Global Privacy Policy
At Dell, helping you manage privacy and the protection of personal information is among our primary concerns. That's why, when you choose Dell, we help you maintain control over personal information about you. Below are the guidelines we use for protecting the information you provide us during your experience with our company through any means, such as when you use our web sites, interact with us through our products and other services, when we speak with you over the telephone, and if you work directly with our technical support teams. We also want you to be aware that we take careful measures surrounding the information that you provide through any of our online support offerings such as support.dell.com or support applications loaded on your computer. Please refer to your warranty statements or service contracts, or Dell's Return Policy for policies that apply to information contained on hard drives returned or downloaded to Dell.
Visit www.nclnet.org/technology/essentials to learn more about how to protect your privacy on the Internet through a consumer education campaign called Online E-ssentials, developed by Dell in partnership with the National Consumers League.
Scope
This summary provides highlights of the full Dell Global Privacy Policy and applies to Dell Inc. and its worldwide corporate affiliates ("we" or "our") but not to those Dell corporate affiliates that operate and have published their own privacy and security policies, including but not limited to Dell Financial Services, and Alienware business units. This privacy statement also does not apply to the web sites of our business partners or to any other third parties, even if their web sites are linked to our web site. We recommend you review the privacy policies of each web site you visit.
This privacy statement governs only personal information we collect from our customers and online from our web site users ("you"), through Dell products, services, software, web sites, contacts or our relationship with you. Please refer to your warranty statements, service contracts, or Dell's Return Policy for policies that apply to information contained on hard drives returned or downloaded to Dell.
For the purposes of this privacy statement, "corporate affiliates" means any entity or joint venture that is wholly or partially owned or controlled by Dell Inc. "Business partners" means any subcontractor, vendor or other entity with whom we have an ongoing business relationship to provide products, services, or information. "Personal information" means information which identifies you, such as your name, telephone number, and e-mail address. In some cases, the policy may be tailored to account for variances in law in a particular country. However, this policy is intended to be global in nature.
Information We Collect
We collect the information you give us in order to provide you products and services, inform you about our products and fulfill your orders and service requests. We work with consumer marketing companies to help us better target our services and product communications to you. We use cookies and other Internet technologies to manage our web sites and e-mail programs, to offer you personalized experiences and to help us manage our web sites. When you access our web sites, we will log your IP address in our web server logs. We also collect related information such as browser type, operating system, and Web pages visited to help manage our web sites.
How We Use Personal Information
We use personal information to deliver the services and support, or to carry out the transactions you have requested. We use the information collected to send communications to you, such as product safety information, your transactions status (for example, order confirmations), information about products and services available from Dell and its corporate affiliates, promotional offers, and surveys. We use the information to customize, analyze, and improve our products, services (including our web site), technologies, communications and relationship with you. We use the information to enforce our conditions of sale, web site terms and/or separate contracts (if applicable) with you. We use information to prevent fraud and other prohibited or illegal activities.
Your Choices
You may instruct Dell to stop sending you certain promotional materials (e.g., e-mail messages, catalogues) by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in our materials. Click here to unsubscribe from (opt out of) direct mail, telephone, fax or e-mail communications. You may choose to view or edit your personal information has been stored online by visiting the My Account/ Premier Account section of the dell.com web site. For the security of your account, you will be required to sign in with your login ID and password. You may contact Dell to determine the types of personal information that we process and to correct or update your personal information.
Protecting Personal Information
We understand the importance of ensuring that your personal information is secure and protected. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.
Disclosing Personal Information
We share your personal information with corporate affiliates to carry out transactions you request or to make our business or that of our corporate affiliates more responsive to your needs. We may share your personal information with business partners that help Dell carry out transactions you request or that help Dell to customize, analyze and/or improve our communications or relationship with you, and then only with business partners who share Dell's commitment to protecting your personal information. We may disclose your personal information in connection with law enforcement, fraud prevention, or other legal action as required by law or regulation, or if Dell reasonably believes it is necessary to protect Dell, its customers or the public. Except as described above, we will not disclose your personal information to other third parties unless you have provided consent.
Other Important Information
Dell is committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of complaints or concerns about privacy. Dell complies with data protection laws in the countries in which we do business, and we cooperate with data protection authorities and law enforcement agencies. For more information about our privacy practices, please click here.
How to Contact Us
At Dell, your questions, comments and feedback are very important to us. For privacy-related issues, please contact us at privacy@dell.com or write to us at:
Dell Inc.
Attention: Privacy
One Dell Way
Round Rock, Texas 78682
USA
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