Microsoft Office 365 was built from the ground up with three privacy tenets at its core: responsibility, transparency, and choice. As part of our three part security and privacy series, today we'll take a close look at transparency and how we strive to make our practices easy to understand. At the heart of our transparency efforts is the Office 365 Trust Center which is designed to tell customers, in plain language, exactly how we handle and use data gathered through their use of our cloud-based service.

The Office 365 Trust Center details our commitment to customers in six key privacy areas: data use limits; administrative access; geographic boundaries; third parties; security, audits and certifications; and regulatory compliance. To help ensure ongoing regulatory compliance, the Office 365 Trust Center site also has links to tools that customers can use to stay current with changes to Office 365 security and privacy practices. Additionally, detailed information about the specific privacy and security practices for the services that comprise Office 365 - Exchange Online for email, SharePoint Online for document sharing and collaboration, and Lync Online for instant messaging and web conferencing, are also available.

Learn more about the Office 365 Trust Center by watching the brief video below. In it, you can see the inside of a data center, and learn more about how we decide where data is stored, administrative access limits, and compliance notifications.

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