Privacy policy for Adaware AdBlock
Adaware AdBlock by Adaware
adaware’s full privacy policy is available at https://www.adaware.com/privacy-policy/
General
adaware ad block never collects personally identifiable information. All data collected is transferred through an encrypted secured connection and any retained values are stored in an encrypted format.
Information collected when you use adaware ad block browser extension:
When installed and during use:
1. Install date
2. Browser family, version, language & locale
3. Ad block version & locale
4. Internet Protocol (IP) address
5. OS
6. Update date
7. Uninstall date
8. Feature state (on or off)
9. Install source
If “block dangerous sites” feature is enabled, the following is collected in order to make adaware cloud service (ACS) functional:
Note that a list of known safe websites is downloaded to your local machine. If the site you’re visiting passes the preliminary safety scan against this list, no URL information is sent to our servers.
1. URL of potentially dangerous site
2. Warning page event
• Event for “continue to site” or “back to safety”
3. Event for downloading preliminary lists for local scanning
4. ACS average latency
5. ACS total calls per day
6. ACS errors
7. ACS average wait time
8. ACS max wait time
Information collected if you agree to “share anonymous usage data for product improvement”
1. URL of all blocked sites (when adaware warning page is shown)
2. Domains that are whitelisted/unwhitelisted
3. YouTube channels that are whitelisted/unwhitelisted
• YouTube locale
4. Enabling/disabling ‘block pop-up’ feature
• URL when interaction occurred
If Installed through Web-Companion:
• Machine-ID
• Install-ID
adaware may share aggregate statistical information with third parties in an effort to educate industry leaders on the need for less aggressive advertising techniques. This information cannot be aggregated in such a way as to personally identify you in any way.
The adaware.com website may use cookies to understand and save user’s preferences for future visits. We may also use trusted third-party services that track or report this information on our behalf, such as Google Analytics.
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services. These third-party products or services have separate and independent privacy policies. While we will always ensure that these third-party products/services adhere to the same privacy policy and principles we uphold, we have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Amendments of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy will be updated by adaware on a regular basis. We therefore recommend that you check this Privacy Policy periodically for modifications. adaware will indicate when the Privacy Policy has been updated by noting the "Last updated" date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: January, 2017.