This Privacy Policy (” Privacy Policy“) governs the manner in which we process information collected from our users (” you“, ” your” or ” user“) in connection with the access to or use of our software application, browser extension, website, and new tab app, all, as detailed in our End User License Agreement (” EULA” or ” Agreement“) (” Service“).
We have included below information about which data is collected, how we process and use your data, but before we would like to explain the basis on which we do so:
1. Where you sign up for any of our services, we process your personal data in order to perform our contract with you;
2. If we have a legitimate interest in processing data, such as for direct marketing or online identifiers; or
3. We will also process your personal data where you have provided us with consent to do so.
1. Amendments
Except as otherwise described herein, we may at our sole discretion and at any time amend the terms of this Privacy Policy. Such changes shall be effective upon publication of the amended terms in this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Service, following the amendment of the Privacy Policy, constitutes your acknowledgment and consent of such amendments to the Privacy Policy. The last revision will be reflected in the “Last Revised” heading above. In the event of a material change, we will make best efforts to send you a written notification. We recommend that you periodically review this Privacy Policy, as it may be subject to amendments from time to time. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy as amended, your sole and exclusive option is to discontinue or terminate your use of the Service.
2. What information do we collect?
Non-Personal Information:
The first type of information we collect is aggregated, non-identifiable, non-personal information, which may be made available or gathered via the user’s use of the Service (” Non-Personal Information“). We are not aware of the identity of the user from which the Non-Personal Information was collected. The Non-Personal Information which is being collected may include technical information automatically transmitted by the user’s device (for example, type of browser, the type of the user’s device and technical information pertaining to the user’s device, language preferences, time stamps, clicks and visited pages, search logs, the operating system, utilized internet service provider and other similar information.
Personal Information:
The second type of information is individually identifiable information, namely information that identifies an individual or entity or may with reasonable effort to identify an individual (” Personal Information“). The Personal Information we collect on or through the Service includes:
- “Identifiers” we may collect certain identifiers such as your IP addresses. Note that, while these identifiers are considered personally identifiable information in many jurisdictions (such as the EEA), there are some jurisdictions in which such data sets are not considered as Personal Information. Therefore, we treat such information as Personal Information, in accordance with applicable laws. The data collected may be also stored on your device. Please see the opt-out options below.
- “Contact Information ” – we may receive Contact Information, when you voluntarily provide us with such information, if and when you contact us for support. Contact Information shall not be stored and shall be deleted immediately after providing you with the support you requested.
For the avoidance of doubt, in the event Non-Personal Information is combined with Personal Information we will treat it as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
3. How we may collect your information?
Non-Personal Information may be automatically transmitted by the user’s device. When using our Service, we assign your device with a log file, a cookie (session or persistent), web beacons, or other related technologies, to collect Non-Personal Information with respect to your activity in connection with our Service.
A “cookie” is a small piece of information that a website assigns to your device while you are viewing a web site. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various different purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences, and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help customize your experience. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org . You may remove our cookie by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable our cookie, some features of our Service may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited. You may control how your browser responds to cookies by adjusting the privacy and security settings of your web browser.
Our service providers (i.e., Google Analytics, Amazon, search feed providers, customer service, marketing assistance, ad tracking, service functionality, and support, etc.) (” Service Providers“) may also use cookies, scripts or web beacons for the purpose of tracking and analyzing your use, all as detailed below:
Google Analytics. This cookie is placed in order to track and analyze the use of our Services, for internal purposes. To learn more about how Google uses data from our use of Google Analytics Cookies, we recommend you review Google’s policies located at: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners . We also encourage you to review Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web tool available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ .
Oath. Oath may use cookies when you use their services through our software, for more information please review the applicable privacy policy: https://policies.oath.com/us/en/oath/privacy/products/searchservices/index.html
4. How we use the information we collect?
We collect Personal Information for the following purposes:
· The legitimate interest in operating the service.
· Recommend content based on your preferences.
· To respond to users’ requests and feedbacks.
· To respond to claims that any content available through the Service violates the rights of third parties, to resolve disputes and enforce our policies, including investigation of potential violations thereof, for the purpose of law enforcement or in accordance with any applicable law or regulation.
We collect Non-Personal Information for the following purposes
· The legitimate interest in operating the service.
· To perform research, analytics, or for statistical purposes.
· To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
5. With whom we share information?
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ Personal Information to other parties. We may share information solely in the following events:
We will share your information, solely to the extent needed to comply with any applicable law or regulation (including our policies and agreements), solely to the extent needed to establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims or to prevent harm to the rights, property or safety of us, our users, yourself or any third party or for the purpose of collaborating with law enforcement agencies or in case we find it necessary in order to enforce intellectual property or other legal rights.
We may share your information, in the event of a corporate transaction (e.g. sale of a substantial part of our business, merger, consolidation, or asset sale). In the event of the above, our affiliated companies or acquiring company will assume the rights and obligations as described in this Privacy Policy.
We may share Non-Personal Information with our trusted Service Providers only to the extent required to fulfill the purposes of providing the services.
- identifiers – we may disclose or share identifiers collected by us (as detailed above), for the purpose of operating our business and providing the Services, as well as to calculate payments and detect fraud, security or technical issues in connection with the Service;
· Other third parties (including retailers, media networks, feed providers) in any of the above circumstances, as well as for the purpose of developing or delivering content (whether via our Service, or websites, applications or services of third parties), or for the purpose of improving our Service, conducting business analysis or other business purposes. This information may be combined with information we collect from other sources to the extent that the information remains Non-Personal Information.
· We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of the Service. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users access the Service, what pages they visit when they do so, etc. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Service. Google Analytics collects certain identifiers assigned to you on the date you visit sites, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits by disabling cookies on your browser. To learn more about how Google uses data from our use of Google Analytics Cookie we recommend you review Google’s policies located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners . We also encourage you to review Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web tool available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ .
· by downloading or installing or using the Service, or by accepting this Privacy Policy, you also consent to the third-party policies, whose products might be offered to you as part of the Service, such as Yahoo which it’s privacy policy available here: https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/search/details.html) and the opt-out is available herein: https://aim.yahoo.com/aim/us/en/optout/ .
· You may share through the Service certain types of information (e.g. music interests and recommendations) with other users.
6. Information Retention Policy and User Rights
Applicable data protection and privacy laws may provide you with the ability to exercise some user rights regarding your Personal Information collected by the Company (which might be different in each jurisdiction). The user rights are as follow: (i) you may request to access your Personal Information that we hold; (ii) you may request the rectification of your Personal Data that we hold; (iii) you may request the erasure of your Personal Information that we hold (as long as we do not have a legitimate reason for retaining the data); (iv) you may request to restrict processing of your Personal Information; (v) you may object to the processing of your Personal Information by us; (vi) you may request to exercise your right of data portability; (vii) you may exercise your right to file a complaint to a supervisory authority in your jurisdiction, and (viii) you have the right to withdraw consent.
To exercise any of the above user rights, please contact us. In the event, you make such request, note that we may require certain information from you in order to verify your identity and locate your data and that the process of locating and deleting the data may take, however not more than one (1) month, unless otherwise required or permitted under applicable law.
Data privacy and related laws in your jurisdiction may provide you with different or additional rights related to the data we collect from you, which may also apply. Please note we may charge a small fee for such a request, all in accordance with applicable laws.
Unless we are instructed otherwise by users, we retain the Non-Personal Information, we collect for as long as needed to provide the Service and to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. Further, we retain the Personal Information, we collect for as long as legally permissible, in accordance with applicable laws.
7. Children Information
You represent and warrant that, (i) if you are located in the US, you are at least 13 years of age; or if you are located in any other GEO, you are above the age defined as “child” under applicable laws in your jurisdiction (collectively ” Child” or ” Children“); and (ii) you are of legal competence to enter into this Privacy Policy. If you are under 18, please be sure to read the terms of this Privacy Policy with your parents or legal guardians. The Services are not directed or intended for children, as defined under applicable law, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit information from children. If we obtain actual knowledge that a User is considered as a Child under applicable law, we will take steps to immediately delete such User’s Personal Information. If you become aware or have any reason to believe that a Child has shared any information with us
8. Security
Your privacy is very important to the Company and therefore we are committed to protecting your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We have implemented physical, technical, and administrative security measures for the Services that comply with applicable laws and industry standards. The Personal Information collected by the Company is stored in the Google Big Query Cloud servers, for more information regarding the data security provided by Google, please see https://cloud.google.com/security/ .
The company seeks to minimize the amount of data that it stores on its servers in the first place. If you feel that your privacy was treated not in accordance with our policy, or if any person attempted to gain unauthorized access to the Personal Information please contact us.
Further, in the event of a data incident, in which we discover your Personal Information may be at risk, then we will make reasonable efforts to notify you and the applicable authority (if required, subject to applicable laws).
9. Transfer of Data
We may store or process your information in the United States or in other countries. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (” EEA“) we will take appropriate measures to ensure that your information receives an adequate level of data protection upon its transfer outside of the EEA. If you are a resident of a jurisdiction where the transfer of your data requires your consent, then your consent to this Privacy Policy includes your express consent for such transfer of your Personal Information.
10. Do Not Track Disclosure
Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals. For more information about Do Not Track signals, please see http://www.allaboutdnt.com/.
11. Contacting us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of our Service, please contact us at [email protected]