Privacy Policy
Effective Date April 28, 2018
VIKING MEDIA GROUP LIMITED(“we,” “us,” “our” or “VIKING MEDIA”) is a mobile advertising company that provides our partners (e.g. advertisers, publishers) with our ad network, platform or technology (“VIKING MEDIA Service”) to serve ads on third parties’ application, website or other platforms.
This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) is to explain how we collect, use, and transfer information received by us when we provide VIKING MEDIA Service to our partners, including information that we collect when you visit our website at https://vikingmedia.mobi/ (“Website”).
VIKING MEDIA Services Privacy Policy
Website Privacy Policy
VIKING MEDIA Services Privacy Policy
This section describes the information we collect, use, and transfer when we provide VIKING MEDIA Service to our partners.
1. Information Collection and Use
If you are an end user of application, website or any other media platform that downloads and uses an application or service which contains our SDK or otherwise interacts with VIKING MEDIA Services, or provided by our advertiser through our Service, we may collect certain information including the following. These information may also be obtain from our partners or other third parties.
(1). Device information
VIKING MEDIA may collect information about your device information, including device make, device model, operating system (e.g.Android), device type (e.g. tablet), device properties related to screen size and orientation, audio volume and battery, orientation and battery, carrier, name and properties of mobile application through which a consumer interacts with the VIKING MEDIA Service or service provided by VIKING MEDIA’s partners, country, time zone and locale settings (country and preferred language), network connection type, IP address, Internet browser user-agent used to access the Service, network provider, SDK version, timestamp, API key (identifier for application), application version, OS version of device, network status such as WiFi, the Google Advertising ID (GAID), Android ID, etc.
(2). Location information
VIKING MEDIA may collect information about your general location (e.g. country). We may use the IP address to identify your general location.
(3). Ad information
VIKING MEDIA may collect information about the ads served to you and about your interaction with the ads served to you. It includes information like the content type of the ad, and what page the ad appeared on, whether you viewed, clicked, or otherwise interacted with the ad, the time of your visit, click, or other interaction or other ad engagement history about your interaction with the ads. We may also obtain information about the actions taken in an application like purchases or application installations from our advertiser or any other third party.
We use the information collected to provide the VIKING MEDIA Service. We may use this information to show you relevant ads, measure your ad/site interaction, identify your interest areas, better understand your behavior in order to serve ads customized your interest, understand and analyze your usage trends and preferences and improve the VIKING MEDIA Service. Where required, the publisher will obtain your consent for and on our behalf for the processing of your personal information to serve ads on your device. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
We may also use your information for purpose of anti-fraud and settlement in order to perform the contractual obligations to our partners (e.g. advertisers and publishers), or comply with any applicable law and regulation.
If you are partners of us, we may contact you periodically by e-mail to provide information regarding VIKING MEDIA Services. If applicable law requires that we receive your consent before we send you certain types of marketing communications, we will only send you those types of communications after receiving your consent.
If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, you may follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or request to be opted-out of receiving such communications via email to privacy@vikingmedia.mobi
2. Information Sharing
We may share information we collect or obtain from our partners or other third parties for the following purposes:
- To display advertising on your device, which may include interest-based advertising customized to individuals’ interests, preferences and locations;
- To perform analysis aimed at improving our services;
- To provide our partners with the Services, such as to deliver relevant advertising, and to enable successful settlement with our partners;
- To enforce or apply our contracts with partners;
- To protect our rights, including for purpose of anti-fraud;
- To protect our or a third party’s legal rights or to defend against a legal claim;
- In response to subpoenas, court orders, other legal processes or other legal requirements;
- To share information with third parties such as advisors and law enforcement authorities where it is necessary to: comply with the law or regulations.
- As part of a business transfer such as a merger, acquisition, or at bankruptcy.
We may also transfer information to service providers, and other partners who support our business, such as providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our Services are used, measuring the effectiveness of ads and services, providing supporting service or facilitating payments. These partners must adhere to strict confidentiality obligations in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the agreements we enter into with them.
3. International Transfers
Your personal information will be transferred to recipients in countries located outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) which may not provide adequate level of protection to that provided by countries in the EEA. The publisher will obtain your consent to the transfer of your personal information to recipients, as described in this Privacy Policy, which are located outside the EEA to the extent required by any applicable law or regulation. You are entitled to withdraw your consent at any time.
4. Your Data Rights
If you are in the EEA, you may be entitled:
- (i) to request access to your personal information;
- (ii) to request rectification or erasure of your information;
- (iii) to restrict the processing or to object to processing of your personal information;
- (iv) to request us to provide the personal data about you that we store and transmit to another without hindrance from us, including requesting that we provide your personal data directly to another, i.e., a right to data portability;
- (v) to withdraw consent to processing your personal data.
Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint against us. To exercise your right, please contact our data protection officer. See the “Contact” section below.
5. Data Security and Retention
We implement reasonable measures, including physical, technical and administrative security measures to help secure the information we collect through VIKING MEDIA Service. We retain information in our systems for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
VIKING MEDIA may retain the information relating to you collected from our business partners as necessary for the provision of the services, internal analytical purposes, or to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce agreements (e.g. settlement). We will determine the period to retain your personal information based on reasonable factors to the extent permitted by law or regulation, such as the time needed to retain the personal data as necessary to provide VIKING MEDIA Service, the type of personal data collected, any legal, contractual or similar obligation to retain the data we may subject to.
6. Children
VIKING MEDIA Services are not intended for children under the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 except as permitted by law. We ensure that we complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Website Privacy Policy
This section describes the information we collect, use, and share through our Website.
1. Information Collection
We may collect various types of information through the Site. We may also collect certain types of technical and usage information automatically, including through the use of Cookies and other similar tracking technologies. These tracking technologies allow VIKING MEDIA to personalize your experience on the Website and keep track of certain online behavior on the Website in order to help us better provide Service to you. This information may include your names, E-mail addresses, your browser type, domain name, IP address, pages visited, and the length of your user session using various technologies and means, such as Internet Protocol Address, cookies, Internet Tags and navigational data collection.
You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Site or Service.
2. Information Use
We may use the information we collect or you provide to us through the Website for various purposes, including:
- To provide you with information of our Service;
- To contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries;
- For business administration, including statistical analysis;
- To help us better understand who visit our Website and what you are interested about.
3. Information Sharing
We may share information collected through the Website for purposes including:
- To provide to third parties to operate or improve the Website and VIKING MEDIA Service;
- To our affiliated companies for purpose provided in this Privacy Policy;
- To comply with obligations required by law as required or permitted by law;
- To comply with a subpoena or similar legal process or government request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is legally required or otherwise necessary to protect our rights and property, or the rights, property or safety of others, including to advisers, law enforcement agencies, judicial and regulatory authorities;
- To transfer to a third party that acquires all or part of our assets or shares, or that succeeds us in carrying on all or a part of our business, whether by merger, acquisition, reorganisation or otherwise.
4. International Transfers
Your personal information will be transferred to recipients in countries located outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) which may not provide adequate level of protection to that provided by countries in the EEA. Where required by law, the publisher will obtain your consent to the transfer of your personal information to recipients, as described in this Privacy Policy, which are located outside the EEA. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
5. Your Data Rights
If you are in the EEA, you may be entitled:
- (i) to request access to your personal information;
- (ii) to request rectification or erasure of your information;
- (iii) to restrict the processing or to object to processing of your personal information;
- (iv) to request us to provide the personal data about you that we store and transmit to another without hindrance from us, including requesting that we provide your personal data directly to another, i.e., a right to data portability; and
- (v) to withdraw consent to processing your personal data.
Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint against us. To exercise your right, please contact our data protection officer. See the “Contact” section below.
6. Data Security and Retention
We have implemented reasonable physical, technical and administrative security measures for the Site to help protect information we collect and store.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary and in any event in relation to personal information collected by us on the Website we will only keep this personal information for one (1) year.
7. Cookies and Other Similar Technology
The Website may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technology to collect information. You may be able to limit the use of cookies through your browser settings, but note that certain parts of the Website may not function properly without cookies.
To find how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
8. Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 through the Site.
9. Policy Changes
Any changes to the Policy will become effective when the revised Policy is posted on the Site. By continuing to use the Website or Services following such changes, you are agreeing to accept the terms of the revised Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, please write to us at:
VIKING MEDIA Technology Limited
Mill Mall, Suite 6, Wickhams Cay 1, P.O. Box 3085, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
You can also contact our data protection officer via the email at privacy@vikingmedia.mobi