Web Privacy Policy

Kaspersky Privacy Policy for Websites and Webservices

Last updated: 05/26/2023.

DATA CONTROLLER INFORMATION

This privacy policy applies to AO Kaspersky Lab, located at bldg. 3, 39A, Leningradskoe Shosse, Moscow, 125212, Russian Federation or the respective affiliate(s), which is/are directly stated in a consent which refers to the present Privacy Policy ("Kaspersky", "Company" or "we"). It does not apply to Kaspersky websites that do not display or link to this Privacy Policy or that have their own Privacy Policy. It also does not apply to Kaspersky's services and products unless they are linking to this Privacy Policy.

In this Privacy Policy we inform you about the processing and the privacy of your personal data when using our websites or webservices. As a security expert company, data privacy and data security are very important to us. Therefore, we are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy and to handling your personal data confidentially.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the processing of your personal data and Kaspersky's privacy practices or if you would like us to update information or preferences you provided to us, please contact our data protection officer at https://support.kaspersky.com/general/privacy or directly by post or email: Kaspersky Labs GmbH, DPO AO Kaspersky Labs, Despag-Strasse 3, 85055 Ingolstadt, Germany, dpo@kaspersky.com.

You can also contact Kaspersky’s EU/Swiss/UK representative: Kaspersky Labs GmbH, Despag-Strasse 3, 85055 Ingolstadt, Germany.

If you are a data subject located in mainland China, you can contact Kaspersky China’s Data Protection Officer: dpo@kaspersky.com.

GENERAL INFORMATION

For the process of retrieving your requested information from our websites or webservices, our servers store certain data needed for service delivery and/or for statistical or security purposes in anonymized or pseudonymized form (pseudonymized form means data is collected under a pseudonym, i.e. a unique random alphanumeric string generated internally in order to identify each data record). In this context, general information is processed, such as your domain name or browser type. These data do not enable us to draw conclusions regarding your identity. These anonymized or pseudonymized data are deleted promptly after their statistical evaluation.

We do not process any "Special Categories of Personal Data" about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying you), unless otherwise required by the local applicable laws on the definition and processing of "Special Categories of Personal Data".

Notice for California Consumers. If you are looking for CCPA-specific information, check out our CCPA Privacy Notice as well, which is incorporated into this Privacy Policy.

LOCAL REQUIREMENTS

To extent required by the applicable local law, the processing of your personal data in certain scenarios must comply with the applicable local law requirements, including but not limited to separate consent and data protection impact assessment, retention period, legal basis and other local applicable requirements.

AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING

We do not use automated decision making at our Websites and Services.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE PROCESS AND HOW DO WE USE IT

Visit to our websites or webservices

Description of Service

Display of service

For providing a website or our webservices, we collect and process personal data that your internet browser automatically transmits to us, which is date and time of the retrieval of one of our websites or webservices, your browser type and browser settings and your IP address.

Our legal basis for processing your personal data is safeguarding our legitimate interests which lie in providing an access to our websites or webservices and ensuring the technical functionality of the website or webservices.

Logfiles

During your use of our websites or webservices we may process your IP address, network provider, browser type, visited domain names, and other information about your client environment (such as model of your device, operating system, screen resolution, etc.).

Purpose of this processing is the improvement of security and availability of our websites or webservices.

Legal basis for processing your personal data is safeguarding our legitimate interests which lie in the aforementioned purposes.

Web Analysis

We may also process information about which Kaspersky websites and webservices you use and how you use them, the web page you were visiting immediately prior to visiting our website or webservices, pages of our website or webservices that you visited, the time spent on those pages or services, information you searched for on our website or webservices, access times and dates, and other statistics.

Purpose of this processing is the production of traffic statistics for the Kaspersky's websites or webservices.

Legal basis for processing data is your consent. You can withdraw your consent anytime with effect for the future by clicking the link you will find at the bottom of each page of websites.

Cookies

Cookie files are files or fragments of information that may be stored on your computer or other Internet-compatible end user devices (for example, smartphones and tablets) when you visit our websites or use our webservices. This information frequently consists of alphanumeric strings that uniquely identify your computer or end user device, but they may also contain other information.

On our websites or webservices we use different types of "cookies" (small text files that are placed on your device):

A list of the cookies we use, descriptions of the purposes of the cookies and further information on the respective cookies are given in the cookie center on the specific websites of our company or in the relevant consents or agreements.

How long do we keep your personal data

The data we process for the delivering of the service is deleted directly after delivery by the web server.

Logfiles are deleted no later than 1 year after creation.

Data which we process for the purpose of web analysis is deleted 1 year after creation.

The deletion period of the cookies is given in the cookie center on the specific websites of our company or in the relevant consents or agreements.

My Kaspersky, Kaspersky Account, Kaspersky Small Office Security Management Console, and Anti-Theft Web Management (hereinafter referred to as the "Service")

Description of Service

Account registration. In order to use the Service and have access to all of its functions, you will need to create a personal account, which requires you to provide us with your email address (which will be your user name) and a password. We will only process and use this data in order to provide you the Service, unless it is allowed by applicable law or you expressly consent to a processing or use for other purposes (for example to receive useful news on Kaspersky products and services via email). You may also need to provide us your mobile phone number for the purpose of additional protection of your account from unauthorized access. We will only use your mobile phone number to send you authorization security codes.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Account Settings and purchases. You may review, update or correct your account data, password, and preferences or even delete your account at any time using the "Account Settings" function. Additionally, you will be able to review your purchase history from our web store provider. In Account Settings, you are also able to link a bank card for easy purchases of additional Kaspersky products and services. If you activate this option, our web store provider will attach your bank card data with your account and keep it for future orders. Kaspersky will establish a special link to your web store provider account and will place orders on your behalf whenever they are performed by you. Our web store provider also gives us the information about expiration date of your bank card and the last 4 symbols of your bank card number. However, we will have no access to other data of your credit card stored by our web store provider. The linkage to your account will only be established technically by an internal User ID and password combination. These credentials will not grant us access to your bank card or other personal data stored by our web store provider. The internal User ID is used for triggering orders from you made through the web store.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Devices. After registration, you will be able to manage all of your devices you secure using Kaspersky products. You can, for example, secure lost or stolen devices, easily check the status of Kaspersky products on each device or fix existing problems. To do that, you need to connect these devices using the "Devices" function. In that case, a link between your account and the devices you connect will necessarily be established. This will, of course, only be used for the purpose of providing you with the "Devices" function, unless it is allowed by applicable law or you expressly opt in to use it for other purposes.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Licenses. You can manage all of your Kaspersky product licenses using the "Licenses" function by adding your valid activation code(s) for each product and connect it to the device it is used on. You can also choose to be reminded of expiring licenses automatically or use the auto-renewal function. Reminders will only be sent to you by email if you expressly requested it.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Support. If you request support from our Customer Service using support services, we will ask you for information needed to enable us to provide you with such support, such as your registration/ license number, the last 4 symbols of your bank card number used for purchasing the license, email address, and information about the product your problem relates to, your computer hardware, software and the nature of the problem you are experiencing. Furthermore, it may be helpful or even necessary for this purpose to send us files you are experiencing problems with via the "Upload" function. These may also contain personal data, such as user specific or otherwise personally identifiable file names, meta data or contents. It is, of course, always your choice whether you want to upload files or not. In case you do, please refer to our Regulation on Data Provisioning linked to the upload service and accept it at first.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

Data is deleted no later than 1 (one) calendar month after the account is deleted.

Kaspersky Business Hub

Description of Service

Account registration. If you want to use Kaspersky Business Hub and have access to the products available in Kaspersky Business Hub, you need to create a personal account. To do this, you need to enter your email address (which will be used as your username) and a password. We will only process and use this data to provide you with Kaspersky Business Hub functionality and the products used in Kaspersky Business Hub. This data will only be processed and used for other purposes if you give your explicit consent (for example, to receive the latest news about Kaspersky products and services by email, or to be contacted about your Kaspersky product reviews). You can also provide your mobile phone number to further protect your account from unauthorized access, as well as a security question to regain access to your account if you forget your password. We will only use your mobile phone number to send security codes during your authorization.

You can view, update, and edit your account information or delete your account at any time by using the "Manage account" function.

Purpose and lawful basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Licenses. You can manage licenses for Kaspersky products that are available to you on Kaspersky Business Hub by using the "Licenses" function. To do this, you must add valid activation codes for each product that you use. We can send you an automatic license expiration reminder by email.

Access to managing certain licenses and using specific instances of our products depends on your access rights that are configured in the products.

We use the country that you specify when you register your account to provide the online license purchasing feature. Online sales of licenses are carried out by the online shop service provider.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Support. When you contact Customer Service by using our support services, we will ask for the necessary information to provide you with support (for example, your license number, email address, information about the product that caused the problem, information about computer hardware and software, and a description of the problem). These files may also contain personal data, such as user or identifiable file names, metadata, or file content. You may send these files at your sole discretion.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud

Description of Service

Account registration. If you want to use Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud and have access to all of its features, you need to create a personal account on Kaspersky Business Hub. We process and use the email address that you provided during registration on Kaspersky Business Hub to provide you with Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud functionality. This personal data can only be processed and used for other purposes if it is allowed by applicable law or you give your explicit consent.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract with to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Licenses. You can manage licenses for Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud using the "Licenses" function. To do this, you must add valid activation codes for the licenses. On your request we can send you an automatic license expiration reminder by email.

Access to managing specific licenses depends on your access rights, and on the access rights of other users of Kaspersky Business Hub. These access rights can be configured in the specific workspaces of Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud. For more information, please refer to our online documentation.

Purpose and legal for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Devices. After creating a Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud workspace, you can manage the devices that are connected to your workspace and that are protected by Kaspersky products. Before you start managing your devices with Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud, you should take all necessary measures to comply with the relevant legislation concerning your use of Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud services. You should also change the Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud settings to reflect your usage. For more information, please refer to our online documentation. To ensure efficiency, devices managed in Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud transmit data to the administration servers located in the Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud infrastructure. The list of data collected from the managed devices is provided in the online documentation article "About data provision".

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Support. When you contact Customer Service by using our support services, we will ask for the necessary information to provide you with support (for example, your license number, email address, information about the product that caused the problem, information about computer hardware and software, and a description of the problem). These files may also contain personal data, such as user or identifiable file names, metadata, and contents. You may send these files at your sole discretion.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

Data about your workspaces is deleted by using the "Managing Workspaces" function in Kaspersky Business Hub, or deleted automatically after your Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud license expires. Detailed information on the storage period for the data about workspaces can be found in the online documentation article "About data provision".

Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console

Description of Service

Account registration. If you want to use Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console and have access to all of its features, you need to create a personal account on Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console. To do this, enter your email address and password. We will only process and use this data to provide you with the Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console functionality. This data can only be processed and used for other purposes if it is allowed by applicable law or you give your explicit consent. You can also provide your mobile phone number to further protect your account from unauthorized access, as well as a security question to regain access to your account if you forget your password. We will only use your mobile phone number to send security codes during your authorization.

You can view, update, and edit your account information or delete your account at any time by using the "Manage account" function.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Licenses. You can manage licenses for Kaspersky products that are available to you on Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console by using the "Licenses" function. To do this, you must add valid activation codes for each product that you use. You can enable an automatic expiration reminder for the licenses that have been activated in Kaspersky products. Reminders will only be sent to you by email if you expressively requested it. Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Devices. After creating a Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console workspace, you can manage devices that are connected to your workspace, and that are protected by Kaspersky products. Before you start managing your devices with Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console, you should take all necessary measures to comply with the relevant legislation concerning your use of Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console services. You should also change the Kaspersky Security Center Cloud Console settings to reflect your usage. For more information, please refer to our online documentation. To ensure efficiency, devices managed in Kaspersky Security Center Cloud transmit data to the administration servers located in the Kaspersky Security Center Cloud infrastructure. The list of data collected from the managed devices is provided in the online documentation article "About data provision".

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Purpose and legal for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

Your personal account information will be deleted no later than 1 (one) calendar month after the account is deleted. Backups of data are stored for no more than 1 (one) month from the moment when they are created. Data about your workspaces is automatically deleted after your Kaspersky Security Center Cloud license expires or after you request its removal via Customer Service. After your license expires, you may be granted the right to continue using the Product, although the Product functionality may be limited. Detailed information on the storage period for the workspace data can be found in the online documentation article "About data provision".

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365

Description of Service

Account registration. In order to use Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 and have access to all of its functions, you will need to create a personal account, which requires you to provide us with your email address, company name, and password. You can use a Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud account. We will only process and use this data in order to provide you with the Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 service, unless it is permitted by applicable law or you expressly opt in to processing or use for other purposes (for example, to receive useful news on Kaspersky products and services via email). The email address specified during registration will be used for notifications related to provision of the Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 service, including to inform you when the service is unavailable, when the trial period expires, or when updates have been released.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Account settings. You may review, update or correct your account data, password and preferences or even delete your account any time using "Account Settings" function.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Configuring the service. The Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 service is integrated directly with Office 365, which requires access to Exchange Online or OneDrive. To configure your connection to Exchange Online or OneDrive, you will be redirected to the Microsoft Online website and prompted to grant permission for the Kaspersky Security for Office 365 application through the OAuth 2.0 flow. The Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 service also requires a Service Account to access Exchange Online quarantine. This Service Account can be configured automatically or manually. If you choose automatic configuration, the service asks you for Global Admin credentials. The Service does not save this data in any form, but instead uses it only for the initial configuration and creation of a Service Account. If you choose manual configuration, Global Admin credentials are not required, and the Service Account is created manually by the administrator.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Service operation. During operation, the Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 service receives messages and other objects (meetings, tasks, etc.) as well as OneDrive files to be scanned, and they are processed according to the protection settings. Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 does not save messages, OneDrive files, or objects requiring scanning in its infrastructure. The list of data that may be accessed by the Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 service as well as the data that is collected during operation of the service is presented in the documentation section "About data provision".

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Support. If you request support from our Customer Service using our Customer Service services, we will ask you for the information that we need in order to help you, such as your registration/license number, the last 4 characters of your bank card number used for purchasing the license, email address, data of the product and service related to your problem, information about your computer hardware and software, and the nature of the problem you are experiencing. Furthermore, it may be helpful or even necessary for this purpose to send us files you are experiencing problems with via Company Account "upload" function. These may also contain personal data, such as user specific or otherwise personally identifiable file names, meta data or contents. It is of course always your choice whether you want to upload files or not.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

Data will be deleted after 6 months after your license expiration date.

Kaspersky CompanyAccount

Description of Service

Account registration. To use Kaspersky CompanyAccount and access all of its features, you must create:

personal account;
an account for your company, unless your coworkers have done this previously.

This will require that you provide your corporate email address (which will be your username), password, first and last name, company name and country, and your company's license to use Kaspersky applications. We will process and use this data solely for the purpose of providing you with Kaspersky CompanyAccount services and Customer Service, unless you explicitly choose to have it processed and used for other purposes. After registration your personal account will be linked to your company's account. If your company's account was previously created, then your registration information (first and last name and corporate email address) will be sent to the Kaspersky CompanyAccount Administrator from your company. The company employee who first registers the company and a personal account is typically designated as the Administrator.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Account settings. You can at any time view, update, correct your account information and password, or delete your account on the "My account" tab.

Your company's Kaspersky CompanyAccount Administrator will also be able to change your account settings and reset your password. If you are your company's Kaspersky CompanyAccount Administrator, then you have the ability to edit personal accounts for all of your colleagues and block the entire company's account (employees' personal accounts will remain in the system).

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Licenses. You can add and view your company's licenses to Kaspersky products on the "Licenses" tab of your Kaspersky CompanyAccount (activation codes or key files for each product). The license provided during registration will be added automatically to your company's Kaspersky CompanyAccount. Key files are not physically stored on Kaspersky CompanyAccount. The system only stores a record about your company's license. Every company employee with a personal account linked to your company's Kaspersky CompanyAccount has access to the list of licenses. Your Kaspersky CompanyAccount Administrator can remove your company's licenses by deleting them from the list.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Contracts. If your company purchases additional Customer Service services, then after the purchase has been recorded you will be able to view the list of purchases services on the "Agreements" tab. The list of contracts will be available to those company employees who were designated as authorized to use the paid service at the time of purchase. These people will automatically receive notifications about the expiration of the contract.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Customer Service requests. If you contact Customer Service for support through Kaspersky CompanyAccount, we may ask you to submit information we may require for providing assistance to you. For example, this may include information about the product associated with your request, computer hardware, your company's network, software, and the nature of the problem you've encountered. Moreover, it may be helpful or even necessary for you to send us the files you are having trouble with or files that define the configuration of your computer or network. You can do this by using the "Attach files" option in the request form. These files may contain user-specific or otherwise personally-identifiable file names, metadata, or content. It is always your choice whether to upload these files. If you would like to upload files, please first view and accept our Regulation on data provisioning on the file upload page. In order to choose the correct Customer Service department for your request, we will use information about your company's licenses, country, and possibly the interface language selected in your Kaspersky CompanyAccount. Your colleagues may have access to your requests if your Kaspersky CompanyAccount Administrator manually changes the corresponding settings (the Administrator can view requests automatically).

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

You can delete your account at any time in the Account settings or by submitting a request to our Customer Service. Once your account has been deleted, your personal data will be held in Kaspersky's database until the retention period has expired, but you will no longer be able to access the Kaspersky CompanyAccount website using the deleted account.

Kaspersky Partner Portal

Description of Service

We may request personal data when you place an order, register a product, request a service, answer a survey, enter a contest, and when you correspond with us or engage in other activities on our website.

You make all decisions regarding whether or not to proceed with any activity that requests personal data. However, please note that if you do not wish to provide the requested data, you may not be able to complete the transaction.

We use personal data for the following purposes:

to provide you with information about virus alerts, product upgrades, new products, services, newsletters, informative emails, and research on future product ideas or improvements;
to assist us in creating content that is relevant to you;
to provide you with special Kaspersky-specific offers that may be of interest to you;
to assist us in creating better products and services to meet your needs;
to help you quickly find software, services or product information important to you.

Our legal basis for processing your personal data is safeguarding our legitimate interests which lie in the pursuit of the aforementioned purposes.

Furthermore, we process your personal data for the purpose to allow you to purchase and download products, obtain access to services, or otherwise engage in activities you select.

In these cases our legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

Personal data stored all the time you use the service and will be deleted after your first request.

GSI Parser

Description of Service

The Service allows you to check and fix PC compatibility issues between Kaspersky products and other software. Therefore, you can provide us with the report file for analysis by uploading it to the Website. Data are transmitted to Kaspersky via secure connections. The data provided will be protected in accordance with the requirements imposed by law and the requirements set out in the "Kaspersky Privacy Policy for Websites and Webservices".

You must create an account in order to use the service. To create your account, enter your email address and set a password.

You can change your email address or password or permanently remove the account in the Manage Your Account section.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

How long do we keep your personal data

The uploaded object will be stored on Kaspersky's systems for no longer than 90 days, after which it will be deleted and cannot be restored.

Other websites and forms

Description of Service

Premium Content. In order to access various content elements, such as Whitepapers, Videos, register for events or reach dedicated marketing material, we will ask for your first name, last name, email and phone number as mandatory personal data to provide you with this premium content.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Free trials. If you want to test our products, we will also ask for your first name, last name, phone number and email address. This data will be used for sending out the activation code and to remind you of the end of the trial period. Up to 14 days after the end of the trial period you may receive a final reminder and an offer to purchase a full license.

Purpose and legal basis for processing your personal data is the performance of a contract to which you are a party you or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

Newsletters, Free Product Updates and Special Offers. If you have signed up for it and provided us your email address and, in some cases, your name and last name we will use these data for the purpose to provide you with additional information on products and services free product updates and special offers which might be of interest to you.

Legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent. You can withdraw your consent anytime with effect for the future by clicking the unsubscribe link you will find in every email or contacting us by email.

Contact Forms. If you want to contact us by using our contact and support forms, you will be asked to provide your contact information (entry fields marked "*"), which we will exclusively process or use as far as necessary for the purpose to get in contact with you and provide you with the information you desire. You are free to provide additional information (through the fields not marked "*"), which we will of course process in line with all applicable data protection requirements as well. This data will be forwarded to the Kaspersky regional teams responsible for your location. The Kaspersky regional teams will use the data in order to get in contact with you.

Our legal basis for processing your personal data is safeguarding our legitimate interests which lie in the pursuit of the aforementioned purposes.

Annual Customer Satisfaction Surveys for Customer Service users. Kaspersky holds per-incident surveys and an annual survey for Customer Service users with the purpose of improving the quality of service. In order to conduct the Annual Customer Satisfaction Surveys we receive the following data:

Your email address, which will allow us to identify you as a user in our database and link your opinion within the survey with your contacts and history of requests sent to our Customer Service Team.

The rate you gave to our Customer Service Team and recommendations that will be used for improving the quality of services provided by Kaspersky Customer Service.

Our legal basis for processing your personal data is safeguarding our legitimate interests which lie in the improvement of our services.

How long do we keep your personal data

We delete your personal data if it is no longer required for the purposes we are pursuing, the storage period specified in the consent has expired, or you have withdrawn the consent and there is no other legal basis. If the latter applies, we delete the data after the other legal basis no longer applies.

You can configure your browser settings in a way that cookies are blocked or your system informs you whenever a website wants to set a cookie. However, please be aware that the blocking of cookies may have the effect that you will not be able to use all our website functions any more.

RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL DATA

Our websites and webservices are principally designed in a way that limits the processing of personal data to a minimum extent necessary for achieving the processing purposes. Within Kaspersky, only those persons have access to your personal data, who absolutely need such access to fulfil their functions or tasks.

We will only share your personal data with external recipients if there is a legal justification for doing so or you have consented to it. External recipients can be:

Processors: Service providers which we use for the provision of certain services e.g. vendors. As far as such external service providers need to have access to personal data, we ensure that any such access is limited to the extent necessary for the provision of the respective service. Furthermore, such external service providers of course have to submit themselves to comply with all applicable data protection regulations.
Public bodies: Authorities and state institutions, such as public prosecutors’ offices, courts or tax authorities, to which we may have to transmit personal data in individual cases.
Private bodies: Private bodies to which we transfer your personal data on the basis of a legal provision or your consent.

WHERE WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA / THIRD COUNTRY TRANSFERS

The personal data provided by users to Kaspersky can be processed in countries outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) and can include the following: United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, Singapore, Russia, Japan, USA, Mexico, China, Azerbaijan.

Kaspersky has taken appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in accordance with security and privacy best practices, including, utilizing the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal data between its group companies, which requires all group companies to protect personal data being processed from the European Economic Area to an equivalent standard to that required under European Union data protection law. Where we share your personal data with a third party service provider outside of the European Economic Area and Switzerland, we ensure prior to the transfer that, outside of exceptional cases permitted by statutory law, the recipient either possesses an appropriate level of data protection or appropriate safeguards exist. You can obtain a copy of the appropriate safeguards by contacting us at click here.

According to our general business practice, the data received from users in the EU is processed on servers located in the EU and Russia.

To the extent required by the local applicable laws, we will choose a cross-border data transfer mechanism in line with the applicable requirements of the local applicable laws and satisfy the conditions and complete the relevant procedures or adopt the protection measures required for the cross-border data transfer.

YOUR DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS AND HOW TO EXERCISE THEM

Also, we inform that you have certain rights regarding your personal data we process:

Right to be informed. You have the right to be provided with clear, transparent and easily understandable information about how we use your personal data, and your rights.
Right of access. You have the right to request confirmation as to whether or not we are processing your personal data; if this is the case, you have a right of access to such processing
Right to rectification. You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data that we process about you. Furthermore, you may demand that incomplete data will be completed.
Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten). In certain cases you are entitled to obtain from us the erasure of your personal data.
Right to restriction of processing. In certain cases you are entitled to obtain from us restriction of the processing your personal data, for example if you contest the accuracy of the personal data or the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead.
Right to data portability. If you have made the data available to us based on a contract or consent, you are entitled to request the transfer of your personal data. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.

Right to object

Right to object on a case-by-case basis You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) f) GDPR); including profiling based on these provisions. We will then no longer process such personal data for those purposes, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment of, exercise of, or defence against any legal claims.

Objection to data processing for the purpose of direct marketing

To the extent we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for these purposes. If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

Right to withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data. Your withdrawal of consent shall not affect the validity of any activity processing of your personal data already carried out before the withdrawal of your consent.
Right to complain. If you believe that the processing of the personal data concerning you is illegal, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your habitual residence, your workplace, or at the location of the alleged breach.

To the extent otherwise required by the local applicable laws, the local legal requirements will apply.

If you wish to exercise these rights, you may at any time directly contact us.