Who we are

Svartsurf, owned and created by Pang and the Gang AB, prioritizes the protection of your privacy. We adhere to a set of fundamental principles to ensure the security of your information:

• We only request personal information that is essential for our services.
• Your personal information is not shared with anyone unless necessary for service provision, legal compliance, or safeguarding our rights.
• We refrain from storing personal information unless crucial for the continuous operation of our services.

The following privacy policy, an integral part of Svartsurf’s Terms of Service, applies to Svartsurf (”Svartsurf,” ”us,” ”our,” or ”we”). By utilizing svartsurf.se (referred to collectively as the ”Website”), you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service. The term ”Services” collectively encompasses the Website along with its related services, applications, and websites.

Basis for CollectingComments and Using Personal Data

We process personal data in line with the disclosures presented in this Privacy Policy. The processing is conducted on the following legal bases: (1) with your consent; (2) as necessary for performing our agreement to provide Services; and (3) as essential for our legitimate interests in delivering the Services, provided these interests do not supersede your fundamental rights and freedoms related to data privacy.

Data Collected

We may gather and store various types of data:

• Anonymous device and behavioral data: We collect anonymous data from each Website visitor to monitor traffic and address bugs. This includes information such as web requests, data sent in response to requests, Internet Protocol addresses, browser types, device details, and request timestamps. This data is collected with a legitimate interest in maintaining and developing our product.
• Information you provide to us: Details related to your Svartsurf interactions, account creation, the number of tabs opened with Svartsurf, and account settings are saved. To facilitate the saving of your profile and associated settings, logging in and providing specific personal information, like an email address, is necessary. These are essential data for providing our Services.
• Cookie and local browser storage: To enable login features, we employ cookies and local browser data storage for storing session information. You can still use the Website by blocking or deleting cookies and local browser data storage, though you may be prompted for your username and password each time you access our page.
• Ad targeting, selection, and delivery: Third parties providing advertising to our Services may collect or receive information about you, utilizing cookies. They use this information to deliver interest-based advertising and analyze ad performance. Their use of your information is subject to their privacy policies, and you can opt out of interest-based targeted advertising for certain partners. We do not sell personal information, like email addresses, and we do not collect your browsing history on other sites.
• Data from contracted partners: We collaborate with partners offering hardware and software services, such as cloud storage and server services. Storing data collected by contracted third-party companies is done with a legitimate interest in maintaining and developing our product.

Children’s Information

Our Services are not designed for children under 13 years old. Svartsurf does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years old. If you are under 13, do not provide personal information to Svartsurf without parental consent. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we will promptly delete that information. If you believe we have received the personal information of a child under 13 without parental consent, please notify us immediately.

Sharing of Data

We do not share the information you provide to us without your consent, except when:

• it is necessary to fulfill your request
• it assists in providing our Services
• it is required to enforce our Terms of Service or comply with legal obligations
• it is essential to detect, prevent, or address fraud, security, or technical issues
• it safeguards our property, legal rights, or those of others.

To provide our Services, we may share data with third-party companies (e.g., software providers and cloud storage services) with whom we have contracted. These companies are restricted from using the data in any way other than to provide services to us. Some web search services herein are provided by third-party providers of web search services.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Google Analytics

We utilize Google Analytics to analyze our website’s usage. Google Analytics gathers information through cookies, creating reports about website usage. Google’s privacy policy is accessible at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be amended periodically. The use of information collected is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of usage. Users are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when using the Services after such changes have been initially posted.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us. ovefelt@gmail.com