Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the landing page (the "Landing Page") operated by:

4GOO Holding GmbH Landauer Str. 56, 67346 Speyer, Germany ("Company", "we", "us", or "our")

For privacy-related enquiries, please contact us at: [email protected]

This Landing Page is a pre-launch subscription page. Its sole purpose is to allow interested users to submit their email address to receive early access invitations, beta updates, and launch announcements for the 4GOO social network application currently under development.

This Privacy Policy applies only to personal data collected through this Landing Page. It does not govern data collected through the 4GOO social network application itself, which will be subject to a separate, comprehensive Privacy Policy published within the application upon its launch.

A. Data you provide directly.

Depending on how you interact with the Landing Page, we may collect the following information through the subscription and contact forms:

• Email address (required) — to respond to inquiries, send beta access invitations, and provide product updates or launch announcements.
• First name (optional) — to personalise communications.
• Last name (optional) — to personalise communications.
• Subject of inquiry (optional) — to categorise and process requests.
• Message content (optional) — to review and respond to inquiries submitted through the contact form.

Please do not submit sensitive personal data or confidential information through the contact form.

B. Technical data collected automatically. When you visit our Landing Page, our hosting infrastructure may automatically log basic technical information required to serve and secure the page, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Date and time of visit
• Referring URL

This data is used solely for security, fraud prevention, and operational purposes. It is not used for profiling or marketing.

C. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use strictly necessary cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure the Landing Page, remember language and cookie-consent preferences, and ensure that core functions work correctly. These technologies are always active within our consent-management tool because they are necessary for the Landing Page to function.

With your prior consent, we also use analytics and performance cookies and similar technologies to understand how visitors use the Landing Page, measure traffic and interactions, identify errors and performance issues, and improve the Landing Page and browsing experience. Optional technologies are disabled by default and are activated only after you provide consent through the cookie banner.

Information collected through these technologies may include cookie or device identifiers, IP address, browser and device information, pages viewed, referring URLs, interactions, session information, error data, and performance measurements. You may accept, reject, or customise optional cookies and may change or withdraw your consent at any time through the “Manage Cookies” control. Further information about individual cookies, providers, purposes, and retention periods is available in our Cookie Policy.

We process your personal data only where we have a valid legal basis under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679). The applicable legal basis depends on the purpose for which your personal data is processed:

Beta invitations, launch notifications, and related communications — Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR — Consent.

We process your email address to send you beta invitations, product launch notifications, availability updates, and other communications you have requested. Your consent is obtained when you submit the subscription form and agree to receive these communications.

Analytics and performance cookies and similar technologies — Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR — Consent.

Where you provide consent through our cookie banner, we process data collected through analytics and performance cookies and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with the Landing Page, measure website traffic and performance, identify technical issues, and improve functionality and user experience. Optional cookies and similar technologies remain disabled until you provide consent.

Strictly necessary cookies, technical operation, security, and fraud prevention — Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — Legitimate Interests.

Where the use of strictly necessary cookies or technical systems involves the processing of personal data, we process such data based on our legitimate interests in operating the Landing Page, maintaining its security and availability, remembering users’ privacy preferences, preventing fraud and misuse, and diagnosing technical problems. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tool because they are required for the Landing Page to function properly.

Compliance with legal obligations — Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR — Legal Obligation.

We may process personal data where necessary to comply with applicable legal obligations, including maintaining records of consent, responding to lawful requests from public authorities, and handling requests relating to your data protection rights.

Withdrawal of Consent

You may withdraw your consent at any time without any adverse consequences.

To withdraw your consent to receive beta invitations, launch notifications, or other email communications, you may:

• click the “Unsubscribe” link included in any email we send you; or
• send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Unsubscribe.”

To change or withdraw your consent to analytics and performance cookies, use the Manage Cookies control to update your cookie preferences.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before your consent was withdrawn. After withdrawal, we will stop processing your personal data for the relevant consent-based purpose, unless another applicable legal basis requires or permits us to retain or process the data.

We use the data collected through the Landing Page exclusively for:

1. Beta Access Communications — to notify you when early or beta access to the 4GOO application becomes available.

2. Product Updates — to inform you of significant milestones, launch dates, and feature previews.

3. Launch Communications — to send launch updates, beta availability notifications, and essential information about the 4GOO platform.

4. Security and Operations — to protect the Landing Page against abuse, fraud, and technical failures, using technical log data.

5. Legal Compliance — to maintain records of consent as required under applicable data protection law.

6. Contact and Support Communications — to review, process, and respond to inquiries submitted through the contact form.

7. Analytics and Performance — where you have provided consent, to understand how visitors use the Landing Page, measure traffic and interactions, diagnose errors and performance issues, and improve functionality, reliability, and user experience.

We will not use your email address for any purpose other than those listed above without seeking fresh consent.

Subscription data (email address) — Until you withdraw consent (unsubscribe), or a maximum of 24 months from the date of subscription if no further interaction occurs — whichever comes first.

Consent records — 5 years from the date of consent, to demonstrate compliance with applicable law.

Technical/server security logs — 90 days, after which they are automatically deleted or anonymised.

Contact form submissions (including email address, optional name information, subject lines, and message content) are retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to process and respond to inquiries, unless a longer retention period is required by law or necessary to protect legal rights.

Upon withdrawal of consent, your subscription data will be deleted or anonymised within 30 days, subject to our obligation to retain consent and suppression records required for compliance and prevention of accidental future communications. The lifetimes of individual cookies are specified in our Cookie Policy. Data collected through analytics and performance technologies is retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with the retention settings configured for the relevant service provider and applicable law.

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise transfer your personal data to third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We may share your data with the following categories of trusted third-party processors, solely to operate the Landing Page and manage our communications:

• Email service providers — to deliver launch-related communications and beta availability notifications.
• Web hosting and CDN providers (e.g. Cloudflare CDN, AWS) — to host and deliver the Landing Page securely.
• Analytics and performance service providers — where you have provided consent, to measure website usage, analyse interactions, diagnose technical issues, and improve the Landing Page.
• Legal advisors and regulatory authorities — if required to comply with applicable law, respond to a legal process, or protect our legal rights.

All third-party processors are bound by appropriate data processing agreements (DPAs) and are required to process personal data only in accordance with our documented instructions and applicable law.

A current list of our sub-processors is available upon request at [email protected].

4GOO Holding GmbH is incorporated in Germany and operates within the European Union. Some of our third-party service providers may process data in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Where such transfers occur, we ensure an adequate level of protection by relying on:

• EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as adopted by the European Commission (Decision 2021/914/EU); and/or
• The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (where applicable); and/or
• An adequacy decision of the European Commission covering the recipient country.

You may obtain further information about transfer safeguards by contacting [email protected].

EEA, UK, and Swiss residents have the following rights under the GDPR and applicable national law:

• Right of Access (Art. 15 GDPR) — to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) — to have inaccurate or incomplete data corrected.
• Right to Erasure / "Right to be Forgotten" (Art. 17 GDPR) — to request deletion of your data, subject to retention obligations.
• Right to Restriction of Processing (Art. 18 GDPR) — to restrict how we process your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to Data Portability (Art. 20 GDPR) — to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
• Right to Object (Art. 21 GDPR) — to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Right to Withdraw Consent (Art. 7(3) GDPR) — to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

California residents have additional rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to know, delete, correct, and opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell or share personal information as defined under the CCPA.

UK residents have equivalent rights under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Brazilian residents have equivalent rights under the LGPD (Lei nº 13.709/2018).

Canadian residents have rights under PIPEDA or applicable provincial privacy legislation.

To exercise any of the above rights, please submit a written request to [email protected]. We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law (typically 30 days for GDPR requests).

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your relevant supervisory authority:

• EU / Germany: Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI) — www.bfdi.bund.de
• Spain: Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) — www.aepd.es
• UK: Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) — www.ico.org.uk

Our Landing Page is not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from persons under 16. If you become aware that a child has submitted personal data to us without verifiable parental consent, please contact [email protected] and we will take immediate steps to delete that data.

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, accidental loss, destruction, or alteration. These include:

• TLS/HTTPS encryption for all data in transit;
• Access controls limiting who within our organisation can access subscriber data;
• Regular review of security practices and vendor compliance.

No method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Our Landing Page may contain links to third-party websites (e.g. App Store, Google Play). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties and encourage you to review their respective privacy policies before providing any personal data to them.

We may update this Privacy Policy when our use of cookies, analytics, performance technologies, or other data-processing practices changes. We will update the “Updated” date at the top of this document and, where required by law, provide an appropriate notice or request renewed consent.

4GOO Holding GmbH
Landauer Str. 56,
67346 Speyer, Germany
[email protected]