Source: https://toralarm.com/en/privacy
Timestamp: 2019-04-18 10:46:19+00:00

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Our ”TorAlarm“ skills for language assistants available on “Amazon Alexa” and “Google Assistant”.
“Personal Data” is all data relating to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail address, and further information such as user behavior.
When you contact us via e-mail or through a contact form, we save the data provided by you (e-mail address, and potentially name and telephone number) to answer your questions. The data incurring in this is stored to handle recurring support inquiries quicker, and to implement future features based on wishes in support inquiries into our services.
If in order to provide certain functionalities of our services we engage a processor, or want to use your data for advertising purposes, we’re informing you in this document about the respective processes, and name the set criteria for storing periods.
Transient cookies: These cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. This applies i.e. to session cookies that store a so-called Session ID with which several requests from your browser can be assigned to the same session. In doing so, your computer can be recognized when you return to the Website. Session cookies are deleted when you close the browser.
Persistent cookies: These cookies are automatically deleted after a predefined time that can vary from cookie to cookie. You can delete cookies in your browser’s settings at any time.
The information collected on your Website use by the mentioned cookies are usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. On our behalf, Google uses this information to analyze your Website use, to generate reports on Website activities, and to render further services connected to the Website and internet use to us.
The legal basis for using this service is our legitimate interest in optimizing Website according to art. 6 para 1 lit. f GDPR.
The Website uses the online advertising service Google AdSense through which interest-customized ads can be displayed. We use this service to display ads to you as relevant as possible, and to make the Website more attractive to you. In doing so, statistical information about you is collected that is processed by our advertising partners. Said ads are indicated by the remark “Google Ads”.
When visiting our website, Google notices that you visited the Website by using a Web Beacon, which works by storing a cookie on your computer. The data mentioned in § 1 para 1 of this document is transmitted to Google in that case. We can neither influence the data collection nor do we have information on the full extent of data collection and storing periods. Your data is transmitted to the USA and analyzed there. If you are logged into a Google account, your data can be linked directly to that account. If you want to prevent said link, you have to log out of your Google account. It is possible that said data is transferred to Google’s contractual partners, to third parties and authorities. Legal basis of processing your data through Google AdSense is our legitimate interest in displaying ads to fund our services according to art. 6 para 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. The Website also shows third-party Google AdSense Ads. The previously mentioned data can be transferred to said third parties (specified under https://support.google.com/dfp_sb/answer/94149).
By permanently deactivating it in the browsers Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome by clicking on the following link: http://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin.
In such cases you might not be able to use all Website functionalities.
Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; Data Protection Terms for Advertising: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en. Google has committed to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.
The following information applies for your use of the Mobile App, in principle regardless of the platform the respective app runs on, meaning whether it runs on iOS, Android, Alexa or Google Home.
By downloading the Mobile App the necessary information is transmitted to the respective app store provider, i.e. user name, e-mail address and customer number of your account, time of download, payment information and the individual device identifier. We have no influence on and are not responsible for said data transfer. We only process this data as far as it’s necessary for the download of the Mobile App onto your mobile device.
Language and regional settings of the device.
Transient cookies: These cookies are automatically deleted when you close the Mobile App. This applies i.e. to session cookies that store a so-called Session ID with which several requests from your browser can be assigned to the same session. In doing so, your computer can be recognized when you return to the Website. Session cookies are deleted when you close the browser.
You can configure your mobile OS and the Mobile App according to your liking, e.g. deny the acceptance of third-party cookies or of cookies altogether. In such a case you might not be able to use all functions of the Website though.
Perform security measures, fraud protection and error correction.
In your device settings, you can at any time delete the Identifier (“Remove Ad ID“ under [FS8] iOS, and „[…]“ under Android). In this case a new Identifier is created that is not merged with previously collected data. We inform you that when you limit the use of the Identifier, you might not be able to use all functions of the Mobile App.
In order to deploy push notifications (for goals, breaking news and other important events), an anonymous device ID (push notification token) is stored on our servers along with your app settings associated with said ID. Upon your request, said associated settings can be deleted, upon which the notification service will not work anymore.
The Mobile App uses the measuring system (“SZMnG“) of INFOnline GmbH (https://www.INFOnline.de/) to determine statistical performance indicators on the use of our services. Goal of said measurement is to determine the number of users and uses of the Mobile App and the users’ surfing behavior statistically on the basis of a unified standard procedure, and to gather comparable market values. For all digital content providers that are either members of the “Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern e. V.” (IVW – http://www.ivw.eu/, “Information Society for Determining of the Spreading of Ads”) or participate in studies of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online-Forschung e. V. (AGOF - http://www.agof.de/, “Study Group Online Research”), usage statistics are regularly processed by AGOF and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse e. V. (agma - http://www.agma-mmc.de/, “Study Group Media Analysis”) to produce reach indicators, published with a performance indicator “Unique Users“ , and published by IWV with the performance indicators „Page Impressions“ and „Visits“. These reach indicators and statistics can be perused on the respective websites.
Legal Basis for said measurement is our legitimate interest according to art. 6 para 1 lit. f GDPR. Purpose of said processing of personal data is the creation of statistics and user categories. The statistics allow us to understand and prove the use of our services. The user categories are the basis for interest-based setup of advertising media and measures. In order to market the Mobile App it is necessary to maintain comparability to other market competitors. Our legitimate interest lies in the economic usability of the insights resulting from the statistics and user categories, and the market value of our Mobile App, also in direct comparison to third-party offers, that is determinable through the statistics.
Furthermore, we have a legitimate interest in providing pseudonymous data to INFOnline, AGOF and IVW for the purposes of market research (AGOF, agma) and for statistics (INFOnline, IVW). Also we have a legitimate interest in providing data to INFOnline for the purpose of further development and provision of interest-based advertising media.
Vendor ID (for iOS devices).
A geolocation, meaning the allocation of a web page request to the location of the request, is performed solely of the basis of the anonymized IP address and only down to the geographical layer of states/regions. The said collected geographical information does in no way allow a location of the concrete place of a user’s residence.
The usage data of a technical client (e.g. a browser on a device) is merged across applications, and stored in a database. This information is used to determine the details of age and gender, and transferred to AGOF for further reach measurement. In the course of the AGOF study, socio-information is estimated on the basis of a random sample that can be assigned to the following categories: age, gender, nationality, job, marital status, general information on the household, household income, place of residence, internet use, online interests, location of use, user type.
The full IP address is not stored by INFOnline GmbH. The shortened IP address is at maximum stored for 60 days. The usage data in connection with the unique Identifier is stored for 6 months at maximum.
Information on which banner ads you have seen, and which ones you tapped on.
The mentioned data is in principle and, notwithstanding your request for deletion, stored indefinitely.
The data mentioned in para 1 might be transferred to the USA and processed there by adjust to allow statistics on the performance on our marketing measures. The collected data is not merged with other data that allows identifying your personally. In principle, adjust does not pass on any of your data to third parties, however might be obliged by law or forced to by authorities in the USA to do so, and will in that case comply.
The legal basis for the use of this service is our legitimate interest in measuring the performance of our ads according to art. 6 para 1 lit. f GDPR.
Internet searches through Google Search with Firebase App Indexing (cp. para 6).
The Mobile App uses the web analysis service Google Analytics that tracks your use of the Mobile App through cookies or a comparable technology. The information generated through your cookie or the comparable technology is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. As we anonymize IP addresses in the Mobile App, your IP address is shortened by Google within the European Union or in a member state of the Treaty on the European Economic Area, by way of exception (e.g. in case of technical failure of servers within the EU) is in full transmitted to Google servers in the USA and shortened there. We use the information prepared by Google to interpret your use of the Mobile App for its optimization and further development.
Through Firebase App Indexing we provide the option to perform the common Google web search from within the Mobile App. The terms and conditions for the usual Google web search apply (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de).
The legal basis for the use of Firebase is our legitimate interest in maintaining the Mobile App stable and evaluate its performance according to art. 6 para 1 lit. f GDPR.
If you do not want the data categories mentioned in this section, you may not use the Mobile App.
The mentioned data is in principle, notwithstanding your request for deletion, stored indefinitely.
The data mentioned in para 1 is pseudonymized and transmitted to one or several ad network providers in order to display ads that are relevant to you. The mentioned data is, depending on the display network, either only processed within the EU or, if and insofar as networks are used that store and process data outside of the EU, protected by the respective network provider’s commitment to the EU-US Privacy Shield or to an equivalent treaty, e.g. EU Standard Contractual Clauses, that ensure a GDPR-equivalent data protection level.
The legal basis for the use of said service is our legitimate interest in financial remuneration for providing the Mobile App to you for free according to art. 6 para 1 lit. f GDPR.
If you do not want the data mentioned in para 1 to be tracked, you may not use the Mobile App.
When activating the skill or skills, the information necessary to use the skill is transferred to the respective store, i.e. user name, e-mail address and customer number of your account, time of activation, payment information and the individual device identifier. We have no influence on said data collection and are not responsible for it. We process data only as far as the activation of the skill on the device requires it.
Your Amazon and/or Google ID.
In order to send you push notifications (for goals, breaking news and other important events), an anonymous device ID (token) is stored on our servers along with your associated settings. Upon your request we delete these types of data upon which the notification service will, however, not work anymore.
Legal basis of the collection and processing of said data categories is art. 6 para 1 lit. b GDPR.

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