Bing Ads | If you are having trouble viewing this email, click here. | |  | Dear OWS,
Per the "Notices and Changes" section of the Bing Ads agreement, we're writing to notify you that we've updated the Bing Ads Agreement. These updates reflect changes to our program, as well as new laws and regulations. Here's a summary of the changes and some additional information on why these changes are being made: - Preamble. We clarified the relationship between advertisers, their agents, and Microsoft.
- Bing Ads. We added language clarifying the components that comprise Bing Ads, as well as your options for participating in optional and pre-release features. We also included language that tells you how we use your feedback on our services. In addition, we added language describing your responsibilities around securing your account in light of new features, such as multi-linking, that give you greater flexibility in managing your account.
- Content. We added a new section that describes, in greater detail, our respective rights around Content, including a more detailed definition of what comprises "Content." Similarly, we added more detail on how we use your Content, including for new Bing experiences aimed at increasing user engagement and traffic around ads. We also clarify the role our partner network plays in publishing Bing Ads and related experiences.
- Prohibitions. We updated this section to better align with our Traffic Quality policies available on the Bing Ads site. In particular, we prohibit our customers from generating fraudulent clicks and impressions, scraping or collecting data from Bing Ads, and interfering with the operation of Bing Ads.
- Payment. We clarified your payment obligations and our respective obligations around taxes. We also updated this section to reflect our new policy requiring payment disputes to be made within 60 days of the charge at issue being posted to your account. This change aligns with industry standards.
- Indemnity. We clarified indemnifications obligations of companies, such as advertising agencies, using Bing Ads on behalf of an advertisers. Specifically, that a claim brought against Microsoft by an agency's advertiser is a claim triggering the agency's indemnification obligations.
- Bing Ads User Data. We added this new section to provide transparency with respect to how Microsoft uses data in the context of Bing Ads. We also define the data that Microsoft owns and controls in connection with Bing Ads.
- Your Privacy Obligations. In light of new Bing Ads features and evolving privacy laws, we added this new section, which outlines our expectations of you when it comes to protecting the user privacy. For advertisers participating in our Universal Event Tracking (UET) feature, we are requiring greater disclosures around your use of our pixel in order to ensure that users know when Bing Ads is collecting data. Further, in light of GDPR, we make clear that we restrict you from transferring the personal data of EU residents to Microsoft in connection with Bing Ads. Finally, for advertisers using their own data to better target their ads (e.g., using our Custom Audiences feature), we make clear that you own this data, that you are giving us permission to use it, and that we use it solely for the purpose of providing services to you. We also require assurances that you obtained the appropriate consent to share this data with us.
- Changes. To ensure that our policies reflect our efforts to continually improve Bing Ads, as well as our evolving regulatory landscape, we clarified our right to update or modify our policies at any time. We also decreased the notice period from 30 to 15 days. Finally, we added language that only requires us to provide notice of material changes to the Bing Ads agreement. This allows us to cut down on communications around changes like an updated office address.
- General. We added "independent contractor" language clarifying that neither of us is working on behalf of the other. We also added standard language prohibiting assignment of this agreement without our consent.
Using Bing Ads after the changes become effective means you accept the changes; if you don't accept, you must stop using Bing Ads.
Thank you for using Bing Ads.
Sincerely,
Your Bing Ads Support Team | | |  |
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