Privacy Policy
With this privacy policy, we would like to inform you about how we process personal data. Protecting your privacy is of the utmost importance to us. It goes without saying that we comply with the legal provisions regarding data protection.
Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions regarding our data protection measures, the processing of your data or the protection of your rights as a data subject, you can contact us and our data protection officer as follows:
Data Protection Officer
ePrivacy GmbH
represented by Prof. Dr. Christoph Bauer
Burchardstrasse 14, 20095 Hamburg
If you have any questions or concerns regarding your information, please contact privacy@we-love-x.com .
If you wish to communicate directly with our Data Protection Officer (e.g., because you have a particularly sensitive matter), please contact them by mail, as email communication may still have security gaps. Please state in your request that your concern relates to We Love X GmbH.
Personal data
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. This includes the following categories of personal data that we process:
- Your contact details (such as first and last name, address, email address, telephone number),
- Your correspondence with us,
- Log files containing information about your visit to our website,
- Online identifiers (such as cookie IDs, IP addresses, advertising IDs),
Use of cookies
General information about cookies
A cookie is a text file containing an identification number that, when using the website, is transmitted to the user's computer along with other data actually requested and stored there. The file is stored there for future access and serves to authenticate the user. Since cookies are simply files and not executable programs, they do not pose any danger to the computer.
Depending on the settings selected by the user in their internet browser, the latter automatically accepts cookies. However, this setting can be changed and the storage of cookies disabled or set in such a way that the user is informed as soon as a cookie is placed. If the use of cookies is disabled, some functions of the website may not be available or may only be available to a limited extent. You can prevent the installation of cookies by our website at any time by setting the internet browser used for this purpose and thus permanently object to the installation of cookies.
Active cookies can be deleted at any time via your internet browser settings or other software programs. We may work with advertising partners who help us make our online offering more interesting for you. In this case, cookies from partner companies may also be stored on your hard drive when you visit our website (third-party cookies).
We may store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third parties that appear on our pages.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie declaration on our website.
Session cookies
Session cookies are used for the duration of a session and are automatically deleted when the currently running browser is closed. They allow, for example, the playback of video and audio files, the temporary recording of your input for the duration of the input and thus improve user-friendliness.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser. These cookies can, for example, save your user preferences, such as language settings, and analyze user behavior on our website. The storage period of persistent cookies corresponds to the respective duration of the individual cookie. Afterwards, they are automatically deleted.
Purpose of the processing
We process your data for the following purposes:
- For having corresponded with you,
- For advertising purposes,
- On quality assurance and statistics,
- In order to provide and optimize our service, including the website,
- In order to improve our service
Legal basis
The processing of your data is based on the following legal bases:
- Your consent, if you have given us such consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR),
- The implementation of our legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR)
Legitimate interests
When processing your data, we pursue the following legitimate interests:
- Improving our offer,
- Protecting our systems from abuse,
- The production of statistics,
- for marketing purposes,
- Data storage and security platforms to store and maintain your information,
- To provide you with our Service, including the Site and accompanying customer support,
- Carry out research, technical diagnostics or analyses,
- Sending emails and updates,
- Storing our correspondence with you
Requirement or obligation to provide data
Unless expressly stated, the communication of your data is neither required nor obligatory.
Data sources
We do not collect data about you from third parties.
Storage period
We keep your data,
- if you have consented to the processing, at most until you revoke your consent;
- if we need the data for the performance of a contract, at most for as long as the contractual relationship with you exists;
- if we use the data on the basis of a legitimate interest, at most as long as your interest in deletion or anonymization does not override the data;
- to the extent that there are legal storage obligations, until the end of the storage periods.
If you wish to delete or correct any personal data we may hold, please contact us at privacy@we-love-x.com , specifying the website you are requesting deletion. Your request may take up to 30 days to process.
Data recipient
When processing your data, we work with the following service providers who have access to your data:
Facebook, Facebook Custom Audiences:
On our website, we use the Facebook Custom Audience service of Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, which is integrated via the Facebook pixel. When you visit our website, a direct connection is established to the Facebook servers, to which the pages you have visited are transmitted. If you are logged in to Facebook, this data is assigned to your personal Facebook account by Facebook. We can also determine whether the user was directed to our site by clicking on one of our Facebook ads. This allows us to display our ads (“Facebook ads”) only to users who are interested in our offer, and to optimize them.
Facebook Data Usage Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
If you are registered and logged in to Facebook, you can change your advertising preferences in the “Settings” section of your profile, under “Advertising Settings”.
Facebook:
Our website integrates social media plugins from Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. You can recognize them by the “thumbs up” button or the blue “f” logo. A list of Facebook plugins can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_EN . By visiting our website, a connection to the Facebook servers is established. If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to our website to your user account. If you interact with the plugin (e.g. by clicking the “thumbs up” button), Facebook will assign this to your profile and save it. We have no influence on the scope and content of the data collected by Facebook.
Facebook Data Usage Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
To prevent the collected data from being assigned to your profile, you must log out of your account.
Google Ads/Remarketing:
We use the Google AdWords service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland on our website. If you reach our website via a Google ad, a cookie is set for 30 days, which allows us to record the actions on our website after clicking on our ad. This allows us to analyze and optimize our campaigns and display ads that match your interests.
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
To prevent the processing of your data, you can download or rather set and save an opt-out cookie via this link: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Google Analytics:
We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. Cookies are used to collect and analyze usage data on our website so that we can optimize and improve our services. We use the anonymization extension “_anonymizeIp()” for anonymous recording of IP addresses.
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
To prevent the processing of your data, you can download or rather set and save an opt-out cookie via these links: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Brain :
Our website integrates the Outbrain service of Outbrain Inc., 39 West 13th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA. Outbrain directs online users to content that is of interest and relevance to them. Only pseudonymous data is processed for this purpose.
Outbrain Privacy Policy: https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy#privacy-policy
You can object to the collection and storage of data by Outbrain at any time with effect for the future. Please follow the link below: https://my.outbrain.com/recommendations-settings/home
By clicking on “View my profile”, you can set the switch under “Select your recommendation settings below” to “Non-personalized recommendations (opt out)”.
Taboola:
We use the Taboola service from Taboola Inc., Taboola Germany GmbH, c/o MindSpace Friedrichstraße 68, 10117 Berlin, Germany. We place a cookie from this service on our website, which then determines which websites you visit frequently and how you navigate our site. This allows us to recommend content that matches your personal interests and thus create an individual offer for you.
For Taboola's privacy policy: https://www.taboola.com/de/privacy-policy .
To prevent the processing of your data, you can download or rather set and save an opt-out cookie via this link: https://www.taboola.com/de/privacy-policy#user-choices-and-optout
Youtube:
Our website integrates social media plugins from YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, a company of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. When you visit our website, a connection is established to the YouTube servers. For this purpose, we use the “privacy-enhanced mode” provided by YouTube. According to YouTube, for example, the information that you have accessed our site using your IP address is only transmitted to YouTube when you interact with the plugin (e.g., by clicking on an embedded video). If you are logged in to YouTube, YouTube can assign the visit to our website to your user account. If you interact with an embedded video, for example, YouTube will assign this to your profile and save it. We have no influence on the scope and content of the data collected by YouTube.
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
To prevent the collected data from being assigned to your profile, you must log out of your account.
JWPlayer:
To provide video material, we use LongTail Ad Solutions, Inc., d/b/a JW Player,
8 W 38th St., Ste. 901, New York, NY 10018, USA.
Each time you access a page that offers one or more JWPlayer video clips, a direct connection is established between your browser and a JW Player server in the USA. Information about your visit and your IP address is stored there. Through interaction with JW-Player plugins (e.g., by clicking the start button), this information is also transmitted to JW-Player and stored there.
For more information, please visit https://www.jwplayer.com/privacy .
OneSignal:
We use OneSignal, 2194 Esperanca Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA for the insertion of push messages. Your data may be processed by OneSignal and stored on OneSignal's systems. To revoke your consent, the subscription to push messages can be temporarily suspended or terminated at any time in the respective browser settings and via the following page.
For further information, please visit https://onesignal.com/privacy_policy .
Cake :
We use Cake, Accelerize Inc. 20411 SW Birch St. Suite 250 Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA to optimize our online and marketing offerings, and to measure reach and conduct market research. We require statistical information about the use of our online offerings and user behavior within the various online offerings. Therefore, we process the online identifiers you provide to us. To object / To revoke your consent, please use http://getcake.com/privacy-policy/#rights.
For further information, please visit http://getcake.com/privacy-policy/#rights.
Yandex Direct
We use Yandex Direct to measure ad performance.
YANDEX LLC, a company incorporated under Russian law, with its registered office at 16 Lva Tolstogo St., Moscow 119021, Russia (“YANDEX” LLC), or its subsidiaries for particular services or in specific jurisdictions.
For users in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, Yandex is represented by its Finnish entity, Yandex Oy, a company incorporated under Finnish law, with its registered office at Moreenikatu 6, 04600 Mantsala, Finland.
For users in Israel, Yandex is represented by its Israeli entity Yandex.Go Israel Ltd, a company incorporated under Israeli law, whose registered office is at 148 Menachem Begin St., Tel Aviv, Israel 6492104.
If you reach our website via a Yandex ad, a cookie is set, which allows us to record the actions on our website after clicking on our ad. This allows us to analyze and optimize our campaigns and display ads that match your interests. Yandex will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. For more information, please visit https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/ .
Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads)
We use the conversion and tracking tool “Bing Ads” from Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 D18 P521, Ireland to measure advertising.
Microsoft and we may use cookies to recognize that a person has clicked on an ad, been directed to our online services and reached a predetermined destination. We only know the total number of users who clicked on a Bing ad and were then redirected to the landing page (conversions). No IP addresses are stored. No other personal information about the user's identity is disclosed.
To object / To revoke your consent, please use http://choice.microsoft.com/de-DE/opt-out . The cookie used has a validity period of 6 months. For more information, please visit https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement .
Plista
We use the services of plista GmbH, Torstraße 33-35, 10119 Berlin to provide recommendation technology. Plista uses technologies to control and optimize the display of advertising material for the user (usage-based advertising). Plista processes usage data and metadata using permanent cookies.
To revoke your consent, please use https://www.plista.com/de/about/opt-out/ .
For further information, please visit https://www.plista.com/de/about/privacy/ .
Transfer to third countries
Data is transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area. We only transfer personal data to third countries when the European Commission has confirmed an adequate level of protection or when we can ensure careful processing of personal data through contractual agreements or other appropriate safeguards, such as certifications or proven compliance with international security standards.
Your rights
As a data subject, you have the following rights:
- To request information about the processing of your data, as well as to receive a copy of your personal data. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients of the data (in the event of transfer), the retention period or the criteria for determining the duration;
- Receive personal data about you in a structured, common and machine-readable format or transmit it to another controller;
- To correct your data. If your personal data is incomplete, you have the right to have it completed, taking into account the purposes of the processing;
- To have your data erased or blocked;
- To limit processing;
- To object to the processing of your data;
- To revoke your consent to the processing of your data for the future
and - Complain to the supervisory authority responsible for unauthorized data processing.
Privacy Policy Version
If our processes change, we will adapt the information in this privacy policy.
Status of this privacy policy: 04/11/2020
