Data transferred to Kaspersky during an update

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

Purpose of data provisioning: calculating Kaspersky'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.

See also the detailed information about data provisioning.

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