Privacy Policy

Our data privacy statement sets out how we handle personal data on https://www.forecastio.ai.

We, Forecastio, are aware of the importance to users of how personal data are handled, and we will observe all relevant legal requirements. We consider the protection of your privacy to be of paramount importance. For this reason, compliance with the legal requirements on data privacy is, for us, a matter of course.

Email: team@forecastio.ai

Personal Data

Personal data refers to any information about personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable person. This includes information and details such as your name, home address or other postal address, telephone number and also your email address. Personal data are also referred herein as “data”.

Legal Basis

Your data are handled according to the following legal provisions:

With regard to data communicated in forms, etc. with your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR,
With regard to services you use for the performance of a contract, Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR,
Otherwise, with particular regard to statistical data and online identifiers with your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, and/or
Otherwise, with particular regard to log files based on legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (see below)

Legitimate Interests

When handling your data, we pursue the following legitimate interests:

To improve the offering,
To make it more user-friendly,
To identify and resolve errors, and/or
to control server workloads.

Data Sources

Unless otherwise specified, we obtain the data from you (including via devices used by you).

Data Transfer to Third Countries

Data is transferred to third countries outside the European Union. This is done on the basis of contractual regulations stipulated by law that ensure appropriate protection of your data and that are available for you to review on request.

Retention Period

We retain your data,

If you have consented to this as part of processing, until such time as you withdraw your consent,
If we need the data to undertake an agreement, until such time as the contractual relationship with you ceases or legal retention periods expire, and/or
If we use the data on the basis of a legitimate interest, until such time as your overriding interest obliges us to delete or anonymise them.

Purposes of Use

Personal data will only be collected by us to the extent and for the purpose for which you provide the data to us, e.g. for registration.

Log Files

Every time you access our web pages, usage data are transferred through your specific web browser and stored in the form of protocol files (known as server log files). The datasets stored in this way contain the following data:

The domain from which the user is accessing the website,
Date and time of access,
IP address of the accessing computer without the last (fourth) octet,
Website(s) which the user is visiting in the context of the offering,
Amount of data transferred; browser type and version,
Operating system used; name of internet service provider, and/or
Indication of whether access was successful

These log file datasets are analysed in anonymised form, to improve the offering and make it more user-friendly, to identify and resolve errors, and to control server workloads.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party service for various functions on our website:

Google (Universal) Analytics

We use Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google (Universal) Analytics uses so-called "Cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that analyse your website usage. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be truncated before transfer by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and truncated there. This data transfer is based on EU standard contractual clauses.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your website usage, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google (Universal) Analytics as part of Google (Universal) Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in full. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

For more information about Google’s terms of use and data protection, please go to http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and/or under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/. Please note that on this website Google (Universal) Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" to ensure the anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP-Masking).

The use of Google (Universal) Analytics is based on your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Google Optimize

We use Google Optimize, a service provided by Google ("Google Optimize"). Google Optimize analyses the use of different variants of the website so that we are able to adapt the user experience to the behaviour of the website users. Google Optimize is a tool integrated into Google Analytics and uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymisation on these websites, your IP address will be truncated before transfer by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and truncated there. This data transfer is based on EU standard contractual clauses.

The use of Google Optimize is based on your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Facebook

We use the so-called "Facebook Pixel" of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Quare, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook").

If a user clicks on an advertisement placed by us that is displayed on Facebook, an extension is added to the URL of our linked page by Facebook Pixel. If our site allows data to be shared with Facebook via pixels, this URL parameter is inscribed in the user's browser via a cookie, which our linked site sets itself. This cookie is then processed by Facebook Pixel and enables the data to be transferred to Facebook. The Facebook pixel makes it possible for Facebook to specify the visitors to our online offer as the target group for the display of advertisements (so-called "Facebook ads"). Accordingly, we use the Facebook pixel to display the Facebook ads placed by us only to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online offer or who have certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products determined on the basis of the websites visited), which we transmit to Facebook (so-called "Custom Audiences"). With the help of the Facebook pixel, we also want to ensure that our Facebook ads correspond to the potential interest of the users and do not have a harassing effect. This allows us to further evaluate the effectiveness of the Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by tracking whether users were redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion"). The data collected is anonymous for us, so it does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the identity of the user. However, the data is stored and processed by Facebook so that a connection to the respective user profile is possible and Facebook can use the data for its own advertising purposes in accordance with the Facebook data usage policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). The data may enable Facebook and its partners to serve ads on and off Facebook.

The use of the Facebook pixel is based on your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Rights of the Data Subject

Right to access, rectification, right to object, to complaint, erasure and blockage.

You have the right to request information about whether and which personal data is processed by our company. You also have the right to demand that your personal data is rectified or amended.
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to request that your personal data should be deleted.
Under certain circumstances, you have the right to demand that the processing of your personal data should be restricted.
You can withdraw your consent to the processing and use of your data completely or partially at any time with future application.
You have the right to obtain your personal data in a common, structured and machine-readable format.
If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests in connection with our statement on data protection and the processing of your personal data, you can also contact our data protection officer in detail.
You also have the right to complain to the responsible supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data is in violation of the legislation.

When you visit or log in to our website, cookies and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with other personal information they or others have about you, including by association with your email or home address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email or home addresses. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout