Privacy Policy

Personal Data

“Personal Data” refers to any information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. We collect Personal Data in various ways through our website, including:

• Through registrations, applications, and surveys
• In connection with your inquiries
• Automatically, when you browse our website

How We Use Personal Data

We use your Personal Data to:

• Provide website functionality and fulfil your requests, where we have a contractual relationship or a legitimate interest
• Aggregate Personal Data provided by you and other users. Aggregated data does not personally identify you or any other individual and may be used and disclosed for any purpose

Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose your Personal Data:

• To other companies within our corporate group for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy
• To third-party service providers who perform services such as website hosting, data analysis, IT services, customer support, email delivery, auditing, and other similar services
• To business partners with whom we jointly develop or market services
• When you post content, chats or use other public services

We may also use or disclose your Personal Data if we believe it is necessary or appropriate:

• To comply with applicable laws and regulatory obligations (including laws outside your country of residence)
• To respond to requests from public and government authorities (including those outside your country of residence)
• To protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you, or others
• In connection with a reorganization of our business or assets

Your Rights

If you wish to review, correct, update, restrict, or delete the Personal Data you have provided to us, or if you would like to request an electronic copy of your data for transfer to another company, you may contact us. We will respond in accordance with applicable law.

In your request, please specify which Personal Data you would like to have changed, whether you would like it deleted from our database, or what limitations you would like to place on our use of it. For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. We will aim to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain Personal Data for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions you initiated before requesting a change or deletion.

Data Security

We implement reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect your Personal Data.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Data for as long as necessary or permitted in light of the purposes for which it was collected and as outlined in this Privacy Policy. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

• The duration of our ongoing relationship with you and the provision of our website services
• Whether we are subject to a legal obligation to retain the data
• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (e.g., enforcement of terms of use, applicable statutes of limitations, or regulatory investigations)

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Personal Data collected through our website may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or engage service providers, including the United States and other countries where our affiliates operate.

Some countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate, we have implemented appropriate safeguards to protect your Personal Data.

Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our website.

Contact Us

The company responsible for the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Data under this Privacy Policy is:

Appear ASA

Org. no. 986 942 033

P.O. Box 8, 0216 Oslo, Norway

Email: legal@appear.net

Lodging a Complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country, region, or place of alleged infringement. Alternatively, you may contact the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet).