Company file · Televisions you buy
Samsung
- Documents held
- 26of 43 watched
- Versions held
- 505
- Edits on record
- 92 seen here · 7 recovered
- Removed or redirected
- 8
- Words to accept
- 14,4251.2 h aloud
- First seen
- 2012-04-02
- Last checked
- 2026-09-06
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If you own a Samsung television and want the short answer, it is on what you can refuse: for each kind of collection — what you watch, what you say, the adverts you are shown, who it is shared with, where you are — whether Samsung's own documents say you can decline, say you must accept, or don't say at all. Every answer there quotes the sentence it came from. Everything below this is the evidence behind it.
What you accept
Words in each of Samsung's agreement documents, from the latest captured version. Together: 14,425 words, 72 minutes read aloud at 200 words a minute. 1 address serving byte-identical text was counted once.
5 captured pages not counted, and why
These are held in the archive exactly like every other capture — readable, downloadable, diffed. They are left out of the figure above because they are not documents a Samsung television owner is held to. Each is still linked, so the arithmetic can be checked rather than trusted.
| Document | Words | Not counted because |
|---|---|---|
| Samsung — Samsung Ads privacy notice | 4,413 | Byte-identical to a document already counted at another address. |
| Samsung — Your privacy rights | 1,266 | Almost word-for-word the same as a document already counted at another address. |
| Samsung support — Viewing Information Services (ACR) controls | 774 | Nothing in the text identifies it as terms, a policy or a notice. |
| Samsung — Consumer health data privacy statement | 595 | Nothing in the text identifies it as terms, a policy or a notice. |
| Samsung account — membership privacy policy | 2 | Too short to be the document — fewer than 100 words captured. |
Named in Samsung's own agreements: Adobe Analytics, Google. Each of these appears by name in the text of a document you accept.
The consent dial: words, by document
6 agreement documents counted of 11 watched · one full turn is 1.7 h read aloud at 200 wpm
- Samsung — Privacy Policy 4,413 w 22 min
- Samsung — Legal index 3,448 w 17 min
- Samsung — EU-US Data Privacy Framework notice 2,300 w 12 min
- Samsung — Terms of Sale 1,514 w 8 min
- Samsung — California privacy notice 1,467 w 7 min
- Samsung — Privacy hub 1,283 w 6 min
Segments run clockwise from the top in the order of the list, largest first; point at either to match them. The rim is marked every quarter hour of reading aloud.
Capture history
505 versionsEvery reading of every Samsung document on one time axis. Each cell is a period of the axis, lit by the most serious thing a capture found in it; the fine marks inside are the captures themselves, at the moment they happened. A dim cell is a period with no capture. A hatched cell is a page we asked for and were not given. A document that has never returned a readable page has a row with nothing lit: the archive is watching it, and holds nothing yet.
Captures over time
43 documents · 2012-04-02 to 2026-09-06
The documents you have to accept to use the television - terms, privacy policies, ACR and voice notices. These are what you are legally held to, and the ones most likely to be quietly edited.
| # | Document | Type | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Samsung — Privacy Policy
https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy samsung·AGR·c35a0d |
Privacy policies | 39 |
| 02 | Samsung — Samsung Ads privacy notice
https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/SamsungAds samsung·AGR·909717 |
Privacy policies | 8 |
| 03 | Samsung — California privacy notice
https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/california samsung·AGR·abd52a |
Privacy policies | 38 |
| 04 | Samsung — Privacy hub
https://www.samsung.com/us/privacy samsung·AGR·40a5d1 |
Privacy policies | 38 |
| 05 | Samsung — Your privacy rights
https://www.samsung.com/us/privacy/rights samsung·AGR·533a62 |
Privacy policies | 38 |
| 06 | Samsung — Legal index
https://www.samsung.com/us/common/legal samsung·AGR·186192 |
Privacy policies | 38 |
| 07 | Samsung support — Viewing Information Services (ACR) controls
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00062694 samsung·AGR·1ccf01 |
Privacy policies | 12 |
| 08 | Samsung — EU-US Data Privacy Framework notice
https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/data-privacy-framework samsung·AGR·d032b3 |
Privacy policies | 8 |
What the company tells advertisers it can do with the data you agreed to hand over. Written to persuade buyers, so it is usually far plainer than the policy.
| # | Document | Type | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Samsung Ads — vanity domain
https://www.samsungads.com/ samsung·PIT·3c0e57 |
Ad-sales & ACR | 8 |
| 02 | Samsung Ads — home
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads samsung·PIT·d364cb |
Ad-sales & ACR | 8 |
| 03 | Samsung Ads — solutions
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/solutions samsung·PIT·ed0c91 |
Ad-sales & ACR | 8 |
| 04 | Samsung Ads — consumer reach
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/solutions/consumer-reach samsung·PIT·c69759 |
Ad-sales & ACR | 8 |
| 05 | Samsung Ads — contextual relevance
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/solutions/contextual-relevance samsung·PIT·3d1154 |
Ad-sales & ACR | 8 |
| 06 | Samsung Ads — conversion solutions
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/solutions/conversion-solutions samsung·PIT·2a1db5 |
Ad-sales & ACR | 8 |
| 07 | Samsung Ads — knowledge hub
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/knowledge-hub samsung·PIT·3bfa0f |
Case studies | 8 |
| 08 | Samsung Ads — insights
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/insights samsung·PIT·b5e05f |
Case studies | 8 |
Everything corroborating the other two: regulators, court filings, independent research and the company's own press releases.
| # | Document | Type | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Samsung Smart TV developer portal
https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv samsung·REC·42100a |
Technical docs | 8 |
| 02 | Samsung Tizen — Smart Hub preview guide
https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/guides/smart-hub-preview.html samsung·REC·dce99e |
Technical docs | 9 |