PortSwigger Ltd ("We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data, including when you interact with us through portswigger.net ("Website"), sign up to our newsletter, or purchase some of our products or services.
This privacy notice is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. It is important that you read it together with any other privacy notice(s) we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
PortSwigger Ltd is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "PortSwigger", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice).
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below at section 13.
If you have any questions about how we process your data, please refer to our data processing agreement.
Where we are providing a service that involves processing personal data relating to you and / or your end users on your behalf under the terms of your license , which includes Burp Suite Enterprise Edition only if provided in a software-as-a-service capacity hosted by ourselves or our Burp Collaborator feature but only if you make use of the Burp Collaborator public server, our Data Processing Agreement ("DPA") shall apply. As described in the DPA, we will act as a processor or sub-processor for any personal data we incidentally collect as part of our service to you. As described in our DPA, we may incidentally process personal data as part of our service for our own internal analytics, support or troubleshooting. In these circumstances, we are data controllers and will process any personal data in accordance with this privacy notice. Please access the DPA here for further information.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be directly or indirectly identified. It does not include anonymous data (where the identity has been removed such that it is not reasonably likely to reveal your identity directly or indirectly).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
We take steps to minimize data we collect, including for example using aggregated anonymized or pseudonymized data sets. In particular, for the purposes of our internal analytics, we can generally achieve our purpose without processing personal data, but the content we are exposed to through delivery of our products and services may incidentally include personal data. In some cases, this may include special categories of personal data such as details of your race or religious beliefs. It is important to note we have adopted a number of measures to limit the personal data we hold about individuals for this purpose, for example measures to remove personal data wherever possible, or to anonymize it such that you are no longer identifiable.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data).Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data.
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
Purpose/Activity |
Type of data |
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest |
To register you as a new customer |
(a) Identity (b) Contact |
Performance of a contract with you |
To process and deliver your order including: (a) Manage payments, fees and charges (b) Collect and recover money owed to us |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Financial (d) Transaction (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us) |
To manage our relationship with you which will include: (a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy notice (b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation (c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services) |
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you chose to do so. |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to provide enhanced services to our customers and thus to develop our business) |
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications |
(a) Performance of a contract with you (b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business) |
To administer and protect our business and this Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical |
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise) (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation |
To deliver relevant website content to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Profile (d) Usage (e) Marketing and Communications (f) Technical |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To use data analytics to improve our Website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences |
(a) Technical (b) Usage |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to improve our products and services, to keep our Website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) |
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about our goods or services that may be of interest to you |
(a) Identity (b) Contact (c) Technical (d) Usage (e) Profile |
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business) |
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.
You may receive communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving those communications.
You can ask us to stop sending you messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Where you opt out of receiving these messages, this will apply to our processing for marketing purposes only. We may still need to process the personal data you have provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, or other transactions.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you, and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by law (such processing shall be in accordance with this privacy notice).
In accordance with the purposes set out above, we may share your personal data:
(a) with external third parties including:
(b) with third parties in connection with any sale, transfer or disposal of our business.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We put in place agreements with our third-party processors to ensure they do not use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
In connection with our business your data may be transferred to service providers outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or UK, such as the US, that are subject to different standards of data protection. If this happens, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of personal data are in accordance with applicable law and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and transfers are limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangements / safeguards are in place to protect your privacy rights.
For further details refer to your legal rights
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
How long will you use my personal data for?
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see request erasure for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
We use ephemeral cookies for session tracking and analytical cookies for anonymized and non anonymized traffic analysis.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:-
You have the right to:
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances where permitted by law to do so.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
This Website may include links to third-party Websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Our full details are:
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. Where changes are made, we will add a new version to our Website.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.