Privacy Policy

What this policy covers

VPN Script ("VPNScript") respects and values your privacy. That's why VPN Script has established this Privacy Policy (referred to as the "Privacy Policy" herein) - so that VPN Script can disclose what information VPN Script collects about you and how VPN Script use, store and disclose such information. VPN Script want to help you make an informed decision about whether or not to share your information with VPN Script.

VPN Script reserves the right to revise, modify, add or remove provisions to this Privacy Policy at any time. In the event that VPN Script do so, VPN Script will notify you in accordance with the notice provisions of VPN Script' Terms of Service. Take note of the 'Last Updated' date listed at the foot of this Privacy Policy. If VPN Script make changes to this Privacy Policy, VPN Script will update that date to notify you of the date of such changes. By continuing to use www.vpnscript.net ("the Website") after receiving notice of the updated Privacy Policy, you acknowledge that you have read and understand the revised Privacy Policy.

Capitalised terms in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to such terms in VPN Script' Terms of Service.

How does VPN Script collect information from you?

VPN Script collects information from you when you send it to VPN Script directly by filling out forms on VPN Script' Website (including any application you may make for Services or the Software), corresponding with VPN Script by e-mail, writing to VPN Script by post, or speaking to VPN Script by telephone. VPN Script also collect information from you when you browse the Website and use the Software, as set out in detail below. Some of the methods VPN Script use to collect data are automated and will take effect automatically as you navigate the Website and/or use the Software.

What information does VPN Script collect?

Personal Information.

Personal information means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person ("Personal Information").

VPN Script may collect the following Personal Information from you: name, address, telephone number, postal address, e-mail address, IP address, information about the type of browser you use, your operating system, the screen resolution of your browser, your ISP, which pages you view on the Website and the time and duration of your visits to the Website, credit card number (in the case of direct customers) and, if applicable, company name, postal address, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card number or tax ID number as well as similar information concerning technical contacts, marketing contacts, and executive contacts within your company or organisation.

User Communications.

If you communicate with VPN Script, VPN Script may collect information relating to that communication whether it takes the form of e-mail, letter, forum posting, testimonials or any other form of communication between you and VPN Script or submitted by you to the Website (collectively, "User Communications").

Server Information.

If you use one of VPN Script' software products such as VPN Script' proprietary VPN Billing and Automation Solution, VPN Script may collect certain information concerning such software and concerning the server upon which the software operates. This information includes without limitation: (a) the licensed or unlicensed status of the software; (b) the source from which the license for the software was obtained (i.e., VPN Script or a VPN Script affiliate); or (c) information about the server upon which the software is installed including (i) the public IP address, (ii) the operating system and (iii) the use of any virtualization technologies on such server ((a) through (c) collectively, "Server Information")). Additionally, "Server Information" may also include information collected by VPN Script from time to time concerning which features of the software are most often used in order to improve and make adjustments to the software; and information collected from you by VPN Script in the event that you request technical support services including without limitation, IP addresses, usernames and passwords necessary to login to SSH, the root directory of the server upon which you installed the VPN Script software and any affected accounts including email accounts, MySQL accounts and other accounts.

Non-Personal Information.

VPN Script also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. VPN Script may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose.

What information does VPN Script collect if you're under the age of 13?

VPN Script does not knowingly collect Personal Information about children under the age of 13. If VPN Script becomes aware that it has inadvertently collected Personal Information about children under the age of 13, it will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible, except where VPN Script is required by applicable law to keep it.

Where VPN Script knows a child is above the age of 13, but considered a minor under applicable law, VPN Script will obtain parental/guardian consent prior to using that child's Personal Information.

How does VPN Script use and store the information it collects?

As a general matter, VPN Script may use the Personal Information you disclose to VPN Script to improve and provide the Website, the Services and VPN Script' other products and services, and for the specific purpose that you gave VPN Script your Personal Information. More specific details on how VPN Script use your information follows below.

VPN Script may use Personal Information to create and authenticate your account, to process transactions you request such as software license purchases in order to perform any contract you have entered into with VPN Script, to provide you with customer and technical support and to communicate with you about your account and VPN Script' products and services.

The Personal Information you provide to VPN Script allows VPN Script to provide you with the newsletters and mailing lists that you have signed up for with VPN Script. If you do not want to be on VPN Script' mailing list, you can opt out at any time by changing your settings in your 'My Details' page within the client area.

VPN Script may also use Personal Information to offer, market or advertise to you VPN Script products and services. While such VPN Script products and services may reference, incorporate or include third-party products and services, VPN Script will not use your Personal Information to independently offer, market or advertise third-party products and services unless VPN Script first obtain your consent to do so.

From time to time, VPN Script may use your Personal Information to send important notices, such as important product updates and communications about purchases as well as changes to VPN Script' terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information is important for your interaction with VPN Script you may not opt out of receiving these communications.

VPN Script may also use your Personal Information for any other legal purpose stated in this Privacy Policy, and any other purpose for which you have given VPN Script express consent.

Where you consent to VPN Script doing so, VPN Script may use your Personal Information to send you direct marketing communications. Should you ever choose to 'opt out' of receiving such communications VPN Script may retain your Personal Information on file to ensure that VPN Script do not continue to target you with communications of the type that you have asked VPN Script to cease sending to you.

VPN Script limits the use of Personal Information to the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy and for which you have provided explicit consent. In accordance with established policies and procedures, VPN Script retains Personal Information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the stated purposes, unless it is required by law for a different period or VPN Script has the consent of the individual.

In accordance with established policies and procedures, VPN Script will periodically destroy or erase any Personal Information that is no longer needed.

VPN Script may use User Communications in the same way as VPN Script uses Personal Information. If you communicate with VPN Script for a particular purpose, VPN Script may use your User Communications for that purpose. For example, if you contact VPN Script for technical support, VPN Script may use your communications to provide technical support to you.

VPN Script may use Server Information to provide you with technical support services and to maintain, evaluate, improve and provide VPN Script products and services. VPN Script may also use such information to investigate unlicensed (and therefore unauthorised) uses of VPN Script' software.

Where is your Personal Information stored?

VPN Script IS A GLOBAL COMPANY AND YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL NOT NECESSARILY BE HELD IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA ("EEA"). YOUR PERONAL DATA MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO AND STORED AT OUR US OFFICE AND ASSOCIATED DATACENTERS AND BY ACCEPTING OUR TERMS OF SERVICE AND/OR A SOFTWARE EULA, YOU ARE EXPLICITLY CONSENTING TO THIS TRANSFER AND STORAGE TAKING PLACE. WE WILL TAKE ALL STEPS REASONABLY NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS TREATED SECURELY AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

How does VPN Script disclose the Personal Information it collects?

Except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy, VPN Script does not share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties other than as set out in this Privacy Policy. VPN Script will never disclose your Personal Information to an unaffiliated third party for the purposes of e-mail or other marketing unless VPN Script first obtain your consent to do so.

VPN Script cannot be responsible for protecting your Personal Information if you share such information in publicly available sections of the Website such as the user forums or testimonials section. You should use your own judgment in disclosing this information on the Website.

In the event that VPN Script is purchased by another company, merges with another company or has a substantial portion of its assets purchased by another company, VPN Script may share your Personal Information with that company. In such an event, VPN Script will notify you in accordance with the notice provisions of the Terms of Use.

VPN Script may share your Personal Information with third parties as permitted or required by applicable law, by a court order or by another judicial or governmental request. VPN Script may also disclose your Personal Information if VPN Script determine that such disclosure is necessary to protect VPN Script's rights and remedies or is necessary for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance. Such disclosures could take place in the context of an investigation or to prevent or take action against illegal activity, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of VPN Script's Terms of Service, applicable EULAs or other VPN Script agreements, or as otherwise required by applicable law. Where this is the case VPN Script will endeavour to give you notice of such disclosures, to the extent that VPN Script are lawfully permitted to do so.

VPN Script may disclose your Personal Information to affiliated third parties that assist VPN Script in providing maintaining, evaluating, improving and providing the Website, the Services and any other VPN Script products and services. VPN Script may disclose your Personal Information to affiliated third parties for the purposes of offering, marketing or advertising VPN Script products and services to you (such VPN Script products and services may reference, incorporate or include third-party products and services). In such an event, VPN Script will take reasonable measures to prevent such affiliated third parties from using your Personal Information for other purposes.

Does VPN Script use cookies and web beacons?

Cookies

Yes, VPN Script uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Website and to improve your overall experience. When you use the Website, certain information may be stored locally on your device using 'cookies' or similar technologies such as objects stored in the device's local storage. A cookie is a small text file used to store limited information about the user of the device. They help VPN Script to identify how VPN Script' users use the Website, and so that VPN Script can continue to develop and improve it.

Cookies do this by storing information about your preferences on your device, including the device model, manufacturer, screen resolution, device capabilities, service provider, country and city location data. VPN Script uses the following types of cookies:

  • Strictly necessary: These cookies enable VPN Script' Website to function correctly and deliver the services and products you have requested.
  • Performance & Functionality: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of VPN Script' Website but are non-essential to their use (for example, VPN Script uses cookies to remember your preferences on the Website). However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
  • Analytical: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help VPN Script understand how the Website is being used or to help VPN Script customise the Website for you. In particular VPN Script use the Google analytics cookies. For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/. If you do not wish to allow the use of Google Analytics cookies at all, Google provides an opt-out plug-in for most common website browsers http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

By using the Service, you accept the use of cookies in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Your cookie choices

You have the right to choose whether to accept or refuse cookies and similar technologies. You can exercise this choice by not accepting the Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, however, please note that if you choose to do so, you will not be able to use the Service.

For more information about what cookies are and your rights to control cookies, please visit the third party educational resource www.allaboutcookies.org.

Web beacons

VPN Script does not use web beacons.

How does VPN Script protect Personal Information and other information about you?

VPN Script takes reasonable steps to protect any Personal Information VPN Script collects about you. Additionally, VPN Script may supply you with tools to evaluate the strength of the password you select for the Website. No security measures are foolproof, and VPN Script cannot guarantee the security of your information other than to take reasonable steps to protect it. In the event that VPN Script becomes aware of a security breach, unauthorised disclosure or inadvertent disclosure concerning your information, you agree that VPN Script may notify you of such an event using the notice provisions of the Terms of Use.

You are responsible for maintaining your account's security (as more specifically explained in the Terms of Service).

Information and access to your Personal Information

Based on what you have told VPN Script, VPN Script try to ensure that your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up to date. You have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of Personal Information or restriction of processing concerning your Personal Information or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability. VPN Script will comply with erasure requests as long as VPN Script is not required to retain the Personal Information by law and does not need to retain it for its legitimate business purposes. VPN Script may decline to process requests that are frivolous/vexatious, jeopardise the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction, or deletion requests can be made by emailing [email protected]

Your Rights

As a Data Subject you have a number of rights in relation to your Personal Information. These include your rights:

  • To ask VPN Script to confirm what (if any) Personal Information VPN Script hold relating to you and how that data is processed and used by VPN Script (often referred to as a 'Subject Access Request');
  • To have VPN Script rectify Personal Information which VPN Script hold about you that is inaccurate;
  • To have VPN Script erase Personal Information which relates to you if it is no longer necessary for VPN Script to continue to process it, or if VPN Script have no lawful basis to store, process or retain it (though VPN Script do have rights to refuse these requests in certain situations);
  • To object to VPN Script processing your Personal Information;
  • To be informed about the existence of any automated decision making and profiling of your Personal Information, and where appropriate, be provided with meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing that affects you;
  • To have VPN Script provide you with a copy of your Personal Information for transfer to an alternative provider of similar services.

Should you ever wish to exercise one or more of these rights you should contact VPN Script at [email protected]

Third party websites

VPN Script' Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of VPN Script' partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that VPN Script do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any Personal Information to these websites.

What if you have questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy?

Please feel free to direct any questions, comments or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy using the contact information listed in the Notices section of the VPN Script Terms of Use. It is VPN Script' policy to investigate and attempt to resolve all formal written complaints VPN Script receive concerning this Privacy Policy. VPN Script will cooperate with appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between VPN Script and an individual.

With effect from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters force. Your rights under that new regulation are explained at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/overview-of-the-gdpr/. Details of how you can exercise those rights are set out in 'Your Rights'. VPN Script have largely factored GDPR into this Privacy Policy but if you think VPN Script has failed to do so in any way, please notify VPN Script at [email protected]


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Last Updated: 31st October 2021