Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 30, 2021

Thank you for using calculation services of calcscout UG ('calcscout', 'Company', 'we', 'us', 'our'. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our website, current privacy notice, or our practices related to your personal information, please contact us using the following email: info@calcscout.com

When you visit our website https://calcscout.com/ (the “Website“), and more generally, use any of our services (the “Services“, which include the Website), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services (which, as described above, includes our Website), as well as, any related services, sales, marketing or events.

Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.

Table of Contents

1. Contact details of the Person(s) Responsible for Procession
2. Collection and Storage of Personal Data, as Well as Processing Type and Purpose
   • Data inputted into the Calculators
   • Visiting the Website
   • Creating a User Account
   • Subscribing to Our Newsletter
   • Using Our Contact Form
3. Disclosure of Data to Third Parties
4. Cookies
5. Analysis Tools
   • Google Analytics
6. User Rights
7. Right to Objection
8. Data Security
9. Information from minors
10. Version and Changes of This Privacy Policy
11. Contacting us about this notice

1. Contact details of the Person(s) Responsible for ProcessionContact details of the Person(s) Responsible for Procession

Person(s) responsible for processing: calcscout UG (hereafter referred as 'calcscout')

E-Mail: info@calcscout.com

2. Collection and Storage of Personal Data, as Well as Processing Type and PurposeCollection and Storage of Personal Data, as Well as Processing Type and Purpose

In Short: We don’t do anything that a standard website doesn’t do. We do not collect any information regarding your identity.

Data inputted into the CalculatorsData inputted into the Calculators

We DO NOT store or sell the data which you input into the calculators.

Visiting the WebsiteVisiting the Website

When accessing our website www.calcscout.com, the following information will automatically be sent to our website’s server by the browser being used on your device. This information is not saved on the server.

• IP address of the requesting device
• Date and time of the access
• Name and URL of the retrieved file
• Website from which the access took place (known as the referrer URL)
• Model and operating system of your device
• Name of your ISP
• Browser type and version as well as other information provided by your browser (such as the location, language set-up, add-ons, screen resolution, etc.)

The aforementioned data may be used by us for the following purposes:

• To guarantee a smoothly established connection to the website
• To guarantee a user-friendly experience of our website
• To evaluate the security and stability of the system
• And for other administrative purposes

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the data collection purposes listed above. In no case do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

Furthermore, we also use cookies and analytic services when our website is visited. Find out more detailed information about this in Sections 4 and 5.

Creating a User AccountCreating a User Account

You have an opportunity to create PRO or ENT user account. We use modern passwordless authentication which requires only your e-mail to log-in.

As a result we only store your e-mail address in order to verify the user which is trying to log-in.

You do not need to have a user account to use calcscout services on FREE tier.

Upon deletion of your user account, all of your information designated for processing will be automatically deleted, unless, as according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. c) of the GDPR, we are required by tax or commercial law to store your data longer for retention and documentation obligations or because you have consented to the extended storage of your data according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR.

Subscribing to Our NewsletterSubscribing to Our Newsletter

As long as you have expressly agreed, as according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR, we may use your e-mail address to send you our newsletter regularly. Providing an e-mail address is all that is required to subscribe to the newsletter.

We will potentially use your e-mail address to send you information about other similar products from our company, as long as you are an existing customer and have not disagreed to the use of your e-mail address.

It is possible at any time to unsubscribe from both options, such as by using the link at the end of each newsletter. Alternatively, you can at any time send an e-mail to info@calcscout.com asking to unsubscribe.

Using Our Contact FormUsing Our Contact Form

For any questions we offer the possibility of contacting us by using a prepared form that is available on the website. A valid e-mail address is required for this so that we know who the question is coming from and so that we can provide a reply. Other details can be supplied voluntarily.

Data processing for our contact purposes takes place, as according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR, on the basis of your consent.

The personal information collected from the contact form is automatically deleted after your request has been settled.

3. Disclosure of Data to Third PartiesDisclosure of Data to Third Parties

In Short:: As a general principle, your personal data will not be given to third parties. In particular, no data will be disclosed to a recipient outside of the European Union or the European Economic Area.

Otherwise, we only give your personal data to a third party if:

• As according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR, you have expressly agreed to it
• It is permissible according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. b) of the GDPR and necessary for the execution of our contractual relationship with you
• There is a legal obligation to do so, as according to Art. 1 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. c) of the GDPR
• Or, as according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR, the disclosure is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims and it has not been demonstrated that you have a prevailing protective interest in the non-disclosure of your information

4. CookiesCookies

In Short:: We use cookies on our website. These involve small data files that your browser generates automatically and which are saved on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you use our website. Cookies do not harm your device and do not contain viruses, trojans or other malware.

A cookie stores information that results from the specific device being used in each case. This does not mean, however, that we have direct recognition of your identity.

The use of cookies serves to make the use of our services for user-friendly for you. We therefore use what are called session cookies in order to recognize that you have visited individual pages of our website and that you have already registered them in your user account. These are automatically deleted after you leave our website.

Furthermore, to help optimize the user experience, we may also use temporary cookies which are stored on your device for a specified amount of time. Should you revisit our site to make use of our services again, it will automatically be recognized that you have visited us before, as will the specific entries and settings that you used, so you will not have to provide them again.

Otherwise, we use cookies to keep a statistical record of how our website is used and to help inform the optimization of our services (see Section 5). These cookies enable us, when you revisit our site, to automatically recognize that you have visited us before. These cookies are automatically deleted after a specifically defined period.

The data processed by cookies is required for the aforementioned purposes of protecting our legitimate interests, as well as those of third parties, as according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer, or so that you are always prompted before a new cookie is created. However, the complete deactivation of cookies can lead to you losing some of the functions of our website.

5. Analysis ToolsAnalysis Tools

In Short:: We use Google Analytics to get information about how people use our website and where they are coming from. The data which is used for this purpose is anonymized, which means that it cannot be tracked back to you.

Google AnalyticsGoogle Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc.,to help design our website and to maintain continuous optimization. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereafter referred to as “Google”). Using this, we record the usage of our website and evaluate it statistically. This processing for the aforementioned purposes occurs on the basis of our legitimate interests, as according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR. These interests are considered legitimate under the aforementioned provision.

Pseudonymized user profiles and cookies are created as part of this. The information generated by a cookie about your use of the website, such as

• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referrer URL (the website visited beforehand)
• Hostname of your computer (IP address)
• Time of the server request

will be sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The information is used in order to evaluate usage of the website, to compile reports about website activities and to provide other services relating to website and internet usage for the purposes of market research and designing the website. Also, if necessary, this information will be sent to a third party, so long as it is prescribed by law or as long as the third party is processing the data on instruction. In no case will your IP address be submitted alongside the other data that Google has. The IP address will be made anonymous, so that it cannot be identified( IP masking). Google adheres to the privacy principles of the “U.S. Safe Harbor Agreement” and is registered as a “safe harbor” program by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

You can specify settings in your browser to prevent the installation of cookies; we would like to note, however, that in this case it’s possible that not all of the functions of this website can be fully used.

Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of the data created by the cookie and data related to your use of the website (including your IP address), and you can also prevent this data from being processed by Google by downloading and installing a Browser add-on.

You can find further information about data privacy and Google Analytics at the Google Analytics help page

6. User RightsUser Rights

You reserve the right:

• According to Art. 7 Para. 3 of the GDPR, to withdraw at any time the consent that you have given us. This includes as a consequence that we are not permitted to continue with the data processing contingent upon this consent;
• According to Art. 15 of the GDPR, to request information about your personal data that is being processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of the processing, the type of personal data, the types of recipients to whom your data has been or is being disclosed, the specified storage period, any rights for the amendment, deletion or limitation of the processing, any legal objections, any right of appeal, the origin of your data if not collected by us, as well as any automized decision processes, including profiling, and, if applicable, significant information about their particular details;
• According to Art. 16 of the GDPR, to request immediately for the correction or completion of incorrect or incomplete personal data of yours that has been stored by us;
• According to Art. 17 of the GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data that has been stored by us, so long as the processing is not required for the exercise of the right to free expression, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;
• According to Art. 18 of the GDPR, to request limitations to the processing of your data, so long as the accuracy of the data is contested, the processing is unlawful, you decline deletion and we no longer require the data but you, however, need them for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have filed an objection against the processing, as according to Art. 21 of the GDPR;
• According to Art. 20 of the GDPR, to receive your personal data from us in a structured, conventional and machine-readable format or to request this to be transferred to a representative;
• According to Art. 77 of the GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a regulatory authority. To do this you can generally turn to the regulatory authorities that have jurisdiction where you live, where you work or where our company is located

7. Right to ObjectionRight to Objection

So long as your personal data is processed on the legal basis of legitimate interests, as according to Art. 6 Para. 1 Sent. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR, you reserve the right, as according to Art. 21 of the GDPR, to file an objection to the processing of your personal data if there are legal reasons resulting from your particular situation or if your objection is against direct advertising. In the last instance, you have a general right to objection that can be exercised even without having a particular legal situation with us.

If you would like to make use of your right to objection, an e-mail to info@calcscout.com will suffice.

8. Data SecurityData Security

In Short:: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We do not store any data for Free Tier users on our servers. The only data we store for PRO and ENT users is their e-mail address.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Website is at your own risk. You should only access the Website within a secure environment.

9. Information from minorsInformation from minors

In Short:: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Website, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Website. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at: info@calcscout.com.

10. Version and Changes of This Privacy PolicyVersion and Changes of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and is dated July 2021.

On account of the continuous development of our website and services or due to changes in legal or regulatory provisions, this privacy policy is subject to change. The current version of the privacy policy can always be found at our website under

https://calcscout.com/privacy

where it can be retrieved and printed.

11. Contacting us about this noticeContacting us about this notice

If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) by email at info@calcscout.com or by post to:

calcscout UG
[street],
10179 Berlin,
Germany