privacy policy

Last change: 04.12.2023. Please note that only the German version has validity.

Introduction

Welcome to our website AusspracheTrainer.org. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. In this privacy policy, we explain how we collect and process your personal data we collect and process when you use our services.

For certain services on our website, such as the audio recording function and the creation of a user account, the processing of personal data is required. We only process your data in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations.

When you use the audio recording function on our website, your recorded audio is transmitted to Microsoft with a location in Germany. We also store data in connection with the creation and management of user accounts, including your e-mail address.

In addition, the data traffic of our website runs via Cloudflare in order to secure and efficient provision of our services.

This Privacy Policy applies to AusspracheTrainer.org (hereinafter 'we', 'us', 'our'). Please read this statement carefully to understand how we will treat your personal data.

Data collection on our website

Type of data collected

When you use our website, we collect various types of data that are necessary for the provision of our services. This data include:

Audio recordings: When users press the recorder button on our website and record something, these audio recordings are captured. The recording is deleted after the analysis by both our server and Microsoft.
Pronunciation evaluations: After analyzing an audio recording, the evaluation is saved by Microsoft - both when users are logged in with an account and even if not. Due to the anonymization of the data in the latter case, it is no longer possible to delete the analysis data.
User account data: To create a user account on our website, e-mailaddresses and other information provided by the user are stored.
Connection data: By using our website, technical information such as IP address, time of visit, approximate location, browser type and operating system, which are processed by Cloudflare.

How we collect data

Audio recordings: The recordings are actively initiated through user interaction by pressing the recorder button and recording their voice. These recordings are then transmitted to Microsoft servers in Germany.
Pronunciation evaluations: The recordings are then processed and analyzed by Microsoft. A detailed evaluation is returned, which includes a second-by-second transcript with understood sounds and phonemes as well as alternatives as well as various scores.
User account data: User account data is collected when users register on our website and create an account. This data includes email addresses and any other information provided during the registration process are provided.
Connection data: Cloudflare collects data such as IP address, approximate location and browser type automatically when users access our website. This collection serves to ensure the security and performance of our web services.

Purpose of data collection

Audio recordings: The recordings are used to provide specific functions of our website, for example for speech recognition or processing.
Pronunciation evaluations: The evaluation is both displayed to the user and saved in order to display progress for logged-in users. The saved evaluation can be viewed by us and used (in anonymized form) to further develop the tool.
User account data: This data is used to manage user accounts, provide services and to get in contact with the users.
Connection data: The data collected by Cloudflare is used to improve the security and performance of the website.

Legal basis

The processing of this data is based on various legal bases, depending on the type of data and the purpose of its processing. As a rule, data collection is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR), the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) or the consent of the user (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

Further information

Privacy policy from Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-to-text/data-privacy-security (english)
Privacy policy from Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/de-de/privacypolicy/

Using the audio recording function

How the audio recording works

Our website offers a function that allows users to start and end them. This function is available both for users with a user account as well as anonymous users.

Storage and processing of the audio recording

The recorded audio is first saved on our server server. There they are edited to ensure that they do not exceed a maximum length of 59 seconds. Immediately after the analysis, the recordings are deleted from our server.

Data transfer to Microsoft

To carry out the speech analysis, the audio recordings are transmitted to Microsoft (located in Germany). Microsoft is responsible for the transcription of the recordings. It is important to note that Microsoft does not store the recordings are not stored.

Consent of the user

Direkt unter dem Aufnahme-Button auf unserer Webseite befindet sich ein Hinweis zur Datenverarbeitung. Nutzer, die ein Benutzerkonto erstellen, müssen bestätigen, dass sie unsere Datenschutzerklärung gelesen haben. Obwohl die Nutzung der Audioaufnahmefunktion optional ist, ist sie ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der von uns angebotenen Dienste. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die Verwendung unseres Toolls für Personen ab 16 Jahren bestimmt ist. Wenn Sie noch nicht 16 Jahre alt sind, bestätigen Sie mit der Benutzung des Tools, dass Sie Ihre Erziehungsberechtigten um Erlaubnis gefragt haben.

User accounts and storage of e-mail addresses

Creation and use of user accounts

When creating a user account on our website, we ask you to user name, e-mail address and password. This information enables access to personalized areas of our website, such as the dashboard and the learning area, where users can view their progress and scores can be viewed.

Storage and use of e-mail addresses

E-mail addresses are used exclusively for account recovery and will not be passed on to third parties. As part of the account creation process it is necessary that each e-mail address is unique in order to ensure the functionality of the login via both the user name and the e-mail address.

The security of your data is important to us. Therefore, the password is hashed is stored. Due to technical necessities, it is possible that an attacker could use brute force methods to find out which e-mailaddresses have already been used for an account. We store data exclusively on our own server, which is only accessible to our developer accessible only to our developer.

Data storage and deletion

Your data will be stored until they are deleted by you or by us are deleted. In the event of prolonged inactivity of a user account, we reserve the right to delete this account and the associated data. We will inform you of any impending deletion. Furthermore, we reserve the right to delete user accounts without giving reasons and without prior warning, in particular in the event of suspected non-inappropriate use or in the case of offensive account names.

Creation and use of user accounts

Bei der Erstellung eines Nutzerkontos müssen Sie bestätigen, dass Sie unsere Datenschutzerklärung gelesen haben und damit einverstanden sind. Falls Sie noch keine 16 Jahre alt sind, bestätigen Sie, dass Sie Ihre Erziehungsberechtigten um Erlaubnis zur Erstellung des Accounts gefragt haben. Wenn Sie Ihren Account löschen möchten, senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail an [email protected].

Use of Cloudflare

On our website, we use services provided by Cloudflare, Inc. ('Cloudflare').Cloudflare offers various services aimed at making our website faster and more secure. This includes DNS forwarding and proxy services.

DNS forwarding: Cloudflare manages the DNS settings of our website. This ensures more efficient and secure handling of internet requests by routing the requests are routed via Cloudflare's network.

Proxy services: By using the proxy services of Cloudflare, the data traffic between visitors to our website and our server via Cloudflare's network. This helps to protect our website against DDoS attacks and improve loading times.

Cloudflare may collect certain information about visitors to our website in order to provide these services. This includes for example, IP addresses, system configuration information and other information about traffic to and from our website.

For more information about the data processed by Cloudflare and its privacy practices can be found in Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Please note that we have no influence on the way how Cloudflare uses and processes the data it collects. Our use of Cloudflare is based on our legitimate interest in operating our website efficiently and securely.

Your rights as a user

As a user of our website, you have various rights regarding your personal data. These rights are governed by the Basic Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant data protection laws guaranteed. They include:

Right to information: You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. If this is the is the case, you have a right to information about this personal data and to further information, such as the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been disclosed. Please note that we cannot attribute anonymized data to you.
Right to rectification: You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data to be completed.
Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten'): In certain cases, you can request the deletion of your personal data, for example if the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected are no longer necessary or if the data have been unlawfully has been processed unlawfully. Please note that we cannot assign anonymized data to you and therefore cannot delete it.
Right to restriction of processing: In certain cases, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data. This is for example, if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you or the processing is unlawful.
Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us.
Right of objection: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation arise from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data which is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e or f GDPR to lodge an objection.

Please note that these rights apply under certain conditions and may be subject to exceptions. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy contact details provided in this Privacy Policy. We will process your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

privacy policy

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. Our website uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of your data during transmission. You can recognize this by the lock symbol in the address line of your browser and the fact that the address line of "http://" changes to "https://".

In addition, we use various security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse or destruction. These include regular software updates, firewalls and security systems that correspond to the current state of the art.

Please note, however, that data transmission over the Internet can generally have security gaps. Complete protection of data from access by third parties is not possible.

If you have any questions about the security of your personal data, you can contact us at any time to us at any time. You can find our contact information in the section "Contact information" of this privacy policy.

Changes to the privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy in order to to changes in the legal framework or changes to our services and data processing. However, this only applies to declarations on data processing. If the consent of the user are required or components of the privacy policy contain provisions of the contractual relationship with the users, changes will only be made with the consent of the user.

Users are requested to regularly inform themselves about the content of the data protection declaration.

Contact information

If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data or about data protection in general, we will be happy to help you. You can reach us as follows:

AusspracheTrainer g.e.V.

Address

c/o Dr. Oliver Busch
Mühlgasse 8,
60486 Frankfurt am Main

[email protected]

You can also reach our data protection officer at this e-mail address Daniel Busch.