PRIVACY POLICY

Garden of Dreamers Project

Last Updated: December 22, 2025

1. Identity of the Data Controller

The Garden of Dreamers constitutes a non-commercial social experiment examining adult aspirations globally. The symbolic participation fee of USD 1.99 serves to verify participant intent and offset minimal operational expenditures. This initiative does not constitute a commercial service.

Data Controller:

Individual Entrepreneur Dimitri Bahdanau

Individual Enterprise

Identification Number: 345679580

2. Personal Data Collected

Upon participation, you voluntarily provide the following personal data:

Email address – utilized exclusively for transmission of payment receipts and (optionally) project updates

Age bracket – categorized as 18-25, 26-35, etc. (never publicly disclosed)

Country and municipality – employed solely to position your symbolic tree within the appropriate geographic sector of the Garden

Dream designation and classification – selected from eight predefined life spheres (Health, Relationships, Family, Career, Finance, Spirituality, Personal Development, Joy)

We expressly do not collect IP addresses, precise geolocation coordinates, or payment instrumentation details. Payment processing is conducted exclusively by secure third-party payment processors (including but not limited to PayPal and Stripe), with no retention of such financial data by our organization.

3. Public Display: Dual Independent Consent Mechanism

Your symbolic tree may appear in the public Garden of Dreamers exclusively upon your explicit consent. You maintain control over two discrete consent options within your personal dashboard:

Consent 1: "Display my dream designation"

Upon granting consent: your designated dream title appears adjacent to your symbolic tree

Upon withholding consent: your tree appears in anonymized form (e.g., as an unlabeled silhouette or generic bonsai)

Consent 2: "Position my tree within my municipal and national zone"

Upon granting consent: your tree is positioned within the appropriate territorial demarcation (e.g., Europe → Germany → Berlin)

Upon withholding consent: your tree shall never appear within the public Garden visualization

You retain the right to grant, modify, or withdraw either consent at any time without prejudice. Your age classification shall NEVER be displayed within the public Garden visualization under any circumstances.

4. Protection Measures for Participants from Smaller Municipalities

To prevent inadvertent identification:

Municipalities with fewer than five participants shall not display individual trees at the municipal level

Such participants' trees shall instead be aggregated under "Other municipalities in [Country]" (e.g., "Other municipalities in Germany")

These trees remain within their appropriate national zone but are not attributed to any specific municipality in public display

5. Aggregate Statistical Reporting

Public visualizations and reports shall display exclusively aggregated, consent-based statistical information, including but not limited to:

"Berlin — 1,000 dreamers" (contingent upon ≥5 consenting participants)

"Other municipalities in Germany — 87 dreamers"

"United States — 1,500,000 dreamers"

All published statistics reflect exclusively participants who have expressly consented to geographic positioning.

6. Lawful Basis for Processing

Consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR — for publication of dream designations and/or geographic positioning of participant trees

Performance of contractual obligations pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR — for processing participation and transmitting receipts

Legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR — for anonymized academic research and public reporting

7. Data Subject Rights

Pursuant to applicable data protection legislation, you maintain the right to:

Obtain a complete copy of all personal data undergoing processing

Rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data

Withdraw consent for specific processing activities

Request complete erasure of personal data ("right to be forgotten")

Lodge a formal complaint with the relevant supervisory authority (particularly within the European Economic Area)

To exercise these rights, please contact our Data Protection Representative at: privacy@dreamseed.online

8. Data Security and Retention Protocol

All personal data is maintained on end-to-end encrypted servers with strictly limited access protocols

Personal data is retained for a maximum period of three (3) years following your last interaction with our platform

Upon receipt of a valid erasure request or upon expiration of the retention period, all personal data is permanently and irreversibly expunged from our systems

9. Contact Information

Data Protection Representative: privacy@dreamseed.online

Project Website: https://dreamseed.online