Last Updated : 2024-06-30
This extension is owned and operated by the Imali Media team. We respect the privacy of users of our extension products and have developed this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") to demonstrate our commitment to protecting your privacy.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through{" "} Imali Media (“we”, “us” or “our”), whether accessed via computer, mobile device, or other technology (collectively, the “Services”).
This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect through the Services, how such information may be used and/or shared with others, how we safeguard it, and your choices about such uses and disclosures.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, prior to using the Services. By using the Services, you are acknowledging that you understand and agree to the terms hereof as well as the terms & conditions set forth on the Site.
Information collected directly from your usage and interaction with our Services is as follows:
Category
Online Identifiers
Usage Information
Geolocation
Others
Examples
User-Agent, IP address, User ID, Operating System
Page served, time, referring URLs
Geographic location associated with your IP address
Search queries
The data detailed in the table above is collected Automatically, mainly through the use of cookies.
Cookies are small text files placed on a Device when the Device is used to visit the Service or the Site. The extension collects your information with cookies on the search domain level.
We do not utilize cookies other than necessary, strictly functional cookies for the sole purpose of either operating the website of the extension or operating and enabling the functionality of the extensions you installed.
For example, cookies of our hosting service for functional, operational purposes.
While we cannot provide you or encourage you to opt-out of necessary, strictly functional cookies as they are necessary for us to be able to provide our service, you can disable them (though not recommended as it may impact the usability of our service) by following your browser’s instructions.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via this{" "} link .
In addition, we may offer Oath search feed as part of our Extension and thus it may include cookies on its behalf - more information is available here. In addition, opt-out information which will enable you to limit the data collection by OATH is available here.
We use information that we collect about you for
We do not disclose information collected from you with any third party, other than with the service providers we use solely for the purposes detailed in the above section. Below is a detailed list of our third-party service providers that we share information with:
Cloudflare (name server, DNS, caching)
Yahoo search feed (third party search monetization)
We also reserve the right to disclose your information with third parties if we are legally required to do so, to cooperate with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings, or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Service, solely to the extent needed to enforce our policies and agreements and to investigate potential violations thereof.
We maintain tight controls over all the data we collect, retaining it in secured databases with limited and controlled access rights. Please remember that unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, so although we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted via the Service; any transmission is at your own risk.
We only keep your personal information as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy including for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable law. We will only use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve any legal issues, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise described in this policy.
In order to protect our users, we opted to use one-way encryption of IP addresses in a way that does not allow for it to be associated with any person nor linked to the other information we may have, which we store in a non-identifiable way.
Please note, that once the Extension has been removed from your browser by you, we can no longer trace any user activity nor can we link you with any unidentifiable information we may have in our database.
This section applies to you if you are a national of a European Economic Area (“EEA”) member state. This section describes our good faith effort to meet our obligations under the GDPR.
The GDPR defines “personal data” as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular 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”
For the purposes of our Privacy Policy, the “data subject” is “you” (“your”, “user”). The personal data we collect may include: the unique User ID we assign you.
The personal data we collect will only be used and disclosed for the purposes detailed in the above sections of this Privacy Policy.
Our basis for processing personal data: GDPR Article 6.1(a): “the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes”; GDPR Article 6.1(b): “processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract”; GDPR Article 6(1)(f): “processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party…”
Your rights as a GDPR data subject include the following:
You can contact us to submit any GDPR related inquiry or request by submitting an inquiry to support@imali.media.
Please note that we can only meet sufficiently verifiable user requests. Sufficiently verifiable user requests refer to requests that allow us to reasonably match the information provided by the user making the request with the information already available to us, insofar non-pseudonymous Personal Data is available.
Please note that we can only meet sufficiently verifiable user requests. Sufficiently verifiable user requests refer to requests that allow us to reasonably match the information provided by the user making the request with the information already available to us, insofar non-pseudonymous Personal Data is available.
In view of the above, and due to opting to use one-way encryption for IPs, in a pseudonymous manner, we may not have any personal information of you on record we can provide you with.
This Section applies to you if you are a natural person who is a California resident, as defined in the California Code of Regulations. This section describes our good faith effort to meet our obligations under the CCPA.
The CCPA defines “personal information” as including “…information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”
For the purposes of our Privacy Policy, the “person” is “you” (“your”, “user”). The personal information we may collect includes your IP Address; the unique User ID we assign you; the User-Agent and version of your web browser; and the Operating System and version used by your hardware.
The personal information we collect will only be used and disclosed for the business purposes detailed in sections 5 and 6 of this Privacy Policy, which is necessary for us in order to provide you with the Service.
You can contact us to submit any CCPA related inquiry or request via the following 2 methods:
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Please be advised that we do not explicitly sell your personal information (nor do we use non-pseudonymous Personal Data) therefore, there is no need for you to opt out of the potential sale of your personal information.
Please note that we can only meet sufficiently verifiable user requests.{" "} Sufficiently verifiable user requests refer to requests that allow us to reasonably match the information provided by the user making the request with the information already available to us, insofar non-pseudonymous Personal Data is available.
In view of the above, and due to opting to use one-way encryption for IPs, in a pseudonymous manner, we may not have any personal information of you on record we can provide you with.
The Service is not directed to children, as defined under applicable laws and specifically under 16 in the EEA or 13 in the U.S.A (“Child”). We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone that is considered to be a child. If we determine upon collection that a user is a child, we will not use or maintain his/her Personal Information without the parent/guardian’s consent. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records. We encourage parents and legal guardians to be familiar with the Internet activity of their children.
As a user of our extension, you can remove the extension from your browser at any time. For simple steps to remove our extension, please click uninstall.
Please note, that we may modify the information presented via the extension and/or this Privacy Policy from time to time. You should check back here periodically to see if the Privacy Policy has been updated. We will always show the date of the latest modification of the Privacy Policy at the top of the page so you can tell when it was last revised.
We regularly review our compliance with this Privacy Policy. Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to support@imali.media.