Datenschutzerklärung

1. Introduction

Iran Situation Monitor ("we," "our," or "the Service") is committed to protecting your privacy and complying with applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other international privacy regulations. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services.

1.1 Legal Basis for Data Processing (GDPR)

Under GDPR Article 6, we process personal data based on:

• Legitimate Interest (Art. 6(1)(f)): To provide, maintain, and improve the Service
• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): For optional features like notifications
• Legal Obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)): To comply with EU and German law

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Automatically Collected Information

When you access our Service, we may automatically collect certain information, including:

• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• IP address (anonymized for analytics)
• Pages visited and time spent
• Referring website
• Device type (mobile/desktop)

2.2 Information You Provide

If you use our AI chat feature, we may temporarily store your queries to provide responses. Chat messages are not permanently stored and are deleted after your session ends.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service
• To improve user experience and optimize performance
• To analyze usage patterns and trends
• To detect and prevent technical issues
• To comply with legal obligations

4. Third-Party Services

We may use third-party services that collect, monitor, and analyze data:

• Google Analytics: For website analytics (with IP anonymization enabled)
• Google reCAPTCHA: For bot protection
• Content Delivery Networks: For performance optimization

These third parties have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

5. Data Retention

We retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and for legitimate business purposes, such as maintaining the performance of the Service, making data-driven decisions about new features, and complying with our legal obligations. Analytics data is typically retained for 26 months.

6. Your Rights (GDPR)

Under GDPR, you have the following rights:

• Right of Access: Request copies of your personal data
• Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data
• Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
• Right to Restrict Processing: Request limitation of data processing
• Right to Data Portability: Request transfer of your data
• Right to Object: Object to processing of your personal data

To exercise these rights, please contact us at: privacy@war.hocloud.vip

7. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service. Cookies used:

• Essential Cookies: Required for the Service to function
• Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors use the Service
• Preference Cookies: Remember your settings (language, theme)

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect functionality.

8. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

9. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and maintained on servers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for any international transfers, including Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. We will also notify you via email and/or prominent notice on our Service prior to the change becoming effective for material changes.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at: privacy@war.hocloud.vip