Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement applies to the Microsoft Azure survey. It does not apply to other Microsoft surveys, sites, products or services.

Collecting Your Information
Some personal information may be collected about you if you choose to participate in the survey. In particular, your responses to survey questions, as well as details about how you connected to this survey website, including your IP address, and the date and time when you connected may be collected. Information collected may also include contact details, such as your name, address, e-mail address and phone number.

Survey responses are collected by comScore, Inc., a market research company commissioned by Microsoft to conduct this survey on Microsoft’s behalf. All information collected by comScore, Inc. in the context of this survey will be shared with Microsoft.

How Microsoft Uses Your Information

• Your responses to the survey questions will be linked to the contact information you have provided to Microsoft (either in the survey or during a previous interaction with Microsoft) so that we can identify how individual survey participants responded to the questions.

• Your contact details, including your name, phone number, address and e-mail address, may be used by Microsoft to carry out the survey, to communicate with you about the survey, to provide you with incentives for completing the survey, and to carry out any other transactions you have requested or authorized. If you have provided your permission, Microsoft may also contact you regarding participation in future research. Microsoft may also use the collected information to administer the survey, to improve future surveys, and to analyze aggregate trends and survey results.

Cookies & Similar Technologies

When you connect to this survey website, this website may place one or more "cookies" on your machine. For example, if you register to complete this survey, this website will set or read one or more additional cookies to remember that you have “logged in”. This website uses cookies to operate and, for example, to prevent comScore, Inc. from inadvertently presenting you with the same survey twice. This website also uses the following cookies, including ISIStest and RVIDExtId for other purposes, including certifying data quality. You can use your browser settings to remove or block cookies on your computer.

This website also uses web beacons to help deliver cookies and compile analytics. These may include third party web beacons, which are prohibited from collecting your personal information.

Where Information is Processed and Stored
Personal information collected on Microsoft sites and services may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Microsoft or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers maintain facilities, and by completing the survey, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. 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 Microsoft’s certification, please visit www.export.gov/safeharbor.

Sharing or Disclosing Personal Information
Except as otherwise described in this statement, personal information you provide in the survey will not be shared outside of Microsoft and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission. However, in addition to any sharing described in the privacy statement above, Microsoft may share or disclose personal information:

• With other Microsoft controlled subsidiaries and affiliates.

• As part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.

• With vendors or agents. Specifically, Microsoft may share information with companies hired by Microsoft to provide services on Microsoft’s behalf, including with comScore, Inc. For example, Microsoft occasionally hires other companies to provide limited services such as packaging, mailing and delivering prizes, answering customer questions about products and services, sending postal mail, and sending information about Microsoft’s products, special offers, and other new services. Microsoft will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. When Microsoft shares information with these other companies to provide services, they are not allowed to use it for any other purpose and must keep it confidential.

Microsoft may also share or disclose personal information, including the content of your communications:

• To comply with the law or respond to legal process or lawful requests, including from law enforcement and government agencies.

• To protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including to combat fraud or protect Microsoft’s interests, or to enforce the terms governing your use of the services.

• To act on a good faith belief that access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Microsoft employees, customers or the public.

Please note that Microsoft sites may include links to third party sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Microsoft. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by the privacy statements on those sites. Microsoft encourages you to review the privacy statement of any site you visit.

Please be aware that this privacy statement and any choices you make in the survey will not necessarily apply to personal information you may have provided to Microsoft in the context of other, separately operated, Microsoft products or services.

Communication Preferences
You can stop delivery of future promotional email from Microsoft sites and services by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive. You also have the option of proactively making choices about the receipt of promotional e-mail, telephone calls, and postal mail from particular Microsoft sites or services by visiting and signing into Microsoft’s Promotional Communication Manager which allows you to update contact information, manage the Microsoft-wide contact preference, opt out of subscriptions, and choose whether to share your contact information with Microsoft partners.

Changes to Our Privacy Statements
Microsoft and/or comScore, Inc. will occasionally update this privacy statement to reflect customer feedback and changes in its services. When Microsoft posts changes to a statement, Microsoft and/or comScore, Inc. will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the statement. If there are material changes to the statement or in how Microsoft will use your personal information, Microsoft and/or comScore, Inc. will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes before they take effect or by directly sending you a notification. Microsoft and/or comScore, Inc. encourages you to periodically review the privacy statements for the products and services you use to learn how Microsoft is protecting your information.

Accessing Your Personal Information, And How To Contact Microsoft
For general Microsoft privacy issues, or to submit feedback or ask Microsoft questions about its privacy practices and this privacy statement, please contact Microsoft by email at comScore’s online support form or by postal mail at the address below:

comScore, Inc.
11950 Democracy Drive
Suite 600
Reston, VA 20190

To submit feedback or ask comScore, Inc. questions about comScore’s collection and use of your personal information, please contact comScore’s online support form.

This survey is sponsored by the Microsoft Azure Team