PRIVACY POLICY FOR HEALTHGUARD BROWSER EXTENSION

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you use the HealthGuard Browser Extension.

NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. (“NewsGuard,” “we”, “us” or “our”), the owner of the HealthGuard browser extension, cares strongly about your privacy and the security of your information. As part of our corporate culture of transparency, we want to be clear about how and why we collect, use, and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in conjunction with your access to the HealthGuard extension. The extension may contain links to other websites for your convenience and information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those sites.

GENERAL

For the purposes of the European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), NewsGuard is the “data controller” of, and is responsible for any European personal information collected through the browser extension.
If you have any inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact NewsGuard using the details below:

By email: service@newsguardtech.com
By post: NewsGuard Technologies, Inc.
25 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Attn.: Privacy Counsel
By telephone: +1-740-480-1850

EU REPRESENTATIVE

VeraSafe has been appointed as NewsGuard’s representative in the European Union for data protection matters, pursuant to Article 27 of the GDPR. VeraSafe can be contacted, in addition to NewsGuard, for matters related to the processing of your personal data only. To make such an inquiry, please contact VeraSafe using the details set out below:
By email form:

https://www.verasafe.com/privacy-services/contact-article-27-representative
By post: VeraSafe Ireland Ltd.
Unit 3D North Point House
North Point Business Park
New Mallow Road
Cork T23AT2P
Ireland
By telephone: +420 228 881 031

PERSONAL INFORMATION

The term “Personal Information” as used in this Privacy Policy shall mean any information that actually enables, or is capable of enabling us to identify you, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as your name, identification number, location data, online identifier or one or more factors specific to you.

Information We Collect

When you use our HealthGuard browser extension, we may collect “Electronic Identification Data,” including: Internet protocol (IP) address; Information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access the browser extension, such as web browser type, language and version, screen size and other transactional information; Geolocation information (this is limited to the region from which you access our browser extension); and Information about your visit, including pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information and methods used to browse away from the page.

When you use our Browser Extension, we collect the above information as a part of the HTTP protocol specification, but we do not track or store it.

Information We Do Not Collect

When you use our Browser Extension, we do not collect your Personal Information. We use only your Access Code, which is not connected to any Personal Information, in order to activate the Extension.

Data Processing in the United States

If you are using our HealthGuard Browser extension from outside the U.S., be aware that when we authorize your access code, the servers are located and operated inside the U.S.

USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies and other similar technologies to gather Electronic Identification Data, and we use HTML 5 local storage objects to help the browser extension function correctly. When you first access our browser extension from certain jurisdictions, you will receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “accept cookies”, you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in our Cookie Notice. Your access to the extension will not be affected if you do not accept cookies. For more information about our practices in this area, please see our Cookie Notice.

We also allow select third parties (e.g. Google Analytics) to collect Electronic Identification Data about our browser extension users to provide us with better insights into the use of the browser extension provided you have given your valid consent to such collection. Such Electronic Identification Data is received on an aggregated basis and cannot be used to identify you personally. When using the browser extension, this tracking only occurs if you interact with the browser extension (e.g. hovering/clicking on a shield). We do not track when a shield appears on a page or what pages they appear on.

BROWSING HISTORY

When you visit a website with the HealthGuard browser extension enabled, the browser extension sends the website domain to NewsGuard’s servers to check whether a rating and nutrition label exists for that site and, if one does, to display that rating and nutrition label in your browser.

However, NewsGuard does not collect or store this information or any information about the websites you visit. The servers and load balancers that receive this information do not store or transmit any logs of this traffic.

NewsGuard cannot and does not use data about the websites you visit for any purpose other than to serve its ratings and nutrition labels to you as you use the browser extension.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We evaluate and update this Privacy Policy periodically in light of changing business practices, technology and legal requirements. Any changes will be posted on this page. We recommend that you regularly consult this Privacy Policy, to make sure that you are aware of any changes. The most recent version of this Privacy Policy is reflected by the version date located at the bottom of this Policy.

Last updated: September 9, 2020