Privacy Policy & Information on Data Protection:

Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in RAR products. At win.rar GmbH, we take the privacy and protection of Personal Information very seriously.

The following declaration explains what information we collect during your visit to our website, how we use it, and your rights regarding your data.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the processing of your Personal Information collected by third parties that win.rar GmbH does not own or control, nor by third parties that do not support win.rar GmbH in providing this website.

Controller of Personal Information

The Data Controller according to General Data Protection Regulation is:

win.rar GmbH
Marienstraße 12
10117 Berlin
Germany

Email: info(at)win-rar.com

IP ADDRESS:

We store actual IP addresses for a maximum of seven days to detect and prevent attacks on our IT systems.

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) General Data Protection Regulation.

LOST KEY/CONTACT FORM

If you use our contact form to retrieve a lost registration key, we request your email address and your Cleverbridge Payment Reference Number to verify your purchase.

If necessary, we may ask for additional information such as your name or address.

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1)(f) General Data Protection Regulation.

You can subscribe to our free newsletter regarding WinRAR and RAR software by giving us your explicit consent. Solely your email address is mandatory for the subscription. All additional details (surname, name, salutation, language, company, country) are only used to personalize the newsletter and to provide the newsletter in your preferred language.

We use a double-opt-in process: after your initial subscription, we send an email to the email address provided and ask for your confirmation.

If you do not confirm your subscription, we will delete your data automatically within 48 hours.

After your confirmation, we will process your email address and the additional details (contact data) to personalize and dispatch the newsletter.

For the dispatching of the newsletter, we will transmit your email address and additional details to the following service provider:

CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG
Muehlenstraße 43
26180 Rastede
Germany

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1)(a) General Data Protection Regulation.

You can withdraw your consent at any time. To unsubscribe from our newsletter, you can use the unsubscribe link provided in the newsletter. After your cancellation, we will delete your contact data from our database.

We use Google's reCAPTCHA service to distinguish between human or computer input on our contact form or newsletter sign-up form.

Google processes the following data:

- IP address of your device.

- The website you are visiting.

- The date and duration of the visit.

- Browser & operating system information.

- Google account if you're logged into Google.

- Mouse movements and tasks related to reCAPTCHA.

This data is transferred to Google LLC in the USA. Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures an adequate level of data protection for transfers to certified US companies.

For more information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1)(f) General Data Protection Regulation.

There is a legitimate interest on our side in this data processing, to ensure the security of our website and to protect us from abuse, attacks and spam.

We collect information through different technologies as described below:

Cookies

win.rar GmbH uses cookies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements and geographical information in order to provide a good user experience when visiting our website.

Cookies are small text files whcih can be stored on your computer. They have the purpose of storing data. We need your consent to use cookies.

In regard to cookies that are strictly necessary to provide these webpages, user consent is not required.

You can decide whether, and to what extent, you want to accept the use of cookies, with the aid of your browser settings. At the same place, you can erase cookies which are already stored on your computer.

Firefox Cookie Settings can be found in Settings > Privacy & Security.

We have Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics in place. These are web analytic services provided by Google, Inc ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies (see above). The information generated by the cookies, about your use of the website, will be transmitted and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Within the territory of the Member States of the European Union and other parties to the Agreement in the European Economic Area, Google truncates/anonymizes the last octet of the IP address. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to, and shortened by, Google servers in the USA. The IP address transmitted by your browser, within the frame of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

We use Google Analytics to evaluate the use of our website, and to improve our web services on the basis of the statistics provided by Google Analytics. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1)(f) General Data Protection Regulation.

In regard to the transfer of personal data to the USA, Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (EU-US DPF), which was adopted by the European Commission on 10th July 2023, and provides an adequate level of data protection for transfers to certified US companies. For more information, please refer to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework website: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/

Information from Google:

Google Ireland Ltd.
Gordon House
Barrow Street
Dublin 4
Ireland

Terms of Service: marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/gb/

Overview regarding data protection: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser (see above). However, please note that this may affect the functionality of this website.

Furthermore, you can prevent Google's collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB.

You have the following data protection rights in regard to win.rar GmbH:

- Right of access to the data subject – Art. 15 General Data Protection Regulation.

- Right to rectification – Art. 16 General Data Protection Regulation.

- Right to erasure – Art. 17 General Data Protection Regulation.

- Right to restriction of processing – Art. 18 General Data Protection Regulation.

- Right to object – Art. 21 General Data Protection Regulation.

- Right to data portability – Art. 20 General Data Protection Regulation.

To exercise these rights, please write to:

win.rar GmbH
Marienstr. 12
10117 Berlin
Germany

Or send an email to: info(at)win-rar.com

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

The mailing address of the data protection supervisory authority for win.rar GmbH is:

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit | https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de

Alt-Moabit 59-61
10555 Berlin
Germany

Tel: +49 30 138890

Fax: +49 30 2155050

E-Mail: mailbox(at)datenschutz-berlin.de