Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General
The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. Detailed information on the subject of data protection can be found in our privacy policy found below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?
The data collected on this website are processed by the website operator. The operator’s contact details can be found in the website’s required legal notice.

How do we collect your data?
Some data are collected when you provide it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter on a contact form. Other data are collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. These data are primarily technical data such as the browser and operating system you are using or when you accessed the page. These data are collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.

What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure the proper functioning of the website. Other data can be used to analyze how visitors use the site.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You always have the right to request information about your stored data, its origin, its recipients, and the purpose of its collection at no charge. You also have the right to request that it be corrected, blocked, or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in the legal notice if you have further questions about the issue of privacy and data protection. You may also, of course, file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities.

Analytics and third-party tools
When visiting our website, statistical analyses may be made of your surfing behavior. This happens primarily using cookies and analytics. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous, i.e. we will not be able to identify you from this data. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. Detailed information can be found in the following privacy policy. You can object to this analysis. We will inform you below about how to exercise your options in this regard.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection
The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. If you use this website, various pieces of personal data will be collected. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what information we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens. Please note that data transmitted via the internet (e.g. via email communication) may be subject to security breaches. Complete protection of your data from third-party access is not possible.

Notice concerning the party responsible for this website
The party responsible for processing data on this website is:
Wibit Sports GmbH
Am Gut Baarking 15
DE-46395 Bocholt
Telephone: +49 (0) 2871 23820-0
Email: info@wibitsports.com

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (names, email addresses, etc.).

Revocation of your consent to the processing of your data
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed.

Right to file complaints with regulatory authorities
If there has been a breach of data protection legislation, the person affected may file a complaint with the competent regulatory authorities. The competent regulatory authority for matters related to data protection legislation is the data protection officer of the German state in which our company is headquartered. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Right to data portability
You have the right to have data which we process based on your consent or in fulfillment of a contract automatically delivered to yourself or to a third party in a standard, machine-readable format. If you require the direct transfer of data to another responsible party, this will only be done to the extent technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption
This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and for the protection of the transmission of confidential content, such as the inquiries you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encrypted connection in your browser’s address line when it changes from “http://” to “https://” and the lock icon is displayed in your browser’s address bar. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion
As permitted by law, you have the right to be provided at any time with information free of charge about any of your personal data that is stored as well as its origin, the recipient and the purpose for which it has been processed. You also have the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. You can contact us at any time using the address given in our legal notice if you have further questions on the topic of personal data.

Opposition to promotional emails

We hereby expressly prohibit the use of contact data published in the context of website legal notice requirements with regard to sending promotional and informational materials not expressly requested. The website operator reserves the right to take specific legal action if unsolicited advertising material, such as email spam, is received.

3. Data protection officer

Statutory data protection officer
We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

in-Praxis
Holger von Eicken
Hoffgarten 18
DE-59069 Hamm
Telephone: +49 (0) 2385 913361
Email: datenschutzbeauftragter@wibitsports.com

4. Data collection on our website

Cookies
Some of our web pages use cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies help make our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies.” They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain in your device’s memory until you delete them. These cookies make it possible to recognize your browser when you next visit the site. You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a casebycase basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website. Cookies which are necessary to allow electronic communications or to provide certain functions you wish to use (such as the shopping cart) are stored pursuant to Art. 6 paragraph 1, letter f of DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies to ensure an optimized service provided free of technical errors. If other cookies (such as those used to analyze your surfing behavior) are also stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy.

Server log files
The website provider automatically collects and stores information that your browser automatically transmits to us in “server log files”.
These are:
· Browser type and browser version
· Operating system used
· Referrer URL
· Host name of the accessing computer
· Time of the server request
· IP address

These data will not be combined with data from other sources. The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO, which allows the processing of data to fulfill a contract or for measures preliminary to a contract.

Contact form
Should you send us questions via the contact form, we will collect the data entered on the form, including the contact details you provide, to answer your question and any follow-up questions. We do not share this information without your permission. We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1)(a) DSGVO. You may revoke your consent at any time. An informal email making this request is sufficient. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed. We will retain the data you provide on the contact form until you request its deletion, revoke your consent for its storage, or the purpose for its storage no longer pertains (e.g. after fulfilling your request). Any mandatory statutory provisions, especially those regarding mandatory data retention periods, remain unaffected by this provision.

5. Social media

Facebook plugins (Like & Share buttons)
Our website includes plugins for the social network Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. The Facebook plugins can be recognized by the Facebook logo or the Like button on our site. For an overview of Facebook plugins, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established via the plugin. This enables Facebook to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our site to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to our site with your user account. Please note that, as the operator of this site, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted to Facebook or of how Facebook uses these data. For more information, please see Facebook’s privacy policy at https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php. If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our site with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.

Twitter plugin
Functions of the Twitter service have been integrated into our website and app. These features are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the “Retweet” function, the websites you visit are connected to your Twitter account and made known to other users. In doing so, data will also be transferred to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by Twitter. For more information on Twitter’s privacy policy, please go to https://twitter.com/privacy . Your privacy preferences with Twitter can be modified in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

Instagram plugin
Our website contains functions of the Instagram service. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can click the Instagram button to link the content of our pages with your Instagram profile. This means that Instagram can associate visits to our pages with your user account. As the provider of this website, we expressly point out that we receive no information on the content of the transmitted data or its use by Instagram. For more information, see the Instagram Privacy Policy: https://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

LinkedIn company page

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (based in Ireland, an EU Member State, and hereinafter referred to as ‘LinkedIn’) is the sole controller in respect of the processing of personal data on our LinkedIn company page. You can find out more about how LinkedIn processes personal data at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

When you visit our LinkedIn company page, LinkedIn processes personal data in order to provide us with anonymised analysis. This analysis gives us insights into your behaviour on our LinkedIn company page (LinkedIn calls this information ‘page insights’). We do not obtain any of your personal data from these page insights; we only have access to aggregated content. We cannot influence the nature and extent of processing of your personal data by LinkedIn. However, such processing of personal data is conducted as part of a joint controller relationship pursuant to Article 26 GDPR. This processing serves our legitimate interest in obtaining information about activity on our LinkedIn company page, pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. In this connection, LinkedIn has published an agreement on data processing by joint controllers. The agreement sets out the division of data processing responsibilities between ourselves and LinkedIn, and can be viewed at https://legal.linkedin.com/pages-joint-controller-addendum.

Please be aware that LinkedIn may also process personal data in the United States or in other third countries.

6. Analytics and Advertising

Below we describe how your personal information is processed using tracking technologies to analyze and optimize our services and for promotional purposes. The description of the tracking methods also includes information on how to prevent or object to the processing of data. Please note that the so-called “opt-out”, i.e. the rejection of processing, is usually stored via cookies. If you use our services via a new device or in another browser, or if you have deleted the cookies set by your browser, you need to carry out the opt-out-process again. The tracking methods described below process personal data only in pseudonymous form. A connection with a specific, identified natural person, i.e. a combination of the data with information about the carrier of the pseudonym, does not take place. Tracking to analyze and optimize our services and their use, as well as measuring the success of advertising campaigns and optimizing advertising

a. Purposes of processing

Data processing and analysis for marketing purposes:

Your individual needs are important to us and we try to give you information about our services that suit you. In order to do so we use findings from our business relationship with you, your usage behavior on wdp.de or from market research and opinion polls. The main objective of the processing of your data is the relevant communication in the context of advertisements. Through the structured collection and processing of the data, we specify our marketing and minimize the appearance of inappropriate advertising to you and third parties. We guarantee that we process your personal data (as far as legally possible) in accordance with the provisions of applicable data protection law. Please note: You can object to the use of your personal data for these purposes at any time.

Email or printed direct advertisement:

We send emails or printed products with personal content to your business contact details. At all times you have the right to refuse this personalized advertisement by sending an email to our data protection officer.

Measures for your safety:

· To ensure IT security

· In order to be able to understand and prove facts in case of legal disputes

 b. Legal basis of processing

Legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 f) of the GDPR

c. The tracking methods used in detail

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Your data are transferred to a third country. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are 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. Google Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its Wibit advertising. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

IP anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the United States. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and Internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

Browser plugin

You can prevent these cookies being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, we wish to point out that doing so may mean you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the data generated by cookies about your use of the website (incl. your IP address) from being passed to Google, and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Objecting to the collection of data

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An optout cookie will be set to prevent your data from being collected on future visits to this site: Disable Google Analytics. For more information about how Google Analytics handles user data, see Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Outsourced data processing

We have entered into an agreement with Google for the outsourcing of our data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

Demographic data collection by Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics’ demographic features. This allows reports to be generated containing statements about the age, gender, and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This collected data cannot be attributed to any specific individual person. You can disable this feature at any time by adjusting the ads settings in your Google account or you can forbid the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Refusal of data collection”. Additionally, you can opt-out from Google Analytics for this browser here by setting a cookie. Note that if you delete all cookies, you will have to opt-out again. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Facebook Pixel & Custom Audience

This service is provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Your data are transferred to a third country. Each time you visit our website that has such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the Facebook component. Through this process, Facebook is informed about which specific page of our website is being visited by you. If you visit our site and are logged in to Facebook, Facebook recognizes through the information collected by the component, which specific page you visit and assigns this information to your personal account on Facebook. We use personal contact information from you to find you on Facebook about so-called Custom Audiences. You can opt-out from this Facebook Tool for this website for this specific browser here. Note that if you delete all cookies, you will have to opt-out again. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000GnywAAC&status=Active

Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking

This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”). Your data are transferred to a third country. As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking. When you click on an ad served by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is set. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on your computer. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification of the user. Should the user visit certain pages of the website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and the website can tell that the user clicked on the ad and proceeded to that page. Each Google AdWords advertiser has a different cookie. Thus, cookies cannot be tracked using the website of an AdWords advertiser. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for the AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, advertisers do not obtain any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not want to participate in tracking, you can opt-out of this by easily disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie by changing your browser settings. In doing so, you will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Conversion cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising. For more information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, see the Google Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/. You can configure your browser to inform you about the use of cookies so that you can decide on a case by case basis whether to accept or reject a cookie. Alternatively, your browser can be configured to automatically accept cookies under certain conditions or to always reject them, or to automatically delete cookies when closing your browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website. You can find possibilities to opt-out for this tool at http://www.google.com/settings/ads. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Your data are transferred to a third country. reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google. The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place. Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam. For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Google Tag Manager

We use “Google Tag Manager” on our website. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Your data are transferred to a third country. With the Google Tag Manager, the here mentioned Trackers are flexibly turned on / off. For more information about Google Tag Manager and Google’s privacy policy, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. This service is provided by Hotjar Limited, a private limited liability company registered under the Laws of Malta with company number C 65490, having its registered address situated at Level 2, St Julian’s Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian’s STJ 1000, Malta (“Hotjar”). Your data are transferred to a third country. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link. Or you can opt-out from Hotjar only for this browser by setting a cookie here. Note that if you delete all cookies, you will have to opt-out again. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003063813-EU-US-Privacy-Shield-Framework.

LinkedIn-Components / LinkedIn Insight Tag

We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag on our website. This service is provided by LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Your data are transferred to a third country. This makes it possible to specifically target those Internet users with advertising on websites of our partners who are already interested in our offers or to collect data about them. For every visit on a site equipped with such a component, this component lets the used browser to download such a component from LinkedIn. Through this download, LinkedIn gets knowledge about which specific site of us is visited. Through this information LinkedIn is enabled to connect the visit of our website with your LinkedIn account. You can opt-out from LinkedIn Insight Tag only for this browser by setting a cookie here. Note that if you delete all cookies, you will have to opt-out again. You may find SUITABLE GUARANTEES (ART. 46 GDPR) at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000L0UZAA0.

If you want to opt out of interest-based advertising, you can also go to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/en/, click on “Preference Management” and follow the instructions to prevent the listed service providers from using of your data for interest-based advertising completely or individually. You will still receive advertising, but it is not interest-based.

7. Newsletter

Newsletter data
If you would like to receive our newsletter, we require a valid email address as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address and that you agree to receive this newsletter. No additional data is collected or is only collected on a voluntary basis. We only use this data to send the requested information and do not pass it on to third parties. We will, therefore, process any data you enter onto the contact form only with your consent per Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO. You can revoke consent to the storage of your data and email address as well as their use for sending the newsletter at any time, e.g. through the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter. The data processed before we receive your request may still be legally processed. The data provided when registering for the newsletter will be used to distribute the newsletter until you cancel your subscription when said data will be deleted. Data we have stored for other purposes (e.g. email addresses for the members area) remain unaffected.

8. Plugins and tools

YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps
This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facilitate the location of places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of Google at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.