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Part A: Our Sites and Business 1. Collection of Personal Information 2. Use of Personal Information 3. Sharing of Personal Information 4. Security of Personal Information 5. Your Choices 6. Limited Use Due to Non-Provision of Personal Information 7. Opting Out 8. Fair and Lawful Acquisition of Personal Information 9. Cookies and Similar Technologies Part B: Spider AF Service Privacy Notice 10. Google Ads Account Data 10A. Platform Integrations 11. Information Processed Through Spider AF Part C: General Provisions 12. European Users 13. California Privacy Notice 14. Exercising Your Privacy Rights 15. Contacting Us GDPR Policy

Privacy Policy


On this page
  • Part A: Our Sites and Business
  • 1. Collection of Personal Information
  • 2. Use of Personal Information
  • 3. Sharing of Personal Information
  • 4. Security of Personal Information
  • 5. Your Choices
  • 6. Limited Use Due to Non-Provision of Personal Information
  • 7. Opting Out
  • 8. Fair and Lawful Acquisition of Personal Information
  • 9. Cookies and Similar Technologies
  • Part B: Spider AF Service Privacy Notice
  • 10. Google Ads Account Data
  • 10A. Platform Integrations
  • 11. Information Processed Through Spider AF
  • Part C: General Provisions
  • 12. European Users
  • 13. California Privacy Notice
  • 14. Exercising Your Privacy Rights
  • 15. Contacting Us
  • GDPR Policy

Spider Labs, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of Japan, on behalf of its subsidiaries and divisions (collectively, "Spider Labs," "us," "we," or "our") has prepared this Privacy Policy ("Policy") to describe how Spider Labs collects, uses, discloses and otherwise processes personal information when Spider Labs acts as a controller or business with respect to visitors to its websites, customer and prospective-customer contacts, job applicants, and other individuals who interact with Spider Labs. This Policy applies to the website located at https://spideraf.com/ and other websites operated by Spider Labs (each, a “Site,” and collectively, the “Platform”). It also describes certain processing performed through Spider AF services when Spider Labs determines the purposes and means of that processing. Where Spider Labs processes personal information solely on behalf of a customer, the customer’s privacy notice and the applicable customer agreement govern that processing. Capitalized terms not defined in this Policy, shall have the meanings given in the Spider Labs Terms of Service, located at https://spideraf.com/terms-of-service.

Spider Labs reserves the right, at any time, to modify this Policy. If we make revisions that materially change the way we collect, use, or share personal information, we will post those changes in this Policy and provide any additional notice required by applicable law. You should review this Privacy Policy periodically so that you keep up to date on our most current policies and practices. We will note the effective date of the latest version of our Policy at the end of this Policy. Changes apply from the stated effective date and do not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before that date.

How this Policy is organized. This Policy has three parts. Part A applies if you interact with Spider Labs directly: visitors to our Sites, customer and prospective-customer contacts, and job applicants. Part B, the Spider AF Service Privacy Notice, applies if your personal information is collected through Spider AF tags or services deployed on websites, applications or advertising campaigns operated by our customers, including order information processed through the Anti-Resale Service and lead-submission information processed through the Fake Lead Protection Service. Part C applies to everyone covered by this Policy and contains regional disclosures, your rights and our contact details.

Part A: Our Sites and Business

This Part A applies to visitors to our Sites, users of our Platform, customer and prospective-customer contacts, job applicants and other individuals who interact with Spider Labs directly.

1. Collection of Personal Information

1.1 Personal Information We Collect

The following are categories (with non-exhaustive examples) of personal information we may collect about you:

CategoryExamples
A. Individual Identifiers and Contact Information A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, telephone number, or other similar identifiers.
B. Geolocation Data Approximate location inferred from an IP address or device information, and precise location only where specifically disclosed and enabled by you.
C. Commercial and Account Information Records of services you have purchased, company information, communications, marketing preferences, or other consuming preferences or tendencies. Account name and password, payment information provided for billing or processed by a payment service provider, billing address, order details, and other account or order-related history or information.
D. Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Browsing history, search history, information on an individual's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, device and browser information, clickstream data, and fraud or security signals.

1.2 Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above on or through our Platform from the following categories of sources:

  • Personal Information You Provide. Spider Labs collects personal information when you voluntarily submit it to us. For example, we may collect or receive personal information from Users when a User creates a User Account; edits Registration Information; signs up to receive promotional communications; uses or accesses a Service or Content available through the Platform; participates in one of our promotional sweepstakes, contests, or surveys; posts a review; submits a request to our customer service team; interacts with our social media pages; or otherwise interact with us or other Users through the Platform.
  • Automatically Collected Personal Information. In addition to personal information that we may receive directly from you, Spider Labs indirectly collects other information from you automatically through the Platform. For example, we receive personal information from Users when a User visits and navigates our Platform on any device. We may also collect personal information about Users over time and across different websites, apps, and devices when a User accesses the Platform. Third parties also collect personal information this way on our Platform. Spider Labs collects some personal information automatically using Cookies or other online tracking technologies as described below.
  • Personal Information Obtained from Third Parties. In addition to the personal information that we collect from you directly and automatically, Spider Labs may receive personal information about you from other third party sources. For example, we receive personal information from our business partners, social media sites, or companies that provide personal information to supplement what we already know about Users. If you create an account or sign in using a third-party authentication service, such as Sign in with Google, we receive basic profile information authorized through that service, such as your name and email address, and use it to authenticate you and create or administer your account. We may merge or combine such personal information with the personal information we collect from you directly or automatically.

1.3 Acquisition of Personal Information

Personal Information necessary for business activities will be acquired by us directly from Users and other parties, from the browser environment, or via our partners. Additionally, when we acquire Personal Information, we will let you know or publicly announce the purpose of use thereof in advance (hereinafter referred to as "Public Announcement, etc.") except in the following circumstances:

  • Where the Public Announcement, etc., of the purpose of use will harm the life, body, asset, or other rights and interests of the subject person or a third party or is likely to harm our rights or legitimate interests;
  • Where we are required to provide cooperation to the government agencies or municipal government agencies in their execution of affairs prescribed in laws and regulations, and the Public Announcement, etc., of the purpose of use to the subject person may obstruct the execution of such affairs; or
  • Where the purpose of use is obvious in view of the situation of such acquisition.

2. Use of Personal Information

2.1 User Information

Spider Labs's primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide the Services and Content that you request on the Platform. Spider Labs may also use personal information for various purposes, including without limitation to:

  • To Provide Our Products and Services. This could include fulfilling your requests for products or services. It could also include processing purchases or other transactions. For example, if you share your personal information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use such information for calculation of charges and invoicing and to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your personal information to facilitate new product or service orders, or process returns.
  • To Improve Our Products and Services. We use personal information to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our Users to make our Platform, Services, or Content better, diagnose technical issues, prevent fraud, develop new features and functionality, to maintain the system, and take actions in response to failures.
  • To Understand Your Interests. We use your personal information to personalize your experience on the Platform and to deliver information about products and services relevant to your interests.
  • To Respond to Your Requests or Questions. We use personal information to provide you with support and to respond to your requests for customer support, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses. This may also include responding to your feedback.
  • To Determine Your Eligibility and Set Up Your Account. We use your personal information to verify your identity or determine your eligibility for some of our products, services, and promotions. For example, this may include verifying your age, date of birth, and place of residence. If you set up an Account on the Platform, we will use the Registration Information you provide in relation to that Account creation to create, maintain, customize, and secure your Account. We may use Personal Information to deny the provision of our services to those who intend to use our services for commercial, political, religious or other improper purposes, or those who are likely to take an action that may disturb the operation of our service or our business, or any action that we consider inappropriate.
  • To Market Products or Services. We provide you with information about products, services, or promotions. For example, we may use cookies or other online tracking technologies to provide customized advertisements, content, and information; monitor and analyze the effectiveness of marketing activities; and track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions. These might be third party offers we think you might find interesting. These communications may come in the form of interest-based advertising using information gathered across multiple websites, devices, or other platforms. We may also use Personal Information for various questionnaires, giveaways, campaigns, ranking events, to provide affiliate and point services and for surveys, statistics, and analyses of marketing data.
  • To Secure the Platform. We use personal information to maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Platform, products and services, databases and other technology assets, business, and other Users.
  • To Communicate with You. We may communicate with you about your Account or our relationship. We may also contact you about this Policy or the Terms of Service.
  • As Required by Law. We use personal information to respond to requests from law enforcement and as required by applicable law, court order, or government investigation and to exercise the rights and perform the duties under contracts or laws and regulations, including to take actions in relation to disputes, lawsuits, etc.
  • To otherwise handle matters incidental or relating to our services.

2.2 Use of Client Information

Spider Labs may also use Personal Information pertaining to contact persons, etc., of our client corporations and self-employed business owners as follows:

  • For negotiation of transactions, execution of agreements, confirmation of authorities, and implementation of transactions;
  • For reporting and communications necessary for transactions;
  • To make or accept various consultations and inquiries;
  • To prepare and submit various business documents such as estimates;
  • To manage information pertaining to our partners and contact persons and verify the identity;
  • To provide information regarding our services, events, etc.;
  • To otherwise perform the duties under laws and regulations or contracts.

2.3 Job Applicant Information

We may use Personal Information pertaining to individuals who desire to join Spider Labs and apply for job openings for the following purposes:

  • For selection and other procedures for hiring, such notification of results;
  • To provide information and make contacts in relation to recruiting activities;
  • To improve our websites, manuals, communications, etc., intended for job applicants;
  • For any and all matters relating to preliminary trainings for job applicants, job assignment, fostering of human resources, benefit package, and other labor management;
  • For statistics and analyses regarding job applicants.

3. Sharing of Personal Information

In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Policy, Spider Labs may share your personal information in the following circumstances:

3.1 Related Companies and M&A Transactions

We may share your personal information with companies that are affiliated with us (that is, that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with us). In addition, if we sell all or part of our business or make a sale or transfer of assets or are otherwise involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or other business transfer, we may disclose or transfer your personal information to a third party as part of that transaction, including at the negotiation stage, subject to appropriate confidentiality, use and security restrictions. We will limit any pre-closing disclosure of personal information to what is reasonably necessary for the transaction and, where reasonably practicable, use aggregated, de-identified or otherwise minimized information for due diligence. For personal information obtained through Spider AF, whether we process it on a customer's behalf or for our own purposes, any such transfer is subject to our agreements with our customers, and we do not share directly identifying information from the Anti-Resale Service or the Fake Lead Protection Service with a prospective acquirer that has not assumed those obligations. If the transaction is completed and the relevant business, assets or agreements are transferred to a successor or assignee, that recipient must assume the applicable obligations governing that information.

3.2 Consent

We may ask if you would like us to share your personal information with other unaffiliated third parties who are not described elsewhere in this policy, and we may do so with your consent.

3.3 Legal Compliance

We may disclose personal information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your personal information in order to establish or exercise our rights; to defend against a legal claim; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities or fraud; to protect the safety and security of other Users; or to prevent a violation of our Terms of Service.

3.4 Service Providers

We may share your personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf that are necessary for the orderly operation of the Platform. Among other things service providers may help us perform website hosting, app design, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, app analytics, billing, payment processing, fraud protection, credit risk reduction, marketing, or any other use set out in this Policy. Access to your personal information by these service providers is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the service provider to perform the services for which it was engaged. We require our service providers to keep the personal information that they are provided with confidential, to use it only for the contracted purposes, to implement appropriate safeguards, and to comply with all applicable laws. Some third parties may act as independent controllers for limited activities, in which case their own privacy notices also apply.

3.5 Behavioral-Based Advertising

On our Sites, we participate in behavioral-based advertising. This means that a third party may use technology (e.g., a cookie or pixel) to collect information about your use of our Sites so that we can provide advertising about our products and services tailored to your interests. That advertising may appear either on our Sites or on other websites. Spider AF services provided to our customers do not participate in behavioral-based advertising, and personal information processed through Spider AF on behalf of customers is not used for this purpose.

3.6 Partner or Client Offerings

We may jointly offer events, promotions, or any other product or service offerings with third party partners or our clients, which may be your employer. The personal information that you submit through an event, promotion, or other product or service offering may be combined and transmitted with the Registration Information related to your Account. Third party partners or clients may collect information directly from you, which may be combined with personal information disclosed by us. If you decide to request, enter into, or participate in an event, promotion, or other product or service offering that is offered by us and identified as a joint effort with a third-party partner or client, the information that you provide may be shared with us and with that identified third party.

3.7 Social Networking

The Platform may offer you the ability to share your personal information through a social networking website (e.g., Facebook, X (formerly Twitter)), using such site's integrated tools (e.g., the Facebook "Like" button or the X "Post" (formerly "Tweet") button). The use of such integrated tools enables you to share personal information about yourself with other individuals or the public, depending on the settings that you have established with such social networking site. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and use in connection with such social networking site or a site's integrated tools, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these social networking sites.

3.8 Public Forum and Messaging

The Platform may provide you with the opportunity to post comments, messages, or reviews in a public forum. If you decide to submit personal information at these locations, that information will be available to other Users of the Platform.

3.9 Referrals

Users may recommend other Users to join the Platform by providing their contact information or selecting friends from a social networking site. Users may also provide information about other Users of the Platform such as reviews of the services or products that he or she received, booking or scheduling information, or reference information.

4. Security of Personal Information

We maintain reasonable administrative, technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to personal information. These safeguards may include encryption in transit, access controls, monitoring, and procedures appropriate to the nature of the information and the risks of processing. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from the risks presented by unauthorized access or acquisition, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of any unauthorized access or acquisition of your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law. Further information about our security program, certifications and sub-processors supporting the Spider AF services is available at our trust center, https://trust.spideraf.com.

5. Your Choices

You can make the following choices regarding your personal information:

5.1 Access to Your Personal Information

You may request access to your personal information by contacting us as described below. We will grant you reasonable access to the data that we have about you as required by law.

5.2 Changes to Your Personal Information

We rely on you to update and correct the personal information contained in your Account. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law. If our Platform does not permit you to update or correct certain personal information, please contact us as described below.

5.3 Deletion of Your Personal Information

Typically, we retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. You may, however, request that we delete your personal information by contacting us as described below. We will grant a request to delete information as required by law, but you should note that in many situations we must keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another one of our business purposes. Except as provided above, we will delete, aggregate, or de-identify all of your personal information as described in this subsection within the timeframes required by law.

6. Limited Use Due to Non-Provision of Personal Information

The provision of your Personal Information is at your own discretion. However, if you do not agree to provide your Personal Information, there may be a case where you are unable to use all or part of our services or our partners' services.

7. Opting Out

You can make the following choices to opt out of certain activities regarding your personal information:

7.1 Promotional E-mails

You may choose to provide us with your e-mail address for the purpose of allowing us to send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to our Platform, as well as targeted offers from third parties. You can stop receiving promotional e-mails by clicking the "unsubscribe" links in the e-mails or by contacting us as described below. If you decide not to receive promotional e-mails, we may still send you service-related communications, such as those about your Account, to fulfill orders for products and service you have requested or deliver notifications directly to you through the Platform.

7.2 Behavioral-Based Advertising

On our Sites, we participate in behavioral-based advertising. This means that a third party may use technology (e.g., a cookie or pixel) to collect information about your use of our Sites so that we can provide advertising about our products and services tailored to your interests. That advertising may appear either on our Sites or on other websites. If you wish to limit third parties' collection of information about your use of our Sites, you can opt-out of such at the Digital Advertising Alliance (http://optout.aboutads.info/) in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (https://youradchoices.ca/choices/) in Canada, or the European Digital Advertising Alliance (http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/) in Europe. PLEASE NOTE THAT OPTING-OUT OF BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE ADVERTISING WHILE USING OUR SITES. IT WILL, HOWEVER, EXCLUDE YOU FROM INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING CONDUCTED THROUGH PARTICIPATING NETWORKS, AS PROVIDED BY THEIR POLICIES AND CHOICE MECHANISMS.

7.3 Browser Privacy Signals

Some browsers and devices offer “Do Not Track” signals. Because no uniform legal or industry standard currently governs how websites must respond to Do Not Track signals, we do not respond to those signals unless applicable law requires otherwise. Where applicable law requires us to recognize an opt-out preference signal, including Global Privacy Control, we will process that signal as required by applicable law.

8. Fair and Lawful Acquisition of Personal Information

We acquire personal information only by lawful and fair means and do not obtain it by deception or other improper means. Where we collect personal information automatically, whether through our Platform or through Spider AF tags deployed on our customers' websites and applications, we do so as described in this Policy and in the applicable customer's privacy notice, and, where consent is required, in the manner described in Sections 9 and 11.3. Where applicable law requires us to notify you of, or publicly announce, the purposes for which personal information is used, we do so as described in Section 1.3.

9. Cookies and Similar Technologies

  1. 9.1 When a User uses our Platform or views our Sites, we may automatically acquire the User's cookie, IP address and other information from the User's browser. We may use such information for the purpose of identifying the User, delivering optimal advertisement, analyzing for delivery of optimal advertisement, developing a new service, and optimizing our services for Users.
  2. 9.2 The cookies and similar technologies identified by our cookie management platform as currently used on our Sites are shown in the cookie table displayed in this section. The table is generated by our cookie management platform (CookieYes) and is updated automatically based on periodic scans of our Sites, and is intended to reflect the cookies detected during the most recent scan. For each cookie, the table shows its name, provider, purpose and retention period, organized by category (Necessary, Functional, Analytics, Performance and Advertisement). You can review and change your consent preferences for each category at any time via the consent settings described in Section 9.3. The table does not limit the disclosures elsewhere in this Policy. Because the table is based on periodic automated scans, a recently deployed technology may appear after the next scan. We will update the table within a reasonable period after deployment and will not rely on this timing statement to place or access non-essential technologies before obtaining consent where consent is required.

    We may also use browser-storage and similar technologies that do not appear in the cookie table, including identifiers stored in localStorage or comparable browser storage. We use these technologies to recognize devices or browsers, detect device spoofing and other fraudulent activity, generate fraud signals and scores, and support the shared fraud-detection activities described in Section 11. These identifiers may be combined with information collected through other customer websites, applications or services. Information regarding their purpose, provider and retention period will be made available through our consent-management interface or another notice presented when the technology is used.
  3. 9.3 You can accept, decline, or change your cookie preferences for non-essential cookies and similar technologies, including browser-storage identifiers, at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" button available on our website. Withdrawing your consent is as easy as giving it. Where applicable law requires consent before a non-essential cookie or similar technology is stored or accessed, we will seek that consent through our consent-management tool. You may also control cookies and certain browser-storage technologies through your browser or device settings as described below.
  4. 9.4 The User may elect to allow the use of cookies and other information. If the User elects to not allow the use of such information, there may be a case where the User is unable to use all or part of our services or activate certain advertisement settings which require cookies and other information, and the User may experience a problem in using our services.
  5. 9.5 Also when you would like to request notification or disclosure of the purpose of use of the aforementioned information, correction, addition or deletion of a portion thereof, suspension of the use thereof, deletion thereof, or suspension of provision to a third party, we will accommodate your request through the procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy.
  6. 9.6 Additionally, for the steps to activate or inactivate cookies or other information or to delete such information, please see the manuals or Help pages for your OS or browser.
  7. 9.7 For any question regarding the identification document, fees, and other specific procedures, please also make an inquiry to our contact indicated below.

Part B: Spider AF Service Privacy Notice

This Part B applies to individuals whose personal information is collected through Spider AF tags or services deployed on websites, applications or advertising campaigns operated by our customers, including order information processed through the Anti-Resale Service and lead-submission information processed through the Fake Lead Protection Service. This Part B also covers information that we receive through advertising, analytics and other platform integrations enabled by our customers, as described in Sections 10 and 10A. Where we process this information on behalf of a customer, the customer is the controller or business, the customer's privacy notice and our agreement with the customer (including the Data Protection Agreement in the Spider AF Terms of Service) govern that processing, and requests concerning it are best addressed to the customer. Where we process this information for our own purposes described in Section 11, such as operating shared fraud-detection databases and improving our detection, we act as a controller or business and this Policy applies. Section 11 describes the information processed through Spider AF by category (directly identifying information, technical and behavioral identifiers, and derived and other information), our role for each category, how we use it, the shared fraud-detection databases and the applicable retention periods. Sections 3.1 to 3.5, 4 and 8 and Part C, including the retention periods in Section 12.2, your rights in Sections 12.3, 13 and 14 and our contact details in Section 15, also apply to the processing described in this Part B. The purposes for which we process information under this Part B are described in Sections 10, 10A and 11. Operators of websites and applications that use Spider AF may refer their users to this Part B.

10. Google Ads Account Data

Certain Spider AF features connect to a customer’s Google Ads account through Google APIs. Information received from Google APIs will be used and transferred in accordance with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

  • We do not request or receive your Google Ads username or password. You authorize access through Google’s authorization process and may revoke that access through your Google account settings.
  • We access and retain the account, campaign, placement, performance, cost, configuration and audience-list metadata reasonably necessary to provide the enabled fraud-detection, reporting, tracking-template and exclusion features. The precise fields depend on the features you enable and Google’s API functionality.
  • Through this integration, we do not access the individual members or underlying end-user identifiers contained in Customer Match or similar audience lists, and we do not upload email addresses, telephone numbers or other end-user identifiers to Google Ads for Customer Match or similar audience creation.
  • We do not sell Google Ads account data. We use it only to provide, secure, support and improve the enabled integration, comply with law, and as otherwise permitted by the applicable customer agreement and Google’s policies.
  • At the customer’s direction or as authorized through the enabled configuration, Spider AF may set or update tracking templates and transmit or apply fraud-related configuration, including IP, placement or audience-related exclusions. Customers should review enabled permissions and configuration settings before authorizing the integration.

10A. Platform Integrations

Spider Labs offers optional integrations with advertising, analytics and other third-party platforms. Our Platform Integrations Privacy Notice, available at https://spideraf.com/legal/platform-integrations and through the applicable integration setup and authorization pages, describes the information accessed, received, stored or transmitted through each integration, the purposes of processing, retention practices, available controls, revocation and data-deletion procedures. That notice supplements this Privacy Policy. If a platform-specific disclosure directly conflicts with a general statement in this Privacy Policy, the more specific platform-integration disclosure will control for that integration.

11. Information Processed Through Spider AF

11.1 What Spider AF Collects, by Category

Spider AF services process the following categories of information collected through tags, forms, integrations and scans deployed by our customers on their websites, applications, advertising campaigns and order or lead flows. Because the rules that apply (our role, permitted uses, sharing and retention) depend on the category of information and the purpose of the processing rather than on the individual service alone, this Section is organized by category.

  • (a) Directly identifying information. Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, postal addresses and similar contact details of individuals. Spider AF receives this category as input data only through the Anti-Resale Service (order information, which may also include order and transaction identifiers, product and order details and payment or fulfillment status, but not full payment-card data) and the Fake Lead Protection Service (structured fields entered into forms on our customers' websites; free-text form content is not collected).
  • (b) Technical and behavioral identifiers. When an end user uses a server, website or application on which a Spider AF JavaScript tag (or any similar technological measure) is deployed, or submits an order or a form protected by Spider AF, we acquire the IP address, user agent, IDFA, AAID or similar advertising or device identifiers where enabled, referrer, URL, time stamp, browser information, browser-storage identifiers (including identifiers stored in localStorage or comparable technologies), session and request identifiers, user interaction data (such as clicks, cursor location and movement, touches and scrolls) and other behavioral history information, together with the country and, for U.S. IP addresses, the state inferred from the IP address, with state-level information used only to exclude California IP addresses from shared block lists (collectively, the "Behavioral History Information"). The specific technical and behavioral identifiers collected depend on the Spider AF service, its configuration and the applicable service specifications.
  • (c) Derived and other information. Fraud scores, classifications, alerts, block lists, exclusion feeds and similar outputs generated by Spider AF; models, rules, signatures, statistics and aggregated or de-identified information; and information about websites, servers and domains, including URLs, HTML, script and other content, headers and scan results collected through the Anti-Ad Fraud Service and the SiteScan Service. Scanned content may incidentally include personal information appearing on a website; we do not use such incidental information to identify or profile individuals. Information in this category may still relate to an individual where it is linked to an identifier such as an IP address, and we treat it as personal information to that extent.

For the specific information collected by each service, please refer to the Spider AF Terms of Service, including Schedule 1 of its Data Protection Agreement, and the applicable order forms and service specifications.

11.2 Our Role for Each Category

Where we process personal information in any of categories (a), (b) and (c) on a customer's behalf to provide the agreed service under that customer's instructions (including results generated for that customer and scan results), we act as a processor or service provider on behalf of that customer under the applicable customer agreement (including the Data Protection Agreement in the Spider AF Terms of Service), and the customer is the controller or business. Where we process information in categories (b) and (c) for our own purposes described in this Section, in particular to create, maintain and operate the shared fraud-detection databases described in Section 11.4 and to protect, secure, maintain and improve our fraud-detection services, we act as a controller or business, as applicable. We do not process directly identifying information in category (a) for our own purposes, except that we may use Anti-Resale order information to improve the accuracy of fraudulent-resale detection and may derive non-identifying characteristics from Fake Lead Protection form fields, as described in Section 11.3, in which case we act as a controller for that processing and apply the safeguards and rights described in this Policy.

11.3 How We Use Each Category

  • (a) Except as described below and in Section 11.2, directly identifying information is used only to provide the relevant service to the customer that collected it. Anti-Resale order information is used to detect and prevent fraudulent resale activities and to improve the accuracy of such detection (including updating detection databases) as permitted by the applicable customer agreement and applicable law. Fake Lead Protection form fields are used only to provide the Fake Lead Protection Service to the customer that collected them (including the detection of duplicate or repeat submissions); we do not incorporate them into the shared fraud-detection databases and systems described in Section 11.4, and we do not use them to develop or improve our services for other customers. However, we may derive from these fields characteristics that do not identify an individual and from which the original values cannot be reconstructed, such as the domain of an email address, whether that domain is associated with disposable email services and the format of the submitted values, and use those characteristics in our shared fraud-detection databases and systems and to improve our detection for all customers. The customer's privacy notice governs the processing we carry out on its behalf.
  • (b) Behavioral History Information is used for the purpose of taking anti-fraud measures through bot detection and other monitoring of unauthorized use, detecting fraudulent, invalid or abusive traffic, leads and orders, optimizing those measures, conducting analysis to optimize them, and developing new services. Browser-storage identifiers may be used to recognize or correlate a device or browser across customer properties and may contribute to the shared fraud-detection databases, scores, classifications, block lists and other outputs described in this Section. Where applicable law (for example, the EU and UK rules on storing or accessing information on a user's device) requires consent for storing or accessing such identifiers, the operator of the website or application on which the tag is deployed is responsible for implementing the applicable consent mechanism and obtaining any required consent before such identifiers are stored or accessed. This allocation does not relieve Spider Labs of any obligations applicable to its own processing under applicable law. On our own Sites, where we deploy Spider AF tags ourselves, we obtain that consent through our cookie banner.
  • (c) Derived and other information is used to provide results to our customers, to operate and improve the shared fraud-detection databases and our detection models, and, in aggregated or de-identified form, for analytics, benchmarking, research, service improvement and the development of new services.

11.4 Shared Fraud-Detection Databases

Spider Labs may combine Behavioral History Information and other fraud-related information in categories (b) and (c) obtained from or generated in connection with multiple customers, services and other sources to create, maintain and operate shared fraud-detection, security, risk-scoring and verification databases and systems. As part of Spider AF and other current or future fraud-prevention, security, risk-scoring, verification and related services, Spider Labs may provide customers and other authorized recipients with database-derived results, including fraud scores, classifications, alerts, block lists, exclusion feeds and fraud-related identifiers such as IP addresses, domains, URLs and comparable technical identifiers. Directly identifying information in category (a) is not disclosed through these databases or the results we provide: Fake Lead Protection form fields are not incorporated into them, other than the non-identifying characteristics described in Section 11.3(a), and Anti-Resale order information may be used to update our detection databases as described in Section 11.3, but only derived indicators and technical identifiers are disclosed. For this processing, Spider Labs acts as a controller or business, as applicable. Spider Labs limits such disclosures to information reasonably necessary for the applicable purpose and does not identify the customer from which particular fraud-related information originated unless authorized by that customer or required by applicable law. Where we rely on aggregated or de-identified information for service improvement or development, we take reasonable measures designed to prevent that information from identifying an individual.

We may prepare anonymously processed data and provide the same to a third party upon taking appropriate protective measures to ensure that individuals will not be identified or specified and that personal information used for the preparation of such data cannot be restored. Anonymously processed data prepared by us may be derived from user agent information (such as IP addresses, terminal device information and referrer), behavioral information such as clicks, viewing and installation, server and domain information, and text, image, audio and HTML information, and such provision will be prepared in data files and by data transmission in a secure manner.

11.5 Retention by Category

The retention periods that apply to information processed through Spider AF are set out in Section 12.2 and, for California residents, in Section 13.1. In summary:

  • (a) Directly identifying information is deleted within 60 days of collection, unless otherwise provided in the applicable customer agreement or required by law.
  • (b) Behavioral History Information and other technical information are generally retained for 90 days from collection in operational and reporting databases. Such information may additionally be retained in access-restricted archival storage for up to two years solely for fraud detection, security investigations and maintaining records of exclusion settings.
  • (c) Fraud scores, classifications, block-list entries and similar derived data are, to the extent they contain IP addresses or other information relating to an individual, retained for up to two years and are then deleted or de-identified. No maximum retention period applies to statistical information, models, rules and other information that does not identify an individual. Other personal information in this category that we hold on a customer's behalf (such as scan results) is retained in accordance with the customer agreement.

Copies maintained in system backups may be retained for up to approximately 12 months before deletion or overwriting through our backup cycles.

System and infrastructure logs are retained for between 30 days and two years depending on the type of log and its purpose. This summary does not extend the periods stated in Section 12.2; the limited exception in Section 12.2 for specific legal claims and incidents applies only to information we hold as a controller or business and does not extend the deletion procedures and periods in our customer agreements.

11.6 Your Rights Regarding Information Processed Through Spider AF

When you would like to request notification or disclosure of the purpose of use of your personal information processed through Spider AF, correction, addition or deletion of a portion thereof, suspension of the use thereof, deletion thereof, or suspension of provision to a third party, we will accommodate your request through the procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy subject to applicable law and verification requirements. Because information processed through Spider AF is generally held against technical identifiers rather than names, we may ask for proportionate additional information to locate the relevant records and verify that they relate to you. If we cannot establish that link, we will explain this where possible; if you provide information that enables us to establish it, we will assess and respond to your request under applicable law. Where we process your information on behalf of a customer, we may refer your request to that customer or ask the customer to respond, as it is the controller or business for that processing. Additionally, for the steps to activate or inactivate IDFA, AAID, or other information or to delete such information, please see "9. Cookies and Similar Technologies".

11.7 Service-Specific Details and Integrations

Spider AF currently comprises the Anti-Ad Fraud Service, the Anti-Resale Service (Scalping Protection), the Fake Lead Protection Service and the SiteScan Service. The Anti-Resale Service is currently offered to customers in Japan. Some customers connect Spider AF to their own systems, for example through our API or through connections to their CRM, e-commerce cart or chat platforms, so that Spider AF outputs are applied automatically in those systems (for example, holding or cancelling an order or rejecting a lead). The customer enables and controls those integrations and is responsible for the decisions taken through them, as described in Section 7 of the GDPR Policy below. This does not relieve Spider Labs of its own obligations in relation to its processing. Optional integrations with advertising, analytics and other third-party platforms are described in Section 10A and in our Platform Integrations Privacy Notice. Where Spider Labs processes personal data on behalf of its customers in the course of providing these services, such processing is governed by the agreement with the customer, including the Data Protection Agreement set out in Annex I of the Spider AF Terms of Service.

Part C: General Provisions (Parts A and B)

This Part C applies to all individuals covered by this Policy, whether under Part A or Part B.

12. European Users

The following applies to individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA). The retention periods in Section 12.2 apply to all individuals covered by Part B, wherever they are located.

12.1 Lawful Bases for Processing

Spider Labs is required to inform you of the lawful bases of our processing of your personal information, which are described below. If you have questions about the lawful basis of how we process your personal information, contact us at the address listed in the section titled "CONTACTING US" below.

We process personal information on one or more of the following bases, depending on the purpose and context:

  • (a) Contract. Processing is necessary to enter into or perform a contract with you, including providing requested products or services, administering an account, processing a transaction, and responding to service requests.
  • (b) Legitimate interests. Processing is necessary for our or a third party’s legitimate interests, including securing and operating the Platform and services, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, improving products and services, managing business relationships, and conducting proportionate business-to-business marketing, except where those interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
  • (c) Consent. We rely on consent where required, including for certain electronic marketing and non-essential cookies or similar technologies. You may withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.
  • (d) Legal obligation. Processing is necessary to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations.
  • (e) Legal claims and vital interests. Where applicable, processing is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect an individual’s vital interests.

We will use your personal information only for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably determine we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. For example, we consider deidentification, aggregation, and other forms of anonymization of personal information to be compatible with the purposes listed above and, in your interest, because the anonymization of such information reduces the likelihood of improper disclosure of that information.

PLEASE NOTE WE MAY PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ABOVE RULES, WHERE THIS IS REQUIRED OR PERMITTED BY LAW.

12.2 Retention

Spider Labs retains your personal information:

  • For so long as your Account is active or as needed to provide you with the Platform or to fulfill our contractual obligations;
  • As necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements;
  • For so long as is necessary for the purposes for which we collected such personal information;
  • For information processed through Spider AF, according to the category-specific periods in Section 11.5. Directly identifying information is deleted within 60 days of collection, subject to the contractual and legal exceptions stated there. Behavioral History Information and other technical information are generally retained for 90 days from collection in operational and reporting databases and may be retained in access-restricted archival storage for up to two years solely for fraud detection, security investigations and maintaining records of exclusion settings. Copies maintained in system backups may be retained for up to approximately 12 months before deletion or overwriting through our backup cycles; and
  • For system and infrastructure logs, for between 30 days and two years depending on the type of log and its purpose: operational server and application logs are rotated on shorter cycles, while security, integration and diagnostic logs may be retained for up to two years for security monitoring, troubleshooting and compliance purposes, subject to access restrictions.

When we retain raw event data in archival storage, we restrict access to authorized personnel, limit its use to the stated purposes, and delete or de-identify it when the applicable retention period expires, unless a longer period is required by law.

Fraud scores, classifications, block-list entries and similar derived data generated through the shared fraud-detection databases described in Section 11.4 are, to the extent they contain IP addresses or other information relating to an individual, retained for up to two years and are then deleted or de-identified. No maximum retention period applies to statistical information, models, rules and other information that does not identify an individual.

Notwithstanding the periods described in this Section, we may retain specific records that we hold as a controller or business only where and for as long as reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend a specific legal claim or to investigate a specific fraud or security incident; such records are kept separately with restricted access, are used only for that purpose, and are reviewed periodically and deleted or de-identified when no longer needed. This exception does not extend the deletion procedures and periods that apply to personal information we process on behalf of a customer under our agreement with that customer.

12.3 Your Rights

European data protection laws give you certain rights regarding your personal information. You may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:

  • Access. Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.
  • Correct. Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
  • Delete. Delete your personal information.
  • Transfer. Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party of your choice.
  • Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • Object. Object to the processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interests, as provided by applicable law.

When we receive your request, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request. We may refuse or limit a request only where applicable law permits, for example where a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. Where providing information would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others, we will limit the affected information as permitted by law and provide the remainder. If we refuse or limit a request, we will tell you why. If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact us or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction. You can find contact information for the relevant supervisory authorities through the European Data Protection Board’s website.

If you are not satisfied with our response, and are in the European Union, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

13. California Privacy Notice

This Section provides additional information for California residents regarding Spider Labs’ privacy practices. Based on our current operations, Spider Labs does not believe that it meets the thresholds for a “business” subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the “CCPA”). We nevertheless provide the disclosures in this Section voluntarily for transparency. Providing these disclosures does not constitute a representation that Spider Labs is currently subject to the CCPA or an undertaking to comply voluntarily with all requirements applicable to a CCPA business. If the CCPA becomes applicable to Spider Labs, we will provide the rights, notices and request methods required by applicable law. For purposes of describing our practices in this Section, “personal information,” “sensitive personal information,” “sell,” “share,” and other terms defined by the CCPA are used with their CCPA meanings. Processing that Spider Labs performs solely as a service provider or contractor on behalf of a customer is governed by the applicable customer agreement and applicable law.

13.1 California Collection and Disclosure Information

The table below describes the categories of personal information that we may collect, the purposes for which we collect and use them, the categories of sources, the categories of recipients to which we disclose them for business purposes, whether the relevant practices would constitute a “sale” or “sharing” using the CCPA definitions, and our retention criteria. “Shared” refers to disclosure for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not sell personal information for money. Certain advertising disclosures may constitute a sale or sharing under the CCPA even when no money is exchanged. The “Sold” and “Shared” columns use those CCPA terms descriptively and do not mean that Spider Labs represents that it is currently a CCPA business. Any sale or sharing described in this table relates only to our own websites and marketing (for example, advertising cookies and pixels on our Sites) and to our business operations. Personal information that Spider AF processes solely on behalf of our customers as a service provider or contractor, including end-user event data, fraud indicators, conversion events and lead-submission data, is not sold or shared. Where Spider AF applies fraud-exclusion settings to a customer's advertising accounts, it does so at the customer's direction and on the customer's behalf. That customer-directed processing is not treated as a sale or sharing by Spider Labs in this table.

CategorySources and PurposesBusiness-Purpose RecipientsSoldSharedRetention
Identifiers and contact information, including name, alias, postal address, email address, telephone number, IP address, account identifiers and similar identifiers. You, your device or browser, customers, business partners, advertising and analytics providers, public sources. Used to provide and secure services, manage accounts and transactions, communicate, market, measure campaigns, detect fraud and comply with law. Affiliates, hosting and infrastructure providers, customer-support providers, payment and billing providers, professional advisers, security and fraud-prevention providers, customers and other authorized recipients of fraud-detection results under Section 11.4 (limited to technical identifiers such as IP addresses, domains and URLs, and derived indicators such as fraud scores, classifications and block lists), advertising platforms (solely to apply fraud-exclusion settings, such as IP-address or placement exclusions, at the direction of our customers), and government authorities where required. No. Yes, for visitors to our Sites only: online identifiers such as cookie identifiers and IP addresses collected by advertising cookies and pixels on our Sites, and, where we use enhanced conversion measurement or customer-list matching for our own marketing, hashed email addresses submitted through forms on our Sites, may be shared with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising. Identifiers processed through Spider AF on behalf of customers are not shared. Account and contact identifiers used for our Sites and business are retained for the duration of the relevant relationship and thereafter as necessary for legal, security, compliance and dispute-resolution purposes. For identifiers processed through Spider AF, the category-specific periods in Section 11.5 apply. Directly identifying information is deleted within 60 days of collection, subject to the contractual and legal exceptions stated there. Other event-level technical identifiers, including IP addresses and browser-storage, device and session identifiers, are generally retained for 90 days from collection in operational and reporting databases and may additionally be retained in access-restricted archival storage for up to two years solely for fraud detection, security investigations and maintaining records of exclusion settings. Copies maintained in system backups may be retained for up to approximately 12 months before deletion or overwriting through our backup cycles.
Geolocation data. Our Sites and business: approximate location inferred from the IP address by our analytics and advertising providers. The Spider AF service: the country and, for U.S. IP addresses, the state inferred from the IP address. State-level information is used only to exclude California IP addresses from shared block lists. Spider AF does not use device data or IP addresses to determine precise geographic location. Your device or browser and service providers. Used for security, fraud detection, localization, analytics and advertising measurement. Hosting, analytics, security, fraud-prevention and advertising providers. No. Only for visitors to our Sites, as approximate location inferred by advertising partners from the IP address collected by advertising cookies and pixels on our Sites. Geolocation data associated with Spider AF event data is not shared. Country-level and, for U.S. IP addresses, state-level location information associated with Spider AF event data is generally retained for 90 days from collection in operational and reporting databases and may additionally be retained in access-restricted archival storage for up to two years solely for fraud detection, security investigations and maintaining records of exclusion settings. Copies maintained in system backups may be retained for up to approximately 12 months before deletion or overwriting through our backup cycles. Other geolocation data is retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Commercial and account information, including service, order, transaction, billing, account, communication and preference information. You, customers, transaction and payment providers, and business partners. Used to provide services, process transactions, support accounts, prevent fraud, communicate and market. Affiliates, payment and billing providers, customer-support providers, hosting providers, professional advisers, fraud-prevention providers and government authorities where required. No. No. Commercial and account information relating to our Sites and business is retained for the duration of the customer or account relationship and thereafter for as long as reasonably necessary for billing, support, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution and enforcement of agreements. Commercial, order and transaction information processed through Spider AF is retained in accordance with the applicable category-specific periods and exceptions in Section 11.5, including its backup retention provisions.
Internet or other electronic network activity, including browsing, search, device, browser, clickstream, interaction, advertisement and fraud or security data. Automatically from your browser, device and interactions, and from customers, advertising, analytics and security partners. Used to operate, secure, analyze and improve the Platform, detect fraud, measure campaigns and provide advertising. Hosting, analytics, advertising, security, fraud-prevention and technical-service providers; customers and other authorized recipients of fraud-detection results under Section 11.4 (limited to fraud scores, classifications, block lists and technical identifiers); and advertising platforms solely to apply fraud-exclusion settings (such as IP-address or placement exclusions) at the direction of our customers. No. Yes, for visitors to our Sites only: browsing and interaction data collected by advertising cookies and pixels on our Sites may be shared with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising. Spider AF event data collected on customers' websites, applications and advertising campaigns is not shared. Behavioral History Information and other technical information processed through Spider AF are generally retained for 90 days from collection in operational and reporting databases and may additionally be retained in access-restricted archival storage for up to two years solely for fraud detection, security investigations and maintaining records of exclusion settings. Copies maintained in system backups may be retained for up to approximately 12 months before deletion or overwriting through our backup cycles. Other network-activity information is retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Professional or employment-related information, including employer, title, business contact details and job-application information. You, recruiters, references, customers, business partners and public professional sources. Used for B2B relationship management, recruiting, communications, compliance and security. Affiliates, recruiting and HR providers, customer-relationship providers, professional advisers and government authorities where required. No. No. Retained for the duration of the relevant business, employment or recruitment relationship and thereafter for as long as reasonably necessary for legal, compliance, recordkeeping and dispute-resolution purposes.
Inferences drawn from the categories above, such as interests, preferences, fraud indicators, risk scores or likely engagement. Generated from information collected from you, devices, customers and service providers. Used for fraud detection, security, service improvement, analytics and marketing. Fraud-prevention, security, analytics, advertising and technical-service providers, and customers and other authorized recipients of fraud-detection results (such as fraud scores, classifications and block lists) under Section 11.4. No. No. Fraud indicators, risk scores and similar inferences generated by Spider AF are not shared. Fraud indicators, risk scores and related inferences generated through Spider AF are, to the extent they contain IP addresses or other information relating to an individual, retained for up to two years and are then deleted or de-identified. No maximum retention period applies to statistical information, models, rules and other information generated through Spider AF that does not identify an individual. Copies maintained in system backups may be retained for up to approximately 12 months before deletion or overwriting through our backup cycles. Other inferences are retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which they were generated.
Sensitive personal information, such as account credentials and any other information treated as sensitive under the CCPA that may be collected in a relevant context. You, customers, devices and service providers. Used for authentication, security, fraud prevention, service delivery and legal compliance. Security, authentication, hosting, fraud-prevention and other providers necessary for the permitted purpose. No. No. Retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for authentication, security, fraud prevention, service delivery or legal compliance. Spider Labs does not intentionally retain account credentials or other sensitive personal information in the raw-event archive unless necessary for a documented purpose and subject to appropriate access restrictions and safeguards.

13.2 Sensitive Personal Information

Spider Labs does not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that are subject to the CCPA right to limit if the CCPA applied to Spider Labs. If our practices or applicable legal obligations change, we will update this notice and provide any method required by applicable law.

13.3 California Privacy Rights

The CCPA provides certain rights to California residents when their personal information is processed by a business subject to the CCPA, including rights to know, access, delete and correct personal information, to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information, to limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising applicable CCPA rights. As explained above, Spider Labs does not currently believe that it meets the thresholds for a business subject to the CCPA. You may nevertheless contact us with a privacy request as described in Section 13.5, and we will consider and respond to the request as required by applicable law and otherwise as reasonably practicable.

13.4 Sale or Sharing Opt-Out

Because Spider Labs does not currently believe that it is a business subject to the CCPA, we do not currently provide a CCPA “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” mechanism or process opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, as CCPA opt-out requests. If Spider Labs becomes subject to those requirements, we will provide and honor the applicable opt-out methods and signals as required by law.

13.5 Submitting a Privacy Request

You may submit a privacy request by emailing dpo@spideraf.com, with info@spideraf.com available as a general alternative, or through the request or support method identified on our Site, including our website support interface. Describe the request and provide information reasonably necessary to identify the relevant records. We will respond as required by applicable law and may also accommodate other requests where reasonably practicable.

13.6 Verification and Authorized Representatives

For privacy requests that we process, we may verify the request using information reasonably related to the request and the sensitivity of the information. We may request additional information where reasonably necessary to protect against fraud or unauthorized disclosure. If you submit a request through an authorized representative, we may request information reasonably necessary to verify the representative’s authority or your identity, subject to applicable law.

13.7 Response Timing

We will respond to privacy requests within any period required by applicable law. For requests that we address voluntarily rather than pursuant to a statutory requirement, we will seek to respond within a reasonable period based on the nature and complexity of the request. We generally do not charge a fee for privacy requests, but may decline or limit a request where permitted by applicable law or where we cannot reasonably verify or locate the relevant information.

13.8 No Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for submitting a privacy request or inquiry. If applicable law provides additional protections against discrimination or retaliation for exercising privacy rights, we will comply with those requirements.

13.9 California “Shine the Light”

California Civil Code section 1798.83 permits certain California residents to request information regarding disclosure of personal information to third parties for their own direct-marketing purposes. You may submit such a request using the contact information in Section 15.

13.10 Changes to this California Privacy Notice

We will update this Section when our practices or applicable legal obligations materially change. The effective date appears at the end of this Privacy Policy.

14. Exercising Your Privacy Rights

When exercising the rights or options described in this Privacy Policy, the following guidelines apply:

14.1 No Fee Usually Required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, where applicable law permits, we may charge a reasonable fee or decline to comply with your request if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of its repetitive character.

14.2 What We May Need from You

When exercising your rights or otherwise assisting you, where reasonably necessary, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. This is a security measure to ensure we do not disclose personal information to any person who is not entitled to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

14.3 Time to Respond

We will respond to legitimate requests within the period required by applicable law and, unless a different statutory period applies, within one month of receiving your request. Where a request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests, we may extend this period where applicable law allows (for individuals in the EEA, by up to two further months); in that case we will inform you of the extension and the reasons for it within one month of receiving your request. For California residents, Section 13.7 also applies.

14.4 No Discrimination

You will not be subject to discrimination as a result of exercising the rights described herein. In some cases, when you exercise one of your rights, we will be unable to comply with the request due to legal obligations or otherwise, or we will be unable to provide you certain products or services. These responses are not discrimination and our reasons for declining your request or ceasing services will be provided at that time.

15. Contacting Us

When you would like to request notification or disclosure of the purpose of use of Personal Information, correction, addition or deletion of a portion thereof, suspension of the use thereof, deletion thereof, or suspension of provision to a third party, please make a request to our contact indicated below. We will accommodate such requests as required by applicable law. For such purpose, we will verify your identity using information reasonably related to your request and, where necessary and proportionate, may ask you to provide identification documents or other supporting materials, and we will confirm the specifics of your request.

For any question regarding the identification document, fees, and other specific procedures, please also make an inquiry to our contact indicated below.

For any inquiry concerning the handling of Personal Information or if you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or any other privacy or security issue, please contact us at:

Spider Labs, Inc.
Representative Director: Satoko Ohtsuki
Attention: Personal Information Manager
Minamiaoyama ST Bldg. 4F, 7-10-3 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Privacy and data-subject requests: dpo@spideraf.com
General Inquiries: info@spideraf.com
Data Protection Officer: Eurico Doirado, dpo@spideraf.com

GDPR Policy

For individuals residing in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), Spider Labs, Inc. has adopted the following additional provisions for the processing ('processing' means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction) of personal information and other information provided by individuals residing in EEA based on the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").These additional provisions shall prevail to the extent it conflicts with any provision in the main body of the Privacy Policy.

1. Processing of the Information

  • (1) Categories of the information
    We collect and retain from individuals residing in EEA the Information including the following categories (collectively the "Information"):
  • Basic information (name, address, phone number, e-mail address, etc.)
  • Additional information (occupation, title, office information (company name, address, telephone number, department name), etc.)
  • Informative matters/Messages (e-mail, website form input, fax, a phone note, letter, the answers to the questionnaires, etc.)
  • Information collected on the internet (IP address, device and OS information, cookies, mobile identifiers such as the ID for Advertising for iOS (IDFA), Google Advertising ID or similar mobile identifiers, interactions within an app, information regarding which advertisements have been seen or clicked on, etc.)
  • (2) Purposes of use:
    We will use the Information for the purposes described in Part A (Section 2) and Part B (Sections 10, 10A and 11) of the Privacy Policy.
  • (3) Acquisition of the Information
    We collect the Information from the following sources in conducting business related to our facilities, services and products:
  • Direct acquisition from an individual: by telephone, letter (including email and other electro-magnetic records), business cards, verbally, through the internet, etc.
  • Acquisition from persons with proper authorization to provide information for an individual: an individual applying on behalf of another, a party introduced by a second party, business partners and agents.
  • Acquisition from published material or public sources: internet, newspapers, telephone directories, books and other publications, etc.
  • Acquisition from third parties' data analytics tools embedded in third party websites and mobile applications
  • (4) Provision to a third party:
    We provide the Information to a person who falls under any of the following items:
  • a business operator whom we entrust with handling of the Information;
  • a Joint User among which we jointly use personal Information;
  • customers and other authorized recipients of fraud-detection results (such as fraud scores, classifications, block lists and technical identifiers) derived from the shared fraud-detection databases described in Section 11.4 of the Privacy Policy; and
  • information providing destination specified by laws and regulations, etc., in case of provision of the Information under laws and regulations, etc.
  • (5) Retention Period
    We retain the information for the period necessary to accomplish its purpose of processing and, where Section 12.2 of the Privacy Policy specifies a period, for that period. Following the retention period, we eliminate or anonymize such Information in a secure way within a reasonable period of time.

2. Legal Basis

We process the Information on the lawful bases described in Section 12.1 of the Privacy Policy.

Our Sites and business: we rely on performance of a contract (including steps taken at your request before entering into a contract) for accounts, orders and support; on our legitimate interests in securing and operating our Sites, managing business relationships and conducting proportionate business-to-business marketing; on compliance with legal obligations; and on consent where applicable law requires it, for example for certain electronic marketing and for non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

The Spider AF service: where we process personal data on behalf of a customer, the customer determines the lawful basis for that processing. Where we process personal data for our own purposes described in Section 11, such as operating shared fraud-detection databases and improving our detection, we rely on our and our customers' legitimate interests in detecting and preventing advertising fraud, fake leads, fraudulent resale and other misuse, on compliance with legal obligations, and, where applicable, on the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

3. Transfer of the Information to a Third Country Located Outside of the EEA

We store the Information primarily in Japan. In addition, we may transfer the Information to business partners of ours located in countries outside of the EEA.

When we transfer personal data from the EEA to Japan, we rely on the European Commission’s applicable adequacy decision to the extent the transfer is within its scope. For transfers to another country or recipient not covered by an adequacy decision, we use an applicable safeguard under Chapter V of the GDPR, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules, or another lawful mechanism. Where required, we assess the laws and practices of the destination country and implement supplementary measures. You may contact us to request information about the applicable transfer mechanism and, where available, a copy of the relevant safeguards.

4. Data Subject’s Rights

You have the following rights with respect to us based on laws and regulations and you may exercise these rights by contacting our DPO. In the event that you exercise these rights, we will respond in good faith, barring statutory exceptions, after confirming that the requesting person is the person in question.

  • The right of access: The right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not the Information concerning you is being processed, and where that is the case, (the right to) access to the Information and the accompanying information.
  • The right to rectification: The right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate Information concerning you.
  • The right to erasure: The right to obtain the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain cases.
  • The right to restriction of the processing: The right to obtain restriction of the processing in certain cases.
  • The right to object to the processing: The right to object to the processing of Information based on the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or third parties.
  • The right to data portability: The right to receive the Information concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us.

5. Withdrawal of Consent

You can withdraw consent on the processing of information at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before the withdrawal. You can withdraw consent by contacting our DPO.

6. Lodging a Complaint with an Authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint on the processing of Information with the protection authority having jurisdiction over your residence.

7. Automated Individual Decision-Making, Including Profiling

Our Sites and business: we do not make decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.

The Spider AF service: Spider AF uses automated processing, including profiling, to detect and score fraudulent, invalid or abusive traffic, leads and orders, based on signals such as IP address, device and browser characteristics, and interaction patterns. These outputs are provided to our customers as scores, classifications and block lists. Any decision that may affect you (for example, whether to accept an order or respond to a lead) is taken by the relevant customer under its own responsibility. Some customers enable integrations under which these outputs are applied automatically, for example through our API or through connections to their CRM, e-commerce cart or chat platforms, so that an order may be held or cancelled, or a lead rejected, without individual review by the customer; in that case the customer is responsible for its use of the Spider AF output and for any safeguards applicable to the decision it makes, such as informing you and allowing you to obtain human intervention and to contest the decision. Customers are responsible for configuring and using these integrations in compliance with applicable law. Spider Labs remains responsible for its own processing and for any obligations applicable to Spider Labs, including where a Spider AF score, classification or other output plays a determining role in a decision subject to applicable automated-decision-making law. Where applicable law provides additional rights regarding automated decision-making, including with respect to certain significant decisions under California law, those rights and any applicable notices or safeguards will be provided as required by law. If you believe a decision about you was based on Spider AF outputs, please contact the customer concerned; you may also contact our DPO (Section 9) with questions about this processing or to exercise your rights in relation to it.

8. Security and Confidentiality Measures

We handle the Information with appropriate security and confidentiality measures.

9. Data Protection Officer (DPO) and EU Representative

(1) DPO

Data Protection Officer: Eurico Doirado
Spider Labs, Inc.
Minamiaoyama ST Bldg. 4F, 7-10-3 Minamiaoyama, Minato City, Tokyo 107-0062
Email: dpo@spideraf.com

(2) EU Representative

SPIDER LABS PORTUGAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA
Avenida Duque de Loulé 22, 7.º, 1050-090 Lisboa, Portugal
Email: dpo@spideraf.com

Last Revised: November 19, 2026

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