Privacy Policy

In accordance with the statutory provisions of data protection law (in particular the new version of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we inform you below about the nature, scope, and purpose of the processing of personal data by our company. This privacy policy also applies to our websites and social media profiles. For the definition of terms such as "personal data" or "processing," please refer to Art. 4 GDPR.

Our responsible (hereinafter "responsible") as defined in Art. 4 no. 7 GDPR is:

PlayFront.de

Gubitzstraße 46, 10409 Berlin

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Your rights

You can exercise the following rights at any time using the contact details provided:

Information about your stored data and their processing,
Correction of incorrect personal data,
Deletion of your stored data,
Restriction of data processing, if we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
Objection to the processing of your data by us and
Data portability, if you have consented to the data processing or have signed a contract with us.

If you have given us your consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

Purposes of data processing by the responsible body and third parties

We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. A transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those mentioned does not take place. We only share your personal information with third parties if:

You have given your express consent to
the processing is required to complete a contract with you,
the processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation,

processing is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your information.

Deletion or blocking of data

We adhere to the principles of data avoidance and data economy. Therefore, we only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes stated here or as provided by the various storage periods provided for by law. After discontinuation of the respective purpose or expiration of these deadlines, the corresponding data are routinely and according to the legal regulations blocked or deleted.

Collecting general information when visiting our website

When you access our website, a cookie automatically records information of a general nature. This information (server log files) contains about the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and the like. This is only information that does not allow conclusions about your person.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the contents of web pages requested by you and is mandatory when using the internet. They are processed in particular for the following purposes:

Ensuring a hassle-free connection of the website,
Ensuring a smooth use of our website,
Evaluation of system security and stability as well
for further administrative purposes.

The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest for the purposes mentioned above for collecting data. We do not use your information to draw conclusions about you. The recipient of the data is only the responsible body and possibly the processor.

Anonymous information of this kind may be statistically evaluated by us to optimize our website and the underlying technology.

Privacy policy for a newsletter

Scope

This privacy policy is intended to inform users of our newsletter, in accordance with the Federal Data Protection Act and the Telemedia Act, about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data.

The website operator takes your privacy very seriously and treats your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal regulations. Please be aware that data transmission over the internet can always be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection against access by third parties is not possible.

Data collected

The website operator/provider collects data when you subscribe to the newsletter. The collected data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter, including:

E-mail address

Comment function

By using the comment function, you agree to the storage of your data (based on the information you voluntarily provide), which generally includes your chosen name and email address. This data will be stored in the database, and you can request access to, deletion of, or modification of this data at any time via the contact form.

Transparency is important to us. Therefore, we would like to point out that comments from social media (especially Facebook) can be made visible in our blog posts. The imported comments are stored in our database and are subject to our website's privacy policy.

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host's servers. This may include, in particular, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communication data, contract data, contact information, names, website access data, and other data generated via a website. The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations to our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) and in the interest of a secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR). Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfill its contractual obligations and will comply with our instructions regarding this data. To ensure data processing in compliance with data protection regulations, we have concluded a data processing agreement with our host.

Cookie policy

Like many other websites, we also use so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a website server to your hard disk. This means that we automatically receive certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system and your connection to the Internet.

Cookies can not be used to launch programs or to transfer viruses to a computer. Based on the information contained in cookies, we can facilitate navigation and enable the correct display of our websites.

In no case will the data collected by us be passed on to third parties or a link with personal data will be established without your consent.

Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In general, you can disable the use of cookies at any time through the settings of your browser. Please use the help features of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings. Please note that some features of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

Reports on access statistics

We use "session cookies" from VG Wort, Munich, to measure access to texts in order to determine the likelihood of copying. Session cookies are small pieces of information that a provider stores in the working memory of the visitor's computer. A randomly generated unique identification number, a so-called session ID, is stored in a session cookie. A cookie also contains information about its origin and the storage period. Session cookies cannot save any other data. These measurements are carried out by Kantar Germany GmbH according to the scalable central measuring method (SZM). They help to determine the likelihood of individual texts being copied in order to remunerate the legal claims of authors and publishers. We do not collect any personal data via cookies.

Many of our pages contain JavaScript calls that report access to the collecting society VG Wort. This allows our authors to participate in VG Wort's distributions, which ensure the statutory remuneration for the use of copyrighted works in accordance with Section 53 of the German Copyright Act (UrhG).

SSL encryption

To protect the security of your data during transmission, we use state-of-the-art encryption techniques (such as SSL) over HTTPS.

reCaptcha by Google

This website is invisibly protected by reCAPTCHA by Google to prevent unwanted spam, such as via the contact form. The following also apply: privacy policy. and Terms of Use from Google.

Contact form

For any questions, please contact us via Contact form By contacting us, you are giving us your voluntary consent to contact you. A valid email address is required for this purpose. This address is used to identify your inquiry and to respond to it. Providing further information is optional. The information you provide will be stored for the purpose of processing your inquiry and for any follow-up questions. Your personal data will be automatically deleted once your inquiry has been resolved.

Use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (following: Google). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", ie text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on these websites, your IP address will be shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics within the framework of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data provided by Google.

The purposes of the data processing are the evaluation of the use of the website and the compilation of reports on activities on the website. Based on the use of the website and the Internet, other related services will be provided. The processing is based on the legitimate interest of the website operator.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading the browser plug-in available under the following link and install: Browser Add On to disable Google Analytics.

In addition or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent Google Analytics tracking on our pages by: click on this link, An opt-out cookie will be installed on your device. This will prevent the collection by Google Analytics for this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.

Using Script Libraries (Google Webfonts)

In order to render our content correctly and graphically appealing across browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries on this website, such as: B. Google Webfonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/). Google web fonts are transferred to the cache of your browser to prevent multiple loading. If the browser does not support Google Web fonts or prohibits access, content will be displayed in a standard font.

The call of script libraries or font libraries automatically triggers a connection to the operator of the library. It is theoretically possible - but currently also unclear whether and if so for what purposes - that operators of such libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Embedded videos from YouTube, Twitch & Co.

On some of our websites, we embed videos from YouTube, Twitch, and other platforms. When you visit a page with an embedded video, a connection is established to the servers of the respective provider. This informs the provider which pages you are visiting. If you are also logged into your account with the respective provider, they can associate your browsing activity with you personally. You can prevent this by logging out of your account beforehand. When a video is started, the provider sets cookies that collect information about user behavior.

If you have disabled cookies for the Google Ads program, you will not encounter such cookies when watching, for example, YouTube videos. However, the operators also store non-personally identifiable usage information in other cookies. If you wish to prevent this, you must block cookies in your browser.

Further information on data protection can be found in the provider's privacy policy at:

Social plugins

Our websites use social plugins of the providers listed below. The plugins can be recognized by the fact that they are marked with the appropriate logo.

These plug-ins may be used to send information, which may include personal information, to the service provider and may be used by the service provider. We prevent the unconscious and unwanted collection and transmission of data to the service provider through an 2 click solution. To activate a desired social plugin, it must first be activated by clicking on the corresponding button. Only through this activation of the plugin is the detection of information and its transmission to the service provider triggered. We do not collect personally identifiable information by means of social plugins or their use.

We have no control over what data an enabled plugin collects and how it is used by the provider. At present, it must be assumed that a direct connection to the services of the provider will be expanded and at least the IP address and device-related information will be collected and used. It is also possible that the service providers try to save cookies on the computer used. Please refer to the privacy policy of the respective service provider to see which specific data is collected here and how it is used. Note: If you are logged in to Facebook at the same time, Facebook may identify you as a visitor to a particular page.

We have integrated the social media buttons of the following companies on our website:

Google AdWords

Our website uses Google conversion tracking. If you reached our website via an advertisement placed by Google, Google Adwords will set a cookie on your computer. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad placed by Google. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages on our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can see that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Every Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be tracked via the websites of AdWords customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers find out the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.

If you do not want to participate in the tracking, you can refuse the required setting of a cookie - for example via a browser setting that generally disables the automatic setting of cookies or sets your browser to block cookies from the domain "googleleadservices.com".

Please note that you can not delete the opt-out cookies as long as you do not want to record measurement data. If you have deleted all your cookies in the browser, you must set the respective opt-out cookie again.

Affiliate Links

This website uses affiliate links from various providers, including Amazon, eBay, and Awin/Co. These links are commission links, also known as affiliate links. If you click on such a link and purchase something on the target page, we receive a referral commission from the respective provider or online shop. This does not result in any disadvantage for you in terms of the purchase or the price.

Change of our privacy policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy to always comply with the latest legal requirements or to implement changes to our privacy policy, such as the introduction of new services. Your new visit will be subject to the new privacy policy.

Questions to the data protection officer

According to a resolution passed by the German Bundestag on June 28, 2019, a data protection officer only needs to be appointed for companies with 20 or more employees. Since this does not apply to PlayFront.de, this requirement does not apply in our case. However, individual data protection inquiries can still be submitted at any time via the contact form.