Privacy Policy

1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you.

1.2 The controller for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ThinkLocAI UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Brandweg 1, 73432 Aalen, Germany, Tel.: +4916099653283, Email: support@thinklocai.com. The controller for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

2) Data Collection When Visiting Our Website

2.1 When using our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called "server log files"). When you access our website, we collect the following data that is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• Our visited website
• Date and time at the time of access
• Amount of data sent in bytes
• Source/reference from which you reached the page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to subsequently check the server log files if there are concrete indications of illegal use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

3) Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e. small text files that are stored on your end device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after closing the browser (so-called "session cookies"), while others remain on your end device for longer and enable the storage of page settings (so-called "persistent cookies"). In the latter case, you can see the storage duration in the overview of your web browser's cookie settings.

If personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR in the case of consent given, or in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR to protect our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.

Please note that if cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be limited.

4) Contact

When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected in the case of using a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of answering your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact aims at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your request has been processed. This is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter concerned has been finally clarified and provided that there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary.

5) Site Functionality

5.1 Instagram Plugins

Plugins from the social network of the following provider are used on our website: Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland.

These plugins enable direct interactions with content on the social network.

To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are initially deactivated and integrated into the page using a so-called "2-click" or "Shariff" solution.

This integration ensures that when a page of our website containing such plugins is accessed, no connection is yet established with the provider's servers.

Only when you activate the plugins and thus give your consent to data transmission in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR does your browser establish a direct connection to the provider's servers. In doing so, information about your end device (including your IP address), your browser and your browsing history is transmitted to the provider to a certain extent, irrespective of a login to an existing user profile, and may be further processed there.

If you are logged into an existing user profile on the provider's social network, information about interactions carried out via the plugins will also be published there and displayed to your contacts.

You can revoke your consent at any time by deactivating the activated plugin again by clicking it once more. However, the withdrawal has no effect on data already transmitted to the provider.

Data may also be transferred to: Meta Platforms Inc., USA.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the USA, the provider has acceded to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

5.2 LinkedIn Plugins

Plugins from the social network of the following provider are used on our website: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

These plugins enable direct interactions with content on the social network.

To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are initially deactivated and integrated into the page using a so-called "2-click" or "Shariff" solution.

This integration ensures that when a page of our website containing such plugins is accessed, no connection is yet established with the provider's servers.

Only when you activate the plugins and thus give your consent to data transmission in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR does your browser establish a direct connection to the provider's servers. In doing so, information about your end device (including your IP address), your browser and your browsing history is transmitted to the provider to a certain extent, irrespective of a login to an existing user profile, and may be further processed there.

If you are logged into an existing user profile on the provider's social network, information about interactions carried out via the plugins will also be published there and displayed to your contacts.

You can revoke your consent at any time by deactivating the activated plugin again by clicking it once more. However, the withdrawal has no effect on data already transmitted to the provider.

Data may also be transmitted to: LinkedIn Inc., USA.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For the transfer of data to the USA, the provider relies on standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.

5.3 X Plugins

Plugins from the social network of the following provider are used on our website: Twitter International Unlimited Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 Ireland.

These plugins enable direct interactions with content on the social network.

To increase the protection of your data when visiting our website, the plugins are initially deactivated and integrated into the page using a so-called "2-click" or "Shariff" solution.

This integration ensures that when a page of our website containing such plugins is accessed, no connection is yet established with the provider's servers.

Only when you activate the plugins and thus give your consent to data transmission in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR does your browser establish a direct connection to the provider's servers. In doing so, information about your end device (including your IP address), your browser and your browsing history is transmitted to the provider to a certain extent, irrespective of a login to an existing user profile, and may be further processed there.

If you are logged into an existing user profile on the provider's social network, information about interactions carried out via the plugins will also be published there and displayed to your contacts.

You can revoke your consent at any time by deactivating the activated plugin again by clicking it once more. However, the withdrawal has no effect on data already transmitted to the provider.

Data may also be transmitted to: X Corp., USA.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For the transfer of data to the USA, the provider relies on standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which are intended to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.

6) Tools and Miscellaneous

Cookie Consent Tool

This website uses a so-called "cookie consent tool" to obtain effective user consent for cookies requiring consent and cookie-based applications. The "cookie consent tool" is displayed to users when they access the page in the form of an interactive user interface on which consent for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications can be granted by ticking the corresponding boxes. By using the tool, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if the respective user gives the corresponding consent by ticking the box. This ensures that such cookies are only set on the respective user's device if consent has been given.

The tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. As a rule, no personal user data is processed in the process.

If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, assigning or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in a legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website.

Another legal basis for processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. As controllers, we are legally obliged to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.

Where necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

Further information about the provider and the settings of the cookie consent tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

7) Rights of the Data Subject

7.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights (information and intervention rights) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the legal basis cited for the respective exercise requirements:

• Right of access according to Art. 15 GDPR
• Right to rectification according to Art. 16 GDPR
• Right to erasure according to Art. 17 GDPR
• Right to restriction of processing according to Art. 18 GDPR
• Right to notification according to Art. 19 GDPR
• Right to data portability according to Art. 20 GDPR
• Right to withdraw consent according to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR
• Right to lodge a complaint according to Art. 77 GDPR

8) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of the storage of personal data is measured according to the respective legal basis, the purpose of processing and – if relevant – additionally according to the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).

When processing personal data on the basis of express consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you revoke your consent.

If there are statutory retention periods for data that is processed within the scope of legal or quasi-legal obligations on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, this data will be routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of the contract and/or there is no legitimate interest on our part in continuing to store it.

When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

When processing personal data for the purpose of direct advertising on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 para. 2 GDPR.

Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this declaration about specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.