Microsoft Loop privacy & data

Microsoft collects data from users, through your interactions with us and your use of our products.

Name and contact details . Your first and last name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and other similar contact details.

Account credentials . Information used to access your account, such as username, password, and password hints.

Payment data . Details needed to process payments, including credit card numbers and security codes.

Biometric data . Unique data about you from specific technical processing related to your physical, physiological, or behavioral characteristics to verify or confirm your identity.

Content . Information in files and messages, emails, chats, calls, meetings, photos, documents, and other media you create or share using Microsoft products.

Device and usage data . Data about your device and product features you use, hardware and software details, product performance, your interactions with our websites and apps, and your settings.

Provide our products, which includes updating, securing, and troubleshooting, as well as providing support and making recommendations.

As part of our efforts to improve and develop our products, we may use your data to develop and train our AI models.

Advertise and market to you, which includes sending promotional communications, personalized advertising, and presenting relevant offers.

Security and Safety . We use data to protect the security and safety of our products and customers, such as by detecting malware and malicious activities.

Microsoft retains personal data for as long as necessary to provide the products and services you use and to fulfill the transactions you request.

For example, we maintain a shortened retention period for precise geolocation information.

Microsoft may store and process your personal data in your region, the United States, and any other jurisdiction where Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers operate facilities.

In such cases, we implement legal safeguards-such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission

Microsoft Corporation complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

You can control your personal data that Microsoft has obtained and exercise your data protection rights by contacting Microsoft or using various tools we provide, such as the Microsoft privacy dashboard .

If Microsoft obtained your consent to use your personal data, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

You can request access to , erasure of , and updates to your personal data.

You can also object to or restrict the use of your personal data by Microsoft.