Samsung News U.S. Privacy Notice

Information We Obtain

Through the Service, we may obtain information about you in various ways. The types of personal information we may obtain include those listed in the Samsung US Privacy Policy as well as the following:

Information We Obtain By Automated Means

• Samsung account information, such as your Samsung account ID, name, date of birth, demographic data (such as gender and age), interests, and preferences when you sign in to Samsung account to use the Service or signed in to Samsung account on your device;
• Device information: We may obtain information through automated means about your Service-enabled devices, such as hardware information, software information, settings (such as language), country,state, city,timezone, MNC, CSC, and device identifiers;
• Service usage: Such as usage information of the Service and its features (time, duration, searches, and patterns, including what you click); and
• Content information: We may collect information related to the content you view and interact with when you use various tabs offered through the Service. For example, we may obtain information such as what news article or category of news article you view or are interested in.

We also may collect other information about you, your devices and apps, and your use of the Services in ways that we describe to you at the time of collection or otherwise with your consent.

The Service may provide the ability to connect to or show other websites, apps, services, and other features, such as showing content you like or use from Samsung or third-party services. For example, when you use each tab, content providers may provide you with content to view or interact with. To maintain continuity in your experience with these third-party services, as well as to enhance personalization, we may collect information such as usage data and preferences specific to these features. Third-party websites, apps, services, and features may operate independently from us and may have their own privacy notices or policies. Review them to ensure that you understand how they process your information. To the extent that any other linked or shown website, app, service, or other feature is not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for its content, use, or privacy practices

How We Use the Information We Obtain

We may use the information we obtain through the Service to:

• identify and authenticate you so you may use the Service;
• provide you with the features offered by the Service;
• improve and customize your experience with the Service, such as delivering content and responses tailored to you and the way you interact with the Service;
• respond to your requests, inquiries, and instructions made through or about the Service;
• deliver advertising, including with your consent customized advertisements;
• with your separate consent, sending you promotional communications (such as new content in the tabs or new features of the Service) and news and content updates via push notifications and emails; and
• allow you to interact with and use participating third-party apps and services; and
• maintain continuity in your experience with third-party services within the Service, including personalizing your experience based on your interactions with these services.

We use and combine the information we collect about you from the Service with data from other services, features or devices you use, such as when you use the Game Launcher or Galaxy Store apps, you can get customized services based on the data that combines game usage records from Game Launcher and Galaxy Store with data collected from the Service.