PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: February 8, 2021

We highly value your privacy and adhere to the applicable privacy laws when collecting and processing your data. This Privacy Policy outlines the principles of data collection and processing for the Mind-Thought website (hereinafter the "Website").

1. Data processing activities and data processing purposes when you visit and use the Website

a. Data automatically collected

When you visit the Website, the browser on your device automatically sends information to the server(s) on which the Website runs. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• IP address of the requesting computer,
• date and time of access,
• name and URL of the retrieved file,
• website from which access is made (referrer URL),
• the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.

The mentioned data will be processed by us for the following purposes:

• ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
• ensuring comfortable use of the Website,
• evaluation of system security and stability, as well as
• for other administrative purposes.

Our legal basis for processing the above listed data is our legitimate interest of pursuing the purposes listed above for data collection.

In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when you visit the Website. For more information, please refer to the Cookie Policy.

b. Data you provide to us

You may provide data to us via e-mail or our contact form. We use your personal data only for the purpose of providing you the service or information requested by you. We will store this data on our serves for as long as necessary to provide the services or information requests, unless a longer retention period is based on our legitimate interests or prescribed by law.

c. How we use personal data

We use store and process personal information for the following general purposes:

• to enable you to access and use the Website;
• to operate, protect, improve and optimize the Website and our business for example by performing analytics, conducting research, personalizing or otherwise customizing user experience, and to provide customer service and support;
• to help maintain a trusted environment on the Website, such as detection and prevention of actual and potential fraud and other harmful activity, conducting investigations and risk assessments, verifying any identifications provided by you, and conducting checks against databases and information sources for fraud detection and prevention, risk assessment and harm prevention purposes;
• to send you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and information requested by you;
• to send you marketing, advertising, and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you, including information about us, our services, or general promotions for partner campaigns and services. You can unsubscribe or opt-out from receiving these communications in your settings;

We do not rent, sell or otherwise share your personal data with third parties, except with your consent.

Further we may use third party service providers to help us deliver our service and run or analyse the Website (e.g. third party data analytics services to analyse, among other things, server load).

We also reserve the right to disclose your personal data to (a) comply with relevant laws, regulatory requirements and to respond to lawful requests, court orders, and legal process; (b) to protect and defend the rights or property of us or third parties, including enforcing agreements, policies, and terms of use; (c) in an emergency, including to protect the safety of our employees or any person, or (d) in connection with investigating and preventing fraud.

2. Sharing of data

Your personal data will not be shared with third parties for purposes other than those listed below.

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

• you have given your express consent,
• the disclosure is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data,
• in the event that a legal obligation exists for the transfer; or
• this is legally permissible and necessary for the execution of contractual relationships with you.

3. Your rights

You have the right:

• to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if these have not been collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details;
• request the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by us;
• to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is justified by our legitimate interests, necessary to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
• to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data;
• if our data processing is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we are no longer allowed to continue processing data based on this consent in the future;
• to complain to a supervisory authority.

4. Data retention

We may retain information regarding you and your use of the Website, including personally identifying information, for as long as needed to provide you with our services and the uses described in this Privacy Policy.

5. Data security

We take commercially reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Accordingly, we store all the personal information you provide on secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

You also acknowledge that no technical and organisational measures can fully eliminate security risks connected with the transmission of information over the internet. We therefore cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. We use the common SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in connection with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. Usually this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether a single page of the Website is transmitted in encrypted form is indicated by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We also use suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments. You are responsible for keeping the account information (user name/password) for accessing the Website confidential.

6. Validity of this Privacy Policy

This is our currently valid Privacy Policy. Due to the further development of the Website and offers above or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this Privacy Policy. We therefore reserve the right to update and modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates and modifications will be announced on the Website.