Privacy

Privacy Policy

The company is responsible for processing your personal information on our website. Details on the company may be found in the About Us section of the website. The use of “we”, “us”, or “our” in this Privacy Policy refers to the company.

General

We take the protection of your personal information very seriously. Your personal information will be treated in accordance with the provisions of data protection under law. This privacy policy informs you of the purposes for which your personal information is processed, the duration of the processing, the corresponding legal basis, and if applicable the categories of recipients, your privacy rights (the so-called “rights of the person affected”), and other circumstances of privacy rights with the processing of your personal information. As a rule, the use of our website is possible without providing personal information. If you are asked to provide personal information (such as your name, address, or e-mail address), this always takes place on a voluntary basis,, in particular as a result of your browser settings or because it is technically necessary. The following sections will indicated in detail which personal information is processed.

Data that We Collect Automatically

When you visit our website (or apps), it is possible that we process some data automatically. This possible data could include: the IP address, date, and time of your visit; your hardware, software, and/or browser type, the operating system of your computer, the version of an app, your language settings, and information about clicks and which sites you visited. If you use our services with your mobile device, it is possible that we process some further data: the type of your mobile device and operating system, device-specific settings and properties, your geographical location, information about app crashes, and other system activities. The legal basis for this processing is the fulfillment of the agreed upon services or the technical necessity of the processing or of our legitimate interests, namely, traceability and optimization of our services, whereby the interests or basic rights of the affected party do not take precedence (Art. 6, Sec. 1, subsec. f of the GDPR). Within the context of the latter legal justification, the affected person has a right to object with an interest taking precedence; for details, see the rights of the affected party below. The data are processed and/or stored until the cited purpose is no longer applicable.

Processing Partners, Recipients

We process your personal information with the support of processing partners which support us by providing our services (such as web hosting, e-mail newsletter distribution, etc.) These processing partners are obligated to strictly protect your personal information and may not use your personal information for any purpose other than providing our services. Furthermore, your personal information will only be passed on to service providers that are typical within business such as banks (if you receive money transfers), tax advisors (if you are part of our accounting), distributors (if you receive mail from us), etc. which, on their part, are subject to the provisions under privacy laws.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies make websites more user-friendly and efficient for users. A cookie is a small text file used to save information. When you visit a website, this website can place a cookie on your computer. If at a later point in time you visit the website again, the website can read the information saved in the cookie and find out, for example, whether you have visited the website before and which areas of the website you are particularly interested in. More information on cookies is available on allaboutcookies.org

Changing Cookie Settings

The web browser settings determine how the web browser deals with cookies and which cookies are or are not allowed. These settings can be changed. How and where these changes can be made depends on the web browser. Use the ‘Help’ function in your web browser to find out more about how to change your cookie settings. You should be aware that limiting the use of cookies may mean that not all functions on this website can be used to their full capacity.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics is based on the legal principle of overriding legitimate interest (analysis of website use). To this end we have concluded an agreement with Google on contracted data processing. When you visit our website, a piece of software creates a connection to Google servers and data is sent to these servers, some of which are located in the USA. Google Analytics also uses cookies to save information about the website user as well as to analyze how visitors use this website. This website uses the function "Activation of IP anonymization". This means that within Member States of the European Union and countries of the European Economic Area your IP address will be shortened. Only in exceptional circumstances will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. According to Google, this data is used to analyze the use of the website, produce reports on website activity and provide additional services connected to use of the website and the internet. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is legally required or if the third party is tasked with processing the data on behalf of Google. For detailed information on the use of data by Google Analytics, please consult the data protection declaration of Google and Google Analytics: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en Our websites use the features of Google Analytics Remarketing combined with the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and DoubleClick. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This feature makes it possible to link target audiences for promotional marketing created with Google Analytics Remarketing to the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. This allows advertising to be displayed based on your personal interests, identified based on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one device (e.g. your mobile phone), on other devices (such as a tablet or computer). Once you have given your consent, Google will associate your web and app browsing history with your Google Account for this purpose. That way, any device that signs in to your Google Account can use the same personalized promotional messaging. To support this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated IDs of users that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create audiences for cross-device ad promotion. You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by turning off personalized advertising in your Google Account; follow this link. The aggregation of the data collected in your Google Account data is based solely on your consent, which you may give or withdraw from Google per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. For data collection operations not merged into your Google Account (for example, because you do not have a Google Account or have objected to the merge), the collection of data is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing anonymous user behavior for promotional purposes. For more information read the Google Privacy Policy. This website uses the function "Activation of IP anonymisation". This means that within Member States of the European Union and countries of the European Economic Area your IP address will be shortened. Only in exceptional circumstances will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. According to Google, this data is used to analyse the use of the website, produce reports on website activity and provide additional services connected to use of the website and the internet. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is legally required or if the third party is tasked with processing the data on behalf of Google. For detailed information on the use of data by Google Analytics please consult the data protection declaration of Googleand Google Analytics. Our websites use the features of Google Analytics Remarketing combined with the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and DoubleClick. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. This feature makes it possible to link target audiences for promotional marketing created with Google Analytics Remarketing to the cross-device capabilities of Google AdWords and Google DoubleClick. This allows advertising to be displayed based on your personal interests, identified based on your previous usage and surfing behavior on one device (e.g. your mobile phone), on other devices (such as a tablet or computer). Once you have given your consent, Google will associate your web and app browsing history with your Google Account for this purpose. That way, any device that signs in to your Google Account can use the same personalized promotional messaging. To support this feature, Google Analytics collects Google-authenticated IDs of users that are temporarily linked to our Google Analytics data to define and create audiences for cross-device ad promotion. You can permanently opt out of cross-device remarketing/targeting by turning off personalized advertising in your Google Account; follow this link. The aggregation of the data collected in your Google Account data is based solely on your consent, which you may give or withdraw from Google per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. For data collection operations not merged into your Google Account (for example, because you do not have a Google Account or have objected to the merge), the collection of data is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing anonymous user behavior for promotional purposes. For more information read the Google Privacy Policy.

Deactivating Google Analytics

It is possible to prevent our website from collecting your user data by activating the “Do Not Track” function in your web browser. Your web browser will then send a “Do Not Track” signal to all websites, including ours. You can prevent all websites from collecting your user data by downloading the following extension and installing it on your computer: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en You can prevent only our website from collecting your user data via Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This places an opt-out cookie on your computer, which prevents data being collected from you if you visit this website again. Disable Google Analytics

Server Log Files

For the purposes of technical monitoring and increased security, this website processes the following personal information in a server log file. This processing is based on the principle of overriding legitimate interest of the person/company responsible (technical security measures).

• content accessed
• date and time the file was accessed ("time stamp")
• browser type and version
• operating system used
• site from which the file was accessed (“referrer URL”)
• IP address
• host name

The IP address is going to be anonymized.

Security

Our administrative, technical, and physical security measures are continuously being improved by us to provide protection of your data against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or change. The security measures include firewalls and data encryption as well as access control to shared information:

Your Affected Rights

You have the right to information on which personal information has been collected and, under certain circumstance, to request that this information be corrected or deleted as well as to limit the use of your personal information. If the processing of your personal information is based on your consent or an agreement which has been concluded with you, you also have the right to request that this data be sent to you. You have the right to withdraw any consent you have given for your data to be processed. This withdrawal of consent shall have no impact on the legality of data processing activity up to the point in time when consent was withdrawn. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information for the purposes of direct advertising or with a predominantly legitimate interest. In that case, your personal data will no longer be used for direct advertising. For the exercising of your rights as an affected person, please consult the contact information that is listed at the very to of the Declaration on the Protection of Personal Information. Furthermore, you have the right to submit a complaint to the Privacy Protection Authority, specifically in:

• Germany: Deutsche Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, Husarenstr. 30, D-53117 Bonn, redaktion@bfdi.bund.de
• Austria: Austrian Data Protection Authority, Wickenburggasse 8, A-1080 Vienna, Austria dsb@dsb.gv.at
• Italy: Il Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Piazza di Monte Citorio 121, I-00186 Roma, garante@gpdp.it.
• France: CNIL Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, 3 Place de Fontenoy, TSA 80715, 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07, France, Link

Links to Other Websites

We link to websites of providers that are not related to us (third parties). When you open such a link, we are no longer responsible for the collection and usage of your data. You may obtain information about that at the Privacy Policy of the respective provider. When you leave our website by clicking on a link, you will be notified of that.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adjust or change our privacy policy according to the present regulations. In the event that changes are carried out, we will indicate it on our platform and publicly update the change date of this privacy policy.

Use of OpenAI / ChatGPT and ChatGPT Ads

On our website / in our application, we use services and interfaces provided by OpenAI Ireland Ltd., 1st Floor, The Liffey Trust Centre, 117-126 Sheriff Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 Y3P6, Ireland (or OpenAI, LLC, 3180 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA).

1. Purpose of Data Processing

The use of OpenAI services serves the automated generation, analysis, or processing of content, interaction with users (e.g., via AI-powered chatbots or assistants), and – if you become aware of our offers through sponsored content or advertisements (ChatGPT Ads) – the evaluation, optimization, and verification of advertising campaigns.

2. Types of Processed Data

When interacting with the respective AI services or accessing our site via OpenAI advertisements, the following data may be processed:

• IP address and technical device information (e.g., browser, operating system)
• Usage and metadata (e.g., timestamps, click paths, duration of interaction)
• Text input content (prompts) and queries, provided you enter them directly into the respective chat or text fields
• Referrer URLs and campaign parameters (e.g., UTM parameters or click IDs for ad attribution)

3. Legal Basis for Processing

Data processing is based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR): Provided that your explicit consent is obtained for tracking, ad personalization, or setting cookies/IDs (e.g., via our consent banner).
• Performance of a Contract or Pre-contractual Measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR): Provided that the AI input or processing directly serves the fulfillment of a service requested by you.
• Legitimate Interest (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR): Our legitimate interest lies in the efficient, secure, and modern design of our services, as well as in measuring the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising measures.

4. Third-Country Transfer

When using OpenAI, a transfer of data to the parent company OpenAI, LLC in the USA cannot be ruled out. Data transfers to the USA are based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission or on the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) under the EU-US agreement, provided the service provider is certified thereunder.

5. Retention Period and Right to Object

Your data will only be stored for as long as necessary to fulfill the above-mentioned purposes or as required by statutory retention periods. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with future effect or to object to the processing of your personal data for reasons arising from your particular situation.

For further details on data processing by OpenAI, please refer to OpenAI's privacy policy at: https://openai.com/privacy/

Facebook Pixel

with Facebook on contracted data processing. In some cases data will be transferred to the USA. This transfer of data to the USA takes place on the basis of the Privacy Shield. When you visit our website a piece of software creates a connection to Facebook’s servers and sends data to these servers, some of which are located in the USA. Facebook Pixel also uses cookies to save information about the website user and to analyse how the website user uses the website. According to Facebook, this data is used to analyse the use of the website, produce reports on website activity and provide additional services connected to use of the website and the internet. Facebook may also transfer this information to third parties if this is legally required or if the third party is tasked with processing the data on behalf of Facebook. We use Facebook Custom Audience as well as other tools offered by Facebook to advertise on websites like Facebook. In order to do this we share your data with providers like Facebook and use Cookies and similar technology on our website to analyze how effective our ads are on these third party plattforms. For detailed information on the use of data by Facebook please consult Facebook’s data protection declaration: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Deactivating Facebook Pixel

It is possible to prevent our website from collecting your user data by activating the “Do Not Track” function in your web browser. Your web browser will then send a “Do Not Track” signal to all websites, including ours. You can prevent this website from collecting your data via Facebook Pixel by clicking on the following link. This places an opt-out cookie on your computer, which prevents data from being collected from you if you visit this website again. Deactivate Facebook Pixel

Deactivating Google Remarketing / Adwords

This website uses Google Remarketing, software that serves to present interest-related advertisements to the users of our website. Google Remarketing uses cookies for this (see above). Within this context, the data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6, Sec. 1, subsec. f of the GDPR. This function can be technically prevented by users of the website by deactivating this JavaScript and cookies in their web browser. Details on the settings that are necessary for this may be found in the product description or instructions from the various browser providers. The data processing by Google can furthermore be prevented by the user using a browser add-on for the deactivation of Google. More detailed information on the conditions of use and data protection from Google Remarketing/Adwords may be found at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en. As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you may click on the following link in order to prevent the recording in the future by Google AdWords on this website. In so doing, an opt-out cookie is stored on your end device. If you delete your cookies, you will need to click on the link once again: Disable Google Analytics

Google Ads Conversion-Tracking

This website uses Google Ads Conversion-Tracking, a web analysis service operated by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”) based on the legal principle of overriding legitimate interest (analysis of website use). When you visit our website, a piece of software creates a connection to Google servers and connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on this Website.
Within this context, the data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6, Sec. 1, subsec. f of the GDPR. This function can be technically prevented by users of the website by deactivating this JavaScript and cookies in their web browser. Details on the settings that are necessary for this may be found in the product description or instructions from the various browser providers. The data processing by Google can furthermore be prevented by the user using a browser add-on for the deactivation of Google. More detailed information on the conditions of use and data protection from Google Remarketing/Adwords may be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Further information about how Google processes personal data when you consent to the use of Google services on this website can be found under “Responsible use of business data by Google”.