Preamble

With the following privacy policy, we would like to inform you which types of your personal data (hereinafter also referred to as "data") we process, for what purposes, and to what extent. This privacy policy applies to all processing of personal data carried out by us, both in the context of providing our services and, in particular, on our websites, in mobile applications, and within external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "online offering").

Last updated: 3 August 2026

Controller

innov-AI-tion, Inhaber: Pascal Hofstäter
c/o Online-Impressum #3559
Europaring 90
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany

Email: [email protected]

Legal notice (Impressum): https://cuevie.com/impressum

Overview of Processing Activities

The following overview summarizes the types of data processed and the purposes of their processing, and refers to the data subjects concerned.

Types of data processed

• Account data.
• Contact data.
• Content data.
• Usage data.
• Meta, communication, and procedural data.
• Log data.

Categories of data subjects

• Communication partners.
• Users.

Purposes of processing

• Communication.
• Security measures.
• Organizational and administrative procedures.
• Feedback.
• Provision of our online offering and its usability.
• IT infrastructure.

Relevant Legal Bases

Below is an overview of the GDPR legal bases on which we process personal data. Please note that, in addition to the provisions of the GDPR, national data protection requirements in your or our country of residence or registered office may apply. Should more specific legal bases be relevant in individual cases, we will inform you of these in the privacy policy.

• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) – The data subject has given consent to the processing of their personal data for one specific purpose or several specified purposes.
• Performance of a contract and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) – Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.
• Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) – Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
• Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) – processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests, fundamental rights, and fundamental freedoms of the data subject which require the protection of personal data.

In addition to the data protection provisions of the GDPR, national data protection regulations apply in Germany. These include, in particular, the Act to Prevent Misuse of Personal Data in Data Processing (Federal Data Protection Act – BDSG). The BDSG contains, in particular, special provisions on the right to information, the right to erasure, the right to object, the processing of special categories of personal data, processing for other purposes, and transmission as well as automated decision-making in individual cases, including profiling. Furthermore, the data protection laws of the individual German federal states (Länder) may apply.

Security Measures

In accordance with legal requirements, and taking into account the state of the art, implementation costs, and the nature, scope, context, and purposes of processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of risks to the rights and freedoms of natural persons, we take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk.

These measures include, in particular, safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data by controlling physical and electronic access to the data as well as the access, input, disclosure, availability, and segregation of that data. We have also implemented procedures to ensure the exercise of data subject rights, the deletion of data, and responses to any compromise of data. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account as early as the development or selection of hardware, software, and procedures, in accordance with the principle of data protection through technology design and through privacy-friendly default settings.

Securing online connections via TLS/SSL encryption (HTTPS): To protect user data transmitted through our online services from unauthorized access, we rely on TLS/SSL encryption technology. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are the cornerstones of secure data transmission on the internet. These technologies encrypt the information transmitted between the website or app and the user's browser (or between two servers), thereby protecting the data from unauthorized access. TLS, as the more advanced and more secure version of SSL, ensures that all data transmissions meet the highest security standards. Where a website is secured by an SSL/TLS certificate, this is indicated by HTTPS being shown in the URL. This serves as an indicator to users that their data is being transmitted securely and in encrypted form.

Disclosure of Personal Data

In the course of our processing of personal data, it may become necessary to transmit or disclose such data to other bodies, companies, legally independent organizational units, or persons. Recipients of this data may include, for example, service providers commissioned with IT tasks, or providers of services and content embedded in a website. In such cases we comply with legal requirements and, in particular, enter into appropriate contracts or agreements that serve to protect your data with the recipients of your data.

International Data Transfers

Where we transfer data to a third country (i.e., outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)), or where this occurs in connection with the use of third-party services or the disclosure or transmission of data to other persons, bodies, or companies (which can be recognized from the postal address of the respective provider or where the privacy policy expressly refers to data transfer to third countries), this is always done in compliance with legal requirements.

For data transfers to the USA, we primarily rely on the Data Privacy Framework (DPF), which was recognized as a safe legal framework by an adequacy decision of the EU Commission dated 10 July 2023. In addition, where available, we have entered into Standard Contractual Clauses with the respective providers, in accordance with EU Commission requirements, establishing contractual obligations to protect your data.

We inform you, for each individual service provider, whether they are certified under the DPF and whether Standard Contractual Clauses are in place. Further information on the DPF and a list of certified companies can be found on the website of the US Department of Commerce at https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/ (in English).

For data transfers to other third countries, corresponding safeguards apply, in particular Standard Contractual Clauses, explicit consent, or transfers required by law. Information on third-country transfers and applicable adequacy decisions can be found on the European Commission's website: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection_en?prefLang=de.

General Information on Data Retention and Deletion

We delete personal data that we process in accordance with legal requirements as soon as the underlying consent is revoked or no further legal basis for processing exists. This applies to cases where the original purpose of processing no longer applies or the data is no longer needed. Exceptions to this rule apply where legal obligations or particular interests require longer retention or archiving of the data.

In particular, data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons, or whose storage is necessary for the pursuit of legal claims or to protect the rights of other natural or legal persons, must be archived accordingly.

Where multiple retention or deletion periods apply to a given piece of data, the longest period is always decisive. Data that is retained not for its originally intended purpose but on the basis of legal requirements or other reasons is processed by us exclusively for the reasons that justify its retention.

Retention and deletion of data: The following general periods apply to retention and archiving under German law:

• 10 years – retention period for books and records, annual financial statements, inventories, management reports, opening balance sheets, and the working instructions and other organizational documents required to understand them (§ 147 (1) no. 1 in conjunction with (3) AO, § 14b (1) UStG, § 257 (1) no. 1 in conjunction with (4) HGB).
• 8 years – accounting vouchers, such as invoices and cost receipts (§ 147 (1) nos. 4 and 4a in conjunction with (3) sentence 1 AO and § 257 (1) no. 4 in conjunction with (4) HGB).
• 6 years – other business documents: received commercial or business letters, copies of sent commercial or business letters, other documents relevant for taxation purposes, e.g. hourly wage slips, cost accounting sheets, calculation documents, price labeling records, as well as payroll records not already classified as accounting vouchers, and cash register tapes (§ 147 (1) nos. 2, 3, 5 in conjunction with (3) AO, § 257 (1) nos. 2 and 3 in conjunction with (4) HGB).
• 3 years – data required to take into account potential warranty and damages claims or similar contractual claims and rights, and to process related inquiries, based on past business experience and common industry practice, are stored for the duration of the regular statutory limitation period of three years (§§ 195, 199 BGB).

Where a period does not expressly begin on a specific date and is at least one year, it automatically begins at the end of the calendar year in which the triggering event occurred. In the case of ongoing contractual relationships in the course of which data is stored, the triggering event is the point at which the termination or other end of the legal relationship takes effect.

Rights of Data Subjects

As a data subject, you have various rights under the GDPR, arising in particular from Art. 15 to 21 GDPR:

• Right to object: You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. Where personal data concerning you is processed for the purposes of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purposes of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.
• Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw any consent you have given at any time.
• Right of access: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether data concerning you is being processed, and to obtain information about that data as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with legal requirements.
• Right to rectification: In accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to request the completion of data concerning you or the rectification of inaccurate data concerning you.
• Right to erasure and restriction of processing: In accordance with legal requirements, you have the right to request that data concerning you be deleted without delay, or, alternatively, to request restriction of the processing of the data in accordance with legal requirements.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to receive data concerning you that you have provided to us, in accordance with legal requirements, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, or to request that it be transmitted to another controller.
• Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of personal data concerning you violates the requirements of the GDPR.

Provision of the Online Offering and Web Hosting

We process user data in order to provide our online services to them. For this purpose we process the user's IP address, which is necessary to deliver the content and functions of our online services to the user's browser or device.

• Provision of the online offering on rented storage space: To provide our online offering, we use storage space, computing capacity, and software that we rent or otherwise obtain from an appropriate server provider (also referred to as a "web host"); Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Collection of access data and log files: Access to our online offering is logged in the form of so-called "server log files." Server log files may include the address and name of the web pages and files accessed, the date and time of access, amounts of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), and, as a rule, IP addresses and the requesting provider. Server log files may be used for security purposes, e.g. to prevent server overload (in particular in the event of abusive attacks, so-called DDoS attacks), and to ensure server utilization and stability; Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Deletion of data: Log file information is stored for a maximum of 30 days and then deleted or anonymized. Data whose further retention is required for evidentiary purposes is excluded from deletion until the incident in question has been finally clarified.
• Hetzner: Provision of IT infrastructure and related services (e.g. storage space and/or computing capacity); Service provider: Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany; Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); Website: https://www.hetzner.com; Privacy policy: Hetzner Privacy. Data processing agreement: Hetzner DPA.
• Cloudflare: Content delivery network (CDN), connection security, and provision of a secure tunnel (Cloudflare Tunnel) between our servers and users' devices, including termination of TLS encryption, as well as cookieless, privacy-friendly website analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics); Service provider: Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA; Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); Website: https://www.cloudflare.com; Privacy policy: Cloudflare Privacy Policy; Data processing agreement: Cloudflare DPA.

Additional Services and Service Providers

In addition to the hosting and CDN provider named above, we use further service providers who process personal data on our behalf to operate our online offering.

• Firebase Authentication (Google): Provides the registration and login functionality of our online offering, including via Google account sign-in ("Google Sign-In") and anonymous accounts; depending on the sign-in method chosen, we process e.g. email address, display name, and profile picture, or a device-generated identifier; Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; Legal basis: Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); Website: https://firebase.google.com; Privacy policy: Firebase Privacy; Data processing terms: Firebase Data Processing Terms.
• MongoDB Atlas: Database service used to store all data required to operate our online offering (including user profiles, watchlists, lobby and voting data, and inquiries submitted via the feedback form); access to feedback data is restricted to authorized administrators for review and processing; Service provider: MongoDB Limited, Building 2, Number 1 Ballsbridge, Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland; Legal basis: Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); Website: https://www.mongodb.com; Privacy policy: MongoDB Privacy Policy; Data processing agreement: MongoDB DPA.
• The Movie Database (TMDb): Retrieval of movie and TV metadata and poster artwork via the TMDb API to provide the core functionality of our online offering; requests are made server-side by us, and no personal data of users is transmitted to TMDb; Service provider: Xperi Inc., 2190 Gold Street, San Jose, CA 95002, USA; Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); Website: https://www.themoviedb.org; Privacy policy: TMDb Privacy Policy.
• Sentry: Collection and analysis of error reports (crash and error reports) from the frontend and backend to detect and fix technical issues; this may involve processing IP address, device and browser information, and other technical context data; Service provider: Functional Software, Inc. (d/b/a Sentry), 45 Fremont Street, 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA (EU representative: Sentry Software Netherlands B.V., Schiphol Boulevard 359, 1118 BJ Amsterdam Schiphol, Netherlands); Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); Website: https://sentry.io; Privacy policy: Sentry Privacy Policy; Data processing agreement: Sentry DPA.

Use of Cookies

"Cookies" are functions that store and retrieve information on users' devices. We use exactly one strictly necessary cookie (sidebar_state), which stores the collapsed/expanded state of the sidebar for up to 7 days. This cookie serves solely the functionality and convenience of our online offering; we do not use cookies for tracking, analytics, or advertising. For traffic analysis we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which operates without cookies and only collects aggregated, non-personally-identifiable usage statistics (see the Cloudflare entry above).

Legal basis: Because this cookie is technically necessary to provide an explicitly requested feature, we rely on our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); consent is not required for this cookie.

Contact and Inquiry Management

When contacting us (e.g. by post, contact form, email, telephone, or via social media), as well as in the context of existing user and business relationships, we process the information provided by the requesting parties to the extent necessary to answer the inquiry and carry out any requested measures.

Legal bases: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Performance of a contract and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

Contact form: When you contact us via our contact form, by email, or through other means of communication, we process the personal data you provide to us in order to answer and handle your inquiry. This typically includes information such as your name, contact details, and, where applicable, further information you provide that is necessary for us to handle your request appropriately. We use this data exclusively for the stated purpose of contact and communication. Legal bases: Performance of a contract and pre-contractual inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Feedback form: Signed-in users can send us feedback (free text, category, optional rating) via a feedback form within the online offering. This information is processed together with your user identifier and email address in order to evaluate the feedback and follow up where appropriate; access is restricted to authorized administrators. Legal basis: Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Deletion of data: Feedback submissions are stored for a maximum of 3 months (90 days) and are then automatically deleted.

Changes and Updates

We ask that you regularly review the content of our privacy policy. We will adjust the privacy policy as soon as changes to the data processing we carry out make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require action on your part (e.g. consent) or other individual notification.

Where we provide addresses and contact information for companies and organizations in this privacy policy, please note that such addresses may change over time; we ask that you verify the details before making contact.

Supervisory authority responsible for us:

Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen
Postfach 20 04 44
40102 Düsseldorf, Germany

Glossary

This section provides an overview of the terms used in this privacy policy. Where terms are legally defined, their legal definitions apply. The explanations below are primarily intended to aid understanding.

• Account data: Account data comprises essential information required to identify and manage contractual partners, user accounts, profiles, and similar relationships. This data may include personal and demographic details such as names, contact information (addresses, phone numbers, email addresses), dates of birth, and specific identifiers (user IDs). Account data forms the basis for any formal interaction between individuals and services, facilities, or systems by enabling unambiguous identification and communication.
• Content data: Content data comprises information generated in the course of creating, editing, and publishing content of any kind. This category of data can include text, images, videos, audio files, and other multimedia content published across various platforms and media. Content data is not limited to the content itself but also includes metadata that provides information about the content, such as tags, descriptions, authorship information, and publication dates.
• Contact data: Contact data is essential information that enables communication with individuals or organizations. It includes, among other things, phone numbers, postal addresses, and email addresses, as well as means of communication such as social media handles and instant-messaging identifiers.
• Meta, communication, and procedural data: Meta, communication, and procedural data are categories that contain information about how data is processed, transmitted, and managed. Metadata, also known as data about data, comprises information describing the context, origin, and structure of other data, such as file size, creation date, document author, and revision history. Communication data records the exchange of information between users across various channels, such as email correspondence, call logs, social network messages, and chat histories, including the individuals involved, timestamps, and transmission paths. Procedural data describes the processes and workflows within systems or organizations, including workflow documentation, transaction and activity logs, and audit trails used to trace and review operations.
• Usage data: Usage data refers to information that records how users interact with digital products, services, or platforms. This data covers a wide range of information showing how users use applications, which features they prefer, how long they stay on particular pages, and which paths they take through an application. Usage data can also include frequency of use, activity timestamps, IP addresses, device information, and location data. It is particularly valuable for analyzing user behavior, optimizing user experience, personalizing content, and improving products or services. Usage data also plays a key role in identifying trends, preferences, and potential problem areas within digital offerings.
• Personal data: "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier (e.g. a cookie), or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
• Log data: Log data is information about events or activities recorded within a system or network. This data typically includes information such as timestamps, IP addresses, user actions, error messages, and other details about the use or operation of a system. Log data is often used to analyze system issues, for security monitoring, or to generate performance reports.
• Controller: The "controller" is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.
• Processing: "Processing" is any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means. The term is broad and covers practically any handling of data, whether collecting, evaluating, storing, transmitting, or deleting it.