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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY AS IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.

1. INTRODUCTION

We, Hostings.info (hereinafter referred to as we, us, Hostings.Info) are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information you provide to us when using our Website https://hostings.info/ (hereinafter referred to as the Website). We always strive to respect any personal information you transmit to us or that we receive from others, and to keep it secure. This Privacy Policy is an integral part of our Terms of Use.

To fulfill our commitment to respect and protect your privacy, we will adhere to the following principles:

  • collect and process personal data only for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not process it in a manner incompatible with those purposes (purpose limitation);
  • lawfully, fairly, and transparently in relation to the data subject (lawfulness, fairness, and transparency);
  • ensure that Personal Data is adequate and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed (data minimization);
  • ensure that Personal Data is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date (accuracy);
  • ensure that Personal Data is kept in a form that permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Data is processed (storage limitation);
  • process personal data in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage, using appropriate technical or organizational measures (integrity and confidentiality).
  • process personal data of users who are in the EU or are EU citizens in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”).

2. PURPOSES OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy explains how we will process and protect your Personal Data, as well as what rights you have regarding your Personal Data. This Privacy Policy applies to the relationship between Hostings.info and the users of the Website and is an integral part of the Terms of Use.

By using the Website, you confirm that the terms of this Privacy Policy will apply to you and any information you provide to us.

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

In general, you can use the information on the Website that is publicly available without telling us who you are. In such a case, we do not require any registration. We collect your data only if you voluntarily provide us with this information, for example, to register your company's account, to provide a hosting review or feedback, to subscribe to a newsletter, or to contact us via the feedback form. We will use your Personal Data for personalized service delivery.

We may also use your Personal Data for our own statistical, analytical, and marketing purposes. We will contact you for direct marketing purposes only if you have given your consent or if otherwise permitted by law. You can withdraw your consent at any time. However, such withdrawal of consent is effective for the future. Data processing prior to the withdrawal of consent remains lawful.

Different types of information (data) are collected depending on the different services of the Website you use. There are essentially two types of data collection: direct and indirect. Direct data collection means you personally provide us with data. Indirect data collection occurs passively when you interact with the Website.

3.1. INDIRECT DATA COLLECTION

During your visit to the Website, we automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your computer and your visit:

  • IP address;
  • Device identifiers;
  • Web browser information;
  • Cookies and other tracking technologies.
  • Log data (e.g., access times, hardware and software information).

This information is necessary to detect and prevent unauthorized or fraudulent use or misuse of the Website, as well as to provide you with customizable settings and optimize the Website for your device or for statistical purposes.

3.2. COMPANY ACCOUNTS

We offer the ability to create a business account on behalf of a Company on our site, containing Personal Information. When creating a business account on behalf of your company on the site, we collect the following data: company name, your secure encrypted password, and your corporate email address. Additional information may be required depending on the specific service. We will use Personal Data to manage your account, provide our services, and optimize our Website and services. If you have created an account, we store your data as long as you use your account and thereafter in accordance with applicable laws.

3.3. REVIEWS AND USER CONTENT

We are an open platform for reviews, and we publish your review on our Website so that everyone can read about your experience with a particular hosting. Remember that depending on the username you choose, you may or may not be anonymous.

To simplify the login process, we provide you with the option to log in through social network plugins such as Facebook / LinkedIn if you want to leave your review on the Website.

When you use this option, we automatically collect selected information about you from your social network, which we may use to identify you on the Website, collect, analyze the attached content as personal and non-personal information available on social networks about you. The collection depends on what information you have provided in these social networks and your privacy settings for sharing such information in social networks.

Depending on your settings and choices, we will collect the following information from your social networks:

  • Name and/or username (visible to everyone);
  • Email address;
  • Profile picture (visible to everyone);

If you use a social network to log in, please review the privacy policies of the social networks:

Why do we collect your data?

We use publicly available information about you from plugins:

  • to make access to writing reviews easier and faster for you (you do not need to fill out additional forms);
  • to identify you;
  • to analyze the absence of publications prohibited by law and violations of our Terms of Use.

When you write a review about a company, we collect the information you posted in the review and publish it. This includes:

  • the company you are reviewing;
  • the content of your review;
  • your rating of the company (1-5 stars);
  • the date of your review;
  • your country;
  • the company you represent and your field of activity (optional).

YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO ALL PUBLICLY AVAILABLE PUBLICATIONS BECAUSE THIS MAY LEAD TO THE DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR WHICH WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE.

CONTENT ON HOSTINGS.INFO IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WE DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING IT.

WE CANNOT CONTROL, MONITOR, VERIFY THE VALIDITY OF REVIEWS POSTED ON HOSTINGS.INFO, AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CONTENT. YOU AGREE THAT HOSTINGS.INFO IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY THEM AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF SUCH CONTENT.

3.4. FEEDBACK FORM

If you voluntarily submit a "Feedback Form" to us, we collect data such as your email address, name, other Personal Data that is part of your message, as well as the content of your message so that we can respond to you. Please do not share any confidential personal documents or sensitive information in the feedback form regarding yourself or others.

3.5. NEWSLETTERS AND EMAILS

When you subscribe to receive our newsletters or similar emails, we collect your email address and newsletter preferences.

You can opt-out of receiving various offers personally via your email. We use the provided contact details and your preferences for personalized marketing, sending various offers or informational letters. These personalized marketing offers, depending on your preferences, may be personalized based on any other information you have provided to us (e.g., location, social media information, etc.), or that we have collected or generated from other sources described above.

Right to object

If you want to change your preferences for personal marketing, you can use this option at any time at your discretion by following the unsubscribe instructions in the received email.

If you want to set your newsletter preferences, you can choose one of the following categories:

  • newsletter and service updates by email - our newsletter, which includes new information about our service and other interesting news;
  • new blog articles from experts and useful information for you.

You can unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link from all Hostings.Info emails, writing to us via the feedback form or go and change your account settings.

We will process your request within a reasonable time after receiving it. Please note that you will continue to receive emails from Hostings.Info regarding requests you have not unsubscribed from. We may also send you certain messages regarding the terms of use of the Website, and you will not be able to opt-out of these messages (e.g., updates to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy).

3.6. FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will use the information you provide to us for:

  • providing you with our services, including displaying your reviews and giving you access to your account on the Website;
  • preventing unauthorized or fraudulent use or abuse of services on the Website;
  • improving the quality of our services, testing and implementing new features, and troubleshooting, tracking the effectiveness of our services;
  • identifying you as a registered user when logging into the site and revisiting the site;
  • verifying the legality of your reviews;
  • improving the site and our services;
  • inviting you to leave more reviews;
  • responding to your inquiries and providing appropriate customer service;
  • sending you our newsletter;
  • notifying you of any important information regarding our services;
  • complying with legal requirements and legal process, requests from public and governmental authorities, relevant standards, and our internal policies;
  • ensuring compliance with our terms and conditions;
  • protecting our rights, privacy, safety, or property and/or the rights of our partners, you, or others;
  • using available remedies or limiting any damages we receive;
  • notifying you of changes to our service;
  • ensuring that content from the Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device;
  • fulfilling our obligations related to the services you request from us;
  • administering our Website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistics, and surveys, traffic levels on Hostings.info, and other usage data that help us provide content tailored to your interests and improve Hostings.info and related services.
  • for any other purposes we notify you of when collecting this information with your consent, or for which we have legitimate interests, such as direct marketing, individual or market research, or fraud protection;
  • for marketing our services and providing you with materials about offers and services that may be of interest to you, including new content or services, tailoring content, advertising, and offers, and notifying you of offers and services for other purposes disclosed at the time you provide the information, or otherwise with your consent.

4. ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

4.1. When processing your Personal Data in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases, depending on the circumstances:

4.1.1. Consent: we may process your Personal Data if we have obtained your prior, explicit consent to the processing (this legal basis is used only for processing that is entirely voluntary - it is not used for processing that is necessary or obligatory in any case);

4.1.2. Necessity to perform a contract: we may process your Personal Data if the processing is necessary in connection with any contract you may enter into with us;

4.1.3. Compliance with applicable law: we may process your Personal Data where required by applicable law (e.g., to comply with disclosure orders under laws and regulations issued by government authorities);

4.1.4. Vital interests: we may process your Personal Data when processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of any subject;

4.1.5. Legitimate interests: we may process your Personal Data if we have a legitimate interest in conducting processing for the management, operation, or promotion of our business, and this legitimate interest does not override your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms.

Some of these grounds for processing your Personal Data overlap, so there may be several reasons justifying our processing of your Personal Data.

In these limited circumstances, where you have given us your consent to process your Personal Data, for example, when subscribing to our newsletters, you may withdraw your consent at any time. However, please note that we may have the right to continue processing your information if it can be justified by one of the aforementioned legal bases.

5. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA

5.1 DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA ON THE WEBSITE

We are an open platform and share your reviews on our site so that others can read about your experience with a particular company. When you write a review, we disclose to Website users your review, username, your location (country), the date of the review, your profile photo, and other information you have chosen to connect to your profile. Remember that if you choose to use your name as your username, it may reveal your identity in whole or in part - if you do not use a pseudonym.

We recommend that you exercise caution in determining what information will be available for display on the Website and consider that depending on the amount of information provided, you may or may not be anonymous.

Geolocation

When you write a review on the site, we use your computer's IP address to approximate the nearest country of your location. This information becomes publicly available to other users of the Website.

6. LINKS TO WEBSITES

Hostings.info contains links to other sites (e.g., links to registered companies and links to web hosting).

Our inclusion of such links does not imply that we endorse these sites. We do not control the content of these third-party sites and do not assume responsibility for the third party, its policies, or practices.

We recommend that you review the privacy policies of third-party websites, as their procedures for collecting, maintaining, and processing personal data will differ from ours.

7. RETENTION PERIODS FOR YOUR PERSONAL DATA

In general, we retain the personal information you provide, including your reviews, as long as you have an account or when it is necessary to provide you with our services and fulfill our legal obligations. If your personal information is no longer required, we will ensure its secure deletion.

If you want us to stop using your personal information, you must request the deletion of your personal information. We will delete this information at your request and retain a log with only the following information: your name, email address. We will keep the log for 3 years. All other information will be deleted.

Over time, we may minimize your Personal Data that we use and anonymize your data so that it can no longer be associated with you. In this case, we will be able to use this information for statistical or other purposes without prior notice, as such information ceases to be your Personal Data.

We may retain information in a personalized form for as long as necessary if retention is reasonably necessary:

  • to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal obligations;
  • to provide Hostings.info to the user;
  • to resolve disputes between Hostings.info users during the statute of limitations. In particular, if the law of any country in which the user is a citizen contains provisions regarding limitation periods during which you have the right to file a claim or lawsuit against us or other users, or we have the right to file a claim or claim against you, and we need evidence of the existence of legal relations between us, we may process your Personal Data during this period;
  • to detect and prevent unauthorized or fraudulent use of Hostings.info.

8. WHERE WE COLLECT AND HOW WE ENSURE THE SECURITY OF YOUR DATA

All personal information we collect about you is stored in cloud storage with limited access to Hostings.info. Information Hostings.info is located on Hostings.info servers.

In particular, the Data Controller is based on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission to ensure a high level of security for your personal information.

Hostings.Info has technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect against the loss and misuse of information under our control. While we strive to implement reasonable and appropriate precautions to protect your information from foreseeable risks, no computer system or information can be completely secure from any possible risk, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not be able to circumvent these safeguards or access and/or use your personal information for improper purposes.

Since the Internet is an open system, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. While we will take reasonable measures to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us over the Internet. Any such transmission is at your own risk, and you are responsible for ensuring that any personal information you send to us is sent in a secure manner.

9. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

For the purposes of the Privacy Policy, we are the Data Controller of your personal information.

You have the right to know the sources of collection, the location of your personal data, and the purposes of their processing.

If you have an account on the Website, you can log into your account and see what information we have about you.

If you do not have an account, you can contact us via the feedback form and find out what Personal Data we hold about you.

You can find out the list of data that we must provide you in Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR. However, when contacting us, you must inform us of your specific requirements so that we can consider your request and respond to it in accordance with applicable law.

We will process your request as soon as possible, but at the same time, we ask you to remember that preparing a complete and legally compliant response regarding Personal Data may take up to a month, in accordance with the complex process of this preparation.

Please note that if we cannot verify your identity through email exchange, or in case of reasonable doubts about your identity, we may request an identity document from you. Only in this way can we avoid disclosing your Personal Data to a person who may impersonate you.

  • Right to information. You have the right to receive clear, simple, and understandable information about how we use your Personal Data and your rights.
  • Right of access. This right allows you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we process and verify that we process it in accordance with applicable law.
  • Right to amend and delete Personal Data. If any variable from the Personal Data we have about you as a data controller is incorrect, or misleading, or if your Personal Data changes - you can correct most of the information yourself through your account. We encourage you to make any correction(s) yourself. Otherwise, you can send us a request for help with correcting your information through the feedback form.

In cases provided for in Article 17 of the GDPR, we will destroy your Personal Data that we process, except for those Personal Data that we are required to retain in accordance with legal requirements.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPHS 1 AND 2. ART. 17 GDPR DOES NOT APPLY TO THE EXTENT THAT DATA PROCESSING IS NECESSARY FOR THE EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION.

  • Right to restrict processing. This right allows you to ask us to suspend the processing of your Personal Data, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing.
  • Right to withdraw consent to data processing. If you withdraw your consent, we will not be able to provide you with access to some features of Hostings.info. We will notify you of this in case and at the time of withdrawal of your consent.
  • Right to file a complaint. You have the right to contact your national data protection authorities to challenge our data protection and privacy practices.
  • Right to disable cookies. If you want to restrict or block all Hostings.Info cookies, use the tool available on Hostings.info, or refer to your browser's help to learn how to manage browser settings.

10. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age (in the USA - 13 years), and the Site does not collect Personal Information from children under 16 years of age.

We understand the special need to protect children's privacy online and do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children.

If you become aware that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with their Personal Data, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

11. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will notify you by providing a revised version on the Site. You should regularly check the Privacy Policy as the revised version will be binding on you. Any such changes will take effect after the updated Privacy Policy is published. You understand and agree that your continued access to Hostings.Info after any published changes to the Privacy Policy implies your acceptance of these changes.

12. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions regarding the Privacy Policy, or if you have any questions, feedback, complaints, or suggestions regarding the protection and processing of your Personal Data, you can contact us via the feedback form.