users have the ability to request access to their data, delete or update it, port it to other services, and withdraw consent or restrict Microsoft's use of their personal data through specified tools or by contacting Microsoft. The provision does not restrict users from exercising these rights.
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"You can access and control your personal data that Microsoft has obtained with tools Microsoft provides to you, which are described below, or by contacting Microsoft. Microsoft provides you with the following data protection rights regardless of your location: If Microsoft obtained your consent to use your personal data, you can withdraw that consent at any time. You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. You can request access to, erasure of, and updates to your personal data. If you'd like to port your data elsewhere, you can use tools Microsoft provides to do so, or if none are available, you can contact Microsoft for assistance. You can also object to or restrict the use of your personal data by Microsoft.— Excerpt from Microsoft's Microsoft Privacy Statement (Legacy)
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The provision establishes operational mechanisms for users to exercise data subject rights under privacy frameworks. It obligates Microsoft to provide access, deletion, and portability tools or assistance, and to honor withdrawal of consent and objections to data processing.
Users have the ability to request access to their data, delete or update it, port it to other services, and withdraw consent or restrict Microsoft's use of their personal data through specified tools or by contacting Microsoft. The provision does not restrict users from exercising these rights.
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