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Website: http://advertising.microsoft.com/home

About Us: http://advertising.microsoft.com/advertising-online

Owned By: Microsoft Corporation

In Their Own Words

"We constantly innovate to simplify the business of digital advertising, so that customers can amplify their brand stories across audiences, channels and screens in the most creative, engaging and efficient ways possible."

Industry affiliations

What does this company do?

Ad exchange
Provider of auction-based marketplace connecting advertisers buying ad space with publishers selling ad inventory. Exchanges typically enable advertisers to work with data aggregators to target their ads.

Ad network
Seller of aggregated publisher ad inventory from many websites. Many ad networks use proprietary technology and partner with data aggregators to target ads.

Ad server
Technology that delivers advertisements to websites and monitors progress and performance of ad campaigns.

Mobile
Provider of advertising services to wireless devices (phones, tables, etc.), typically through mobile web browsers or mobile applications.

What data does this company collect?

Data Collected
Anonymous: Ad Views, Browser Information, Cookie Data , Date/Time, Demographic Data, Hardware/Software Type, Interaction Data , Page Views , Serving Domains

Pseudonymous: IP Address (EU PII), Search History, Clickstream Data

Data Sharing
Anonymous data is shared with 3rd parties.

Data Retention
Undisclosed

Data Use
Ad Targeting, Analytics Measurement,

Opt-out policy

This company provides a cookie based opt-out. An "opt-out cookie" is set by the browser. This provides a request that ads should not be customized through your web browsing activities and preferences. You will continue to receive ads but this company will not use this information to select behavioral ads you see online. You must opt-out again if cookies are deleted and required for each browser type and new computer. Third party cookies must be accepted for opt-out to work.

Your choices

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Privacy contact

Privacy policy

Privacy policy: http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/AdDisplay.mspx

Opt-out cookies

Serving domain(s): microsoft.com, ads1.msn.com, adsyndication.msn.com, adbureau.net, atdmt.com

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