Company: PERI
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001178913-25-001021
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Company: Perion Network Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
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 Europe, Israel, Canada and elsewhere and may impede the growth of the internet or otherwise adversely impact our business. These laws and regulations cover data protection, data privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, e-commerce, content, use of “cookies,” pricing, advertising, distribution of “spam,” copyright and other intellectual property, libel, marketing, distribution of products, protection of minors, consumer protection, accessibility, taxation and online payment services. Many areas of laws and regulations affecting the internet remain largely unsettled, even in areas where there has been some legislative or regulatory action.
 

We collect, use, maintain and otherwise process certain data, including personal data, about our customers (including, without limitation, customers’ clients or users), partners, candidates and employees, consultants, leads and consumers. Our ability to collect, use, maintain or otherwise process personal data has been, and could be further, restricted by existing and new laws and regulations relating to data protection, data privacy and cybersecurity,  including the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), the U.K.’s General Data Protection Regulation (“U.K. GDPR”), the rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of the FTC, the CCPA and privacy laws of various U.S. states, the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 1981 and the regulations thereunder (“Israeli Privacy Law”), Canada’s federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (the “PIPEDA”),  the Quebec Privacy Act and other laws such as Quebec’s new Privacy Legislation Modernization Act (“Quebec’s Law 25” and together with the PIPEDA and the Quebec Privacy Act, “Canadian Privacy Law”), and the EU ePrivacy Directive (“ePD”),a. These laws and regulations generally define personal data to include location data and online identifiers, which are commonly used and collected parameters in digital advertising and, among other things, impose stringent user consent requirements and permit data subjects to request that we discontinue using certain data. The obligations imposed under data protection, data privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations could increase our potential liability and adversely affect our business.
 
In the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the U.K. and Canada, we are subject to the GDPR, the U.K. GDPR and Canadian Privacy Law, respectively, which, among other things, impose requirements to provide detailed and transparent disclosures about how personal data is collected and processed, grant rights for data subjects to access, delete or object to the processing of their personal data, provide for a mandatory breach notification to