We (AVG Technologies B.V. and our affiliates) last changed our privacy policy on March 23, 2017. If you're interested to see what changed, please click here. AVG is part of the Avast Group. This Privacy Policy applies to all the AVG branded products. Please note that specific privacy policies apply forAvast branded products, HideMyAss branded products, Norman branded products, TuneUp branded products and the Ally App, as well as the processing of personal data by Location Labs Inc. and Jumpshot Inc. Furthermore, our website provides you with specific additional information for certain apps.
It's simple. We provide products and services to help you secure your data, devices, and personal privacy. We use data to improve those products and services; provide support; send notifications, offers, and promotions; and to make money from our free offerings so that we can continue to offer them for free. We use data that can identify you, called personal data, to:
We use data that does not identify you, called non-personal data, for lots of purposes, including to improve our products and services and to help keep our free offerings free. In particular, we may use non-personal data to build anonymous data profiles and provide segmented marketing, generate aggregate statistical information, and to improve and administer our current products and create new products. You can be assured that we protect the information we collect. By using our products or services, you agree to the collection, use and sharing of your data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unless the specific product states otherwise, all AVG products and services are included under this Privacy Policy. If you are really interested in this privacy stuff, we've put together a few videos and to help explain what we do, why we do it, and how.
Like many companies, some of the information we collect, known as personal data, can identify you. An example of personal data might be your name or email address. Some personal data we collect only when you provide it to us. This information may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, and if you pay by credit card, your payment information. This may happen when you:
Some personal data we collect automatically when you use our website or products. This information may include some or all of the following types of information:
Unless we need the data to retain its personally identifiable characteristics, we anonymize the data we collect and store it in a manner that does not identify you. For instance, when we collect your IP address, we may anonymize your IP address by obfuscating the last group of digits (e.g., changing 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.XXX).
We collect many types of data, called non-personal data that does not personally identify you. While we cannot list out each and every type of non-personal data that we collect, we've tried below to give you a general understanding of what types of non-personal data we collect and examples to help you see what we mean. We collect non-personal data to improve our products and services, including:
We collect non-personal data to make money from our free offerings so we can keep them free, including:
Sometimes browsing history or search history contains terms that might identify you. If we become aware that part of your browsing history might identify you, we will treat that portion of your history as personal data, and will anonymize this information. We may also aggregate and/or anonymize personal data we collect about you. For instance, although we would consider your precise location to be personal data if stored separately, if we combined the locations of our users into a data set that could only tell us how many users were located in a particular country, we would not consider this aggregated information to be personally identifiable.
Yes, though when and how we share it depends on whether it is personal data or non-personal data. AVG may share non-personal data with third parties and may publicly display aggregate or anonymous information. We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. We may share certain personal and non-personal data with:
AVG is part of the Avast Group.
The Avast Group acts globally, comprising many companies in many offices around the world. In order to do business around the globe, we may share your personal data across our offices and companies which may be in countries with different laws regarding the collection and use of personal data than the country we collected it from.
Certain of our search providers may require us to share your full IP address with them in order to fulfill your search requests. Please note that the search providers have their own privacy policies that govern the privacy of these requests. We encourage you to read these privacy policies before deciding to use these services.
We may share some of your personal data, such as your email address, with certain selected resellers, distributors and other partners to enable them to contact you on our behalf about products, services or offers we believe are important to you or your business, to fulfill any terms under your licensing and service relationship with AVG, or to provide you local technical and customer support. Lastly, we may share your personal data:
If we are legally compelled to disclose your personal data to a third party, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you in advance of a disclosure unless legally prohibited. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will abide by this Privacy Policy, and any affected users will be informed if we transfer any personal data to a third party or if personal data becomes subject to a different privacy policy as a result.
You have the right to ask us about the personal data we process about you, the purpose and nature of the processing, and to provide information on who we share it with. You have the right to request that we update, correct, or delete (assuming that this does not impact the services we are providing to you) your personal data at any time. Please note that we may reject requests which risk the privacy of others or are unreasonable or repetitive, or would require disproportionate effort. Unless you request us to delete your data, please note that we may keep your personal data for one year after you stop being a customer (but we typically keep your personal data no longer than is reasonably necessary given the purposes for which the data was collected). You have the right to opt out of the use or collection of certain data by us or by third parties, including personal data and non-personal data, by following the instructions here. You have the right to opt-out of receiving our email newsletters, bulletins, or other information at any time by following the instructions here or the relevant unsubscribe process outlined in the applicable email or newsletter. Please be aware that our emails may include important or useful information about your AVG Products, including information about your license number or the status of your orders or accounts. You have the right to expect us to protect your personal data and keep it safe. We work hard to protect AVG and our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of the information we hold. In particular:
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, and will indicate the date the Privacy Policy was most recently updated. If there have been significant changes, we will highlight any such changes, and will attempt to directly alert you when possible. We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review. Changes to our privacy policy since the latest version include:
Follow this link to access previous versions of the AVG Privacy Policy.
If have any questions about this policy or any of the above, please email us at privacy@avg.com or see instructions in the product or service you are using. You may contact us by mail at:
AVG Netherlands B.V.
Gatwickstraat 9-39,
1043 GL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Periodically, our site or products may contain links to and from websites or other external destinations managed by third parties. If you follow a link to any of these destinations (like offers on mobile app stores etc.), please note that those sites have their own privacy policy. When you are on those sites you are subject to those policies, and should therefore read and understand them before you submit any personal data to those sites.
We may also link to co-branded websites or products that are maintained by AVG Technologies and one or more of our business partners. Please note that these co-branded websites and products may have their own privacy policy, which we encourage you to read and understand.