Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is a loose translation of the german Privacy Policy.

1. Introduction

A trustful and secure handling of personal data is really important. The data protection laws BDSG and EU-DSGVO protect your data better than every. I welcome this and take all measures to the best of my knowledge and belief, to keep your data safe and ensure that the services around Vocaby are compliant. This statement provides an overview of what personal data Vocaby collects, how it gets used, how it is protected and when it is deleted. Personal data is any data that personally identifies you. The Terms of Use can be found in the respective General Terms and Conditions.

2. General information

This Privacy Policy applies to the iOS and Android App Vocaby provided by Tobias Jahn as well as to the website and APIs hosted on eduquent.com and its subdomains. I reserve the right to offer other data protection declarations on individual subdomains, which will then replace this one.

3. Rights

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR grants European users a number of rights. You may contact me under the address named in the privacy policy.

Right for information - the right to free information about the personal data you have and have processed.

Right of rectification - the right of rectification of incorrect personal data concerning you.

Right for deletion - the right to delete any of your personal data available to me.

Right to limit the processing - the right to request the suspension of the processing of all your personal data temporarily or permanently

Right of objection in special cases

Right to object of me processing your personal data

Right to object of me processing process your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

The right to transfer data - the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and to transfer it to another service.

The right not to be subject to automated decision making

4. Collected Data

4.1 Login

The in the Vocaby apps is implemented using the following third party providers:

Google

Facebook

Apple

Authentication takes place via the Google service Firebase-Auth. When logging in via the third-party providers, I only request the most basic data necessary for the identification of the user. The collected data is stored in an appropriately protected manner and is only used to identify the user and offer my services, such as saving your reading progress on the server.

4.2 Contact requests

If you contact me via e-mail or telephone, your enquiry, including the personal data resulting from it (name, telephone number, enquiry...) is stored and processed for the purpose of processing. I will store this data until you request me to delete it, revoke your consent to store it, or the purpose of the data storage no longer applies. I do not pass on this data without your consent.

4.3 Links

If you use external links contained in this websites, this privacy statement does not extend to the target of those links. I endeavour to ensure that the providers of the linked sites also comply with the data protection standards, but have no direct influence on the content and compliance with this data protection declaration. Please refer to the privacy policies of the respective third party for more information.

4.4 Server logs

Both the Vocaby apps and the websites access backend servers. In order to provide the services, optimize the infrastructure and optimize system security, accesses are recorded and temporarily logged in log files. The data is used exclusively to provide the service, to optimise the infrastructure and to ensure system security. IP addresses are only evaluated in the event of attacks on the infrastructure. Recorded data is stored for up to one month. The logged data includes: the requested URL the amount of data transferred the IP address of the requesting device the time of access the browser / operating system used

4.5 Analytics

To improve Vocaby, it is necessary to understand the behavior of users within the apps. To achieve this, I use analytic tools both in the Vocaby Apps. I do not collect any personal data, but only anonymous data and usage data, such as the set language, the duration of use and the interaction with user elements within the app.

I work with the market standard Google Analytics for the collection and analysis of usage data. The data is used by us exclusively to improve Vocaby. All personal data is anonymized directly. More specific functions for recording personal data (demographics, user IDs, replicating client IDs across devices, remarketing features, ... ) are disabled.

5. Disclosure of data

My IT infrastructure is maintained in Germany and I do not transfer any personal data toother countries. However I rely on selected external service providers to make the Vocaby and its services work (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO). For example, my servers are hosted externally and the data recorded by my is thus stored on the servers of the corresponding service provider. Vocaby is distributed via Google's Playstore and Apple's Appstore. Personal data collected by those third-party providers (e.g. Apple, Google) may be transferred to other countries. In order to guarantee the protection of your data nevertheless, the service providers are obligated to protect the data of our users and not to pass it on to third parties via order data processing contracts. I am currently working with the following providers:

Netcup GmbH: Hosting of this website and the APIs behind the Vocaby App

Alphabet Inc: Google Play Store, Google Analytics

Apple: App Store

Unless required to do so by law or court order, I will share data only to government institutions and authorities entitled to receive such information.

6. General

I am working to further improve the Vocaby Apps. For that I reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration to the changing requirements, as well as to the legal requirements.

7. Contact

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please reach out. My name is Tobias Jahn, I am a german developer and work on Vocaby in my freetime. You can reach me via mail or call me.

State: October 2021