Privacy Policy
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Welcome
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Security and privacy are at the core of our work. Therefore, we believe that it
is important to be transparent about how we process your information and how it
is processed. This privacy policy describes how we handle and process data
related to your use of our products, services, applications, and websites linked
to the policy (we collectively refer to these as our " services " ).
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This policy uses the term " personal data " to refer to information related to
identified or identifiable natural persons, and is protected as personal data in
accordance with applicable data protection laws.
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Who Are We?
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This strategy covers the data processing practice of Private Browser .
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In this policy, "we", "we" and "ours" refer to the specific companies listed
above, which provide services for you and are responsible for processing your
data according to this policy.For mobile applications, you can identify the
company by viewing the companies that provide the application or viewing their
terms of service on the download page.
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1. What information do we collect about you?
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This section introduces all kinds of information about you that we collected
from you.This information is not collected in all cases, but only in specific
cases.To understand the context in which collection takes place, please refer to
Section 2 (How do we use your information?)。For more information about some
mechanisms we use to collect this information, such as cookies, see Section 4
(Tracking Technology and Cookies).
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1.1 The information you provided to us
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● Account information.Some services require or allow you to create accounts to
access them.As part of registering an account, we may collect information such
as your name, user name, email address and password.
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● Bill and payment information.In order to purchase services, you may need to
provide us with detailed information, such as bill name, bill contact
information (street address, email address) and payment method details.
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● authentication information.Some services require you to verify your identity
when creating an account to access them.For this reason, we may collect
information such as email address.
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● Communication and submission.When you contact us, you can choose to provide us
with information (for example, get support through email or inquire about our
services), including when you fill out online forms, reply to surveys, provide
feedback, participate in promotions or submit information through our services.
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1.2 Information collected while using our services
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● usage information.We collect information about how you interact with our
services, such as how much bandwidth you use, when and when you use our
services.
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● equipment information.We collect information from and relate to the devices
you use to access our services.For example, we may collect device identifier,
browser type, device type and settings, operating system version, mobile,
wireless and other network information (such as Internet service provider name,
operator name and signal strength) and application version number.
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● Diagnostic information.We may collect information about the nature of your
request to the server (for example, the requested content, information about the
device and application used to make the request, timestamp and reference
URL).However, we will not record any information that associates your identity
with VPN browsing activities.We don't keep any records showing what you are
browsing or accessing through the VPN connection.
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● Location information.We may collect your location information based on various
sources (such as GPS of equipment) or approximate longitude and latitude
calculated according to your IP address.
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1.3 Information provided to us by a third party
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● Recommended.If you are invited to use our service, the person who invited you
can submit your personal data, such as your email address or other contact
information.
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● Third party accounts.Some services may allow you to register your account with
a third-party account, such as a Google or Microsoft account.If you do this, the
third party may send us some information about them.You may be able to control
what information they send to us through the privacy settings of this
third-party account.
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● Threat information.We may receive information from well-known members of the
security industry, and the information provided by these members can help us
provide, develop, test and improve our services (for example, malicious URL
list, spam blacklist, phone number blacklist and sample malware).Some of the
information may accidentally contain personal data.
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Unless you have a contractual obligation to us, you usually have no obligation
to disclose personal data to us.However, we need to collect and process some
necessary or legally required information in order to provide services for you
or establish a contractual relationship with you in other ways.
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2. How do we use your information?
- We will use the collected information for various purposes as described below.
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● To provide, maintain, troubleshoot and support our services.We use your
information as necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you.Example:
use information about how much bandwidth you use and how long you use our
services to provide services according to the plan to which you have
subscribed;Use threat and equipment information to determine whether certain
items pose potential security threats;Use location information to connect you to
the nearest and fastest VPN server;And use the usage information to solve the
service problems you reported to us and ensure the normal operation of our
service.
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● used for billing and payment.We use your information to perform bill
management activities and process payments, which are necessary to fulfill our
contractual obligations.
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● Communicate with users and potential users.We use your information to
communicate with you, including responding to your requests and sending you
information and updates about our services.We may do this to fulfill our
contract with you, because you agree to this communication, or because we have a
legitimate interest in providing you with information about our services.
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● In order to improve our service.We hope to provide you with the best service
and user experience, so we have a reasonable interest in continuously improving
and optimizing our services.To this end, we use your information to understand
how users interact with our services.Example: We analyze some usage, equipment
and diagnostic information to understand the overall usage trend and the user's
participation in our services (for example, investing in technology
infrastructure to better serve the regions with increasing user demand);We may
use equipment and threat information to conduct spam, threats and other
scientific research to improve our threat detection capabilities;We will review
customer feedback to understand that we can do better.
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● Develop new services.We have a legitimate interest in using your information
to plan and develop new services.For example, we may use customer feedback to
learn about new services that users may want.
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● To market and publicize our services.We may use your information to provide,
measure, personalize and enhance our advertising and marketing according to our
legitimate interests in providing services that may be of interest to you.For
example, we may use information such as who or what led you to our service to
know how effective our advertisement is;We may use information to manage
promotional activities, such as sweepstakes and recommendation programs.Our VPN
products will not use your VPN browsing activities for these purposes, and we
will not keep any records showing what you are browsing or accessing through the
VPN connection.
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● To prevent injury or liability.We may use information for security purposes
(such as investigating security issues or monitoring and preventing fraud) and
prevent abuse.We may do this to comply with our legal obligations and protect
the vital interests of individuals, or because we have a legitimate interest in
preventing harm or taking responsibility for us and our users.For example, we
may use account, usage and equipment information to determine whether an entity
is engaged in abusive or unauthorized activities related to our services.
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● In order to comply with the law.We will use your information internally
according to applicable laws, legal procedures or regulations.To understand how
we share your information with third parties for legal compliance purposes,
please refer to Section 3.1 below.We will also use your information to enforce
our legal rights and resolve disputes.
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3. Who do we share your information with and why?
3.1 Generally speaking
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We may disclose your information under the following circumstances:
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● Follow your instructions or consent.For example, some services may allow you
to register an account with a third-party account, such as a Google or Microsoft
account.If you choose to do so, we will share information with third-party
account providers.
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● affiliated companies and third-party service providers.In order to help us
provide certain services, we cooperate with members and trusted third parties.In
order to protect your data, we have established appropriate confidentiality and
data processing clauses with these third parties, reviewed their security
practices, and limited information sharing to the extent that they helped us.The
activities that the third party helps us to carry out include:
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Handle customer payment.
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○ Provide analysis of our services
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○ Provide sales and customer support
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○ Maintain the infrastructure needed to provide our services
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○ Provide our marketing and advertising content
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○ Put in advertising content
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Low to the new owner.If the ownership or control of all or part of our services,
assets or business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner.
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● summarize or cancel the identified data.We may use and share aggregated data
and de-identified data, so that it will no longer disclose the identity of
individual users for compliance, research and analysis, our own marketing and
advertising activities and other legitimate business purposes.
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● abide by legal procedures and laws.We strictly protect the privacy of
users.For our VPN products, we protect your privacy by ensuring that we will not
record or record your online activities through the VPN connection in any way
that may contact you, which means that we don't have any law enforcement and
government agencies that can share data with the law and require information
about what you are doing through the VPN connection.Subject to the above
provisions, if applicable laws require us to share your information, we may
share your information;Comply with our legal obligations;Comply with legal
procedures;And respond to effective law enforcement requirements related to
criminal investigation or suspected or suspected illegal activities, which may
make us, you or any other users of us bear legal responsibilities.If we share
your information for these purposes, we will limit the shared information to
what is legally necessary, and challenge the request for information that we
consider illegal, excessive or otherwise invalid.
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● To enforce our rights and prevent fraud and abuse.We may share a limited
amount of your information to execute and manage our agreements with customers
and users, and to respond to our claims.We may also share your information to
prevent fraud and abuse to us, our members, users and others.
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3.2 Show advertisements
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We may advertise to users in some areas.The advertisements we display in the
service are provided by advertisers who have relations with us or by third-party
advertising networks (such as Google).To display the third-party advertisement
in our application, we integrate a software development kit (SDK) into it, which
contains the software code provided by the advertising network.
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We provide limited personal data about you to such third-party advertising
networks so that they can provide services.For example, some advertising
networks may collect information through their SDK, such as your mobile
advertising identifier, IP address and device information, in order to provide
you with "personalized" advertisements (which they think are more relevant to
you) and evaluate your reaction to these advertisements.If you use VPN
connection, your IP address is hidden from the advertising network and replaced
by the IP address of our VPN server.
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Each advertising network collects this information according to its privacy
policy.Where the AdChoices logo appears on the advertisement, you can click it
to learn more about the advertising network that provides the advertisement, its
privacy policy, and the choice to quit any personalized advertisement.If you opt
out of personalized ads, you may still see non-personalized ads.
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Although we ask you not to use advertisement interceptors to block the display
of third-party advertisements, because this is how we support our free services,
if you do use advertisement interceptors, our services will continue to run.
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4. Tracking technology and Cookies
4.1 About Tracking Technology
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We use various technologies in our services to help us collect information.For
convenience, we call them "tracking technologies", although they are not always
used to track individuals, and the collected information is in an unrecognizable
form and does not refer to any personal data.Tracking techniques include:
cookies
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Cookies are small pieces of text stored on the devices you use to access our
services.Cookies enable us (or a third party that allows us to set cookies on
your device) to identify duplicate users.Cookies may expire after a period of
time, depending on their use.
Pixel Label/Page Label/Network Beacon/Tracking Link
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These are small hidden images and code blocks hidden in web pages,
advertisements and our e-mails, which allow us to determine whether you perform
specific actions.When you visit a page, advertisement or email or click a link,
these items will tell us that you have visited the page, opened an email or
clicked a link.
Development package
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SDK or software development kit is the software code provided by our business
partners, which enables our software to interact with the services provided by
our partners.For example, in some mobile applications, we may use SDK to enable
our applications to deliver advertisements from advertising networks.Sometimes,
these interactions involve business partners collecting some information from
the devices running the software.
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4.2 Why do we use Cookies
We use Cookie:
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● In order to provide our services.Some cookie are necessary for the normal
operation of our service.For example, cookie allow us to verify your identity
and access to resources.
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● Save your preferences.Cookies can store your preferences, such as language
preferences or whether to pre-fill your user name in the login form.We may also
use them to optimize the content displayed to you.
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● used for analysis.Cookies are used to tell us how users interact with our
services, so we can improve their working methods (such as which screens or web
pages you visit and whether our advertisements are effective) for legitimate
interests.
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● For safety.Cookies can enable us and our payment processors to detect certain
frauds.
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● used for advertising related purposes.We advertise our services online with
the help of third parties, who display advertisements and markets about us on
websites on the Internet.
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4.3 Third party
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We may allow our business partners to place certain tracking technologies in our
services.These partners use these technologies for the following purposes:
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● In order to provide our services.Some business partners who help us provide
services may use these technologies to support these efforts.
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● for Analytics.Help us understand how you use our services.
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● used for marketing.To help us sell and publicize our services to you,
including on third-party websites.Cookie are related to this, which can be used
to measure our advertising effect, relate your actions on our advertising with
your actions on our services, and provide advertisement repositioning
(advertising based on your past interaction with our services) and similar
audiences.
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● Advertisements should be placed.Advertising networks may use these
technologies to display advertisements that they think are more relevant to
you.For more information, see the section "Display ads" above.
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4.4 Your choice
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● Our Cookies: Most web browsers and some mobile devices enable you to manage
cookie preferences, including deleting cookies and preventing cookies from being
set on these browsers or devices.Visit the Help section of your mobile device to
learn how it controls Cookie.Please note that deleting or blocking some Cookie
may adversely affect the normal operation of our service.
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● Third-party advertising Cookie: For information on how to opt out of
personalized or interest-based advertising, you can visit the following pages:
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○ Online advertising plan exit page
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Digital advertising alliance exit page
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○ Your online choice (for Australian residents)
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○ Your online selection (for EU residents)
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To exit Google Advertising Personalization, please visit Google Ads Settings
page.We do not provide these exit mechanisms, and we are not responsible for
their availability or operation.Please note that you may still see
non-personalized advertisements after choosing to quit personalized
advertisements.
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● Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to help us understand how users use
our services.If you don't want to participate in Google Analytics, Google will
provide Google Analytics exit browser plug-in.
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5. Security
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We have adopted a series of management, organization, technology and physical
protection measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss or
modification.We are constantly striving to improve such safeguards.
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6. International data transmission
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We may transfer your personal data to a country other than the country where you
live.We do this to promote our operation, and the assignee includes our group
companies, service providers and partners.The laws of other countries may be
different from those of your place of residence.
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7. Data retention
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We usually have your personal data within the time required to provide services
for you or in our account.If required by law or for legitimate interests (such
as detection and prevention of abuse) and to protect us from legal requirements,
we may also keep personal data.The remaining copies of personal data can be
stored in the backup system as a security measure to prevent data loss.According
to the above regulations, if your personal data is no longer needed, we will
ensure that it is safely deleted or stored in some way, which means that we will
no longer use them.
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8. Your rights
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Depending on the country where you live, you may have some legal rights to the
personal data we maintain.Subject to the exceptions and restrictions provided by
applicable laws, these rights may include:
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● Access and receive copies of your personal data;
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● Correct your personal data;
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● Restrict the processing of your personal data;
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● Oppose the handling of your personal data at any time;
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● Delete your personal data;
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● Data portability;
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● Withdraw any consent you have previously given to data processing (for
example, opt out of market communication);
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● Complain to the data protection agency;
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● Ask us to provide you with the types of personal data we collect, disclose or
sell about you;The source category of such information;For commercial or
commercial purposes of collecting or selling your personal data;And third-party
categories that share personal data with us.This information may also be
provided in this privacy policy.
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Please note that your rights and choices will vary according to your location,
and some requests may exempt certain information according to applicable laws.
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You can use the settings and tools provided in our service to exercise some of
these rights.For example, you can update your user account details through the
relevant account settings screen of our application.You can also choose not to
receive our marketing information by clicking the "opt out" or "unsubscribe"
link in such communication.
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Otherwise, if you wish to exercise any of these rights, you can contact us with
the details in the Contact Us section below.As permitted by law, we may ask you
to verify your identity before taking further action on your request.
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9. Your right to privacy in California
This section is only applicable to California residents.
9.1 Do not track the signal
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Due to the lack of standardization on how to interpret this signal, we do not
respond to the "Do not track" signal sent by browsers or mobile applications at
present.Learn more about Don't Track.
9.2 Third-party disclosure requirements
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California law allows California residents to request and obtain a list of third
parties whose "personal information" (if any) has been disclosed to them
according to California Civil Code 1798.83, their direct marketing purpose in
the last calendar year, and the types of personal information disclosed to these
parties.For information on where to send such requests, see the Contact Us
section below.Please note that we will not share personal information with third
parties for direct marketing purposes without your prior consent.
9.3 choose to withdraw from the sale
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According to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you may have the right
to choose not to sell your personal information.CCPA broadly defines "sales" to
include allowing third parties to receive certain information (such as Cookie)
to place personalized advertisements on our services.
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We will not "sell" (as defined by CCPA) your personal information except in the
case of some product versions supported by personalized
advertisements.Advertising (including personalized advertising) enables us to
offer some products free of charge, offer preferential treatment related to you,
and because we believe that everyone (regardless of their situation) has the
opportunity to obtain safe and private access to the Internet.Personalized
advertisements can display advertisements that are more relevant to you.
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Depending on the services you use and how you use them, we may "sell" (according
to California law) the following types of personal information for advertising
purposes:
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Identifiers (such as advertisement identifiers and Cookie)
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● Internet or other network or device activities (for example, which of our
applications are you using)
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● approximate geographical location information
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To select us to use your information for this purpose, please visit: Do not sell
my personal information.Please note that we will not intentionally sell personal
information of minors, and at the age of 16, there is no legal requirement for
affirmative authorization.
9.4 Additional Rights
California law may allow you to require us to:
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● To provide you with the categories of your personal information collected or
disclosed by us in the past 12 months, the source categories of such
information, the commercial or commercial purpose of collecting or selling your
personal information and the categories of the third parties contacted with
it.This information is provided in this notice;
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● Provide access to or a copy of some information we hold about you;
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● Delete some information we have about you.
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You may also have the right to obtain information about the economic incentives
we provide for you, if any, and the right not to be discriminated against when
exercising certain rights (according to CCPA).
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According to applicable laws, certain information may not be subject to such
requirements.For example, we need certain types of information so that we can
provide services to you and comply with applicable laws.
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When you exercise certain rights, we may take reasonable steps to verify your
identity before meeting your request (for example, verify your email address or
payment method).If you ask us to delete some information, you may no longer be
able to access or use our services.
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You can also specify an authorized agent to submit certain requests on your
behalf.In order to authenticate the authorized agent, you must provide the
authorized agent with a signed written permission to make such a request or
authorization.We may also authenticate with you before processing the request of
the authorized agent.
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If you want to know more about your legal rights under California law, or want
to exercise any of them, please contact us at the address listed in the "Contact
Us" section below.
9.5 What do we do with the summary of your personal information
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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to make certain disclosures
to California residents, including the types of personal information we collect,
the purpose we use this information, the types of personal information sources
and the types of third parties with which we share personal information.This
section lists this information in the manner specified by CCPA, but it is not
fundamentally different from the information in the rest of this policy.
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Sources of personal information
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All categories of personal information we collect come from the following
sources:
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● You (through voluntary submission or automatic collection (for example, when
you use our services))
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● Third parties (such as service providers, other users or marketing partners,
who may lead you to our services)
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Types of personal information collected and with whom do we share information
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● Identifier (e.g. name, account username, email address)
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● Business information (e.g. transaction data)
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● Financial and transaction data (such as payment method details)
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● Internet or other network or device activities (such as application usage and
interaction with our services)
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Geographic location information (e.g., city and state based on IP address)
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● demographic information (such as age and gender)
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● Customer service information (such as support request)
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● Survey responses and other research information
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● Other information that identifies you or can reasonably be associated with you
Third-party classification with whom do we share your personal information
As mentioned above, the collected personal information categories can be shared
with the following third-party categories:
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● our members
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● Third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf (e.g.,
payment processors, analysis providers)
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● Third-party advertising networks (such as Google)
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● Third parties for legal purposes (e.g. responding to legal proceedings)
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● Other people with your consent or instruction
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We use your personal information for business and business purposes
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As mentioned above, the collected personal information categories are used for
the following purpose categories:
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● To provide, maintain, troubleshoot and support our services.
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● used for billing and payment.
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● Communicate with users and potential users.
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● In order to improve our service.
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● Develop new services.
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● To market and publicize our services.
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● To prevent injury or liability.
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● In order to comply with the law.
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Section 2 above provides more information about these categories, including use
case examples.
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10. Age limit
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Our service is not suitable for or for minors.In this case, a minor is a person
under the age of 16 (or the lower age that may be applicable in a certain
jurisdiction).We will not intentionally collect personal data of minors or allow
them to use our services.If we find that we have collected personal data from
minors, we may delete the data without notice.
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11. Update of Privacy Policy
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Due to changes in laws, industry standards and business practices, we may update
this privacy policy from time to time according to this section.We will post the
update on this page and update the "Last Updated" date above.If our update will
substantially change your privacy right, we will also make reasonable efforts,
such as providing you with advance notice by email or service.If you disagree
with such an update of this policy, you can cancel your service account.If you
do not cancel your account before the effective date of the update, your
continued use of our service will be subject to the updated privacy policy.