WHO WE ARE

    This Privacy Policy applies to Briskinfosec and its subsidiaries (collectively, “Briskinfosec” or “we” or “us”) and describes Briskinfosec’s (“our”) policies and practices that we undertake in collecting, using, and safeguarding your personal information. By “personal information”, we mean information that can be used to identify you or that we can link to you and which we have in our possession or control.

    When you purchase a certificate, you are contracting with Briskinfosec, a limited company formed under the laws of England and Wales with registered number 04058690 and registered offices at 26 Office Village, Exchange Quay, Trafford Road, 3rd Floor, Salford, Manchester, M5 3EQ, United Kingdom.

    Briskinfosec is the data controller for personal information collected and processed for purposes of issuing publicly-trusted digital certificates, and is responsible for the collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your personal information in accordance with our privacy standards, this privacy policy, and applicable laws. We have appointed a data protection officer to be responsible for our privacy program. Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:

  • Attn: Data Protection Officer
  • BriskInfosec Technology and Consulting Pvt Ltd
  • 2nd floor, No. 21, Krishnamachari Road,
  • Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600034.

OVERVIEW

Briskinfosec values your privacy.

In providing you with access to Briskinfosec’s products, services, and websites (including, but not limited to, comodoca.com, instantssl.com, enterprisessl.com, positivessl.com, and ssl.comodo.com), Briskinfosec collects and uses certain information about you. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information is collected from you, how we use it, and how you can protect your privacy rights.

At a glance, this Privacy Policy contains the following information:

  • What information we collect.
  • How we collect your information.
  • How we use your information.
  • What information we share.
  • What security measures we have in place to protect your information.
  • What rights and choices you have in relation to your information.

This is important to us, so we hope you take the time to read and review it carefully.

DEFINITIONS

We’ve defined the following terms, which are used throughout this Privacy Policy, to provide better clarity on what we mean:

  • “Account” refers to a CCM account, an E-PKI account, an S3 account, or any other account at a Briskinfosec website for which you sign up and log in.
  • “Baseline Requirements” refers the most recent version of the CA/B Forum’s Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates.
  • “CA/B Forum” means the Certificate Authority and Browser Forum, a consensus-driven forum of certificate authorities (like us) and browsers that promulgates industry guidelines governing the issuance and management of X.509 v.3 digital certificates.
  • “Cookies Policy” refers to the most recent version of our Cookies Policy.
  • “CPS” refers the most recent version of our Certification Practices Statement.
  • “EV Code-Signing Guidelines” means the most recent version of the CA/B Forum’s Guidelines for The Issuance And Management of Extended Validation Code Signing Certificates.
  • “EV Guidelines” refers to the most recent version of the CA/B Forum’s Guidelines for the Issuance and Management of Extended Validation Certificates.

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

INFORMATION YOU GIVE TO US

  • Briskinfosec collects personal information in accordance with industry standards mandated by the CA/B Forum (such as the Baseline Requirements and EV Guidelines) when you purchase or use Briskinfosec products or services or otherwise interact with Briskinfosec. In most instances, you provide the information directly to Briskinfosec, such as when you create an Account, sign up for a newsletter, subscribe to Briskinfosec’s services, use a Briskinfosec website, download a Briskinfosec product, or request further information from Briskinfosec.

When You Purchase Services or Download a Product

  • When you purchase Briskinfosec services or download a product, you will provide certain personal information. This information may include personal contact information, such as name, company name, address, phone number, and email address; billing information, such as billing name and address, credit card number, and the number of employees within the organization; or other similar information that may be necessary for us to provide you with products and services. The information that you provide shall be used for such things as setting up or administering your Account, responding to your inquiries, providing you with product updates or improvements, and managing other daily business needs, such as, for example, payment processing, account and contract management, website administration, troubleshooting, security and fraud prevention, corporate governance, reporting and legal compliance and business continuity. If Briskinfosec would like to process that information for any other purposes, we will first provide you with sufficient information describing such additional use.

When You Order a Certificate

  • When you order a certificate, you will be required to provide certain information depending on the certificate type (e.g. DV, OV, EV, SMIME, etc.). The exact informational requirements are listed in the CPS for your review. Certain of the submitted details will be displayed within the certificate, and, as a result, will be publicly available.
  • You have choices about your information, but if you choose not to provide necessary information when purchasing a product or service, or ordering a certificate, (for example, information necessary to validate a certificate), then you may not be able to get that product, service, or certificate.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOUR USE

To enable a better experience on our websites and provide you with better functionality and features in our products and services, we collect information about your interactions with Briskinfosec, like the products and services that you use and how you use them. We may use technologies like cookies, browser analysis tools, or server logs to receive error reports or usage data from software running on your device or our website and applications. We may also obtain data from third parties to enhance our files and better understand our customers.

Cookies

  • A cookie is a piece of data that websites send to your computer or other web-based devices to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings on your browser based on your use. Cookies allow us to identify you when you return to the website, providing you with a streamlined and customized experience. Briskinfosec may employ the use of cookies to analyze trends, administer our websites, products or services, gather demographic information or to measure the success of advertising and affiliate network memberships. Briskinfosec’s resellers and webhosts may also use cookies; although Briskinfosec does not exercise any access or control of such partners’ cookies.
  • You can always control the use of cookies, but if you choose to disable all cookies, it may limit your use of certain functions or features on our websites, products or services.
  • For more information on cookies and how we use them, see our Cookies Policy.

Analytics Tools

  • Briskinfosec's websites use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"), to evaluate your use of the Briskinfosec website. Google Analytics place a third-party cookie on your computer that is then used to compile reports of visitor traffic and internet usage. Google Analytics does not have a database of individual profiles for each visitor and only collects aggregate data.
  • For information on how Google Analytics uses data please visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners sites or apps”,Click Here

Log Files

  • Briskinfosec uses log files comprising of non-personally identifiable information to analyze trends, administer the site, track movements throughout the site, calculate the number of document and file downloads, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
  • This information may include your IP address or other proxy servers you use to connect to the Internet, device and application identification numbers, your browser type, your Internet service provider (or mobile carrier), the pages and files you viewed, your operating system and system settings, and the location and time zone associated with your usage. Based on certain Internet standards, we may also collect information about the website you were visiting before and the website you visit after you leave the Briskinfosec website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND RECEIVE FROM THIRD PARTIES

Information We Collect and Receive from Our Resellers and Webhosts

  • Briskinfosec has hundreds of resellers and webhosts that offer you our products and services for purchase directly from them. Briskinfosec enters into agreements with its resellers and webhosts containing adequate privacy safeguards and protections. When you provide information directly to these resellers or webhosts, you are providing your information subject to the privacy policies and practices of those resellers. You should make sure to review and understand those policies and practices prior to sharing your information.
  • For Briskinfosec to provide you with products and services through a reseller or webhost, that specific reseller or webhost must share your information with us. When that information is shared with us, it will be collected and used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  • For more information on Briskinfosec’s resellers and webhosts, please contact [email protected] .

Information We Collect and Receive from Third-Party Sources

  • For Briskinfosec to properly validate some types of certificates (such as EV Certificates) in accordance with industry standards, it is necessary for Briskinfosec to supplement information that Briskinfosec receives from you or a reseller with information that it gathers from third-party sources.
  • As such, Briskinfosec may verify the information you provide us with information from independent third-party sources. The types of certificates, allowable third-party sources, and other relevant information are detailed with specificity in the CPS, the Baseline Requirements, the EV Guidelines, and the EV Code-Signing Guidelines. Information collected from these third-party sources will be used by Briskinfosec to validate the ordered Certificate. This is an integral aspect of the services provided by Briskinfosec and is required of Briskinfosec to validate a certificate.
  • Briskinfosec does not have any control over these third-party sources, but once Briskinfosec collects supplemental information from these sources, Briskinfosec will protect it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  • Briskinfosec also collects and receives certificate information from publicly available certificate transparency (CT) logs. Generally, certificates and CT logs do not contain personal information. CT logs were created in the public’s interest to support public oversight and scrutiny of the SSL certificate system. The purpose of the CT log is to provide an open auditing and monitoring system to protect users and to prevent mistaken or malicious issuance of certificates.

CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT STATEMENT

Briskinfosec websites, products and services are not directed to children under the age of 16 and Briskinfosec does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16. If Briskinfosec becomes aware that a child under the age of 16 has provided personal data, Briskinfosec will take steps to delete such information from Briskinfosec’s files as soon as possible.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Understanding how important your privacy is to you, we limit the use of your information and want you to be clear on how your information will be used. Below is an overview, identifying the information collected, the purpose for which it is collected, the initial legal basis for processing such information, and the period for which we will retain that information.

We are providing the below information about our retention periods to show you that your information is being processed with transparency. Our retention periods, however, are not fixed for all types of information and will vary for reasons such as whether the information is still necessary for the original purpose of the processing, to fulfill (or assert) our or your legal obligations (or rights), and/or to comply with applicable laws or industry requirements. As such, we reserve the right to revise such retention periods where we determine that the information is still, or is no longer, necessary for the purposes for which the information was processed.

Cookie Policy:

WHAT ARE COOKIES

  • Cookies are small files, containing numbers and letters that are stored on your devices by websites that you visit. Cookies allow websites to recognize you and make your next visit easier and more useful. Used alone, cookies do not personally identify you, but recognize your web browser.
  • There are different types and uses of cookies. Some cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function, while others may be used for performance, functionality, and advertising purposes. Most websites you visit use cookies to improve your user experience by allowing the website to remember you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). Such cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first-party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third-party cookies’).
  • In most instances, however, cookies are used to provide you with a smooth and functional experience. You can always disable the use of cookies by configuring your browser’s privacy settings (refer to your browser’s settings to learn more about cookie controls). Please note that if you choose to disable the use of cookies entirely, many websites, including the Briskinfosec website, will not function properly. For example, if a website does not use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site. This means that even after you “log in,” if you navigate to another page, the website will not recognize you and it will not be able to keep you logged in.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

  • When you use and access the Briskinfosec websites, we may place a number of cookie files on your web browser. We use cookies on our website to improve your website experiences, assist in your navigation and ability to provide feedback, to analyze trends relating to your use of our products and services, to remember your preferences or settings, to assist with our promotional and marketing efforts and to provide content from third parties. Cookies help us understand how our website is being used and improve your user experience.
  • We use both session and persistent cookies and different types of first-party and third-party cookies to run the website:

Necessary Cookies

  • These cookies are necessary for the Briskinfosec websites to function and cannot be turned off. Our websites require the use of these cookies to enable you to navigate the websites, to properly operate or to provide necessary functions relating to the products or services you request. They include, for example, cookies enabling you to securely log into our website, set your preferences, use a shopping cart, or purchase products. Without these cookies we would not be able to identify you when you are logged into our websites, or to otherwise process your online transactions and requests.

Analytical or Performance Cookies

  • These cookies allow us and our third-party service providers to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us improve how our website works by, for example, ensuring that users can easily find what they need on our website. These cookies generate aggregate statistics that are not associated with an individualized profile. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our website, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
  • Briskinfosec's websites use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics place a third-party cookie on user’s web browsers that is then used to compile reports of visitor traffic and internet usage. Google Analytics does not have a database of individual profiles for each visitor and only collects aggregate data.
  • For information on how Google Analytics uses data please visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners sites or apps”, located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Functional Cookies

  • These cookies enable helpful but non-essential website functions that improve your website experience. These cookies allow the Briskinfosec websites to remember information you have entered or choices you have made such as your username, language, or region. By recognizing you when you return to our website, cookies may, for example, allow us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, or remember your preferences.

Advertising, Tracking or Targeting Cookies

  • These cookies enable different advertising related functions. They may allow us to record information about your visit to our website, such as pages visited, links followed, and videos viewed so we can make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Third-party Cookies

  • Our website may contain helpful but non-essential features or plug-ins enabling third party services that use cookies, such as social network connectors, maps, advertising networks, or web traffic analysis services. We do not control the third party’s use of those cookies. Please review each party’s cookie disclosure before consenting to this use category.
  • Our Privacy Policy describes our practices for any personal information that our first-party cookies collect, store, or use. Except for strictly necessary cookies, all first-party cookies set by this site will expire in accordance with the Cookie Table found on the Privacy Portal here: https:// Briskinfosec.com/privacy-portal (the “Cookie Table”). Third-party cookie expiration periods are set by their respective owners.
  • A list of the individual first-party and third-party cookies potentially used on this website and their specific purposes can be found in the Cookie Table.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

Briskinfosec and its subsidiaries operate globally. Accordingly, the cookies we use may process, store, or transfer personal information in and to a country outside your own, with privacy laws that provide different, possibly lower, protections. You consent to this transfer, storing, or processing when you consent to our cookie use. We are based in the United Kingdom. Please review the third-party cookie provider’s policy to learn more about its location.

HOW CAN I CONTROL THE USE OF COOKIES

    Some people are uncomfortable with websites storing information on their computer or mobile device, particularly when this information is stored and used by a third party. Although cookies operate in the background and do not generally store your personal information, you may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests using your browser history. Most web browsers allow you to directly block all cookies, or just third-party cookies, through your browser settings. Remember, using your browser settings to block all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, may interfere with proper website operation.

    To manage cookies on the Briskinfosec website, please visit our Cookie Settings page. You may modify your cookie settings or withdraw your consent for our cookie uses that are not strictly necessary by visiting the Cookie Settings page at any time.

AMENDMENTS TO THIS COOKIE POLICY

    Briskinfosec reserves the right to amend this Cookie Policy at any time. We will post any changes to the way we use cookies on this page. If the changes materially alter how we use cookies, we will post a notice on our website and request your consent for the materially different use. You are free to review your settings or this Cookie Policy at any time.

HELPFUL RESOURCES

Below is a non-exhaustive list of some resources available to you on the Internet. We have not reviewed these websites, so cannot guarantee any of the content. Please review them at your own discretion.

WHAT IF I HAVE QUESTIONS

Any questions that you may have about this Cookie Policy may be submitted by email to [email protected]. We understand and value your concerns and are committed to respond as soon as reasonably possible.

HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU

  • BriskInfosec Technology and Consulting Pvt Ltd
  • 2nd floor, No. 21, Krishnamachari Road,
  • Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600034.