Azure Marketplace GDPR Compliance

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The Azure Marketplace operated by 21Vianet is a unified display portal for the products and services of Microsoft partners (within this article, the scope of Azure Marketplace is limited to China).It provides Azure customers with diverse services through Azure Partners, including stand-alone virtual machines, ARM (Azure Resource Management) solution templates, and customized services.Service providers must be registered as a legal entity in China in order to get their registration approved.

In principle, Azure Marketplace only requires a minimum amount of service provider data to be retained. Service providers can modify all of this information on the Cloud Partner Portal.

Service Provider Personal Data Involved in Azure Marketplace

  1. The AAD account number of the service provider account.An Azure Marketplace service provider account can include one or more AAD account numbers.Please refer to Azure Active Directory Documentation for documents relating to AAD.
  2. Service provider contact information.This includes the company name, contact person names, contact person telephone numbers, and contact person email addresses.This information is generated when a service provider signs up to Azure Marketplace.
  3. Customer service information related to service provider products/services.Note that this information may be different from the contact information for a service provider. It includes customer service names, customer service telephone numbers, customer service email addresses, customer service QQ accounts, customer service WeChat accounts, and customer service Weibo accounts.This information is generated when a service provider releases a product/service after signing up to Azure Marketplace.

Azure Marketplace offers features for viewing, editing, and deleting service provider information and products/services, as well as for viewing or deleting the individual request records of Azure Marketplace service providers.These are described in three parts below.

Viewing Azure Marketplace Service Provider Personal Information

Viewing Service Provider Contact Information

  1. Log on to the Cloud Partner Portal
  2. In the top right corner, click on Profile Picture -> Service Provider Information.
  3. View the service provider name, telephone numbers, email addresses, etc.

Viewing a Service Provider’s AAD Account Number

  1. Sign into Cloud Partner Portal in a browser
  2. Click on the “Users” button to enter the service provider user management edit page.
  3. View the service provider AAD account number list.

Viewing Customer Service Support Information for Products/Services

  1. Click on All Offers to enter the offer details page.
  2. Press offer to enter the edit page.
  3. View customer service support information for products/services, including service provider names, email addresses, and telephone numbers.

Editing or Deleting Azure Marketplace Service Provider Personal Information

Editing Service Provider Contact Information

  1. Sign into Cloud Partner Portal in a browser
  2. Click on the 'Avatar Icon' -> 'Publisher Profile' in the upper right corner.
  3. You can edit a service provider name, telephone number or email address and submit the form to complete editing.

Editing a Service Provider’s AAD Account Number

  1. Sign into Cloud Partner Portal in a browser
  2. Click on the “Users” button to enter the service provider user management edit page.
  3. Click on the “Delete” button to delete a service provider AAD account number, or click on “Add New User” to add an AAD account number.

Editing Product/Service Customer Service Support Information

  1. Click on All Offers to enter the offer details page.
  2. Click on the offer to enter the edit page, then modify the “Customer Service Information” section and submit the form to complete editing.
  3. Click on the “Delete” button to delete a offer, including the customer service support information for the offer.