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General Privacy Policy

Information and consent

By accepting this Privacy Policy, the User is informed and hereby gives his or her free, informed, explicit and unequivocal consent for the personal data provided on the abaqoo Next Gen Browser (hereinafter, the “Browser”) and the website located at the URL www.abaqoo.com (hereinafter, the “Website“) and the to be processed by abaqoo.

Your privacy is a key factor that abaqoo (that’s us) considers in the development of each of our products and services. We are committed to being transparent and open. This abaqoo Privacy Policy explains generally how we receive information about you, and what we do with that information once we have it.

Why do we process your data?

We process your data for the following purposes:

  • Manage our relationship with you. In other words, manage how we process and respond to your requests and queries, either using our forms or by e-mail.
  • Once you complete the Browser registration form:
    • Manage communications about new services on the platform
    • Pay you the earnings you have made via any of the available redeem methods
    • Manage the monetisation service of the data provided. (More information in the specific Monetisation Privacy Policy).

What is the lawful basis for processing your data?

The legal basis for processing your data is the express and unequivocal consent given when voluntarily requesting information about our platform and your relationship with abaqoo as a registered user. Our lawful bases for collecting and processing personal information of users include:

  • Performing our contract with you: Registration for a abaqoo Account requires your agreement to the Terms and Conditions. To provide the services described, such as syncing your browser history or providing email verification, we need to receive your email address.
  • Legitimate interests: We receive technical and interaction data of users, which may include IP addresses, to customize and offer location specific features, improve the security and reliability of our services and prevent abuse, and to understand where people learn about abaqoo.
  • Consent: Where we ask for your consent to process your information, you can always withdraw this consent.
  • Monetization service: When you use the monetisation service and decide to disclose certain information from your profile (such as your anonymous data or your interests)

However, you can choose not to receive information at any time and still continue to enjoy our services by sending an e-mail to [email protected] or clicking on the corresponding link in the e-mail you receive.

The consents obtained for the purposes mentioned above are independent, so as a user you can revoke just one of them without affecting the others.

What do we do with your information once we have it?

When you give us information, we will use it in the ways for which you’ve given us permission. Generally, we use your information to help us provide and improve our products and services for you.

Our lawful bases for collecting and processing personal information of users include:

  • Performing our contract with you: Registration for a abaqoo Account requires your agreement to the Terms and Conditions. To provide the services described, such as syncing your browser history or providing email verification, we need to receive your email address.
  • Legitimate interests: We receive technical and interaction data of users, which may include IP addresses, to customize and offer location specific features, improve the security and reliability of our services and prevent abuse, and to understand where people learn about abaqoo.
  • Consent: Where we ask for your consent to process your information, you can always withdraw this consent.

In many cases, you can access, update, or delete personal information.

If you have a question or concern, please contact us and we hope to resolve it for you. If we cannot, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

What personal data of yours can we process?

The data you provide to us and the data subsequently generated during your relationship with abaqoo.

  • When you fill in the contact form or send us an e-mail, we will process your name and e-mail address.
  • When you register e-mail to open an accoun in the Browser.
  • When you comment on the blog we’ll process your name.
  • When you use the monetisation service, we’ll process your contact information (e-mail) and all information that you voluntarily provide in your “My Anonymous Data” section (location, date of birth, gender, level of education, number of children, description of your family status, income, home type, personal interests, industry, office type) or in the section on your interests (Business and Industry, Entertainment, Family and Relationships, Fitness and Wellness, Food and Drink, Hobbies and Activities, Shopping and Fashion, Sports and Outdoors, Technology). If there is a balance in your account, and you want to redeem it, we’ll also process your payment information (Paypal username) to redeem the amount.

The user’s responsibility

As User:

  • You declare that you are over 18 years of age and that the information you provide to abaqoo is true, accurate, complete and up to date. As a User, you are responsible for the veracity of all the data you provide and for keeping the information up to date so that it reflects your real situation at any given time. The data can be updated in your user profile.
  • You agree that you will inform third parties from whom we may receive data in the process of exercising the right of access of the aspects contained in this document. You also agree that you will obtain their authorisation to enable abaqoo to process the data for the stated purposes.
  • You are liable for any false or inaccurate information you provide on the website and for any direct or indirect damages that this may cause to abaqoo or to third parties. Third parties are understood, in particular, as the companies in respect of which the foregoing rights are exercised and the companies in the sectors with which you agree to share your data as part of the monetisation service.

When do we share your information with others?

  • Unless it was necessary, in the cases provided by current regulations at all times, we do not share your information with any entity and / or person for whom we have not given your consent.
  • For processing or providing products and services to you, but only if those entities receiving your information are contractually obligated to handle the data in ways that are approved by abaqoo.
  • When we are fulfilling our mission to be the fist tool to control advertising and pay user for their data. We will share all information that you voluntarily provide in your “My Anonymous Data” section (location, date of birth, gender, level of education, number of children, description of your family status, income, home type, personal interests, industry, office type) or in the section on your interests (Business and Industry, Entertainment, Family and Relationships, Fitness and Wellness, Food and Drink, Hobbies and Activities, Shopping and Fashion, Sports and Outdoors, Technology).  We will remove your personal information and try to disclose it in a way that minimizes the risk of you being re-identified.
  • When the law requires it. We follow the law whenever we receive requests about you from a government or related to a lawsuit. We’ll notify you when we’re asked to hand over your personal information in this way unless we’re legally prohibited from doing so. When we receive requests like this, we’ll only release your personal information if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. Nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s request to disclose your information.
  • When we believe it is necessary to prevent harm to you or someone else. We will only share your information in this way if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of you, our other users, abaqoo or the public.
  • If our organizational structure or status changes (if we undergo a restructuring, are acquired, or go bankrupt) we may pass your information to a successor or affiliate.

Although they do not imply data transfers, for different actions related to the treatments, we use providers that provide us services, and that may need to access your information; However, these providers manage the data for the sole purpose of providing us with the contracted service, following our instructions and without being able to use it for any other purpose.

These providers are:

  • Heroku
  • Amazon AWS & S3

How do we store and protect your personal information?

We are committed to protecting your personal information once we have it. We implement physical, business and technical security measures. Despite our efforts, if we learn of a security breach, we’ll notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps.We also don’t want your personal information for any longer than we need it, so we only keep it long enough to do what we collected it for. Once we don’t need it, we take steps to destroy it unless we are required by law to keep it longer.

What else should you know?

We’re a global organization and our computers are in several different places around the world. We also use service providers whose computers may also be in various countries. This means that your information might end up on one of those computers in another country, and that country may have a different level of data protection regulation than yours. By giving us information, you consent to this kind of transfer of your information. No matter what country your information is in, we comply with applicable law and will also abide by the commitments we make in this privacy policy.
If you are under 18, we don’t want your personal information, and you must not provide it to us. If you are a parent and believe that your child who is under 18 has provided us with personal information, please contact us to have your child’s information removed.

What are your rights in relation to the processing of your data?

You can exercise your right to information, access, rectification, erasure, restriction on processing, opposition and portability and opt out of decisions based solely on the automated processing of your data, where applicable.

How can you exercise them?

The general procedure consists of sending an e-mail to [email protected] with the Reference “Exercise of rights”. Proof of identity must be provided by enclosing a photocopy of your ID to make sure we are answering the data subject or his/her legal representative. In the latter case, proof of representation must also be provided.

If this message is being sent from the e-mail with which you registered, it is not necessary to send a copy of the ID card unless there is reasonable doubt about the applicant’s identity. In this case, you may be asked to send a copy of the ID card.

What if we change this privacy policy or any of our privacy notices?

We may need to change this policy and our notices. We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Policy, attending to our own criteria, or motivated by a doctrinal change of the Control Authority. The updates will be posted online. If the changes are substantive, we will announce the update through abaqoo ‘s usual channels for such announcements such as blog posts and forums. Your continued use of the product or service after the effective date of such changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes. To make your review more convenient, we will post an effective date at the top of the page.

Contact with abaqoo:

abaqoo AG
Höh-Rohnenweg 17
8832 Wilen bei Wollerau
Switzerland
[email protected]

Last updated: November 2021

Privacy policy specific to the monetization service

Purpose of processing

The sole purpose of the monetisation service (which requires prior registration as a user) is to voluntarily provide certain data to be used by companies in the chosen sectors to offer their products and services that may be of interest to you. In exchange, you benefit economically from the information that we market to our client companies in a transparent and controlled manner.

The products and services offered by the client companies that have received your data from us will be offered to you via ads in the abaqoo Browser.

There is a single monetisation mode consisting of providing data under “My Anonymous Data” section and interests under “My Ads Interests” to abaqoo which shares (in an anonymous way) so companies can provide specific products or services via ads in the Browser. User will receive a percentage of the generated revenue.

In keeping with the principle of transparency, you are hereby informed that in order to participate in the monetisation service you must register as a user on our Browser.

abaqoo guarantees that your data will not be used for any other purpose as part of this service.

Origin and type of data

The types of personal data we use in monetisation processing are limited to the ones provided by you:

  • Identifiers: e-mail and Paypal username
  • Ads interests related to your Interests under “My Ads Interests” section (location, date of birth, gender, level of education, number of children, description of your family status, income, home type, personal interests, industry, office type)
  • Data related to you under “My Anonymous Data” section (Business and Industry, Entertainment, Family and Relationships, Fitness and Wellness, Food and Drink, Hobbies and Activities,Shopping and Fashion, Sports and Outdoors, Technology)

Lawful basis for processing

The legal basis for processing your data is the express and unequivocal consent given when voluntarily requesting to participate in the monetisation service and your relationship with abaqoo as a registered user in relation to the following services: (which includes the monetisation service, among others).

Data retention

Personal data provided by registered users will be used as long as we receive no opposition. However, you can delete the data for the sectors that are no longer of interest to you, or remove them from the service entirely when you no longer wish to continue monetising your data.

Contact with abaqoo:

abaqoo AG
Höh-Rohnenweg 17
8832 Wilen bei Wollerau
Switzerland
[email protected]

Last updated: November 2021