FOS Hosting Domain Registration Services Privacy Policy Addendum

Last Updated: April 15, 2024

Please review the below privacy policy addendum to the FOS Hosting LLC (“FOS Hosting,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) Privacy Policy if you purchased domain registration services from us.

Information Collection

When you purchase Domain Registration services for top-level domains (“TLDs”), we are required to collect the following personal information from you (collectively, “Personal Information”) for our registrar, Enom:

Registrant Name

Registrant Organization (where applicable) Registrant Address Registrant Email

Registrant Fax (where applicable) Registrant Phone number

Administrative Contact

Administrative Contact Organization (where applicable)

Administrative Contact Address

Administrative Contact Email

Administrative Contact Fax (where applicable)

Administrative Contact Telephone Number

Technical Contact

Technical Contact Organization (where applicable)

Technical Contact Address

Technical Contact Email

Technical Contact Fax (where applicable)

Technical Contact Telephone Number

Billing Contact

Billing Contact Organization (where applicable)

Billing Contact Address

Billing Contact Email

Billing Contact Fax (where applicable)

Billing Contact Telephone Number

Our collection of Personal Information is necessary to comply with contractual obligations our registrar has with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) and with certain TLD registries (“Registries”) so that you can validly register your domain name. Besides Personal Information, Enom’s contracts with some Registries might require us to collect other personal information to register a TLD, including certain professional affiliations, identification, or other qualifiers (“Additional Personal Information”).

Disclosure of Information

• Public Whois. Enom’s contracts with ICANN and other Registries require us to make certain domain name information (“WHOIS Information”) available and accessible to the public through a WHOIS search as required by ICANN/Registry Policy (“WHOIS Directory”). The WHOIS Directory is a publicly accessible database that lists WHOIS Information, including a particular domain name, the name server(s) to which the domain name points, and the domain name’s creation and expiration date. Except for EU/EEA natural persons (as described below), your Personal Information could be displayed on the WHOIS Directory.
• EU/EEA natural persons. Despite the preceding, under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”), if you are an EU/EEA natural person (as defined by the GDPR), other than as specified in this addendum, Enom’s publication of WHOIS Information will not contain any Personal Information. Accordingly, Enom will not display Personal Information of an EU/EEA natural person in the WHOIS Directory.
• Transfer Out. If you initiate a transfer out of a domain name away from Enom as the registrar of record, under Enom’s contract with ICANN, Enom may need to publish your registrant email address obtained from your Personal Information in the WHOIS Directory for approximately five calendar days. After this period and assuming a valid transfer has occurred, you would cease to be our customer for that domain name, and the gaining registrar would manage your WHOIS Information.
• Certain Registries. Registries are third-party providers of TLDs that are independent of domain registrars. If required by contract with a particular Registry, Enom might be obligated, as a domain registrar of domains provided by the Registry, to provide Personal Information and Additional Personal Information to that Registry to complete your domain name registration successfully. If Enom provides your Personal Information and Additional Personal Information to a Registry, the Registry has its own obligation to comply with applicable data privacy laws.
• Data Escrow. Enom’s contract with ICANN requires Enom to deposit the Personal Information collected with a secure third-party escrow provider who acts solely as a data holder.
• Permitted Disclosures. We may also disclose your Personal Information when required by ICANN rules, regulations, and policies, including but not limited to the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP).