Z I R P E L has not the goal to collect and analyse data.
Z I R P E L does not pass on any data to third parties.
If an account participates in a survey, the owner can retrieve the email address, if available.
Poll data is only analysed internally in order to obtain an overview of usage.
These data are evaluated: Number of users, number of polls, 5 newest polls, last 10 active polls and number of active polls of the last week, 2 weeks and month.
The lists of polls are encrypted. The number of participants is displayed in each case.
The number of users and polls that have accepted the terms and conditions is displayed.
How many users or polls will soon be deleted is also displayed.
Additional statistics have also been added. These are described below.
The user always has the option to delete all entries. The data is then not only marked as deleted but actually removed from the database.
Some functions require data that cannot be deleted immediately by the user. This data will be automatically deleted after a certain period of time.
There is more information about this on this page.

The extended statistics are recorded every full hour.
This means that they may not be 100% correct. However, they do provide a good picture of usage.
This data is collected: Sessions*, New accounts, Account average, Adjustments to surveys, Created surveys, Average number of surveys, Adjustments to participant options, New participant options, Adjustments to notes, New notes, Successful logins, Incorrect logins, Successful direct logins, Successful cookie logins, Adjustments to participants, New participants and Mails sent.
*In order to record the number of sessions, the browser header is checked to exclude bots and crawlers.

No cookies are used for tracking user data.
Nevertheless, cookies are required to cover some functions.
Functions with cookies: Remember me at login, session handling

Every login is logged. These data are used to prevent bruteforce attacks on an account.
Multiple wrong logins lead to a lock for a period of time.
The data will be automatically deleted after 720 days.
This informations will be saved: Username, Date, Origin (IP), Login successfull or not, Direct Login or Cookie Login

To provide the remember me function some data have to be saved.
These Data will be deleted after 100 days.
After this time the login by cookie will no longer work and have to be refreshed.
This informations will be saved: Creation, last change

In case of an error some informations will be saved to analyse them.
The data will be saved for 720 days.
This informations will be saved: Date, User (if available), Poll (if available), Text and Error

The E-Mails are collected in the database and sent from there.
Emails are only sent if the email address is verified.
E-mails can be sent for various actions.
This includes: Completion of a poll, customisation of a poll, change of participation by owner, before automatic deletion due to inactivity.
The E-Mails will be deleted after 720 days.
This informations will be saved: Date, Mail Text, Mail subject, Recipient, Sender, Send date, User, Kontact, Poll

Requests under contact are saved.
Archived contact conversations are deleted after 100 days without adjustment.
This informations will be saved: Name, E-Mail, Text, Creation date, User (if available)

The locks, resulting from failed logins, are logged.
These locks are deleted after 20 days.
This informations will be saved: From, To, Reason, Person, Origin (IP)

Poll data is stored until it is deleted. This can be done by the owner at any time.
Inactive polls are automatically deleted after 100 days. The poll is considered inactive if nothing has been changed in it for this period of time.
If a poll has the continuous setting activated but is inactive, the continuous settings will be disabled after 50 days.
This informations will be saved: Poll title, Poll location, Participants, Options, Participant answers, Notes.

Userdata will be saved until the account is deleted.
Inactive users will be deleted after 740 days without login.
This informations will be saved: Displayname, Usernamem, Password, E-Mail Adress (if provided), Register date, Last login

It is possible to log in with a Google Account.
The name and e-mail address are used from the personal information.
The e-mail address is saved as verified and therefore used for e-mail traffic.
The e-mail address can be displayed by the owner of a poll if you take part in the poll.
Access to the calendar is also requested when you log in.
If this is guaranteed, the calendar entries are saved.
The information from the calendar is used to indicate the dates on which you have calendar entries when you take part in a poll.
Only entries starting from today are queried. Old entries are removed from the database each time you log in.
Furthermore, all entries that are in the past are deleted once a week.
The calendar data cannot be viewed by other people.
The data will not be passed on to third parties.
This informations will be saved: From, To, calendar text, color, User, e-mail address, Name, Last update.
This data is stored in encrypted form: calendar text, name, e-mail address.

The relevant data is stored in the database in encrypted form.
This further increases the security of the data. People who have access to the database cannot view any data.
Developers or database administrators, for example, have access to the database.
If unauthorised people manage to gain access to the database, they cannot do anything with the data thanks to the encryption.