Privacy policy

The controller under Art. 4(7) GDPR for this website is:

We have not appointed a data protection officer because there is no legal obligation to do so. For questions about data protection or to exercise your rights, write to the address above or to info@slaide.de.

The table lists every processing with its legal basis. The sections below explain each one.

This site is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA (Vercel). Vercel delivers the pages on our behalf from a global network.

With every request, the server logs access data: your IP address, date and time, the requested address, the HTTP status code, the amount of data sent, the referring page, and details about your browser and operating system. We process them to deliver the site, keep it stable and defend it against attacks and misuse. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in a secure and working website.

The pages are delivered through Vercel’s global content delivery network, from the location closest to you, which can be outside the EU. Vercel’s primary processing facilities are in the USA. Vercel processes the data on our behalf under a data processing agreement in line with Art. 28 GDPR, which includes the EU standard contractual clauses (see Recipients and transfers to third countries).

We use Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights, both provided by Vercel as part of hosting. The scripts load from our own domain and send their data to our own domain, which Vercel serves. They set no cookies and store nothing on your device.

Web Analytics records the page address, the referring page, your browser, operating system and device type, and the country, region or city derived from your IP address. Vercel states that the IP address itself is not stored and that a visitor is recognized for one day at most, through a hash that is discarded after 24 hours. We cannot follow you across days or devices.

Speed Insights measures how fast a page loads and responds for real visitors: timings such as Largest Contentful Paint and Interaction to Next Paint, together with the page, device type, browser and country. We use it to find and fix slow pages.

Purpose: knowing which pages are read and keeping them fast. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to understand and improve this website, and the measurement is limited to counts without cookies. You can object at any time (see Your rights). If you block these scripts in your browser, the site works the same.

This site sets no cookies. It uses two entries in your browser’s local storage, each for a function you use:

• theme: your choice of light or dark display, written when you click the theme switch. Without it, the site follows your system setting.
• ai-presentations:tool:pitch-deck-checklist:v1: the stage and ticked points of the pitch deck checklist, so your progress is still there on your next visit. The tool writes it in your browser; it is never sent to us.

You can delete both entries at any time in your browser’s site settings. The site then follows your system theme again and the checklist starts empty.

Legal basis: § 25(2) no. 2 of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG), because the entries are strictly necessary to provide the function you asked for. Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights store no identifier on your device. In our assessment, no consent under § 25 TDDDG is needed for any of this, so the site shows no cookie banner.

• Fonts: the typefaces are hosted on this site. Your browser contacts no font service, so no font provider receives your IP address.
• Search: the search box looks up a small index file that your browser downloads from this site. Your search terms stay in your browser and are not sent anywhere.
• Free tools: the calculators and checkers on this site run in your browser. What you enter is not sent to us.
• Embeds: the site has no videos, maps, social buttons or comment widgets from other providers.

Buttons such as “Start free” and “Open in the editor”, and the brief boxes with “Create presentation”, lead to the editor at app.slaide.de, which we operate under the name Slaide. The brief you wrote, or the one a button carries, is added to the link as a parameter of up to 1,800 characters. The link also tells the editor which page and which button you came from (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign and utm_content) and, for pricing buttons, which plan you picked.

Nothing is sent while you type. The data goes to Slaide when you click or submit: your browser then connects to app.slaide.de, which receives your IP address, the link with its parameters and your browser details, as any website does. Because the brief is part of the web address, it can also appear in your browser history and in server logs. Leave out personal or confidential details if you do not want them in the link.

What happens to your data once you are in the editor is described in the Slaide privacy policy. Legal basis for the hand-off: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, because you ask to open the editor with your brief, and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for the attribution parameters, which tell us which pages lead to sign-ups and contain nothing you typed.

Guides and comparisons link to other websites, for example to sources. If you follow such a link, the other site receives your IP address and, as referrer, only the domain of this site, because our referrer policy sends the origin and nothing more. We have no influence on what they collect; see their privacy policies.

If you write to info@slaide.de, we process your email address, your message and the time it arrived so that we can answer you. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, our interest in answering inquiries, or Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your message concerns a contract or a request before one. Our email provider, united-domains AG (Germany), stores and delivers the messages on our behalf.

Data goes to these recipients, as far as described above:

• Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA: hosting, server logs, visit counts and performance measurement, as our processor.
• Our email provider, united-domains AG (Germany): delivery and storage of messages you send us, as our processor.
• The editor at app.slaide.de: the data in the link, once you click through. We operate it ourselves; its own privacy policy applies.
• Other websites: only what your browser sends when you follow a link to them.

Vercel Inc. is based in the USA. For this transfer we rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, in which Vercel states that it takes part, and, as a fallback, on the standard contractual clauses in our data processing agreement with Vercel (Art. 46 GDPR). Vercel’s participation can be checked in the public list of the Data Privacy Framework Program. You can request a copy of the safeguards from us.

Server logs

Request logs in our Vercel account are kept for 30 days at most.

Visit counts and performance data

We can view Web Analytics data for the reporting window of our plan, 24 months at most, and Speed Insights data for 30 days at most.

Theme and checklist entries

Until you delete them in your browser. We never receive them.

Emails to us

Until the matter is closed, and longer only where commercial or tax law requires it.

Briefs in links

This site stores none. After you click through, the Slaide privacy policy applies.

Under the GDPR you have these rights against us:

• Access to your data and a copy of it (Art. 15).
• Correction of inaccurate data (Art. 16).
• Erasure (Art. 17).
• Restriction of processing (Art. 18).
• Receiving your data in a common format, or having it passed on (Art. 20).
• Objection to processing (Art. 21).
• Withdrawal of a consent you gave, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3)). This site asks for no consent.

Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): if we process your data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you can object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. Write to info@slaide.de. We then stop the processing unless we show compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, or the processing serves to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

To use a right, write to the address in the first section. We answer within one month (Art. 12(3) GDPR).

You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your residence, your workplace or the place of the alleged infringement (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is:

You do not have to give us any personal data to read this site. Without the technical data in the server logs, a page cannot be delivered. We make no automated decisions and do no profiling within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.

We update this policy when the site, our service providers or the law change. The version published on this page applies; its date is shown at the top.