Privacy Policy
Last Updated On 10-Feb-2022Introduction
This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how we process your personal data, incl. what we use it for and how we store and protect it. Furthermore, the Policy explains the rights that you have when we process your personal data. Why? Because we care about your privacy.
By accessing or using this website, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use this website.
Who are we
We are the entity responsible for the processing of your personal data in accordance with this Policy.
(We are not a company and this is a personal website) Here is our information and contact details:
Jonathan Eduardo Freire Espinoza
Ansbacher Str. 41,
10777 Berlin, Germany
email: jonathan.freireespinoza@gmail.com
phone: +49 15205960935
To make the Policy more user friendly we use “we”, “us”, “our” etc. to refer to Jonathan Freire, the owner of this website. We are the data controller of the data collected through the use of cookies on our website.
Our "website" is www.jonathanfreire.com, incl. our sub-domains, we own and operate.
When we refer to “you” we mean you as a user of our website, apps or our online services.
Links to other websites etc.
On our website, in our emails and on our social-media profiles, we may have links to other companies, apps or websites (“other websites”) that aren’t ours. This Policy doesn’t cover how those other websites process your data. We encourage you to read the privacy notices on the other websites you visit.
Information we may collect about you
We may collect and process personal data about you. Personal data, or personally identifiable information, means any information about an individual from which that individual can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data: includes email address and telephone numbers, company name or website.
- Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Profile Data: includes your username and password, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time), page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
- Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
- Aggregated Data: We also collect, use and share statistical or demographic data for any purpose. This Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Policy.
Personal data we collect from other sources
We work with third parties (including, for example, analytics providers and search information providers) and may receive the following personal data about you from them:
- Technical Data: from analytics providers and search information providers such as Google, Vercel, Cloudinary and Cloudflare.
- Identity and Contact Data: from providers of chat/communication services between/with users including via email such as Pusher.
- Email Communications and Contact Data: from providers of email communications service providers such as Sendgrid and Mailchimp.
How We Collect Your Information
We collect/receive information about you in the following manner:
- Direct Interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data when you fill in forms or correspond with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you register to use our website or to receive our newsletter, subscribe to use our services, request marketing to be sent to you, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our website, enter a competition, promotion or survey, give us feedback or contact us and when you report a problem with our website.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions. As you interact with our website and emails, we automatically collect Technical Information about your device, browsing actions, patterns, Location Data and Usage Data. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies about your device, and your use of our website. We may also receive Technical Data and Location Data about you if you visit other websites employment our cookies. Please see the Cookie section below for further details.
How We Use Your Information
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly we will use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes:
- Marketing/ Promotional
- Creating user account
- Support
- Website protection
- User to user comments
- Manage user account
- To comply with a legal obligation.
If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only on receiving your consent and then, only for the purpose(s) for which grant consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.
Additional information:
We do not sell or rent your data to marketers or third parties.
If you would like more information about our legal basis for processing your data, feel free to contact us (see our details in the beginning of the Policy).
How We Share Your Information
We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:
- Data collection & process
We may also disclose your personal information for the following:
- to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process
- to enforce your agreements with us, including this Policy
- to respond to claims that your use of this website violates any third-party rights.
Third parties and processors
We use companies (processors) to help us deliver our services to you, e.g. to provide the hosting environment for our product, send out newsletters, to help us run our website, etc.
We require such processors to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.
We share your personal data with:
- Suppliers and vendors that we work with to assist our company (meaning service providers, technical support and supply services).
- Group entities
- Public authorities
Here’s are some of the suppliers we use:
- Vercel as our hosting and analytics system.
- Sendgrid for sending out emails to us through the contact form.
- Pusher as our hosted Websockets solution. It is a communication service between users.
- Cloudinary as our end-to-end image- and video-management solution.
Retention of your information
We will retain your personal information with us for 90 days to 2 years after user accounts remain idle or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.
Keeping your data safe
We use reasonable organisational, technical and administrative measures to protect your data within our company.
The Internet is not a 100% secure environment and that means we cannot guarantee the security of the data you transmit to us. Emails sent via the Internet might not be encrypted, so we advise you not to include any confidential or sensitive information in your emails to us.
We also recommend you to use an anonymous username to register in the apps of this website.
Email contact and contact form
You can contact us using either a contact form provided on our website or by email using the following email address: jonathan.freireespinoza@gmail.com
If you contact us using the contact form, the data you enter in the input mask will be sent to us and saved when you send them. The following data will be saved:
- Name
- Email address
- Free text box for the message
- Date and time when the contact was sent
- Date and time when the Privacy Policy was accepted
- Sending IP address
Before you send the completed contract form, your consent to our processing the data is obtained, and reference is made to this privacy policy.
Furthermore, you can contact us using the provided email address. In this case, your personal data submitted with the email will be saved.
We are the data controller. The messages via email or using the contact form are sent, using Sendgrid as our service of email delivery, to our Gmail account. Read the Sendgrid's privacy policy
Your data will be processed exclusively to handle your concern. In the event that you contact us by email, this also comprises the required legitimate interest in processing the data. The other personal data processed when you send your query are used to prevent any abuse of the contact form and ensure the security of our information technology systems.
The data will be erased when they are no longer required to achieve the purpose for which they were collected, in other words when the conversation with you, the user, is ended or the matter has been fully clarified.
You have the opportunity at any time to revoke your consent for processing the personal data. In this case, please contact us by using the contact details in this Policy
Chat app for users (timequiz.jonathanfreire.com)
You can communicate with other users using the chat in the app located at timequiz.jonathanfreire.com.
In this app, you can play the game of questions with other users. The purpose of the chat is to talk about the category of questions. Also, you can talk about the answers or the points. We encourage you not to use this chat for other cases and not share personal data.
We are the data controller. The shared messages through this chat are not stored in any database. We use secure connections provided by Pusher as our real-time messaging service. Pusher processes the encrypted data according to our processing criteria. Read the Pusher's privacy policy
Your rights:
You have these rights:
- Your right of access and rectification - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data or ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. There are some exemptions, which means you may not always receive all the information we process but as a main rule you can always contact us and ask for your information.
- Your right to erasure - You can ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to withdraw your consent: If processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you withdrew your consent. You may withdraw your consent by sending an email to jonathan.freireespinoza@gmail.com.
- Your right to restriction of processing and object to processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information and a similar right to object to processing.
- Your right to data portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (data portability).
- Where your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data about you for such marketing.
We will make sure to answer your request without undue delay and in any event within one month of receiving your request. It can be that the period will be extended by two further months if your request is very complex.
There may be conditions or limitations on these rights. It is therefore not certain e.g. you have the right of data portability in a specific case - this depends on the specific circumstances of the processing activity. You are always welcome to contact us and ask. The same goes for some of the other rights.
Do note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw the consent to process the same for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.
Complaints
You can always lodge a complaint with a European data protection authority, for example the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Assistance and additional information
You can take steps to exercise your rights by using the contact details above. If you have questions about the Policy, feel free to contact us by using the contact details in this Policy.
Third party links and use of your information
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. This Policy does not address the privacy policy and other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on this website. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Children and our services
Our services and website aren’t directed to children, and you can’t use our website if you are under the age of 16.
Changes to the Policy
Sometimes we need to make changes to this Policy to reflect our current practices. We will take reasonable steps to let you know about changes via our website.
If you continue to use our website or services after the notification, we will regard this as your acceptance of our privacy practices.