Editing GeForce (section)

=== Licensing and privacy issues ===
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The license has common terms against reverse engineering and copying, and it disclaims warranties and liability.<ref name="license">{{Cite web |url=https://www.geforce.com/drivers/license |title=License For Customer Use of NVIDIA Software |website=Nvidia.com |access-date=2017-08-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810210731/https://www.geforce.com/drivers/license |archive-date=August 10, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>{{Original research inline|date=May 2022}}

Starting in 2016 the GeForce license says Nvidia "SOFTWARE may access, collect non-personally identifiable information about, update, and configure Customer's system in order to properly optimize such system for use with the SOFTWARE."<ref name="license"/> The privacy notice goes on to say, "We are not able to respond to "Do Not Track" signals set by a browser at this time. We also permit third party online advertising networks and social media companies to collect information... We may combine personal information that we collect about you with the browsing and tracking information collected by these [cookies and beacons] technologies."<ref name="privacy">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/ |title=NVIDIA Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights |date=2016-06-15 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225074701/https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/ |archive-date=February 25, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

The software configures the user's system to optimize its use, and the license says, "NVIDIA will have no responsibility for any damage or loss to such system (including loss of data or access) arising from or relating to (a) any changes to the configuration, application settings, environment variables, registry, drivers, [[BIOS]], or other attributes of the system (or any part of such system) initiated through the SOFTWARE".<ref name="license"/>