This policy covers the website at meisterpath.com and www.meisterpath.com in all its language versions. It follows the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, for visitors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Swiss law does not ask us to name a legal basis for ordinary processing like this; we name the GDPR bases anyway for the visitors to whom the GDPR applies. The MeisterPath apps, also where they run on a subdomain of meisterpath.com, have their own privacy policy, shown inside the app.
Who is responsible
Dr. Nitin Kumar, MeisterPath
Friesenbergstrasse 13
8055 Zürich, Switzerland
hello@meisterpath.com
What we do not do
This website sets no cookies and runs no advertising or social media scripts. It counts visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which works without cookies, as described below. Fonts and images are served from our own server. Nothing you do here is tracked across websites, and we do not track whether you open our emails or click the links in them. We do not sell personal data, we do not profile you, and we make no automated decisions about you.
Settings stored in your browser
If you pick a language or a light or dark theme, the choice is kept in your browser's local storage so the site remembers it on your next visit. On your first visit the site reads your browser's language setting to pick a language; that check happens in your browser alone. None of this leaves your device, and you can clear it in your browser settings. It is strictly necessary for the function you asked for, so no consent banner is needed.
Visit statistics with Vercel Web Analytics
To see which pages are read and where visitors give up, we count visits with Vercel Web Analytics, a service of Vercel, which also hosts this website (see below). For each page view it records the page, the page you came from, your browser, operating system, device type and country. It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. To tell visits apart, it computes a code from your request that is discarded after 24 hours; it does not store your IP address, and we see only totals, never a single visitor. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing which pages help (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Hosting and server logs
The website and the small programs behind the sign-up form run on servers of Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA. When you open a page, Vercel processes the data your browser sends: your IP address, the time of the request, the page you asked for, the page you came from, and your browser and operating system. We use these logs to deliver the site and to detect abuse. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a working and secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We can see these logs for at most one day; Vercel keeps its own copies for as long as it needs them to run and secure its network.
Vercel processes this data on our behalf under its data processing addendum, which is part of its terms of service. Vercel is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, its UK extension and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework, and the addendum contains the EU standard contractual clauses as a fallback.
Early-access list and blog updates
When you enter your email address to join the early-access list or to receive new articles, this happens:
- Your address, the list you chose and the language of the page go to our server at Vercel; for early access also the version of the terms the form showed you and whether you ticked the interview box. The server wraps them into an encrypted link that works for 30 days and asks Resend to send you one email with that link. Our server stores nothing.
- If you do not open the link, that is the end of it: your address goes on no list. The sent email itself stays in Resend's sending log for 30 days and is then deleted.
- If you open the link, we add your address and the language code to the list at Resend and send you a short welcome email. For early access we also store, with your address, the version of the terms, your interview choice and the date and time you confirmed, which is when your six months start. Blog subscribers get one email per new article and nothing else.
For the blog, the legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You give it by submitting the form and confirm it by opening the link. You can withdraw it at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email we send you, or by writing to hello@meisterpath.com; we then delete your address from the list, at the latest within 30 days. Blog addresses are kept until you unsubscribe.
Early access: reminders, surveys and interviews
Early access is a free agreement between you and us: six months of MeisterPath at no cost, starting the day you confirm your address. The sign-up form states what belongs to it: reminder emails and short surveys, as described here. We use your address and the data that come with it to provide this agreement; the legal basis is the performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Marketing, such as a newsletter with tips or offers, is not part of it; for that we would ask for your separate consent first.
Reminder emails. We send you up to two emails a week about your learning: a nudge to practise and what comes next. They are part of the service, not advertising. Every reminder has a link that stops reminders with one click; you can also write to hello@meisterpath.com. Before the first reminder goes out, we name here the service that sends them.
Surveys. From time to time we ask you a few short questions about how you learn, for example your level, your goal, how much time you practise and what helps you. Answering them is part of the agreement. The questions are about your learning only: we never ask about your health, religion, political views or other special categories of personal data, so please do not write such things in a free-text answer. The legal basis is the performance of the contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). We use the answers to improve MeisterPath. They stay linked to your address only as long as your address is kept (see below) and are then deleted; what remains are totals that no longer point to you. For now we send the questions by email and keep your replies in our mailbox (see Contact by email below). Before we use a survey tool, we name it here.
Interviews, only if you tick the box. The box is unticked, and early access does not depend on it. If you tick it, we may email you to invite you to a short personal interview about how you learn, for example a video call. Each time you can say no or simply not answer. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time, with effect for the future, by replying to any of our emails or by writing to hello@meisterpath.com; we then note that you do not want to be contacted, and your early access goes on unchanged. If you take part, we keep our notes of the interview for at most twelve months. Before the first interview, we name here the tool we use and say whether interviews are recorded.
Leaving, and when the six months end. You can leave early access at any time with the unsubscribe link in every email we send you, or by writing to us; we then delete your address, your terms and interview choices and your survey answers, at the latest within 30 days. Before your six months end we tell you by email what happens next: after early access, the full MeisterPath is paid. If you do not buy it, you keep a free account with limited features: units open one at a time, and the paid features are switched off. We keep your data for as long as you keep that account, and delete it at the latest 30 days after you close it.
If you joined before 2 November 2026. You agreed then to receive only the launch date and early-access information. We send you the launch email, which invites you to accept the early-access terms; until you accept them, we send you no reminders and no surveys. If you do not accept them, we send you nothing else and delete your address at the latest twelve months after the launch, as stated when you joined, or within 30 days if you unsubscribe.
The emails are sent, and the lists are stored, by Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc., 2261 Market Street #5039, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA) on our behalf, on servers in the United States, under a data processing agreement that contains the EU standard contractual clauses with the additions for Swiss data. Resend is also certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension. Resend's sending log keeps the address, subject and delivery status of each email for 30 days.
Contact by email
If you write to us, we keep your message and address for as long as it takes to answer you and for up to twelve months afterwards, in case you write again. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering you, or the steps needed before a contract if you ask about one (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). Our mailbox is run by:
Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (Gmail), under its data processing terms. Mail to our meisterpath.com addresses is delivered to Google; GoDaddy manages the domain's DNS records.
Where your data goes
Vercel and Resend process data in the United States. Switzerland, the EU and the UK recognise the Data Privacy Framework as adequate protection for the companies certified under it; where a company or a kind of data is not covered, the EU standard contractual clauses in our agreements with them apply. We pass personal data to nobody else. GoDaddy, where our domain name is registered, holds the name only and receives no personal data from this website.
Your rights
You can ask us at any time which personal data we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, restrict how we use it, receive a copy in a common format, and object to processing based on our legitimate interest. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it with effect for the future. Write to hello@meisterpath.com; we answer within 30 days and may ask you to write from the address in question so that we know it is you. If we hold nothing about you, we tell you that.
You can also complain to a supervisory authority: in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), Feldeggweg 1, 3003 Bern, edoeb.admin.ch; in the EEA the data protection authority of the country where you live or work, listed at edpb.europa.eu; in the UK the Information Commissioner's Office, ico.org.uk.
How we use AI
The MeisterPath app is built with language models: its stories, exercises, example sentences and the feedback on your answers are generated by models and checked by automated tests and by us before they reach you. Spoken examples are generated speech unless a speaker is named. When you practise in the app you are working with an AI system, and the app says so where it happens. The texts on this website were written by us with the help of such models and edited by us. No AI makes a decision about you with legal or similar effect: your level, your plan and what you practise next are suggestions, and the choice stays yours. This is the transparency the EU Artificial Intelligence Act asks for (Art. 50).
Security
All connections to this website are encrypted (TLS), and the site tells browsers to use encrypted connections only and to load nothing from other servers. The links in our emails are encrypted and signed, so nobody can read the address inside them or forge one. Access to the lists is limited to the people who need it to send the emails described above.
Changes
We update this policy when the website changes. The date below tells you which version you are reading.
Last updated: 2 November 2026.