our Storyz recognizes that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all products, services and websites offered by Your Storyz to its affiliates. When it is necessary to explain our Privacy Policy more specifically, we also place separate privacy notices on the website, which describe how certain services handle personal information.
Taking into account that Your Storyz is a service of Share Storyz GmbH (Munich, Germany). By using products and services of Share Storyz GmbH, such as Your Storyz mobile app and website(s) you accept the terms of service as well as the privacy and disclaimer policies stated here.
Information provided by you - When you register with Your Storyz by creating and/or using a Your Storyz user account or a Your Storyz business service, we ask you to provide personal information (such as your name, email address and a password). We may combine the information you provide for your account with information from other services of Your Storyz or from third parties to offer the best user experience and improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may offer you the option to indicate that you do not agree to the combination of such information ("opt-out").
Cookies - When you use Your Storyz (website, management environment) we send one or more "cookies" - files with a series of characters - to your computer that identify your browser as a unique user. We use cookies to improve the quality of our services. For this, we store user settings and keep track of developments in user behavior, for example how people search. Most browsers are set by default to accept cookies. You can, however, have your browser refuse all cookies or have them warned when a cookie is being sent. Please note that some Your Storyz options and services may not function properly if you refuse cookies.
Log information - When you use Your Storyz app, website and/or services, our servers automatically store information that your browser sends each time you visit a website. Such server logs may include information such as query, IP address, browser type, browser language, date and time of your query, and one or more cookies that can identify your browser.
Correspondence - When you send an email or other message to Your Storyz, we may keep those messages to process and answer your questions and to improve our services.
Affiliate Sites - We offer some of our services in conjunction with other websites. Consider, for example, the links with publication channels, social media and storage locations in the cloud. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be forwarded to Your Storyz in order to provide the relevant service. We process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Affiliate sites may have different privacy policies. We recommend that you read that.
Links - Your Storyz can present links in such a way that we can keep track of whether these links have been clicked. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, tailor-made information. And present suggestions in content or advertising more relevant. For more information on links and referral URLs, see our sites.
Other Sites - This Privacy Policy applies to websites and services owned and operated by Share Storyz GmbH including Your Storyz. We do not control the sites that appear on our various services as search results or links. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or request personal information from you.
Your Storyz processes personal information only for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and / or the privacy statement regarding specific services. In addition to those already mentioned, these objectives also include:
More information about how we process personal information can be found in the privacy notices regarding specific services.
Your Storyz processes personal information on our servers. In some cases, we process personal information on a server that is not located in your own country. We may process personal information to provide our own services. In some cases, we process personal information on behalf and at the direction of third parties, such as our advertisers.
When you sign up for a particular service that requires you to register, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information in any other way than for the purpose for which it was collected, we will ask you for permission beforehand.
If we ask you to use personal information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and / or in the specific privacy notices, we will provide you with an effective means of refusing to use personal information for those other purposes ("opt -out"). We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than described in this Privacy Policy and / or in the specific privacy notices, unless you have given prior permission.
You can refuse to provide personal information for a particular Share Storyz service, but it may not be possible to provide that service to you.
Your Storyz will share personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Your Storyz only in the following limited circumstances:
We take appropriate security measures against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These measures include internal evaluations of our data collection, storage and processing methods and our security measures, as well as physical security measures to prevent unauthorized access to systems on which we store personal data.
Access to personal information is reserved to Your Storyz employees, contractors and agents who need to be aware of such information in order to provide, expand or improve our services. These individuals have a duty of professional secrecy and, if breached, may face disciplinary action, including contract termination and criminal charges.
Your Storyz processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any privacy notice for a specific service. We evaluate our methods of data collection, storage and processing to ensure that we collect, store and process only the personal information necessary to provide or improve our services. We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information as necessary.
Your Storyz regularly examines whether this Privacy Policy is complied with. Questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy or how Your Storyz handles personal information can always be made known by contacting us through this website.
When we receive formal, written complaints through the website or our postal address, Your Storyz' policy is to contact the affected user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the relevant competent authorities, including local privacy regulators, to resolve complaints about the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Your Storyz and the individual concerned.
We point out that this Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time. In addition, we will not limit your rights under this Privacy Policy without your express consent, and we expect that most such changes will be minor. Nevertheless, we will post any changes on this page. When it comes to significant changes, we will make them more noticeable (including, for certain services, notification of policy changes by email). The version of this Privacy Policy will always be indicated at the top of the page by means of the effective date.