Strongest: User Control
90/100
Microsoft Excel gives users more direct privacy control than its other categories, especially around data export and clear admin controls.
Microsoft Excel is a Microsoft product, reviewed for spreadsheets, formulas, cloud files, Copilot features, and collaboration, sharing, tracking, retention, and controls.
80
Good
80
Good
Microsoft Excel combines broad tracking with unusually strong privacy controls.
Microsoft Excel gives users more direct privacy control than its other categories, especially around data export and clear admin controls.
Microsoft Excel is weakest on ads and tracking because cookie-based tracking remains part of the product or marketing site.
80
Good
Microsoft documents organization-managed products and account-level privacy controls.
Microsoft Excel data can be processed for product features, diagnostics, security, personalization, AI, or admin-managed services.
80
Good
60
Mixed
80
Good
90
Excellent
Privacy Privacy Page
Open: privacy.microsoft.com1. Controls
Microsoft documents organization-managed products and account-level privacy controls.
2. AI Use
Microsoft Excel data can be processed for product features, diagnostics, security, personalization, AI, or admin-managed services.
Founded
Unknown
Founder
Unknown
Parent Company
Microsoft Excel
Lifecycle
Active
Category
Productivity & Collaboration
CEO
Unknown
Security Team
In house
Date Added
04-22-2026
Once you delete a chat, you cannot recover it. Deleting a chat removes it both from your visible chat history and the system after the retention window.
80
Good
Microsoft documents access, control, and organization-admin contexts for personal data.
Data can flow through admins, collaborators, add-ins, service providers, Microsoft services, and legal recipients.
60
Mixed
Microsoft processes account, device, diagnostic, usage, cookie, and product interaction data.
Users or admins can manage diagnostics, sharing, access, privacy dashboard data, and tenant settings.
80
Good
Microsoft supports deletion, privacy dashboard controls, retention policies, and compliance settings depending on product.
Retention depends on account type, tenant policy, legal holds, backups, diagnostics, and service logs.
90
Excellent
Users or admins can manage access, sharing, diagnostics, retention, exports, and privacy settings.
Work/school accounts often depend on organization administrators.