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Dedicated server. A dedicated server is a private virtual server exclusively allocated to a single user. The dedicated server service is a subscription that provides the user with isolated hardware resources and a static dedicated IP address for the subscription period (this server may be reallocated to other users afterwards). Please be aware that if you purchase a dedicated server, your email, IP address, and information related to your account will be linked to that server.

Smart DNS. The Smart DNS service replaces the DNS server address provided by your internet service provider with a different one. Please be aware that this does not provide you with a new IP address. Due to the nature of this service, we have to store your IP address on our systems when you activate the SmartDNS service.

Dark Web Monitor. This service scans whether your email address or any of the other assets you've added to monitoring have appeared in any known data leaks. All generated reports for an asset are wiped as soon as you remove it from monitoring.

Transaction Monitoring. This service allows you to link your bank accounts to enable monitoring of your financial transactions for suspicious or unusual activity. To provide this service, we connect to your bank using a third-party platform, retrieve your transaction history, and use an automated analysis, which may include machine learning, to derive statistical patterns that represent typical account activity. These patterns are used as a reference point to analyze new transactions and alert you to potential fraudulent activity. To ensure ongoing monitoring performance, we check your latest account activity against these statistical patterns.

By enabling this feature, you authorize the retrieval and real-time processing of your transaction data solely for the purpose of detecting unusual activity and generating security alerts.

To provide the service, we process transaction amounts, counterparties, timestamps, and geographic or currency-related indicators. We do not store individual transactions: once the relevant statistical patterns have been derived, the underlying details are discarded and are not retained on our infrastructure. The only data we retain is linked bank account information, including institution name, account type, account display name, and the last four digits of the account number, together with the derived statistical patterns necessary to continue providing the monitoring service.

When you remove a linked account from monitoring, we immediately lose access to your account data through the third-party platform, and we delete the last four digits of the associated account number, as well as generated alerts, and all derived statistical patterns related to that account.

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