Privacy Policy

Last updated on 16 June, 2018
Welcome to the Privacy Policy of umbest.ru (the «Website»). The Website is owned and controlled by U-M-Best («we», «us», or «our»).

What Information We Collect

Visits to Our Website. As used in this Policy, «Personally Identifiable Information» (also commonly referred to as personal data) is understood as all data that can be used to identify you. The following types of data about you may be collected on your visits to our Website:

  • your IP address;
  • your operating system and browser software used to access our Website;
  • other information, as will be explained under Section 4 (With Whom We Share Information We Collect, Google Analytics) below;
  • in the event you contact us by email, we may keep a record of that correspondence; such record may include, apart from your email address, the Personally Identifiable Information that you will include in the communication.

Such data are collected by Our Partners (as such term is explained in Section 4).

Subscription-Based Services/Registration. If you wish to register on our Website in order to receive our subscriptionbased services, we will ask you to provide the following data:

  • your email address;
  • your gender;
  • your date of birth.

In addition, when subscribing for any of the services offered on our Website you will be requested to identify your display name and choose your profile image which may be an avatar or a photo. The display name is what will be displayed next to your comments on our Website. We strongly encourage you not to use your real-life name and/or surname as your display name.

We never share with third parties any of the data supplied by you as part of subscription-based services/registration.

How Information Collected Is Used

Use of Personal Data by Us. We collect and use your Personally Identifiable Information for the following legitimate business purposes:

  • to carry out general data analysis and to administer our Website and affiliated sites;
  • to generate statistics and measure web traffic and popularity of specific areas of our Website;
  • to identify usage trends and expand our business activities;
  • to build higher quality and develop more useful services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our users;
  • to improve or modify our Website, develop new services and functionality;
  • to comply with applicable legal requirements, legal process and relevant industry standards, and satisfy requests by governmental and supervisory authorities;
  • to identify and prevent fraud.

In addition, if you wish to register on our Website in order to receive our subscription-based services, your Personally Identifiable Information will be used to communicate with you.

If, at any time, you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

What You Agree to by Using Our Website

We will ask for your consent and agree that we may collect and use your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and as permitted or required by law. You are free to refuse to give consent or to withdraw the consent that you had given. However, please note that if you refuse or withdraw your consent some of the features available on our Website may not be available to you. Please note that we may also rely on legitimate interests or fulfilment of a contract to continue processing your data. Consent can be withdrawn at any time by navigating to Change Consent to remove consent.

Please understand that, if you decide to register on our Website in order to receive our subscription-based services, by submitting any Personally Identifiable Information to us, you are giving consent and agreeing that we may collect and use all Personally Identifiable Information that you submit in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted or required by law. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not provide any Personally Identifiable Information to us.

Before using Personally Identifiable Information for a purpose other than any of the purposes set out in the preceding Section (How the Collected Information Is Used) of this Policy we will ask for your specific consent.

With Whom We Share Information

Except as set forth in this Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, we will not disclose any of your Personally Identifiable Information. In addition to the other uses set forth in this Policy, we may disclose and otherwise use Personally Identifiable Information as described below.

Affiliates. We share your Personally Identifiable Information with our affiliates — companies that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with Lamp.

Our Partners. We allow third parties, including carefully selected ad networks and business partners (referred to as «Our Partners»), to display advertising on our Website. Our Partners may, for instance, collect, use and share your information to make or help us make predictions about your interests, and may provide you with offers, promotional materials, and advertisements. In addition, Our Partners may be collecting certain information related to your PC, laptop, mobile phone or other device attributes and traffic/session information. Our Website permits Our Partners to collect your Personally Identifiable Information to provide personalized advertising to you. Our Partners are leading digital performance-based advertising groups which put great effort in making sure that your personal information is safe and used properly.

Service Providers. Your information may be collected by entities that provide services to us, including companies that deliver web analytics, data processing, data enhancement and customer insights, advertising, email distribution, and other services.

Other Parties (when required by law or as necessary to protect our services). We may disclose your information (including Personally Identifiable Information) to other parties in order to:

  • protect our legal rights or property, the legal rights or property of our affiliates, and sites or services we
  • protect the rights, safety and security of our users, ourselves, or any other person or entity;
  • prevent fraud (or for risk management purposes);
  • in order to comply with or respond to the law or legal process or a request for cooperation by a governmental or supervisory authority, whether or not legally required.

Other Parties (in connection with transfer of assets). If we make a sale or transfer of assets, or are otherwise involved in a merger or transfer (or due diligence related to such a transaction), or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy, we may transfer your Personally Identifiable Information as part of that transaction.

Use for Analytical and Ad Serving Purposes. We use standard tools common within the industry, such as Google Analytics, to collect information about use of our Website. These tools collect information such as how often you visit our Website and what other sites you visited prior to reaching our Website. We use the information we obtain from analytical tools for the purposes of improving our Website. The analytical tools collect only the IP address assigned to your computer or other device and your browser settings as of the moment you visit our Website, rather than your name or other identifying information.

We also use standard tools common within the industry, such as DoubleClick for Publishers operated by Google, enabling placement and management of personalized advertising services on our Website. These tools use cookies to target advertising based on what is relevant to you as a user to improve advertising and to avoid showing ads that you have already seen. Cookies themselves contain no Personally Identifiable Information. They relate to your web activity, rather than your identity. Tools such as DoubleClick will send a cookie to your web browser after any impression, click, or other activity by you on our servers. If your web browser accepts the cookie, the cookie will be planted on your web browser. DoubleClick will usually send a cookie to your web browser when you visit any webpage displaying DoubleClick ads. Webpages containing DoubleClick ads include ad tags that instruct web browsers to request ad content from our servers. When the server delivers the ad content, it will also send a cookie.

Finally, our Website relies on common industry tools Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These tools help us understand the composition of viewers of our Website in terms of gender, age and interests. We need this information in order to understand what kinds of creative content we need to develop to suit the interests of different demographic and interest groups. Our Partners may need this information to develop marketing content. You may, at any time, opt out of Google Analytics tracking, including Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, by installing the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On. You may also opt out of ad serving through Google’s opt-out page.

The personal data privacy aspects of all Google products, services and features, including Google Analytics and DoubleClick, are covered by Google Privacy Policy. We never combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics or DoubleClick with any other Personally Identifiable Information. Please note that permanent cookies planted on your web browser by Google products to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Website, cannot be used by anyone but Google. The ability of Google to use and share information collected by Google Analytics or DoubleClick about your visits to our Website is restricted by DoubleClick Terms and Conditions, Google Analytics Terms of Use and Google Privacy Policy.

Please note that you can opt out of ads personalization using Google’s Ads Settings by following the instructions contained on the following resource of Google – Google Ads Settings. If you choose to opt out of ads personalization, you will no longer receive personalized advertising.

Cross-Border Transfer of Information

We generally maintain centralized servers and systems in Europe and may maintain servers and systems elsewhere. These servers and systems are managed by us or on our behalf, or by our affiliates located in Europe.

In the event of transfer and processing of your Personally Identifiable Information outside the EEA for the purposes described above, we will ascertain that the information receives the same level of protection as if it remained within the EEA, including when entering into data transfer agreements, using the EU Commission approved Standard Contractual Clauses, or by relying on certification schemes such as the EU-US Privacy Shield.

How Secure Is Your Information

We use commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your Personally Identifiable Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction in accordance with requirements of applicable laws.

Use of ‘Cookies’

We also use (or may use) ‘cookies’ when you visit our Website. For more information on our use of cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Use of Information for Personal Advertising

The information collected by Our Partners is used to analyze trends, understand user activities and gather demographic information to enable, manage and develop their personalized ads and related services. Our Partners may share such information with their affiliates. To do this, Our Partners use technologies such as cookies and web beacons to collect information about your interaction with our Website and third-party websites. This type of information does not identify you personally and, typically, is aggregated with other data to create segments – groups of users and general interest categories that are inferred based on a range of factors (for example, «sports fan»). Our Partners use this information to form a more accurate picture of the interests of the audiences with which they interact – including you – so that their ads are more relevant to those interests.

In addition, Our Partners may use the information collected from these types of cookie or similar technologies for a variety of other purposes, including:

  • in conjunction with advertising that appears on other third-party websites;
  • to measure the effectiveness of web-based and email advertisements;
  • for reporting website traffic, statistics, advertisement data and other interaction with ads and the websites on which they are served.

Our Partners retain your information in accordance with their legitimate business purposes for processing. Thereafter, the information is removed, archived for restricted legitimate interests, or anonymized. Non-identifying information may be kept without time and use limitations.

Retention of Information

If you reside or are located in the EEA, your Personally Identifiable Information will be stored for no longer than necessary for the purpose for which the Personally Identifiable Information was collected. The length of time Personally Identifiable Information is retained depends on the purpose for which such information was collected and/or as required to comply with applicable laws and establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Your Legal Rights

You have certain rights in relation to your Personally Identifiable Information. Depending on the jurisdiction, you have the right to request that we:

  • provide access to any Personally Identifiable Information we, or Our Partners, hold about you;
  • update any Personally Identifiable Information which is out of date or incorrect;
  • delete any Personally Identifiable Information which we, or Our Partners, are holding about you;
  • object to certain means of processing of Personally Identifiable Information (e.g., opt-out from marketing communications);
  • restrict the way in which we process your Personally Identifiable Information;
  • provide your Personally Identifiable Information to a third party provider or services;
  • provide you with a copy of any Personally Identifiable Information which we hold about you.

Children’s Privacy

No part of our Website is directed to children or minors under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information from anyone that we know is under 18 years of age. If you are under 16 years of age (unless a lower age threshold between 13 and 16 applies in your country), then please do not use or access this Website, or ask your parents for permission before using our Website or sending any information about yourself to anyone over the Internet. We will take appropriate steps to delete any Personally Identifiable Information of persons less than 13 years of age that has been collected on our Website without verifiable parental consent upon learning of the existence of such Personally Identifiable Information.

Questions, Suggestions and Complaints

If you have any privacy-related questions, suggestions, unresolved problems, or complaints you may contact us at max@kolmak.com

If you reside or are located within the EEA, we may assist with all queries regarding our processing of Personally Identifiable Information. We request that you please attempt to resolve any issues related to your Personally Identifiable Information with us first. If you reside or are located within the EEA, you may also make a complaint to the supervisory authority for data protection in your country of residence (such as, for instance, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office for the UK) or seek a remedy through local courts if you believe that your rights have been breached.

External Links

Our Website may display links to websites of third party content providers, other than Our Partners. We do not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties, other than Our Partners, without obtaining your consent specifically permitting such disclosure. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the privacy practices and content of such third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies to understand how they collect and process your Personally Identifiable Information.

Our partners

Metrics and analytical tools

Changes to This Policy

We revise and evaluate this Policy periodically in light of changing business practices, technology and legal requirements. As a result, this Policy will be updated from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. Any change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on our Website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, our privacy practices, or to exercise your rights, please contact us by email at max@kolmak.com