Privacy Policy

mypinio ("mypinio", "we" or "our"), located in Germany, is the developer and operator of the market research platform mypinio.com. We respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting your personal information in a variety of ways including using industry accepted security measures to protect against loss, misuse and alteration of data contained in our systems. This Privacy Notice is designed to describe how we collect, secure, maintain and share the personal information of users and visitors when collected on our websites or applications which link to this Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice covers the collection, use, storage and disclosure of your personal information collected when you visit a mypinio website ("Website"), when you use our services and mobile applications ("Applications"), and any information shared with mypinio by its business partners (collectively "Services"). Our Services may contain links to and portions of other websites or services. When you leave our Services or view a portion of a third party's website or services through our Services, we encourage you to read the privacy statements of those websites or third-party services. mypinio is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other websites or services. Please review this Privacy Notice carefully before using our Services. If you do not want mypinio to collect, use, store or disclose your personal information as we have described in this Privacy Notice, you may not use our Website or Applications.

mypinio collects different types of information from you in order to provide you with the best products and user experience and to operate effectively. Some information is provided directly by you and some information may be gathered automatically, in particular by observing how you interact with our Services.

Information provided directly by you: When you register for an account, complete a form requesting information, send us a support enquiry, contact us for employment or otherwise participate in blogs and online communities we host, we receive your information in order to facilitate your request.

Information provided by third parties at your request: When you download our Application or use our services, we may have access to certain information as permitted by the application store provider (such as the Apple App Store or Google Play). Your personal information may also be provided to mypinio when you access the Services using a third-party social network (such as Facebook or Google), or when you otherwise use the Services and personal information is required for your use and/or participation.

Information provided indirectly: We also collect information from you indirectly when you use the Services. The information we collect automatically may include your IP address, device type, unique device identification number, browser-type, general geographic location, and other related technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our Website, including the pages accessed and links clicked. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology.

We do not sell, rent, lease, trade or share your personal information with any third parties other than as described in this Privacy Notice. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you with the Services you request. Your personal information will not be shared with a third party not affiliated with or owned by mypinio, except where we have your express permission, or when otherwise required by law. mypinio may share your personal information when: we have your express consent to share the information; we need to share your information to provide the Services you have requested; or we are legally required to respond to a subpoena, court order, or legal process. When you provide us with your personal information or otherwise choose to sign up to receive email communications from us, we will use that information to send those communications to you. If you no longer wish to receive emails from us, you may opt-out within the emails we send or by emailing us.

Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts are used by mypinio and our research partners and marketplaces. These technologies are used to analyze trends, administer our Website, track users' movements around our site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole in order to learn more about how users interact with our Services. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our tracking utility partners on an individual as well as aggregated basis. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. mypinio and our third-party tracking utility and ad partners may also use clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs) to help us manage content and measure the performance of advertising.

Our Services may include third party tracking tools from our service providers, examples of which include Google Analytics and Flurry. Such third parties may use cookies, APIs, and/or SDKs in our Services to enable them to collect and analyze user information on our behalf. The third parties may have access to information such as your device identifier, locale, geo-location information, and IP address. We use analytics information for supporting business analysis and operations, business intelligence, product development, improving products and services, personalizing content, providing advertising, and making recommendations.

Our Services are not directed to children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If we learn that we have collected personal information of an individual under 16 we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.

Our Services include social media features, such as the Facebook "Like" button and Widgets, such as the "Share This" button or interactive mini-programs that run on our Services. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a Cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy Notice of the company providing it.

mypinio is headquartered in Germany. Your personal information will be transferred to, processed and maintained on computer systems located within the EU. The GDPR regulations of the European Union apply. We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that the personal information we process will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice when transferred internationally, including when processed internationally by third party service providers and partners. The safeguards we have taken include implementing the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and other transfer mechanisms.

You have the following data protection rights: You can request access to, correction of, updates to or request deletion of your personal information. You can object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict the processing or request portability of your personal information. You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send to you at any time. Where we have collected and processed your personal information based upon your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. To make a request, please contact us at [email protected] with "Personal Information Request" in the subject line, and provide us with full details in relation to your request.

We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you with the Services, respond to support requests and document our compliance with applicable law. We will use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will disclose personal information when required by law, or if we have good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with current judicial proceedings, a court order or legal process served on us, protect and defend our rights, or protect the rights, property, and other interests of our users or others.

In the event that mypinio goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, our users' personal information may be part of the assets transferred. You will be notified via a prominent notice on our website for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Given the nature of the Internet and the fact that network security measures are not infallible, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. We use industry standard encryption technologies to protect information online.

mypinio may update or make changes to this Notice from time to time. If we make material changes to this privacy Notice, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective. We strongly suggest you consult this Privacy Notice regularly for any changes.

If you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent by mypinio or purporting to be sent by mypinio, we want to know. Please forward a copy of that email with your comments to [email protected]. If you have questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Notice or our practices, please contact us at [email protected] with "Privacy Enquiry" in the subject line and provide detail on your question or complaint.

Questions or comments regarding this Notice should be submitted to mypinio by mail or email as follows: mypinio GmbH, Pappelallee 78/79, 10437 Berlin, Germany. Email: [email protected]

Images on our website are provided by Unsplash (unsplash.com) under the Unsplash License. When we serve these images via next/image, no personal data is shared with Unsplash. Images are loaded directly by your browser from Unsplash's servers, and Unsplash may collect standard server logs (such as IP address) in accordance with their privacy policy.