Government ID Data. In certain jurisdictions, we may ask for a government-issued ID in limited circumstances, including when setting up a wireless account and activating your device, for the purpose of extending commercial credit, managing reservations, or as required by law

Other Information You Provide to Us. Details such as the content of your communications with Apple, including interactions with customer support and contacts through social media channels

You are not required to provide the personal data that we have requested. However, if you choose not to do so, in many cases we will not be able to provide you with our products or services or respond to requests you may have.

Apple may receive personal data about you from other individuals , from businesses or third parties acting at your direction , from our partners who work with us to provide our products and services and assist us in security and fraud prevention, and from other lawful sources. Individuals. Apple may collect data about you from other individuals - for example, if that individual has sent you a product or gift card, invited you to participate in an Apple service or forum, or shared content with you. At Your Direction. You may direct other individuals or third parties to share data with Apple. For example, you may direct your mobile carrier to share data about your carrier account with Apple for account activation, or for your loyalty program to share information about your participation so that you can earn rewards for Apple purchases. Apple Partners. We may also validate the information you provide - for example, when creating an Apple Account, with a third party for security, and for fraud-prevention purposes. To power features such as search and as a source for our foundational AI models, Apple uses Applebot, a web crawler, to crawl information that is publicly available on the internet. We have measures in place to reduce the amount of personal data we collect and make no attempt to connect data crawled to any individual Apple user, or to build profiles about individuals. Your private personal data is not used to train our foundational AI models. To exercise your right as an individual to opt out of processing, visit the Apple Intelligence Privacy Inquiries form . For more information about Applebot, visit support.apple.com/120320 . For research and development purposes, we may use datasets such as those that contain images, voices, or other data that could be associated with an identifiable person. When acquiring such datasets, we do so in accordance with applicable law, including law in the jurisdiction in which the dataset is hosted. When using such datasets for research and development, we do not attempt to reidentify individuals who may appear therein.

Apple may receive personal data about you from other individuals , from businesses or third parties acting at your direction , from our partners who work with us to provide our products and services and assist us in security and fraud prevention, and from other lawful sources.

Individuals. Apple may collect data about you from other individuals - for example, if that individual has sent you a product or gift card, invited you to participate in an Apple service or forum, or shared content with you.

At Your Direction. You may direct other individuals or third parties to share data with Apple. For example, you may direct your mobile carrier to share data about your carrier account with Apple for account activation, or for your loyalty program to share information about your participation so that you can earn rewards for Apple purchases.