Discover.AMDLive Online Privacy Statement

AMD and Microsoft are committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the Discover.AMDLive Privacy Statement below.

This Discover.AMDLive Privacy Statement applies to data collected by AMD and Microsoft through this Web site. It does not apply to any other AMD or Microsoft sites, services and products that do not display or link to this statement or that have their own privacy statements.

Collection of Your Personal Information

If you choose to utilize the “send to a friend” option available on this site, we ask you to provide personal information, such as your name and e-mail address, and the name(s) and e-mail address(es) of your friend(s). You must have a personal relationship with the individuals whose email addresses you submit. We will not use these email addresses for further communication with these individuals.

We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with Discover.AMDLive site and services. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.

In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with this site, we may supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other companies. For example, we may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area.

Use of Your Personal Information

We collect and use your personal information to operate and improve this site and deliver the services you have requested. These uses may include performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies; and displaying content that is customized to your interests and preferences.

Personal information collected on this site is stored and processed in the United States.

Sharing of Your Personal Information

Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of AMD or Microsoft and their controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, hosting websites, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.

We may access and/or disclose your personal information if we believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process served on AMD or Microsoft; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of AMD or Microsoft (including the enforcement of our agreements); or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of AMD or Microsoft services or members of the public.

Security of Your Personal Information

AMD and Microsoft are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities.

Collection and Use of Children's Personal Information

This site and services are intended for general audiences and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children.

Use of Cookies

This site uses "cookies" to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies help allow us to understand what areas of this site are of interest to users of the site, so we can better serve and provide you with tailored information. These cookies do not track individual information, but rather record site traffic information.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use interactive features and services of this site that depend on cookies.

Use of Web Beacons

Pages on this site may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering cookies on the site and allow us to count users who have visited those pages. When a visitor accesses pages with a Web beacon, an anonymous notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our vendors. These Web beacons work in conjunction with cookies to let us know what portions of our site are of interest to our visitors and to help us provide you with tailored information from our web site.

Contacting Us

AMD and Microsoft welcome your comments regarding this privacy statement. If you have questions about this statement or believe that we have not adhered to it, please contact either company.

AMD: Comments and questions should be directed to privacy.policy@amd.com

Microsoft: If you have comments or questions, please use our Web form.