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This provision establishes the operational scope and legal framework for health data processing under Microsoft health products. By delegating detailed health data governance to a separate policy document, the provision creates a dual-policy structure that specifies collection, use, and handling practices specific to health information categories.
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 who provide health data to Microsoft health products consent to collection and use of that data for service provision and improvement purposes. The terms apply the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy as the governing framework for how Microsoft processes health-related information in applicable products.
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"Health data you provide to Microsoft health-related products and services, such as fitness data, health history, and other health information, is used to provide those services and improve them. Microsoft has a separate Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy that governs the collection and use of consumer health data in applicable Microsoft products.— Excerpt from Microsoft's Microsoft Privacy Statement (Legacy)
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This provision establishes the operational scope and legal framework for health data processing under Microsoft health products. By delegating detailed health data governance to a separate policy document, the provision creates a dual-policy structure that specifies collection, use, and handling practices specific to health information categories.
Users who provide health data to Microsoft health products consent to collection and use of that data for service provision and improvement purposes. The terms apply the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy as the governing framework for how Microsoft processes health-related information in applicable products.
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