Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2025-09-09

1. Introduction

We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data in an open and transparent manner. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you use GiftAI, our AI-powered gift recommendation service.

2. Information We Collect

We collect and process the following personal information:

  • Gift Recommendation Data: Information you provide through our gift recommendation wizard, including:
    • Recipient's age
    • Interests and preferences
    • Relationship to the recipient
    • Occasion for the gift
    • Budget range
    • Any additional context you provide
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our service, including:
    • Access times and dates
    • Features and pages visited
    • Service interaction patterns
    • Performance data

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • To generate personalized gift recommendations based on your input
  • To process your requests through our AI-powered recommendation engine
  • To provide and maintain our gift recommendation service
  • To improve and optimize our service and recommendation algorithms
  • To ensure the security of our platform
  • To comply with legal obligations

4. Analytics

We use a self-hosted instance of Plausible Analytics, located in Germany, to analyze service usage patterns. This analytics solution is privacy-focused and does not use cookies. The collected data is anonymized and used solely for improving our service.

5. Data Sharing and Third-Party Services

We share your data only with selected third parties that are essential to providing our service:

  • Groq: As AI-Provider
  • Cloudflare: For content delivery and security services
  • Hetzner: For infrastructure and hosting services

These service providers are contractually bound to protect your data and use it only for the specified purposes.

6. Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored in secure facilities within the European Union. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

Important: GiftAI is a standalone tool that does not require user accounts or registration. Your gift preference data is processed temporarily to generate recommendations and is not stored permanently on our servers. We use caching for up to 1 hour to improve service performance, after which the data is automatically deleted.

7. Your Rights Under GDPR

As a user, you have the following rights:

  • Right to access your personal data
  • Right to rectification of inaccurate data
  • Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten")
  • Right to restrict processing
  • Right to data portability
  • Right to object to processing
  • Right to withdraw consent

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the Contact section.

8. Cookies and Tracking

We do not use cookies or similar tracking technologies on our platform. Since GiftAI is a standalone tool without user accounts, we do not need to track users across sessions.

9. Children's Privacy

Our service is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. However, our gift recommendation service may be used by adults to find gifts for children, and in such cases, we may process information about the child recipient (such as age and interests) solely for the purpose of generating appropriate gift recommendations.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us here.

12. Data Protection Authority

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) and believe we are processing your personal data unlawfully, you have the right to file a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.