When you activate and use our products and services, we collect data needed to deliver the product functionality or the service. This data is kept separate from the other data we collect when you activate and use our products and services. Your Billing Data is retained for as long as is necessary to complete your subscription payment. If you purchase a paid product or service, our third-party service providers collect your name, email address, credit card number, and in certain circumstances, your billing address and phone number (collectively “Billing Data”). When you purchase a product or service from the Avast Group, billing is handled by a third-party service provider acting as our agent.

Training our employees whose jobs relate directly to handling user data to ensure that they thoroughly understand their new obligations and responsibilities, so that they can apply these new principles to their everyday work.

Unifying the Avast Privacy Policy to include our companies like AVG, and Privax Ltd (HideMyAss!), and keeping our new style in line with the legal requirements of the GDPR by ensuring it is transparent and easy to understand.

The Data Protection Officer can be contacted at: Coordinating with our business partners to ensure they comply with all applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR.

Appointing a Data Protection Officer to monitor our compliance with the GDPR, provide advice where requested, and cooperate with the supervisory authorities.

Users can also download their personal data from our system.

Implementing a new Privacy Preference portal so that our users can view and correct their data profile, and see an overview of their specific privacy preferences for products they use.

Teams across our operations-legal, product design, marketing, project management and IT-continually seek to identify and deploy best-practice privacy solutions in order to ensure that the personal data of our users remains safe and secure.

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