Skype New By Sajjad Ali

 Skype New By Sajjad Ali

1. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SKYPE COLLECT AND USE?
Skype may gather and use information about you, including (but not limited to) information in the following categories:
(a) Identification data (e.g. name, username, address, telephone number, mobile number, email address);
(b) Profile information (e.g. age, gender, country of residence, language preference and any information that you choose to make available to others as part of your Skype user profile as further described in Section 6);
(c) Electronic identification data (e.g. IP addresses, cookies);
(d) Banking and payment information (e.g. credit card information, account number);
(e) Call quality and survey results;
(f) Information about your usage of and interaction with Skype software, products, and websites (including computer, platform, device and connection information, client performance information, error reports, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views, and traffic to and from our websites, browser type and Skype WiFi enabled hotspot detection and usage statistics;
(g) Products or services ordered and delivered;
(h) The URL of videos that you have selected to appear in your mood message;
(i) Skype test calls made to ECHO123 (which are recorded and played back to the user and deleted thereafter);
(j) List of your contacts and related data (we will give you a choice as to whether you want Skype to use contact lists from other services to populate your Skype contacts);
(k) Your username and password for other email accounts where you have provided this to us and requested us to search for your friends on Skype (please note that Skype does not retain this information after completing the search or use it for any other purpose);
(l) Correspondence between you and Skype;
(m) Traffic data (data processed for the purpose of the conveyance of communications or the billing thereof, including, but not limited to, the duration of the call, the number calling and the number called); and
(n) Content of instant messaging communications, voicemails, and video messages (please see section 12);
(o) Location information, derived from your mobile carrier or from the mobile device that you use. In connection with the Qik products, you control when your location is shared with others. Your location is displayed and shared with other Qik users only in accordance with your privacy settings. You also may create location information by "geo-tagging" your submitted content with location information. Please manage your privacy settings for location information carefully;
(p) Mobile device information, such as manufacturer’s name, device model number, operating system, carrier network;
(q) Location information and device identifiers, derived from your device, when you search for or connect to a Skype WiFi compatible hotspot. This information may be used to improve detection of eligibility to connect using Skype WiFi and for the purposes of offering, providing and marketing Skype WiFi to you;
(r) Access tokens for other accounts you associate with your Skype account (such as Microsoft account or Facebook), which are like an electronic key provided by the service that acts in place of a password for authentication.

2. HOW DOES SKYPE USE THIS INFORMATION AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
Our primary purpose in collecting information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Skype collects and uses, or has third party service providers acting on Skype’s behalf collecting and using, personal data relating to you, as permitted or necessary to:

• provide internet communication, video sharing and other products in particular to convey the communications and videos you and others make by means of the Skype software and/or the Skype products;
• take, process or deliver orders made via our websites, invoice you or notify you of the status of your order;
• display updates about your recent activity using the Qik products or connections to other Qik users;
• provide other services for you (as described when we collect the information);
• provide you with customer support and troubleshoot problems;
• compare information for accuracy;
• inform you about service updates and faults;
• request feedback or participation in on-line surveys;
• resolve disputes;
• verify your identity;
• customize, measure, and improve Skype software and websites, as well as other Microsoft products and services
• improve our search functionality and help you find and contact other Skype users more easily and accurately;
• organise and carry out Skype’s marketing or promotional operations/offers, contests, games and similar events; and
• protect your and Skype’s interests, including in particular to enforce our Terms of Service and prevent and fight against fraud, (together, the Purposes).