Windows OneCare Privacy Supplement

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Windows OneCare Privacy Supplement

last updated: January 2006

If you choose to subscribe to the Windows OneCare service, we will collect personal information, including your name, e-mail address, phone number, postal and billing addresses, and credit card number, in order to create a Microsoft billing account. You will have the ability to access and edit your personal information via the Member Center on the Windows OneCare site.

If you subscribe to the Windows OneCare service and install the Windows OneCare software, certain information about your machine and use of the service will automatically be transmitted to Microsoft in order to permit us to provide the service and help keep your machine operating in a trouble-free manner. Examples of this information include:

information about your computer hardware and software, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, and version number of the Windows OneCare software;
a unique machine identifier which is generated by the Windows OneCare software;
crash information on your computer if problems occur within Windows OneCare;
information about the health of your computer, including the overall health meter rating and any reasons why the health is not optimal;
information about status of your computer's antivirus protection, and data on any viruses detected (e.g. virus name, date/time of detection, names/paths of infected files, action taken);
firewall settings and policies on your computer; and
information about data backups performed, such as number of users using backup, last backup date/time, number successful DVD backups, and details of any unknown file extensions backed up.

The specific information collected may change as the software and service are updated. Additional updated information on what data is collected is available on our performance data collection page. Once your subscription to the Windows OneCare service ends, some of the functions of the Windows OneCare software may continue to operate, but it will no longer automatically send information to Microsoft.

Please note that while you have the Windows OneCare software installed, updates to the software may be automatically downloaded and installed. This keeps your software up-to-date and helps ensure that you have the latest features and protections available.