We may collect different kinds of personal information about you, depending on how you interact with us. For example, we collect information when you:

• Use our products and services 
• Create an account 
• Contact us 
• Participate in an online survey 
• Participate in community discussions or chat rooms 
• Apply for employment
• Sign up to receive our marketing communications 
• Interact with us at in-person events or otherwise interact with us
  

The types of personal information we may collect includes information such as:

• Your name 
• Your username 
• Your email address 
• Your phone number 
• Your mailing address
  

Information about payments

When you make a purchase from us, we may collect personal information that you provide, such as:

• Credit card or debit card number or other card information
• Account and authentication information
• Billing, shipping and contact details

Information about use of our products and services

When you use our products and services, we may collect certain types of information such as:

• Information about the device you’re using, including the type of device, your device configuration, your device’s unique identifier, the IP address of your device and your operating system
• Information about the type of Internet browser you use and other browsing information
• Usage information, diagnostic information, session summary information, CPU and other usage statistics, API calls, service crash information, network status and storage utilization
• Information about how you interact with our products, such as search terms or file attributes
• Geolocation information

We may collect some of this information automatically. Some of our products and services, including our apps, have analytics programs that collect this information and allow you to opt-in or opt-out of participation. These analytics programs collect analytics information to help us improve our products and services, and you can adjust your choice under your account settings.

Information from third parties

We may collect information from third parties, including business partners and marketing agencies, such as:

• Your contact information
• Your IP address or location information
• Data from your social networks (to authenticate your product use with us or that you grant us permission to access)
  

We use the information that you’ve given us to make your experience with our products and services better.  We do that in a few different ways.

To provide and improve our products and services

We may use your personal information to provide, improve, develop and personalize your experience with our products and services.

To communicate with you

We may use personal information to communicate with you in the following ways:

• To send you important notices, including notices related to your account, products, services, transactions or changes to our policies and terms
• To communicate with you about your employment requests
• To send you marketing communications in relation to Western Digital’s own products and services, with your express consent
  

To offer and measure targeted advertisements and services

We may use personal information to provide you with personalized advertisements about our products and services and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, with your express consent.

To promote safety and security

We may use personal information to help verify accounts and user activity, as well as to promote safety and security, such as by monitoring fraud and investigating suspicious or potentially illegal activity or violations of our terms or policies.

Yes.

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We may collect different kinds of personal information about you, depending on how you interact with us. For example, we collect information when you:

• Use our products and services 
• Create an account 
• Contact us 
• Participate in an online survey 
• Participate in community discussions or chat rooms 
• Apply for employment
• Sign up to receive our marketing communications 
• Interact with us at in-person events or otherwise interact with us
  

The types of personal information we may collect includes information such as:

• Your name 
• Your username 
• Your email address 
• Your phone number 
• Your mailing address
  

Information about payments

When you make a purchase from us, we may collect personal information that you provide, such as:

• Credit card or debit card number or other card information
• Account and authentication information
• Billing, shipping and contact details

Information about use of our products and services

When you use our products and services, we may collect certain types of information such as:

• Information about the device you’re using, including the type of device, your device configuration, your device’s unique identifier, the IP address of your device and your operating system
• Information about the type of Internet browser you use and other browsing information
• Usage information, diagnostic information, session summary information, CPU and other usage statistics, API calls, service crash information, network status and storage utilization
• Information about how you interact with our products, such as search terms or file attributes
• Geolocation information

We may collect some of this information automatically. Some of our products and services, including our apps, have analytics programs that collect this information and allow you to opt-in or opt-out of participation. These analytics programs collect analytics information to help us improve our products and services, and you can adjust your choice under your account settings.

Information from third parties

We may collect information from third parties, including business partners and marketing agencies, such as:

• Your contact information
• Your IP address or location information
• Data from your social networks (to authenticate your product use with us or that you grant us permission to access)
  

We use the information that you’ve given us to make your experience with our products and services better.  We do that in a few different ways.

To provide and improve our products and services

We may use your personal information to provide, improve, develop and personalize your experience with our products and services.

To communicate with you

We may use personal information to communicate with you in the following ways:

• To send you important notices, including notices related to your account, products, services, transactions or changes to our policies and terms
• To communicate with you about your employment requests
• To send you marketing communications in relation to Western Digital’s own products and services, with your express consent
  

To offer and measure targeted advertisements and services

We may use personal information to provide you with personalized advertisements about our products and services and to determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, with your express consent.

To promote safety and security

We may use personal information to help verify accounts and user activity, as well as to promote safety and security, such as by monitoring fraud and investigating suspicious or potentially illegal activity or violations of our terms or policies.