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Privacy Policy

Your privacy matters. Learn how we protect your data and maintain transparency.

Our Privacy Commitment

At lowbrowse, we are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we handle your data. This privacy policy explains our practices regarding data collection, usage, and protection.

Who Is Responsible

The controller for the processing of personal data on this website is lowbrowse media UG (haftungsbeschränkt), c/o Paul Green, Burgherrenstraße 3, 12101 Berlin, Germany. Email: privacy@lowbrowse.org. Further company details are in our Impressum.

Data We Collect

Information You Provide

  • Account information (email, name)
  • Content you submit (disputes, feedback)
  • Communication preferences

Automatically Collected Information

  • Usage data and analytics
  • Device and browser information
  • IP address and location data

Analytics

We use a single analytics provider, PostHog (PostHog EU — hosted in the European Union), to understand how the site is used and to measure page performance. Analytics runs only after you give consent through the cookie banner; without consent, no analytics data is collected or transmitted. If you sign up for the beta or newsletter, the contact details you submit are associated with your usage events to manage your invitation.

Analytics is one of the “actions you choose”: it never starts until you consent, and withdrawing consent stops it. The other is marketing attribution (below), which is tied to the signup form you submit yourself. There is no tracking beyond these two.

Marketing Attribution

When you sign up, we capture the marketing parameters that brought you here — UTM tags, ad click IDs (such as Google or Meta click IDs), the referring page, and the page you landed on — at the moment you submit the form. This is captured at submit time from the page you are already viewing: no tracking cookies are set, nothing is stored on your device, and the values are sanitized on our servers before they are stored. We use them only to measure which outreach reached you, so we can improve how we tell people about lowbrowse. The lawful basis is your consent, given when you submit the signup form: the attribution travels with the signup you initiated, never separately.

Service Providers (Processors)

We rely on a small set of service providers to operate lowbrowse. Each processes personal data only on our instructions, under a data processing agreement, and the list is intentionally short:

  • Vercel — hosts this website and serves it from a global edge network. Vercel processes request data (such as IP addresses) as a processor to deliver pages to your browser.
  • PostHog — our single product-analytics provider, hosted in the European Union. PostHog processes usage data only after you give analytics consent, as described under Analytics above.
  • Brevo — our transactional and marketing email provider, hosted in the European Union. Brevo sends the signup confirmation and welcome emails and records delivery events (opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes) so we can keep your contact record accurate and respect your opt-outs.

How We Use Your Data

  • Provide and improve our services
  • Personalize your experience
  • Process transactions and requests
  • Communicate with you about updates
  • Ensure security and prevent abuse
  • Comply with legal obligations

Legal Bases

  • Delivering this website and keeping it secure, including request data processed by our host: our legitimate interest in a working, secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
  • Analytics with PostHog: your consent through the cookie banner (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG).
  • Beta signup and invitation emails: steps taken at your request before a possible contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
  • Occasional product-update emails: your consent through the optional checkbox on the signup form (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
  • Marketing attribution: as described under Marketing Attribution above.

Where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

Data Protection

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data:

  • Encryption of data in transit and at rest
  • Regular security audits and updates
  • Access controls and authentication
  • Compliance with GDPR and EU data protection laws

Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to access your personal data
  • Right to rectify inaccurate information
  • Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten")
  • Right to restrict processing
  • Right to data portability
  • Right to object to processing
  • Right to withdraw consent at any time, with effect for the future

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Alt-Moabit 59-61, 10555 Berlin, Germany (datenschutz-berlin.de).

Privacy Contact

We have not appointed a data protection officer. For privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, contact us directly:

Email: privacy@lowbrowse.org

We will respond to privacy requests within 30 days as required by GDPR.