Privacy and Cookie Policy

When processing personal data, Scamwave works conform to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
At Scamwave, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy and Cookie Policy (“Privacy Policy”) govern your access to and use of this Website, Scamwave.Site (the “Website”), and associated content, software, and mobile applications (collectively, the “Service”). This Privacy Policy also includes our Terms of Use which is located at https://Scamwave.Site/terms.

In this privacy statement, we will explain what kind of personal data we collect and for which purposes within our website Scamwave. We recommend that you read it carefully.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. By using our Website or our Services, you are agreeing to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

What Information Do We Collect?

Scamwave (“Scamwave ”, “we” or “us”) collects the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail; aggregate information concerning what pages users access or visit; information volunteered by the user (such as survey information and/or site registrations); financial information provided by the user for user syncing and information purposes only; and information related to your use of the Website and/or the mobile application, including IP address, geographic location, and date and time of your request.

Certain features of our service require you to register beforehand. You will have to provide some information about yourself and choose a username and password for the account that we will set up for you.
For this purpose, we gather your name and address details, email address, profile picture, city, country and language. We need this data to fulfil our obligations under the agreement with you. We store this information until you close your account.
We will retain this data so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit our website, and in order to contact you in connection with the execution of the agreement, invoicing and payment, and to provide an overview of the products and services you have purchased from us.

How Do We Use the Information?

To fulfill a contract or take steps linked to a contract such as processing your registration on our Website or sending you information about changes to our terms or policies;
Where it is necessary for purposes which are in Scamwave’s or third parties’ legitimate interests such as to provide the information or content you have requested; to contact you about our programs, products, features or services; for internal business purposes such as identification and authentication or customer service, portfolio tracking and user preference syncing between devices; to ensure the security of our Website, by trying to prevent unauthorized or malicious activities; to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and other policies; to help other organizations (such as copyright owners) to enforce their rights; and to tailor content, advertisements, and offers for you or for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection.
If you do not wish to receive marketing information about our programs, products, features or services, you may send an email to us at https://scamwave.com/contact.

Where you give us consent, such as where you ask us to send marketing information to you via a medium where we need your consent, including alerts via mobile push notifications; where you give us consent to place cookies and to use similar technologies; and on other occasions where we ask you for consent, for a purpose which we explain at that time.
Where we are legally required to do so. We may also provide access to your personally identifiable information when legally required to do so, to cooperate with police investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Website, to limit our legal liability and protect our rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors of the Website or the public. In those instances, the information is provided only for that purpose.

You may contact us via email, Social Media or our contact form. All the personal data which is included in your correspondence with us will be used to provide you with a fitting response or to comply with your request. We store this data for as long as needed for the purposes for which you have contacted us.
Other than the advertisements on the website, we can inform you about new products or services by e-mail if you have given us consent to do so.
You can object at all times against this promotional communication.

How Do We Share Your Information?

Except for the parties necessary to deliver the above-mentioned services, we do not under any circumstance provide your personal data to other companies or organizations, unless we are required to do so by law (for example, when the police demands access to personal data in case of a suspected crime).
Our website features social media buttons. These buttons are used by the providers of these services to collect your personal data. For the privacy policies of these providers, see the table below under ‘Cookies’.

We do not share or sell your personal data to other organizations for commercial purposes, except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission.
It is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law.

Cookies

Our website makes use of cookies. Cookies are small files in which we can store information so that you do not have to fill in that information again. We can also use them to see whether you are visiting us again.
The first time you visit our website, we will show you a notification explaining our cookies and ask for your permission for the use of these cookies.
You can disable the use of cookies through your browser setting, but some parts of our website may not work properly as a result of that.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Our Ad Partners may also from time to time use web beacons (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs). These web beacons are provided by our Ad Partners and allow Ad Partners to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, and the information in cookies set by the Ad Partners. Web beacons enable our Ad Partners to recognize a unique cookie on your web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our Website.
With both cookies and web beacon technology, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, geographic location, telephone number, or e-mail address.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics data collection with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
You may also wish to refer to this website for additional information about disabling cookies from your browser: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Security

We take security measures to reduce misuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. We take responsibility in the security of your personal data. We renew our security measures to ensure the safe storage of personal data and keep track of what might go wrong.
However, we cannot guarantee that hackers or unauthorized personnel may gain access to your personal information despite our efforts. You should note that in using the Scamwave service, your information will travel over the Internet and through third-party infrastructures and mobile networks, which are not under our control.
We cannot protect, nor does this Privacy Policy apply to, any information that you transmit to other users. You should never transmit personal or identifying information to other users.

Retention of Your Personal Information

We retain information as long as it is necessary to provide the Services requested by you and others, subject to any legal obligations to further retain such information. Information associated with your account will generally be kept until it is no longer necessary to provide the Services or until you ask us to delete it or your account is deleted, whichever comes first. Additionally, we may retain information from deleted accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the Terms of Use, and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information about you that is no longer necessary and relevant to provide our Services may be de-identified and aggregated with other non-personal data to provide insights which are commercially valuable to Scamwave, such as statistics related to the use of Scamwave’s Website and application.

EU and EEA Users’ Rights

If you are habitually located in the European Union or European Economic Area, you generally have the right to access, rectify, download or erase your information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of your information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited circumstances. We briefly describe these rights below:
You have the right to access your personal data and, if necessary, have it amended, deleted or restricted. In certain instances, you may have the right to the portability of your data. You can also ask us to not send marketing communications and not to use your personal data when we carry out profiling for direct marketing purposes. You can opt out of receiving e-mail newsletters and other marketing communications by following the opt-out instructions provided to you in those e-mails. Transactional account messages will be unaffected even if you opt out from marketing communications.

you have the right to see what kind of personal data we processed about you; you have the right to rectify any personal data we have processed about you if this information is (partially) wrong; you can file a request with us to remove any personal data we have processed of you; if technically possible, you have the right to ask us to transfer your processed personal data to a third party; you can file a request with us to (temporarily) restrict the processing of your personal data.

Complaints

Should you wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority, although we hope that we can assist with any queries or concerns you may have about our use of your personal data.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Advertisements

Our website shows advertisements. We do not publish these ourselves, but we collaborate with advertising companies. These companies keep track of what you like and use that information to show interesting advertisements or offers in the future. See under ‘Cookies’ for more information.

Changes to this privacy statement

Scamwave may periodically update this policy. We may notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on our Website so please check back occasionally to ensure that you agree with the changes.
We reserve the right to modify this statement. We recommend that you consult this statement on a regular basis so that you remain informed of any changes. If you do not, do not use the Website, the application or our Services.