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Privacy Policy

General information

This privacy policy applies to all online services of King Crab Hosting.

All legal matters will processed in the state of Colorado of the United States of America.

Email: contact@kingcrabhosting.com

How do we process personal data?

We save and use your personal data only to process your orders and to get in touch with you. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will your email address to send the newsletter to you. We will automatically send you status messages and alerts from noreply@kingcrabhosting.com. We also save and process data that job applicants provide us as part of the job application process.

What categories of data do we collect?

Every time you visit our website, your IP address and other pieces of information are saved in anonymized form. If you register an account with us, your contact information will be stored. If you order products from us, your address and payment information will also be stored.

In particular, we save the following data from you.

Registration data

When you register an account with us, we collect and process certain personal data from you as your registration data. For example, we need your name, address information, telephone number, payment information and your email address to process your order. If you pay using a credit card, we do not collect and store any payment information such as credit card numbers or verification codes. You disclose this information only to the respective payment service provider. We delete all your registration data either: within 24 months, as soon as you delete your user account with us, or once the statutory retention period expires. You can delete your user account with us by sending an email to account@kingcrabhosting.com with your deletion request. 

Email addresses

If you subscribed to our newsletter, if someone invited you to King Crab Hosting using a referral link, or if you requested that you receive automated messages from noreply@kingcrabhosting.com, we also store your email address. We will delete your email address once you delete your user account or if you unsubscribe from our newsletter.

We use the double opt-in method to ensure that you actually want to receive the newsletter. If you go through this process, you agree to receive the newsletter and to be added to the mailing list for it, and then you will receive a confirmation email that will allow you to legally confirm that you have registered for the newsletter. We will only add your name to the mailing list if you actually complete the confirmation.

We use these data for sending information that you request including information about our new offers.

King Crab Hosting will never sell your personal data.

You can revoke your consent at any time to the storage of your personal data (including your email address) and to the use of your data. You can do this, for example, by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. 

Server log files

Whenever you visit our websites, we automatically store certain data. This includes your IP address, type and version of the browser you use, and the time, date, and website from which you come to our site. Your IP address is saved in an anonymized manner. You can then no longer be identified.

Career portal

If you send us job application documents such as your resume, references and cover letter, we will save and process these pieces of data. Application documents from job applicants that do not result in hires are deleted after 6 months. If you wish to be considered for future job openings and you consent to a longer storage period, your application documents will be deleted after 24 months. With applications that result in hires, the documents are forwarded to our HR department. 

Sweepstakes

We sometimes have sweepstakes on our websites for various occasions. If you choose to participate in the sweepstakes, we save your first and last names, your email address and, if applicable, the country you come from. We use the collected data only to process the sweepstakes. Once the sweepstakes end and the winner or winners are chosen and notified, the collected data are deleted.

Website analysis

On our website, we use Google Analytics, and open-source web analysis tools on our secured system. Our website uses cookies. These are text files that are saved on your computer and which allow us to analyze how you use our website. The cookies generate information about how you use the website, and our server saves this information.

We do not send the data that the cookies generate about how you use our website to third parties . You can prevent the software from generating cookies by changing the settings of your internet browser. However, if you do this, you may not be able to use all of the functions on our website.

Who we forward your data to

External service providers may have access to your data while they assist us in providing our services. In some cases, third parties such as government authorities, external consultants, or our business partners may receive your data.

In particular, this may occur in the following cases:

Domain registration

If we register a domain for you, we provide the required data to the corresponding registration service provider.

Payment via credit card:

If you pay via credit card, the payment is processed by an external service provider. For credit card payments, your information is collected directly by the payment processors provided during checkout.

Failure to pay for services

If you as a customer fail to pay your invoices on time, your access to King Crab Hosting products and/or services may become limited. Your account will remain in a suspended state for 7 days at which any data you have on the unpaid King Crab Hosting Products or services in question is subject to termination and any data you have stored can be deleted. 

Job application documents

If you apply for a job with King Crab Hosting using our career portal, we pass on your job application documents to our HR Department where there are processing agreements for storing and deleting your application. Your application is stored for 6 months unless you specify on your application that you would like for us to consider you for up to 12 months. After which time your information is permanently deleted from any systems until you submit a new application.

To manage our job applications, we will send emails out to selected applicants using automation software as job opportunities become available. The invite will include a link to schedule an interview at a time that works best for the applicants schedule. 

Third countries

Data is transferred to third countries in adherence to the legally regulated admissibility requirements. We will not transfer your data to a third country if it does not serve the purpose of performing our contract with you; if we have no consent from you; if the transfer is not necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims; and if there are no other exceptions. We will only transfer your data to a third country if there is unlawful activity on the account determined by the court of Colorado in the United States of America.

Other categories of recipients

State authorities and courts

Where do we process your data?

We process your data in our data centers in Oregon, New York, Texas, California, and Virginia.

Social media data

YouTube

We integrate videos from the YouTube platform provided by Google.
Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Opt-Out: https://youtube.com/opt-out.

Online presence on social media

We maintain online presence on social networks and platforms in order to communicate with our customers, interested parties, and users and to inform them about our services. We use Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, among others. When visiting each of these platforms, you as a user agree to the terms and conditions and the data processing guidelines of the corresponding operator.

Unless stated otherwise in our data privacy notice, we process user data if users communicate with us on these social networks and platforms, e.g. publish posts on our pages or send us messages.

We at King Crab Hosting process users’ data only when it is in the customer’s legitimate interest for us to do so. As a company, we have a legal right to obtain general customer information to use in customer accounts. We also use customers’ data for communication purposes. If any of the providers below request users for consent for processing their data. For detailed information about the data processing operations of the providers below, as well as their opt-out options, please check the links that we have listed below.

Surveys

We conduct surveys in order to constantly improve ourselves and our products. Participation is voluntary. We use Survey tools to collect this information.
If personal data is collected as part of the survey, it is processed and stored directly by King Crab Hosting Survey team. 

Your rights as a “data subject”

You have the right to information about your personal data that we process. If you do not make requests for information in writing, please bear in mind that we might ask you to provide proof that you who you claim to be. Furthermore, you have a right to rectification or deletion or restriction of processing, as it is applicable to you under the law. Furthermore, in accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to object to us processing your data. You also have the right of data portability.

Right to lodge a complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing of your personal data by us to contact@kingcrabhosting.com

Voluntary nature of data provision

There is no statutory obligation for you to provide your data to King Crab Hosting. However, you cannot use some of our services if you do not provide your data to us. Your decision to provide us with your personal data is and always will be completely voluntary.