Privacy Policy.

1. Introduction

Welcome to Ownswho (“we”, “our”, “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and to giving you a transparent view of how we collect, use and share information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect when you use our website (www.ownswho.com), our services and any related interaction with us.

2. Information we collect

2.1 Information you provide

• Contact information (name, email) when you contact us or submit information
• Feedback, questions or information you provide through our Submit Info feature
• Survey responses or testimonials you choose to provide

2.2 Information collected automatically

• Usage information (pages visited, time spent, links clicked)
• Device information (IP address, browser type, operating system)
• Approximate location based on your IP address
• Cookies and similar tracking technologies

3. How we use information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain and improve our services
• Process and verify submissions about corporate ownership
• Respond to your comments, questions and requests
• Send you technical notices, updates and administrative messages
• Monitor and analyse trends, usage and activity in connection with our services
• Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent or illegal activity
• Personalise your experience

4. Sharing of information

We may share information about you as follows:

• With vendors, consultants and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf
• In response to a lawful request, where we believe disclosure is in accordance with applicable law
• To protect the rights, property and safety of Ownswho or others
• In connection with a merger, sale of assets, financing or acquisition of all or part of our business
• With your consent or at your direction

We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

5. Cookies and tracking

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on the site and collect certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse cookies or to indicate when one is being sent. Refusing cookies may limit some parts of the site.

6. Advertising

This site is supported by advertising. We use Google AdSense to serve the adverts you see here.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
• Third-party vendors and ad networks may also serve ads on this site and may use their own cookies to measure the effectiveness of those ads.

You can opt out of personalised advertising:

• Google: Google Ads Settings
• Participating third-party vendors: aboutads.info/choices
• Visitors in Europe: youronlinechoices.eu

More detail on how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps is available at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

7. Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which reports people read and how they arrive at the site. It sets cookies and records approximate location, device type and pages viewed. We do not use it to identify individual readers.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

8. Consent, and the legal basis for processing

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, advertising and analytics storage is denied by default until you make a choice through our consent message. We use Google Consent Mode v2 to carry that choice through to Google’s tags.

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases:

• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) for advertising cookies, personalised advertising and analytics. You may withdraw consent at any time.
• Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) for keeping the site secure, preventing abuse and maintaining basic aggregate traffic records.
• Performance of a contract or pre-contractual steps (Art. 6(1)(b)) when you contact us and we reply.

The data controller is Christian L. Dam, the operator of Ownswho, reachable at ownswho@gmail.com. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

9. Data security

We take reasonable measures to protect information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. No internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error-free.

10. Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

• Access, correct or delete your personal information
• Object to our processing of your data
• Request restriction of processing
• Data portability
• Opt out of marketing communications

To exercise any of these rights, write to ownswho@gmail.com.

11. Children’s privacy

Our services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we learn we have done so, we delete that information.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be flagged on the site before they take effect.