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Privacy Information for Installation Features
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Privacy Statement for Installation Features
Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy, while delivering software that brings you the performance, power, and convenience you desire in your personal computing. This privacy statement explains data collection and use practices of some privacy-impacting features that you can make decisions about while installing and setting up Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows): Dynamic Update, Installation Improvement Program, and Remote Access Connections.
With your consent, these features might send information to and from the Internet when you're installing and setting up Windows. This disclosure focuses on Windows setup and installation features that communicate with the Internet. It does not apply to other online or offline Microsoft sites, products, or services.
You are seeing this privacy statement because you might not have Internet access during Windows installation. For a comprehensive privacy statement for this software, see the online Windows 7 Privacy Statement at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104288 Administrators can use Group Policy to modify many of the settings in Windows. For more information about the data collection and use practices of Windows Server 2008 R2 and how administrators can control these settings, see the white paper at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148262 For more information about the data collection and use practices of Windows 7 and how administrators can control these settings, see the white paper at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148050 Collection and use of your information
The personal information we collect from you will be used by Microsoft and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates to enable the features you use and provide the services or carry out the transactions you have requested or authorized. The information may also be used to analyze and