Privacy Policy

INTRO

FEEDBACK AND UNSOLICITED IDEAS

We take protecting your data seriously

Thank you for visiting our website. We are delighted that you are interested in our magazine and our products. We take protecting your personal data very seriously, and we want you to feel secure with regard to the information you give us when you visit our website. For us, complying with German data security law is a matter of course. We want you to know what data we collect at iCrates.org (iCrates GbR) while you are visiting our website, when we collect it and how we use this information.
Links from our website to other websites are not covered by this data protection declaration.
We do our best to ensure that any links on our site meet up to our standards. However, we have no control over the content of these sites and cannot guarantee that they comply with our date protection standards. We therefore advise you to check the data protection declarations on the sites you visit.

Automatically collected non-personal data

When you visit our website, we store certain information for administration and technical reasons. These are:
browser
operating system used
date and time of access
the search engine used
the name and IP address of downloaded files
This data remains anonymous and it is used solely for statistical purposes and to improve our website and online services. This anonymous data is stored separately from personal data on secure systems and allows no inference on individual persons. This means that your personal details are protected at all times.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Personal data

Personal data is information about your identity. This includes your name, your address and telephone number, and your email address. You don’t have to divulge personal information in order to be able to use our internet site. But in some cases we need your name and address, and further information so that we can provide you with the services you require.

The same applies when we want to give you information material or supply you with goods you have ordered, or when we need to answer your questions. We will always tell you when this is necessary. Also, we only store or process data that you have provided us with either voluntarily or automatically.

If you use one of our services, we usually only take the data that is necessary to provide you with the service you require. We may ask you for further information, but this is voluntary. Whenever we process personal data, we do it to provide you with the service you required or to fulfil our legitimate commercial interests.

Using your personal data

As a rule, we only use the personal data you have provided us with to answer your queries, process your orders, or to provide you with access to specific information or offers. We, or one of the service providers we work with, may also want to use this information to provide you with information about our services, or about products that may interest you. We may also use it for online surveys to help us improve customer service.

Naturally, we respect your wishes if you prefer not to provide us with additional information for customer services (especially if this is for direct marketing or market research purposes). We never give personal information to third parties or use it for other purposes.

Using your personal information for specific purposes

The personal information you provided us with will only be used for the specific purpose requested by you. We will not give your details to third parties without your permission.

Personal data is only shared with public authorities and government institutions when this is stipulated by law, or when we are forced to do so by a court of law. Our staff and any service providers we work with are bound to confidentiality and to observing the regulations of the Federal German Data Protection laws.

Except as expressly provided herein, absent your prior consent, we do not permit unrelated third parties to perform “reverse searches” whereby they could identify users from email addresses. In addition, the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide you with iCrates:

External Service Providers. Third Party Applications and Sites, here also referred to as external service providers, will typically provide services complementary to your use of iCrates. If you choose to use these separate services, disclose information to the external service providers, and/ or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. With your consent, and for your convenience, we may provide some of your personal information to an external service provider offering such services. To prevent our disclosure of your personally identifiable information to an external service provider, you can decline such consent or simply not use their services. Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services.
Internal Service Providers. We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of our business, products and services that we provide to you and, therefore, we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers (e.g. customer care). In some instances, the internal service provider may collect information directly from you. In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal service provider. If you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your personally identifiable information is governed by their applicable privacy policy.

ADDITIONAL TERMS THAT ARE APPLICABLE TO USERS OF iCRATES AS OFFERED BY SPECIFIC PARTNERS AND ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE ABOVE LICENSE

Apple

In the event that you are using a Device or Third Party Application provided by Apple, Inc. (“Apple”),

you agree that Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that, upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right to (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as the third party beneficiary thereof;
you acknowledge and agree that we, and not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims you or any third party may have in relation to the Application and/ or the Services;
you acknowledge and agree that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the Application and/ or the Services; and
in the event of any failure of the Application and/ or the Services to conform to any applicable warranty, you agree to notify Apple of such failure. Upon notification Apple will refund the purchase price for the Application and/ or Services (if any) to you.

Cookies

If you visit our website, we might store information on your computer in the form of cookies. Cookies are small files that are sent from an internet server to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Only the internet protocol address is stored in this process, and no personal data is involved. The information stored on cookies means you will be automatically recognised next time you use our website, so you will find our site easier to navigate. For example, cookies enable us to adapt our website to your interests or to store your password, so you don’t have to enter it again.

You can, of course, visit our website without using cookies. If you don’t want us to recognise your computer next time you visit us, you can prevent cookies from being stored simply by setting your browser to “do not accept cookies.” Find out how to do this in your browser’s operating instructions. If you do choose not to accept cookies, you may have difficulty in accessing certain parts of our site.

Promotions

We may, from time to time, offer promotional membership of clubs, which are subject to the terms and conditions publicised with the promotion.

Personal Use

These Services are available for your personal use only and you may not use the Services for any commercial purpose. We may restrict or terminate your access to the Services, at any time, without notice, if you are in breach of the Terms.

Children

Children under the age of 18 should not pass any information on to us without the permission of their parents or guardians. We never request personal data from children or under-aged persons. We do not collect this and do not pass it on to third parties. If you are concerned about your children’s use of the Site, you may use web filtering technology to supervise or limit access to the Site.

Facebook Social Plugins

Our web site uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social networking site, facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identified by a Facebook logo or the phrase “Facebook social plugin”. If you call up a page containing a plugin of this nature from our website, a direct link is established between your browser and Facebook’s servers. The content of the plugins is transmitted directly to your browser by Facebook and included by it in the web page. When you access the plugins, Facebook is notified of the fact that you have called up the corresponding page on our website. If you are logged in to Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. The reason for and scope of the data acquisition and information about the way in which the data is processed and used by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy. If you do not wish to have data collected about you by Facebook via our website, you need to log out of Facebook before visiting the site.

Changes to our data protection regulations

We reserve the right to alter our data safety and protection regulations if and when this becomes necessary as a result of new technology. In these cases, we will alter the data protection advice. Please make sure that you always use the current version of the data protection regulations.

Questions, Suggestions, Complaints

We do care about the trust of our visitors and customers.
If you have any questions about this data protection declaration or about the processing of your personal details, please write an email to privacy [at] iCrates [dot] org.

Feedback and unsolicited ideas

We welcome your feedback on what we are currently doing (both positive and negative). If you want to send us your feedback, we ask you to use our contact form. Any feedback you provide to us can be used by us on an unrestricted basis and treated by us as non-confidential.
Please note the following caution. Please do not tell us anything that contains new or original ideas, in respect of which you might want, now or in future, to claim any form of proprietary rights. Please do not submit any such ideas, original creative material, suggestions or other work in any form to us. We ask this because we want to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes if our products might seem similar to ideas submitted to us.
If, despite our request that you not send us your ideas, you still send them to us, then regardless of what you say to us, you agree that: (i) your submissions and their contents will automatically become our property, without any compensation to you, you will not assert against us any rights or ownership and you will not claim any reward (financial or otherwise) in respect of any such submissions; (ii) we may use or redistribute the submissions and their contents for any purpose and in any way; (iii) there is no obligation for us to review any material that you submit to us; and (iv) there is no obligation to keep any such material confidential.

Revised, 9.12.2010