Privacy Policy

Last Modified: November 13, 2016

Zeitblick is an app with which you can discover common-free images from several cultural institutions. You can make a selfie and get a match from a database, full of historical images. When interested into a result, you can get more information about its story or share it with friends.

When using this service and the app, you'll share some information with 3rd parties and us.

The Privacy Policy is there to inform you about the details.

TL;DR

This is a short summary of the key information that might interest the most users. For further detail, read the full policy.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide Us Directly

When using our Services, you are asked to choose photos to be analysed. Those images won't be uploaded to one of our own servers. But it will be uploaded to third party servers to be analysed. We only get and process the resulting metadata about the analysed images.

Should you get in touch with us, you voluntarily provide us with information such as your contact details.

When you make use of the sharing feature, you only share information with the people and platforms you choose to. We advice you to be careful what you share with whom. Don't share content or upload images that you wouldn't want someone to save.

Sharing Of Your Information

We may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data, with third-party organizations that help us provide the Service to you (“Service Providers”). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality terms.

Third parties:

In order to be able to provide you our Service, we may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files and device identifiers with third-party organizations ("Service Providers"). They will be given access to as much of your information as necessary to be able to provide you our Service.

Should you visit a website from within our app, their own privacy policies will apply.

We try to provide a complete list of the third parties with which we actively share information. For each of the listed third parties, we offer a hint how to prevent it from receiving any data.

Google Vision API

Google Cloud Vision API gives the possibility to analyse the content of an image. It can e.g. detect faces within an image and extract information such as the emotion. It doesn't support Facial Recognition.

Google Cloud Vision API (Google Inc.)

Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy
Personal Data collected: Usage Data.
Opt Out: Don't submit/pick any images (inside App)

Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a platform for building scalable web applications and mobile backend. It provides a lot of functionality to make deploying backends easier.

Google App Engine (Google Inc.)

Place of processing: US - Privacy Policy
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Logging.
Opt Out: Don't submit/pick any images (inside App)

You Sharing Your Data Yourself

Our Application provides a sharing feature. When sharing, you decide yourself what you want to share with whom and where. Please take care that you don't share anything you don't want anyone to see or be able to save. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the third party services you are going to share data with.

You acknowledge that we are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information

How We Keep Your Information

Your information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in the US.

Control Over Your Information

App Permissions

If your device provides the possibility, you can change the Apps' permissions inside the settings of your device (such as access to the Camera or Photos). But keep in mind that revoking permissions might have an impact on the functionality of the App.

Children

Our Service is not directed at children under the age of 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13.

Contact

If you have any feedback, questions or input about the Privacy Policy or our Service, please feel free to contact us via mail: zeitblick@posteo.de

Changes to the Policy

As we develop our Service, we might need to apply changes to this Privacy Policy. As possible, we will inform users about changes we might apply. Nevertheless, please review it regularly.