Kaspersky VPN Secure Connectiоn for Mac

About data provided

May 14, 2024

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Data provided to Kaspersky by using Kaspersky VPN 3.4

Kaspersky protects any information received in accordance with law and applicable Kaspersky rules. Data is transmitted over a secure channel.

Personal data provided

You agree to provide Kaspersky with personal data by accepting the End User License Agreement, Privacy Policy, Statement Regarding Data Processing For Marketing Purposes (Marketing Statement), Statement Regarding Data Processing For Purpose Of Completing A Purchase (Purchase Statement), or Statement Regarding Data Processing For Purpose Of Using Web-Portal (Web-Portal Statement). You can view the list of data provided under the terms of each legal document in the corresponding legal document.

You can view the License Agreement in the App Store.

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If you don't want Kaspersky to receive and process the data provided under the Purchase Statement, you can revoke your acceptance by disconnecting your subscription.

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Important: After you disconnect Kaspersky VPN from the subscription, the subscription remains active. For more information about the subscription terms, see About the subscription.

If you don't want Kaspersky to receive the data provided under the Web-Portal Statement, you can revoke your acceptance signing out of My Kaspersky.

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If you don't want Kaspersky to process the data provided under the Web-Portal Statement, you need to delete your My Kaspersky account.

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Important: When you sign out of or delete a My Kaspersky account, Kaspersky VPN switches to the free version.

Note: The availability of the free version and the option to purchase a subscription depends on your region.

Non-personal data provided

You agree to provide Kaspersky with non-personal data by accepting the End User License Agreement.

Non-personal data is provided to Kaspersky for the following purposes:

To provide You with the core functionality of the acquired Rightholder's Software.

  • Information about the Rightholder's Software: full version of the Software; Software ID; result of the Software action; error code; Software ID in Firebase; Software group; Software localization; Software update ID; type of the installed Software.
  • Information about the use of Kaspersky Security Network (KSN): configuration identifier.
  • ID of the topic in the Software help; link name.

In addition to the information mentioned above, in case of signing in to the Web-Portal using Your Facebook, Google, Yandex, or VK account, the Rightholder needs to receive from Your device and process the following non-personal data:

  • Information about the authentication: Software ID; name of the identity provider; parameters requested from the identity provider; URI to which the identity provider's response is sent; token type; value generated for request verification; hash of request verification code; hashing algorithm for request verification code; authorization code received from the Rightholder's infrastructure.

Note: The list of third-party services that are available for signing in to My Kaspersky depends on your region. For more details on restrictions in Russia, please see this article (available only in English and Russian).

To improve the quality, appearance, and performance of the Rightholder's Software, products, services, and infrastructure by analyzing users' interactions, experience, and satisfaction.

  • Information about the End User's Computer on which the Software is installed: operating system family; OS type (server, workstation, domain controller); OS build number; OS Service Pack version; operating system bit version; version of the operating system installed on the user's computer; device type (laptop, desktop, tablet); device model; OS edition; extended information about the OS edition.
  • Information about the Rightholder's Software: Software ID in Firebase; error code; full version of the Software; response status of the Rightholder's service; type of the installed Software; Software rebranding ID; installation type (new installation, update); installation error code; Software ID; Software installation/uninstallation status; Software localization; code of the partner organization associated with the Software rebranding; flag indicating whether the installation was aborted by the user; duration of Software installation in seconds; Software update ID; information about VPN nodes; status of VPN client settings; ID of the starting scenario of VPN connection; result of the Software action; protocol ID; stage of connection to the VPN node; action requested from the Software; type of Software license used; stage of establishing connection.
  • Information about the use of Kaspersky Security Network (KSN): temporal distribution of unsuccessful KSN transactions; number of unsuccessful KSN connections; number of unsuccessful requests caused by KSN being disabled in the Software settings; number of unsuccessful requests to KSN caused by network problems; temporal distribution of successful KSN connections; number of unsuccessful KSN transactions; number of successful KSN transactions; temporal distribution of unsuccessful KSN connections; temporal distribution of requests to KSN that timed out; temporal distribution of successful requests to KSN; number of new KSN connections; temporal distribution of successful KSN transactions; number of KSN connections taken from the cache; protocol used to exchange data with KSN; ID of the KSN service accessed by the Software; number of unsuccessful requests to KSN caused by routing errors; total number of requests to KSN; temporal distribution of canceled requests to KSN; number of requests for which a response was found in the local request database; date and time when statistics stopped being received; number of successful KSN connections; date and time when statistics started being received.
  • Version of the installed software; text of the error message; OS error code; http request method; token type; token used for authentication in the Rightholder's services; token TTL; path to the object being processed; method used for authentication in the Software; full version of the Software; information about implementation of the web service access handler; unique request ID to the Rightholder services; line number of the source file in the exception handler; protocol ID; total duration of request processing; protocol processing error type; code of the error category; DNS address of the web service being accessed; server access duration; remote port and IP address of the web service being accessed; web address being processed; user region code.

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