Effective Date: 1st November 2020
Octet Interactive is dedicated to protecting its users’ (“you”, “your” or “user”) privacy. This policy (hereinafter, “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) applies to your use of any browser extensions (“Extensions”), websites, softwares, mobile and desktop applications, or associated services (collectively the “Services”) owned by Octet Interactive (“us”, “we” or “our”).
Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, and transfer your information. We encourage you to read this Policy carefully to understand the information provided on the aforementioned activities and your associated rights. If you do not agree with or accept our Privacy Policy in its entirety, you must not visit, install, or otherwise use the Services.
By visiting, installing, or otherwise using the Services, you acknowledge and represent that (i) you have read, understood, and agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy; and (ii) you are at least 18 years old.
We may, from time to time, update or modify this Policy due to technology updates, new business practices, in order to comply with applicable law(s) or to improve our users’ experience. Any material changes to this Policy that may adversely impact your privacy will be communicated through a notice on our Service, and where required by law, we may take your prior consent. We recommend you to review this page periodically to stay updated about our information collection and processing practices.
Information Collection
We collect information that you provide to us when you contact us or share feedback related to your use of the Services. The information we collect under this section may vary based on the nature of our interaction and what you choose to share with or disclose to us, but may include, without limitation, personal information such as your name, email address, and any other information such as the content of your message or email that you choose to share with us. This information shall only be used to respond to your queries, address your feedback, or otherwise communicate with you and shall not be shared with any third party without your prior consent.
When you use our Extensions, you may have an option to save your preferences and frequently accessed features,depending on the nature of Extensions being used, for example, your preferred locations to navigate through maps quickly, preferred news category and news providers to view news articles of your preference, save articles which you can read later, your package tracking number. Should you choose to save your preferences, please be informed that any information related to such preferences will be stored locally on your browser and not on our servers. We do not collect, process and/or have access to such information. You may delete this information at any time by deleting the information stored on your browsers.
When you visit, install, and/or use our Services, we use technologies such as pixels, cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to collect user information. This information includes but is not limited to your IP address, usage information, operating system (OS) version and type, software version, device configuration & identifiers, geolocation derived from your IP address, user device type, screen resolution and size, browser language, traffic source, ISP, anonymous user identifiers, search queries, the time & date of such searches, user configuration and settings for the Services.
As per the provisions of California Consumer Privacy Act, the information collected by us can be categorized as follows
Information Processing:
The information we collect is used for the following purposes:
Information Sharing
We may disclose your information for the following purposes:
Some of the Services allow users to search the Internet using Yahoo search engine. When you use the search feature offered on the Services, we may share your search query with the said search engine, to return results specific to your query. Please note that information related to your search queries may be stored and processed by Yahoo in accordance with their privacy policy. Please read Yahoo's Privacy Policy, to understand they collect and process and store your information.
Information Retention and deletion:
Any information collected on or through the Services is retained by us only for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in ‘Information Processing’ section above. Any information that we store is disposed off once it is no longer required or upon receiving an explicit written request from you, as and where applicable.
Information Security:
The security of your information is important to us. We ensure that reasonable and appropriate technical, physical, and organizational measures are implemented and maintained to prevent any unauthorized access, alteration, loss, misuse, or destruction of your information and to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal information.
To protect your information in transit, we encrypt any information transmitted to or from our web servers using the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") software.
You understand and acknowledge that due to the inherent risk involved in the transmission of information over the internet, we cannot guarantee 100% security and confidentiality of any information transmitted to or from our web servers via the internet.
Transfer of Information
We store and process the personal information collected by us in the country where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain the servers. Where your personal information is transferred outside your country of residence, you understand and acknowledge that the data protection laws of such a country may vary from the data protection laws of your country. By using the Services or providing us with your personal information, you agree to the overseas transfer of your information.
Tracking Technologies
We use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies to gather and analyze information about your use of the Services. Such information is then used to improve the Services, serve personalized content & advertisements, and enhance your experience.
Cookies:
A cookie is a small file that holds some information, which a website can send to your browser. It can then be stored on your computer's hard drive and can be accessed by our web server. We can retrieve the cookie information and use it to customize the Services accordingly.
Types of Cookies we use:
When you access or otherwise use the Services, we may place the following types of session cookies (i.e. cookies that expire at the end of your browsing session, when the web browser is closed) on your browser.
Please be informed that cookies do not contain any information that can be used to personally identify a user, however, the information collected through cookies can be linked to other personal information held by us to identify a user.
Managing Cookies
Should you choose to disable or block our cookies, some parts or features of the Services will not function fully.
For more information on how to control your cookie settings and browser settings, or how to delete cookies, please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-control-cookies/.
Web-Beacons:
We may integrate electronic images known as web beacons, on the Services. Web beacons enable us to count the number of users who visit the Services. They are only used to collect a limited set of information such as a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides.
Tracking Technologies placed by Third Parties:
We may use third-party services for internal analysis of the performance of our Services and related purposes and to facilitate certain features offered on the Services. The providers of such services may place tracking technologies, including cookies, on your browser to collect information around your use of the Services. The cookies placed by such third-parties may be stored on your browser temporarily, for the duration of your browsing session, or permanently, until its set expiry date or until deleted by you before its expiry date, and shall include, without limitation, Analytical/Tracking and Advertising/Marketing cookies. Please be informed that we do not review, monitor or in any other way control the information collection and processing practices of such third party service providers and shall not be held responsible or liable for their privacy practices. For more information on third-party service providers and their use of tracking technologies, please read section ‘Third Party Links and Services’ below.
‘Do Not Track’ notifications
Certain browsers have activated a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that enables users to restrict the tracking technologies deployed by websites. These browsers send signals to websites to restrict tracking of users. Please note that currently, our servers do not respond to such signals sent by any browser.
Third-Party Links and Services:
Third Party Links:
The Services may contain links to third-party websites, products, software, and other services. We have no control over such third-party websites, their products, content, and any other services. All third-party links and content on or through the Services are offered solely for your reference and convenience. We claim no endorsements by or affiliation with such third parties. You may access such third-party content and websites at your own risk. We encourage you to read their Policy and Terms and Conditions to understand their business and privacy practices. We shall not be held liable for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your use of such third-party websites, products, or any other services.
Affiliate Links:
The Extensions may also provide links to affiliated websites that may pay us a small commission, at no cost to you, each time you access or interact with such links through the Extensions.
Once you leave the environment of the Extensions, you shall no longer be governed by this Policy. You understand and acknowledge that Octet does not control, manage, or otherwise administer the collection and processing of your information by such third-party websites and/or affiliate websites and shall not be held liable for their privacy practices.
Third Party Services:
We may employ third-party tools or service providers (“Analytical Service Providers”) to monitor and analyze the use of the Services. Analytical Service Providers place their own tracking technologies on the Services to gather information related to your use of the Services. Links to the privacy policies of our Analytical Service providers are given below and we recommend that you to read their policies to understand their data collection and processing policies:
Certain features on the Services are offered with the assistance of third-party service providers. Please note that such third-party service providers may place their own tracking technologies on the Services to collect and process information including, but not limited to, your use of the Services, device information, browsing activities, etc.
Please be informed that we do not control, manage, or otherwise administer the collection and processing of your information by such Analytical Service Providers and other third-party service providers and shall not be held liable for their privacy practices.
California User Rights
If you are a California resident, as defined in Section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations, you have the choice to exercise the following rights available under the CCPA.
Right to Access data collected: You may request to access your personal information using one of the designated methods given below. Once we receive a request, which can satisfactorily verify your identity, we shall provide you with the following details:
Right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information: You have the right to request us to not “sell” as defined under section 1798.140, your personal information to any third party. We will act per your request, in the event we are selling such personal information belonging to you. Please use either of the two methods provided here to exercise this right.CCPA Form or emailing us at the address given below.
Right to deletion of personal information: You have the right to request us to delete your personal information, with the exception of the following circumstances, and we shall honor this request, to the extent required by law.
Where we are not able to fulfill your request due to any of the above-mentioned reasons, we will inform you about our reason(s) for not deleting your information.
Right to equal treatment: You have the right to be treated without any discrimination. We assure you that your choice to exercise your rights under CCPA, will not, in any way, impact your access to or use of the Services.
You may exercise your rights yourself or through the use of an authorized person registered with the California Secretary of State. We will honor your requests within 45 days from date of receipt of such a request. If due to any reason we are unable to process the information within these timelines, we will inform you in writing and honor the request no later than 90 days from the date of original request. Please note that we are only obligated to comply with two requests made in a 12-month period.
Designated methods to exercise rights under CCPA:
Email: [email protected]
As per Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, California residents have the right to receive information about third parties with whom information about them or their family is shared, for the purpose of direct marketing, during the previous year. They also have the right to request a description of the type and categories of personal information shared with such third parties.
If you are a California resident, you may request this information by contacting us at the email address provided below. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer, each year and that we are not bound to respond to any requests made by means other than through the email address shared below.
Nevada User Rights
Nevada law (SB 220) provides Nevada residents with certain rights pertaining to the sale of covered information ( i.e. exchange of information by the operator, for a monetary consideration, to a person for the person to further sell or license the covered information to additional persons), as defined under the said law. If you are a Nevada resident, you can exercise your rights by writing to us at the email address provided below. To the extent we sell your covered information, we will do our best to process your verifiable request within 60 days of receiving it. In case we need more time to process your request, we may extend the said timeline by an additional 30 days.
EU User Rights
Right to access- You may contact us to get confirmation as to whether we are collecting and processing your personal information. If we do collect and process your personal information, we will inform you of what categories of such personal information are collected and processed, the processing purposes, the categories of recipients with whom personal information has been or will be disclosed and the envisaged storage period or criteria to determine that period.
Right to withdraw consent - You may withdraw your consent to the collection and processing of your personal information at any time by writing to us at the email address provided below. Withdrawing consent may result in the unavailability of certain features of our Services.
Right to rectification – You have the right to seek rectification or completion of your personal information stored with us, that in your opinion is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to data portability -You have the right to receive your personal information from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit that information to a third party, should you so require.
Right to restrict processing - In the following circumstances, you have the right to limit the ways in which we use your personal information:
Where processing of your information has been restricted on the above-mentioned basis, we may continue to store your personal information.
Right to object - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, if such an objection is based on (a) an activity or task performed by us to execute public interest or in exercise of the official authority vested in us; (b) the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, excluding cases where your fundamental rights or interests, which require the protection of your personal information, disregard such interests; or (c) processing of your personal information with regards to profiling for direct marketing purposes.
Where you object to such processing, we will cease to process your personal information unless (i) we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for such processing which override your rights, interests, and freedoms; or (ii) the processing of your information is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to erasure -You have the right to have your personal information that we collect and process, erased from our systems, without undue delay, if: (a) your personal information is no longer necessary for the related purposes, (b) we have unlawfully processed your personal information or; (c) if you object to processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes. Further, you have the right to request for erasure of such personal information if you withdraw consent or object to our collection and processing of your personal information as meant above.
Notwithstanding the above, we reserve the right to deny your request for erasure if we have a legitimate ground to not erase the personal information.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at the email address given below. Note that we have one (1) month to respond to your request.
Children’s Privacy:
We do not solicit or knowingly collect any information from children of or under the age of 13. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child who is 13 or under, please write to us at the email address provided below.
Contact Us:
For further information regarding our data collection practices and/or to exercise any of your rights, you may reach out to us at
Octet Interactive
251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808, USA