Privacy Policy

This English version is a translation provided for your convenience. The legally binding version is the German original.

Controller

1. Data protection at a glance

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website or use the Kalinio communication app. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to the privacy policy below.

Who is responsible for the data processing?

The data processing on this website and – insofar as the operator has influence over this – in connection with the Kalinio app is carried out by the operator. You can find the operator's contact details in the section “Information on the controller” in this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected, on the one hand, by you providing it to us. This can be, for example, data that you send us by email or telephone, or that you send to us following an export of diagnostic information that you have explicitly triggered.

Other data is collected automatically or with your consent when you visit the website by the IT systems and service providers involved. This is mainly technical data, for example the internet browser, operating system, IP address or the time of the page view. This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

In the Kalinio app, camera and microphone data are only processed if you activate the corresponding functions and grant the operating system permissions. According to the current design, this processing takes place exclusively locally and in real time on your device.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. In addition, under certain circumstances, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

2. Hosting

GitHub Pages

This website is hosted externally via GitHub Pages. The provider is GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. For persons in the European Economic Area, GitHub also names GitHub B.V., Prins Bernhardplein 200, 1097 JB Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The external hosting is carried out in the interest of a secure, fast, stable and efficient provision of our online offering by a professional provider on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Insofar as the use of the website serves to carry out pre-contractual measures or to fulfil a contract, the processing may additionally be based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

Data transfer to the USA and other third countries

In the case of the processing of personal data in the USA or other countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, a level of data protection deviating from that of the European Union may exist. GitHub states that it uses appropriate safeguards for international data transfers, in particular the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, and, according to its own information, is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

3. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

We point out that data transmission over the internet, for example when communicating by email, can have security gaps. Complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the controller

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period has been stated within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for the data processing no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser's address line begins with “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.

4. Data protection when using the Kalinio app

Principle of local processing

The processing required for the communication, camera, microphone, calibration and recognition functions is, according to the current design, carried out in principle exclusively locally on the device used. In particular, the following are not automatically transmitted by Kalinio to the operator or to Kalinio's own servers:

• written or selected communication content;
• images or image sequences captured by the camera;
• microphone or audio data;
• detected mouth movements or tongue-clicking sounds;
• calibration data and recognition profiles;
• individually stored words, menus and settings;
• measured values of the recognition diagnostics.

Audio and camera data are evaluated by Kalinio exclusively in real time on the device. In principle, Kalinio does not create any audio, photo or video recordings from this and does not transmit such data to the operator, GitHub or other servers operated by the operator.

Microphone and camera access

If you activate tongue-click recognition, Kalinio requires access to the device's microphone. If you activate mouth-opening recognition, the “camera as filter” function or the read-aloud acceleration, Kalinio requires access to the camera. Access only takes place if you activate the corresponding function and grant the permission requested by the operating system. You can revoke the permission at any time in your device's settings.

Local storage

Kalinio can store certain data locally on the device, in particular language settings, operating and speed settings, individually created words and menus, calibrations, microphone profiles, camera and recognition settings, as well as backups, insofar as you explicitly create them. You can remove locally stored data via the app functions or by deleting or resetting the app.

5. Provision via app stores

Kalinio is provided via the Apple App Store and is intended to also be offered via Google Play in the future. When calling up, downloading, purchasing, subscribing to, updating or rating the app, Apple or Google process personal data under their own data protection responsibility. Payment processing is generally handled by the respective app store operator; we usually do not receive complete credit card or bank details. Please note the data protection information of Apple or Google.

6. Plugins, embedded content and analysis

In the future, this website may embed videos from YouTube as well as content from social networks (e.g. Instagram, Facebook). Insofar as legally required, such content is only loaded after your explicit consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Section 25(1) TDDDG). If platforms are merely linked via an external link, data is generally only transmitted after the link has been clicked.

In the future, we may use the open-source analysis tool “Umami” on the Kalinio website in a privacy-friendly manner in order to statistically evaluate the use of the website and to improve accessibility, usability and content. The specific provider, server location, storage period and legal basis will be added here before actual activation.

7. Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy if the technical functions of Kalinio, the website, the service providers used, analysis methods, embedded content, social media offerings, distribution channels or legal requirements change. The version published on this website at any given time applies.