Power Query privacy & data

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

Location data . Data about your device’s location, which may be either precise (typically based on GPS, cell tower, or Wi-Fi hotspot location) or imprecise

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.

Searches and commands . Search queries and commands you provide in Microsoft products, such as interactions with a chat bot.

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

Improve and develop our products. 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.

Legal compliance . We process data to comply with applicable laws.

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

We process authenticated deletion requests within 30 days of receipt.

After requesting account closure, the account is marked for deletion, but we will wait 60 days before permanently deleting the account in case you change your mind or need to access 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.

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.

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.

Microsoft will turn off sharing your data with third parties for personalized ads and turn off the “Share my data with third parties for personalized ads” toggle if we receive a GPC signal from you when you visit our sites.