By using our
website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
The personal
information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to
provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your
personal information.
If you contact
us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name,
email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you
may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
We use the
information we collect in various ways, including to:
·
Provide,
operate, and maintain our website
·
Improve,
personalize, and expand our website
·
Understand
and analyze how you use our website
·
Develop
new products, services, features, and functionality
·
Communicate
with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for
customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to
the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
·
Send
you emails
·
Find
and prevent fraud
Like any other
website, we use ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including
visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed
or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by
customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other
information.
Third-party ad
servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web
Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear
in LingoThoughts, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically
receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to
measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize
the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
On our website
we use the integration of Google Maps to visually display geographical
information. In accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, this serves
to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in an optimised presentation
of our offering at individual locations when weighing up the interests
involved.
Google Maps is an offer from Google Ireland
Limited, a company incorporated and regulated under Irish law, with its
registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
(www.google.de).
Insofar as information is transferred to Google
servers in the USA and stored there, the American company Google LLC is
certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be
viewed here. On the basis of this agreement between
the USA and the European Commission, the latter has established an adequate
level of data protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield. When
you access a website on which Google Maps is integrated, Google's web server
also automatically collects access data in server log files, which are
automatically communicated by your browser, such as the name of the requested
file, the last website visited, the date and time of the access, the browser
used, the amount of data transferred, the IP address, the requesting provider,
etc. When using Google Maps, Google also processes data on the use of the Maps
functions by visitors to the website.
Further information about Google's privacy
policy and settings options can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
If you subscribe to one of our
newsletters, we use the data required for this purpose or data provided
separately by you to send you the subscribed email newsletter on a regular
basis. The sending of email newsletters takes place on the basis of your separate
express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (a) GDPR. For security
reasons, we use the double opt-in procedure: We will only send you a newsletter
by email if you have previously confirmed your newsletter registration. For
this purpose, we will send you an email confirming your subscription via the
link contained therein. This is to ensure that only you, as the owner of the
email address provided, can subscribe to the newsletter.
The newsletter may be sent via an external service provider to
whom we pass on your email address for this purpose. In such cases, the
processing is carried out on our behalf. You can object to this use of your
email address at any time by sending a message to the contact option described
below or via a link provided for this purpose in the advertising email, without
incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic
rates.
We use the Google Tag Manager to manage
usage-based advertising services. This serves to safeguard our overriding
legitimate interests in optimised marketing of our website in accordance with
Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR. The Tag Manager tool itself is a cookie-free
domain and does not collect any personally identifiable data. Instead, the tool
triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data.
Google Tag Manager is an offer from Google
Ireland Limited, a company incorporated and regulated under Irish law, with its
registered office at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
(www.google.de). Insofar as information is transferred to Google servers
in the USA and stored there, the American company Google LLC is certified under
the EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here. On the basis of this agreement between the USA and the
European Commission, the latter has established an adequate level of data
protection for companies certified under the Privacy Shield.
If you have disabled it at the domain or cookie
level, it will remain disabled for all tracking tags implemented with Google
Tag Manager.
For website analysis, this website uses Google
(Universal) Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited
(www.google.de). This serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests
in an optimised presentation of our offering in accordance with Art. 6 (1)
sentence 1 (f) GDPR. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable an
analysis of your use of the website, such as cookies. The automatically
collected information about your use of this website is usually transferred to
a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymisation on
this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the member
states of the European Union or in other Member States that are parties to the
Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the
full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated
there. The anonymised IP address provided by your browser in the context of
Google Analytics will in principle not be merged with other Google data. After
discontinuation of the purpose and end of the use of Google Analytics by us,
the data collected in this context will be deleted.
Google Ireland Limited is a company incorporated
and regulated under Irish law with its registered office at Gordon House,
Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (www.google.de).
You may prevent the collection of the data generated
by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP
address) by Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by
downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following
link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
YouTube
and Vimeo video plugins We secure our
website and other systems through technical and organisational measures against
loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by
unauthorised persons Request that a business that
collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces
of personal data that a business has collected about consumers. Request that a business delete
any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected. Request that a business that
sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data. If you make a request, we have
one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights,
please contact us. We would like to make sure you
are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled
to the following: The right to access – You have
the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small
fee for this service. The right to rectification – You
have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is
inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information
you believe is incomplete. The right to erasure – You have
the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain
conditions. The right to restrict processing
– You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your
personal data, under certain conditions. The right to object to
processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal
data, under certain conditions. The right to data portability –
You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected
to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. If you make a request, we have
one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights,
please contact us. Another part of our priority is
adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents
and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online
activity. LingoThoughts does not
knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the
age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on
our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do
our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Conversion tracking helps businesses measure the return on investment of their Facebook Ads by reporting on the actions people take after viewing those ads. Advertisers can create pixels that track conversions, add them to the pages of their website where the conversions will happen, and then track these conversions back to ads they are running on Facebook. Conversion tracking also helps businesses leverage optimized cost per impressions (oCPM) to show ads to people who are more likely to convert off Facebook.
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
The payment processors we work with are:
Razorpay - https://razorpay.com/privacy/
SOCIAL NETWORKS
On this website, content from third parties is
integrated via YouTube and Vimeo for the purpose of interactive design of our
content.
YouTube is operated by Google Ireland Limited, a
company incorporated and regulated under Irish law, with its registered office
at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. ("Google").
To increase the protection of your data when
visiting our website, the plugins are integrated into the page in such a way
that they can only be activated by an additional click. This integration
ensures that when a page of our website containing such plugins accessed, no connection
is yet established with the servers of the respective social network. Only when
you activate the plugins does your browser establish a direct connection to the
servers of the respective social network.
The content of the respective plugin is then
transmitted directly to your browser by the respective provider and integrated
into the page. By integrating the plugins, the providers receive the
information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our
website, even if you do not have a profile with the corresponding provider or
are not logged in at the moment. This information (including your IP address)
is transmitted by your browser directly to a server of the respective provider
(possibly in the USA) and stored there.
When you interact with the plugins, for example
by clicking the "Like" button, the corresponding information is also
transmitted directly to a server of the providers and stored there.
When you activate a plugin, a cookie is set in
your browser. DATA SECURITY
CCPA
Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers
have the right to:
GDPR Data Protection Rights
Children’s Information