1. Our Privacy Commitment
This Privacy Policy describes how ProxyHat ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our proxy services. Your privacy is fundamental to our business.
2. Information We Collect
We collect only what is necessary to provide and improve our Service:
A) Account Information
- Email address (for account identification and communication)
- Password (stored securely using one-way encryption)
- Billing information (processed directly by payment providers - we do not store payment details)
B) Usage Data
- Bandwidth consumption and proxy usage statistics
- Technical data necessary for service delivery
- Fraud-prevention telemetry: IP address, browser user agent and device identifier captured at login and checkout, retained for up to 13 months as payment-dispute evidence.
3. How We Use Your Information
Your data is used exclusively for:
- Providing and operating our proxy services
- Processing your transactions and billing
- Responding to your support requests
- Sending essential account communications
- Preventing fraud and abuse of our Service
- Complying with legal obligations under the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Legal Basis for Processing (EEA / UK)
Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies to you, we rely on the following legal bases:
- Contract: providing the proxy service you bought, billing it, and supporting it.
- Legitimate interests: keeping the service secure, preventing fraud and abuse, measuring how our own service is used, and defending payment disputes.
- Consent: analytics and advertising-measurement cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time.
- Legal obligation: keeping transaction and tax records for as long as the law requires.
4. Data Protection & Security
We implement robust security measures to protect your data:
5. Data Sharing - What We Do NOT Do
To be clear about what does and does not happen to your data:
Service Providers We Use
We share the minimum personal data needed with the providers below. Each is bound by contract to process it only on our instructions, except where a provider acts as a seller in its own right, which is stated.
Other Disclosures
Beyond those providers, we disclose personal data only in these circumstances:
- Legal compliance: when required by a valid legal process.
- Business Transfer: In connection with a merger or acquisition, with equivalent privacy protections
International Transfers
We operate from Kazakhstan, and the providers above operate in the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. Where personal data of users in the EEA or the UK is transferred outside those areas, the transfer relies on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent safeguard offered by that provider.
6. Data Retention
We retain your data only as long as necessary:
7. Your Rights
You have control over your data:
- Access: Request a copy of your account data
- Correction: Update or correct your information
- Deletion: Request deletion of your account and data
- Export: Receive your data in a portable format
- Withdraw consent: turn off analytics and advertising cookies at any time — see our Cookie Policy.
- Object or restrict: ask us to stop or limit processing that rests on our legitimate interests.
- Complain to a regulator: if you are in the EEA or the UK, you may lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.
8. Cookies
We use essential cookies that the service needs in order to work, plus analytics and advertising-measurement cookies that load only with your consent. Every provider, every duration and how to change your choice are set out in our Cookie Policy
9. Children's Privacy
Our Service is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors.
10. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Nothing in this section removes any mandatory right you hold under the data protection or consumer law of your own country.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Your continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance.
12. Contact Information
For privacy questions or concerns:
BIN / IIN: 980728301732
Zhalyn microdistrict, Building 9, Apartment 13, Zhanaozen, Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan
Email: privacy@proxyhat.com