PRIVACY POLICY

Last revised on January 10, 2025

1. Scope of this policy

This privacy policy (hereinafter “Policy” or “Privacy Policy”) describes how “WeMeanCareer” uses, consults, or otherwise processes an individual’s data. For the purposes of this policy, “WeMeanCareer” refers to a private individual, Viktoria Bacher, the current owner of the website. All references to Inodigy GmbH in previous versions of this Policy are no longer applicable.

We are committed to protecting the privacy of our users and customers. This Privacy Policy is especially directed at:

  • visitors and subscribers of the website of WeMeanCareer;
  • natural persons contacting us through the contact or other forms available on the websites;
  • subscribers to our newsletter(s).

This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you how we gather and use information. This policy is to be read as consistent with the Cookie Policy.

2. Contacting us

If you have general questions about your account or how to contact customer service for assistance, questions about this Privacy Policy, or use of your information, please send us an email at contact@wemeancareer.com. Please note that if you contact us to assist you, for your safety and ours we may need to authenticate your identity before fulfilling your request.

3. Collection of Information

The purpose of the website is to provide an online platform where the user can access learning materials on the topic of career advancement such as videos, how-to guides, tests, and exercises.

4. Use of Information

We use your information to provide, analyze, administer, enhance, and personalize our services and marketing efforts, to process your registration, your orders, and your payments, and to communicate with you on these and other topics. For example, we use information:

We use anonymized IP Addresses to monitor the regions from which users navigate our Website and improve its layout and advertising. IP addresses are also used for statistical purposes.

5. Protection of Information

We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical, and managerial measures to safeguard your information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, and modification. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risks of processing your information. Indicatively:

  1. a) All our employees, independent contractors, and agents have executed non-disclosure agreements providing explicit confidentiality protections.
  2. b) We do not tolerate spam. To report WeMeanCareer-related spam, please contact us at contact@wemeancareer.com.
  3. c) WeMeanCareer does its utmost to secure communications and data storage to protect confidentiality. However, no transmission over the internet can guarantee confidentiality, and you transmit at your own risk.

6. Storage of Information

We do not store any personal data. Data collected by third-party vendors is subject to their respective privacy policies.

7. Information and Rights

For any inquiries related to your rights, please contact us at contact@wemeancareer.com.

8. Other websites

WeMeanCareer’s website may contain links to sites operated by third parties whose policies regarding the handling of information may differ from ours. These websites and platforms have separate and independent privacy or data policies, privacy statements, notices, and terms of use, which we recommend you read carefully.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify and update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will bring these changes to your attention should they be indicative of a fundamental change to the processing or be relevant to the nature of the processing or be relevant to you and impact your data protection rights.

10. Data Retention

We do not retain personal data. 

11. Applicable Law

The validity and interpretation of this Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of Germany. For any complaints that cannot be resolved with us directly and fall within the scope of EU legislation, we have chosen to cooperate with the relevant Data Protection Authority of Germany.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.