Privacy Policy
Last updated: 17-02-2018
1. General Provisions
1.1 We, phoneverify.online (the “Company“), process your personal data as part of your use of our products (“Products”) or platform (“Platform” and, together with the Products, “Services”). We deal with your personal data in a confidential and responsible way. The processing of your personal data takes place in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation („GDPR“).
1.2 In this Privacy Policy we want to provide you with information about the company, the nature, scope and purposes of the data collection and use, trying to offer you an insight into the processing of your personal data.
1.3 For some of our Products we will only process data pursuant to purposes and means you determine. In these cases, we will provide you with separate data processing agreements.
2. Acceptance of Privacy Policy
2.1 By accessing and using the Website or our Services, you agree that you have read, understood and accept all of the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you should immediately discontinue access or use of the Website and our Services.
3. Changes to this Policy
3.1 We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time, and when required by law, we will notify you of changes to this Policy. If we make any material changes we will notify you via the email current on your account with us.
4. Personal Data Management Principles
4.1 The Company undertakes to ensure your personal data is:
4.1.1 processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner in relation to you;
4.1.2 collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes (f. e. prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, performance of Services, etc.), and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;
4.1.3 adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;
4.1.4 accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date;
4.1.5 kept in a form which permits your identification for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed;
4.1.6 processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of your personal data.
4.2 Website follows the above indicated principles strictly during the processing of your personal data and request the same from the data processors which it may use to process personal data on behalf of the Company.
5. What is “personally identifiable information?”
5.1 “Personally Identifiable Information” (hereinafter: “Personal Data”) is any information that can be directly associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. A prime example of identifiable information is a person’s name.
6. What kind of personal data do we collect?
6.1. General: We process such personal data that you as a user of the Services make available to us, for example upon registration or when using the Services (the „Data“).
6.2. Website Use: If you visit our website, we process only personal data that your browser communicates to our server. We collect the following data, which is necessary for us in order to display the website correctly and guarantee the necessary stability and security:
6.2.1 IP-address;
6.2.2 date and time stamp, time difference to GMT;
6.2.3 requested site, site from which the request was sent, transmitted data volume;
6.2.4 access status/HTTP status code;
6.2.5 browser, operating system, interface, language and version of the browser software.
6.3. Registration Data: Upon registration we collect and process the following information:
6.3.1 registration details: date of registration, password;personal information: full name; email address; address, zip code, city, region, country;
6.3.2 company information (optional): company name, website, tax ID;
6.3.3 payment information:
6.3.4 email address;
6.3.5 date of payment, invoice ID, currency, amount;
6.3.6 monthly or annual payment.
6.4. Product Use Data: Data processed when using the Services is processed by us only as a processor, not as a controller.
7. The reason we collect personal information
7.1. Purpose: The processing of Data pursues the following purposes (“Purposes”):
7.1.1 comply with applicable laws and regulations;
7.1.2 provide and improve the Services;
7.1.3 security and stability of the Services.
7.1.4 prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our Terms of Use;
7.2. Lawfulness of Processing: The lawfulness of processing (Art. 6 GDPR) stems from:
7.2.1. your consent, where we have asked your explicit consent (para.1 subpara. a GDPR); and
7.2.2. the necessity for the performance of contract fulfillment, as your data is needed for a satisfactory use of the Services (para 1 subpara. b GDPR); and
7.2.3. the necessity for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company or by a third party (para 1 subpara. f GDPR).
7.3. Legitimate Interests: The legitimate interests to, analyze and improve the Services, to support you with any to protect the security, integrity, performance and functionality of the Services, and to provide you with advertisements.
8. How Your Personal Information is used
8.1 The primary purpose for collecting your Information is to provide you with the best possible user experience and Services and to safeguard the security and stability of our systems. In general, we use Information to create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our Services, content and marketing, to comply with our legal obligations, for anti-fraud purposes and for loss prevention. We may use your Information in the following ways
8.1.1 to provide, maintain, deliver or improve the Website or our Services;
8.1.2 for quality control to ensure we can provide you with the best user experience and accurate information;
8.1.3 to fulfil our legal or regulatory requirements;
8.1.4 to enforce the terms and conditions of our Service Agreement;
8.1.5 to ensure network and information security including processing your Information in order to enhance security, monitor and verify identity or service access, combat spam or other malware or security risks and to comply with applicable security laws and regulations;
8.1.6 to provide you with the information or services that you have requested;
8.1.7 to provide you with service including, without limitation, answering your inquiry or responding to a communication from you;
8.1.8 to detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions or unauthorized or illegal activities;
8.1.9 to facilitate corporate acquisitions, mergers, or transactions;
8.1.10 to carry out any other purpose or reason for which the Information was collected.
9. Sharing of Information
9.1 We will never sell or rent your personal information. We will only share your Information in the following circumstances:
9.1.1 with your consent or at your instruction;
9.1.2 in connection with offers, products or Services provided on the Website;
9.1.3 certain information you may choose to share may be displayed publicly,
9.1.4 in order to prevent fraud or other illegal or unauthorized activities;
9.1.5 if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation or legal process;
9.1.6 with law enforcement officials, courts, or other third parties when we are compelled to do so by a subpoena, court order, or similar legal procedure, or when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of Information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity or to investigate violations of our Service Agreement or any other applicable policies;
9.1.7 if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our User Agreement, our other agreements or policies, or to protect our legitimate interests, rights, property and safety or that of others; and
9.1.8 with third parties where aggregate Information is disclosed which cannot be reasonably be used to identify you.
10. Retention Period of Data
10.1 We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting obligations or to resolve disputes. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things such as the nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal or operational retention needs. For example, we may retain certain information for accounting and security purposes even after our business relationship with you has ceased.
11. Rights You Have with Respect to Your Personal Information
11.1 You have certain individual rights regarding the personal information that we collect and process about you through the Website. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies as a default. You may wish to opt out by turning off cookies (please refer to the help menu on your browser); however, switching off cookies may restrict your use of the Website. You have the right to:
11.1.1 access or receive certain data about the personal information we process about you;
11.1.2 have your personal information rectified;
11.1.3 object to the processing of your personal information or ask us to restrict processing or delete your personal information;
11.1.4 withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information; and
11.1.5 not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing of your personal information, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects on you, save for the exceptions applicable under relevant data protection laws.
12. Cookies
12.1. What are Cookies? The Website uses 'cookies' ─ small text files that are placed on the user's computer, smartphone and/or stored by the browser. If the respective server of our Website is again accessed by the user of the Website/Product, the user’s browser sends the afore received cookie back to the server. The server can evaluate the information received in this manner in various ways. Cookies can, for example, be used in order to manage advertisements on the Website or to facilitate navigation on a webpage.
12.2. Disabling of Cookies: The user can disable the installation of cookies by entering the corresponding settings in his/her browser software (e.g. in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or Safari). However, in this case the user may jeopardize his/her use of the complete range of functions on the Website.
12.3. Cookie Policy: Please see our Cookie Policy for more information.
13. Complaints
13.1 You have the right to complain about our processing of your personal information to the relevant data protection authority. You can complain in the place where the alleged breach of data protection law has taken place.
14. Analytics Services
14.1 Google Analytics
14.1.1 This Website uses Google Analytics, a web-analysis service by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "Cookies", text files that are saved on the computer of users for the purpose of analyzing the user's website usage. Information about website usage generated by the cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there.
14.1.2 However, Google shortens the user's IP address within member states of the European Union or in other contractual states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area in case IP anonymization is activated for the website. Google only transmits the full IP address to a Google server in the US and shortens it there in exceptional cases. IP anonymization is activated for this website. Google uses this information on behalf of the website operator in order to evaluate website usage by users, compile reports about website activities and provide other services associated with website and Internet usage to the website operator.
14.1.3 The IP address transmitted from your browser within the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other data of Google. Users can prevent the storing of cookies with a respective setting in your browser software. However, this offer specifically points out that, in such a case, it may not be possible to use all website functions to the full extent. Furthermore, users can prevent the acquisition of data generated by the cookie regarding the user's website usage (including the user's IP address) for Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin via the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
14.1.4 Further information about data usage for advertisement purposes by Google as well as configuration and objection options are available on the following Google websites: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners/ "Data usage by Google related to your usage of our partner's websites and apps"), http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads ("Data usage for advertisement purposes"), http://www.google.de/settings/ads ("Managing information used by Google for displaying advertisements") and http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ ("Determining which advertisement Google displays").
14.2 Information on Third-Party Provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001.
15. How to Contact Us
15.1 If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or if you have a complaint, please contact us at CONTACT.