Last updated 22 July 2020
In this Privacy Policy PauseAble ApS (“PauseAble” or “we”, “us”, and “our”) wants to inform you about how we collect, use and disclose personal data from and about you, when you sign up to or use our application Pause (“the App”).
At PauseAble we believe that extraordinary, intuitive and research-based technology can help millions of people prevent and prevail over stress. Therefore we have developed digital training programs that effectively improve the user’s stress resilience. The product is offered to users through app stores, enterprises and partners in the health insurance sector.
When you use our training programs and the App, Pause will collect and process certain personal data about you as further described in this Privacy Policy.
Personal data means any information relating to you, including information which can either directly or indirectly tell us who you are (e.g. your full name or email address, information about your health, your mobile device and so on).
We are the data controllers of the personal data we collect from and about you through the App. This Privacy Policy applies to all users who have registered with or subscribed to the App.
We collect (1) registration data, when you sign up to the App, (2) information about the training program you choose and your progress in such training programs, (3) information about your body movements, (4) information about your breathing, (5) information about your pulse, and (6) activity data when you access and interact with the App.
More in particular, Pause collects the following types of data from and about you:
We use the personal data we collect from and about you to:
We may use anonymised personal data or information that no longer identifies you personally, even indirectly (e.g. statistics) for additional purposes or share it with third parties.
Apple HealthKit data is only used to provide health, motion or fitness services in connection with the App. HealthKit data will not be used for marketing, advertising or use-based data mining, including by third parties.
We only process your personal data if such processing can take place in accordance with the rules laid down in the current data protection law applicable at all times.
The processing of your non-sensitive data is based on the following legal bases under the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “Privacy Regulation”):
The processing of your sensitive data is based on the following legal bases:
With regard to the above-mentioned purposes, the data is processed electronically and by manual means, and is protected through adequate security measures, taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purpose of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of individuals.
PauseAble uses appropriate administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard personal data in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorised use, disclosure or modification.
For purposes consistent with the purposes in Section 3 above, PauseAble may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients located within the European Union or outside of the European Union, in compliance with the provisions of Section 8 below:
Third-party service providers entrusted with processing activities and duly appointed as processors when required by applicable laws — e.g. cloud service providers, other entities of the group, providers of services instrumental to or supporting the App, including by way of example and without limitation companies that provide IT services, experts, consultants and lawyers; companies resulting from possible mergers, demergers, or other transformations; and competent national authorities in order to comply with applicable laws.
Your personal data may be transferred to countries within and outside the European Economic Area.
If your personal data is transferred to a country outside the European Economic Area, we will make sure that appropriate and suitable safeguards designed to protect your personal data are put in place.
In any other case where personal data is transferred to a country outside the European Economic Area, we will put in place appropriate and suitable safeguards designed to protect your personal data and the transfer of your personal data in compliance with applicable data protection laws, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission under Articles 45 and 46 of the Privacy Regulation.
You have the right, at any given time, to be informed of what personal data we process about you, to verify its accuracy or request rectification, update or amendment of your personal data.
To some extent you also have the right to request us to limit the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing and to request the erasure of your personal data.
When the personal data is processed by automatic means and the processing is either (i) based upon your consent or (ii) necessary for the provision of the App, you have the right to receive an electronic copy of your personal data which you have provided to us (“data portability”).
We also give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal data for marketing purposes. You may revoke your consent, at any time, for receiving electronic communications from us. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by following the unsubscribe instructions in our communications, or by writing to the address in Section 12 below. PauseAble may continue to send you administrative communications related to the provision of the App.
When you make a request to us please include your email address, username, name, address, and telephone number, and specify clearly what information you would like to access, change, update, suppress or delete.
In all the above cases, we may contact you and ask for more information that is necessary to properly handle your request.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your Member State. In Denmark, the supervisory authority is the Danish Data Protection Agency:
The Danish Data Protection AgencyWe will retain your data only for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the data was collected as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Data collected will, as a main rule, be retained until you cancel your account, or if you ask us to delete your personal data.
Even after you cancel your account, or ask us to delete your personal data, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances — for example, when retention of such copies is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or legal defence.
We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancellation or your request for deletion, to comply with applicable law or legal defence.
At the end of the retention period your personal data will be either cancelled, anonymised or aggregated.
PauseAble may modify or update this Privacy Policy for any reason (including, but not limited to, changes in applicable law and interpretations, decisions, opinions and orders relating to such applicable law). Please look at the date at the top of this Privacy Policy to see when it was last revised.
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be notified in advance by posting the revised Privacy Policy in the App.
If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that change the nature of processing or expand our rights to use the personal data we have already collected from you, we will notify you in advance and provide you with a choice about our future use of the personal data, as may be required by applicable law.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact PauseAble at:
PauseAble ApS