Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld Privacy statement

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04/14/2014

4/14/2014

Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy, while delivering devices and services that bring you the personalized experience, performance, power, and convenience you desire. This privacy statement describes the data collection and use practices of the Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld software and services ("Handheld 8.1"). Prior versions of the Windows Embedded Handheld operating system (for example, Windows Embedded 8 Handheld) are covered by a separate privacy statement. Click here to review the Windows Embedded 8 Handheld privacy statement.

This statement does not apply to other online or offline Microsoft sites, products, or services. It also does not apply to the data collection and use practices of other entities that are part of your device experience, such as your carrier, device manufacturer, mobile app providers, enterprise accounts, and website providers. Please review the privacy policies of those entities to learn about their practices.

Not all features are available on all devices (for example, some features are not available on devices with limited memory), all carriers, or in all regions.

Collection and Use of Your Information

Collection and Use of Standard Information About Your Device

Collection and Use of Device and Service Credentials

Collection and Use of Location Information

Information We Share with Others

Children

Display of Advertising

How We Communicate with You

Information Storage and Transfer

Security of Your Information

Changes to this Privacy Statement

For More Information/Access Requests

Specific Features

Advertising Identifier
Background Tasks
Backup
Calendar
Cortana
Email + Accounts
Find My Device
Internet Explorer Mobile
Keyboard Recognition
Kid’s Corner
Location Check-Ins
Maps
Messaging
Microsoft Account
Notifications and Action Center
Office Mobile
User name
People Hub
Personalized Suggestions
Device Feedback
Photos + Camera
Rooms
Search
SharePoint Mobile
Speech
Storage Sense
Store
Sync Settings
Tap + Send
Updates
Wallet
Wi-Fi Sense
Workplace
Xbox LIVE and Xbox Music

Not all features are available on all devices (for example, some features are not available on devices with limited memory), all carriers, or in all regions.

Collection and Use of Your Information

As you use your Handheld 8.1-powered device and related services, we will collect some information from you in order to enable the features and services offered on the device, carry out the transactions you request or authorize, and display content and advertising that are customized to your interests and preferences. Information we receive may also be analyzed in order to improve features and services offered on the device and other Microsoft products and services, unless more limited purposes are specified in the Specific Features section below.

For web-based experiences on the device, including within the Store and Games Hub, we may collect information about your visit to our sites. For example, we may capture information about the pages and content you view and the actions you take within our sites, such as searches for content or applications, the purchase of applications or content, or the streaming of content. This information is used to customize your experience and provide the services you request as well as to improve other Microsoft products and services.

To offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with Microsoft, and to improve our products and services, information collected through Microsoft features and services on the device may be combined with information obtained through other Microsoft products and services. We may also supplement the information we collect about you from your device with information obtained from third parties.

Collection and Use of Standard Information About Your Device

When your device is activated and you use Internet-enabled features, information about your device ("standard device information") is sent to Microsoft and/or the websites you visit and online services you use. Microsoft uses standard device information to authenticate your device, provide you Internet-enabled services, help troubleshoot, help improve our products and services, help keep your software up to date, and for analytics. If a particular feature or service sends information to Microsoft, standard device information will be sent as well. We may share activation data with our partners, such as device manufacturers or mobile operators. This data will not be used to contact you.

Standard device information typically includes information such as your IP address, operating system version, browser version, and regional and language settings. In some cases it may also contain a portion of your International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI), unique IDs we generate for your device, and other device identifiers that indicate the device manufacturer, device name, version, and mobile operator. To facilitate mobile operator billing, and for security, if you set up a Microsoft account from your device, Microsoft may also need to collect information such as the full IMSI and the device number associated with your device. We may also share information including standard device information with mobile operators for purposes such as testing and diagnostics.

Collection and Use of Device and Service Credentials

To make it easier to access services, sign-in credentials for Microsoft and third-party services may be stored on your device. We may also check the domain name of email addresses you enter to determine if you have associated accounts in Office 365. If you associate a Microsoft account with your device, those credentials (an email address and password) are automatically saved to your device. That way, you will not need to sign in each time you use features such as Store and Xbox LIVE. See the Microsoft Accountsection below.

Similarly, sign-in credentials for third-party services and Wi-Fi networks may also be saved on your device. Depending on the service, these credentials may be an actual password or a token, which is like an electronic key provided by the third party service that acts in place of a password for authentication. In some cases, usernames and passwords may also be stored on Microsoft servers if you choose to back up your content or sync your settings. See Backup and Sync Settings below.

Collection and Use of Location Information

On Handheld 8.1-powered devices, "location services" refers to device software and online services that use location data to assist the device’s applications or features, and websites you visit, to provide improved experiences based on your device’s location. The Microsoft location positioning database is an online service that calculates your device’s approximate location to assist the location services running on your device.

If you turn on location services, authorized apps, websites, and Handheld 8.1 features will be able to access your device’s location and use it. If you use a third-party app, its use of your device’s location is subject to the third party’s privacy practices. Before you install an app, you’ll be able to see whether the app uses location in the app description.

If you let an app or feature use your location, Handheld 8.1 can tell the app when your device moves inside or outside of app-defined geographical boundaries called geofences. For example, an app could let you set a reminder to pick up groceries when you leave work. You can see whether your device is monitoring any geofences in location settings.

The Microsoft location positioning database contains limited information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers that we use to help provide location services more efficiently and effectively. It does not include information that identifies you or uniquely identifies your device, and does not allow Microsoft to track you or your device. The individual applications or features that you choose to use, and the websites you visit, (including those offered by Microsoft), may retain location information in association with your account or device. Please review the privacy policies of the websites, applications, and features that you allow to access your device's location to learn about how they use the location information they request.

Before Microsoft can collect the Wi-Fi access point and cell tower information described below, and before an application, feature, or website can access your device's location, you must allow access.

Location Positioning Database

If you allow an application, feature, or website to access your device's location, each time it requests location, information about nearby cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and available Global Positioning System (GPS) information may be collected by Microsoft's location positioning database and used to help determine the approximate location of your device and to update and improve the database for future requests.

For example, if you have Wi-Fi enabled on your device, and if you allow an application or website to access your device’s location, the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and signal strength of Wi-Fi access points available to your device may be collected by Microsoft's location positioning database. Similarly, if you are connected to a cellular network, identifiers and signal strength of the cell towers available to your device may be collected. If GPS is available, the latitude, longitude, altitude, speed, and direction of the device provided by the GPS may be collected.

This information is utilized by Microsoft’s location positioning database to return to the application, feature, or website an approximate location of your device. The location information provided may include the latitude, longitude, speed, direction, and altitude of your device at the time of the request. It does not include identifiable information about available cell towers or Wi-Fi access points, such as MAC addresses, or cell tower identifiers.

We may use trusted third-party location positioning databases or services, such as Nokia’s database, to provide improved location positioning on your device. For example, when an application on your device requests location, we may also query a partner’s location positioning database to allow your device to better determine its location. Just as with the Microsoft location positioning database, the partner database will receive information about nearby cell towers and Wi-Fi access points and GPS data, but will receive no information that identifies you or uniquely identifies your device.

Location Master Switch & Specific Application Location Access

To use location services, your device’s master location services switch must remain On. If the master location services switch is set to Off, Microsoft will not collect information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers, and applications, features, and websites will be unable to use the device’s location even if you intend to allow such use in the specific instance. To disable access to your device's location by all applications, features, and websites, go to Settings > location and toggle the Location services switch to Off. If you later toggle the master location services switch to On, your application-level location settings (see below) will be restored.

In addition, before your device will use location services you must also agree to allow a specific application, feature, or website to access your device’s location. If you have previously enabled such access, you can later disable access to your device's location in the application's settings. For example, to disable the map application's access to your device's location, you can go to Settings > applications > maps and toggle the use my location switch to Off. Note: This feature may not apply to applications from third parties which you have installed on the device. In those instances, you may need to either uninstall the application or turn of the master services switch to disable location use by the application.

Wi-Fi Access Point Database

Microsoft also maintains a directory of publicly available Wi-Fi networks to assist Windows device users in finding and navigating to popular Wi-Fi hotspots. The Wi-Fi access point database is based on information gathered as Handheld 8.1-powered devices connect to hotspots and information Microsoft obtains directly from public Wi-Fi operators.

You can help improve this feature by sending Microsoft limited information as you use your Wi-Fi service, including characteristics of your device such as make, model, mobile carrier, and other standard device information, as well as the standard identifiers of the Wi-Fi networks your device is detecting. This information helps us with assumptions about how hotspots are used and which may be best for certain device types, but is not used to identify you or your device specifically. You can turn on this feature by choosing the Recommended settings when setting up your device or, if you choose custom settings, by enabling Send information about Wi-Fi connections to help discover nearby Wi-Fi. You can also change this setting at any time at Settings > system > Wi-Fi > manage.

Personal Wi-Fi Access Point Opt-Out

If you have a Wi-Fi access point or router and you wish to exclude it from Microsoft’s location positioning database or public Wi-Fi access point database, you can submit the MAC address to Microsoft’s block list at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=223681. We will exclude these MAC addresses and any related data from the databases. Neither will we pass MAC addresses that are submitted through this process in queries to location positioning database partners when we utilize such partners.

You can help Microsoft learn more about where people are setting up their Handheld 8.1-powered devices in order to improve our products and services by sending your location when you activate your device. If you choose to participate, the GPS coordinates of your device and a device identifier will be sent to Microsoft after you finish the setup process. If your device can’t connect to GPS, we’ll use Microsoft location services to approximate your location. These services will use cellular data, which could incur charges. The checkbox you are presented during the set-up process will only send this information at the time of activation, and you can choose to uncheck the box and not send this information.

Except as described in this privacy statement, your information will not be transferred to third parties (non-Microsoft controlled subsidiaries and affiliates) without your consent. We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as sending and delivering purchases and other mailings, answering customer questions about products or services, processing event registration, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the information they need to provide the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Microsoft may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers, or the public. We may also disclose your information as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.

Children

A Handheld 8.1-powered device is not intended for use by children without parental consent. Depending on country, we may require parental consent to establish a Microsoft account for a child under 13 (older in some jurisdictions). Providing permission to create a Microsoft account will allow your child to use any Microsoft service that relies upon the Microsoft account, and many of those services require the collection of certain personal and other information and may allow a child to communicate with others. Parents can change or revoke consent by changing their child’s account settings from their own Microsoft account. To learn more about Microsoft accounts, please see Microsoft Accountbelow.

Display of Advertising

Some websites you visit, and some applications you download from the Store, may display advertisements using Microsoft's advertising platform – including personalized ads that we believe may be of interest to you. Microsoft Advertising may also use third-party ad companies to display advertisements in applications that use our ad platform. When we do so, we may send a unique ID to those third-parties with the ad request.

You may opt out of receiving personalized ads from Microsoft Advertising, and discontinue sending a unique ID to third party ad networks used by Microsoft Advertising, by visiting our opt-out page. Just sign-in with the Microsoft account you have associated with your Handheld 8.1-powered device and that you use to access the Store, and select the Personalized ads wherever I use my Microsoft account opt-out option. For more information about how Microsoft Advertising collects and uses information, please see the Microsoft Advertising Privacy Statement. After you opt out of personalized advertising, you will receive generic ads instead of personalized ads from Microsoft Advertising.

Websites you visit, and applications you download from the Store, may also use advertising platforms other than the Microsoft Advertising platform. In those instances, Microsoft has no control over the activities of the other ad networks. Microsoft recommends that you review the privacy policies and practices of the applications that display advertising to learn more about information they pass to ad networks, including ad networks other than Microsoft’s advertising platform, and any additional application controls regarding the display of advertising. Your device can provide a unique identifier to apps to allow them to provide more relevant advertising. To learn more, see the Advertising Identifier section.

How We Communicate with You

When you sign-in or establish a Microsoft account, we will ask you for an email address and permission to email you tips and information. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as welcome emails (intended to help get you started using your device), billing reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements to the email address you provided when creating your Microsoft account – even if you have chosen not to receive ongoing email tips and information. We may also send security notices or password reset confirmations to the device number associated with your device.

If you receive promotional emails from us and would like to stop receiving them in the future, you can do so by following the directions in that message. You may also directly manage communications preferences by visiting the Microsoft Communications Preferences page.

Information Storage and Transfer

Information that is collected by or sent to Microsoft by the Handheld 8.1-powered device may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers maintain facilities. Microsoft abides by the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Economic Area, and Switzerland. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view our certification, please visit www.export.gov/safeharbor/.

Security of Your Information

Microsoft is committed to helping protect the security of your information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities.

We strongly recommend that you take steps to protect information on your device by using the lock screen password feature. This feature allows you to require a password to access most applications and information on your device when locked. To turn on this feature, go to Settings > system > lock screen and toggle the password to On. You can also set the period of inactivity before your screen times out and locks itself. When you set up a wallet in your device, you may also choose to protect it with a "Wallet PIN." See Wallet for more information.

If you create a company account that gives you access to corporate email or applications, the enterprise may apply policies to your device that require or alter the lock screen password feature. See What is a company account?and What is a Microsoft Account? for more information. Your administrator may also apply BitLocker® device encryption. If your device is lost or stolen, and if you have locked your device with a password, BitLocker encryption helps make it more difficult for an attacker to recover sensitive information from the device. Please note that even when BitLocker is applied, data stored on SD cards (removable memory cards you insert) is not encrypted.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

We will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect changes in our products and services, and to clarify our practices based on experience and customer feedback. When we make changes, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this statement. If there are material changes to this statement or in how Microsoft will use your information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the change or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to be informed of how Microsoft is collecting, using, and protecting your information.

For More Information/Access Requests

Microsoft welcomes your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement, believe that we have not adhered to it, or want to request access to the information we've collected about you, please contact us using our web form or use the contact information provided below.

Microsoft Privacy

Microsoft Corporation

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Redmond, Washington 98052 USA

Specific Features

Advertising Identifier

To provide more relevant advertising, the Handheld 8.1-powered device allows apps to access a unique identifier for each owner of a device. You can reset or turn off access to this identifier at any time under advertising id in settings. If you turn this setting off, no information is sent to apps that request your advertising identifier. If you sign in using a child Microsoft account, the advertising identifier is disabled. If you allow apps access to the advertising identifier, the Handheld 8.1-powered device will provide it to all apps that request it. Apps might store or transmit this information. Your advertising identifier is used by app developers and advertising networks to provide more relevant advertising to you by understanding which apps you use and how you use them. It can also be used by app developers to improve quality of service by allowing them to determine the frequency and effectiveness of ads and to detect fraud and security issues. If you use a third-party app, how the app uses your advertising identifier is subject to the third party’s privacy practices.

Some websites you visit, and some applications you download from the Store, may display advertisements using Microsoft's advertising platform – including personalized ads that we believe may be of interest to you. To learn more about Microsoft Advertising and your choices, see the Display of Advertising section.

Your choices:

If you choose express settings while setting up your Handheld 8.1-powered device, the device will allow apps to use your advertising identifier. After setting up the device, you can change this under advertising id in settings.

To turn the advertising ID on or off:

Go to Settings > system > advertising id.
Toggle the Advertising ID switch to On or Off.

To reset your advertising ID:

Go to Settings > system > advertising id.
Tap the Reset your advertising ID button.

Background Tasks

To provide faster launching of and switching between applications, certain apps may continue to run in the background even when they are not open on your device. For instance, an app might periodically update its location or download information from the web so that it is available when you start it.

You can find a list of the apps that run in the background on your device through Settings. Some apps provide the option to turn on or off their ability to run in the background, but you may not be able to disable this capability for all apps. In that instance, you can remove the app from your device if you do not want it running in the background.

Your Choices:

To find all the apps on your device that can run in the background:

Go to Settings > applications > background tasks.
Tap on the advanced button.

To block apps from running in the background:

Go to Settings > applications > background tasks.
Tap on the available app you wish to block from running in the background.
Tap the block button.

To turn on an app’s ability to run in the background:

Go to Settings > applications > background tasks.
Tap on the available app you wish to unblock.
Tap the Turn background tasks back on for this app the next time I open it button.

Backup

When you sign in with a Microsoft account on your device, you can choose to automatically save certain content and settings to Microsoft servers so you’ll have a backup if something happens or you change devices. You will be asked whether you wish to “back up your stuff” during device set-up. With this single selection, you can turn on automatic uploads of limited-resolution photos to OneDrive as you take them, ongoing sync of your SMS and MMS messages to your Outlook.com account, and the creation of daily backups from your device. Daily backups include a list of apps you’ve installed, data from apps that support backup, and many of your device’s settings, such as your theme color, passwords you’ve saved, your Internet Explorer favorites, words you’ve added to your device’s dictionary, your ringtones, and more.

After your initial device set-up, you can also manage your backup settings. For instance, you can choose to upload videos to OneDrive in addition to your photos, or choose whether app data gets backed up. After your initial device set-up, you can also manage your backup settings on a detailed basis and choose options for things you backup. For instance, you can choose to upload videos to SkyDrive in addition to your photos. Or you can choose to upload photos and videos at full resolution. Or you can choose to upload only photos and settings, but turn off the SMS and MMS sync.

If you turn on backups, your device will attempt to save a backup of your settings once a day (usually overnight) using a Wi-Fi connection. If your device doesn’t connect to Wi-Fi for about a week, however, it will attempt to send a backup using a cellular data connection subject to your Data Sense settings (which allow you to manage your data usage based on your data plan). To help protect your privacy, all backups are sent encrypted via SSL.

Your Choices:

To turn on backup during device setup, select yes when prompted on whether you wish to “back up your stuff.”

To change any of your backup settings and options at any time:

Go to Settings > system > backup.
Tap on app list + settings, text messages, or photos + video, and follow the screen prompts for instructions and options.

To delete earlier app + settings backups (this won’t affect messages or photos and videos, which must be managed from Hotmail/Outlook and OneDrive, respectively):

Go to Settings > system > app list + settings.
Tap the manage backups button.
Tap the delete button.

See Messaging and Photos + Camera for more details on those features.

Note that if you sign in with a Microsoft account, some device settings and other info like passwords will be synced with Microsoft servers and your other Windows devices by default. To learn more about your choices for syncing settings and info, see the Sync settings section.

Calendar

The Calendar app helps you keep track of your appointments, events, and tasks. You can add, delete, or modify calendar events directly in the Calendar app. If you’ve added a third-party account under email+accounts in Settings, calendar info from that account will show up in the Calendar app. Other apps on your device can read or modify your calendar, or provide their own calendar info that displays in the Calendar app.

If you allow Calendar to use your device’s location, it will also display the daily weather forecast if it’s available.

Your choices

To choose whether Calendar uses your location:

Open Calendar and choose settings from the menu at the bottom.
Check or uncheck the Use my location checkbox.

Cortana

Cortana works best when it can learn about you and your activities by using information from your device, your Microsoft account, third-party services, and other Microsoft apps and services. Cortana also provides personalized app recommendations in the Store. To provide personalized experiences, relevant suggestions, and improve Cortana and other services, Microsoft collects and uses various types of information, such as your device location, information from your calendar, the apps you use, specific information from your emails and text messages, and your contacts. Cortana also learns about you by collecting information about how you use your device, such as the music you play on your device, your alarm settings, whether the lock screen is on, what you view and purchase in the Store, and more. Microsoft will use information collected through Cortana to personalize and improve other Microsoft products and services.

Location services

Cortana uses location information to give you the most relevant results if you ask for something, and to make suggestions that help save you time. Cortana can learn which routes you travel often and provide updates about traffic along those routes so you can leave in time to make your next appointment. If you tell Cortana to remind you to buy milk at the grocery store, Cortana will check your location and remind you when you get to the store. Or you can ask Cortana to find you a nearby restaurant that takes reservations. To provide this service, Cortana regularly collects your device’s location and sends it to Microsoft. If you have previously given Microsoft permission to collect your location in other Microsoft services such as Local Scout or Bing, Cortana may also use this to provide you great suggestions. Cortana can only work if location services are on, so if you turn them off, Cortana will be disabled. You can manage your saved places used by Cortana—see Your Choices below.

Text messages and email

Cortana can detect times and dates in emails and text messages so you can easily add events to your calendar. For example, if you get a text message that says “let’s meet for dinner at 7pm on Saturday”, you can tap the underlined link to add an event with those details to your calendar. This detection happens on your device only--no information is sent to Microsoft until you add the calendar event.

Cortana can also automatically keep you up to date on things that are important to you. For example, when you receive a message containing flight information or a package tracking number, Cortana will automatically start tracking the flight or package for you and give you updates on the flight or delivery status. You can get alerts if a flight is delayed, or when your package arrives. Cortana detects this information in messages received on your device. You can disable detection of this info in Settings.

Speech

To help Cortana understand the way you speak and better understand your voice commands, Cortana sends speech data to Microsoft to build personalized speech models and improve speech recognition for Cortana and other Microsoft products and services. Speech data sent to Microsoft includes voice recordings, as well as associated performance data (such as changes you manually make to text and the final text result). Cortana also collects and uses other information, such as the names of your contacts, how often you call them, the titles of your calendar events, and words you’ve added to the dictionary.

Apps and services

Cortana uses data collected through other Microsoft apps and services to provide personalized suggestions. For example, Cortana can automatically display information about the teams you follow in the Bing Sports app. It also learns your favorite places from the Bing Maps app and what you do in Local Scout so it can offer better suggestions. Your Notebook Interests may also be used by other Microsoft Apps and Services, such as Bing or Bing Apps, to customize your profile interests, preferences and favorites in those Apps as well. Choosing to sign in to Facebook in Cortana settings lets Cortana and Bing give you more personalized recommendations and allows Microsoft to access certain Facebook information. For more information, see the Facebook Personalization section of the Bing privacy statement at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=298739.

Browsing history

If you choose to send your mobile browsing history to Microsoft in Internet Explorer (see the Internet Explorer section), Cortana can provide suggestions based on the sites you visit in Internet Explorer. Cortana won’t collect information about sites you visit in InPrivate tabs.

Search history

Your Bing search queries – even if Cortana does the searching for you – are treated like any other Bing search queries and combined with other information about you to improve your Bing search results and the relevance of personalized ads. You can opt out of personalized ads from Microsoft by visiting https://choice.microsoft.com. For more information, see the Bing privacy statement at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=298739.

Your Choices:

If Cortana is available in your country or region, you can choose to turn it on while setting up your device or at any other time. To turn Cortana on or off:

Go to Settings > applications > Cortana.
Tap the turn Cortana on or turn Cortana off button.

When Cortana is turned on, you can view and edit Cortana interests, reminders, and other settings for suggestions. If you remove an interest in Cortana’s Notebook, the interest will be removed but the information used to generate that interest remains on Microsoft’s servers. To edit or clear information collected by Cortana, see below.

Press the Search button to open Cortana
Tap the Menu button to open Cortana’s Notebook.

If you choose Recommended settings the first time you use Internet Explorer, Cortana will use your browsing history. To change this setting:

Go to Settings > Applications > Internet Explorer, then tap Advanced.
Check or clear Send browsing history to improve and (where available) personalize services.

You can turn off automatic detection of tracking info in emails (such as flight information) in Settings:

Go to Settings > applications > Cortana.
Check or clear Detect tracking info, such as flights, in emails on your Handheld device.

Once you turn Cortana off, you can manage the information collected and used by Cortana on Microsoft servers. You can manage info such as your interests, your saved places, your search history, your speech data, and your IE browser history. Additionally, you can manage other information collected by Cortana (such as your calendar, your contacts’ names, and information about how you use your device). Cleared information may not be immediately deleted from our servers, but it will no longer be used by Cortana.

To manage information sent by Cortana to Microsoft:

Go to Settings > Cortana.
Tap the turn Cortana off button if Cortana is turned on.
Tap manage cloud data to see your choices for editing or clearing data in your online profile.

To clear information Cortana stored on your device:

Go to Settings > Cortana.
Tap the turn Cortana off button if Cortana is turned on.
Tap Clear Handheld device data.
Tap Delete.

When Cortana is turned on, you can control whether Cortana uses information from your Facebook account. Note that if you turn Cortana off after connecting Cortana to Facebook, you’ll continue to receive Facebook personalization in other experiences on your device. To disconnect Facebook after turning off Cortana, see the Personalized suggestions section.

Go to Settings > Cortana.
Under Facebook, tap Sign in or Sign out.

Email + Accounts

When you add an email account to your device, or connect a social media account to your Microsoft account associated with your device, subject to the account’s settings, your device may automatically retrieve available messages, contacts, photos, feeds, and documents to help keep the information from these accounts up to date on your device. If you set up an Outlook Exchange account on your device, your network administrator will be able to apply policies to your device that allow them to require you to use a lock screen password or to disable your SD card. The administrator may also be able to remotely wipe all the content of your device (including content that is not company-related).

When you share content from your device to social media, your content is generally uploaded directly to that network. However, photos posted to some social media may be hosted on OneDrive. In these cases, when you share photos from your device, the photo is uploaded to a public folder on OneDrive and a link to the content is posted to the social media. This means that anyone with access to the link or anyone on the Internet who finds the folder will be able to access the content on OneDrive, even if you posted the link to a private audience. Furthermore, anyone with access to the public folder on OneDrive will be able to access not just the photo you posted to the social media, but all other content in the folder as well. If you delete the photo from the social media, the content will remain in the public folder on OneDrive unless you separately go to OneDrive and delete the content.

Your Choices:

You can change the settings for most types of accounts to update your content less often, or only when you choose.

To change the settings for your update frequency or the content you synchronize:

Go to Settings > email + accounts.
Tap the account you want to change.
In the Download new content list, choose how often you want to receive updated content. If you only want to receive content when you request it, tap Manually.
In the Content to sync list (where applicable), clear the check boxes of the content you do not want to sync.

The content from Facebook accounts is always updated automatically. If you don't want to receive Facebook updates outside of the Facebook app, you can change this in Settings in the Facebook app.

To delete an account:

Go to Settings > email + accounts.
Tap and hold the account you want to delete.
Tap Delete.

Find my phone

The Find my phone feature allows you to map, ring, lock, or erase your device from https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/my. You will be asked to enter your device number, and we may use that number to ring or send an SMS to your lost device at your request. If you’ve previously requested that your device be locked, we will use the contact email address provided for your Microsoft account to provide you with instructions to unlock your device. We will also periodically collect certain diagnostic information about your device, such as your battery level, device capabilities (whether SMS or GPS location positioning is available, etc.) and whether the device has lock screen password or SIM card lock enabled, to provide other features that allow you to remotely lock and/or erase the device.

There are two ways that we determine the location of your device for the Find My device feature:

If you have turned on the “save my location every few hours for better mapping” feature from the Find my phonesettings on your device, the location of your device will be sent periodically to your online account at https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/my. This is particularly helpful in a case where the lost device is turned off or its battery is fully discharged. The Find my phone feature only stores the last known location of your device. When a new location is sent, it replaces the previously stored location.
Even if you have not turned on that feature, you can still attempt to find your device’s current location by signing into your online account at https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/my. Note that when you make a request from your online account, it will try to retrieve the location of your device regardless of whether location services are enabled on your device.

Your Choices:

The "save my location every few hours for better mapping" feature is Off by default. To turn on the feature:

Go to Settings > system > find my phone.
Check Save my phone’s location periodically and before the battery runs out to make it easier to find.

To completely disable the Find my phone feature, which will prevent the feature from working even when you make a specific request online, log in to your online account at https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/my and:

Click on Account.
Click on Remove this phone.

Internet Explorer Mobile

Auto-suggestions

To help you find the content you want more quickly, Internet Explorer automatically suggests websites as you type addresses into the browser. Auto-suggestions can come from your History or Favorites stored on your device, or from the Bing service. To get suggestions from the Bing service, what you type in the address bar or search bar is sent to the Bing service as you type it. To learn more about the information collection practices of Bing, please review the Bing Privacy Statement.

Your Choices:

If you do not want auto-suggestions from the Bing service in Internet Explorer:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced settings.
Clear Get suggestions from Bing as I type.

Cookies

Websites you visit using Internet Explore may use "cookies" (small text files placed on your device by a web server to uniquely identify your device) to store and read data files on your device. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your device, and can only be read by a website or web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device. Cookies are often used to personalize your visit to a website or to save you time. For example, to facilitate a purchase, a cookie could contain shopping cart information such as your current selection, as well as contact information such as your name or email address.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies in Internet Explorer. If you decide to block cookies, you might not be able to view some websites or take advantage of customization features (such as local news and weather, or stock quotes). In addition to accepting or blocking all cookies, you can choose Internet Explorer’s “block some” cookie setting, which allows some but not all cookies. For instance, this setting blocks third-party cookies from sites that do not have a compact privacy policy, and cookies that save information that can be used to contact you without your explicit permission.

Your Choices:

You can manage how cookies are used on your device. To manage cookies:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced settings.
Under Cookies from websites, select either accept all, block some, or block all.

Data Sense

The Data Sense setting in Internet Explorer Mobile is designed to help reduce your data usage by routing certain webpage requests through Microsoft servers to optimize Web content, like images, JavaScript, and text. To do so, the URLs you browse are sent to the Data Sense service provided by Microsoft. Internet Explorer may then fetch the web content directly from the original site, or use the Data Sense service to get cached or condensed content from Microsoft servers. Over time and multiple users, Microsoft is also able to cache selected website content for future users.

The URL data collected in the browser optimization is not used to identify, contact, or target advertising to you or your device, or build a profile of your browsing history. Instead, it is used to analyze aggregate performance, identify caching and image optimization opportunities, and generally improve the service. The URL activity is associated with a random, unique ID that is assigned to a specific device for only approximately 30 days. This ID is used, for example, to determine whether content on a website is visited by one device 100 times, or by 100 devices one time. We also attempt to strip query parameters (for example, search terms) from the URL data and store and analyze only root URLs.

Your Choices:

You can choose whether to use the Data Sense browser optimization feature. You can participate by choosing the Recommended settings on the first use of Internet Explorer or by turning it on or off at any later time:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced settings.
Under Data sense, choose Off to disable the Data Sense browser optimization feature. Choose automatic, standard, or high to enable Data Sense at the savings level specified.

Do Not Track

When you visit a website in any browser, you automatically share information with that website, such as cookies, your IP address, and other standard device information. If the website contains content provided by a third-party website (for example a map, advertisement, or web measurement tools such as a web beacon or scripts), some of this information may also be automatically sent to the content provider. Although this activity can have several benefits – including facilitating ad-supported content on free websites – there are also potential privacy impacts because it may be possible for the content providers to track you across multiple websites.

If you choose, Internet Explorer can send a Do Not Track request to the websites you visit and to the third-parties whose content is hosted on those sites to let the sites know that you prefer not to be tracked. Websites may continue to engage in activities you might view as tracking even though you have expressed this preference. This is dependent on websites’ specific practices.

Your Choices:

You can choose whether to send Do Not Track requests as you browse. You can send the requests by choosing the Recommended settings on the first use of Internet Explorer or by turning it on or off at any later time:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced settings.
Check or uncheck Send Do Not Track requests to websites you visit.

Favorites and Browsing History

Internet Explorer stores on your device the websites you've saved as your favorite as well as a history of URLs you have visited recently. If you choose to sync your settings using a Microsoft account, your favorites and history will be synced to Microsoft servers so you can access them from your other Windows devices. To learn more, see the Sync Settingssection.

Your Choices:

You can clear website passwords that you asked Internet Explorer to save, entries in Internet Explorer's history folder, web form data, temporary Internet files, and cookies that have been saved to your device. This feature deletes data stored to your device but does not delete any browsing history or other search data previously sent to Microsoft. To delete browsing history on your device:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer.
Tap delete history.

You can choose to send your browsing history to Microsoft by choosing the Recommended settings on the first use of Internet Explorer. You can turn it on or off at any time:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced.
Check or clear Send browsing history to improve and (where available) personalize services.

Location

If you allow a website to access your location, each time your device requests location, information about nearby cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and available Global Positioning System (GPS) information may be collected by Microsoft's location service and used to help determine the approximate location of your device. For additional information, see Collection and Use of Location Positioning Information.

Your Choices:

You will be asked whether you wish to allow a website to request your location information when that website makes the request to your device. You may stop all sites from prompting for your location permission at any time:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced.
Turn off the allow access to my location switch.

Passwords

When a website requires you to enter a username and password, Internet Explorer will ask whether you want it to save the username and password you entered. You can choose to save a username and password for a specific site; you can also choose to always or never automatically save usernames and passwords you enter. Passwords that Internet Explorer saves are stored encrypted on your device. If you choose to sync your settings using a Microsoft account, the encrypted passwords will be synced to Microsoft servers so you can use them on your other Windows devices. To learn more, see the Sync Settingssection.

Your Choices:

You can choose whether Internet Explorer automatically saves passwords:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced settings.
Under Website passwords, select either remember, don’t remember, or ask each time.

To delete passwords that Internet Explorer has saved on your device:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer.
Tap the delete history button.
Check the Delete saved passwords checkbox and tap delete.

SmartScreen Filter

SmartScreen Filter is designed to help warn you about unsafe websites impersonating trusted websites (phishing) or that contain threats to your device. If you opt in to SmartScreen Filter, it first checks the address of the webpage you are visiting against a list of high-traffic webpage addresses stored on your device, which are believed by Microsoft to be legitimate. Addresses that are not on the local list will be sent to Microsoft and checked against a frequently updated list of webpages that have been reported to Microsoft as unsafe or suspicious. Information that may be associated with the web address, such as search terms or data you entered into forms, might be included. Address strings might unintentionally contain personal information, but this information, like the other information sent, is not used to identify, contact, or target advertising to you or your device. In addition, Microsoft employs technological measures to filter address strings to try to remove personal information.

Periodically, information about your usage of SmartScreen Filter will also be sent to Microsoft, such as the time and total number of websites browsed since an address was sent to Microsoft for analysis. Some website addresses that are sent to Microsoft may be stored along with additional information, including web browser version, operating system version, SmartScreen Filter version, the browser language, the referring webpage, and information about the website. A unique identifier generated by Internet Explorer is also sent. The unique identifier is a randomly generated number that does not contain any personal information and is not used to identify you. This information, along with the information described above, is only used to analyze performance and improve the quality of our products and services.

Your Choices:

You can choose to use the SmartScreen filter feature by choosing the Recommended settings on the first use of Internet Explorer or by turning it on or off at any later time:

Go to Settings > applications > Internet Explorer > advanced settings.
Check or uncheck Use SmartScreen Filter to help protect against unsafe websites.

Keyboard Recognition

As you type, your Handheld 8.1-powered device can suggest words and corrections based on the device’s dictionary. Over time, your device can automatically adapt to include and suggest the words you’ve previously typed, as well as your contacts’ names. For most languages, you can choose to disable these suggestions. However, for certain languages (for example, Chinese and Japanese), suggestions cannot be disabled. When using Japanese, your device will also make suggestions based on portions of your recent message threads stored on your device. The automatic adaptations to your dictionary are stored on your device.

You can help Microsoft improve typing on the Handheld 8.1-powered device and other Microsoft products and services by participating in the Keyboard Touch Information feedback feature. You can participate by choosing the Recommended settings when setting up your device or, if you choose custom settings, by enabling the feature there. When you participate, keyboard touch information used by the device to recognize your intended characters (called "touchpoints") will be sent to Microsoft whenever you use the keyboard on the device, along with any characters you typed, words you selected from suggestions, and automatic corrections. Because knowing what kinds of words people type on their devices improves the ability of the keyboard to correctly interpret touchpoints, the final text will also be sent. If you have Cortana turned on, your custom dictionary is sent to Microsoft to personalize your experience – see the Cortana section.

To help protect your privacy, we do not collect keyboard touch information when the device displays a login screen or password field. We also take measures designed to prevent the collection of email addresses and numeric sequences such as device numbers, credit card numbers, etc. The keyboard information is sent such that it does not identify you or your device, and then aggregated with text from many users and transformed into counts of character and word sequences for analysis.

Your Choices:

For most languages you can manage typing suggestions:

Go to Settings > system > keyboard.
Below the add keyboard option your enabled languages are shown.
Tap the language for which you wish to disable suggestions.
Uncheck the suggestions and corrections you don’t want.

You can delete words that have been added to the device:

Go to Settings > system > keyboard.
Tap advanced.
Tap reset suggestions.

You can change the text suggestion improvement setting at any time:

Go to Settings > system > keyboard.
Tap advanced.
Check or uncheck Improve suggestions by sending information about my keyboard usage to Microsoft.

Kid’s Corner

Kid’s Corner allows you to set your device so that your child can access only the games, music, videos, or apps you specifically designate. Although not required, this feature works with your screen lock password so that each time you launch Kid’s Corner, your child can only access the items you place in Kid’s Corner and cannot go back to your home screen or launch other applications. To resume access to other apps or features, you must reenter your password if one has been set. When a child accesses an app in Kid’s Corner, they’ll typically have access to the full functionality of that app, and the app will typically collect the same data it would when launched from your normal home screen. When an app is launched in Kid’s Corner, it will typically access and transmit the same information (such as your advertising identifier) as when the app is launched from your normal home screen.

Your Choices:

You can set up and manage your Kid’s Corner with the games, music, videos, and apps you want your child to be able to access:

Go to Settings > system > kid’s corner.
Toggle Kid’s Corner to On or Off.
Tap Games, Music, Videos, or Apps to manage the items you want to include.

Location Check-Ins

Check-in allows you to search for a nearby location and then “check in” there on certain social media sites. When you begin the check-in process, data is provided to the Bing search service to deliver results for nearby places. This data includes location, time and date, and your search terms. Once you select the location to check-in, the data necessary to create the requested post is passed on to the social media to which you are choosing to post. This will include information about the place you check-in, including its name, location, street address, device number, and category or type (for example, a restaurant, store, or bar). By choosing to “check-in” you may expose your location to others.

You can also choose to allow your “check-in” information to be used by Bing to help personalize your future search results on your device or anywhere you are signed into your Microsoft account. If you choose this option, your “check in” history is stored in association with your Microsoft account and may be used to personalize and improve other Microsoft products and services, such as Cortana. To learn more about the information collection practices of Bing, please see the Search section of this statement, and also the Bing Privacy Statement.

For more general information on location services, see Collection and Use of Location Positioning Information.

Your Choices:

To use the "check-in" feature you must have your device’s master location services switched to On as described in the Collection and Use of Location Positioning Information section of this statement.

To post "check-ins" and use location to find nearby places for posts:

Go to Settings > applications > people.
Toggle the Use my location switch to On.

To allow Bing to use your check-in history to improve your search results:

Go to Settings > applications > people.
Check Save check-in searches and locations with my Microsoft account to improve search results.

Maps

Your device contains integrated Nokia Mapping Technology. Depending upon your location, requests made by the Maps app may be fulfilled by Nokia or Bing. When you request a map or interact with Nokia Mapping (such as when requesting routing directions or traffic information), some standard device information will be provided to Nokia. This information is not used to identify, contact, or target advertising to you or your device unless Nokia otherwise obtains your consent. Nokia may use this data to provide and improve their mapping services.

You can keep track of your favorite places and recent map searches in the Maps app. When you start typing in a location field (for example, in the Calendar app), your favorite places and search history will be included as search suggestions. If you’re signed in with your Microsoft account on your device, your favorite places and search history will be synced across other apps and services you sign in to with your Microsoft account. In Maps settings, you can control whether this info is synced, but if you have Cortana turned on, this info will always sync. To learn more about how Cortana uses location information, see the Cortana section.

If you allow Maps or Local Scout to access your location, the approximate location of your device, along with any queries you make in Maps and Local Scout, will be sent to Microsoft to improve and personalize products and services, such as local search results. To learn more about the information collection practices of Maps and Local Scout, powered by Bing, please review the Bing Privacy Statement.

Your Choices

To turn on or off the Maps feature's access to your device's location, which is Off by default:

Go to Settings > applications > maps.
Toggle the Use my location switch to On or Off.

To clear your previous map searches and temporary files from your device:

Go to Settings > applications > maps.
Tap delete history.

Messaging

When you sign in with a Microsoft account on your device, you can sync your SMS and MMS messages and store them in the Outlook.com account associated with your Microsoft account. This allows you to retrieve the messages if you lose or change devices. You will be asked whether you wish to “back up your stuff” during device set-up. If you choose this option, it will turn on backup of SMS and MMS messages. See Backup.

After your initial device set-up, you can manage your messaging settings at any time. For instance, you can turn on or turn off text message backups, manage delivery confirmations and acknowledgments, choose which app to receive text messages with, and change other messaging settings. Turning off your SMS/MMS backup will not delete messages that have been previously backed up to your Outlook.com account. To delete such messages from storage, you must delete them from your device prior to turning off backup. See Email + Accounts.

You can attach a map of your current location, a picture, a video, a voice note, or contact information to an outgoing message. If you choose to attach your location to your message, landmark information may be collected by Microsoft's location positioning database. See Collection and Use of Location Positioning Information.

If you use a third-party app to send or receive text messages, that app’s use of message data will be subject to the third party’s privacy practices.

Your Choices:

To turn on SMS/MMS sync:

Go to Settings > applications > messaging.
Toggle the text message backup switch to On.

To choose which app to receive texts with:

Go to Settings > applications > messaging.
Under Receive texts using, choose the app you want to use to receive texts.

To attach a map of your location or another file to an outgoing message:

Tap the paperclip symbol at the bottom of the screen.
Select the item(s) you wish to attach.

Microsoft Account

A Microsoft account keeps your photos, contacts, music, documents, settings, passwords, and more in sync with your PC or Xbox. It can also personalize your experiences across Microsoft services and products. You do not need to create or enter a Microsoft account to use your device. However, if you do not associate a Microsoft account with your device, you won’t be able to get apps from the Store or use features like Xbox LIVE, Xbox Music, Backup, or Find my phone. If you do not want to create or enter a Microsoft account when setting up your device, tap Not now when prompted to create or enter a Microsoft account.

If you associate a Microsoft account with your device, you can use an existing Microsoft account or you can create one using the device. If you have an existing account, any contacts associated with that account will be automatically synced with your device. When you connect a Microsoft account, it will automatically import contacts and calendar items you’ve added locally on your device to your online Microsoft account contact list and calendar. Contacts and calendar items from third-party services, such as social media accounts, are not imported to your Microsoft account.

After you create your Microsoft account, you can use the same credentials to sign in to many different Microsoft sites and services, as well as those of select Microsoft partners. By signing in to one Microsoft site or service, you may be automatically signed in when you visit other Microsoft sites and services.

To learn more about the information collection practices for Microsoft accounts and how your credential information is used when you sign in to participating sites, please read Microsoft account disclosures in the Microsoft.com Privacy Statement.

Your Choices:

To set up or associate an existing Microsoft account with your device during device setup, follow the screen prompts. You may also do so at any time after setup:

Go to Settings > system > email + accounts.
Tap add an account.
Tap Microsoft account.
Follow the screen prompts.

You may delete your Microsoft account sign-in credentials from your device at any time. However, this will delete all data from your device – including all apps you have downloaded, music, pictures, and videos – and will reset the device to the factory settings.

To delete your Microsoft account sign-in credentials from your device:

Go to Settings > about.
Tap reset your phone.
Follow the screen prompts.

Notifications and Action Center

When you swipe down from the top of the screen, you can see recent notifications from your apps and take quick actions like turning on Bluetooth or opening the camera. You can choose which apps and quick actions appear in Action Center, and you can choose whether Action Center is available while your device is locked. If you choose to make Action Center available while your device is locked, notifications like text messages and emails will be visible without having to unlock your device.

To clear notifications in Action Center:

Swipe down from the top of the screen to open Action Center.
Tap Clear All to clear all notifications, or swipe to the right on an individual notification to clear it.

To choose which quick actions appear in Action Center:

Go to Settings > notifications + actions.
Tap one of the quick actions to choose which one to use.

To choose whether Action Center displays when your device is locked:

Go to Settings > notifications + actions.
Check or uncheck Show notifications in action center when my Handheld device is locked.

To change an app’s notification settings:

Go to Settings > notifications + actions.
Tap an app in the list to change its notification settings.

Office Mobile

Once you configure your device with a Microsoft Account, documents, document settings, and notes stored in your device can be synced to OneDrive, Office 365, or Microsoft SharePoint Server. Specific metadata properties for the documents will be automatically synced to your device to provide current information such as last updated date and author of documents. Documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) that you create on the device are synced to OneDrive, Office 365, or Microsoft SharePoint Servers only when you take explicit action to save the document to one of these locations. OneNote files are automatically synced when you close the file or switch to another function if a data connection is available.

Your Choices

To delete all Office settings and content, including saved SharePoint sites, SharePoint documents, SkyDrive documents, settings and credentials from your device:

Go to Settings > applications > Office.
Tap Reset Office.

User name

Every file saved by Microsoft Excel Mobile, Microsoft OneNote Mobile, Microsoft PowerPoint Mobile, and Microsoft Word Mobile includes the following file properties: Every file saved by Microsoft® Excel® Mobile, Microsoft® OneNote® Mobile, Microsoft® PowerPoint® Mobile, and Microsoft® Word® Mobile includes the following file properties:

Author
Last Saved By

Your Choices

Additionally, if you save comments to a file, Office Mobile includes your user name with each comment. This information is then available to anyone who has access to your file.

To change the user name associated with your files, such as file properties and comments:

Go to Settings > applications > Office.
Change or clear the user name.

People Hub

The People Hub lets you view and interact with contacts stored on your device and synced from your online accounts, such as your email account or Facebook account. You can view and edit contact info, as well as view and interact with your contacts’ updates from social networking apps that integrate with your Handheld 8.1-powered device. For example, you could reply to a friend’s Facebook status update that you see in People Hub. You can also update your own status or post location check-ins—see the Location Check-Ins section. Your interactions with third-party services are subject to the third party’s privacy practices and any applicable terms of use.

Apps’ use of contact information can be used to enhance your experience. For example, a video calling app can add its usernames to your existing contacts. In this case, when you’re on a cellular call with a contact for whom the app has provided a username, your device may let you seamlessly start a video call with them using the app.

Your Choices

You can choose whether contacts sync from the accounts you’ve added on your device:

Go to Settings > email+accounts.
Tap an account to select it.
Under Content to sync, check or uncheck Contacts.

Personalized Suggestions

If you have Cortana turned on, it will provide personalized suggestions as described in the Cortana section. If you don’t have Cortana turned on, you can still get personalized suggestions as described in this section.

If you turn on Personalized Suggestions, Microsoft will attempt to further personalize your Handheld 8.1-powered device experience by refining your search results and suggesting apps and games that may interest you. These suggestions are based on information we collect through other features and services associated with your Microsoft account as well as your use of certain features and services related to your device. This includes information about your use of your device (for example, which apps you run most often), activity in the Store (for example, the kinds of apps you browse, download, and review), your signed-in activity on other services (for example, your activity on Xbox LIVE) associated with your Microsoft account, and location information (for example, your location when you search using Bing) to provide better geographic suggestions for you. You may also choose to supplement your suggestions by connecting your Handheld 8.1-powered device with Facebook, which may include things your friends like in suggestions for you. If you connect with Facebook, other features (like Cortana) will also be connected to Facebook and can use its data.

Information about the way you use your device is collected through device Feedback. As described below, the feedback data is generally associated only with a unique ID that does not identify you or your device and is not associated with your Microsoft account. By choosing to participate in feedback and also opting-in to personalized suggestions, we will associate this data with your Microsoft account to allow a more personalized device experience. If you have not enabled feedback, that data will not be collected even if you otherwise opt in to suggestions. However, other data, such as your activity in the Store, will still provide a basis for some personalization.

You may choose to turn off Personalized Suggestions at any time. In addition to stopping further personalized suggestions, if you have opted in to Feedback, this will cause future feedback data to again be associated only with a unique ID and not associated with your Microsoft account. It will not alter other data collection associated with your Microsoft account (for instance, in connection with your Store activities). That data will still be collected in the Store servers and may be used later if you again enable Personalized Suggestions.

Your Choices:

When you use the Store, you may be asked whether you wish to turn on the Personalized Suggestions feature, which is Off by default. You may also turn on or off the Suggestions feature at any time:

Go to Settings > applications > search.
Tap on suggestions.
Toggle the Suggestions switch to On or Off.

You may also change your selection of whether to supplement Personalized Suggestions with your Facebook data at any time:

Go to Settings > applications > store.
Tap on suggestions.
Tap on Facebook to connect to Facebook and turn on Facebook suggestions, or tap and hold Facebook and tap remove facebook suggestions to remove Facebook suggestions.

Device Feedback

By participating in Handheld 8.1 Feedback (feedback), you can help Microsoft improve Handheld 8.1 , other Microsoft products and services, and trusted partner products and services. When you choose to participate, we collect information about how you use your device and apps, as well as errors you experience and other feedback you submit to Microsoft. The following categories of data may be collected and sent to Microsoft periodically using available data connections:

Device configuration, such as the network connections in use, screen resolution, memory use, battery life, domain settings for email accounts you've set up, and which version of Handheld 8.1 software is running.
Performance and reliability, such as how quickly a feature responds when you tap an icon or press a button, how many problems you experience with a feature, and how quickly information is sent or received over a network connection.
Application use, such as the features and apps that you use most often, what features and apps you pin to the Start screen, how you navigate app menus and the Store, how often you change settings and update feeds and contact info, and how long you are using certain features and apps.
Software operation errors, such as problems that interrupt you while you use your device, and errors that occur behind the scenes. Reports might contain personal information, but Microsoft uses this information to diagnose errors, not to identify you or contact you.
Feedback you voluntarily submit to Microsoft.

Microsoft does not use the information collected by feedback reports to identify you unless you specifically give permission in a particular feature (for example, if you decide to get suggestions in the Store).

Your Choices

To change the device feedback setting at any time:

Go to Settings > system > feedback.
Toggle Send feedback to Off or On.

Photos + Camera

Your device’s camera allows you to embed location info in your photos. Please be aware that by choosing to share photos with embedded location info to social media, online services, and applications, you may be exposing that location info to others. A third party’s use of this location info is subject to the third party’s privacy practices.

When you take photos embedded with your location, the Photos app can group your photos by time and location. To group your photos, the Photos app sends location info in your photos to Microsoft to determine the names of locations, such as “Seattle, Washington”. Microsoft doesn’t save the location information sent by the Photos app, and it isn’t associated with your Microsoft account or used to identify, contact, or target advertising to you.

When you sign in with a Microsoft account on your device, you can choose to automatically upload photos and/or videos to a OneDrive folder and manage the quality (resolution) of the uploads. This feature uploads media you capture on the device, as well as media you save to the device (such as from a social media album). It does not automatically upload media from an SD card or anything you copy to your device over a USB connection from a computer. You will be asked whether you wish to “back up your stuff” during device set-up. If you choose this option, it will turn on automatic upload of lower resolution photos. See Backup.

After your initial device set-up, you can manage your OneDrive photos and/or video storage on a detailed basis. For instance, you can choose to also upload videos to OneDrive, or choose to upload photos and videos at full resolution. Depending on the resolution quality you choose, your device may use cellular data or Wi-Fi connections and the upload may be delayed until an appropriate data connection is established. Turning off automatic upload will not delete photos that have been previously uploaded to OneDrive. To delete such photos from storage, you must log into your online account at https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/my.

You may choose to install third-party apps that also allow automatic uploads of photos and videos. Your device can help you find such apps and can also identify the apps you have on your device that are capable of automatic uploads. You should carefully consider the terms of use and privacy practices for such apps.

Your Choices:

You may be asked whether you wish the Camera to include location information in the photos and videos you capture, which is off by default. To change this setting at any time:

Go to Settings > applications > photos + camera.
Toggle the Use location info switch to On or Off.

To automatically upload photos and/or videos to your OneDrive folder:

Go to Settings > applications > photos + camera.
Under Auto upload, tap on the OneDrive entry.
Use the radio buttons under Photos and Videos to set the resolution for the uploads you want.

To find and install other apps that can automatically upload your photos and videos:

Go to Settings > applications > photos + camera.
Under Auto upload, tap on the apps entry.
Tap the find apps button.

To choose whether the Photos app groups photos by time and location:

Go to Settings > applications > photos + camera.
Under Photo settings, check or uncheck Group my photos by time and location.

Rooms

Rooms allow you to share chat messages, calendars, photos, videos, and notes with other members of the room. Members will see chat messages, calendar items, photos, and notes you specifically choose to share with the room. Members will not have access to your personal calendars, photos, and notes, except for the ones you’ve chosen to share with your Messenger friends.

Rooms rely on Messenger for the chat function, and all members of the room will see the chat messages you send to the room. When you set up a room and invite others to it, or when you accept an invitation to join a room, you will automatically become Messenger friends with the other members of the room, and those who later join. Depending on your Messenger settings, friends may be able to review your Messenger profile information and see other information you’ve chosen to share with your Messenger friends (such as shared files in OneDrive). If you are a member of a room, you may not be notified when the room creator invites others to the room and when they join. If you or others leave the room, or if you remove someone from the room or delete a room, you will still be Messenger friends unless you separately remove the person from your Messenger friends list. You may wish to periodically check your Messenger account and manage your friends settings.

Your Choices:

To create a room from Start:

If a Family Room tile is visible on Start, tap on it.
Tap invite someone.
Choose a contact (with a device number) and send them an invitation to join the room.

To create a room from the People hub:

On Start, tap People.
Swipe left or right to Together.
Tap New +.
Tap Room.
Type a name for the room, and tap save.

To edit or delete a room (if you are the room owner/creator):

On Start, tap People.
Swipe left or right to Together.
Tap the room you want to edit or delete.
Swipe to Members.
Do any of the following:
- To invite a member to the room, tap Members > Invite +.
- To remove a member from the room, tap Members, tap the contact, and then tap Remove.
- To rename the room, tap More . . . > Rename.
- To delete the room, tap More . . . > Delete room.

To leave a room (if you are not the room owner/creator):

On Start, tap People.
Swipe left or right to Together.
Tap the room you want to leave.
Swipe to Members.
Tap Leave room, and then tap Leave.

To unfriend a person on Messenger, remove the contact from your device.

Search

If you have Cortana turned on, Cortana provides the search features on your device – see the Cortana section. If you don’t have Cortana turned on, you can still use the search features described in this section.

Bing search can help you quickly find the information you want. To learn more about Bing privacy practices, please review the Bing Privacy Statement.

To clear previously typed search terms, music searches, and Tag and vision searches from your device:

Go to Settings > applications > search.
Tap delete history.

Auto Suggestions

To help you find the content you want more quickly, Search automatically suggests search terms as you type. Auto-suggestions can come from your search history stored on your device, or from the Bing service. To get suggestions from the Bing service, your search term is sent to Bing as you type it or say it.

Your Choices:

To turn on or off the Search feature’s auto-suggestions from the Bing service, which is On by default:

Go to Settings > applications > search.
Check or uncheck Get suggestions from Bing as I type.

Location

If you allow Search to access your location, the approximate location of your device along with the search query will be sent to Bing to provide and improve local search and mapping results.

Your Choices:

To turn on or off the Search feature's access to your device's location, which is Off by default:

Go to Settings > applications > search.
Toggle the Use my location switch to On or Off.

Microsoft Tags

When you scan a Microsoft Tag (a two-dimensional barcode), the device’s camera scans the Microsoft Tag to return you applicable information. The image information is not associated with your Microsoft account or used to contact you. Microsoft may also send your standard device information (and location data if you have chosen that setting) to the Tag creator to provide local results based on your device and other Tags you scanned from the same Tag creator. For example, if you scan a Tag on a movie poster, the information collected by Microsoft may be provided to the publisher of the poster, which may use it to provide you with nearby show times for the movie. Tag creators' use of this information is subject to their privacy practices, and not this privacy statement.

To turn on or off the Search feature's option of sending location information in connection with scans of Microsoft Tags, which is Off by default:

Go to Settings > applications > search.
Check or uncheck Send location info for Microsoft Tags.

Music Searches

When you utilize the Music Search function, an audio "fingerprint" of the audio captured by the microphone is sent to Bing to provide you with search results. The audio information is not associated with your Microsoft account or used to identify or contact you or your device.

Visual Searches

When you utilize Visual Search functionality, the device’s camera scans whatever is in its field of vision for a small period of time and a series of frames is sent to Bing to provide you with search results. The image information is not associated with your Microsoft account or used to identify or contact you or your device. You should be aware that this could result in inadvertently sending some extraneous frames to Bing and be aware of where you are pointing the camera.

Your Choices:

To turn on or off the Search feature’s option of storing and using images you have sent to improve future Bing search results, which is On by default:

Go to Settings > applications > search.
Check or uncheck Allow Microsoft to store and use images from vision searches.

SharePoint Mobile

You can import a list of SharePoint sites and save your domains and network credentials to your device. When you access a SharePoint site, if you have permissions to create a new sub-site, the site saves cookies to your device. Taken together, these cookies form a list of sites to which you have permissions. This list is used by several Office programs to provide you with quick access to the sites that you have visited before. If you delete the cookies from your device, you will be required to re-enter your credentials to obtain access to the sites.

The list of SharePoint sites you have visited is not accessed by Microsoft and is not exposed to the Internet unless you choose to make the list more broadly available. When you create a new website or list in SharePoint, or add or invite people to an existing website or list, the site saves the following for each person:

Full name
Email address

A user ID is added to every element that you or the other users of the site add to or modify on the site. As with all of the content on the SharePoint site, only administrators and members of the site itself have access to this information.

All elements of the SharePoint site include two fields:

Created By (user name of person who created the element and the date created)
Modified By (user name of the person who last modified the element and the date modified)

Administrators of the servers where SharePoint sites are hosted have access to some data from these sites, including names, email addresses, and permissions of all users with permission to access the site, which is used for analyzing the usage patterns of the site and improving the percentage of time that the site is available. All users with access to a particular SharePoint site might search and view all content available on that site.

Your Choices:

To open SharePoint links in the office hub, which is On by default:

Go to Settings > applications > Office.
Check or uncheck Open SharePoint links in the Office hub.

Speech

Handheld 8.1 provides a speech recognition service for speech-enabled features and apps. If you have Cortana turned on, Cortana provides the speech recognition service – see the Cortanasection. If you don’t have Cortana turned on, you can still use the speech recognition service described in this section.

When you use the speech recognition service on your device for speech-enabled features or apps, whether provided by Microsoft or third-parties, your speech input and performance data associated with the speech functionality, such as changes you manually make to text and the final text result, (“speech data”) will be automatically sent to Microsoft to process and respond to the request, and to improve the speech service. To better tune our speech recognition algorithms, your recent contact names (but not device numbers or other contact information) will also be sent to Microsoft. You will be prompted to enable the speech recognition service when you first attempt to use any speech functionality.

When speech data is sent to Microsoft, Microsoft generates a unique ID that is stored on your device and sent with requests to distinguish requests from different devices. The unique ID is a randomly generated number that does not contain any information to directly identify you personally.

If you disable the speech recognition service, you will not be able to search online using your voice or send a message via voice, but you may still be able to use other simple voice commands supported solely on the device, such as "Call Mom" or "Start Internet Explorer."

To prevent speech data from being sent to Microsoft, if you’ve previously enabled:

Go to Settings > Speech.
Uncheck Enable Speech Recognition Service.

Storage Sense

You may be able to use an SD card to import or export data files from your device, such as music or photos. You can choose to store pictures, music, video, or certain apps on your SD card. When you first insert an SD card, you can choose what kinds of data to store on it. You can change this setting at any time.

You should be aware that data stored on your SD card is more susceptible to potential loss or unauthorized access by others. Once removed from your device, the SD card data is generally readable by any device into which it is inserted, even if you set a lock screen password for your device. You should carefully consider the data you choose to store on your SD card.

Your Choices:

To select what data to store on your SD card or internal memory:

Go to Settings > system > storage sense.
In the pop-up menu for the type of data you’re interested in, select Handheld device or SD card.

Store

To create a new Store account, you may need to provide your age and country/region. If you already have a Microsoft Billing account, you'll be able to use the payment method(s) you've already added to purchase content and apps from the Store. We also collect your email address so that we can provide Store receipts and notifications. For new accounts, we will auto-generate a nickname (which we refer to as a gamertag) that is used to identify you on the Xbox LIVE and Xbox Music services. If you post reviews on the Store, the reviews will be posted under the first name on your Microsoft account.

The Store provides an online experience tied to your device. When you visit the Store, we collect information about your Store browsing, Store purchases, and other activities within the Store. This activity is used to improve the Store experience generally, and may be used to provide specific recommendations for you on your device if you turn on Personalized Suggestions orCortana. We may also share aggregate data regarding Store activity with partners.

You may require the use of a wallet PIN before making a music, app, or certain in-app purchase. To allow you to bill charges for apps through your mobile operator (where applicable), we may collect data that identifies your device and your mobile operator, such as your IMSI and a portion of your Subscriber Identity Module ("SIM") card identifier (not all devices utilize SIM cards). These allow us to facilitate the billing and resolve questions about purchase failures, pricing, or other issues. We do not use the information collected in this way for any other purpose, nor do we share that data with any party other than your mobile operator.

IDs of the apps you've installed on your device are sent periodically to the Store to determine if there are available updates for any apps you've installed. If you choose to automatically update apps (for example, while setting up your device), the Store automatically downloads and installs updated versions of your apps. You can choose whether app updates are automatically installed in Store settings. However, certain updates may be required for continued operation of certain apps.

Your Choices:

To control whether app updates are downloaded and installed automatically:

Go to Settings > applications > store.
Under App updates, toggle the Update apps automatically switch to On or Off.

To require the use of your wallet PIN before making a music, app, and certain in-app purchases:

Go to Settings > applications > store.
Tap on PIN button.
Toggle the Wallet PIN to On and follow the directions to enter your PIN (if you have not previously done so).
Check the Use Wallet PIN to protect music, app, and in-app purchases.

This feature can also be turned on through the Wallet settings. See Wallet below.

To edit or remove billing information in your Microsoft Billing account, signing in to your account at Microsoft Billing and Account Management.

To edit a review you previously posted in the Store, sign into the Store and click or tap on the review text.

Sync Settings

When you sign in to your device with a Microsoft account, it automatically syncs some of your settings and info with Microsoft servers to make it easier to have consistent experiences across multiple Windows devices like your device and your PC. Information that can be synced includes your theme, app settings, passwords you’ve saved, and Internet Explorer favorites and history.

If you’ve already chosen to sync settings with your Microsoft account on another Windows device, some settings will automatically be synced to your device during setup after you sign in to your Microsoft account.

To help protect your privacy, all synced settings are sent encrypted via SSL. Some settings might not sync until you confirm your Microsoft account on your device. Microsoft doesn't use these synced settings or info to identify, contact, or target advertising to you.

Note that some apps sync their own data in other ways, which might have separate settings

Your Choices:

When you sign in to your device with a Microsoft account, your settings will sync by default. To choose what information is synced:

Go to Settings > system > sync my settings.
Toggle the Theme, App settings, Internet Explorer, or Passwords switches to On or Off.

Note that if you choose to back up your stuff, your device settings and other info will still be sent to Microsoft servers according to your backup settings, but will only be synced to your other devices according to your sync settings. To learn more about your choices for backing up your device, see the Backup section.

Tap + Send

Your device may include Near Field Communications (“NFC”) capabilities that allow you to share photos, websites, contacts, and more to compatible NFC-equipped devices by merely “tapping” your device to the other device (or otherwise placing in very close proximity). You will always be separately prompted before the data is actually shared, so you decide what information to share in each instance. This feature does not transmit data to Microsoft.

To turn on or off the NFC sharing feature, which is On by default:

Go to Settings > applications > tap + send.
Toggle the NFC Sharing switch to On or Off.

Updates

Microsoft may release updates for your device operating system with useful or critical improvements. Apps acquired from the Store are updated through the Store and not this feature. To make sure you know about any update as it becomes available, your device scans regularly for updates. When you enable this feature, updates will be automatically downloaded. You will still be notified and urged to install the downloaded updates, but for critical updates, your device will install the updates automatically. If you choose to disable this feature, you will be notified when updates are available for download, and you can choose when to download and install the updates.

Each time the device checks for available updates, and each time updates are installed, standard device information is sent to Microsoft. This information is used to determine the updates that are applicable to and appropriate for your device, and to operate, analyze, and maintain the Update service. Standard device information is also used to generate aggregate statistics that help us analyze successes, failures, and errors you experience with the Update services.

If you choose recommended settings while setting up your Handheld 8.1-powered device, the device updates feature will be turned on. If you choose to customize settings, you can control operating system updates by selecting Automatically download and install Windows Phone Updates. After setting up your device, you can turn this feature off at any time.

Your Choices:

To change the setting for automatic download of non-critical operating system updates when they are found:

Go to Settings > system > phone update.
Check or clear Automatically download updates if my data settings allow it.

To manually check operating system updates at any time:

Go to Settings > system > phone update.
Tap check for updates.

Wallet

You can set up a wallet on your device to hold payment methods (including credit and debit cards) for making purchases in the Store or elsewhere. Your wallet can also hold other information such as coupons, loyalty cards, tickets, and other digital content. Apps on your device can automatically save information to your wallet. You can also add items to your wallet from an email or a web link.

If you let Wallet use your location, it can notify you when your device is near locations associated with items in your wallet. For example, Wallet could automatically show you your ticket to a concert when you’re near the concert venue. Wallet doesn’t share your location with any third parties.

Some items in your wallet can be updated over time. Wallet will periodically download updates to these items.

When you add a credit or debit card, we store only the first six digits and the last four digits on your device. The first six digits are used to help you find apps (such as apps from your bank) that can improve your wallet experience. The last four digits are used to identify specific cards. The full card number is stored in Microsoft’s commerce platform servers, which use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your information. If you have associated a credit card with your Microsoft account (for example, in the Store), we will also make it available in your wallet. You can also add billing details and other information about a card to your device for easy reference. This information will be encrypted and stored on your device.

Depending on your carrier, you may also be able to use wallet information for fast card NFC transactions at some merchants (for example, to use credit or debit cards for contactless payments, or use your loyalty card at a grocery store). When this capability exists, the fast card credentials are stored on a secure element on your SIM card.

Your Choices:

You can apply a Wallet PIN that must be entered before launching the wallet. To set a wallet PIN:

Go to Settings > applications > wallet.
Toggle the Wallet PIN to On.
Follow the directions to enter your PIN.

You can also require entry of your wallet PIN to make purchases of music, apps, and certain in-app purchases if you have set a wallet pin:

Go to Settings > applications > wallet.
Check Use Wallet PIN to protect music, app, and in-app purchases.

This feature can also be turned on through the Store settings. See Storeabove.

If your carrier provides NFC capabilities, your device will have an additional setting that allows you to control when a card can be used to make an NFC transaction:

Go to Settings > applications > wallet.
Under fast cards will work select while wallet is open, while phone is unlocked, or while screen is on.

Wi-Fi Sense

Wi-Fi Sense connects you to Wi-Fi networks around you to help you save cellular data and give you more connectivity options. It lets you:

Automatically connect to crowdsourced open Wi-Fi networks
Automatically accept the terms of use and provide additional info for Wi-Fi networks that require it
Exchange access to password-protected Wi-Fi networks with your contacts. They can get Internet access using the networks you choose to share. Likewise, you can get Internet access using networks your contacts share

Note that Wi-Fi Sense uses your location to identify known networks near you. By using Wi-Fi Sense, you understand and agree that it will use your location. If Location services is turned off in Location Settings, you won’t be able to use Wi-Fi Sense. To learn more, see the Collection and Use of Location Information section.

If you choose Automatically connect to Wi-Fi networks and accept terms for me while setting up your device, your device automatically connects to open Wi-Fi networks that other Handheld 8.1-powered device users have crowdsourced. If a Wi-Fi network requires you to accept terms of use or provide some additional info before you can connect, Wi-Fi Sense can also do these things for you to get you connected quickly. Wi-Fi Sense won’t automatically give your personal contact information (name, device number, or email address) to Wi-Fi networks until you set it up to do so. After you choose to have Wi-Fi Sense provide your personal contact information to networks, Wi-Fi Sense will automatically send that personal contact information to any network that requests it without prompting you. A network operator’s use of your personal contact information is subject to their privacy practices, which may permit the network operator to use or share your personal contact information broadly. If you don’t want Wi-Fi Sense to automatically accept terms or send your personal contact information, you can turn either of these features off in Wi-Fi Sense settings.

To provide this functionality and help the Wi-Fi Sense service identify networks for you and other users in the future, Microsoft will collect data about the connection requirements and speed of Wi-Fi networks that you connect to on your own. For example, it collects information about whether the network requires you to accept terms of use or enter other information before you can connect. In some cases, this connection information might contain personal information you entered, such as your email address. Wi-Fi Sense will try to remove or obscure personal information before it’s sent to Microsoft. Any personal information that’s inadvertently collected isn’t used for any purpose and will be deleted.

Open Wi-Fi networks aren't secure. For example, anyone can connect and possibly see what you're doing. Be careful when doing things online that require personal or sensitive information, or wait until you can connect to a secure network that you trust before doing these things. You can disconnect from any Wi-Fi network any time you want by going to Settings > Wi-Fi.

If you choose Allow me to exchange Wi-Fi network access with my contacts while setting up your device, Wi-Fi Sense will help you and your contacts exchange access to password-protected Wi-Fi networks that you choose to share. You can share networks with specific groups of contacts, such as your Facebook friends, Outlook.com contacts, and Skype contacts. When you first connect to a password-protected Wi-Fi network, you can choose to share that network with your contacts, so they can use it to get Internet access if they use Wi-Fi Sense. Wi-Fi Sense will send the Wi-Fi network password that you enter and choose to share to Microsoft over an encrypted connection. Microsoft encrypts and stores the password, and then provides it to your contacts’ devices if they’re using Wi-Fi Sense and a network that’s shared with them is in range. Your contacts won’t be able to see the passwords for networks you share, and you won’t be able to see the passwords for networks they share. In addition to the network password, the network name and other information that’s needed to connect is also shared. You can choose to stop sharing access to a network with your contacts at any time, but note that there may be a delay before the network is removed from your contacts’ devices. To immediately prevent others from accessing a network, the network owner can change the network password.

You can change your Wi-Fi Sense settings any time you want. To do so, go to Settings, and then tap Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi Sense.

Your Choices:

When you’re setting up your device, you can choose whether you want use Wi-Fi Sense. After setting up your device, you can change your Wi-Fi Sense settings at any time.

You can choose whether your device will automatically connect to open public Wi-Fi networks, and whether it will automatically accept terms of use. To choose whether to automatically connect to open public Wi-Fi networks:

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi Sense.
Toggle the Connect to Wi-Fi hotspots switch to On or Off.

To choose whether Wi-Fi Sense automatically accepts terms of use:

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi Sense.
Check or clear Accept terms of use for me when required.

Wi-Fi Sense can automatically provide additional information, such as a device number or email address, to Wi-Fi networks that require it. By default, Wi-Fi Sense doesn’t provide your personal information to networks. To choose whether Wi-Fi Sense automatically provides the pre-filled information, or change the information it provides:

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi Sense.

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi Sense.
Check or clear Provide a name, email, or phone number when required, or tap the edit info button to see or change the info that Wi-Fi Sense provides.

You can also choose whether to share access to password-protected Wi-Fi networks with your contacts, and which groups of contacts to share access with. To automatically share access with your contacts:

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi Sense.
Toggle the Share Wi-Fi networks I select switch to On or Off.

To choose which groups of contacts you share access with:

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi > Wi-Fi Sense.
Under Share Wi-Fi networks I select, check or clear Outlook.com contacts, Skype contacts, or Facebook friends.

To start or stop sharing a specific Wi-Fi network with friends:

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and tap the manage button.
Tap and hold a network in the list, and choose share or do not share.

Workplace

Some companies offer apps and other ways you can better connect to your business. For security reasons, when you add a workplace account, your workplace may apply polices to your device that allow them to require you to use a lock screen password, encrypt the device’s internal storage, and/or disable your SD card. Your workplace may also apply policies that prevent you from resetting your device or deleting your workplace account. They may also collect personal information from your device or remotely wipe all the content from your device (including content that is not workplace-related) if you enroll your device with your workplace. When you delete your workplace account, Office documents (including unsaved drafts) on your device are erased, but you’ll still be able to access Office documents you’ve saved to your OneDrive. You should carefully consider whether you wish to associate your device to a workplace account and be aware of your workplace’s policies in this regard.

Your Choices

To add a workplace account:

Go to Settings > system > workplace.
Tap the add account button.

To delete a workplace account:

Go to Settings > system > workplace.
Tap the enrolled account’s name.
Tap the trash icon.

Xbox LIVE and Xbox Music

To create a new Xbox LIVE or Xbox Music account, you may need to provide your age and country/region. For new accounts, we will auto-generate a nickname (which we refer to as a gamertag) that is used to identify you on the Xbox LIVE and Xbox Music services. You can change the auto-generated nickname by tapping on your gamertag in the Games Hub. If you post reviews on the Store, the reviews will be posted under the first name on your Microsoft account.

Games

If you allow a Microsoft game to access your location, the approximate location of your device may be sent to Microsoft to award achievements, provide in-game rewards, or to customize gameplay. Microsoft games will only collect and store the approximate location of your device as necessary for these purposes. For example, games may use your location to award an achievement based on the distance traveled between game sessions. Some third-party games can also connect to Xbox LIVE, which lets them send gaming activity and achievement data to Xbox. Collection and use of information by third-party games is subject to the third party’s privacy practices.

Music

When you use Xbox Music, we will collect information about the songs you play to personalize your experiences and improve Microsoft products and services. This information is used to help provide you with content and features that are more tailored to the music you like and to allow you to share your recent music plays with others. It is also used in aggregate form to create top charts.

To enrich your experience when playing or browsing music, Xbox Music may display related information about the music you play and the content in your Xbox Music library, such as the album title, cover art, song or video title, artist pictures, artist bios and other information, where available. To download this information, Xbox Music sends an information request to Microsoft containing standard device information and an identifier for the content.

To learn more about the information collection practices of Xbox LIVE and Xbox Music, please review the Xbox Privacy Statement.

Your Choices:

To modify your Xbox privacy settings, which control things such as how people can contact you, how profile information that you add is shared, and how activities on Xbox are shared, go to Xbox.com and sign in to your account.

To disable a Microsoft game's access to your device's location, go to the game Help/Options menu and turn off access to location. Alternatively, you can turn off the master location switch on your device.

Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld Privacy statement

Contents

Collection and Use of Your Information

Collection and Use of Standard Information About Your Device

Collection and Use of Device and Service Credentials

Collection and Use of Location Information

Location Positioning Database

Location Master Switch & Specific Application Location Access

Wi-Fi Access Point Database

Personal Wi-Fi Access Point Opt-Out

Sharing Your Location at Activation

Information We Share with Others

Children

Display of Advertising

How We Communicate with You

Information Storage and Transfer

Security of Your Information

Changes to this Privacy Statement

For More Information/Access Requests

Specific Features

Advertising Identifier

Your choices:

Background Tasks

Your Choices:

Backup

Your Choices:

Calendar

Your choices

Cortana

Location services

Text messages and email

Speech

Apps and services

Browsing history

Search history

Your Choices:

Email + Accounts

Your Choices:

Find my phone

Your Choices:

Internet Explorer Mobile

Auto-suggestions

Your Choices:

Cookies

Your Choices:

Data Sense

Your Choices:

Do Not Track

Your Choices:

Favorites and Browsing History

Your Choices:

Location

Your Choices:

Passwords

Your Choices:

SmartScreen Filter

Your Choices:

Keyboard Recognition

Your Choices:

Kid’s Corner

Your Choices:

Location Check-Ins

Your Choices:

Maps

Your Choices

Messaging

Your Choices:

Microsoft Account

Your Choices:

Notifications and Action Center

Office Mobile

Your Choices

User name

Your Choices

People Hub

Your Choices

Personalized Suggestions

Your Choices:

Device Feedback

Your Choices