Беспощадный privacy policy. Плагин Privacy Policy. Как найти и изменить свои персональные данные

Welcome to сайт ("PacoGames"). PacoGames allows users to access thousands of games and its related services (the "Service").

This section of the website explains how PacoGames and its affiliates collect, use, share and protect user"s information related to the use of the Service.
PacoGames collects and uses data in accordance with applicable laws in the US, the EU, or eventually with superior territorial decisions.
This policy applies to all visitors, users and other people using the Service

PacoGames measures, tracks, and records general behavior of users on the website and in the games in order to detect bugs and improve their products.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Based on permission, Pacogames collects the following types of information.

1.1 Information collected within a legitimate interest

1.1.1 Analytic Tools

We use third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service. These tools collect information sent by your device or our Service, including the web pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Service. We collect and use this analytics information with analytics information from other Users so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify any particular individual User.

1.1.2 Browser Storages

To improve the user"s experience, PacoGames uses browser storage in the form of cookies and local storages. An example of the saved data can be the list of games played in the given browser, or recorded scores in the played games. This data is stored only on the client side and does not serve to identify a particular user.
We may ask advertisers or other partners to serve ads or services to your devices, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by us or the third party.

1.2. Information collected based on user"s consent

By consensus, the user agrees with extension of the authorization to collect and process data with the following additions. The validity period of the consent is 3 years, if the user does not withdraw his consent earlier. Consent also expires by deleting the user"s account.

1.2.1 Analytic Tools 1.2.3 Device Identifiers

A device identifier may deliver information to us or to a third party partner about how you browse and use the Service and may help us or others provide reports or personalized content and ads. Some features of the Service may not function properly if use or availability of device identifiers is impaired or disabled.

1.3. Information collected during communications between a visitor and Awagon.

Communication made over contact form, bug report, email, telephone, post or different offline supported way is storred for a time necessary for its execution. (maximum of 3 weeks, unless otherwise provided by the law). Using the bug report form, the user automatically sends his browser and operating system signature. These data help us to identify possible problems more quickly and accurately.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

In addition to some of the specific uses of information we describe in this Privacy Policy, we may use information that we receive to:

sign in option. Remember information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Service;
diagnose or fix technology problems
provide personalized content and information to you and others, which could include online ads or other forms of marketing
develop and test new products and features
monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns

3. SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside Awagon Entertainment s.r.o. (operator and owner of PacoGames) (or the group of companies of which PacoGames is a part) without your consent, except as noted in this Privacy Policy.

Parties with whom we may share your information:

We may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data, with third-party organizations that help us provide the Service to you ("Service Providers"). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality terms.
We may also share certain information such as cookie data with third-party advertising partners. This information would allow third-party ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.
We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.

4. Information storage and processing

Confidential data provided to Pacogames are stored in an encrypted form.
In order to keep the information collected via the Service safe, we are taking appropriate measures for the relevant business purpose, and before we give you access to your account, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity (such as requiring a unique password)
Awagon Entertainment s.r.o., its Affiliates, or Service Providers may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.

How long we keep your User Content:

Following termination or deactivation of your account, Awagon Entertainment s.r.o., its Affiliates, or its Service Providers may retain information (including your profile information) and User Content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.

5.CHILDREN"S PRIVACY

Awagon Entertainment s.r.o. does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the Service. The Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.

6. OTHER WEBSITES AND SERVICES

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Service, including the information or content contained within them. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Service to another website or service, our Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites or services.
Our websites or services may enable you to share information with social media sites, or use social media sites to create your account or to connect your social media account. Those social media sites may automatically provide us with access to certain personal information retained by them about you (for example any content you have viewed). You should be able to manage your privacy settings from within your own third party social media account(s) to manage what personal information you enable us to access from that account.

7. Network Advertising initiative (NAI)

8. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Awagon Entertainment s.r.o. may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. We may provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances. Your continued use of PacoGames or the Service after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

(General Data Protection Regulation) — общем регламенте по защите персональных данных, который вот-вот вступит в силу в ЕС и который придется соблюдать украинским предпринимателям, если они хотят вести бизнес с европейскими гражданами.

Юрист практики Juscutum Владислав Некрутенко в своей колонке рассказал о том, что на самом деле меняет GDPR, каким он должен быть и какую информацию должен раскрывать интернет-пользователям.

Наверное, каждый человек хоть раз давал согласие на обработку персональных данных при регистрации на веб-сайте. При этом указывается, что обработка будет осуществляться согласно «Политике Конфиденциальности» сайта. Что это значит?

За последние годы персональные данные стали эффективным экономическим активом. Их грамотное использование приносит компаниям коммерческое преимущество и прибыль.

С другой стороны, злоупотребление выгодой с персональных данных и незнание пользователей об этом приводят к государственным ограничениям в этой сфере. Поэтому законодательство развитых стран требует, чтобы компания:

в полной мере проинформировала пользователя о характере и деталях использования его данных;

после чего получила от него согласие на их сбор и обработку.

Нужна ли для этого политика конфиденциальности (Privacy Policy)? Определенно, так как это лучший способ информирования пользователей о сборе персональных данных на веб-сайте.

Privacy Policy - это внутренний документ, который устанавливает правила сбора и обработки персональных данных пользователей на определенном веб-ресурсе.

Пользователь должен ознакомиться с Privacy Policy во время первого визита на сайт либо при регистрации. Кроме того, этот документ размещается публично на сайте с постоянным доступом к нему. Прежде чем дать согласие на обработку данных, пользователь должен прочитать Privacy Policy (или хотя бы поставить галочку, что прочитал). На сегодня это одна из самых распространенных практик по информированию на веб-ресурсах.

Требования GDPR к информированию пользователя
Само требование оповестить пользователей веб-сайта об использовании их данных - не ново. Тем не менее, при его реализации возникают проблемы.

Можно часто встретить длинные версии Privacy Policy ресурсов, написанные на непонятном языке, которые описывают лишь отдельные аспекты обработки персональных данных. Такая политика не несет информационной функции для пользователей, а служит скорее формальным соблюдением законодательства. Соответственно, пользователь не в состоянии понять, на что он соглашается.

Из-за этого и других введений пользователя в заблуждение, Европейский союз принял новый акт по защите персональных данных — General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR ставит требования по обработке персональных данных на территории Европейского союза. Кроме того, действие документа распространяется на компании вне ЕС, если те обрабатывают персональную информацию европейских граждан.

Основные нововведения - открытость и прозрачность сбора персональных данных, информированность субъекта, а также свобода согласия на их сбор и обработку. В связи с этим, GDPR ставит более высокие требования по объему и качеству информирования пользователей об обработке их данных.

Наши службы можно использовать разными способами – искать и распространять информацию, общаться с людьми, а также создавать новую информацию. Когда вы предоставляете нам данные, например регистрируя аккаунт Google , мы используем их для того, чтобы усовершенствовать свои службы. Благодаря этим данным мы показываем более релевантные результаты поиска и рекламу, способствуем вашему общению и обеспечиваем возможность легко и быстро делиться информацией . В то же время мы хотим, чтобы вы четко представляли себе, как используются ваши данные и каким образом вы можете защитить их конфиденциальность.

Политика конфиденциальности объясняет:

какие данные мы собираем и зачем;
как мы используем собранные данные;
какие существуют варианты доступа к данным и их обновления.

Мы постарались изложить все как можно проще, но если вы не знаете, что такое файл cookie, IP-адрес, пиксельный тег или браузер, изучите сначала список основных терминов . Google серьезно относится к конфиденциальности ваших данных, поэтому независимо от того, новичок вы или опытный пользователь, обязательно ознакомьтесь с нашими правилами и при необходимости задайте вопросы .

Какую информацию мы собираем

Google собирает информацию, которая помогает улучшать наши сервисы, начиная с языковых настроек и заканчивая более сложными функциями. Например, мы можем находить для вас полезные объявления , контакты друзей и знакомых в Интернете или интересные видеоролики на YouTube.

Информацию мы берем из следующих источников:

Информация от пользователей . Чтобы использовать многие наши службы, необходимо иметь аккаунт Google. При его создании мы запрашиваем у вас персональные данные , например имя, адрес электронной почты, номер телефона или реквизиты кредитной карты , и сохраняем их в вашем аккаунте. Тех, кто желает задействовать все возможности совместного доступа, мы также просим создать общедоступный профиль Google , в котором можно указать свое имя и добавить фотографию.

Анализ ваших действий . Мы собираем информацию о том, как и какие сервисы вы используете. Это происходит, когда вы, например, смотрите видео на YouTube, посещаете веб-сайты, рекламируемые в AdWords или AdMob, или просматриваете или взаимодействуете с нашими объявлениями либо контентом. Эти данные включают следующее:

Уникальные номера приложений
В некоторых службах используются уникальные идентификаторы программ. Они вместе с информацией о приложении (например, о номере версии или типе операционной системы) могут отправляться в Google при установке или удалении службы, а также во время автоматических сеансов связи с серверами (при загрузке обновлений и т. п.).
Локальное хранилище
Мы собираем и храним данные (в том числе и персональные) на ваших пользовательских устройствах с помощью таких средств, как веб-хранилище браузера (включая HTML5) и кеш данных, используемых приложениями .
Файлы cookie и аналогичные технологии
Чтобы получать и записывать данные о том, как используются сервисы Google, мы применяем самые разные технологии, например можем добавлять на ваше устройство файлы cookie или аналогичные технологии . Таким же способом мы получаем статистику по сервисам, предназначенным для наших партнеров : обычно это решения для работы с рекламой и функции Google, реализуемые на внешних сайтах. Например, Google Analytics анализирует трафик на сайтах и в приложениях и может подключаться к другим нашим сервисам, в том числе использующим файлы cookie DoubleClick. В этом случае технологии Google позволяют совмещать собранную нами или владельцем аккаунта Google Analytics информацию с данными о том, какие сайты посещают пользователи и какие действия на них выполняют .

Как мы используем собранные данные

Благодаря полученным данным мы можем предоставлять , поддерживать , защищать , развивать существующие сервисы и создавать новые , а также обеспечивать безопасность Google и наших пользователей . Помимо прочего, эти данные нужны для того, чтобы более точно персонализировать контент, в том числе повышать релевантность результатов поиска и отображаемой рекламы.

Имя, которое укажет пользователь в своем профиле Google, может применяться во всех наших службах, где требуется аккаунт Google. При этом все предыдущие имена, связанные с аккаунтом Google, могут быть заменены в целях единообразия предоставления наших служб. Если ваш адрес электронной почты или иная идентификационная информация уже известна другим людям, они также смогут найти ваш общедоступный профиль Google, включая имя и фотографию.

Общедоступные данные вашего аккаунта Google (имя и фото в профиле), а также сведения о действиях, которые вы совершаете в сервисах Google или во внешних приложениях, связанных с вашим аккаунтом (например, об отзывах, комментариях и отметках +1), могут быть использованы нами в коммерческих целях, в том числе в рекламе. Мы не нарушаем уровень доступа и настройки конфиденциальности , которые вы используете в своем аккаунте Google.

Когда вы обращаетесь в Google, ваши сообщения сохраняются, чтобы мы могли решить проблему быстрее. Иногда мы присылаем на электронную почту пользователей уведомления о предстоящих изменениях или улучшениях в работе сервисов.

Данные, собранные с помощью файлов cookie, веб-маяков и аналогичных инструментов, позволяют функциональность и общее качество наших сервисов. Один из инструментов, который мы используем для этого, – Google Analytics. Например, зная языковые предпочтения пользователей, мы будем предлагать им версию того или иного продукта на их языках. При выборе персонализированной рекламы мы не связываем файлы cookie и различные идентификаторы с данными сугубо личного характера , такими как расовая принадлежность, религия, сексуальная ориентация или состояние здоровья.

Наши системы автоматически анализируют ваш контент (в т. ч. электронные письма), чтобы предоставлять функции, полезные вам. Это могут быть отобранные для вас результаты поиска, релевантные рекламные объявления выявление спама и вредоносных программ.

Как найти и изменить свои персональные данные

Если компания Google будет вовлечена в сделки по слиянию, поглощению или продаже активов, мы по-прежнему будем обеспечивать конфиденциальность всех персональных данных. Мы также уведомим всех заинтересованных пользователей о том, что их персональные данные будут раскрыты или регулируются теперь другой политикой конфиденциальности.

Защита информации

Мы делаем все возможное для того, чтобы обезопасить Google и наших пользователей от несанкционированных попыток доступа, изменения, раскрытия или уничтожения хранящихся у нас данных. В частности, мы делаем следующее:

Активно используем SSL-шифрование в наших службах.
Предоставляем двухэтапную аутентификацию для доступа к аккаунту Google и функцию Безопасный просмотр в браузере Google Chrome.
Постоянно совершенствуем способы сбора, хранения и обработки данных, включая физические меры безопасности, для противодействия несанкционированному доступу к нашим системам.
Ограничиваем нашим сотрудникам, подрядчикам и агентам доступ к персональным данным, а также накладываем на них строгие договорные обязательства, за нарушение которых предусмотрены серьезная ответственность и штрафные санкции.

В каких случаях применяется настоящая политика конфиденциальности

Наша политика конфиденциальности распространяется на все сервисы, предоставляемые компанией Google и ее дочерними компаниями, в том числе на YouTube, приложения для устройств Android и продукты, доступные на внешних сайтах (например, рекламные). Однако у некоторых продуктов есть собственные правила, не опирающиеся на эту политику конфиденциальности.

Политика конфиденциальности не действует в отношении служб, предоставляемых другими компаниями или частными лицами (включая продукты или сайты, которые могут отображаться в результатах поиска), сайтов, использующих службы Google, а также других ресурсов, на которые ведут наши ссылки. Также политика конфиденциальности не охватывает правила работы с информацией сторонних компаний и организаций, которые рекламируют наши службы и применяют для показа релевантных объявлений такие технологии, как файлы cookie, пиксельные теги и т. п.

Соблюдение закона и сотрудничество с государственными органами

Мы регулярно проверяем, как политика конфиденциальности соблюдается нами. Кроме того, мы используем несколько систем самоконтроля . Получив письменную жалобу, мы связываемся с ее отправителем и рассматриваем проблему. Если нам не удастся решить какой-либо вопрос о передаче персональных данных напрямую с пользователем, мы обратимся за помощью в местные государственные учреждения соответствующего профиля, включая органы власти, обладающие компетенцией в сфере защиты персональных данных.

Изменения

Время от времени наша политика конфиденциальности может изменяться. Однако мы никогда не будем ограничивать права пользователей без их явно выраженного согласия. Все обновления политики конфиденциальности отражаются на этой странице, а о самых значительных мы сообщаем особо (в случае с некоторыми службами – по электронной почте). Кроме того, для удобства пользователей все предыдущие версии этого документа сохраняются в архиве.

Продукты с особыми условиями

Ниже перечислены продукты и службы Google, в отношении которых действуют несколько иные меры обеспечения конфиденциальности.

Более подробная информация о нашей политике конфиденциальности относительно наиболее популярных сервисов Google представлена на этой странице .

Ресурсы о конфиденциальности и безопасности

Вы можете найти другие полезные материалы, связанные с конфиденциальностью и безопасностью, на странице Правила и принципы . Некоторые из них перечислены ниже.

Сведения о технологиях и принципах , в том числе следующая информация:
- какие технологии мы применяем в рекламе ;
На этой странице описано, какая именно информация передается от вас в Google и для чего она используется.
Проверить настройки конфиденциальности можно с помощью

At Apalon, your privacy is a top priority. We appreciate that you put your trust in us when you provide us with your information and we do not take this lightly.

We do not compromise with your privacy. We design all of our products and services with your privacy in mind. We involve experts from various fields, including legal, security and others to make sure that no decision is taken without respect for your privacy.

We strive to be transparent in the way we process your data. Because we use many of the same online services you do, we know that insufficient information and overly complicated language are common issues in privacy policies. We take the exact opposite approach: we have written our Privacy Policy and related documents in plain language. We actually want you to read our policies and understand our privacy practices!

We work hard to keep your information secure. We have teams dedicated to keeping your data safe and secure. We constantly update our security practices and invest in our security efforts to enhance the safety of your information.

1. INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Apalon"s Privacy Policy. Thank you for taking time to read it!

We appreciate that you trust us with your information and we intend to always keep that trust. This starts with making sure you understand the information we collect, why we collect it, how it is used and your choices regarding your information. This Policy describes our privacy practices in plain language, keeping legal and technical jargon to a minimum.

If you live in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), the company that is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy (the "data controller") is:

IAC Search and Media Europe Limited
10 Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
Ireland

If you live outside the EEA, the company responsible for your information is:

Ask Applications, Inc.
29 Wells Avenue, Suite 300
Yonkers, NY 10701
ATTN: Privacy Officer/Legal Dept.

2. WHERE THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps and other services operated by Apalon. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as our "services" or "apps" in this Privacy Policy. To make it extra clear, we"ve added links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable services.

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

It goes without saying, we can"t help you have an awesome user experience without some information about you, such as your email address and password in some of our services. We also collect information generated as you use our services, as well as information from third parties, like when you access our services through your Facebook account in Weather Live. Your information may be kept in an identifiable format, or in an aggregate format which means that you cannot reasonably be identified from it.

Information you give us

You choose to give us certain information when using our services. This includes:

When you create an account in some of our services, you provide us with your login credentials, such as email address, name and password.
To use certain features in our services, you may allow us to access your camera or the microphone. Depending on your device, Apple and Android system will ask for your permission before allowing us to access these features. The Warmlight – Picture Editor App does not have access or collect any facial data.
Features that allow you to share content about your use of our services with your connections or through your social network. We may also collect your information when you use our app such as when you post or share material, upload data, request further services or make selections using our app, if such functionality is available in the app.
In our Paloma app, please note that anything you input into the app (such as your menstruation) is stored on your device and not accessible by Apalon. However, in order to understand if our Paloma users are enjoying the app, we do receive anonymised statistics from our analytics partners about what features users like and don"t like. Should you wish to sync data held in your Apple "Health" app with Paloma (and vice versa), we will ask you for your explicit permission to do this. If you permit Paloma to access your Apple "Health" app data, then this data will only be stored on your device and will not be transmitted to Apalon or any other third party. You can "unsync" Paloma from your Apple "Health" app or vice versa at any time – however, please note that all previously synced data will remain. You can manually remove your data from your Apple "Health" app or Paloma at any time.
In our Sleepzy app, we ask for your explicit permission to access your heart rate data, which is stored on your device through Apple "Health" app. If you permit Sleepzy to access this data, then this data will be displayed in the Sleepzy app to help you gain a better understanding of your sleep habits and sleep quality alongside your health metrics. We will not store or access any of your health data that is accessed from Apple "Health" app and will not transmit this data to external servers or any other third party; all data from Apple "Health" app shall remain on your device. For additional clarity, we will not use your health data for advertising, promotion, cross-selling or any similar service.
If you contact our support team, we collect the information you give us when you report a problem, contact or communicate with us. In our VPN App, we do not connect this information to your internet browsing activities through our VPN.
From time to time, we may request your opinions, suggestions, or modification and improvement ideas ("Feedback") through surveys, or other similar requests. Any responses you provide are voluntary, however you agree that any Feedback you provide shall be owned Apalon and may be used by Apalon in our sole discretion.

Information we receive from others

In addition to the information you provide us directly, we receive information about you from others, including:

Information collected when you use our services

When you use our services, we collect information about which features you"ve used, how you"ve used them and the devices you use to access our services. See below for more details:

Usage Information
We collect information about your activity on our services, for instance how you use them (e.g., date and time you logged in, time spent in the app, features you"ve been using, advertising that you click on).
Movement Data : If you opt-in, some services (e.g. Apalon"s sleep tracker app, Sleepzy) may collect movement data from your device.
Device information

We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access our services, including:

geolocation data (in some of our apps), which is any information which indicates the geographical position of your device and which may include the time the location was recorded, and may include precise (e.g., GPS-level) location data. Some apps may collect this data when the app is not open or actively in use. This may help us or third parties to customize information, content, or offers to you, for instance.
information on your wireless and mobile network connection, like your service provider and signal strength.
hardware and software information such as IP address, device type, app crashes, app version, advertising IDs (such as Google"s AdvertisingID and Apple"s IDFA, both of which are randomly generated numbers that you can reset by going into your device"s settings), browser type, version and language, operating system, time zones, identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser (e.g., IMEI/UDID and MAC address).

Information we collect when you use our #VPN app:

Our #VPN app is intended to provide for secure and private internet browsing to be used in accordance with all applicable laws.

In our #VPN app, we collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access our VPN app, including:

From when you open the #VPN App:
. Our servers automatically record information about how a person uses the app, including things like app install source, IP address, app version, operating system, device model and device language.
. From time to time, we might show you subscription offers - but at no time will you see an advertisement in our #VPN app.
. At no time will we ask you for access to your precise device location data in our #VPN app.
From moment you turn on #VPN software:
. Your browsing activity (including your IP address) becomes encrypted, meaning it becomes invisible to ISPs, third party snoopers and even us.
. We have a strict no-logs policy when it comes to seeing user activity online. Your IP address is deleted after you disconnect from the VPN.

4. COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

As described in Sections 3 and 5 of this Privacy Policy, we sometimes work with third parties to deliver ads or offers. Sometimes we or these third parties do so through a mobile "SDK." The SDK is a bit of computer code that app developers can include in their apps to enable data to be collected and ads to be shown. We may use this and similar technology to deliver certain advertising through mobile applications and browsers based on data associated with your mobile device, and we may work with third parties who likewise embed their SDKs into our services, for third party advertising. If you"d like to opt-out from having ads tailored to you in this way on your mobile device, please follow the instructions below or in the app (as applicable).

If you wish to opt out of interest-based tracking through your mobile device, you can do so through your device "settings", as follows (but please note that the below is for informational purposes only and Apple, Google, or other device platforms may change the manner in which their "opt out" settings work at any time): Please note that if you opt out through these settings, you will continue to receive advertising after you opt-out, but it may not be tailored to your interests. For instance, that advertising may be based on your real-time or "contextual" application usage or general location inferred from IP address.

Opting Out on iOS Devices Such as iPhones, iPads or iPods
If you have an Apple device, you can opt out of interest-based advertising by updating to iOS 6.0 or higher, and setting Limit Ad Tracking to "ON". On an iPhone 6 for example, you can do this by clicking on Settings -> General -> Privacy -> Advertising and toggling "Limit Ad Tracking" to "ON". Our systems are designed to respect your choice and not use your personal information to provide interest-based advertising when this setting is ON.

Opting Out on Android Devices
If you have an Android device and would like to opt out of interest-based advertising, you may do this as follows:

Open the Settings app on your device
Go to "Google"
Select Ads
Opt out of interest-based ads

More information on our use of cookies on our websites can be found in our .

5. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our services. Additionally, we may use your information to help keep you safe and to communicate with you. Read on for a more detailed explanation of the various reasons we use your information, together with practical examples.

In our #VPN App specifically

When you connect to the VPN, we collect your IP address, immediately encrypt it and store it only for the duration of your VPN session. Your IP address is deleted after you disconnect from the VPN. We do not associate your IP address with your online activities and we do not store or log your IP address after you disconnect from the VPN.

We do not keep logs of your online activities and never associate any domains, or applications that you access while the VPN is connected with you or your device.

We DO NOT use your non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information) for targeted online marketing through tools like Facebook Custom Audience to contact interested parties.
We DO NOT use or share VPN IP or usage data (i.e. network activity).

To administer your account and provide our services to you

Deliver our services to you and ensure their optimal functionality and operation.
Identify, establish and manage your account and our relationship with you.
Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests.
Should you provide us with this information, we may use your email address, name, country and language for customized marketing purposes.
When we collect your precise geolocation data (subject to your consent) (which may be via the device"s cellular, Wi-Fi, Global Positioning System (GPS) networks and/or Bluetooth information), we do so to provide you with our location-related products and services, for example to provide you with forecast and weather alerts for your location, and also to facilitate, measure, or otherwise support advertising by third parties (through our apps or third parties" apps) that may be related to your location over time.
Some of our apps may offer you the ability to register and login using your third party social media account details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the app you are using, and on the social media provider concerned, but may often include your name, e-mail address, mobile phone number and friends list. If you login using your Facebook account, your e-mail or your phone number then we may receive a unique ID in connection with this login. This is solely used for confirmation purposes and is kept separate from all other online identifiers. We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this Privacy Policy or that are otherwise made clear to you in the app you are using. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third party social media provider. We recommend that you see their privacy policy to understand how they collect, use and share your information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.
If you have registered with an app using your social media account details, we may use the information we receive from your social media provider to identify which of your friends are also using our services so that you can connect with them in our app.

In some services, to ensure a consistent experience across your devices

Link the various apps and devices you use, so that you can enjoy a consistent experience of our services on all of them. This will allow us to form a single view of your use of our services, so you can easily access your content on multiple devices. For this purpose and better user experience generally, we may use and combine your personal information which we collect across different services used by you.

To improve our services and develop new ones

Develop new features and services (for example, we may decide to build a new feature further to requests or feedback received from users).
Apalon uses the Google Analytics tool Firebase in order to carry out analysis on information which is gathered by our apps. Device information and other information which we gather are provided to Google in order to enable them to carry out data analysis. Any information which is provided to Google will become subject to Google"s privacy policy which is located here: www.google.com/privacy.html . For further information on how Google"s Firebase analytics tool uses data, please see the site "How Google uses data when you use our partners" sites or apps", (located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/).
Conduct research and analysis of your behaviour about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content to improve our services and content (for instance, we may decide to change the look and feel or even substantially modify a given feature based on users" behaviour). This software may record information such as how often you use the services, what happens within the services, aggregated usage, performance data, app errors and debugging information, and where the apps were downloaded from.

To communicate with you

To serve you relevant offers and ads

To prevent, detect and fight fraud or other illegal or unauthorized activities

Perform data analysis to better understand and design countermeasures against these activities
Retain data related to fraudulent activities to prevent against recurrences

To ensure legal compliance

Comply with legal requirements
Assist law enforcement
Enforce or exercise our rights, for example our

To process your information as described above, we rely on the following legal bases:

Provide our service to you : Most of the time, the reason we process your information is to perform the contract that you have with us. For instance, as you go about using our service, we use your information to maintain your account and provide our cool features to you.
Legitimate interests : We may use your information where we have legitimate interests to do so. For instance, we analyze users" behavior on our services to continuously improve our offerings and we process information for administrative, fraud detection and other legal purposes.
Consent : From time to time, we may ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your consent at any time where indicated in the services or by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

6. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

Since our goal is to provide the best services we can to you, the main sharing of users" information is with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the services, with other IAC Group companies and, in some cases, legal authorities. Read on for more details about how your information is shared with others.

With our service providers and partners

We follow a strict vetting process prior to engaging any service provider or working with any partner. We use third parties to help us operate and improve our services. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including data hosting and maintenance, analytics, marketing, advertising and security operations. These service providers may have limited access to your information, which is needed to perform their functions, but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes. For example, we use your non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information) for targeted online marketing through tools like Facebook Custom Audience to contact interested parties.
In addition, we may share aggregated information we collect, under any of the above circumstances, with third parties, including advisors, advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis or other legitimate business purposes. Please note that such aggregated information will not include any information which allows third parties to identity you.
With our #VPN service providers
Our VPN service providers may have limited access to your information, which is needed to perform their functions, but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes. We do not log, and prohibit our VPN service providers from logging, your internet browsing activities when you use our VPN.
With other IAC Group companies
Apalon is part of the IAC Group family of businesses.
We share your information with other parts of IAC to:
Assist us in technical processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, finance, legal, HR and accounting assistance, securing our data and systems and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud, infringement and other wrongdoings.
. for legitimate business purposes such as corporate audit, analysis and consolidated reporting as well as compliance with applicable laws.
For corporate transactions
We may transfer your information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control.
When required by law
We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; (ii) in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; or (iii) to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others.
To enforce legal rights
We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties and/or to comply with applicable law; (iii) to enforce our agreements or policies with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
With your consent or at your request
We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the information.

7. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after it is received. We work hard to protect you from unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. As with all technology companies, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information will always remain secure. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly review our information collection, storage and processing practices to update our physical, technical and organizational security measures.

We may suspend your use of all or part of the services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. If you believe that your account or information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately at

8. INFORMATION RELATING TO CHILDREN

Our services are intended for general audiences over the age of 13 years old (or over the age of 16 if you are resident in the EEA). We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 years old, or 16 years old in the EEA. If you are not over 13 years old (or 16 years old in the EEA) then DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE THE SERVICES. If you believe that we may have personal information from or about a child under the age of 13 years old (or over the age of 16 if you are resident in the EEA), please contact us at and we will promptly delete that personal information

9. YOUR RIGHTS

We want you to be in control of your information and be aware of your privacy rights, so here are a few key points to remember:

Depending on your location you may have some or all of the following rights in relation to how we use your personal information:
. Access: you may request access to your personal information and receive copies of it;
. Correction: you may have inaccurate/incomplete personal information corrected and updated;
. Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: you can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal information or to limit our use of it.
. Deletion: in certain circumstances, you can request a right "to be forgotten" (this is a right to have your information deleted or our use of your data restricted). We will honour such requests unless we have to retain this information to comply with a legal obligation or unless we have an overriding interest to retain it.
. Portability: in certain circumstances, exercise the right to data portability (this is a right to obtain a transferable version of your personal information to transfer to another provider)
. Consent Management: where we rely on consent to process your personal data, you may withdraw consent at any time. You do not have to provide a reason for your withdrawal where processing is based on consent.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or wish to object to our use of your information, please write to us at the address listed below and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.
Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on the rights and freedoms of another person. For example, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore.
For your protection, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.

10. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

Sharing of information sometimes involves cross-border data transfers, for instance to the United States of America and other jurisdictions. The United States, European Economic Area ("EEA") Member States, and other countries all have different laws. When your information is moved from your home country to another country, the laws and rules that protect your personal information in the country to which your information is transferred may be different from those in the country in which you live.

The European Commission has adopted standard contractual clauses (also known as Model Clauses), which provide safeguards for personal information that is transferred outside of the EEA. We use these Model Clauses or other suitable safeguards (such as EU-US Privacy Shield to send personal information to some of our third party service providers in the United States, where they are certified to receive such information under the Privacy Shield Program) to permit data transfers from the EEA to other countries.

11. HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION

We retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the services to you. We will also retain and use your information to the extent necessary:

to comply with applicable law;
to evidence our compliance with applicable law;
if there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or
if the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as enforcing our terms or fraud prevention. For example, information may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for security incidents from opening a new account.

Keep in mind that even though our systems are designed to carry out data deletion processes according to the above guidelines, we cannot promise that all data will be deleted within a specific timeframe due to technical constraints.

12. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

Because we"re always looking for new and innovative ways to help you enjoy our services, this policy may change over time. We will notify you of any material changes so that you have time to review the changes.

13. DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

For our European users, our Data Protection Officer is responsible for ensuring your rights are respected and to review and oversee how we collect and use your personal information. They can be reached by contacting

14. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, here"s how you can reach us:

By post:
IAC Search and Media Europe Limited
10 Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
Ireland

If you live in the EEA, you may also file a complaint with your local data protection regulator.

We have recently updated our policies and we are in the process of translating it into several languages. If you do not have an appropriate language option and you have any questions, please contact us.

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