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This Privacy Policy describes how and when I collect, use, and share information when you use my website and services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that I do not own or control, including:

Perplexity. To learn more about Perplexity's privacy practices, please see Perplexity's "GDPR Compliance at Perplexity" (https://www.perplexity.ai/help-center/en/articles/11564568-gdpr-compliance-at-perplexity).
Cloudflare Turnstile. To learn more about Cloudflare Turnstile's privacy practices, please see Cloudflare Turnstile's "Turnstile Privacy Addendum" (https://www.cloudflare.com/turnstile-privacy-policy/).
Lottiefiles. To learn more about Lottiefiles's privacy practices, please see Lottiefiles's "Privacy Policy" (https://lottiefiles.com/page/privacy-policy).

What information I collect

In order for me to process your request, you must provide me with certain information. This includes your email address and details about your desired university and its characteristics, your academic aspirations and achievements, and similar information.

Why I need your information and how I use it

Insofar as I need your information to provide my services in order to respond to your request on Findmycollege.app and Find-my-college.app
If it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order
To the extent necessary for my legitimate interests, provided that these legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as to provide and improve my services. I use your information to provide the services you have requested from me and in my legitimate interest to improve my services;

Sharing and disclosure of information

I will only disclose your personal data for specific reasons and under specific circumstances, as follows:

Compliance with laws: I may collect, use, retain, and disclose your data if I believe in good faith that it is appropriate and necessary to:
1. Respond to legal proceedings or regulatory requirements;
2. Enforce my policies;
3. Prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activities, security or technical issues;
4. Protect the rights, property, and safety of my users or others.

Data retention

I only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my privacy policy. However, I may need to retain this information to comply with legal obligations and regulations, resolve disputes, and enforce my agreements. In general, I retain your data for the following period: 3 years.

Transfer of personal data to countries outside the EU

I may store and process your information using third-party hosting services in the US and other countries. Therefore, I may transfer your personal data to countries whose laws on data protection and government surveillance differ from the corresponding laws in your country.

Your rights regarding personal data

You have the following rights with regard to your personal data:

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what happens to it, and how long it is stored.
Right of access: You have the right to view your personal data known to us.
Right to rectification: You have the right to supplement, correct, delete, or block your personal data whenever you wish.
If you have given us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke this consent and have your personal data deleted.
Right to data portability: You have the right to request all your personal data from one controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
Right to object: You can object to the processing of your data. We will comply unless there are legitimate reasons for the processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the end of this GDPR statement. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear it, but you also have the right to refer it to the supervisory authority (data protection authority).

Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our cookie policy and this statement, please contact us using the contact details you can find in our imprint.

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