Kaspersky Secure Connection

Data provision under the End User License Agreement on the territory of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, or by California residents

This section contains information on the specific data that are provided to Kaspersky if you have installed the application version which is intended for use in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Brazil, or by California residents. The information mentioned in this section does not contain any personal data of the User and is needed for the operation of the Rightholder's Software, unless expressly stated otherwise.

You agree to provide the following data for improving the quality of real-time protection, improving the quality of operation of the software and the timely detection and rectification of errors associated with the mechanism for installation, removal and update of the software, accounting for the number of users:

  • Information about the Rightholder's software: type, version, edition and localization of the installed software.
  • Information about the type, version, and edition of the OS installed on the computer, and about installed update packages for the OS.
  • Information about user activity when using the software and issues that arise during that activity: types and codes of errors and issues that occur when using the software, and the ID of the user interface control element.
  • Website address of the software license subscription provider.
  • Data on the quality of software installation/removal tasks: type of installation task, task completion status, type and code of the error during task performance, time spent on completing the task, the ID of the software version upgrade campaign; information about the geographic location of the user's computer.
  • Information about scanning of secure connections: the certificate used to establish the connection and the checksum (SHA2-256) of its public key.
  • Certificate of the scanned file, public certificate key of the scanned file, and the thumbprint of the certificate of the scanned file.

For keeping track of the number of users, you agree to automatically provide the following information to the Google Analytics service and to an entrusted third-party service provider of the Rightholder: the name and version of the installed software of the Rightholder, the unique ID of the software installation on the computer, and information about the versions of the operating system installed on the computer and the installed update packages. Data is transmitted to the Google Analytics service over a secure connection. Access to and protection of information is regulated by the relevant terms of use of the Google Analytics service.

A third-party service provider may process the specified data in countries where the level of data security is lower than the security level of your country of residence and / or the country where the software is used. If you do not accept these terms, please do not use this software.

The information received is protected by the Rightholder in the manner prescribed by the law and is required for the operation of the Software made available to use under the license.

Kaspersky may use the acquired statistical data based on the information collected to monitor trends in computer security threats and publish reports on those threats.