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    <h2>Bellingcat Privacy Policy</h2>
    <p>
      Your privacy is important to us. It is Bellingcat&#39;s policy to respect
      your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding
      any personal information we may collect about you, including across our
      website,
      <a href="https://auto-archiver.bellingcat.com"
        >https://auto-archiver.bellingcat.com</a
      >, and other sites we own and operate.
    </p>
    <p>
      Personal information is any information about you which can be used to
      identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as
      name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even
      information about how you use a website or online service.
    </p>
    <p>
      In the event our site contains links to third-party sites and services,
      please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy
      policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should
      read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and
      use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of
      your activities after you leave our site.
    </p>
    <p>This policy is effective as of 15 June 2023.</p>
    <p>Last updated: 15 June 2023</p>
    <h3>Information We Collect</h3>
    <p>
      Information we collect falls into one of two categories: 'voluntarily
      provided' information and 'automatically collected' information.
    </p>
    <p>
      'Voluntarily provided' information refers to any information you knowingly
      and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services
      and promotions.
    </p>
    <p>
      'Automatically collected' information refers to any information
      automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products
      and services.
    </p>
    <h4>Log Data</h4>
    <p>
      When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard
      data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet
      Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit,
      the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other
      details about your visit.
    </p>
    <p>
      Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the site, we may
      automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances
      surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about
      your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other
      technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive
      notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have
      occurred, or what the nature of the error is.
    </p>
    <p>
      Please be aware that while this information may not be personally
      identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to
      personally identify individual persons.
    </p>
    <h4>Personal Information</h4>
    <p>
      We may ask for personal information — for example, when you register an
      account or when you contact us — which may include one or more of the
      following:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>Name</li>
      <li>Email</li>
    </ul>
    <h4>User-Generated Content</h4>
    <p>
      We consider 'user-generated content' to be materials (text, image and/or
      video content) voluntarily supplied to us by our users for the purpose of
      publication, processing, or usage on our platform. All user-generated
      content is associated with the account or email address used to submit the
      materials.
    </p>
    <p>
      Please be aware that any content you submit for the purpose of publication
      will be public after posting (and subsequent review or vetting process).
      Once published it may be accessible to third parties not covered under
      this privacy policy.
    </p>
    <h4>Transaction Data</h4>
    <p>
      Transaction data refers to data that accumulates over the normal course of
      operation on our platform. This may include transaction records, stored
      files, user profiles, analytics data and other metrics, as well as other
      types of information, created or generated, as users interact with our
      services.
    </p>
    <h4>Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information</h4>
    <p>
      We only collect and use your personal information when we have a
      legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance we only collect personal
      information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.
    </p>
    <h4>Collection and Use of Information</h4>
    <p>
      We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the
      following on our website:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>Register for an account</li>
      <li>Purchase a subscription</li>
      <li>Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content</li>
      <li>
        Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
      </li>
      <li>When you mention us on social media</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
      We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following
      purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a
      manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
    </p>
    <ul>
      <li>to provide you with our platform's core features and services</li>
      <li>
        to enable you to customize or personalise your experience of our website
      </li>
      <li>to contact and communicate with you</li>
      <li>
        for analytics, market research, and business development, including to
        operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated
        social media platforms
      </li>
      <li>
        to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications,
        and associated social media platforms
      </li>
      <li>for internal record keeping and administrative purposes</li>
      <li>
        for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps
        are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p>
      We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal
      information with general information or research data we receive from
      other trusted sources. For example, If you provide us with your location,
      we may combine this with general information about currency and language
      to provide you with an enhanced experience of our site and service.
    </p>
    <h4>Security of Your Personal Information</h4>
    <p>
      When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this
      information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to
      prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure,
      copying, use or modification.
    </p>
    <p>
      Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you
      provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or
      storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security.
    </p>
    <p>
      You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security
      strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds
      of our services. For example, ensuring any passwords associated with
      accessing your personal information and accounts are secure and
      confidential.
    </p>
    <h4>How Long We Keep Your Personal Information</h4>
    <p>
      We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This
      time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in
      accordance with this privacy policy. For example, if you have provided us
      with personal information as part of creating an account with us, we may
      retain this information for the duration your account exists on our
      system. If your personal information is no longer required for this
      purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details
      that identify you.
    </p>
    <p>
      However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our
      compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for
      archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical
      research purposes or statistical purposes.
    </p>
    <h3>Children’s Privacy</h3>
    <p>
      We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under
      the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information about
      children under 13.
    </p>
    <h3>Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties</h3>
    <p>We may disclose personal information to:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of our company</li>
      <li>
        third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to
        provide their services including (without limitation) IT service
        providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, analytics, error
        loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers,
        professional advisors, and payment systems operators
      </li>
      <li>our employees, contractors, and/or related entities</li>
      <li>our existing or potential agents or business partners</li>
      <li>
        credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory
        authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have
        provided to you
      </li>
      <li>
        courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers,
        as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal
        proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal
        rights
      </li>
      <li>
        third parties, including agents or sub-contractors who assist us in
        providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
      </li>
      <li>third parties to collect and process data</li>
      <li>
        an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of
        our assets and business
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p>Third parties we currently use include:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>Plausible Analytics</li>
      <li>Google Single Sign On</li>
    </ul>
    <h3>International Transfers of Personal Information</h3>
    <p>
      The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in
      Netherlands, or where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party
      providers maintain facilities.
    </p>
    <p>
      The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal
      information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in
      which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal
      information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those
      transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii)
      we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with
      this privacy policy.
    </p>
    <h3>Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information</h3>
    <p>
      <strong>Your choice:</strong> By providing personal information to us, you
      understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal
      information in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to
      provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect
      your use of our website or the products and/or services offered on or
      through it.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Information from third parties:</strong> If we receive personal
      information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in
      this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal
      information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have
      such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Marketing permission:</strong> If you have previously agreed to us
      using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may
      change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Access:</strong> You may request details of the personal
      information that we hold about you.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Correction:</strong> If you believe that any information we hold
      about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or
      misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy
      policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to
      be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Non-discrimination:</strong> We will not discriminate against you
      for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Unless
      your personal information is required to provide you with a particular
      service or offer (for example processing transaction data), we will not
      deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for
      goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits,
      or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of
      goods or services.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Notification of data breaches:</strong> We will comply with laws
      applicable to us in respect of any data breach.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Complaints:</strong> If you believe that we have breached a
      relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact
      us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged
      breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in
      writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we
      will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact
      a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your
      complaint.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Unsubscribe:</strong> To unsubscribe from our email database or
      opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please
      contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy, or opt-out
      using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to
      request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
    </p>
    <h3>Use of Cookies</h3>
    <p>
      We use 'cookies' to collect information about you and your activity across
      our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on
      your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how
      you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you
      have specified.
    </p>
    <p>Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information.</p>
    <h3>Business Transfers</h3>
    <p>
      If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out
      of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data, including your
      personal information, among the assets transferred to any parties who
      acquire us. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any
      parties who acquire us may, to the extent permitted by applicable law,
      continue to use your personal information according to this policy, which
      they will be required to assume as it is the basis for any ownership or
      use rights we have over such information.
    </p>
    <h3>Limits of Our Policy</h3>
    <p>
      Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please
      be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those
      sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective
      privacy practices.
    </p>
    <h3>Changes to This Policy</h3>
    <p>
      At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to
      our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or
      regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will
      post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this
      privacy policy.
    </p>
    <p>
      If the changes are significant, or if required by applicable law, we will
      contact you (based on your selected preferences for communications from
      us) and all our registered users with the new details and links to the
      updated or changed policy.
    </p>
    <p>
      If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the
      opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of
      your personal information.
    </p>
    <h3>
      Additional Disclosures for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
      Compliance (EU)
    </h3>
    <h4>Data Controller / Data Processor</h4>
    <p>
      The GDPR distinguishes between organisations that process personal
      information for their own purposes (known as &ldquo;data
      controllers&rdquo;) and organizations that process personal information on
      behalf of other organizations (known as &ldquo;data processors&rdquo;).
      We, Bellingcat, located at the address provided in our Contact Us section,
      are a Data Controller and/or Processor with respect to the personal
      information you provide to us.
    </p>
    <h4>Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information</h4>
    <p>
      We will only collect and use your personal information when we have a
      legal right to do so. In which case, we will collect and use your personal
      information lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. If we seek your
      consent to process your personal information, and you are under 16 years
      of age, we will seek your parent or legal guardian’s consent to process
      your personal information for that specific purpose.
    </p>
    <p>
      Our lawful bases depend on the services you use and how you use them. This
      means we only collect and use your information on the following grounds:
    </p>
    <h5>Consent From You</h5>
    <p>
      Where you give us consent to collect and use your personal information for
      a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time using the
      facilities we provide; however this will not affect any use of your
      information that has already taken place. When you contact us, you may
      consent to your name and email address being used so we can respond to
      your enquiry. While you may request that we delete your contact details at
      any time, we cannot recall any email we have already sent. If you have any
      further enquiries about how to withdraw your consent, please feel free to
      enquire using the details provided in the Contact Us section of this
      privacy policy.
    </p>
    <h5>Performance of a Contract or Transaction</h5>
    <p>
      Where you have entered into a contract or transaction with us, or in order
      to take preparatory steps prior to our entering into a contract or
      transaction with you. For example, if you purchase a product, service, or
      subscription from us, we may need to use your personal and payment
      information in order to process and deliver your order.
    </p>
    <h5>Our Legitimate Interests</h5>
    <p>
      Where we assess it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as for
      us to provide, operate, improve and communicate our services. We consider
      our legitimate interests to include research and development,
      understanding our audience, marketing and promoting our services, measures
      taken to operate our services efficiently, marketing analysis, and
      measures taken to protect our legal rights and interests.
    </p>
    <h5>Compliance with Law</h5>
    <p>
      In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal
      information. Such cases may include (but are not limited to) court orders,
      criminal investigations, government requests, and regulatory obligations.
      If you have any further enquiries about how we retain personal information
      in order to comply with the law, please feel free to enquire using the
      details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy.
    </p>
    <h4>International Transfers Outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)</h4>
    <p>
      We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in
      the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be
      protected by appropriate safeguards, for example by using standard data
      protection clauses approved by the European Commission, or the use of
      binding corporate rules or other legally accepted means.
    </p>
    <h4>Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information</h4>
    <p>
      <strong>Restrict:</strong> You have the right to request that we restrict
      the processing of your personal information if (i) you are concerned about
      the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) you believe your personal
      information has been unlawfully processed; (iii) you need us to maintain
      the personal information solely for the purpose of a legal claim; or (iv)
      we are in the process of considering your objection in relation to
      processing on the basis of legitimate interests.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Objecting to processing:</strong> You have the right to object to
      processing of your personal information that is based on our legitimate
      interests or public interest. If this is done, we must provide compelling
      legitimate grounds for the processing which overrides your interests,
      rights, and freedoms, in order to proceed with the processing of your
      personal information.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Data portability:</strong> You may have the right to request a
      copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible, we
      will provide this information in CSV format or other easily readable
      machine format. You may also have the right to request that we transfer
      this personal information to a third party.
    </p>
    <p>
      <strong>Deletion:</strong> You may have a right to request that we delete
      the personal information we hold about you at any time, and we will take
      reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our current
      records. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will let
      you know how the deletion affects your use of our website or products and
      services. There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons
      which, if applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request.
      Please be aware that search engines and similar third parties may still
      retain copies of your personal information that has been made public at
      least once, like certain profile information and public comments, even
      after you have deleted the information from our services or deactivated
      your account.
    </p>
    <h3>Contact Us</h3>
    <p>
      For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us
      using the following details:
    </p>
    <p>
      Bellingcat Data Controller<br />
      contact@bellingcat.com
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