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We also use Facebook, Google, as well as other advertising and marketing tools. You should carefully read the privacy policy of these service providers. More information on the targeted advertising, as well as your opt-out rights and other rights, you will find on the respective websites of these service providers - https://lt-lt.facebook.com/policies/ads#; https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Right to delete your data

You may at any time access and edit, update or delete your contact details by logging into your Hostinger's platform Account.

Please note that you will only be able to delete your email during de-activation of your Hostinger Account. To deactivate your Account, please send your request to gdpr@hostinger.com, and you will be provided with further guidance.

We will share your Personal Data with companies, organizations or individuals outside our group of companies when we have your consent to do so.
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Users' Personal Information may be maintained, processed and stored by Hostinger and our authorized affiliates and service providers in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Lithuania or Cyprus, and in other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Services and/or as may be required by law (as further explained below).
Job Applicants Information will be maintained, processed and stored in Lithuania, in the applied position's location(s), and as necessary, in secured cloud storage provided by our Third-Party Services.
Hostinger International Ltd is based in Cyprus, which is a member of EU and offers an adequate level of protection for the Personal Information of EU Member State residents.
Hostinger affiliates and service providers (such as third-party data centres, servers, website design, administration services, online traffic and website analysis, statistics, direct marketing services, mailers, messengers, etc.), that store or process your personal data as well as personal data of your users on Hostinger's behalf are each contractually committed to keep it protected and secured, in accordance with industry standards and regardless of any lesser legal requirements which may apply in their jurisdiction (see below).
Domain name registration data and identification data is shared with third parties in accordance with ICANN rules. For more information see https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#whois.
We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly as well as with our partners - publishers, advertisers. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our platform.
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We may share your personal data in manners other than as described above, pursuant to your explicit consent, or if we are legally obligated to do so.

In certain situations, Hostinger may be asked to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, other competent authorities, including when it is required to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, and will do so where permitted by local data protection laws.

Hostinger has implemented security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas on our Services. We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seek new ways and Third-Party Services for further enhancing the security of our Services and protection of our Visitors' and Users' privacy.

Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by Hostinger, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information, or any other User Content you upload, publish or otherwise share with Hostinger or anyone else.

We therefore encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.

If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us at gdpr@hostinger.com.

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Our Policy may change from time to time. We will post any Policy changes on our website and, if the changes are significant, we may consider providing a more explicit notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes).

We collect and receive your Personal data from yourself (including your device) as well as from the following sources: Social network operators (such as Facebook, Google, etc.); Third-party service providers, suppliers and our partners; Other legal sources.

Personal identification information is collected and processed for the purposes of User identification as well use of services and domain name registration. Additionally, this information may be used to provide Users with support, letting them know about upcoming updates or improvements, providing information regarding changes of any Terms of Use (including changes to this Policy) as well as other important information.

We verify or authenticate information or identifications provided by you (such as ID number, email or phone numbers). We also use collected information to detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other illegal and harmful activities.

To Create Aggregated Statistical Data, to Carry out Market Research and Analysis necessary for running out our business, to improve our services we use aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information enabling us to evaluate our customers’ needs, sales and other trends of our activities.

We use information about data usage, devices, operating systems to diagnose problems with our servers, to administer our Platform, adopt decision when to retire SDK's/OS versions, to identify characteristics of major users so that we may optimize our applications and services and make your browsing and purchasing experience more enjoyable.

To provide more customized offers to our Users, we may conduct data analysis based on information you provide to us, your interactions with the Hostinger Platform and its Users.

Hostinger may also contact you with important information regarding our Services, or your use thereof. For example, we may send you a notice (through any of the communication channels available to us) if a certain Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance; reply to your support ticket or e-mail; send you reminders or warnings regarding upcoming or late payments for your current or upcoming subscriptions; forward abuse complaints regarding your hosting plan; or notify you of material changes in our Services. Such kind of communication is essential, for this reason, no opt-out possibilities are given to avoid receiving such Service and Billing Messages unless you are no longer a Hostinger User (which can be done by deactivating your Account).

In certain jurisdictions or pursuant to the rules of the ICANN or certain registries, domain name registration information has to be made available and accessible to the public through a "WHOIS" search. The WHOIS database is a publicly accessible database that lists the domain name registration information for a particular domain name, the name server(s) to which the domain name points, and the domain name's creation and expiration date. The domain name registration information you provide is stored by Hostinger and is made available to the public through WHOIS searches. Hostinger may deposit your domain name registration information with a third-party escrow provider to comply with ICANN requirements.

In order to notify you regarding your Account, to troubleshoot problems with your Account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes, we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and portal.

To provide, operate and improve the Services. To enhance data security and to prevent fraud. To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

If a User wishes to change their preferences for direct marketing, they may exercise such option at any time they wish by following the instructions to unsubscribe in the received email.

You are free to opt out of our newsletters at any time. You can do this by clicking on a link for that purpose at the bottom of our e-mail with the newsletters.

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We also use Facebook, Google, as well as other advertising and marketing tools. You should carefully read the privacy policy of these service providers. More information on the targeted advertising, as well as your opt-out rights and other rights, you will find on the respective websites of these service providers - https://lt-lt.facebook.com/policies/ads#; https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

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Some of the rights as above are easy to exercise: i.e., you may at any time access and edit, update or amend your details, opt out of receiving communications from us and our partners by visiting and adjusting your personal account settings, or by e-mail: gdpr@hostinger.com.

Information that is necessary for the use of the Hostinger Platform

We ask for and collect the following personal information about you when you use the Hostinger Platform. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contractual arrangement which is in place between you and us and to allow us to comply with our legal obligations. Failing to provide any of this data or decision to delete or object to the processing of any of such data may result in de-activation of your Hostinger Account.

• Account Signup Information. When you sign up to Hostinger, we require you to provide minimum information - email address and password. In some particular cases we ask you to provide more information - such as your first and last name, identity verification, contact details. Such information is required when you are applying for a registration of domain name and indicated as the WHOIS information.
• Login information. We collect Login scope and Email scope from Google, please see https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/oauth#profile and email from Facebook.
• Identity Verification. To comply with the rules set forth by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") before the registration of the new domain name, Hostinger may collect identity verification information (such as images of your passport, national ID card, valid driving license or other documents as required or permitted by applicable laws).
• Payment Information. To order and use features of the Hostinger Platform (such as web-hosting, domain name registration), we may require you to provide certain financial information in order to facilitate the processing of payments. We use 3rd party (payment processor) services, so we do not collect and store credit card information (we receive information about the payment status and store only last 4 credit card digits).
• Communications, Chats, Messaging. When you communicate with Hostinger (using general inquiries window), we collect information about your communication and any information you choose to provide or disclose. In order to respond to your request, we may access information provided in your Hostinger Account, purchase history, etc.
• Job applicants' information. We also collect information that you provided to us by applying to any of the open career positions published at https://www.hostinger.com/career, by e-mail or otherwise. For more details see Section 5 below.
• Visitors and users of our User’s websites or services. We may also collect information pertaining to visitors and users of our User’s websites or services (“Users-of-Users”), solely for and on our Users’ behalf.
  You may also choose to provide us information when you fill in a form, conduct a search, update or add information to your Hostinger Account, respond to surveys, post to community forums, participate in promotions, or use other features of the Hostinger Platform. We advise against posting any information you don’t wish to make public on the Hostinger Platform. If you upload any content to your account or post it on your Website and provide it in any other way as part of the use of any Service, you do so at your own risk.

Hostinger processes information you provide to us on the legal basis of: Your consent, expressed when voluntarily submitting and filling your Personal Data details in sign-up forms, by e-mail, request or inquiries window, etc.; and Conclusion and performance of contractual arrangements and obligations between Hostinger and the User; Pursuance of legitimate interests of Hostinger, as Data Controller and manager of Hostinger platform; Compliance with a legal obligation to which Hostinger is subject, including, but not limited to, ICANN rules: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#whois.

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When you use the Hostinger Platform or contact us directly by any communication channel, we may collect information, including personal information, about the services you use and how you use them.

This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us, to enable us to comply with legal obligations and given our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the functionalities of the Hostinger Platform.

• Log data and Device information. We automatically collect log data and device information when you access and use the Hostinger Platform, even if you have not created an Hostinger Account or logged in. That information includes, among other things: Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and/or clickstream data.
• Tracking technologies and Cookies. We use cookies, beacons, tags, scripts and other similar technologies, such as CI codes (click tracking), ISC (source tracking), and ITC (item tracking codes). We also automatically collect information about device's operating system, phone model, device ID and customer number. For more detail information on the use of these technologies, see our Cookies Policy.
• Usage information. We use a tool called "Google Analytics" to collect information about your interactions with the Hostinger Platform (what pages you visit, such as the pages or content you view, your searches for Listings, bookings you have made, and other actions on the Hostinger Platform. In consequence, Google, Inc. plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this Site). For more information please visit Google.
• Geo-location data. We collect information about your approximate location as determined by data such as your IP address to offer you an improved user experience and comply with applicable legal requirements, such as taxes, pricing, etc. Such data may be collected only when you access Hostinger platform using your device.

Hostinger processes this information on the legal basis of: Your consent; Conclusion and performance of contractual arrangements and obligations between Hostinger and the User; Pursuance of legitimate interests of Hostinger, as Data Controller and manager of Hostinger platform.