Effective Date: 1 July 2020
F5’s Essential App Protect (the “Service”) is a web application firewall.
This Privacy Statement applies to the customer data that F5 processes through the Service.
Under the data protection laws of the EU and similar jurisdictions, F5 is a processor of the customer data, and the customer is (or acts on behalf of) a controller of such data, to the extent it contains personal data.
To use the Services, the customer routes its network traffic through F5 servers. This network traffic may contain personal data (such as the IP address of a visitor to the customer’s online properties).
When F5 provides support or maintenance for this Service, F5 may access the same sort of data described above.
The Service inspects the customer’s network traffic for unauthorized activity (e.g., a hacking attempt). If the Service determines that a network traffic is malicious or otherwise meets customer-specified criteria for blocking, the Service drops the traffic and creates a log of the blocking event (including the traffic’s purported source IP address) for that customer’s later review. Otherwise, the Service just transmits the traffic onward to its destination.
If you believe that the Service has improperly blocked or restricted your access to a customer’s online property, please contact that customer to request restoration of your access. If the Service presents you with a support ID number when blocking your access, please include that support ID in your request to the customer.
To exercise your rights with respect to the customer data that F5 processes when providing the Services to a customer, please contact that customer. For more information about F5’s privacy practices, please see the F5 Privacy Notice.
