BURDA interactive communities (BURDA:ic) Privacy Policy

We are deeply concerned with the protection of personal data. We would like you to know when we are saving which data and how we use them. As a company of civil law, we are subject to the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Media Treaty (MdStV) of the Federal Republic of Germany. We took technical and organisational measures to ensure that the regulations on data protection are followed by us, as well as external service providers who are working for us.

Personal Data

Personal data is information used to learn about your identity. Among it is information like your real name, your adress, zipcode, phone number. Information not associated with your real identity (for example your favourite website or number of users on a page) are not covered.

Parts of our online service (website) are usable without revealing your identity. As soon as you want to participate in games and the portal itself, you will be asked for your name and other private information. These are the following:

• date of birth
• country of your residence
• your email adress

Your information will be saved on specially protected servers in Germany. Only a few, specially athorized people who are involved with technical, commercial or editorial care of the servers and the portal are able to access them.

When you access, data which allows an identification (for example IP adress, date, time and pages looked at on our website) will be saved to our servers for the purpose of backup. There will be no personal-related processing. The statistical evaluation of anonymous data is reserved.

IP adresses will be saved for a period of 28 days when using our service anonymous. They are saved for purposes of data security and to ensure the stability and the operational safety of our system. Excepted from this limited saving is data necessary for accounting.

Should we provide third parties with information, they gain no access to the saved personal data. The administration of these is exclusive subject to BURDA:ic.

Passing of Personal Data to Third Parties

Your data is not passed to third parties without your explicit approval. If your data is passed to other service providers due to processing of data, these providers are bound to the BDSG, other statutory provisions and contractually to the Privacy Policy of BURDA:ic. As far as we are obliged via laws or judicial decree, your data can be passed to units entitled to receive information.

Articles posted in our forums are open to the public. Before posting you should check your posts whether they contain information not intended for the public. You need to face the possibility, that your posts are collected by search engines and become accessible worldwide, without using our service. Foreign service providers oftentimes cannot be brought to erase or revise these kinds of entries.

Right to Revoke

You can delete your personal data left to us anytime. Data used for accounting and clearance purposes are not affected by cancelation and deletion.

Usage of Cookies

At some parts of our service cookies are used to realize certain user functions. You will be pointed out to that at the respective point. On some pages advertisements of companies and agencies are delivered directly. Cookies might be used there without us being able to point that out to you.

Without the use of cookies, a limited usage of our services is possible. Most browsers are configured to automatically accept cookies. However you can turn the saving of cookies off or have your browser alert you once cookies are being sent.

The following information is saved within the cookies set by us:

• your login
• your ID registered with us
• a so called HASH, consisting of these two and a date which is only saved at our servers
• further area specific settings

Children

People at an age below 18 should not transmit personal data to us without their parents' agreement. However you need to specify your date of birth when registering. Some functions are not allowed for people under the age of 18. For example the payment with credit card (in Germany).

Links to other Websites

Our online service contains links to other websites. We have no influence on their operators to keep their privacy policy.

Questions and comments

For questions, suggestions or comments concerning privacy protection please refer to BURDA:ic's man in charge of privacy protection: datenschutz@burda-ic.com. Due to the rapid developement of the internet from time to time an adjustment of our privacy policy is required. At this place you will be informed about alterations.