Privacy Statement
The site owner takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. We will treat your data as confidential and in compliance with applicable data protection regulations and this privacy statement.
CONTROLLER
The controller pursuant Art. 4 para 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Cycling Bear Publishing GmbH, Schwedter Straße 34b, 10435 Berlin, e-mail: info@berlinquarterly.com.
SCOPE AND PURPOSES OF COLLECTION OF DATA
In case you are visiting our website, we will collect the following data:
We will use the collected data for the following purposes:
We are processing these data in accordance with Art. 6 para 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the above purposes of processing.
The collected data will be erased after the visit of our website unless we are subject to a legal retention obligation (e.g. under the German Telecoms Data Retention Act – Gesetz über die Vorratsdatenspeicherung) or you have given your explicit consent to retain your data. In case we retain your data because of a legal retention obligation, the data will be erased once the retention period has expired.
TRANSMISSION OF DATA
We will generally not transmit the data collected upon your visit of our website to third parties. We will, in exceptional cases, transmit data to third parties in case one of the following applies:
USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small data packets which are exchanged between the visitor’s browser and the server of our website. These packets are stored on the visitor’s terminal device. In these cookies, data is stored which enables our website to recognise your browser on the next visit and automatically use the same settings as of the previous visit. Further, cookies can be used for statistical analysis of our website (see below: use of web-analysis tools, web-tracking).
Cookies will be either erased after the end of the respective session or stored on your terminal device unless you erase them.
You can prevent the use of cookies by changing your browser settings accordingly. However, please be aware that you might only have restricted use of our website in case you prevent the use of cookies.
The data processed by cookies are processed in accordance with Art. 6 para 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR for legitimate interest. Such interest results from the above purposes of use of cookies.
USE OF GOOLGE ANALYTICS
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web-analysis tool provided by Google Inc., (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) (Google).
In this context, pseudonymised user profiles will be created and cookies will be used (see above: Use of Cookies). Information produced by the cookie regarding your use of our website, in particular
will be transmitted to a server of Google located in the United States and stored there. The data will be used to analyse the use of our website, to compile reports regarding the activities on the website and to rend further services related to the use of the website and the internet, for the purposes of market research and personalising of websites. Data is transmitted to third parties to the extent that these third parties are processing the data. IP-addresses will be anonymised, which prevents allocation to a person.
Apart from the possibility to prevent the use cookies in general, (see above: Use of Cookies), you can install a browser add-on to prevent that information created by the cookie as well as data related to your use of our website (e.g.: IP-address) will be collected and processed by Google. You can download such add-on under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
In case you are using a mobile device, clicking the above link will set a so called opt-out cookie on your device which will prevent the collection of your data when visiting our website, but only for the respective type of browser.
Google and its services are certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield (Privacy Shield). The Privacy Shield is an agreement between the European Union and the United States of America to ensure compliance with European privacy standards in the United States. By resolution 2016/1250 dated 12 July 2016, the commission of the EU resolved that the Privacy Shield complies with the EU data protection standard.
The legal basis of use of the Google Analytics tool is Art. 6 para 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. The use of Google Analytics is our legitimate interest as it serves for statistical registration of the use of our website and therefore the continuous improvement of our website.
WEBSHOP
In case you buy items from our webshop, we collect the following data:
We use this data only to perform the respective purchase. We erase this data, once applicable retention periods have expired.
The legal basis for the collection and processing of this data is Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. b) GDPR. The data is only processed to perform a contractual relationship you are party to.
PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL
In case you chose to pay via PayPal, your data will be transmitted to PayPal, a service of PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg (PayPal).
For the payment methods of credit card via PayPal and debit via PayPal, PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit assessment. The result of this assessment regarding statistical default probability will be used to decide whether PayPal grants the chosen payment method. The credit assessment can include score values. In case score values are involved, they are based on a mathematical-statistical procedure. You residency will be included in the score values. For further data protection relevant information, including the used credit agency, please visit https://www.paypal.com/gi/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
In case you chose to pay via PayPal, the following information will be transmitted to PayPal:
These data will be processed exclusively to perform the respective payment.
The legal basis for the processing of data is Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. b) GDPR. The transmission is necessary to perform a contractual relationship you are party to.
PAYMENT VIA CREDIT CARD
In case you chose to pay via credit card, we will collect the following data:
These data will transmitted to and collected by the payment service provider.
These data will be processed exclusively to perform the respective payment.
The legal basis for the processing of data is Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. b) GDPR. The transmission is necessary to perform a contractual relationship you are party to.
NEWSLETTER
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 para 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR. 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.
YOUR RIGHTS AS DATA SUBJECT
With regard to your personal data collected by us, you have the following rights against us:
VERSION
This policy statement dates from May 2018. The current version of the privacy statement is visible on www.berlinquarterly.com/privacy at any time.