The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you about the nature, scope and purposes of the collection and use of personal data on the website and the web app by locize. By using the website or the web app, you agree to the following data processing:
Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
locize’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that locize is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9) for clarification.
Our data processing has various purposes. In principle, we use the data within the scope of customer contact and the fulfilment of the contract, the provision of our offer and the improvement of our online services. Data may also be used for marketing and communication purposes (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b and f GDPR).
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.
We consider Google Analytics to be a third party data processor (see section 6 below). GA is the only used third party data processor used on the website.
The website is hosted on github pages, while the documentation is hosted on gitbook.
We use Cloudflare as CDN and DNS provider, because of this they may track the website to detect and prevent attacks.
We show the official Capterra review badge on our website, it may be they know your web relevant information, like the IP address or user agent information.
Should you choose to contact us using a contact form on one of our pages or an email link like this one "[email protected]", none of the data that you supply will be stored by locize or passed to be processed by any of the third party data processors defined in section 6.0. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.
Should you choose to signup for our localization service over at locize.app your chosen
will be stored in our database and encrypted in 2 different layers. This information is used to identify you as a user. Excluding username and password, above mentioned data is passed to the third party data processors detailed below to provide additional service to you.
Your name will be shown only in private area of the service and is only available to you and other users contributing to the same localization project. This is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract and offering of our service.
Should you wish to have your personal data deleted, please email us here using the email address that you used to sign up.
Since we use the network infrastructure from AWS (e.g. AWS CloudFront), it is possible that when you use our optional CDN service to download translations from our locize service, these services temporarily save every access in a log file. Access log data, like the IP address, may be collected and stored by the services mentioned until they are automatically deleted after a couple of days. A detailed list about that data can be found here.
If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before signing up to our service.
Third party data processors used (for details check section 6):
Additional information:
Translation resources are not classified as personal data. Please note that when using the offered machine or generative AI translation functions, the translation sources and corresponding language information will be passed to:
As detailed in section 3.3 above, if you signup to our service the personal information as listed above in section 3 will be stored within our database. This is currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored on locize. This data is stored in an unidentifiable fashion; the storage of this data is done in a pseudonymous fashion meaning that the data would require additional processing using a separately stored ‘key’ before it could be used to identify an individual.
If not stated differently in section 3 and subsections we try to use pseudonymisation for all personal data stored.
We use Amazon Web Services to store all data.
Your personal data will be deleted as soon as it is not anymore necessary for the purposes mentioned in section 3.1.
All traffic (transferral of files) between locize services and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.
If not stated differently in section 3 and subsections our services are hosted by Amazon (AWS), who employ their own security measures. AWS employs industry-recognized certifications and audits:
The purpose of processing data is that Amazon enables us to use Amazon servers. We only store the data for as long as is necessary to achieve this purpose.
locize and thus your data are hosted in Ireland by Amazon Web Services Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle WA 98109, United States. Amazon also adopts stringent technical measures to protect your personal data. Amazon does not pass on your personal data to third parties unless this is necessary in order to perform the agreed services or if Amazon is required to do so by law or to comply with a valid and mandatory instruction issued by a government or regulatory authority. The data provided for this purpose are kept to a minimum.
In some circumstances, Amazon may also store the information in countries outside the European Economic Area. Amazon will, however, take the necessary steps to ensure that an appropriate level of data protection is maintained. If Amazon sends your data to the United States, for example, additional measures are taken, such as concluding EU-compliant data transmission agreements with the data importer if this is necessary. Amazon participates in the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.
More information from Amazon about data protection is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/eu-data-protection.
Their services and data centers have multiple layers of operational and physical security to ensure the integrity and safety of your data. You can read more about AWS security here.
We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0.
As already stated above, we use Google Analytics (GA), if accepting our policies.
Although Goggle Analytics (GA) records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. Although the IP address is anonymized, GA may record your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this.
GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the Google Analytics 4 implementation of GA.
Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
Most GA servers are hosted in the U.S. and GA doesn't give users the ability to choose where their data may be stored. This means international data transfers may occur.
More information about data protection by GA and the processing of your data is available at here: Privacy policy
We use Gravatar if your supplied email address is linked to a Gravatar account so your Gravatar photo will be displayed beside your name.
Gravatar is operating also outside the European Economic Area and international data transfers may occur.
More information about data protection by Gravatar and the processing of your data is avail-able at here: Privacy policy
We use reCaptcha v3 to validate user inputs are not passed by bots.
Most Google servers are hosted in the U.S. and Google doesn't give users the ability to choose where their data may be stored. This means international data transfers may occur.
More information about data protection by reCaptcha and the processing of your data is available at here: Privacy policy | Terms
We use stripe as our billing gateway. When subscribing a project on locize.app / locize.io your credit card information will only be stored on stripe's database and never on our own database. Personal Information like name, email, VAT number will be stored on stripe.
Stripe is operating also outside the European Economic Area and international data transfers may occur.
More information about data protection by stripe and the processing of your data is available at here: Privacy policy
You have the right to receive information from us at any time and free of charge about whether and which of your personal data we are processing. In addition, you can demand that we correct or complete incorrect data about you in our systems.
You have the right to ask us to delete or limit the processing of your personal data.
Please note that even after your request for deletion of your personal data, we may be required to retain it due to legal or contractual obligations to retain it (for example for billing purposes) and in this case we will only restrict or block your data as necessary. Furthermore, the deletion of your data may mean that you can no longer obtain or use the services you have registered for.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which you can assert with us.
If applicable, you can also exercise your right to data portability.
Where you have given your consent, you can revoke your consent to data processing at any time, generally with effect for the future. In the event of a revocation, we may delete or limit the processing of your personal data.
Where applicable, you have the right to complain to the relevant supervisory authority about data processing.
Where required by Law, we will report any unlawful data breach of this service’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner are affected by the data breach.
The data controller of locize is: inweso GmbH, a swiss company with company number: CHE‑412.131.272
Whose registered office is:
inweso GmbH Seezelgstrasse 57 8595 Altnau Switzerland
Mr. Adriano Raiano Director, inweso GmbH Email: [email protected]
We may change this privacy policy from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. If such adjustments are made, we publish them immediately on our website. Our Customers will be informed 14 days upfront of any sensible change via in app notification and email. For website users we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.