This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") explains the way Similarweb Ltd.(“Similarweb,” “we,” “us” or “our”) processes, uses, transfers and shares the information of those individuals who: (i) access and use our website for BrandBee available at: https://www.brandbee.io/ (“Visitor(s)” and “Website,” respectively); and (ii) access, use or interact with our BrandBee application (“Application,” "BrandBee," and “User(s),” respectively) and use the services provided therein, including, without limitation, your participation in our metered panels (“Panels”), our demographic survey (“Demographic Survey”), our’s or our Partners’ (as such term is defined below) market research surveys (“Market Research Survey(s)”), the exclusive research study (“Study”) and the receiving of points for such participation (“Points”). The Panels, Demographic Surveys and the Market Research Surveys as well as the other services available within the Application shall be collectively referred to herein as the “Services”. Each of the Visitors and Users are collectively referred to within this Privacy Policy as “you” or “your”. This Privacy Policy also explains the rights you have in relation to your Personal Data that we process and the security procedures that we have implemented to protect Personal Data. Do not use our Website, Application or Services if our data processing practices, as explained in this Privacy Policy, are unacceptable to you.We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to keep it up to date with legal requirements and the way we operate our business (as further explained in the amendments section below). Please make sure to check this Privacy Policy regularly for the latest version of the Privacy Policy.
For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679) (“GDPR”) and the UK data protection laws, Similarweb is the Controller of the personal data that we collect from our Visitors and Users.
You can contact our Data Protection Officer directly at: DPO@brandbee.io.
To learn more about our Application please visit: https://www.brandbee.io/ or contact us directly for more information about Similarweb or BrandBee by using the information in the Contact Us section below.
In the event that you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) may apply to you. Please make sure to review our CCPA Privacy Exhibit attached hereto as Exhibit A to learn more about our privacy practices with respect to the CCPA.
Depending on your interaction with us, we may collect one or both of the following types of data from you:
or the avoidance of doubt, any Non-Personal Data that is connected or linked to any Personal Data will be considered and treated by us as Personal Data for as long as such connection exists. Additionally, please be advised, that you are not required by law to provide us with any of your information and you may choose to refrain from providing us with certain types of Personal Data as you see fit.
We will use your Personal Data for the purposes listed in the table below. We will only collect, use and share your Personal Data where we are satisfied that we have an appropriate legal basis to do so. We have also included the legal bases which we rely on in the table below, which will impact which rights you have in relation to your Personal Data (see below for more details).
If you are a User, we will also process the Personal Data included in the User table below, in addition to the Personal Data that we included in the table above.
Depending on the way you interact with us, we may collect data from you in the following ways:
Similarweb will not share any of your Personal Data with a third party, except under the following circumstances:
We or our third-party service providers may use cookies, other similar tracking technologies or methods of web and mobile analysis to gather, store, and track certain information related to your access of, activity and interaction with our Website, the Application or your device. A “cookie” is a small piece of information that a website assigns to your device when you access the Website. Cookies are very helpful and may be used for a variety of different purposes. These purposes include, without limitation, allowing you to navigate between pages more efficiently, enabling the automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Website quicker and easier, to prevent fraud and protect our Services. For further information, please contact us at support@brandbee.io.
Please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more about cookies.
We use the following cookies, third-party tracking or analytic technologies on our Website and Application:
It is important to note that most browsers allow you to erase cookies from your computer’s hard drive, block the acceptance of certain cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your device. Please note however, that by choosing to block or erase certain cookies you may be limiting or diminishing your online experience with us. We encourage you to visit the following links to learn more about how you can block or erase cookies via your browser of choice: Google Chrome; Firefox; Internet Explorer; Safari; Edge; Opera.
Our Website, Application and Services are not directed to and are not meant to be used by individuals who are under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, we request that you not use our Website, Services or our Application. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from individuals who are considered children in their jurisdictions (i.e., under the age of 16 or as otherwise defined under the applicable law in their jurisdictions). If we become aware of the fact that Personal Data of children has been collected through our Website, Services, or Application, we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. Please contact us at support@brandbee.io if you become aware of or have any reason to believe that a child has shared Personal Data with us.
Our Services and our Website may contain links to third party services or websites that are not operated by us. These links are provided as a service and do not imply any endorsement of the activities or content of these websites, nor any association with their operators. Similarweb is not responsible for the privacy policies or privacy practices of any third party including, without limitation, websites directly linked to our Services or our website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any such third-party websites or services before you access them.
Similarweb takes reasonable and has put in place industry standard technical and organizational precautions to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your Personal Data and in order to prevent any unauthorized use of such Personal Data. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Data on our servers. The data collected by us is stored mainly on the servers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) located in the United States and in the UK. Please visit the following link for more information regarding the data security provided by AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.
Please contact us at: dpo@brandbee.io. If you believe that your privacy was treated in a way that was not in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will make a reasonable effort to notify you or any applicable supervisory authority in the event that a security incident occurs in which your Personal Data may be at risk, provided that we are required to do so in accordance with applicable law.
We will store and retain your Personal Data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes set forth above, as otherwise required in accordance with applicable law or until you have requested to opt-out of our collection of such Personal Data, subject to applicable law. We may at our sole discretion delete or amend information that is stored by us, without providing you with any prior notice of our intention to do so once it is no longer necessary for us to retain it for our purposes.
We may store or process your Personal Data in the UK, the EU, the United States or in other countries. As such, please be advised that any information you provide us may be transferred to and processed in countries other than the country from which you accessed our Website or Application. We will make sure to implement appropriate measures to ensure that your Personal Data receives an adequate level of data protection while it is being transferred. When Personal Data that was collected within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the UK is transferred outside the EEA or the UK (as applicable), we will take necessary steps in order to ensure that sufficient safeguards are provided during the transferring of such Personal Data. You may exercise your rights, where applicable, to receive information regarding the transfer mechanism that was used during the transferring of your Personal Data. Personal Data that is being transferred outside the EEA to a country which has not received an adequacy decision from the European Commission (“Adequacy Decision”)will be transferred pursuant to the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Union (“Standard Contractual Clauses”). Personal Data that we transfer outside of the UK to a country that is not in the EEA, has not received an Adequacy Decision or an adequacy regulation has not been passed regarding it by the UK will be transferred, depending on the situation, either pursuant to the International Data Transfer Agreement or the addendum to be used with the Standard Contractual Clauses, both as issued by the UK’s Information Commissioner.
Depending on your jurisdiction, data protection and privacy laws may provide you with the ability to exercise certain rights with respect to your Personal Data. We have included the rights that apply to EEA and UK residents below for your reference and convenience. If you are a California resident, please see our CCPA Exhibit for a description of your privacy rights.
Where you believe that we have not complied with our obligation under this Privacy Policy, the GDPR, the UK data protection laws, or the CCPA you have the right to make a complaint to an EU Data Protection Authority or the UK Information Commissioner's Office (as applicable).If you would like to exercise any of your rights listed above, please contact us at: dpo@brandbee.io to submit a request to exercise such rights. We reserve the right to ask that you send us reasonable evidence in order to verify your identity before we provide you with any of the information that you requested, subject to applicable law. We aim to respond to a verifiable request without undue delay and in any event in accordance with applicable law. We will notify you if we require more time to respond to your request and inform you of the reason and length of the extension period in writing. Our response to your request may also explain the reasons why we cannot fulfill your request, if applicable. When you request to exercise your data portability right, we will provide your Personal Data in a format that is able to be used and that would allow you to easily transmit the information from one entity to another.
Embee reserves its right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will make a reasonable effort to notify you with respect to any material changes to this Privacy Policy, provided that we are required to do so under applicable law. Any changes to this Privacy Policy shall go into effect as of the date listed in the “Last Amended” heading located at the top of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are familiar with our current practices and policies.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us as follows:
By email at: dpo@brandbee.io
This CCPA Privacy Exhibit (“Exhibit”) governs the way in which we process the data of consumers who reside in the State of California (“Consumers” as defined under the CCPA, and will be referred to herein as “you”). Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Exhibit. Furthermore, this Exhibit is an integral part of our Privacy Policy and therefore, any definitions used herein but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in our Privacy Policy. To learn more about your California privacy rights, please visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/privacy-laws.
When you access our Website and use our Application or Services, we collect certain information with respect to such use and access. This data may include “Personal Information” which is defined under the CCPA as any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer, household or device as specified in the table below.
The following table specifies the categories of Personal Information that we may collect (or may have collected within the last 12 months):
In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:
We disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties: service providers (e.g., servers etc.), business partners (e.g., our Partners), affiliates of Similarweb and third parties to whom you authorize us to disclose your Personal Information in connection with our Services.
We collect the Personal Information that we listed above in the ways listed in and in accordance with section B of our Privacy Policy.
We may use the Personal Information we collect for the business purposes that we included in section B of our Privacy Policy.We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected in a way that is materially different, unrelated, or incompatible with the purposes that are listed in section B of our Privacy Policy without providing you with prior notice of our intention to do so.
We have sold the following types of Personal Information in the last twelve (12) months of those users who choose to participate in a Study or take part in a Demographic Survey or a Market Research Survey:
If you would like to opt-out of this “sale”you can send us a Do Not Sell My Personal Information request at any time here or by emailing us at: dpo@brandbee.il.
Subject to certain conditions and exceptions, you may have the right to request deletion of Personal Information that we have collected about you.California consumers who are registered users of the Application and who are under 18 years of age may request the removal of content or information they posted on via the Application.
We will remove such content or information when we are required to do so by law. To request the removal of content or information you posted on the Application, you may contact us as described below. Please note that even if we remove the content or information that you posted, we cannot prevent further use or disclosure of that content or information by others once you have shared it publicly.
You may submit a request to us to opt-out of “sale” by visiting our Do Not Sell My Personal Information page and submitting a request there or by emailing us at dpo@brandbee.io.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the rights described in this section.
We provide you with the ability to exercise certain choices and controls in connection with our treatment of your Personal Information, depending on your relationship with us. You may exercise any or all of your rights in relation to your Personal Information by contacting our DPO at: dpo@brandbee.io or by contacting our support team at: support@brandbee.io.
We will update our Privacy Policy every 12 months, as required under the CCPA. The last revision date will be reflected in the “Last Amended” heading located at the top of this Privacy Policy.