- Basic information
Unless otherwise stated in the following sections, no personal data is collected, processed, or used when using our websites.
When you access our Internet pages, our Web servers automatically collect general information. This includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of the Internet service provider, the IP address of the computer used, the website from which you visit us, the pages you visit on our site and the date and duration of your visit.
This data cannot be used by us to identify the individual user. We only evaluate the information statistically and use it exclusively to improve the attractiveness, contents and functionalities of our websites. - Personal Data
Personal data are defined as follows:
All information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more special features that express the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. - Collection and processing of personal data
We only collect personal data if you provide it to us voluntarily, for example if you register with us or contact us.
We only use the personal data you provide to the extent that your data is necessary for the performance of our services.
Any further use of your data, for example for further services or advertising purposes, will only take place if you have given your express prior consent. You can revoke your consent at any time for the future.
The following regulations inform you in this respect about the type, scope and purpose of the collection, use and processing of personal data. - Contact
You have the possibility to contact us with questions, wishes and suggestions. You can do this via e-mail or our contact form. If we request information via our contact form, this is only the information that is absolutely necessary to process the request. These details serve us to concretize your inquiry and to improve the processing of your request. In this case, the information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your contact. In addition, the data collected in this way is compared with data that may otherwise be collected by us if you have given us your prior consent, which you can revoke at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please contact the office named at the end of this declaration. - Data transmission to third parties
Your data will be passed on to service partners, provided that they work on our behalf and support Confident studio in the provision of their services.
Processing of your personal data by contracted service providers takes place maintaining utmost safety of your data.
The aforementioned service providers only have access to such personal information as is necessary for the performance of their respective activities. These service providers are prohibited from disclosing your personal information or using it for other purposes, in particular for their own advertising purposes.
Where external service providers come into contact with your personal data, we have taken legal, technical and organizational measures and carried out regular checks to ensure that they also comply with the applicable data protection regulations.
Your personal data will not be passed on commercially to other companies. - Cookies
6.1 Cookies are small text files which are either temporarily stored in the main memory (session cookies) or permanently stored on the hard disk (permanent cookies). By setting cookies, anonymous user IDs are assigned to users, but under no circumstances are programs executed on the user’s computer or computer viruses transmitted.
6.2 By setting his Internet browser program, the user can freely decide whether he generally accepts cookies, whether he wants to be informed when a cookie is set or whether he wants to reject all cookies. Confident studio points out that the use of Confident studio services is not possible or only possible to a limited extent if cookies are rejected.
6.3 Confident studio uses session cookies to authenticate the user during a session and to compensate for the load on Confident studio´s server capacity. The use of these cookies serves to ensure the smooth operation and improvement of Confident studio services. Session cookies expire automatically when the Internet browser program is closed.
6.4 Confident studio permanently uses cookies relating to the last page visited on Confident studio and the respective region of a user’s computer in use. Confident studio also uses so-called intelligent cookies (e.g. popupcheck), which prevent certain popups from opening several times within a session. This increases the comfort when surfing on Confident studio. - Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics from Google Inc. In particular, we would like to point out that the IP masking function “_gat._anonymizeIp” has been added to Google Analytics on this website to ensure anonymous collection of IP addresses.
Please also note the following information on the use of Google Analytics:
Google Analytics uses cookies which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, by activating IP anonymization on this website, Google will previously reduce your IP address within Member States of the European Union or in other countries party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide the website operator with further services associated with website use and Internet use.
The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en) available under the following link.
Alternatively, you can prevent collection by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is set to prevent future collection of your data when you visit this website: Disable Google Analytics. The opt-out cookie only applies to this browser and only to this domain. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click this link again.
Further information can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/ and in Google’s privacy policy. - Social Networks
Social plugins of the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are integrated on our website. The plugins are integrated on our website by means of the symbol of the respective network and the name, only as a link to the corresponding service. After clicking on the integrated graphic you will be redirected to the provider’s page, i.e. only then will user information be transferred to the provider if necessary. If you click on the link of a service under the text line “Follow us”, you can follow our activities on the respective platform. Confident studio has no influence on the collection, processing and use of data from the respective networks. Please refer to the data protection regulations of the respective networks for information on the handling of your personal data when using these websites. - Data security
Confident studio uses technical and organizational security measures to protect your data managed by us against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
If personal data are processed by you, you have the following rights against the person responsible:
⦁ Right to information
You can ask us to confirm whether personal data concerning you will be processed by us.
⦁ Right to correction
If the information we have collected from you is incorrect or incomplete, you may immediately request us to correct it in accordance.
⦁ Right to limitation of processing
You may also request that the processing of personal data concerning you be restricted.
After the restriction, your data may only be processed with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising, or defending rights, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or on grounds of an important public interest of the Union or a Member State. We will inform you before the restriction is lifted.
⦁ Right to cancellation
You can request us to delete your personal data immediately, if you delete your account.
⦁ Right to data transferability
In addition, you have the right to receive personal data concerning you from us in machine-readable format and to transmit the data to another person responsible without obstruction, or to obtain that your personal data are transmitted directly by us to another person responsible, provided that this is technically feasible and no freedoms and rights of other persons are impaired thereby. This right shall not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or for the exercise of official authority.
⦁ Right of objection
You have the right to object at any time to Confident studio processing of your personal data.
We will no longer process your personal data, unless there are grounds for processing worthy of protection overriding your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
⦁ Right to revoke the data protection declaration of consent
You have the right to revoke your data protection declaration of consent with declaration to Confident studio at any time. The revocation of consent shall not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.
⦁ Right of appeal to the supervisory authority
They shall always, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, have the right of appeal to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their place of residence, of work or of the place of suspected infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning them is contrary to this Regulation.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This data protection declaration is constantly being adapted in the course of the further development of the Internet or our offer. Changes will be announced on this page in due time. In order, to keep up to date with the current status of our data usage regulations, this page should be accessed regularly.
Data protection officer
We are also at your disposal in case of requests for information, applications or complaints: E-mail: support@confident-studio.com - Contact details of the person responsible: Management: Dave Warner
Privacy statement for the Confident studio Apps
Confident studio protects the personal data of its members to the best of its knowledge and in accordance with the highest current security standards. All communication via the Confident studio app is via an Internet connection secured by SSL encryption. Please note that user names can be pseudonyms and we do not use clear/real names. The following regulations inform you comprehensively about the type and scope of data collection through our app.
- Personal Related Data
Personal data are defined as follows:
All information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by assignment to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more special features that express the physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. - Collection and processing of personal data
We only collect personal data if you provide it to us voluntarily, for example if you register with us or contact us.
We only use the personal data you provide to the extent that your data is necessary for the performance of our services.
After deletion of your account, your data will be blocked for further use, unless you have given your separate consent for further use. After expiry of the statutory periods, this data will be deleted unless you have expressly consented to further use. - Registration
By registering and subsequently concluding a contract, the user agrees that his personal data will be collected, stored and processed in accordance with this data protection declaration of the General Terms and Conditions of Confident studio. The user must expressly declare this consent upon registration by confirming it in a field provided for this purpose; the consent is recorded by Confident studio, as is the entire registration process.
If the user gives his/her consent, he/she can revoke it at any time by contacting us via e-mail or contact form. - Necessary information at registration (required fields)
4.1 During the free registration the users must provide the following information:
– User name (pseudonym)
– Gender
– Date of birth
– E-mail address
– Password
– Mobile Number
– Place of residence, postcode, country (or current location)
4.2 If you make in-app purchases through Confident studio App, this will be done through external payment providers. We do not collect and process any payment data. Payment data is entered and processed directly by the payment providers. Only technical data (including the transaction ID) is exchanged between us and the payment providers to validate the purchases.
4.3 Third parties can only see the following information from the mandatory data provided during registration in the user’s “profile”:
– Username
– Gender
– Age (calculated from the date of birth)
– Location
– Place of residence ( Location )
All other mandatory information (date of birth, e-mail address, Mobile Number, password, postcode) cannot be viewed by third parties.
5. Voluntary information
5.1 In addition to the mandatory information, each registered member may, at his or her own discretion, provide numerous voluntary information about himself or herself and post one or more profile pictures. Although this voluntary information is not required for using Confident studio, it does increase the attractiveness of your own profile and thus the opportunity to come into contact with other members. A profile picture is necessary to make contact in the form of e.g. messages. Each member is free to decide which additional personal data he wishes to disclose about himself and make available to other users. Voluntary information that the member can enter in the profile includes, for example:
– Marital status
– Sexual orientation
– Children, desire to have children
– Nationality
– Smoker
– Education
– Occupation
– Music
– Activity
– Religion
6. The Member may also provide free descriptions of him/herself and any likes or dislikes, upload photos, etc.
- Intended purpose
The purpose of collecting, storing, processing, and using the personal data mentioned in the above paragraphs is to enable the operation , maintenance and improvement of Confident studio online services. - Contact
You have the possibility to contact us with questions, wishes and suggestions. You can do this via e-mail or our contact form. If we request information via our contact form, this is only the information that is absolutely necessary to process the request. These details serve us to concretize your inquiry and to improve the processing of your request. In this case, the information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your contact. In addition, the data collected in this way is compared with data that may otherwise be collected by us if you have given us your prior consent, which you can revoke at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your right of revocation, please contact the office named at the end of this declaration. - Creation of usage profiles
10.1 In order to continually improve Confident studio services, e.g. to set up new categories or offers, Confident studio may analyze the behavior of its users in the network and create anonymous user profiles for this purpose. The evaluation of these user profiles is not personal, i.e. the identity of the user remains unknown.
10.2 Confident studio may create pseudonymized user profiles (user name) for the purposes of advertising, market research or the demand-oriented design of telemedia. The user can object to the creation of pseudonymized user profiles at any time with effect for the future by notification in text form (e-mail) to the body designated at the end of this declaration.
Confident studio reserves the right to delete the user account when exercising its right of revocation.
10.3 Confident studio guarantees that the anonymized or pseudonymized user profiles cannot be combined with the users’ personal data, both from a technical, personnel and organizational point of view. - Advertising and data transmission to third parties
Confident studio places advertisements from third parties, which may also be tailored to the presumed special interests of the users. When such “personalized” advertising is placed, only irreversibly anonymous data is used. The anonymized data processed for this purpose are not (no longer) personal and therefore do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the identity of the person concerned. Confident studio may transmit such anonymous data to its own media partners. In these cases too, Confident studio does not provide its partners with any information that could enable the members to be identified. - Entitlements
We need these access options and information on the technical functionality of our app and to provide the services offered with the app. We ask for permission to access the individual functions and information during the installation process and will only access these functions if you agree to release them. Depending on the operating system, you can also manually revoke access rights in the settings. Please refer to the manufacturer’s instructions to find out how this works. Please note, however, that you can only use the app to a limited extent or not at all without appropriate approvals.
Before using the app for the first time, the following permissions are requested from iOS and Android for the following purpose: - Permission Purpose
Photos, Media, files Take photos and upload
Location Display of members nearby, entering the place of residence
Phone Status Determine if a call is coming
Storage Retrieve photos from storage media
Device ID & Caller ID Determine if the user is authentic
Vibration alarm control Vibration on incoming notification
Turn off sleep state Prevents the phone from being idle when a notification arrives - Before using the app for the first time, the following permissions are requested from iOS and iOS for the following purpose:
- Permission Purpose
- Camera access Take photos and upload, Location Display of members nearby, entering the place of residence, Mobile data/Wifi Exchanging of content, communication, Background App Refresh Location update in the background, Notification Notifications such as e.g. new message, The provider (Apple Inc. or Google Inc.) may collect, process and use data subject to the terms of use of your smartphone. Please note the corresponding data protection declarations/settings of the provider.
- Website optimization tools
Your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms do not outweigh our interest in advertising, as we provide you with comprehensive information about data collection within the framework of our data protection declaration and you have the option of opting out (via link or browser settings) at any time. In addition, we only use pseudonymous tracking. - Google Firebase Analytics
Our app uses Google Analytics from Google. Firebase Analytics is a service that allows you to collect and analyze app usage data from your smartphone.
For this purpose, data is encrypted and made anonymous during the use of the app. At Android we do not transmit the Advertising ID.
To analyze the general user behavior with regard to efficiency and similar approaches and to draw conclusions on the continuous improvement of the app in the course of the evaluation. For more information on how Google uses your information, please see the company’s privacy statement https://policies.google.com/?hl=en-GB
Our app also uses Google Analytics from Google. This analysis program uses IP addresses of users for analysis purposes, but these are only used anonymously. It is not possible to draw conclusions about a specific person. Crashlytics provides us with real-time evaluations of system crashes, making it easier for us to maintain and improve the apps.
For more information, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html or https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de, as well as in the Privacy Policy of Google. - Data security
19.1 The constantly updated firewalls, SSL encryption and other security systems used by Confident studio are intended to protect users as far as possible from viruses, worms, Trojans, etc. and also from illegal external access (hackers). Confident studio will maintain an adequate level of protection and constantly adapt the security technologies used to the current state of technical development. However, users should be aware that constantly emerging viruses, worms, Trojans and other means of attacking secure data systems of Internet services cannot guarantee 100% protection against such attacks.
19.2 Confident studio is not responsible for virus protection outside the Confident studio network/IT infrastructure scope. Confident studio is also not responsible for damage to or destruction of user data. Confident studio will prosecute any attack discovered by hackers, etc. under civil and, if applicable, criminal law. - Rights of the parties concerned
Confident studio uses technical and organizational security measures to protect your data managed by us against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
If personal data are processed by you, you have the following rights against the person responsible:
⦁ Right to information
You can ask us to confirm whether personal data concerning you will be processed by us.
⦁ Right to correction
If the information we have collected from you is incorrect or incomplete, you may immediately request us to correct it in accordance.
⦁ Right to limitation of processing
You may also request that the processing of personal data concerning you be restricted.
After the restriction, your data may only be processed with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending rights, or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or on grounds of an important public interest of the Union or a Member State. We will inform you before the restriction is lifted.
⦁ Right to cancellation
You can request us to delete your personal data immediately, if you delete your account.
⦁ Right to data transferability
In addition, you have the right to receive personal data concerning you from us in machine-readable format and to transmit the data to another person responsible without obstruction, or to obtain that your personal data are transmitted directly by us to another person responsible, provided that this is technically feasible and no freedoms and rights of other persons are impaired thereby. This right shall not apply to the processing of personal data necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or for the exercise of official authority.
⦁ Right of objection
You have the right to object at any time to Confident studio processing of your personal data.
We will no longer process your personal data, unless there are grounds for processing worthy of protection overriding your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
⦁ Right to revoke the data protection declaration of consent
You have the right to revoke your data protection declaration of consent with declaration to Confident studio at any time. The revocation of consent shall not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation.
⦁ Right of appeal to the supervisory authority
They shall at all times, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, have the right of appeal to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their place of residence, of work or of the place of suspected infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning them is contrary to this Regulation.
If the user requests the modification, correction or deletion of his personal data, this can be done by sending an email to
E-mail: support@confident-studio.com - To avoid unjustified requests, the request must contain at least the following information / documents:
– Username
– E-Mail-Address (if available)
– Name, Surname
– Postal address
– Copy of identity card (valid identity card)
In the event of misuse of Confident studio services by users, Confident studio is entitled to temporarily block or completely delete individual data and content posted by users or the entire profile of the responsible user. If a profile is blocked, the user concerned is denied access to his profile and all data stored under it with the exception of age, gender, city and profile picture data. - Changes to this Privacy Policy
This data protection declaration is constantly being adapted in the course of the further development of the Internet or our offer. Changes will be announced on this page in due time. In order to keep up to date with the current status of our data usage regulations, this page should be accessed regularly. - Data Protection Officer
We are also at your disposal in case of requests for information, applications or complaints: E-mail:support@confident-studio.com - Contact details of the person responsible:
Management: Dave Warner
Email: dave.warner@confident-studio.com