Privacy Policy

Last updated: February 01, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

Who We Are

Our website address is https://www.bruteforceattacks.com/

Bruteforceattacks.com is an informational website meant as a knowledge base about brute force attacks and other cyber threats.

Bruteforceattacks.com is owned and operated by Syspeace AB.

Syspeace is a Swedish/EU company with legal entities, business processes, management structures, and technical systems that are applied across borders. Syspeace provides software and services to private and public companies (customers) worldwide. Syspeace‘s head office is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Syspeace follows European data protection legislation, including the general data protection regulation (GDPR).

Our company website address is https://syspeace.com/

This privacy policy is available on Our website https://www.bruteforceattacks.com/privacy-policy/.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
  • Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Syspeace AB, Hästholmsvägen 28, SE 131 30 Nacka, Sweden.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Country refers to: Sweden
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website, https://www.bruteforceattacks.com
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers mainly to bruteforceattacks.com, accessible from https://www.bruteforceattacks.com, or any of Our other websites.
  • You refers to the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collection of Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. It may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies, Cookies, and Pixel Tags

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. 

Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies may be used by Us.

For more information about cookies and how they work, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies or Browser Cookies

A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of Our Service. Unless You have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, Our Service may use Cookies.

Web Beacons

Certain sections of Our Service and Our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies and Technology From Google
  • Google Analytics: Using this cookie, We can get information on how visitors use Our site, including, but not limited to, page views, source, and time of visit to the site. The information is unidentified and displayed as numbers, which means that it cannot be derived from specific persons. This protects Your privacy. By using Google Analytics, We can see what content is popular on Our sites and thus strive to offer You more of what interests You.
  • Google Analytics Remarketing: Cookies are placed on Your computer so that, after You leave Our site, Google may show You ads about Our Service that may be of interest to You based on Your visit to Our site. This information is not personally identifiable.
  • Google Ads (previously known as Adwords): By using the Google Ads code, We can see which pages have contributed to completing the contact form, enabling Us to leverage Our budget for paid search results. This information is not personally identifiable.
  • Google Ads Remarketing: Cookies are placed on Your computer so that, after You leave Our site, Google may show You ads about Our Service that may be of interest to You based on Your visit to Our site. This information is not personally identifiable.

You can prevent the information created by Google’s cookie on how to use Our Sites from being collected and processed by Google in the future by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out browser extension for Your current browser. This browser extension is available at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881

Cookies From Facebook
  • Facebook Remarketing: Facebook’s pixel tag places cookies on Your computer that can send a message to Facebook that You have visited the site. We then assume that You are interested in Our Services and the content of the website. When You then visit Facebook, information or ads with similar content are displayed. Go to the Facebook privacy settings to limit the display of this type of marketing.

Use of Your Personal Data

What Personal Data We Are Dealing With

Bruteforceattacks.com can process the following personal information about You:

  • Basic contact information such as name, and e-mail address.
  • Feedback, comments, or questions about bruteforceattacks.com, Syspeace or any of Our products and services.
  • Content that You have uploaded on request during a support ticket.
  • Visiting information from Your browser, such as web browser, device, language, and address of the website You visited before, as well as information about IP address.
  • Clickstream for behaviors and activities on Our Website.
  • Email activities, such as which emails from Our Company You open and information about when and how.
  • Other publically visible personal information in Your profile that You voluntarily provided on third-party social networks, such as LinkedIn and Facebook.

How We Use Your Data

In order to care for Our user relations, bruteforceattacks.com needs information about You in Your role as the user of Our Service. The purposes of processing these personal data are as follows:

  1. Offer support to those who use Our Service.
  2. Improve and develop the quality, function, and user experience of Our Website.
  3. To provide and maintain Our Service, including monitoring the usage of Our Service.
  4. Discover, combat, and prevent security threats and perform maintenance and troubleshooting.
  5. Prevent Our Service from being abused.
  6. Create interest profiles to promote relevant products and services.
  7. Other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and evaluating and improving Our Service, marketing, and Your experience.
  8. Operate user forums to educate and enable contact between users and Our Company.
  9. Registration of an e-mail address and company or person name for any Subscription Services (for example, newsletter signup).

The legal basis for processing personal data for the purposes of paragraphs 1 to 7 above is primarily that We have a legitimate interest in processing Your personal data for business purposes in a manner that We believe does not conflict with Your personal rights or freedoms. The legal basis for processing personal data for the purpose described in paragraphs 8 and 9 is Your consent.

How We Share Your Personal Information

Bruteforceattacks.com and Syspeace may disclose Your personal data to an external third party in the following situations.

  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our Service, and to contact You.
  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.
  • With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
  • Our Websites’ user forums. If You write a post, comment, or in other ways react to content on Our Websites, this information can be read and used by anyone who has access to these forums. The information can be used for purposes that neither We nor You can control. Bruteforceattack.com is not responsible for any information that You submit on such forums or on Our Websites. We do not publish any comments, stories, or similar content that You have provided without Your consent.
  • Public authorities. The police and other authorities may require access to personal data from Our Company’s Services. In these cases, We only issue the information if there is a court decision or similar decision to do so.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if You have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows You to manage Your personal information. 

You may contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when We have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

  • Business Transactions. If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
  • Law enforcement. Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
  • Other legal requirements. The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
    • Comply with a legal obligation
    • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
    • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
    • Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
    • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We are mindful in selecting which companies or websites We link out to, and We try to make sure that they offer quality and trustworthy content. However, We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

We welcome Your comments. For comments or questions regarding Our privacy policy, unsolved privacy issues, and use of personal data that We have not dealt with satisfactorily, or regarding any breaches related to Your privacy, please contact Us.

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