Welcome to Generalist World and our platform at www.generalist.world and generalistworld.thinkific.com! In this Privacy Policy, we would like to inform you which Personal Data we collect from you and use, whether and, if so, to which third parties this data is passed on, how long we store the data and what rights you have should you not agree with our responsible handling.

If, after reading this Privacy Policy, you still have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us using the contact details below.

Who is responsible for data processing?

The person responsible for data processing is:

Generalist World

Isle of Raasay

IV408PB

United Kingdom

Web: www.generalist.world

E-Mail: [email protected]

What is Personal Data?

Personal Data is any information relating to personal or material circumstances that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. This includes, for example, your name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address, or telephone number as well as online identifiers such as your IP address. In contrast, information of a general nature that cannot be used to determine your identity is not Personal Data. This includes, for example, the number of users of a website.

What is processing?

"Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon Personal Data, whether or not by automatic means. The term is broad and covers virtually any handling of data.

How do we use your Personal Data

In principle, we will only use your Personal Data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), and only as described in this Privacy Policy.

All Personal Data that we obtain from you via our platform will only be processed for the purposes described in more detail below. This is done within the framework of the respective legal regulations mentioned or only with your consent. In particular, we only process and collect Personal Data if:

We process and store your Personal Data only for the period of time required to achieve the respective processing purpose or for as long as a legal retention period (in particular commercial and tax law) exists. Once the purpose has been achieved or the retention period has expired, the corresponding data is routinely deleted.

Processing of Automatically Collected Data

a) Collection of access data and log files

We also collect data on every access to our platform. The access data includes the name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider.

Log file information is stored for security reasons (e.g., for the clarification of abuse or fraud) for a maximum of 7 days and then deleted. Data whose further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes is exempt from deletion until the respective incident is finally clarified. The legal basis for the data processing is our legitimate interest in providing an appealing platform.

c) Use of cookies

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your respective device (PC, smartphone, tablet, etc.) and saved by your browser. For further information please refer to our Cookie Policy. The legal basis for the use of cookies is your consent as well as our legitimate interest.

Data processing when you submit it to our platform and when you use our services

a) Contacting us

If you contact us, we process the following data from you for the purpose of processing and handling your request: first name, last name, e-mail address, and, if applicable, other information if you have provided it, and your message. The legal basis for the data processing is our obligation to fulfil the contract and/or to fulfil our pre-contractual obligations and/or our legitimate interest in processing your request.

b) Data processing in the context of providing our services

The protection of your data is particularly important to us in the performance of our services. We therefore only want to process as much Personal Data (for example, your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) as is absolutely necessary. Nevertheless, we rely on the processing of certain Personal Data, to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or to carry out pre-contractual measures.

c) Account Registration

If you register on our platform, we will request mandatory and, where applicable, non-mandatory data in accordance with our registration form from both generalists and companies. The entry of your data is encrypted so that third parties cannot read your data when it is entered. The basis for this storage is our legitimate interest in communicating with registered users and, in the case of contracts, also the storage of contract data.

d) Using our Platform

We need to process certain information about you in order to provide you with optimal, tailored services and opportunities. When using our services, you can submit, share, and publish Personal Data. Some of the Personal Data you provide may be considered “special” or “sensitive”. This includes Personal Data concerning for example your health, racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs. By choosing to provide this data, you consent to our processing of that data.

You have choices about the Personal Data you upload and share. You don’t have to provide Personal Data; however, Personal Data helps you to get more from our Services. It’s your choice whether to include special category data and to make that special category data public. Please do not upload or add data that you would not want to be available.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal and special category data is the establishment and implementation of the user contract for the use of the service as well as your consent. We store the data until you delete your user account. Insofar as legal retention periods are to be observed, storage also takes place beyond the time of deletion of a user account.

You may withdraw your consent and request us to stop using and/or disclosing your personal and special category data by submitting your request to us in writing to [email protected].

e) Administration, financial accounting, office organisation, contact management

We process data in the context of administrative tasks as well as organisation of our business, and compliance with legal obligations, such as archiving. In this regard, we process the same data that we process in the course of providing our contractual services. The processing bases are our legal obligations and our legitimate interest.

f) Credit/Debit Cards Payments

Payment by credit card and debit card is made via the payment service provider and Stripe of 185 Berry St #550, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA to which you pass on your payment details during the checkout, for payment processing.

g) Other Users

When you voluntarily share information on our Services (including your public profile), you disclose that information to other users. Of course, we also process your chats with other users as well as the content you publish, as part of the operation of the services. Other users may also provide us with information about you while using our Services. Please be careful with your information and make sure that you only share content that you truly agree to publish, as neither you nor we can control what others do with your information once you share it. The legal bases are to provide you with our services and your consent as well as our legitimate interest.

h) Service Notifications

By using our services, you are giving your consent to receiving notifications and messages per email. Those typically include general, profile and content information in relation to your use of our platform. Our system notifications are sent using SendinBlue of 47, Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin Paris, 75009 France and are designed to enhance your experience. You can of course opt out from receiving notifications by following the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of every notification e-mail sent by us. The legal bases are to provide you with our services and your consent as well as our legitimate interest.

Data processing through integration of third-party services and content

We use content or service offers of third-party providers on the basis of our legitimate interests in order to integrate their content and services ("content").

This always requires that the third-party providers of this content are aware of the IP address of the user, as without the IP address they would not be able to send the content to their browser. The IP address is therefore necessary for the display of this content.

The following provides an overview of third-party providers and their content, together with links to their privacy policies, which contain further information on the processing of data and so-called opt-out measures, if any:

Transfer of Personal Data

We will not disclose or otherwise distribute your Personal Data to third parties unless this:

However, we are entitled to outsource the processing of your Personal Data in whole or in part to external service providers acting as processors within the framework of the GDPR. External service providers support us, for example, in the technical operation and support of the platform (see above), data management, the provision and performance of services, marketing, as well as the implementation and fulfilment of reporting obligations.

The service providers commissioned by us however will process your data exclusively in accordance with our instructions and we remain in accordance with the GDPR responsible for the protection of your data. Doing so we always make sure that service providers commissioned by us are carefully selected, follow strict contractual regulations, technical and organisational measures, and additional controls by us.

We may also disclose Personal Data to third parties if we are legally obliged to do so e.g., by court order or if this is necessary to support criminal or legal investigations or proceedings at home or abroad or to fulfil our legitimate interests.

Automated decision-making

Automated decision-making including profiling does not take place at Generalist World.

Your data subject rights

You are entitled to the following rights:

Please contact us at any time with questions and suggestions regarding data protection and to enforce your rights as a data subject.

Data retention

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, the data processed by us will be deleted or restricted in their processing in accordance with the GDPR. If the data is not deleted because they are required for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing is restricted. This means that the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons.

Data Security

Our data processing is subject to the principle that we only process the Personal Data that is necessary for the use of our services. In doing so, we take great care to ensure that your privacy and the confidentiality of all Personal Data are always guaranteed.

All transmitted data is protected by TLS encryption. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol used to ensure secure data transmission on the Internet. The public-private key procedure is used here. This means that data encrypted with a publicly accessible key can only be decrypted again with a separate private key.

We also use technical and organisational security measures (TOMs) throughout the company to protect the data we manage from you against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorised persons.

Social Media

We are present on social media on the basis of our legitimate interest. If you contact us via those social media platforms, you should note that the chat history can neither be deleted by us nor by you. And that, in accordance with the GDPR, the relevant social media platform and we are jointly responsible for the processing of your data and enter into a so-called joint controller agreement. A Joint Controller Agreement itself if very legalistic and lengthy, but in a nutshell, it clarifies how the jointly responsible parties will fulfil the obligations arising from data protection laws that are applicable to them. The legal basis for the use of the relevant social media platform is our legitimate interest, your consent or, in the case of a (pre) contractual relationship with us, the initiation of a contractual service.

Updating your information

If you believe that the information, we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion, or object to its processing, please do so by contacting us.

For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests. Please keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another person.

Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of Personal Data, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore.

Withdraw your consent

You may withdraw your consent and request us to stop using and/or disclosing your Personal Data for any or all of the Purposes by submitting your request to us. Should you withdraw your consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Data, it may impact our ability to proceed with your transactions, agreements, or interactions with us. Please note that your withdrawal of consent will not prevent us from exercising our legal rights (including any remedies) or undertaking any steps as we may be entitled to at law.

Personal Data and children

Our services are aimed at people aged 18 and over. We will not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from minors under the age of 18 without first obtaining consent from a legal guardian through direct offline contact.

Changes and updates to the privacy policy

We kindly ask you to regularly inform yourself about the content of our privacy policy. We will amend the privacy policy as soon as changes to the information processing activities we carry out make this necessary.

Concerns and Contact

If you have any concerns about a possible compromise of your privacy or misuse of your personal information on our part, or any other questions or comments, or wish to exercise your rights under applicable laws, please contact us.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on Monday, 19 December 2022

Cookie Policy

Welcome to Generalist World and www.generalist.world. In the below Cookie Policy, we, inform you about the use of cookies on our platform.

Why do we have a Cookie Policy?

The provision of information about our use of cookies is required and set out in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”) and in parts in General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). However, before we can go into more detail, we first need to understand what cookies are.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. If you then return to the same website, the website recognises the cookie and remembers your device, the choices you have made, and acts in accordance with the specific objective a cookie has. As such cookies have a name and value and one or more defined characteristics, which are returned to the website as "user-related" information. So, thanks to cookies, a website knows who you are and offers you your usual default settings.

Origins and Lifespans of Cookies

There are however classes of cookies, namely first-party cookies which are placed directly by the website. As well as third-party cookies which are created by a partner website or server. And since it would not be very beneficial if all cookies would save the same information for the same period of time, each cookie stores different data and has a lifespan (that can vary from a few minutes to a few years).

In this sense, we now understand that cookies are automatically placed in the cookie folder, effectively the "brain" of your browser, that each can have a different origin, holds different information, and can have a different lifespan depending on its objective. Because of that there are several types of cookies*.*

Types of Cookies

The least privacy invasive type of cookies are Essential or Necessary cookies. These cookies are essential or necessary to ensure that a website works properly and is secure so that you can navigate a website and use its features. Without these cookies, certain features of a website would not function, and thus you would not be able to use certain services.

There are also Functional cookies or sometimes called convenience cookies. These cookies allow a website to remember the options a user has made (including user ID`s stored, consents given, or languages selected) and other personalisation options you have selected when browsing.

Further there are also Analysis and performance cookies, which are used to monitor and improve the function and service of a website. Those can track down problems when using a website, facilitate online surveys, record visitor numbers, and provide analytics metrics.

Lastly, advertising cookies or targeting cookies. They are used to deliver customised advertising to the user. This can be very convenient, but also very annoying.

The Cookies used on our platform

The PECD requires us to ask for your consent when using specific cookies (in particular any cookie that is not strictly necessary for the operation of the website, for example, Functional cookies, Analysis and performance cookies and Advertising cookies or targeting cookies).

Below you can find the cookies we use listed in accordance with their Name, Description, Lifespan, and Type. Please keep in mind that this list may be updated from time to time.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics from Google LLC to evaluate your use of our platform, to compile reports on the activities and to provide other services related to the use of our platform in order to improve the user experience. When Google Analytics is used, interactions of website visitors are primarily recorded and systematically evaluated with the help of cookies. The following data is processed through the use of Google Analytics:

Google states that it will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser accordingly. You can also prevent the collection of the data generated by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

How can I delete cookies?

Regardless of which service or website the cookies come from, you always have the option to delete, only partially allow or disable cookies. To do so follow the link to your browser Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Flash cookies, Microsoft Internet Explorer/ Edge,  Opera, Safari.

Validity and questions

This Cookie Policy was last updated on Monday, 19 December 2022 and is the current and valid version. However, we want to point out that from time to time due to actual or legal changes a revision to this policy may be necessary. If you have any data protection questions, please feel free to contact us.