🔒Privacy Policy

Responsible Party
Concept Media Group B.V.
Lottumseweg 43
5971 BV Grubbenvorst, Netherlands
Contact: [email protected]

Questions Related to Data Protection, Exercising your Rights and Opt-out Rights

If you have any questions related to data protection, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us via our contact form, adding the subject “security / data protection”. To comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) you find additional information within this document.

In which cases will we process personal data

We will process personal data which you transfer to us actively by your entries. Additionally, we will process personal data in an automated way, based on the use of our service. Particularly in the cases stated below your personal data may be processed and the categories are defined by California law and represent the personal data that we have collected about California residents, and how it has been shared, over the past 12 months.

Category	Source	How to use	Business / Commercial Purpose?	Sharing Information
internet activity such as ipadress, browsing history, browser information	Directly from you (Visiting our website)	Defense against attacks on our technical infrastructure / See “Visiting our Website” below	Business	Service provider
inferences drawn from other personal information	Our service providers	Analyzes of the users‘ motivations for visiting our website and how they use it / Analyzes of our advertising measures‘ success / Personalization of advertisement measures	Business	Affiliates Service provider

For details, please refer to the following explanations.

Visiting our Website

As soon as you visit our website, the company we have entrusted with the website’s operation will store the public IP address of the computer you are using to visit our website. This includes the access date and time. The IP address is a unique numeric address, through which your computer sends and receives data via the internet. Usually, neither we nor our service provider will know whom the IP address belongs to, unless you provide us with any data permitting us to identify you while using our website. Also, a user can be identified if we take legal action (in cases of cyber-attacks on our website, for instance) and are informed of the user’s identity during the process of investigation. So as a general rule, you will not have to worry we will be able to draw a connection between you and your IP address.

Our service provider is using the IP address to enable you to visit and use our website, and to discover and prevent attacks on our websites. Unfortunately, websites are attacked frequently, in order to harm the operators and users (for example blocking the access, spying on data, distributing malware like viruses or other illegal purposes). Such attacks would adversely affect our website’s intended use as well as the security of our website’s visitors. The IP address, along with the visit’s time, is being processed to prevent such attacks and potential dangers resulting from them for ourselves and for our website’s users. Via our service provider we are pursuing the justified interests of maintaining our business operations as well as of preventing unlawful interference affecting ourselves or our website’s visitors. The stored IP data will be deleted by de-personalization, provided they are no longer necessary for the purpose of identifying or preventing attacks.

Use of Cookies and Comparable Technologies

For our website’s operation we are using cookies comparable technologies (local storage, pixel tags, tracking pixels and other identifiers) to understand how visitors use our website and to store pre-settings users have made in their browsers. We also use these technologies to personalize our website for each user and to adapt our advertising measures.

Cookies are small text files, which are stored on your computer through your browser when you visit our website. If you re-access our website later, we will be able to read the cookies on your browser again. Cookies are stored for different periods of time. You can adapt the settings in your browser, regarding to which cookies it is to accept, at any time, but this may result in our website not working properly. Additionally, you can delete cookies independently at any time. If you don’t do this, we can indicate for how long a cookie is to be stored on your computer during the process of saving. There is a difference between so-called session cookies and permanent cookies. Session cookies will be deleted by your browser when you leave the website or when you quit the browser. Permanent cookies will remain stored for the period of time we have set in the process of saving.

We are using cookies for the purposes stated below:

Technically necessary cookies, which are indispensable for the use of our website’s functions (for example to identify whether you have logged in). Certain functionalities could not be provided without these cookies.
Functional cookies that are being used to technically process certain functionalities, which you would like to use.
Analyzing cookies serving the purpose of analyzing user behavior. For details please read the information under the heading “Evaluations”.
Cookies of third party providers. Cookies of third party providers are stored by third parties, whose functionalities we are integrating into our website, in order to enable certain functionalities. They can also be used to analyze user behavior. For details please read the information under the heading “Evaluations”.

Most of the browsers employed by our users permit their settings to be adapted, concerning which cookies are to be saved. They also permit to delete (specific) cookies. If you are restricting cookies to be saved on specific websites, or if you are declining cookies from third party websites, you might not be able to make use of our website in its full extent. Below please find some information concerning how to adapt the cookie settings with the most frequently used browsers:

Google Analytics Data Protection Declaration

This website is using Google Analytics, a service by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The use is based on article article 6 paragraph 1 subparagraph 1 letter a) and letter f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Google Analytics is making use of so-called „Cookies”, which are small text files, which are stored on your computer, and which permit an analysis of your use of the website. The information regarding your use of the website created by the cookie, such as

Browser type / version, language settings
Operating system
Referrer URL (the website you have been visiting before)
Hostname of the accessing computer (IP address in shortened form)
Time of the server request

will usually be transferred to one of Google’s servers within the USA and stored there. The IP address transferred via your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be brought together with any other data by Google. The way we use Google Analytics ensures that your IP address will be used in a de-personalized way only.

Third country transfer

If data is processed outside the EU/EEA and there is no level of data protection corresponding to the European standard, we shall conclude EU standard contractual clauses with the service provider in order to establish an appropriate level of data protection.

For details, please refer to Google’s privacy policy, accessible via https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en .

On behalf of this website’s operator Google will make use of these data to analyze the website’s use, to create reports about the website activities and to perform other services related to the website’s and the internet’s use for the website’s provider. You can prevent the saving of cookies by adapting your browser software settings. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to make full use of all the functionalities of this website.

Revocation

Additionally, you can prevent the registration of data created by cookies and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices,please click this link, to prevent the future registration by Google Analytics within this website (the opt-out will only work within this browser and only for this domain). In the process, an opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you delete your cookies within your browser, you will have to click the link again.

Additionally, we are using Google Analytics to evaluate date from double-click-cookies and Google Ads for statistic purposes. If you do not wish this to be done, you can deactivate it via the ads preferences manager ( http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en).

Please refer to Google Analytics Help for further information related to Google Analytics (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en).

We have advertisements displayed on other websites to win new customers. In order to primarily contact persons who have previously visited our website and therefore are likely to be interested in our products, we make use of advertising partners, who use so-called “retargeting functions”. We use pixel technology which set a cookie within your computer / phone etc.

These are the partners stated below:

Microsoft Advertising
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052 USA
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
Opt-Out:https://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out

For this functionality, the service provider will assign a pseudonymous identification number (ID) to your browser to be able to process which advertisements have already been displayed in your browser and which you have accessed. This is done via cookies, which do not contain any further personal data. These cookies other technologies like tracking-pixel make it possible to place advertisements on websites using this service as well, based on your previous visits on our or other websites.

We are pursuing the justified interest in winning new customers. It is our conviction that our advertising measures will be more effective, and therefore more successful, if we have them displayed in cases in which they meet the assumed interests of the respective website’s user. According to market expertise advertisements are more effective and clicked more frequently, if they meet the assumed interests of the website’s users.

Apart from the options stated above, you can also object to the respective use of your data by setting so-called “opt-out cookies” on the Digital Advertising Alliance’s website, using this link. Additionally, you can adapt your browser settings, so it will not accept any more cookies from so-called third-party providers, or just those from the website you have visited. You can also install an add-on like uBlock Origin (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/) in your browser, which will allow you to block data transfers to third parties to a great extent. Please note that this may possibly adversely affect our website’s functionalities.

Google Googleadservices / Google Ads Conversion

This website is using tools for “Online Marketing” by the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. The purpose is to recognize, that a visitor has been directed to our website via a Google advertisement. Google is using cookies, which are saved on your computer and which permit an analysis of the website’s use. The cookies for the so-called “conversion tracking” are set if you click on any advertisement placed by Google. These cookies will cease to be valid after 30 days and do not serve the purpose of personal identification. If you would like to prevent “conversion tracking”, you can adapt your browser settings, so cookies from the domain “googleadservices.com” will be blocked. You can also exercise your right to opt-out via the website http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. If you would like to know more about these methods or about the options you have to prevent Google from using this information, please click here:

https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated

Use of Google Remarketing

This website is using the remarketing function by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; „Google“). This function serves the purpose of presenting advertisements matching their interests to website visitors within the Google advertising network. The technology enables us to place automatically created, target-group-oriented advertisements after your visit to our website. The advertisements are based on the products and services you have clicked during your last visit to our website. For this purpose, a so-called “cookie” will be saved, which makes it possible to recognize the visitors whenever they access websites that are part of Google’s advertising network. Cookies are small text files, which are stored in your browser when you visit our website. Normally, Google will save information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language as well as your requests date and time. These data serve the purpose of associating the web browser with a specific computer. In consequence, it will be possible to present advertisements to the visitor of websites within the Google advertising network, which are related to websites the visitor has accessed previously, if they are using the Google remarketing function.

If you have agreed to the use viahttps://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated, allowing Google to combine your browsing history with your Google Account and to use the information from your Google Account for advertisement personalization, the remarketing function will work across any devices as well. For this, Google will raise your Google ID and process it for the purpose of inter-device recognition. According to Google’s statement, no personal data will be collected during this process. If you still do not wish Google’s remarketing function, you can deactivate it by adapting the settings accordingly athttp://www.google.com/settings/ads.

Alternatively, you can deactivate the use of cookies for interest-related advertising by following the instructions at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp respectively http://www.youronlinechoices.com/lu/praferenzmanagement.

You can also prevent

You can also prevent the cookies from being stored by the corresponding browser software settings. We would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of this website’s functionalities to their full extent. For further information about Google’s use of cookies, please refer toGoogle’s data privacy statement.

CCPA - Concerning Californian residents

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes additional CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights. We respond to CCPA forms with a confirmation by right to know and deletion requests within ten business days and an answer within forty-five calendar days from receiving the data - If necessary and we cannot respond we send you a notification / explanation and take another forty-five days.

Right of Access

According to the California Consumer Privacy Act you have the right to demand a confirmation from our side, stating whether we are processing personal data concerning you. If that is the case, you are entitled to intelligence about these personal data and to further information, as stated in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights for CCPA

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will send to you:

categories of personal information and sources we collected about you
our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
categories of 3th parties if we share that personal information
specific pieces of personal information we collected about you like a data portability request
If we sold or disclosed your data for business purposes we inform you about sales (category of recipient purchased)

Right to Erasure / Deletion

You have the right to demand of us to delete your personal data with no delay. We are obligated to delete any personal data immediately, if the relevant are met. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers if.

we detect security issues, illegal activities etc.
there are transactions or refunds, you use our services or have a ongoing business relationship with
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.) or a legal obligation

Right to OptOut

The California Consumer Privacy Act gives consumers the ability to do business without selling their personal information to a third party. This section does not stop from distributing data within the organization! If you want to Opt-Out use the “Opt Out” subject via our contact form. We honor the request for 12 months before we ask to opt-in to the sale of your personal information. Please give us 15 days from the date the requests are received

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not deny you or services or charge you different prices or rates for our services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties. Also, we do not provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.