You have legitimate concerns about privacy and therefore we expressly describe all processing of personal data done by us. We want you to understand what limited information we collect and what may happen to that information when you use any of the Check Accounting Services.
This document (hereinafter – the “Privacy Policy”) explains the privacy rules applicable to all information collected or submitted when you access, install or use the Check Accounting Services.
Our top priority is customer data security. Operating under the jurisdiction of Panama allows us to guarantee our no logs policy. We process only minimal user data – only as much as it is absolutely necessary to maintain our services.
All definitions and capitalized words used in this Privacy Policy are defined in our Terms of Service.
By visiting Check Accounting website, by submitting your personal data to Check Accounting, also by accessing, installing and/or using the Check Accounting Services you confirm that you have read this Privacy Policy and that you enter into legally binding relationship with Check Accounting (hereinafter – „Check Accounting“, „we“ or “us”), as well as you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with the rules of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Check Accounting Services.
Processing of your data
Check Accounting processes user data only to a very limited scope – only as much as it is absolutely required for provision of the Check Accounting Services, processing of payments for the Check Accounting Services, as well as functioning of the Check Accounting website and mobile applications.
Personal data is processed by Check Accounting automatically and manually. Unless expressly noted otherwise, Check Accounting or a designated subsidiary in your country shall act as the responsible personal data controller for any data processed. Check Accounting uses third party data processors only for processing of payment data, and basic website analytics.
Check Accounting guarantees a strict no-logs policy for Check Accounting services, meaning that your activities using Check Accounting Services are provided by automated technical process, are not monitored, recorded, logged, stored or passed to any third party. We do not store connection time stamps, session information, used bandwidth, traffic logs, IP addresses or other data. From the moment a Check Accounting user turns on the Check Accounting software, their Internet data becomes encrypted. Any online traffic coming from user’s device is no longer visible to ISP, third-party snoopers or cyber criminals. Further, Check Accounting have a strict no logs policy when it comes to seeing user activity online: Check Accounting is based in Panama, which does not require data storage.
Anyone may browse our website, install Check Accounting application and mobile applications without signing up for the Check Accounting Services, however the functionality of the Check Accounting Services will be very limited or absent. If you want to engage full functionality of the Check Accounting Services, you need to create a user account and provide basic personal data indicated below.
If you choose to create a user account, you must provide the following basic information:
· Email address. We ask for your email address and password as part of your registration. That ensures that we can communicate with you when we have any exciting announcements to make, service updates to advise or errors to report. Valid email address is also needed to retrieve a lost password and to make a VPN connection.
· Payment data. In addition to the conventional payment methods, such as Applepay or credit card, users can buy Check Accounting service with cryptocurrency. Our payment processing partners process basic billing information for payment processing and refund requests.
You must maintain this information current, truthful, complete and accurate. You warrant that you are authorized to provide such information. You authorize us to verify your information at any time. If it is found to be untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we retain the right, in our sole discretion, to suspend or terminate your user account and your access to the Check Accounting Services.
In order to maintain the VPN service, the Check Accounting also processes limited technical information, which sometimes may be considered personal data. This information is used for improving the functionality and usability of our website and Check Accounting Services. If you decide not to provide this limited information, we may not be able to provide you with the full scope of the Check Accounting Services. Said information may also include:
· Server load information. We monitor the server performance in order to recommend the most suitable servers to our customers.
· Customer service information. Check Accounting stores inquiries and communications with users through the Contact Us and Community Area pages, unless a user requests to delete the conversation.
· Cookies. Check Accounting uses a few types of different cookies to improve the user experience on the website, such as:
o Affiliate cookies to identify the customers referred to the Site by our partners, so that we can grant the referrers with commissions;
o Cookies for personalizing the content of the Site for users, such as setting the default language.
You can set up warnings for every time the Site places a cookie in your browser, or you can choose to disable all cookies. You can do both through your browser settings. Since each browser has a different procedure for managing cookies, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to do it.
Persons younger than 18 shall not use the Check Accounting Services and provide any personal data to us without the supervision of the parents or guardians. Check Accounting shall never knowingly collect personal information from persons younger than 18, and shall not disclose such personal data to third parties without the consent. Based on the above, it is presumed that any person using the Check Accounting Services and supplying personal data to us is at least 18 years of age. If a person younger than 18 years old or a person, supplying wrongful data, become known to Check Accounting, such person and all their data may be immediately and without any notice withdrawn by suspending their access to Check Accounting Services.
Grounds for data processing
Your personal data is processed for the purpose of providing you the best Check Accounting services under the legal basis of performance of the contract between you and Check Accounting, as provided in our Terms of Service.
Check Accounting may process your personal data (email address) for direct marketing purposes in the following cases: when we obtain your consent to such processing (the legal basis for processing, in this case, is your consent) or when applicable law permits us to contact you without a separate consent (under the legal basis of a legitimate interest).
Your personal data protection rights
You may request us to inform you about the personal data that we have collected about you, to request any changes or correction of inaccurate information, to object to certain processing of personal data (e.g. for marketing purposes), to provide you with a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, to transmit (if technically feasible) your personal data to another controller, or to erase your personal data. You also may request to restrict the processing of your personal data (when there is a legal basis for that). In cases where your personal data is processed on a separate consent basis, you have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data.
If you disagree with your data processing by Check Accounting, you are free not to use the Check Accounting Service, and to discontinue using it at any time. You may request us to discontinue processing of your personal data, in which case your data will be processed only as much as it is necessary to effect the discontinuation of your use of the Check Accounting Services (e.g., final settlement, or deleting all personal data based on your email address), or finalizing other Check Accounting’s legal relationship with you (e.g. accounting, invoicing, processing refunds).
Due to technical reasons (such as backup copies of the databases) your personal data may be finally deleted only within 60 days or longer, if it is mandated by the statutory requirements.
If you wish to use the Check Accounting Services again, you will have to accept and agree to this Privacy Policy anew.
Term for storing personal data
Check Accounting stores limited personal data for the whole period when the Check Accounting Services are used and for no longer than 2 years after last use of the App and/or the Services.
Other Terms
Your data is processed under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Panama. If the data is processed by a designated subsidiary in your country, then the domestic law of your country may be applicable at our discretion.
Check Accounting would like to remind you that you are yourself responsible for the security of your data. We ask you to be careful when using and storing personal data containing files on your devices, as well as the devices itself. Please ensure that nobody accesses and uses your devices without your consent.
You shall be extra careful and not disclose your personal information to unrelated third parties, since such information may be used in different ways and against your interests, including activities such as fraud, invasion of privacy, identity theft, etc.