OPEN ADBLOCKER PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: September 4, 2026

 

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs the data collection practices of Kavento Studio LTD. (“Company”, “we”, “our”) when you install, download and use our Open AdBlocker browser extensions (“Extension”) offered on our website, designated landing pages and which is also available through Chrome extension stores.

This Privacy Policy contains important disclosures on how we collect, share, and use your personal data or information as further detailed below. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, this Privacy Policy is an integrated part of the binding Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”). Definitions herein shall have the same meaning as defined in the Terms of Use.

PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, OR ADD THE EXTENSIONS TO YOUR BROWSER, OR USE THE SERVICES IN ANY MANNER BEFORE YOU READ AND ACKNOWLEDGE THIS PRIVACY POLICY. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and recommend that you check back periodically for the latest version as indicated by the date at the end of the Privacy Policy. Where required by applicable laws, we will provide you with notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to all users worldwide. If you are a resident of California, please refer to Additional Privacy Information for California Residents for information about the categories of Personal Information we may collect and your rights under California privacy laws. If you are a resident of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, or Utah, please refer to Additional Privacy Information for Certain United States Residents, which includes additional information about privacy rights for residents of certain U.S. jurisdictions.

The use of information received from Google API will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy including the Limited Use requirements.

  1. CONTACT INFORMATION:

Kavento Studio LTD, address at: 86-90 Paul Street, London, England, EC2A 4NE is the controller (as such term is defined under the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) or equivalent privacy legislation) of the Personal Data we collect from you. For any question, inquiry or concern related to this Privacy Policy or the processing of your Personal Data, you may contact us by email: privacy[at]kavento[dot]org.

We value your privacy and your rights as a data subject and have therefore appointed Prighter Group with its local partners as our privacy representative and your point of contact. Prighter gives you an easy way to exercise your privacy-related rights (e.g. requests to access or erase personal data). If you want to contact us via our representative, Prighter or make use of your data subject rights, please visit the following website: kavento.org

We process, collect and share “Personal Information” or “Personal Data”, as defined under applicable privacy laws, including, without limitations contact information, online identifiers and information that can reasonably identify you (collectively hereinafter “Personal Data”). Personal Data does not include non-identifiable information collected or generated via your use of the Extensions and Service that is not linked or linkable to you and could not be used to identify you, whether directly or indirectly with reference to other information (“Non-Personal Data”), such as technical information about your browser or device (type of browser, device, language preference, country level location, etc.) and other information that we aggregate or de-identify consistent with applicable law.

Sensitive Data. Pursuant to Article 9 of the GDPR, sensitive personal data shall include Personal Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, as well as genetic data, biometric data processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, data concerning health, or data concerning an individual’s sex life or sexual orientation (“Sensitive Data“). In light of our collection of Browsing and Activity Data as set forth below, such data may, depending on the websites visited by you, searches conducted by you, or content with which you interact, incidentally encompass information relating to you that may constitute Sensitive Data. We shall process any such Sensitive Data solely to the extent permitted under applicable law and subject to the implementation of appropriate safeguards.

We may use and disclose Non-Personal Data related to our business and the Services for quality control, analytics, research, development, and other purposes. Some of this information may be considered “de-identified” under U.S. privacy laws (i.e., data that is no longer linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable consumer). Where we rely on data that has been “de-identified” as defined by U.S. privacy laws, we will: (i) take reasonable measures to ensure that the de-identified information cannot be associated with an individual, household, or device; (ii) commit to maintain and use the information in de-identified form and not attempt to re-identify the information; and (iii) contractually obligate any further recipient not to re-identify the de-identified data.

DATA SETPURPOSE OF PROCESSINGLAWFUL BASIS (AS DEFINED UNDER GDPR)
Contact Information: When you contact us for an inquiry or support, or register to our newsletter, we will collect basic contact information such as email addresses, full names and related general contact information.We process the Contact Information for the following purposes: Support– to provide relevant support when you contact us for troubleshooting or otherwise. General Inquiries– to respond to your inquiries about the Company or our Services. Direct Marketing- to send you information about our Services and offerings, which we think may be of interest to you.Complying with our legal obligations, including law enforcement requests.We process the Contact Information for support under contract necessity and as determined in our Terms of Use.   Otherwise, we will process the information based on our legitimate interests, provided that our interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms, for example when responding to your inquiries, for security purposes, to understand, enhance and improve the Services, or otherwise for direct marketing.   We may also have a legal obligation to collect or otherwise use your Contact Information, for example in order to comply with a law enforcement order or other legal obligations.
Identifiers, Panel ID: Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which is trimmed and hashed (irreversibly encrypted) on a daily basis, and thus is not and cannot be traced back to an individual or used in any way to identify an individual, globally unique identification number, which is a random number we generate to keep track of the data sets we collect and if required, enable us to execute your data rights requests as further detailed below (“GUID”), user agent, device ID, etc.Promote the security of our Services by tracking use of our Services to detect abnormal user behavior, for enforcing our terms and policies, investigating, and preventing fraudulent, suspicious or illegal activities, and preventing unauthorized access to the Services. Improving and enhancing the Services.      We process such information on the bases of our legitimate interests of ensuring the security of our Services. We have conducted our assessments to ensure that our processing is reasonable and that our interests are not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights or freedoms.     
Usage Data: When you use our Services we will collect certain telemetry data regarding your interaction with the Services, general location (country level), time spent, features used, logs (i.e., time of access and duration of use), crashes, and analytic data.We collect your information for the purpose of providing and improving the Services. This information helps us monitor the security and performance of our Services, understand how the Services are used, optimize user engagement and customize and enhance your experience.Usage Data is processed based on our legitimate interest that are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
Browsing and Activity Data: This data includes URL referrer, URLs viewed or visited, pages ads viewed or clicked, ad URL, search engine results page data (keyword, order or index of results, links of results, title, description, and ads displayed). We make sure that the Browsing Data is cleaned and scrubbed on your device (i.e., on the client side) prior to being sent to our servers, for the purpose of removing and filtering any information that could be used to identify you or another individual.We use Browsing and Activity Data to provide the Services. This means that in order to provide in-depth analysis of traffic and engagement metrics about pages you are browsing and visiting. We also use and disclose the Browsing and Activity Data for market intelligence or analytics purposes.For the purpose of providing the Services as set forth in the Terms of Use, the Browsing and Activity Data is processed for contract necessity.  Otherwise, the secondary use of the de-identified, filtered, anonymized and aggregated Browsing and Activity Data, is carried out based on your consent, where such consent is required by applicable laws. You can withdraw your consent at any time as detailed below through the opt-out options. You can opt-out of the collection of the Browsing Data by following the instructions in the “Opt Out Right” section below

We may use cookies, other similar tracking technologies (“Cookies”) to gather, store, and track certain information related to your access and interaction with our Extension. Cookies are very helpful and may be used for a variety of different purposes. These purposes for which we use Cookies 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 Services quicker and easier, to secure, prevent fraud and protect our Services.

These Cookies enable core functionality of the service. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but that will affect how the Services function.

Please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more about cookies.

Please be aware that our parent company is a data broker (“Data Broker”), meaning you data may be sold or shared with our parent company’s clients for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In most cases, such data shall not include raw Personal Information. Instead, business intelligence customers will be provided with aggregated information that has undergone anonymization and de-identification processes, as further described below. However, we may sell or otherwise disclose raw Personal Information to our affiliates or parent company so that they may aggregate, anonymize, and de-identify such information and provide resulting market intelligence to business intelligence customers. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “sell” means the sale or transfer of your Personal Information to a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration, subject to certain exceptions in applicable law. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “share” means transferring, making available, or otherwise disclosing your Personal Information to another party for purposes of sending advertising to you based on your Personal Information obtained from your activities across distinctly-branded sites.

We may disclose Personal Data to the following parties for the following purposes: 

Transfers of your Personal Data will be made in accordance with applicable laws, including Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) Chapter V. We will take the necessary steps to ensure that international transfers of Personal Data meet all requirements under applicable data protection laws. Your Personal Data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your country of residence, including Israel, the United States, and other jurisdictions where our servers, affiliates, or service providers are located. When Personal Data originating in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom (“UK”), or Switzerland is transferred to a country that has not been deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection, we implement appropriate safeguards, including: (a) Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) as approved by the European Commission (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914) or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement/Addendum, as applicable; (b) where available, reliance on an adequacy decision by the European Commission or the UK Secretary of State; (c) the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, or the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where the recipient is a certified participant; or (d) other approved transfer mechanisms, such as Binding Corporate Rules or approved codes of conduct, where applicable. We conduct transfer impact assessments where required. You may request a copy of the relevant contractual safeguards that we have put in place by contacting our Data Protection Officer.

Unless you instruct us otherwise, we retain the information we collect for as long as needed to provide the Services and to comply with our legal obligations, and no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. We apply the principle of data minimization and retain Personal Data only for the period required to fulfil the stated purposes. Specifically: (a) Contact Information and Communication Data are retained for the duration of your account or our business relationship, plus any applicable statutory retention period; (b) Online Identifiers, including IP addresses, are trimmed and irreversibly hashed on a daily basis; (c) Browsing and Activity Data are de-identified and aggregated within 90 days after collection and are not retained in raw form thereafter.; (d) Usage Data and telemetry logs are retained for performance monitoring and security purposes. Upon expiration of the applicable retention period, we will securely delete or irreversibly anonymize your Personal Data in accordance with applicable law. You may request deletion of your Personal Data at any time, subject to applicable legal exceptions, by contacting our Data Protection Officer.

We endeavour to use security methods and encryption when handling data (i.e., we handle the user data securely, including by transmitting it via modern cryptography). We have implemented and maintain appropriate technical and organizational security measures, policies and procedures designed to reduce the risk of accidental destruction or loss, or the unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or access to your Personal Data. However, we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted through the internet. As the security of information depends in part on the security of the computer you use to communicate with us and the security you use to protect your user IDs and passwords, please take appropriate measures to protect this information.

Please contact us at: _______________ , if you feel that your privacy was not dealt with properly, in a way that was in breach of our Privacy Policy, or if you become aware of a third party’s attempt to gain unauthorized access to any of your Personal Data. We will make a reasonable effort to notify you and the appropriate authorities (if required by applicable law) in the event that we discover a security incident related to your Personal Data.

  1. PRIVACY CHOICES

Our goal is to be clear about what information we collect so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used. We allow you to exercise certain choices and controls in connection with your information. Depending on your relationship with us, your jurisdiction and the data protection laws that apply to you, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information.

In the table below you can review your choices depending on your interaction with us, how you can exercise them, and appeal a decision we take in this regard. Any specification per geo-location or territory are available below the table:

RIGHT TO BE INFORMED, RIGHT TO KNOWYou have the right to confirm whether we collect Personal Data about you, and additional information about the how we use and share your data. Some of this information is contained in this Privacy Policy.
ACCESS RIGHTSYou further have the right to know which Personal Data we specifically hold about you, and receive a copy of such or access it, if you wish to exercise this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: _______________ .
RIGHT TO CORRECTIONYou have the right to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data, taking into account the nature and purposes of each processing activity. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: _______________ .
RIGHT TO RESTRICTIONIn certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: _______________ .
RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN, RIGHT TO DELETIONIn certain circumstances, you have the right to request the deletion of the Personal Data we hold about you. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: _______________ .
RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITYYou have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a structured and machine readable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. We will select the format in which we provide your copy. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: _______________ .
RIGHT TO OBJECT TO PROCESSING BASED ON OUR LEGITIMATE INTERESTSYou can object to any processing of your Personal Data which has our legitimate interests as its lawful basis. Where you exercise this right, we will have an opportunity to demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate interests which override your rights and freedoms. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: _______________ .
RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT UNDER THE EU AND UK LAWS, AND IN THE US THE RIGHT TO OPT OUT FROM:
(I) SELLING PERSONAL DATA;
(II) RIGHT TO OPT OUT FROM TARGETED ADVERTISING; AND
(III) RIGHT TO OPT OUT FROM PROFILING AND AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING
Browsing Data: You can withdraw your consent and stop the automated collection and sharing of your Personal Data for which your consent was required, by opting out of the data collection through the extension settings, note that once you opt out or turn off the permissions, some or all of the Services will no longer be available. Please note that your withdrawal of consent will not affect any of the processing we have carried out, prior to the exercise of this right. Sale of Personal Data/Targeted Advertising/ Profiling: If and to the extent applicable, you have the right to opt out of the sale of your Personal Data. We do not process Personal Data for the purpose of targeted advertising or profiling and automated decision making. We further do not use any Personal Data for automated decision making.  
Last, you are able to install privacy-controls in the browser’s settings to automatically signal the opt-out preference to all websites you visit (such as the Global Privacy Control).
RIGHT TO A COPY OF THE SAFEGUARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERSWhere applicable, you can request a copy of or reference to the safeguards under which your Personal Data is transferred outside location.
RIGHT TO APPEAL OR COMPLAINTIf we decline to take action on your request, we shall so inform you without undue delay as required under applicable laws. The notification will include a justification for declining to take action and instructions on how you may appeal, if applicable. Depending on your location, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
NON-DISCRIMINATIONWhere granted by applicable laws, you may have the right to not be discriminated against. Such discrimination may include denying a good or service, providing a different level or quality of service, or charging different prices. We do not discriminate our users. If you feel that we have discriminated against you, please contact us through our Data Protection Officer at: _______________ .

We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes and will make every reasonable effort to respect your wish to exercise your rights as quickly as possible and, in any event, within the timescales provided by data protection laws.

  1. HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a user of our Extension and wish to submit a request regarding information collected through the Extension, we will typically need you to provide your unique Panelist ID, which allows us to locate your records in our systems. Any association between information collected through the Extension and your Panelist ID is retained in our systems for no longer than 90 days. Following this period, the information is aggregated and no longer retained in a form that enables us to associate specific information with a Panelist ID or a particular user. Accordingly, after the 90-day period, we may be unable to locate, access, correct, delete, or otherwise respond to requests relating to information associated with a specific Panelist ID, except to the extent required by applicable law.

·         Locating Your Panelist ID – if you installed our browser extension, you can retrieve your Panelist ID directly from your browser as follows:

·         Submitting a Request – to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at  privacy[at]kavento[dot]org and include:

Children under 16 (or any younger age, to the extent required under applicable laws) are prohibited from using the Service. In the event that we become aware that a user who is considered a child under applicable laws, has shared any information, we will discard such information. If you have any reason to believe that a child has shared any information with us, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: dpo[at]kavento[dot]org .

  1. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you through appropriate means, which may include posting a notice within the Extension, updating the “Last Updated” date above, or, where required by applicable law, providing you with prior notice via email or in-Extension notification before the changes take effect. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about our data practices. Your continued use of the Extensions after any modifications to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acknowledgment and acceptance of the updated terms.

  1.  ADDITIONAL PRIVACY INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

In this section, we provide information for California residents, as required under California privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, the “CCPA/CPRA”), which requires that we provide California residents certain specific information about our information practices, including how we process their Personal Information, whether collected online or offline. Under the CCPA/CPRA, “Personal Information” is any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. This section of the Privacy Policy does not apply to publicly available information or Personal Information that is otherwise exempt under the CCPA/CPRA. To the extent you are a resident of California, and we collect “Personal Information” subject to CCPA/CPRA, the following applies.

Categories of Personal Information Collected and Disclosed:

While our processing of Personal Information varies based upon our relationship and interactions with you, the table below identifies the categories of Personal Information we may collect about you (and may have collected in the prior 12 months), as defined by the CCPA/CPRA, as well as the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed Personal Information for a business purpose.

Categories of Personal Information CollectedThird Party Disclosures for Business or Commercial Purposes
Identifiers. Includes direct identifiers, such as name, alias, account number or unique personal identifier; email address, phone number, and other contact information; IP address and other online identifiers. Advisors and agentsSecurity and fraud prevention providersBusiness customersOthers as required by law
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information. Includes but is not limited to, browsing history, clickstream data, search history, and information regarding interactions with our website and services, advertisements, including other usage data related to your use of any of our services or other similar online services.Advisors and agentsSecurity and fraud prevention providersBusiness customersOthers as required by law
Geolocation data. Includes approximate location information derived from your device, IP address, Wi-Fi connections, or other location-based technologies, which may indicate your physical location at a particular timeAdvisors and agentsSecurity and fraud prevention providersOthers as required by law
Profiles and Inferences. Such as inferences drawn from any of the information described in this section about a consumer including inferences reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, behaviors, attitudes, abilities, and aptitudes.Affiliates and subsidiariesRegulators, government entities and law enforcementOthers as required by law
Sensitive Personal Information. In some circumstances, through your use of the Services, we may incidentally collect information that may reveal religious or philosophical beliefs, consumer health-related data, and information concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation, to the extent inadvertently processed through Browsing.Business customersOthers as required by law

Sources of Personal Information:

We generally collect Personal Information from the following categories of sources: directly or indirectly from you; third parties; automatically, including personal information derived/inferred about users based upon their browsing or other data; and operations systems and platforms; business partners; vendors and service providers; publicly available sources; Internet service providers.

Purposes of Collection, Use, and Disclosure:

Sales and Sharing of Personal Information:

The CCPA/CPRA defines “sale” as disclosing or making available Personal Information to a third-party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration, and “sharing” includes disclosing or making available Personal Information to a third-party for purposes of cross-context behavioural advertising. We may “sell the following categories of Personal Information: Identifiers, commercial information, internet and electronic network activity information, profiles and inferences, and sensitive personal information, as described above. We may “sell” these categories to business customers so that our business customers may better understand consumer behaviour and analyse and improve their marketing and advertising campaigns. We do not knowingly sell personal information about individuals who we know are under age sixteen (16).

Data Retention:

We retain the Personal Information we collect only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above or as otherwise disclosed to you at the time of collection. When deciding how long to keep your Personal Information, we consider whether we are subject to any legal obligations (e.g., any laws that require us to keep records for a certain period before we can delete them) or whether we have taken any legal positions (e.g., issued any legal holds or otherwise need to preserve the information). Rather than delete your data, we may also deidentify it by removing identifying details. Where we have committed to maintaining and using Personal Information in a deidentified form, we agree not to reidentify deidentified data except as permitted by applicable law.

Your CCPA Rights:

The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding Personal Information. Subject to certain conditions and exceptions, California residents have the following rights with respect to their Personal Information:

Exercising Your Privacy Rights:

California residents may exercise their CCPA privacy rights as set forth below:

Residents of certain U.S. states, including California (to the extent not addressed in Section 12 above), Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws and be entitled to additional disclosures.

Sale of Personal Data: We may sell the following categories of Personal Data: Identifiers, commercial information, internet and electronic network activity information, profiles and inferences, and “sensitive data,” as that term is defined under applicable U.S. privacy laws. We sell such categories of Personal Data to our business customers so that they may conduct their own analysis on consumer behaviours and analyze and improve their marketing and advertising campaigns.

Consumer Rights:

Residents of certain U.S. states, including California (to the extent not addressed in Section 12 above), Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws, subject to certain limitations, which may include:

You may submit a request to exercise most of your privacy rights under U.S. state privacy laws online by emailing us at privacy[at]kavento[dot]org . When you submit a request, we will take steps to verify your identity and your request by matching the information provided by you with the information we have in our records. In some cases, we may request additional information in order to verify your identity, or where necessary to process your request. If we are unable to verify your identity after a good faith attempt, we may deny the request and, if so, will explain the basis for denial and how to remedy any deficiencies, where applicable.

To opt out of sales by us, using the opt-out toggle in the Extension settings, submitting a request through by contacting us at privacy[at]kavento[dot]org.

Authorized agents may initiate a request on behalf of another individual by contacting us at privacy[at]kavento[dot]org authorized agents will be required to provide proof of their authorization and we may also require that the relevant consumer directly verify their identity and the authority of the authorized agent.   

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