Privacy risks
If Skype software is installed on organization’s computer, in compliance with Skype Privacy Policy: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/legal/privacy/general/ in force on 04 of June 2010, Skype may gather, use and disclose user’s personal and some organization’s internal information for protecting Skype’s interests. Quotation of the Skype Privacy Policy in force on 04 of June 2010 is marked by italic.
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2. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SKYPE 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, address, telephone number, mobile number, email address);
(b) Profile information (e.g. age, sex, country of residence and any information that you choose to make available to others as part of your Skype user profile);
(c) Electronic identification data (e.g. IP addresses, cookies);
(d) Banking and payment information (credit card information, account number);
(e) Survey results;
(f) information about your usage of and interaction with the Skype software, our products and websites including computer and connection information, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views, and traffic to and from our websites;
(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;
(k) Your user profile;
(l) 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 or use it for any other purpose);
(m) Correspondence between you and Skype;
(n) 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
(o) content of chat communications made when using Skype For Your Mobile (please see section 13).
3. 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:
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• protect your and Skype’s interests, including in particular to enforce our Terms of Service and fight against fraud, (together, the Purposes).
4. OUR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Except as provided below, Skype shall not sell, rent, trade or otherwise transfer any personal and/or traffic data or communications content to any third party without your explicit permission, unless it is obliged to do so under applicable laws or by order of the competent authorities.
Skype may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, to protect Skype’s interests, to enforce our policies or to protect anyone's rights, property, or safety.
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Technical risks
- Security updates for Skype usually are NOT deployed by IT Department;
- Internal security policies (for example, security settings for links and files exchange, content analysis) usually are not applied to Skype by IT Department.
