Privacy Policy

The types of personal information we may collect include, but are not limited to:

• Personal Identification Information: This includes your name, email address, and any other details you choose to provide when using features on our site, such as submitting feedback, participating in challenges, or signing up for newsletters.
• Usage Data: We collect data on how the website and its tools (CPS Test, Typing Test, Spacebar Test, Mouse Scroll Test, Kohi Click Test, Jitter Click Test, and Word Typer Test) are accessed and used. This usage data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, our website pages that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
• Cookies and Tracking Data: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information as well as to improve and analyze our service.

Here’s how we use the information gathered:

• Personal: By understanding how you and other users interact with our website and its tools, such as the Clicks Per Second Test, Typing Test, Spacebar Test, Mouse Scroll Test, Kohi Click Test, Jitter Click Test, and Word Typer Test, we can identify areas for improvement. This includes optimizing the performance of our tools, ensuring they are responsive and user-friendly, and developing new features that meet your needs and interests.
• Personalization: The information allows us to tailor your experience on our website. By analyzing your preferences and usage patterns, we can recommend specific tools or challenges that align with your interests. Personalization helps in making your interaction with our website more engaging and satisfying.
• Performance Analytics: We use analytics to understand how users engage with our tools. This involves analyzing data on tool usage, such as the number of attempts on the Clicks Per Second Test, accuracy rates in the Typing Test, and overall engagement levels across different tools. These insights help us to not only improve the existing tools but also to innovate and create new ones that cater to the evolving needs of our users.
• Communication: Your information helps us communicate with you effectively. Whether it’s sending you updates about new features and tools or responding to your inquiries, the personal information you provide ensures we can keep you informed and address your feedback directly.

• Age Restrictions and Verification: We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without obtaining parental consent. Our website is designed to appeal to a broad audience, but not directly to children. Upon registration or participation in certain features, users may be asked to verify their age to ensure compliance with our age restrictions.
• Parental Consent Process: In cases where personal information from children under the age of 13 is collected, we take steps to inform parents directly and obtain verifiable parental consent before we collect, use, or disclose such information. Parents have the right to review the information collected from their children and to request its deletion.
• Parental Rights: We fully recognize the importance of involving parents in monitoring their children's online activities. Parents who have provided consent for their child's participation in our website's interactive tools can, at any time, review, request deletion, or prohibit the further collection or use of their child's personal information. Our contact information is provided on the website for parents to access these rights and to offer an avenue for addressing any concerns regarding their children's use of our website.

Rights of European Residents:

• Right to Access: Individuals have the right to access their personal data stored by us, obtaining details about how and why it is used.
• Right to Rectification: If personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, individuals can request that it be corrected.
• Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): Under certain conditions, individuals can request the deletion of their personal data from our systems.
• Right to Restriction of Processing: Individuals can request that their data's processing be limited, meaning that we can store their data but not use it.
• Right to Data Portability: Individuals have the right to receive their personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit that data to another controller.
• Right to Object: Individuals have the right to object to the processing of their personal data under certain circumstances, including direct marketing.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: For data processing activities based on consent, individuals have the right to withdraw their consent at any time.

Types of Cookies and Trackers Used:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, some services cannot be provided.
• Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with our website, including which pages are visited most often and if error messages are received from web pages. This data is used in aggregate form to improve website performance and enhance user experience.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
• Security Cookies: We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.

Purposes:

• Analytics: To understand how users engage with our website and tools, such as the CPS Test or Typing Test, enabling us to optimize content and develop features that cater to our users' interests.
• Functionality: To provide a personalized experience on our site by remembering users’ preferences and settings.
• Security: To safeguard users' privacy and personal data from security threats.

• Google DoubleClick DART Cookie: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses DART cookies to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to clickspersecond.com and other sites on the internet. This technology plays a crucial role in delivering ads that are tailored to users' interests, enhancing the online advertising experience.
• Choice and Control: We understand the importance of choices when it comes to your online privacy. Visitors have the option to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy. Here, you can find detailed information on how to opt out of DART cookies or control your ad preferences.
• Advertising Partners Privacy Policies: Our site also collaborates with various third-party ad servers or ad networks that utilize cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their advertisements and links that appear on ClicksPerSecond.com, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are employed to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content you encounter on our site and elsewhere on the internet.

Circumstances Under Which Data Might Be Shared:

• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, legal proceedings, or other legal obligations including responding to requests from public and governmental authorities.
• Mergers/Acquisitions: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your personal data may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you of any such deal and outline your rights regarding your information.
• Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect our website, our users, or the rights of third parties, information may be shared to prevent fraud, address security or technical issues, or protect against harm.

Categories of Third-Party Recipients:

• Service Providers: We engage with various service providers who perform functions on our behalf, such as hosting services, customer service, marketing assistance, and analytics services. These entities have access to the personal data needed to perform their functions but are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are restricted from using it for any purposes beyond what is necessary to assist us.
• Law Enforcement and Legal Authorities: Under certain circumstances, personal data may be shared with law enforcement or legal authorities to comply with legal obligations or to respond to legal requests.

These security measures include, but are not limited to:

• Encryption of Data Transmissions: Utilizing SSL/TLS encryption for data transmitted between our servers and your browser, ensuring that personal information is protected during transit.
• Access Controls: Implementing strict access controls to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to personal data based on their role and necessity to engage with the data.
• Regular Security Assessments: Conducting regular security assessments and audits to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities in our network and systems.
• Training and Awareness: Providing ongoing training to our employees regarding our data protection policies and best practices in information security.

You have the following rights concerning your data:

• Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you. This allows you to receive a copy of the personal data we have about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Right to Deletion: You can ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully, or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law.
• Right to Objection: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data if you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

These safeguards include:

• Entering into data transfer agreements with recipients that include standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or relevant authorities, ensuring an adequate level of protection.
• Verifying if the country to which data is transferred has been deemed to have an adequate level of data protection by the European Commission or other relevant bodies.