Privacy Policy

This notice does not replace a legal review. Before relying on it, have it checked by a privacy-policy generator (e.g. eRecht24, iubenda) or a lawyer — the section on Paddle (our payment processor) in particular should be verified against their current data-processing terms.

1. Data Controller

Uwe Büscher, Kiesauer Trift 38, 26524 Berumbur, Germany

Email: support@smartsouldesigns.de

2. Data We Collect

At signup: email address, password (stored encrypted).

At payment: processed via Paddle.com Market Ltd, our payment processor and merchant of record — payment data (card/SEPA) is handled exclusively by Paddle and never stored on our servers.

Server logs: IP address, timestamp, page requested (technically necessary, automatically deleted after 30 days).

3. Purpose of Processing

Account creation, license management, billing, support.

4. Cookies

We use two categories of cookies / local storage:

Category	Purpose	Consent needed?
Necessary	Keeping you logged in (session), remembering your light/dark mode and cookie choice.	No — required for the site to function (Art. 6(1)(b)/(f) GDPR).
Marketing	Meta/Facebook Pixel — used to measure how visitors find us and to improve our ads. Not currently active. If we activate it in the future, it will only load after you click "Accept all" in the cookie banner.	Yes — only loaded with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

You can change your choice at any time by clearing your browser's local storage for this site and reloading the page, which will show the cookie banner again.

5. Disclosure to Third Parties

Paddle.com Market Ltd (payment processing and billing). If you consent to marketing cookies, Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd (Facebook/Instagram Pixel) may in the future receive limited, pseudonymized data for ad measurement — see Section 4. No other disclosure for advertising purposes.

6. Your Rights

Access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability. Contact: support@smartsouldesigns.de