Application vs. Privacy Policy. CyberGhost VPN 6.0 on 2016-4-21
- privacymeteronline
- 29 апр. 2016 г.
- 3 мин. чтения
Today, we're going to present our next application we examined in section 'Application vs. Privacy Policy'. Application CyberGhost VPN is available to download for iOS and Android and has its privacy policy published here. We will cite the most important statements of privacy policy below to compare it with our results on data protection.
First of all, we will remind what data items groups were found in this application. Here we go:
- Credentials group
- Credentials (IDs),
- Credentials (Token),
- Credentials (Access ID),
- Credentials (App Passwords),
- Credentials (PreShared Secret) - Location group: Geo Data - Account group: Account Details - Device Group: Environment - Application Group: Application Certificates 'n' Profile, Application Configs - Analytics Group: Application Configs
CyberGhost VPN. Privacy Policy The service www.cyberghostvpn.com (hereinafter called CyberGhost VPN) is a product offered by CyberGhost S.R.L. (hereinafter called CyberGhost), Romania. CyberGhost has an unequivocal company policy: the strongest observance of data protection and uncompromising protection of the user privacy. Therefore, the user’s personal data is not monitored, recorded, logged or stored. Many companies state that they take your privacy seriously – we state that too and we really mean it! CyberGhost is a service which protects privacy. We act accordingly when collecting and storing data. We collect and store only the data needed to operate the service. In order to improve the quality of the service, we store data such as the utilization degree of the servers. However, we do not store statistical data, which can be linked to a user account. Also, we do not store data on who had used which server and when.
1. Data collected and used by CyberGhost
Personal data: CyberGhost collects and uses no personal data, such as e-mail addresses, name, domicile address and payment information.
Yes, that's partially true, however, it contains Acount Details data items about you, your subscriptions
If you register for the Premium-Service of CyberGhost VPN, we store a fully anonymous User ID, an encoded password and your pay scale information (activation key, start and end).
This is also true, your credentials stored 'encoded' and additionally license key you got after subscribing for Premium was found. Storing or transferring data in encoded state doesn't help to protection and prevent newbies from stealing your account, because encoded data is input value for application and server like your email plus password to get access via web-site.
Log data: CyberGhost keeps no logs which enable interference with your IP address, the moment or content of your data traffic. We make express reference to the fact that we do not record in logs communication contents or data regarding the accessed websites or the IP addresses.
That's also true. We didn't find any data logged locally or transferred
CyberGhost VPN records exclusively for statistical purposes non-personal data (such as for example, data regarding the utilization degree of the servers), which do not represent in any moment a danger for your anonymity. Such serve exclusively for the improvement of the service quality.
Cookies: In order to enable you a simplified Login to cyberghostvpn.com, a Cookie is deposited on your computer, comprising the data requested for your authentication in encrypted form.
Logs on websites: CyberGhost uses Google Analytics and Mixpanel for the statistical assessment of user access on cyberghostvpn.com. Both uses the so-called "Cookies", text files stored on your computer, which enable an analysis of the use of the website via you. The information generated by Cookies regarding your use of the internet offer is stored by CyberGhost itself in a data processing center in EU (Romania). The IP address will become anonymous immediately after processing and storage thereof. You can prevent the installation of Cookies by a corresponding configuration of your browser software; however, CyberGhost informs you that, in such case, it is possible that you will not be able to use all functions of this website.
Not only on web-site but in mobile application too were found analytics third party libraries. What we found was application configuration data only
2. How does CyberGhost use the collected data
Information on the geographical location: CyberGhost indicates in its Client data on the geographical location. Such are determined based on the IP and a geolocation data base, which can be found on our servers. No data are stored or forwarded to third parties.
4. Safety
In March 2012, CyberGhost had successfully passed an audit and verification conducted by QSCert for the implemented Information Safety Management System (ISMS) according to the international industrial standards ISO27001 and ISO9001. The certification confirms the high quality of the internal safety processes and is renewed yearly ever since.
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