Who are we?
This website and its content are provided by a private individual without commercial interests.

The party responsible for data protection laws, particularly the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is:

Bernhard Mäder
Räffelstrasse 24
8055 Zurich

Email: data@youspire.com
Website: youspire.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you access this website, general information is automatically recorded. This information is stored in the server log file and includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your internet service provider, your IP address, and similar.

We do this for the following reasons:

• Ensuring a smooth connection to the website
• Ensuring seamless use of our website
• Evaluating system security and stability, as well as for additional administrative purposes

Your data will not be used to draw conclusions about your person. This type of information is only evaluated statistically to optimize our website and the technology behind it.

Storage duration
The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose for which it was collected. This is generally the case for data serving the provision of the website when the respective session has ended.

Documents
When visitors create or edit documents on the website, we collect the data shown in the respective form, as well as the visitor's IP address and the user-agent string (which identifies the browser) to support the detection of spam.

Media
If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

Contact forms
The data you enter is stored for the purpose of individual communication with you. This requires a valid e-mail address and your name. This serves to assign the inquiry and the subsequent answer to it. The provision of further data is optional.

Cookies
If you write a comment on our website, it could be a consent to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that you do not have to re-enter all this data when you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up some cookies to save your login information and display options. Login cookies expire when you close the browser window, and cookies for display options after one year. If you select "Stay logged in" when logging in, your login will be maintained for six months. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

When you edit or publish a document, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only refers to the ID of the document you are currently editing. The cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites
Posts on this website may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in on this website.

Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA (hereinafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened 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 USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the internet, further related services will then be provided.

How long we store your data
If you create or edit a document, it is archived along with metadata after three months of non-use and deleted later. For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (the username cannot be changed). Administrators of the website can also view and change this information.

Documents of registered users are stored indefinitely, until the corresponding account is deleted.

What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this website or have created documents, you can request an export of your personal data from us, including all data you have provided to us. In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data that we have stored about you. This does not include data that we have to keep for administrative, legal or security-related necessities.

Where we send your data
Your data stays with us; we do not send it to third parties.

Contact information
For data protection-related concerns, please contact:

Bernhard Mäder
Räffelstrasse 24
8045 Zurich

Email: data@youspire.com

How we protect your data
To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use encryption procedures (e.g., SSL) via HTTPS according to the current state of technology.

Changes
We can adjust this privacy policy at any time without prior notice. The version published on our website is always the current one.

Questions to the data protection officer
If you have questions about data protection, please send us an email or contact the person responsible for data protection in our organization as listed at the beginning of the privacy policy.

Zurich, May 16, 2023