PRIVACY STATEMENT 

About the collection, processing and use of your personal data (Data Protection Provision and cookies)

We consider the trust you place in us to handle your data properly an important requirement for the success of our online offer. We therefore attach great importance to data privacy. The collection, processing (comprised of storage, change, transmission, locking and deleting) and use of your personal data takes place exclusively in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

We would like to briefly explain to you our principles on the collection, processing and use of your personal data in the following:

1. Collecting, processing and use of personal data

Personal data is information on a person's identity, such as name, address, date of birth and e-mail address.

1.1. When using our online offer in general

As a rule, no personal data is collected, processed or used when you use our online offer.

1.2. When using services

Personal data is collected when you supply it to us at your own discretion. We process and use this data to the extent necessary to provide the relevant service.

The following lists a few examples in which we collect, process and use personal data:

• Enabling use of the online game 

To enable you to use the online game, in particular to download the game client and to perform update installations for the online game, we will utilize personal data (in particular your IP address) insofar as required to enable you to use the online game.

• Competitions

If you decide to take part in our competitions, we will ask you to supply your name and date of birth, your e-mail address, your telephone number and/or your postal address, notably to inform you in the event you won, and to ensure that each entrant to the competition only enters once.

• Ordering content/information (e.g. by newsletter)

As part of our online offer, in several places we give you the option to let us inform you of interesting offers and news via all kinds of channels (e-mail, telephone and/or SMS/MMS). For example, if you subscribed to one of our newsletters, the requested newsletter will be delivered to your e-mail address at regular intervals. As part of registering for a newsletter, you may have the option to provide further information about yourself, for instance if you would like to receive a birthday surprise. We will then process and use the information you supplied for this purpose. Should you no longer be interested in receiving particular information or offers, or no longer wish to receive the information or offers via a particular channel, please notify us in an e-mail to datenschutz@p7s1games.net. We will comply with your request immediately. You can also write to the above mentioned address if you wish to revoke your consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data in the future. In this case we will immediately delete any and all data on you that we have stored. Please understand that for technical or organisational reasons your revocation may coincide with the use of your information in a campaign that is already in progress.

• Personalised services

If you use services that require you to register, we will collect, process and use your data required by the said services to make these services available to you.

2. Collection, processing and use of usage data

Usage data is information that you do not actively supply, and that can be collected passively while you navigate a website.

When you visit our online offer we store the domain name or IP address of the requesting computer, the client's file request (file name and URL), the HTTP response code, the Internet page from which you are visiting us, as well as the date and duration of your visit for a period of four (4) working days. We store this information for the purpose of identifying bugs or exploits of our online offer and our telecommunication services/facilities, insofar as they are required to establish further connections and/or for billing purposes. We do not analyse your usage data to create personal usage profiles if you have not expressly agreed to such use. In the event of bugs or exploits we reserve the right to file a complaint with law enforcement agencies. We will not use or disclose your usage data to third parties beyond this extent.

3. Use of cookies

• What are cookies? 

A cookie is a small text file that servers temporarily store on the hard drive of a user when they visit a website. If a server is accessed again, the browser sends the cookie received earlier back to the server. The server can analyse the information received through this procedure in different ways. 

• What do we use cookies for? 

When a user visits a website of our online offer, cookies are sent to the user's browser and stored on the user's hard disk. Those cookies are used to make our website more user friendly, effective and secure. The cookies do not contain any personal data or information about you, making it impossible for us to identify you with the information obtained with the cookies. The information that we obtain is used only for the purpose of compiling statistics on the use of our online offer. This enables us to customise our online offer to your requirements in the best possible way and make surfing our online offer as easy as possible for you. Beyond this we also use cookies to enable you to see the content of your shopping basket across different webpages, for example. Should you activate auto login, the relevant page on our online offer would place a cookie with your registration data so as to recognise you when you use it in future, making it unnecessary for you to login again. You may deactivate auto login at any time, once you have activated it.

• How do third parties employ cookies and so called web beacons on our online offer? 

As part of our online offer we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc., USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies which enable us to analyse your usage of our online offer. The information about your usage of our online offer (including your IP address) that is generated by the cookies is sent to a server of Google in Europe or a member country of the Convention of the European Economic Area on the Anonymisation of IP addresses, excluding the possibility of associating the information with any particular person. Only after the IP address has been anonymised, this truncated IP address is sent to a server in the USA. The full IP address is only transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and truncated there in exceptions. On our behalf, Google will use the information generated by the cookies to analyse your usage of our online offer for the purpose of compiling reports on the usage of the online offer, and to provide further services related to the usage of the online offer and general Internet usage. The (truncated) IP address will not be brought together with other data of Google. In addition to the browser settings mentioned in section "3. Use of cookies - How can I remove cookies?", you can prevent Google from processing your data by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Our online offer uses Google AdSense, a web service of Google Inc., USA ("Google"), by which third party advertising ("ads") are placed on our online offer. Therefore we would like to notify you that Google places and reads out cookies in your browser in the course of these ads, and can use so-called web beacons (small, invisible graphics files) for collecting information. The information generated by the cookies and/or web beacons is transferred to a server of Google in the USA and processed there.

In this online offer we use the "Scalable Central Measurement" (SCM) of INFOnline (https://www.infonline.de) to determine statistical values on the usage of the online offer. It collects anonymous measured data. To recognise computer systems, the SCM reach measurement uses either a cookie with the identifier "ivwbox.de" or a signature generated from various information about your computer that is transmitted automatically. This method does not store IP addresses and only processes them in their anonymised form. Reach measurement was developed taking data protection into account. The objective of reach measurement is to statistically determine the usage intensity and number of users of a website. At no time are individual users identified. Your identity is always safe. You will not receive any advertising via the system. For websites that are members of the Informationsgesellschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern e.V. (Information Association for Determining the Distribution of Advertising Mediums, IVW – www.ivw.eu) or are participating in the study "internet facts" conducted by Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online-Forschung e.V. (Working Group for Online Media Research, AGOF – www.agof.de) usage statistics are published on a monthly basis by AGOF and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse e.V. (Working Group for Media Analysis, ag.ma - www.agma-mmc.de) as well as IVW, and are available at http://www.agof.de, http://www.agma-mmc.de and http://www.ivw.eu. In addition to publishing the measured data, IVW regularly checks that the SCM method is used in compliance with the rules and data protection. More information on the SCM method is available from the website of INFOnline GmbH (https://www.infonline.de), which operates the SCM method, from the data protection website of AGOF (http://www.agof.de/datenschutz) and from the data protection website of IVW (http://www.ivw.eu). You may object to your data being processed by SCM at the following link: http://optout.ivwbox.de.

• How can I remove cookies?

If you do not want to use the benefits of our cookies or third party cookies, you may of course also use our online offer without cookies. Any browser can be set to reject cookies in general. You may also delete cookies at any time once they have been placed. If you wish to object to the placing of cookies on your computer, please follow these technical instructions. Not accepting cookies may lead to the website not functioning properly in individual cases. Please note that deleting the cookies placed in your browser will also delete the settings associated with the processing of your details by us or third parties, meaning that you will also be required to activate a cookie-based opt-out link again. Should you delete the cookies stored in your browser, you will again be required to configure the settings on how information is processed by us or third parties.

4. Disclosing your data

We will not disclose your data to our partners or other third parties unless

• we have your express consent,
• we are obliged to disclose this data, for instance on grounds of a court order or official directive. 

5. Changes to your data

We endeavour to save your personal data correctly. However, you may change (i.e. update, correct and/or supplement) or delete your data in the profile section of the relevant service at any time. We will verify your identity before you make any such changes in order to protect your privacy and security.

Should it not be possible to change your data in the profile section of a service, or should such a profile section not exist, you can reach us at the following e-mail address: cs@p7s1games.net

6. Option to revoke your consent

Should you no longer be interested in receiving particular information or offers, or no longer wish to receive the information or offers via a particular channel, please notify us in an e-mail to datenschutz@p7s1games.net. We will comply with your request immediately. You can also write to the abovementioned address if you wish to revoke your consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data in future. In this case we will immediately delete any and all data on you that we have stored. Please understand that for technical or organisational reasons your revocation may coincide with the use of your data in a campaign that is already in progress.

7. Information on the use of social plugins

7.1. Facebook

We use social plugins of the social network facebook.com ("plugin"), which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S.California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook") on several websites of our online offer.

The websites of our online offer that contain a plugin are identified by a clearly visible Facebook logo (such as a white "f" on a blue tile, or a "thumb's up" icon) or the words "Facebook Social Plugin".

When you access a website with such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers, and Facebook transmits the content of the plugin straight to your browser.

If you are registered with Facebook and logged into your Facebook account, Facebook will receive the information from the plugin that you accessed that website. If you use the plugin actively, for instance by clicking on the "Like" button or the "Share" button, or post a comment on that website, that information will be transmitted by your browser straight to Facebook and used there.

To prevent Facebook from collecting the aforementioned information on you when accessing a website, please visit the Facebook website to find more information and/or log out of Facebook prior to visiting the website. In addition, you should probably also delete any Facebook cookies from your browser.

For the purpose and extent of data collection and the further use of the data by Facebook and your related rights and settings options to protect your privacy, see the Facebook privacy policy.

Please note in this respect that Facebook is continually developing the social network, and provides information on the use of the data involved. You can obtain information about the options that Facebook provides for you to protect your privacy on the following pages, among others: http://de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php. We do not assume any liability for the content of the websites and privacy policy of Facebook.

7.2. Twitter

Functions of the service Twitter are embedded on our websites. These functions are offered by Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. By using Twitter and the function "Re-Tweet" the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and disclosed to other users. Data is transmitted to Twitter in the process.

We would like to inform you that, as providers of the websites, we are not informed by Twitter as to the content of the data transmitted or their use. You can find out more about this in the privacy policy of Twitter at http://twitter.com/privacy.

You can change your privacy settings in Twitter at http://twitter.com/account/settings.

7.3. Google g+

Our web presence uses the "+1" button of the social network Google Plus, which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google"). You can recognise the button by the "+1" symbol on a white or coloured background.

When you access a website of our web presence with such a button, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Google servers. The content of the "+1" button is transmitted by Google directly to your browser, which embeds it in the website. Therefore, we cannot influence the extent of the data that Google collects with the button. According to Google, if you do not click on the button then no personal data is collected. Only if you are logged in as a member, such data will be collected and processed, including the IP address.

For the purpose and extent of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google and your related rights and settings options to protect your privacy, see Google's privacy policy regarding the "+1" button: http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html, as well as their FAQ.

If you are a member of Google Plus and do not want Google to collect data on you through our web presence and link it to your membership data stored at Google, you will need to log out of Google Plus prior to visiting our web presence.

8. No liability for partner websites

Our pages contain links to several cooperation partners who also offer websites and web services. They usually have own privacy policies. We assume no liability for any of these statements, with which we are not associated. Please inform yourself there on how each partner handles data privacy.

9. Data security

We are committed to the security of your data. To prevent unauthorised access to or unauthorised disclosure of your data, and to ensure its accuracy and authorised use, we have set up relevant technical and organisational processes to secure and protect the data that we request online. However, we cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the disclosure of your data due to errors in data transmission and/or unauthorised access by third parties.

10. Information/suggestions

For information and suggestions on data privacy please contact us at the e-mail address datenschutz@p7s1games.net.

11. Amendment of this Data Protection Provision

We reserve the right to amend this Data Protection Provision at any time, taking into account applicable data protection laws. The version of the General Data Protection Provision accessible online at the time of your visit applies to the use of our online offer.

Status 23/10/2012

DEFINITIONS: 

Domain: 

The part of an URL (address) which follows "http://www." or "http://" and is concluded by "/". In the URL http://www.prosieben.de, "prosieben" is the domain or domain name, and "de" is the top level domain. 

Client: 

The term "Client" means a network computer (workstation) which uses network resources (data, programmes, etc.) provided by a corresponding server, or a programme that uses services of another programme.

Cookie: 

A cookie is a small text file that www servers send when a user visits a website, and which is temporarily stored on the hard drive. If a server is accessed again, the browser of the user sends the cookie received earlier back to the server. The server can analyse the information received through this procedure in different ways. For example, cookies can be used to control how advertisements are shown, and facilitate navigation of a website. 

IP address: 

IP addresses make it possible to address devices in the Internet. Every computer has a unique IP address in the form of a pre-defined set of numbers.

Link tracking: 

The recording of a user's surfing behaviour. 

Rejecting cookies:

Internet Explorer: 

Menu Tools- Internet Options

Tab "Privacy": Click on the button "Sites..." 

In the field "Address of website:" please enter the text "http://en.s4-league.com" and confirm by clicking on the button "Block". The browser will no longer use cookies for "http://en.s4-league.com", whereas other websites will remain unaffected.

Mozilla Firefox: 

Menu Tools- Options

"Privacy" panel: Cookies

Click on the button "Exceptions"

In the field "Address of website" please enter the text "http://en.s4-league.com" and confirm by clicking on the button "Block". The browser will no longer use cookies for "http://en.s4-league.com", whereas other websites will remain unaffected.

Chrome:

Open Chrome-Menu (Symbol placed on the top right in your browser)

Choose "Settings"

"Privacy" panel: Click on the button "Content Settings"

In the section "cookies" open "manage exceptions" and please enter the text "http://en.s4-league.com"."Block". The browser will no longer use cookies for "http://en.s4-league.com“, whereas other websites will remain unaffected.