Emulator Privacy and Cookie Policy
This Privacy and Cookie
Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains
how data about you is collected, used, stored, disclosed and processed by Emulator when
you download, install, run and/or use our software applications and any other
products or services we make available to you (collectively, the “Services”) and when you otherwise
interact with us.
In this
Privacy Policy, the term “we", "our" and "us" means Emulator and
its affiliated companies and subsidiaries, or any of them, and
"you" or "your" means you as a
user of our Services.
Please
select from the different sections of this Privacy Policy to understand Browser
Assistant’s practices and your rights.
4. Seeing third party advertisements online based
on your use of the Services
7. Cross-border data transfers
9. Your right to manage your data
10. Changes to our Privacy Policy
1.1
We do not knowingly collect personal data from
children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that a child under 13 has
provided us with personal data, we will take steps to remove such personal data
and terminate the child’s user account (if any).
2.1
Data you
provide to Emulator
When you provide it to us via an e-mail or support ticket, your name and
e-mail address so that you can receive a response to a query.
If you do not wish for us to collect your PII, you should not provide it
to us through the sites e-mail or contact us page.
2.2
Data collected
from your use of the Services
Emulator (or service providers acting on our behalf) may
collect data about the Services that you use and how you use them. This data
may be collected automatically by tracking technologies, such as cookies, web
beacons, our own data collection tools or various third-party services.
Device information: Device-specific
information, including, without limitation, technical information about your computer,
system and application software and peripherals, such as your hardware model,
operating system version, unique device identifiers (UDID), mobile network
information (including, without limitation, phone number), device event
information (such as crashes), system activity and hardware settings.
Log information: Information about
your use of the Services, such as browser type, access data and time stamps,
pages viewed, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browsing actions and
patterns.
3.1
We use data held about you for the following
purposes:
(a)
to serve you, in particular:
(1)
to provide the Services to you and other users
(2)
to provide customer service and support
(3)
to address your queries, correspondence,
concerns or complaints
(4)
to send you service messages, including, without
limitation, service updates, security alerts, technical notices and support and
administrative messages
(5)
to provide software updates (where applicable)
and technical support services
(6)
to notify you about changes to Services, our Terms
of Service or this Privacy Policy
(7)
to personalize the Services and improve your
user experience
(b)
for our internal operations, in particular:
(1)
to
develop, manage and deliver contextual and behavioural advertising, subject to
the terms of this Privacy Policy
(2)
to measure and understand the effectiveness of
advertising we provide to you and others
(3)
to carry out all other statistical analysis, data
analysis, testing, research and troubleshooting
(4)
to develop and/or improve our products and
services
(5)
to carry out financial,
regulatory and management reporting, and audit and record keeping
(c)
for security and legal purposes, in
particular:
(1)
to manage, prevent, detect and investigate
fraud, security breaches, violations of law, and misuse of the Services
(2)
to verify your compliance with our terms and
conditions, policies and guidelines
(3)
to enforce our legal and contractual rights
(4)
to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal
process or governmental request
3.2
We may also collect, use and share personal data
to such extent and for such purposes as may be permitted by applicable law.
4.
Seeing
third party advertisements online based on your use of the Services
4.1
Advertising revenue allows Emulator to
support and improve the Services. Emulator allows third party
advertisers to place search ads on the Services. If an advertiser places a search
ad on the Services, it may collect, or we may share, certain data, including,
without limitation:
(a)
online usage information (for example, the number
of clicks on an advertisement);
(b)
technical information (for example, IP address,
device identifiers, MAC address, software and hardware information and browser
information); and/or
4.2
The advertiser may use such information for the
following purposes:
(a)
measure the effectiveness of the advertisements;
(b)
remember your device so as to serve you
advertisements online, both on the Services or when you are on other websites
and apps;
(c)
send you advertising which is more relevant to
you (this is known as contextual
or behavioral advertising); and/or
(d)
undertake web analytics (for example, by
analyzing traffic and other user activity to improve user
experience).
4.3
Advertisers may collect this information through
the use of advertising technologies such as web beacons, pixels, ad tags,
cookies, and mobile identifiers, as well as specific services offered by some
sites and social networks, and they may use a single tracking technology or
multiple tracking technologies at the same time.
4.4
Please note that if you click on a third-party banner
or ad on the Services, you may leave the Services and be directed to a third party website.
5.1
From time to time, we may send push notifications
to you. If you choose to disable push notifications, you will opt out of receiving
crucial account related communication. You may disable push notifications by
changing your account settings.
6.1
We do not sell personal data to third parties
for advertising or marketing purposes.
6.2
However, we share your data with the following categories
of third parties in order to enable us to use your data for the purposes set
out in this Privacy Policy:
(a)
Emulator affiliates and subsidiaries.
This is because different entities within our group may be responsible for
different activities.
(b)
Service providers, business partners, suppliers,
sub-contractors and agents that perform services we need to provide you with
the Services or to run our business, including, without limitation, IT
services, cloud services, data storage, database management, web analytics,
website operations, fraud investigations, marketing and advertising.
(c)
Law enforcement, regulatory agencies, public
agencies and other third parties that Emulator in good faith believes that
disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) comply with applicable law,
regulation, legal process or governmental or regulatory request or court order.
(d)
Third parties that we have your consent or instructions
to share your personal data with.
6.3
We may disclose aggregated data to third parties
about the use of the Services. This will not include, without limitation, data
which could be used to identify you.
7.
Cross-border
data transfers
7.1
In order to provide the Services, we operate and
use data centres in several territories around the world. Where the laws of
your country allow you to do so, you authorize us to transfer, store, process
and use your data in any country that we deem necessary in order to conduct our
business.
7.2
If we transfer and store personal data in a
location outside the United States or the European Union, we ensure an adequate
level of protection for the rights of data subjects based on the adequacy of
the receiving country’s data protection laws or by imposing contractual
obligations on the recipient of the data.
7.3
We will use reasonable measures to protect personal data under our control from
security risks. However, no data transmission over the Internet, over wireless transmissions, and no
data storage system is ever completely
secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal data.
8.1
We will not retain your personal data for longer than we
need to use it in accordance with this Privacy Policy or to to comply
with applicable law, regulatory requests and relevant orders from competent
courts.
9.
Your right
to manage your data
9.1
You have the following rights with regard to
your personal data:
(a)
Access. You
have the right to access data we hold about you. We will need you to prove your
identity before we release any personal data to you.
(b)
Rectification
or erasure. You have the right to request that we rectify or
delete any personal data that we hold about you (unless we have the legal right
or obligation to retain it). Even if you request that we erase your data, we may still
keep it in a form that does not identify you.
(c)
Restriction. You
have the right to restrict your use of personal data if the data is inaccurate,
our use of the data is unlawful or if we no longer need to use the data for the
purposes for which we hold it.
(d)
Change of
preferences. You can change your data processing preferences at
any time. For example, if you have given your consent to direct marketing, but
have changed your mind, you can opt out of receiving marketing messages. See
the section on “Marketing messages” above for how to stop receiving marketing
messages.
(e)
Automated
decision making. We may use your personal data to carry out
automated decision-making and profiling for the purpose of identifying what data
or advertising you might like to see from us. If you have any questions in
respect of our automated decision-making processes or the accuracy of them,
please let us know.
(f)
Data
portability. You have the right to obtain personal data we hold
about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such data to another
data controller, where this is (a) personal data which you have provided to us
and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent (such as
your marketing preference data) or to perform a contract with you (such as to
manage your online account).
(g)
Complaints. If for
any reason you are not happy with the way that we have handled your personal
data, please do not hesitate to contact us. You also have the right to raise a complaint
to your local data protection regulator.
9.2
If you want to exercise your rights, have a
complaint, or just have questions, please contact us.
9.3
If you ask us to stop processing your personal data
in a certain way or erase your personal data, and this type of processing or data
is needed to facilitate your use of the Services, you may not be able to use
the Services as you did before.
9.4
The rights mentioned above do not extend to
non-personal data.
10.
Changes
to our Privacy Policy
10.1
We may make changes to our Privacy Policy from
time to time, to reflect how we are processing your data.
10.2
If we make significant changes, we will make
that clear on the Services or by some other means of contact such as email, so
that you are able to review the changes before you continue to use the Services.
10.3
Each
time you use the Services and each time you interact with us, the latest
version of our Privacy Policy will apply.
11.1
To make our websites work properly, we sometimes
place small data files called cookies on your device.
11.2
What are
cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or
mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your
actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display
preferences) over a period of time, so that you don’t have to keep re-entering
them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Most web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but if you do not want data collected this way,
there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept
the cookies feature. Please read the section on “How to control
cookies” below to learn more on
how to do this.
Third parties that we
work with to provide our websites may also use cookies on our websites and can also place cookies on your device without you visiting their
website directly. If you would like more data about third party cookies, please
read on.
11.3
Third
party cookies
Third parties (including, without limitation, for example, advertisers
and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may
use their own cookies or other technologies over which Emulator has no
control. Cookies placed by third parties
may serve different purposes. They may be Strictly necessary, Analytical/performance,
Functionality or other cookies.
We do not have access or control over the cookies placed by third
parties and uses of such cookies are subject to their own privacy policies. We
recommend that you review the privacy policies of each of our third parties.
11.4
How to
control cookies
You can control and/or reject or delete cookies as you wish. For
details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on
your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. However,
if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you
visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Further, Strictly necessary cookies and Analytical/performance
cookies are very important to the smooth running of our website. If you delete
or reject these cookies, we cannot predict how our website will perform when
you visit it. The security of your data may also be at risk of compromise.
12.1
You may uninstall the Software by going here Uninstall
and following the directions to remove the Software from your computer.
13.1
If you have requests or concerns regarding your personal data or any aspect
of this Privacy Policy, please contact our privacy team by email
at dataprotection@browserassistant.com. Please allow some time for your request or query to be processed.
Last Updated: July 31,
2019