TP-Link Terms Scorecard

Grade B- — Mostly fair (score 72/100)

TP-Link shares user information with third-party marketing providers and partners for ad personalization, lacks specific data-retention timelines, and makes no breach-notification commitment, but does use TLS encryption.

Shares data with marketing partners; vague retention; no breach-notice commitment

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
YES
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
NO
Collects biometric data
NO
Shares data with government
YES
Easy to cancel
UNCLEAR
Tells you before changes
YES
Deletes data on request
YES

What the terms actually say

Section 4(4) — Marketing and Advertising

We may provide user information to our third-party marketing service providers for our promotional and/or marketing practices.

TP-Link sends user data to outside marketing companies so they can promote products and services.

Section 4(5) — Change of Control

We may be required to share your information as part of a merger, acquisition, asset sale, asset purchase, financing, bankruptcy, or other change of control.

If TP-Link is sold or goes bankrupt, your data gets handed to the buyer with no opt-out.

Section 4(6) — Responding to Legal Requests

We may share information where we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with an applicable law or legal process... like search warrants, court orders, production orders, or subpoenas.

TP-Link will turn over data to law enforcement based on a good-faith belief, with no promise to notify you.

Section 7 — Retention of Your Personal Data

We retain personal data for different periods of time depending on the purposes for which we collect and use it.

TP-Link keeps data for unspecified periods; no concrete deletion timeline is given.

Section 5 — Security of Personal Data

we cannot always guarantee it will be completely secure. The security of your personal data may be compromised by unauthorized entry, unauthorized use, hardware failure, software failure, and other factors at any time.

TP-Link acknowledges that security cannot be guaranteed and does not promise to notify you in the event of a breach.

Section 13 — Updates to Our Privacy Policy

If there are material changes, we will place a prominent notice on this website or provide notice through other means.

For important changes to the privacy policy, TP-Link will post a visible notice or otherwise inform you.

Section 5 — Security of Personal Data

We have implemented measures, including encryption and TLS technology, designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

TP-Link encrypts data in transit using TLS and restricts internal access to your information.

Section 9.1 — Your Rights

you may have legal rights to request the following... Deletion of your personal data

Users can request deletion of their personal data, subject to certain exceptions.

Last reviewed 2026-07-26 under rubric v3.5.

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