Updated: August 11, 2023

PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

We encourage you to read this policy so that you can understand what information is collected when you visit or interact with the Website, and how we or our Website providers may use cookies and other similar technologies for storing information about your interactions with the Website to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience and for advertising purposes. Please check the Terms and Conditions for the meaning of defined words not explicitly defined in this Policy.

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA

1. Scope of processing

In principle, we process personal data only insofar as this is necessary to provide a functioning website and our content and Websites. The processing of personal data takes place regularly only with consent. An exception applies to cases in which prior consent can not be obtained for reasons of fact and the processing of the data is permitted by law.

2. Legal basis

The processing of your data is either based on your consent or in case the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, or based on legitimate interest, cf. GDPR art. 6(1)(a)-(b), (f).

If the processing is based on your consent, you may at any time withdraw your consent by contacting us using the contact information.

3. Storage and deletion of your data

In principle, we only store personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfill contractual or legal obligations for which we collected the data. After that, we delete the data immediately, unless we still need the data until the expiry of the statutory limitation period for evidence purposes for claims under civil law or due to statutory retention obligations.

We delete or block the personal data of the data subject as soon as the purpose of the storage is fulfilled. It may also be stored if provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or regulations to which our company is subject (see details in sections 3.1-3.3). Blocking or deletion of the data also takes place when a storage period prescribed by the standards mentioned expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for conclusion of a contract or fulfillment of the contract.

3.1. Data Retention Policy

Due to tax regulations, Account Data will be retained for up to five full fiscal years from your cancellation of your Cookiebot CMP account. Configuration Data and System Generated Data will be erased immediately when you cancel the Cookiebot CMP account.

End User Data will be erased on an ongoing basis after 12 months from registration, and immediately when you cancel the Cookiebot CMP account.

3.2 Data Retention for Compliance with Legal Requirements

You may not require Usercentrics to change any of the default retention periods, except for the reasons for erasure pursuant to clause 3.3, but you may suggest changes for compliance with specific sector laws and regulations.

3.3 Data Restitution and/or Deletion.

No data except Account Data will be retained after the termination of the Agreement. You may request a data copy before termination. You must not cancel the Cookiebot CMP account until the data copy has been delivered, as Usercentrics will not otherwise be able to deliver the data copy.

4. Use of Data

We use the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Website.

  • To notify you about changes to our Website.

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so.

  • To provide customer support.

  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Website.

  • To monitor the usage of our Website.

  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues.

  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, Websites and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.

5. Information Collection and Use.

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Website to you.

  • Personal Data.
    While using our Website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:Email address, First name and last name, Phone number, IP address, Cookies and Usage Data.

  • Cookies and Usage Data.
    We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

  • Usage Data
    We may also collect information on how the Website is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

  • Location Data
    We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so ("Location Data"). We use this data to provide features of our Website, to improve and customize our Website. You can enable or disable location Websites when you use our Website at any time by way of your device settings.

6. Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

7. CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT COMPLIANCE

In addition to the above mentioned, the following provisions apply specifically for residents of California, USA.

The California Privacy Laws provide users who reside in California with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes the user’s rights and explains how to exercise those rights, subject to exceptions under the law.

Your rights under California Privacy Law

Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Sold or Shared (“Right to Know”)

You have the right to request to know what personal information we have collected about you, including:

  • The categories of personal information collected

  • The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected

  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information

  • The categories of third parties with whom the personal information is shared

  • The specific pieces of personal information collected about you that are permitted by law

Right To Request Deletion of Personal Information (“Right to Delete”)

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collect, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive your request and verify your identity, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.

8. Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention

Personal Information may only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which it was collected unless you have otherwise consented, or when it is required or permitted by law. Personal Information will only be retained for the period of time required to fulfill the purpose for which we collected it or as may be required by law. [If applicable, include a description of any parties with whom you may share Personal Information.]

Accuracy

Personal Information will be maintained in as accurate, complete and up-to-date form as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is to be used.

Safeguarding Your Information

Personal Information will be protected by security safeguards that are appropriate to the sensitivity level of the information. We take all reasonable precautions to protect your Personal Information from any loss or unauthorized use, access or disclosure.

You have the right to reqProcessing of your Personal Data. We need to process your Data because:
uest to know what personal information we have collected about you, including:

  • We need to perform a contract with you.

  • You have given us permission to do so.

  • The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights.

  • For payment processing purposes.

  • To comply with the law.

9. Transfer of Data.

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

10. Disclosure of Data

Under certain circumstances, Traffic Boost Limited may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements for Disclosure

Traffic Boost Limited may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation.

  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Traffic Boost Limited.

  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website.

  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public.

  • To protect against legal liability.

11. Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Our Policy on "Do Not Track" Signals under the California Online Protection Act (CalOPPA). We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser. Website is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Links to Other Sites

Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or Websites.

12. COOKIE POLICY

This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

Types of cookies we use

Essential cookies.

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Functionality cookies.

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Analytics Cookies.

These cookies collect information about how Users and Members use the Website. For example, which pages are visited most often, how Users and Members move from one link to another, and whether they get error messages from certain pages. All in all, these cookies provide us with analytical information about how the Website works and how we can improve it.

Advertising Cookies.

These сookies are being used to deliver advertisements on our Website, on other sites around the Website to users that have visited or used our Website or the Services, or to deliver advertisements about the services that are relevant to you and your interests.

First and third-party cookies.

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to us and are mostly used to adapt the Website interface according to your preferences and for other purely technical reasons, like authorization, correct work of modules, etc. Third-party cookies are cookies that the third-party Website providers/our partners place on your browsing device when you visit our Website and/or use our Websites. These are used for more appropriate advertising, different analytics. Both first and third-party cookies can be analytics, functionality, and advertising cookies.

12.1. How to manage third-party Cookies

Cookies that are placed on your browsing device by a third party while you are viewing our Website and may be managed through your browser settings (as described above), by selecting the Do Not Track option on your browser (though we have no control over and cannot confirm whether these third-party ad networks respond to the Do Not Track browser signal), or by checking the third party's website for more information about cookie management and how to "opt-out" of receiving cookies from them.

13. Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to update this Policy from time to time. In the event that we make material changes that restrict Usercentrics’ rights or obligations under this Policy, we will publish a clear notice in this section of this Policy that informs users when they are updated.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Policy.

You are advised to review this Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us