Privacy Policy

General Information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below.

Data Collection on Our Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator groovetag.de. For further information on data protection regarding the web hosting, please refer to the privacy policy of our hosting provider: https://www.hostinger.com/legal/privacy-policy.

How do we collect your data?

Some data is collected automatically by the IT systems of www.hostinger.com when you visit the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page request). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice for this and other questions on the subject of data protection. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Analysis Tools and Third-Party Tools

When visiting our website, your browsing behaviour may be statistically analysed. This is done primarily with cookies and with so-called analysis programmes. The analysis of your browsing behaviour is generally anonymous and cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information on this can be found in the following privacy policy.

General Notes and Mandatory Information

Note on the responsible party

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

Reiner Brünnler
ItS-Bruennler
Spenerstr. 10
01309 Dresden, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 151 75319381
E-Mail: info@its-bruennler.de

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of breaches of data protection law, the person affected has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent that it is technically feasible.

SSL and TLS encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line. When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time at the address given in the legal notice for this and other questions on the subject of personal data.

Objection to advertising emails

We hereby object to the use of contact data published as part of the obligation to provide a legal notice for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information material. The operators of the pages expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, for example through spam emails.

Cookies

Some of our web pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of its services.

Privacy in the GrooveTag App (macOS)

The following information relates exclusively to the macOS app GrooveTag, available on the Mac App Store.

No data collection by the app

GrooveTag does not store, transmit or process any personal data of its users. The app collects no usage statistics, performs no tracking and contains no analytics tools. All music files and metadata you manage remain exclusively on your local device.

Shazam (Apple Inc.)

GrooveTag offers the option to identify songs using Apple's Shazam service. When this feature is actively used, audio data is transmitted to Apple's servers for recognition. This feature is optional and requires an active internet connection. Apple's privacy policy applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/.

Apple Music (Apple Inc.)

GrooveTag can retrieve metadata (e.g. title, artist, album, genre) via Apple's Apple Music API. Search queries containing song information are transmitted to Apple's servers. This feature is optional and requires an active internet connection. Apple's privacy policy applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/.

No subscription, no registration

Using GrooveTag does not require registration, a user account or a subscription. No email addresses or other contact details are collected.

Internet connection

An internet connection is required for the following features: Shazam recognition, Apple Music metadata retrieval and web radio streaming. The core features of the app – MP3 playback, playlist management and ID3 tag editing – work fully offline.