Last Updated: 02.12.26

1. Overview

This Website Privacy Policy explains how Dark Watch, Inc. (“Dark Watch,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, and protects personal information when you interact with our websites, request demos, download materials, or engage with us through marketing channels.

If you are a customer or authorized user of our products and services (e.g., Scans API), please see our separate Product Privacy Policy for details on how personal data is processed in connection with those products and services.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information when you visit or use our websites:

●      Identifiers: name, email address, IP address, phone number, company name, job title (when submitted via forms).

●      Usage Information: IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring URL and related information.

●      Cookies & Tracking Data: information from cookies, pixels, and similar technologies used for site functionality, analytics, and marketing.  For additional information regarding how we use cookies and other tracking technologies, please see our Cookie Policy.

●      Communications Data: contents of messages sent through contact forms, demo requests, or email correspondence.

3. How We Use Information

We may use website-collected information for reasons such as:

●      Responding to your inquiries, demo requests, and support needs or in accordance with your consent or instructions.

●      Sending relevant promotional or marketing communications about our products and services (where permitted).

●      Improving website performance, functionality, and security.

●      Conducting analytics and measuring marketing effectiveness.

●      For our legitimate interests or those of a third party.

●      To protect our legal rights or comply with our regulatory obligations.

We do not sell personal data collected through our website.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Dark Watch uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to:

●      Enable core site functionality.

●      Analyze site traffic and usage trends.

●      Support marketing campaigns.

A copy of our Cookie Policy can be found at Cookie Policy.  You may control your preferences regarding cookies by selecting your consent preferences on our cookie banner, our Cookie Policy, or through your browser settings. Certain features of our website may not function properly without cookies.

5. Sharing of Information

We may share website-collected information only with:

●      Service providers that support website hosting, analytics, and marketing (bound by confidentiality and contractual safeguards).

●      Regulators or legal authorities where disclosure is required by law.

●      Affiliates or contractors engaged in business operations.

●      Potential or actual buyers of the company in the event of a sale of all or a portion of the stock or assets of our business, a merger, consolidation, or similar transaction.

●      Others based upon your consent.

6. Retention

We retain website-collected data only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, comply with law, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation.

7. State and Global Privacy Rights

Depending on your residency or geographic location, you may have rights under certain privacy laws including but not limited to: CCPA/CPRA (California), Virginia CDPA, Colorado CPA, Utah UCPA, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Texas TDPSA, Montana privacy law, GDPR/UK GDPR, and Canada’s PIPEDA.

These rights may include:

●      The right to know what personal information/personal data has been collected, and the right to Access and receive a copy of that data.

●      The right to request deletion or correction of your personal information/personal data.

●      The right to know about and to opt out of certain uses of your personal information/personal data (e.g., sale of data or for targeted advertising, if applicable).

●      The right to limit use of sensitive personal information/personal data collected, if applicable.

●      The right to no retaliation.

●      The right to be forgotten.

●      The right to data portability, where applicable.

●      The right to not be subject to automated individual decision making, if applicable.

If you are accessing our website from outside the United States, data collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy will be transferred outside of your jurisdiction to the United States pursuant to a lawful transfer mechanism in effect at the time of transfer.  We will treat that data in accordance with the law applicable to its collection from you (for example, if you are a data subject in the European Economic Area, GDPR), and you may exercise the rights of that jurisdiction by submitting a request to us at privacy@darkwatch.io.  

Requests to exercise any of the rights described in this section may be submitted to privacy@darkwatch.io.  In connection with such a request, we will need information from you sufficient to identify you and confirm your identity, along with a description of what right you want to exercise.  

8. Security

We implement reasonable technical, organizational, and security measures designed to protect website-collected data from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, alteration, or destruction. While no online system is completely secure, we take reasonable precautions aligned with industry standards.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our websites are not directed to or intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that such data has been provided, we will promptly delete it.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Website Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

11. Contact Us

For questions about this Website Privacy Policy, please contact:

Data Protection Officer
Email: privacy@darkwatch.io