Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 18, 2026

This policy explains how coolfriends.eu handles personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who Controls Your Data

coolfriends.eu is the data controller for personal data processed through this website.

For privacy questions or GDPR requests, use our Contact page.

2. Data We Collect

  • Account details: email, display name, password hash, and account preferences.
  • Profile data: city, country, birth date, and profile photo.
  • Content data: posts, comments, likes, tags, and uploaded images.
  • Technical data: login/session activity and security logs needed to protect the service.

3. Why We Process Your Data (GDPR Legal Bases)

  • Contract: to provide your account and social features.
  • Legitimate interests: to secure, improve, and maintain the platform.
  • Legal obligation: where required by law.
  • Consent: where consent is specifically requested.

4. How We Use Data

  • To create and manage your account.
  • To show your profile and content according to your privacy settings.
  • To operate social features (friends, posts, comments, and likes).
  • To prevent abuse, fraud, and unauthorized access.
  • To respond to support or contact requests.

5. Who We Share Data With

We do not sell personal data. Data may be shared only with trusted service providers that help run coolfriends.eu (for example, hosting or email delivery), and only when needed.

6. International Transfers

If personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we use appropriate safeguards required by GDPR (for example, Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable).

7. Data Retention

We keep personal data only as long as needed for the purposes above, legal obligations, dispute handling, and security. When data is no longer needed, it is deleted or anonymized.

8. Your GDPR Rights

Subject to legal limits, you have the right to:

  • Access your personal data.
  • Correct inaccurate data.
  • Delete your data ("right to be forgotten").
  • Restrict or object to processing.
  • Data portability.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To use these rights, contact us through the Contact page.

9. Cookies and Sessions

We use essential session cookies to keep you logged in, secure forms, and provide core website functionality. These are required for the service to work.

10. Security

We apply technical and organizational measures to protect personal data. No system is perfectly secure, but we continuously work to reduce risk.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the service changes. Updates will be published on this page with a new "Last updated" date.