Samsung Health U.S. Privacy Notice
Effective Date: July 29, 2026
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., along with our affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively,
“Samsung”
), respects your concerns about privacy. This Samsung Health Privacy Notice (this
“Privacy Notice”
) applies to the personal information we obtain through Samsung Health (the “Service”). It does not apply to information collected by other apps, websites or services provided by Samsung. If you are a minor (under 18 years old), please refer to our Samsung Health U.S. Privacy Notice for Minors with a parent or guardian, which will help you understand better what information we collect and how we use it.
This Privacy Notice supplements the Samsung Privacy Policy (available at https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy) (
“Samsung Privacy Policy”
) and the Samsung Consumer Health Data Privacy Statement (available at https://www.samsung.com/us/privacy-policy/consumer-health-data-privacy-statement) (
“Consumer Health Data Privacy Statement”
), and provides additional information about how we may collect, use and share your personal information in connection with the Service. In the event any portion of this Privacy Notice conflicts with the Samsung Privacy Policy and/or the Consumer Health Data Privacy Statement, the relevant provisions of this Privacy Notice will govern.
Information We Obtain
Through the Service, we only collect the information described in this Privacy Notice. For any health information we may collect, we obtain your prior, opt-in consent before collecting it. Please see the Health Information section below for more information. We may obtain information about you in various ways, and the types of personal information we may obtain include:
Information You Provide Directly
• Account profile information (such as contact information, demographic information, profile settings and postings);
• Health and wellness-related information (such as body measurements, biometric indicators, metabolic and vascular data, and information related to sleep, mood, respiration, stress and reproductive health);
• Fitness and nutrition-related information (such as exercise and activity data, and dietary and hydration data);
• Medication information (such as details about medications, schedules and records related to medication intake, and relevant lifestyle factors for drug interaction information);
• Information about and from Samsung or third-party devices and apps you choose to connect to the Service (such as third-party device manufacturers, models, and identifiers, and third-party app IDs, including social media IDs). We also collect data, such as health and wellness-related data and fitness and nutrition-related information, when you link the Service with Samsung or third-party devices and apps, including when such data is saved to your Samsung Health app; and
• Content you send or receive through the Service, including messages you send and receive while using the Together feature.
Information We Obtain By Automated Means
• Information about your use of the Service (such as communications within the Service, Samsung Health settings, and usage information, including features accessed, menus and settings selected, frequency and duration of use, and any error messages displayed). We also collect any information stored in cookies we have set on your device;
• Device information (such as firmware version, operating system, and device IDs, including MAC address, Android ID, serial number, and mobile advertiser IDs); and
• Location data: Bluetooth and Wi-Fi signals and other information related to your location and with your consent your device’s precise geolocation when you use location-based features. Please note that if you decline to allow the Service to collect your precise geolocation, you may not be able to use all of the services or features of the Service.
We also may collect other information about you, your devices and apps, and your use of the Service in ways that we describe to you at the time of collection or otherwise with your consent.
Health Information
We may process your health information to provide you with certain features of the Service. For example, if you want to back up your health information or access your personal health records to transfer them to a medical center, we may process your health information for these purposes. Before processing your health information, we will obtain your consent, and you will be able to withdraw your consent at any time through the Service settings.
Some of these features may be provided through or with our business partners or service providers. For example, your personal health records may be maintained or retrieved by our service provider.
Together Feature
When you use the Together feature, you can choose to take on available challenges against other users of the Service, including your friends.
Your profile information (such as your nickname, photo, activity levels and friends list) is open to other users of Together. If you choose to sync contacts, your contact list is collected, and if any of your contacts is a user of the Service, that contact will automatically be added to your friends list. If any of your contacts is not a user of the Service, their numbers will be deleted immediately from our server.
You can go to Samsung Health settings > Together to disable syncing of your contacts, however, this will not affect the contacts already synced prior to your disabling.
How We Use the Information We Obtain
We may use the information we obtain through the Service for the following purposes::
- identify and authenticate you so you may use the Service;
- provide you with the Service, including features that require the processing of your health information;
- improve and customize your experience with the Service, such as importing your workout routine from another app;
- respond to your requests, inquiries, and instructions made through or about the Service;
- with your consent, to deliver marketing, sponsored content, and promotional communications, including personalized marketing. Health information is not used for marketing, nor will it be used for personalized ads;
- operate, evaluate, and improve our business (including developing new products, enhancing and improving our products and the Service, managing our communications, analyzing our products, consumer base, and Service, performing data analytics, and performing accounting, auditing, and other internal functions). With your consent, your health data may be used to develop and train our artificial algorithms and models;
- protect against, identify, and prevent fraud and other criminal activity, claims, and other liabilities; and
- comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, and our policies, including this Privacy Notice.
Information Sharing
As you use the Service, we share the types of information we collect (as described above) to the following entities for the purposes described above.
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Subsidiaries and Affiliates
: Samsung branded and non-branded subsidiaries and affiliates which we control or own.
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Business Partners
: Third parties who we work together with. These business partners control and manage your personal information. For example, we may share your information with the content or feature providers, e.g., when you request a service or feature and it is provided by our business partner.
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Service Providers/Processors
: Carefully selected companies that provide services for or on behalf of us. These providers are also committed to protecting your information.
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Other Parties When Required by Law or as Necessary to Protect Our Services
: For example, it may be necessary by law, legal process, or court order from governmental authorities to disclose your information. They may also seek your information from us for the purposes of law enforcement, national security, anti-terrorism, or other issues that are related to public security.
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Other Parties with Your Consent or at Your Direction
: In addition to the disclosures described in this Privacy Notice, we share information about you with third parties when you separately consent to or request such sharing.
Notice To California Residents
If you are a California consumer, for more information about your privacy rights, please see the California Consumer Privacy Statement (available at https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/california).
State Law Privacy Rights
United States residents have rights and choices concerning their personal information. See below for more information about privacy rights that are available to you, subject to applicable law.
- Access: accessing and confirming details about what we collected and to provide your personal information to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
- Deletion: deletion of your personal information. Please note, deletion of your personal information may also result in a loss of access to the Service. We will not delete certain data that we are required to keep according to law;
- Correction: correction of inaccuracies in your personal information;
- Requesting a list of specific third parties and/or categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed personal information; and
- Opting out of the collection or processing of sensitive information, such as your health information.
Additionally, you can make certain feature-specific choices about how your personal information is processed, such as whether to enable the collection of health information. You can also make changes to these choices by accessing the Service’s privacy settings.
You can exercise your privacy rights, submit a request as an authorized agent on an individual’s behalf, or appeal our decision with respect to a request you have submitted by going to our privacy rights portal (available at https://www.samsung.com/us/privacy/rights/) or calling us at 1-800-SAMSUNG (1-800-726-7864). You can also contact us about a privacy concern by contacting the Samsung Privacy Office via our webform
(available at https://privacypost.sea.samsung.com/ccpa/privacy-inquiries).
How Long We Keep Your Information
As stated above, this Privacy Notice supplements the Samsung Privacy Policy, which describes our information retention practices.
Updates to This Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information practices with respect to the Service or changes in applicable law. We will provide you with advanced noticed of any material changes by notifying you through the Service or email if we have one. We will indicate at the top of this Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated.
Samsung Health U.S. Privacy Notice for Minors
We (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and our related companies) care about your privacy. This Privacy Notice will explain how we handle information about you when you use Samsung Health (the “Service”). If you have any questions while reading this Privacy Notice, we recommend you sit with a parent or guardian to help you review and understand this Privacy Notice.
Please note that this is a simplified version of the Samsung Health U.S. Privacy Notice made for minors (those under 18 years of age), not a substitute.
Information We Get
When you use the Service, we may collect, and you might share with us, certain information about you. These include:
Health Information
The Service may collect, use, and share your health information to provide you with certain features. For example, if you want to backup your health information or want to see and share your personal health records (for example, treatments you received), your health data may be handled by us. Before we handle your health information, we will get your (or your guardian’s) permission and you will be able to change your mind at any time in the Service settings.
Some of these features may be provided with the help of our business partners or service providers. Business partners are companies who control and manage your information, while service providers do a specific task or job for us or our benefit. Service providers help us hold on to or retrieve your personal health records.
Information You Choose to Give Us
• Profile information, including your name and number, date of birth, gender, profile settings.
• Health and wellness-related information (such as height, weight, heart rate, body fat, and other measurements about your body).
• Fitness and nutrition-related information (such as activity and exercise, food intake, and water intake).
• Medication information (such as information about your medicine and your medicine schedules).
Information We Get Automatically
• Information about what you’re using: information about your device, like what kind of device you are using, what settings you have turned on or off in the Service, and information that lets us know which device is yours (these are called identifiers).
• Information about how you use the Service: how, when, and for how long you use the Service and the devices and apps you connect. This may include health and wellness-related information and fitness and nutrition-related information.
• Information about where you are: We may collect information about your location, including by using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. If you (or your parent or guardian) allow us, we may collect information about your location to tell us better and more exactly where you are (this is called geolocation). Your device will let you know when we are collecting your geolocation.
We may also collect other information about you, your devices and apps, and how you use the Service when you allow us. When we do, we will explain it to you.
How We Use the Information
We may use the information we get through the Service for the purposes below. We may not use your information for some of the purposes depending on how old you are. For example, the Together and Health Assistant features aren’t available to minors. We also won’t use your information for personalized ads.
• make sure it is you that is using the Service; • let you use the Service, including features that need to use your health information;
• make the service better;
• show and provide you with features you might like or customize, such as letting you use your workout routines from another app;
• let you ask questions and give instructions through or about the Service and respond to them; and
• if you’re over 13 and allow us, send marketing, including personalized marketing. Health information is not used for marketing.
Sharing Your Information
Where applicable, we may share your information with other Samsung companies, business partners, and service providers that help us run the Service. Sometimes, we are required by law to share information for legal purposes, or public safety. Additionally, we may share your information when you give us permission or request it.
Specifically, business partners are other companies who control and manage your information. They are content or feature providers, e.g. when you request a service or feature and it is provided by our business partner.
If you don't understand, please ask your parent or guardian to help you understand who we share your information with.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We don’t keep your personal information if we don’t need it. Your information will be kept for as long as it is needed to provide you with the Service, as required by law (government rules) or contracts (promises we made to other companies), or only for as long as necessary for one of the purposes above.
Once it is no longer needed, we will either delete it or anonymize it (meaning we won’t know it’s your information).
What Can You Ask Us To Do With Your Information?
If you live in the United States, you have rights and choices. You (or your parent or guardian) have the right to ask us the following, subject to applicable law:
- give you a copy of the information we have about you and in a way other devices can read this information
- update or fix your information
- delete your information. If you ask us to delete or stop using your information, some parts of the Service might not work as expected. Always talk to your parents or guardian if you are not sure
- provide a list of third parties (business partners) that received your personal information from us
- change your mind about letting us collect and use your sensitive information, such as your health information
Some features in the Service may also let you make choices about how we use your information, such as letting us collect and use your health information. You can change your mind about the choices you make by going into the Service’s privacy settings.
You (or if you’re under 13, your parent or guardian) can make these requests by calling us at 1-800-SAMSUNG (1-800-726-7864) or on the Privacy Rights Portal (available at https://www.samsung.com/us/privacy/rights/). If you ask us to delete or stop using your information, some parts of the Service might not work as expected. Always talk to your parents or guardian if you are not sure.
Updates to This Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. If we make significant changes, we will let you know before we update this Privacy Notice through the Service or email if we have one. You can always see when we last made changes to this Privacy Notice by checking the date at the top.
Summary of Samsung Health U.S. Privacy Notice
This is a summary of the Samsung Health U.S. Privacy Notice. It helps you understand the key points of our Privacy Notice. It does not replace the full Privacy Notice. Please read the full Privacy Notice for complete details about how Samsung collects, uses, and shares your personal information.
What we collect
When you use Samsung Health, we may collect personal information about you. This includes health information like your wellness data, fitness and nutrition data, and medication details. We ask for your opt-in consent before collecting this information. With your consent, we may also collect your device's exact location when you use location-based features. You can withdraw either consent at any time in the settings. We may also collect other information you provide, data from connected
devices and apps, and details about your device and how you use it.
How we use your data
We use your information to provide and improve Samsung Health, confirm your identity, answer your requests, and provide features and recommendations. With your consent, we may send you marketing messages and use your health data to develop and train AI models. However, we do not use health information for marketing or personalized ads.
Who we share your information with
We share your information with other companies owned by Samsung. We also share it with business partners that provide services or features with us, and with service providers that work for us. We may also share your information when required by law or when you ask us to do so.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information. This may include the right to view, copy, fix, or delete your information. You can also ask for a list of third parties that received your information. You may have the right to opt out of certain uses of sensitive data, like health information. To make a request, visit the Privacy Rights Portal or call 1-800-SAMSUNG.
Updates to the Privacy Notice
We may update the Samsung Health Privacy Notice over time, and we will let you know before we make any important changes.