Privacy Policy

Introduction

At infosquad.net (“the Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), we are committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining your trust. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) outlines how we collect, use, safeguard, and share your personal information. Our practices are guided by principles of fairness and transparency, with a strong respect for the rights and freedoms of individuals who visit our website.

For the purposes of this Notice, “personal information” refers to any data that identifies you or can be linked to you.

This policy describes:

• Information we collect and how we use it
• How and why we share your personal information
• How we protect your personal information
• Cookies and other trackers
• Children’s privacy
• Privacy Rights
• Additional U.S. state privacy rights and choices
• Additional information for residents of the European Union, European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom
• Changes to this Notice
• Contact information

Information we collect and how we use it

Personal Information You Provide to Us Directly
When you reach out to us—such as by filling out a form on our website or sending us an email—we may collect certain types of personal information. This may include your name, email address, phone number, and any details you include in your message.

We use this information solely to respond to your inquiry or request.

If you choose to exercise your privacy rights—such as opting out of data sharing, or requesting that we delete or correct your personal information—we may also collect information necessary to process and fulfill that request. This information is used strictly for the purpose of completing your request.

Personal Information We Collect Automatically
When you use our website, we automatically collect certain categories of personal information to help us deliver content and advertisements effectively, and to improve your experience.

This includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, which allows us to provide content to your device and understand your general geographic region. Please note, we do not store your full public IP address. We also collect technical details such as your browser type, device information, and any preferences stored in your browser (like language settings), which help us tailor the site’s content and advertising display.

To enhance your experience, we may place small text files known as cookies on your device. Cookies help us recognize your browser or device and track activity on our site. In addition, we may receive pixels or other tracking technologies from the websites or services that referred you to us. These tools allow us to measure user engagement, track repeated visits, and gather general behavioral data.

Importantly, we do not use this information to build personal profiles or monitor individual browsing activity. Our goal is to better understand how people interact with our website overall, optimize our content and features, and evaluate the performance of our ads—for example, by tracking how many users clicked on a particular advertisement and sharing that data with advertisers.

Personal Information We Collect from Third Parties
At times, we may receive information from third parties related to your visit to our website. For example, the website you visited before coming to ours may send us its URL or other referral data, including details about your search terms or prior online activity. This helps us understand how users find and arrive at our site.

Some social media platforms or third-party services may include their own user identifiers when you interact with our content. Although we cannot use these identifiers to directly identify you, the originating platform may use them to connect your activity on our website with information they already have about you.

We may also receive aggregated insights from advertisers about the general types of users interacting with their ads. This data helps us better understand audience interests and improve advertising performance.

Please note, we do not collect or process any sensitive personal information, such as details about your health, race, religion, or political beliefs.

Our website is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect or process personal data from children.

In addition, we may use third-party service providers to estimate your general geographic location based on your IP address. This helps us serve relevant content and understand user distribution.

How and Why We Share Your Personal Information

We share specific categories of personal data with different types of third parties for defined purposes:

• We may share information related to your browser, device, and on-site behavior with service providers who assist us in delivering website content and targeted advertisements. When these partners act as our data processors or service providers rather than independent controllers, we require them to process such data only on our behalf and not use it for their own purposes.
• We provide aggregated information about user interactions with advertisements to our advertisers and their affiliates (“advertising partners”) to help them refine ad delivery and performance. In some cases, we may also share Class C IP address segments, which do not uniquely identify individuals or devices, to support effective ad targeting.
• We may disclose personal information to government regulators, law enforcement agencies, or other public authorities when legally obligated to do so.
• We may also share personal information when necessary to protect the safety, legal rights, or freedoms of our users or others.
• If needed, we may use or share personal data to defend or exercise our legal rights, or to support others in asserting their legal claims.

Universal Opt-Out Signals
We recognize and honor certain universal opt-out mechanisms, such as Global Privacy Controls (GPC), where required by applicable privacy laws. These signals can be enabled in some web browsers and inform us of your preference to opt out of certain types of data processing.

Do Not Track (DNT)
We do not respond to traditional “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals unless they meet the legal definition of a valid universal opt-out signal in a jurisdiction where we are required to honor them.

Google Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to help us understand how users interact with our website. For more information on how Google handles data in connection with Google Analytics, please visit:
How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.
If you wish to opt out of data collection by Google Analytics, you can install the opt-out browser add-on available at:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We take the protection of your personal information seriously and implement a combination of technical and organizational safeguards based on the type of data we collect and how we process it. Our approach is designed to minimize the collection of personal information to only what is necessary for specific, defined purposes. To ensure the security of your personal data, we implement the following measures:

• Establishing and maintaining comprehensive security policies and procedures.
• Limiting the collection of personal information to what is strictly necessary for our purposes.
• Using secure connection technologies such as SSL when transmitting personal data outside our internal networks.
• Deleting personal data once it is no longer required or in accordance with our data retention policy.
• Conducting regular security risk assessments to identify and address potential vulnerabilities.
• Following a risk reduction plan to mitigate potential security risks.
• Providing ongoing information security awareness training to our employees.
• Restricting access to personal information to authorized personnel only, based on job requirements.
• Implementing and continuously monitoring intrusion prevention and detection systems.
• Ensuring systems containing personal information are isolated from public networks such as the internet.
• Regularly updating software and security measures to maintain a high level of protection.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
We retain your personal information only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

• IP Class C addresses: We retain these non-personally identifiable IP addresses for a maximum of 5 years.
• Browser and device information: We store this data for up to 5 years.
• Cookies and associated data: We retain cookies and related information for a period of up to 3 months.
• Aggregated information: Data that is no longer identifiable to any individual or device may be retained for a longer period.

We continuously assess our data retention practices to ensure compliance with applicable laws and the principles of data minimization.

Cookies and Other Trackers

Our website uses a variety of tracking technologies, including tags, log files, web beacons, and other similar technologies from third parties (collectively referred to as “Cookies”). These Cookies are important for enhancing your browsing experience, but it is important that you understand how they function.

Cookies are small text files placed on your hard drive or in device memory that can store information about your online activities, preferences, and choices. Some cookies are essential for the proper functioning of our website, allowing pages to load correctly and ensuring the features you need are accessible. You have the option to reject non-essential cookies by adjusting your browser settings. However, doing so may result in the loss of certain functionalities, including the ability to opt out of tracking. Please note that disabling cookies in one browser will not prevent data collection on other browsers, devices, or through apps or mobile identifiers. To fully opt-out of information collection through your mobile device, you must adjust the relevant settings directly on the device and disable advertising-related tracking.

For additional information on cookies, including how to review, manage, and delete cookies, we recommend visiting www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

For a detailed breakdown of the cookies used on our site, please refer to our cookie policy.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal data from children under the age of 13, or under the age of 16 if required by applicable law. If you believe that we have unintentionally collected or processed the personal data of a child under the legally mandated age, please contact us immediately using the contact details provided in this Notice. We will take the necessary steps to address the issue and ensure that appropriate actions are taken.

Privacy Rights

Access, Correction, and Deletion of Personal Information
You have the right to access, correct, and request the deletion of your personal information. Should you have any questions regarding your rights or wish to exercise any of them, please contact us via email at: [email protected].

Right to Know
You have the right to request certain disclosures regarding our processing of your personal information. Upon request, we will disclose the following:

• The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
• The categories of sources from which we have obtained your personal information.
• The business or commercial purpose for which we collect, sell, or share your personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we have shared or disclosed your personal information.
• In certain cases, the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, with certain limitations.

No Retaliation or Discrimination
We do not engage in discriminatory practices or retaliate against consumers for exercising any of their privacy rights, including the right to access, delete, or opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. This means that:

• We will not deny you goods or services based on your privacy rights.
• We will not charge you different prices or rates for goods or services.
• We will not provide a different level or quality of goods or services.
• We will not imply that you will receive different pricing or service levels due to the exercise of your privacy rights.

Additional U.S. State Privacy Rights and Choices

If you are a consumer in California, you have the following rights:

• The right to know what personal information we have collected about you and request its deletion.
• The right to request the deletion of your personal information.
• The right to correct inaccurate personal information we may hold about you.
• The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, including by sending a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal from your browser.

We will not discriminate against you in any way for exercising these rights.

To exercise these rights, you may email us at [email protected]. If you have a business account with us, we may use the information in that account to authenticate your request.

For certain requests (such as requests to know or correct the information we maintain about you), we may email you to confirm your identity. If we are unable to confirm your identity for a deletion request, we will treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. An authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf, but we will require proof of authorization from you for that agent to act on your behalf.

For consumers in Virginia, Connecticut, Colorado, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, or New Jersey, you have the following rights:

• The right to confirm whether we are processing your personal information and access your personal information.
• The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data and understand the purposes for which we are processing it.
• The right to request deletion of your personal information.
• The right to obtain a copy of your personal data previously provided to us, or in some states, all personal data we have obtained about you, in a format that can be shared with another controller.
• The right to opt out of targeted advertising, the sale of your personal information, and profiling for significant decisions.
• The right to exercise universal opt-out controls when approved and required in your state, including via browser-based controls.

For certain requests, we may email you to confirm your identity. You can exercise these rights by emailing us at [email protected].

We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

Authorized Agent
If you wish for an authorized agent to make a request for disclosures, deletion, or correction on your behalf, the agent may do so by emailing us at [email protected]. Upon receipt of the agent’s request, we will ask the consumer to provide written, signed permission for the agent to act on their behalf. After we receive written authorization, we will proceed with processing the request and respond directly to the email address provided by the authorized agent.

Additional Information for Residents of the European Union, European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom

Contacts
For the purposes of EU/UK data protection regulations, Advertising.Tech FZ-LLC is the data controller for this website.

Should you have any questions or concerns regarding our data protection practices, you can reach us at [email protected]. Additionally, you may contact your local data protection authority at any time.

You can reach our European and UK representative at:

Our EU-GDPR Representative is:

Rickert Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

• 350-23-1 –
  Colmantstraße 15
  53115 Bonn
  Germany
  [email protected]

Our UK-GDPR Representative is:

Rickert Services Ltd UK

• 350-23-1 –
  PO Box 1487
  Peterborough
  PE1 9XX
  United Kingdom
  [email protected]

Why Do We Collect Your Personal Data?

In the European Union, we rely on three legal bases for processing your data: your consent, our legitimate interest, and as required by contract. We process your personal data for the following purposes and based on the lawful grounds outlined below:

Consent
We rely on your consent to process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Store and/or access information on a device: We obtain your consent to place or retrieve information from cookies, identifiers, or trackers on your device.

Legitimate Interest
When we rely on legitimate interest as the legal basis for processing, we assess whether the benefits of processing your data outweigh any potential risks to you. We process your data under the following circumstances:

• Advertising selection and measurement: We use limited data, such as the content you are viewing, to select and display relevant advertisements. We believe the benefits of providing you with free, ad-supported content and ensuring ad relevance outweigh the minimal risks to you.
• Service development and improvement: We use a limited amount of personal information to maintain and improve our services, including website security and functionality.
• Ad performance: We use minimal personal data to track how effective ads are in engaging you and other users, helping to improve your experience while posing little risk.

Contractual Requirement
When you make a purchase through our site, we process your personal information as required to fulfill the contract and provide the product or service you request. Please note that we do not process your personal data once you leave our website and navigate to an advertiser’s site.

Your Rights
Please refer to the “How Can You Exercise My Privacy Rights?” section of this Notice or contact our Privacy Office via email at: [email protected] for any inquiries regarding your privacy rights.

Withdrawal of Consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time for personal data processing activities where we rely on your consent as the legal basis.

International Transfer of Personal Data
Our website and technology infrastructure are primarily maintained in the United States. If you are visiting our site from regions with data protection laws that differ from those in the United States, please note that your personal information may be transferred to the United States and other countries worldwide. By using this site, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be transferred to countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country.

For visitors from the EU, EEA, or UK, whenever we transfer your personal data outside these regions, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place. In some cases, we use specific contracts, such as data processing agreements based on the EU/EEA Standard Contractual Clauses, supplemented by additional security measures, to ensure your data remains protected during international transfers.

Changes to this Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice periodically to reflect changes in legal requirements or our practices. Any such updates will be communicated to you, and we will obtain your consent before changing the way we process personal information that has already been collected under this policy.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns related to this Privacy Notice, or if you require further information about our personal data processing practices and your rights regarding your personal information, please contact us at:

Write to us
infosquad.net
[email protected]