Effective on: 20.04.2020

Introduction and Scope

ip.osnova.news ("we", "us", "our") takes the protection of your personally identifiable information ("Personal Data") very seriously. This privacy policy (the "Notice") addresses data subjects whose Personal Data we may process in our database (the "Database") or in our IP geolocation solution located at https://ip.osnova.news. This Notice also explains our privacy practices in connection with Personal Data we may collect about you when you access our website located at https://ip.osnova.news (the "Website").

Categories of Personal Data

We may process the following categories of Personal Data about you:

• online identifiers (such as IP address);
• approximate geographical location data, including your country, region, city, latitude & longitude of city, ZIP code, time zone, connection speed, ISP, domain name, IDD country code, area code, weather station code and name, mobile carrier, elevation and usage type information; and
• feedback you may provide through our Website which may contain Personal Data.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small file stored on your device that contains information about your computer. We may use cookies for session management, targeted advertising, and web analytics. If you would prefer not to accept cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to reject all cookies or some cookies. Note, if you reject certain cookies, you may not be able to access all of our Website’s features. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/.

How We Receive Personal Data

We may receive your Personal Data:

• from you directly, when you visit our Website;
• through our Service from our customers; and
• through our own technical means of investigation, we discover based on your public IP address.

Basis of Processing

Within the scope of this Notice, we may rely on one or more of the following lawful grounds for processing of your Personal Data:

• to perform our obligations to you in cases where you have purchased a service from us, or in order to help you make a purchase, upon your request;
• our legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of our customers for the purpose of facilitating the fulfillment of their business needs, which may include the detection and prevention of credit card fraud, password sharing or abuse of service, compliance with export control and sanctions, content localization, digital rights management, spam filtering, etc.; and
• any other ground, as required or permitted by law in the specific respective context.

Purpose of Processing

We process Personal Data in our Service for the purposes of identifying the geographical location of an individual or an IT system and providing this information to our customers.

Personal Data collected via our Website is processed for the following purposes:

• to respond to your inquiries, and/or other requests or questions;
• to sell our services to you;
• to improve our Website.

Data Retention

Personal Data processed by our Service is retained indefinitely. However, you may send a request to us to ask to delete your Personal Data, subject to the limitations described in this Notice.

Sharing Personal Data with Third Parties

We may use third-party vendors to perform certain services on our behalf. These third-party vendors include those providing:

• infrastructure services;
• service desk and bug tracking software services; and
• email services.

We may share your Personal Data with these third-party vendors solely to enable them to perform the services for us. In providing them with your Personal Data, we require that these third-party vendors maintain at least the same level of data protection that we maintain for your Personal Data. We do not provide your Personal Data to parties unconnected with the services we provide.

Other Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may also disclose your Personal Data:

• to the extent required by law or if we have a good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to comply with official investigations or legal proceedings initiated by governmental and/or law enforcement officials, or private parties, including but not limited to: in response to subpoenas, search warrants, or court orders;
• if we sell or transfer all or a portion of our company’s business interests, assets, or both, or in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, or other company change; or
• to our subsidiaries or affiliates only if necessary for business and operational purposes as described in the section above.

We reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated, anonymous data, which does not include any Personal Data, about the users of our Service as a group for any legal business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers, sponsors, clients, and customers.

If we must disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with official investigations or legal proceedings initiated by governmental and/or law enforcement officials, we may not be able to ensure that such recipients of your Personal Data will maintain the privacy or security of your Personal Data.

Data Integrity & Security

We implemented and will maintain technical, administrative, and physical measures that are reasonably designed to help protect Personal Data from unauthorized processing such as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Accessing, Deleting & Updating Your Personal Data

If you are a data subject about whom we store Personal Data, you may have a right to request access to, and the opportunity to update, correct or delete such Personal Data. Under certain circumstances, you may have a right to restrict or object to the processing of your Personal Data. To submit such requests or raise any other questions, please reach out to us by using the contact information provided in the "Contact Us" section below. Your rights may be limited where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy in the case in question, or where the exercise of your rights would result in a violation of the rights of other individuals.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

If we make any material change to this Notice, we will post the revised Notice to this web page and update the "Effective" date above to reflect the date on which the new Notice became effective.