Kaspersky Scan Engine

Data transferred to Kaspersky Lab during an update

During an update, Kaspersky Scan Engine transfers its encrypted user agent string to Kaspersky Lab.

Purpose of data provisioning: calculating Kaspersky Lab's product usage statistics and update statistics.

Region where the data is processed: Moscow, Russia.

Data protection method: secure encryption.

The following information is transferred in the user agent string:

  • Version of the user agent string format
  • Identifier of Kaspersky Scan Engine
  • Licensing mode
  • Identifier of the license
  • Update session identifier
  • Full version of Kaspersky Scan Engine: major, minor, build, revision, and hotfix

Storage period:

  • While statistic data is processed: 24 hours.
  • After the statistic data is processed:
    • License identifier: only the top 1000 identifiers are stored indefinitely.
    • Other parameters are stored indefinitely. These parameters are not personal data.

For details about the data provisioning process, see section "About data provisioning".