California residents have specific legal rights under state law to access, delete, correct, and opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information, and Samsung states it will honor these requests.
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These rights are legally enforceable under California law and give California residents meaningful control over their personal data, including the ability to stop Samsung from sharing their information with advertising partners.
The updated policy expands Samsung's data collection authority to include device registration, verification for repairs, and configuration of device settings. The terms now explicitly state that Samsung may collect card and transaction information if you apply for a Samsung-branded payment card. Samsung clarified that it will only send personalized marketing when you have provided consent, where required by law. The policy removed its previous statement that defective devices are wiped of personal information before analysis; the updated terms now state Samsung will analyze returned defective devices without that explicit pre-analysis data deletion commitment. For US residents, the policy now discloses rights to opt out of sale of personal information, sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising, targeted advertising processing, sensitive data collection or processing, and to request lists of third parties receiving your information.
View change record →California residents can exercise legally enforceable rights to access their data, request deletion, correct inaccuracies, and opt out of the sharing of their data for targeted advertising by submitting a request through Samsung's privacy portal.
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You may contact our privacy team with any requests of disclosure, correction, or deletion of your personal information. You may also request suspension of use or suspension of sharing of your personal information with certain third parties.
Request Deletion of your information, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law.
California residents have the right to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information...to third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless we provide them with an ability to exercise choice regarding such disclosures.
"California residents have the right to: Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, or sell; Delete personal information we have collected from you; Opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information; Correct inaccurate personal information; and Limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information. To exercise these rights, you can submit a request through our privacy portal or by calling our toll-free number.Excerpt from Samsung's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: These rights are required under the CCPA as amended by CPRA, enforced by the California Privacy Protection Agency and the California Attorney General.
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These rights are legally enforceable under California law and give California residents meaningful control over their personal data, including the ability to stop Samsung from sharing their information with advertising partners.
California residents can exercise legally enforceable rights to access their data, request deletion, correct inaccuracies, and opt out of the sharing of their data for targeted advertising by submitting a request through Samsung's privacy portal.
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