We have made this policy as short and easy to understand as possible, so please take your time to read it so you can have all the information to decide whether you want to sign up and share your data with Softonic.
This policy applies to www.softonic.com, its subdomains and other websites and services where this Privacy Policy is referred or made accessible for you to read and accept.
The personal data to which we have access is the data that you will voluntarily provide upon sign up as required for the use of certain services.
You can easily sign up via the available social media sign up options or by filling out the necessary online forms where this option is available. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory. Lack to provide the mandatory data will preclude you from signing up.
Please refer to our Cookies Policy to know how we and third parties process data obtained by means of cookies and similar technologies.
A data controller is an entity that you provide data with and decides on the purpose of the data, provided your prior consent or another legal basis:
Corporate name: Softonic International, S.A.
Address: MediaTIC building, Calle Roc Boronat, 117, 6th floor, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
Phone number: +34 936 012 700
Email address: privacy@softonic.com
Data Protection Officer direct contact: dpo@softonic.com
Please do not hesitate to reach us by any of the means above for any question about data protection and privacy.
We'll keep your data as long as we don’t receive a deletion request from you and as long as permitted by Law. You can delete your account at any time via your user area.
The legal basis for the processing of your data is your consent.
For children below 14 years old, we require the authorization of parents or guardians for signing up. Please contact us via email to privacy@softonic.com if you want your children to subscribe and we'll provide you further instructions to do so.
Third-party service providers. Softonic has engaged with several trusted third parties-service providers (data processors) in order to provide the service. For instance, they provide us with services such as hosting, data management or direct marketing related services, so they need to access certain data on as needed strictly basis. Softonic requires all its providers to certify that they have adopted adequate organizational and security measures to comply with our data protection standards and require them to commit to adopting further legal safeguards. Where the relevant provider is located outside the Economic European Area (EEA), we require the adhesion to the US-EU Privacy Shield or the signature of EU standard clauses.
Below you'll find a list of providers located outside the EEA, the country and the existence or absence of an adequacy decision by the EU Commission (when the EU Commission has determined that a certain country offers sufficient guarantees for the protection of personal data and privacy) and the relevant safeguards adopted.
Google, Inc. U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. Google is adherent to the Privacy Shield.
Amazon.com Inc. U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. Amazon is adherent to the Privacy Shield.
Fastly, Inc. U.S. U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. Oracle is adherent to the Privacy Shield.
Oracle America Inc. U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. Oracle is adherent to the Privacy Shield.
Salesforce, Inc. U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. Salesforce is adherent to the Privacy Shield.
Onesignal, Inc. U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Processors)
Simon Data, Inc. U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Processors)
Sendgrid, Inc U.S. Adequacy decision in the framework of the EU-US Privacy Shield. EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Processors)
Key Discovery Consulting, Inc. Republic of the Philippines EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Processors)
Visit https://www.privacyshield.gov for more info about the Privacy Shield and to check that the above companies are adherent to.
Legal reasons: We may disclose personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or protect our rights.
Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other companies, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing privacy policies (unless, of course, you consent otherwise). Also, in the event that Softonic or substantially all of its assets are acquired, user information will, of course, be one of the transferred assets.
Please visit our Cookies Policy to know the data we and third parties process via the usage of cookies and other similar technologies.
Softonic has created a user area where you can have control over the data provided, including the ability to request your rights to access, rectify and delete, restrict the processing and to object certain processing (i.e unsubscribe from our newsletter or to withdraw your consent to share your social media interests). In the case where you don’t have access to your user area, you may send us an email to privacy@softonic.com to request your rights.
You can as well unsubscribe from receiving our newsletter at any time by clicking the relevant button at the bottom of any email we send you.
If you have subscribed to our web notification service you can opt-out at any time via your web browser following these steps .
Please note that the exercise of your right to erasure or to object to certain data processing will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before withdrawal.
We will process your data to create a profile that will include the data you provide, along with data related to your behaviour in the web site, how you react to our email campaigns and your social media interest (if you have chosen to share them with us) but will not be used for automatic individual decision-making purposes. This profile will be used to show you customized content and ads that will be more relevant to you. You can also opt-out from this type of processing at any time via your user area.
Visit the Spanish National Data Protection Authority website to learn more about your rights. Be informed that you have the right to lodge a complaint before the Spanish National Data Protection Authority especially if we have failed to comply with your request to exercise your rights.
We have adopted adequate technical and organizational measures to avoid alteration, loss or unauthorized access to your data: We select only trusted and certified providers that process your data and we take care that they have taken strict measures too. We and our providers also use encryption protocols to access or transfer your data and techniques to anonymize data to mitigate the risks in case of a data leak.
We will inform you sufficiently in advance if there are important changes and require your consent if any of those changes impact your privacy rights.
Last Version 28 January 2019. © Softonic International, S.A.
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