Privacy Policy

This right allows you to have to data erased as soon as possible by Qwant. Privacy experts have previously expressed concerns about Zoom: In 2019, the video-conferencing software experienced both a webcam hacking scandal, and a bug that allowed snooping users to potentially join video meetings they hadn’t been invited to. Retention period: This anonymized data may be retained by Microsoft in accordance with Bings’s Privacy Statement, ie for a maximum of 18 months. For data that may be collected when you make a request (delisting, rights related to your personal data, content removal), the duration of retention depends on what the law prescribes for each of these rights. Data protection regulation grants you with specific rights related to your data and their processing by Qwant. The right to oppose, as its name says, allows you to oppose the processing of your data. Regarding data collected for the processing of information requests, Qwant deletes them within 6 months after the receipt of the request.

We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing. For more details, please refer to the next section of this Privacy Policy, entitled “What are your rights and how can you exercize them”. Finally, you can ask to erase the data collected from the information requests forms completed on the website, with the exception of forms dedicated to the exercise of your rights. What are your rights and how can you exercize them? When the search query with your full name and firstname delivers results which are untrue, obsolete or excessive, you can request that related web results be delisted.

An approximative geographic area of the origin of the search query, to the scale of a region or a city, is sent in order to deliver ads that are more locally relevant (for instance if you search for a plumber). Information related to the exercize of this right (for instance your data) are stored for a period of one year following the day Qwant answers, then deleted when this delay is over. Information related to this right to access (such as your contact info) are kept one year after Qwant has answered, then removed when such delay is over. Information associated to this right to rectify or suppress (such as your contact info) are kept for one year after Qwant has answered, then removed when such delay is over. For Qwant Boards, French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data (e.g. user ID used, URL or position, nature of the operation, time…) for one year. How Qwant minimizes the processed data to protect your privacy: When Qwant requires Microsoft to transmit ads that match the entered keywords, Qwant anonymizes the required data and therefore only transmits to Microsoft the entered keywords with the User Agent of your browser (that is the type of browser that you use and its version), as well as a salted hash generated from a fraction of your IP address (last octet truncated) and the User Agent.

A session browser cookie is stored in the browser and deleted when the browser shuts down. Information associated to the exercize of the right to erasure are stored for one year from the day Qwant answers, then deleted after this delay. Information about this right to be forgotten (such as your contact info) are kept for one year after Qwant has answered, and entirely removed when the legal delay is over (3 years). Information related to the exercise of this right to oppose (for instance your contact info) is retained for one year following the answer by Qwant, and will be permanently deleted after the legal prescription delay (three years under French law). On Qwant, you will never see intrusive ads that get in the way of what are looking for. Always use the clickwrap method to get your users to agree to your terms. You can get a copy of your data by connecting to your Qwant account and clicking “Receive a copy of my data” in your account. For real though, they collect data such as your system specs, your location through the use of “cookies, pixels and tags” (No idea what the latter 2 are) and disclose that data to (just an example of something that is written) “Forum service providers” so you can have a better gameplay experience.

These third party providers may collect User Information from our Services for their own purposes, including but not limited to monitoring fraud around the web. The information we process for user queries are a hashed IP address and approximate geolocation. Our certification applies to our business processes across our global operations that process and transfer personal information to/from our affiliates around the world. It is a specific right that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has recognized, that Qwant applies fully. European Union Model Clauses. This right allows you to ask Qwant to give you all this information. This right allows you to obtain the temporary withdrawal of published data when its accuracy is challenged, for a period that allows Qwant to procede with necessary checks. Your Personal Data will be processed by EF for the purposes of completing your booking, providing you with the products and services that you have ordered (including travel insurance coverage), for customer service, administrative services or as otherwise necessary to perform the contract between you and us or as further described in this policy.