With this privacy statement, we aim to inform you as comprehensively as possible about the processing of your personal data by BeyondTheAds UG. This privacy statement applies when you use our services or products—such as by visiting our websites or using our apps—or when you contact us. In this privacy statement, we explain what information we collect, how we do so, for what purpose, and what rights you have regarding the processing of your personal data.
1. Who is responsible for processing your personal data?
BeyondTheAds UG (Haftungsbeschränkt) (hereinafter referred to as “BeyondTheAds”, “us”, or “we”) is responsible for processing personal data as described in this privacy statement. This means that BeyondTheAds determines which personal data of yours are processed, how it is done, for what purposes, and for how long your data are retained.
BeyondTheAds is located at Mittelweg 144, 20148 Hamburg.
2. When does this privacy statement apply?
This privacy statement applies when you visit and use our website.
Our services to which this privacy statement applies primarily include the following sites:
- lifetips.blog (UK)
3. How do we collect your personal data?
We collect your personal data in various ways:
- Provided by you. The main way we obtain data is by asking you for it, for example, when you create an account or fill out a contact form.
- Indirectly (through the use of our services). Some personal data are obtained indirectly from you when you use our websites. Through the use of cookies and similar technologies, we can collect information about your browsing, clicking, and purchasing behavior.
- Obtained from third parties. Third parties with whom we cooperate, such as advertising networks or social media platforms, may collect data about you in an advertising profile that they share with us. You can often manage these settings yourself. We may also use this data for analytical purposes (e.g., “who is our customer”). Additionally, we may receive your personal data in the event of a collaboration with or acquisition of another company or business activity.
- Derived. We do not directly obtain certain personal data but may deduce them from the data we already possess. Think, for example, of data about your preferences and interests.
In principle, you are not obliged to provide any information about yourself to us. However, not providing certain data may negatively affect, for example, our service to you or the functionality of our services that you use. If providing certain personal data is a legal or contractual obligation or a necessary condition for entering into an agreement with us, we will inform you separately to the extent that it is not clear in advance. We will also inform you of the possible consequences if this data is not provided.
4. How do we use your personal data?
We collect and process various personal data from website visitors, users, and customers, and may use this personal data for various purposes. Below, you’ll find information about our processing of your personal data by topic.
Registration/Account Management
When you subscribe to our newsletter, we process the following personal data:
- Email Address: Your email address is your unique identifier for our services.
Commercial Communication
You can sign up for one or more newsletters from our various brands.
- Email Address: We use your email address to send newsletters if you have signed up for them. You can always unsubscribe.
- First and Last Name: We use your name to personalize the emails.
- Email Analytics: We have included email tracking functionality in our newsletters by embedding a small, transparent image pixel in the outgoing newsletter. This allows us to track whether you open, read, or click on the newsletter, to measure the effectiveness of our messages, such as their reception and click and open rates. In case of low activity, for example, we may reduce the frequency of emails until we no longer send emails.
Customer Service
If you have a question, complaint, or want to share something else, you can contact our support email address. Our customer service representatives can view and possibly modify your data.
Use of Websites
We process the following personal data to offer, maintain, and improve our websites and apps. We use cookies and similar technologies for this on our websites and apps. With cookies, we and third parties can track your internet behavior on our website for advertising purposes. We also use cookies to generate statistics about the use of our services. With this information, we can make recommendations, measure the effectiveness of our offerings, personalize your emails, and allow you to share information on social media. Some cookies are always placed (functional), and others only after consent. For more specific information about the cookies and similar technologies used, please refer to our Cookie Statement:
Cookies
The Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your terminal device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions you have requested (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of its services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your surfing behavior) are stored, these are treated separately in this privacy policy.
CMP from Quantcast
In order to make it easier for you to select permitted cookies or, where necessary, to obtain your consent to the use of the cookies used, we use Quantcast Choice a GDPR-compliant consent management platform (CMP) from the provider Quantcast International Limited, Beaux Lane House, Lower Mercer Street, 1st Floor, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Quantcast”). You can access detailed privacy settings via a pop-up window and save the settings you have made for future visits to our website. For more information about Quantcast’s privacy policy and cookies. Can be found at https://www.quantcast.com/de/datenschutz/.
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
- browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- referrer URL
- host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- IP address
- A combination of this data with other data sources is not made.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO, which permits the processing of data for the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.
Push Notifications
For our website, we use OneSignal, a push messaging service provided by OneSignal Inc, 2194 Esperanca Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States, (hereinafter ‘ONESIGNAL’) to send users push messages and to organize, optimize and customize the sending of push messages to our users. The personal data collected by ONESIGNAL includes your IP address and is transferred to and processed in the United States.
For more information, please see OneSignal’s Privacy Policy.
The processing of your data via OneSignal is based on your consent (Art 6 para 1 lit a DSGVO).
You can opt out of receiving push messages by making the appropriate settings on your device.
5. Bases for Processing
We always process your personal data based on one of the following legal bases:
– **Your consent**: We process your data when you have given specific consent. Therefore, we inform and ask for your consent when creating an account. We also inform and request your consent before placing and reading tracking cookies or before sending you (electronic) commercial messages.
– Commercial communication
– Website visits (where consent for cookies is necessary)
– External marketing (where consent for cookies is necessary)
– **Legitimate interest**: We process data because we have a legitimate (business) interest or a third party has one, which cannot be achieved otherwise than by processing data. In such cases, we always carefully consider whether this interest outweighs your privacy interest. An example is using your data for direct marketing activities.
– Customer service (processing of all data)
– Website visits (where we process data for which no consent has been requested)
– Customer service
6. Sharing of Data
We only share your personal data with third parties if:
– It is necessary for the provision of services or the involvement of the third party. Subcontractors, for example, generally only have access to the personal data they need for their part of the service.
– Individuals within these third parties who have access to the personal data are obliged to treat the personal data confidentially. Where necessary, this is also agreed upon contractually.
– The third party is required to comply with applicable data protection regulations, for example, because we have entered into a (data processing) agreement with this party. This includes the requirement for the party to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures, and for any transfer of personal data to countries outside the EEA to be adequately legitimized.
We may share your personal data with the following parties:
– Suppliers and service providers who perform our services and/or can deliver the product you won or ordered and handle the payment.
– Providers for whom we act as intermediaries in the purchase of products and/or from whom you take a service after redeeming a voucher. These parties are responsible for how they process your data. More information about how these parties handle your personal data can be found in the privacy statement of the relevant provider.
– Suppliers of software we use. Think of hosting, email providers, CRM, communication tools, customer service software, analytical software, payment services, reservation software, review tools, A/B testing.
– Commercial partners, media agencies, and/or advertisers with whom we jointly organize auctions, deals, events, and contests.
– Social media parties, such as Facebook and Google. We can safely match (pseudonymized) email addresses of users with users of these social media parties, so that we can reach (similar) target groups via social media, and they will see relevant content and/or search results.
– Some of our websites and apps offer the possibility to share certain content on social media. You will then be asked to log in with your login details on that social media platform. In that case, a link to the website you want to share will be placed on the relevant social media platform. The service we use to enable the sharing of content on social networks may collect certain information, such as your IP address, geolocation data obtained from your IP address, the URL that leads to the website, and the date and time you visited and used our website or app.
– With competent authorities, in response to lawful requests from public authorities, including law enforcement agencies, government agencies, or the judiciary. We only provide data to authorities if required by law or by court order or if there is a legitimate reason, such as preventing or addressing damage or abuse.
– We may also share your personal data in case of a reorganization, merger, sale, cooperation, transfer, or other disposal of one of our business units (including bankruptcy proceedings or similar procedures).
– Finally, we may disclose your data in response to lawful requests from public authorities, including law enforcement agencies, government agencies, or the judiciary.
7. Retention
We do not retain your personal data longer than necessary for the purpose for which we process the personal data.
– If you have subscribed to the newsletter or given consent to receive personalized messages, we will keep that consent for 5 years. Even if you decide at some point that you no longer wish to receive the newsletter or personalized messages, we will retain the withdrawal of your request.
**Exception: shorter retention period.** If you exercise certain privacy rights, we may delete your personal data earlier. For more information on this, see the section below titled “Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data”?
**Exception: longer retention period.** In certain situations, we process your personal data for a longer period. This is the case, for example, when we need to process your personal data longer:
– Legal obligation. To comply with a minimum retention period or other legal obligation imposed on us based on EU law or the law of an EU Member State;
– Legal proceedings. Your personal data is needed in the context of a legal proceeding; or
– Freedom of expression. Further processing of your personal data is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information.
8. Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”; (EU) 2016/679), you have various privacy rights. The extent to which you can exercise these rights may depend on the circumstances of the processing, such as how Emesa processes the personal data and the legal basis for it. Below, we have provided an overview of your privacy rights under the GDPR. For more information, see this webpage or this webpage from the European Commission.
We strive to ensure that you can exercise your privacy rights as much as possible yourself. We do this, for example, by offering you the opportunity to view and correct your data on your profile page and by providing the option in our newsletters to indicate that you do not wish to receive future messages.
With regard to our processing of your personal data, you have the following privacy rights.
– Right to withdraw consent. To the extent our processing of personal data is based on your (explicit) consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time via the contact details in this privacy statement. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing before you withdrew your consent. The consequence of withdrawing your consent is that BeyondTheAds UG will no longer process this personal data for the purpose for which you granted consent. However, it may be that we continue to process the personal data for another purpose, such as for the execution of a contract with you or to comply with a minimum retention period. If this is the case, you will be informed accordingly.
– Right of access. You have the right to access the way we process your personal data. You are entitled to a copy of the personal data (which is not necessarily a copy of the documents containing this personal data). Additionally, we will provide you with further information about how we process your personal data. Think, for example, of the purposes for which we process your personal data, how we obtain it, and with whom we share it.
– Right to rectification. The right to rectification means that under certain circumstances, you have the right to have us change or supplement your personal data. You have this right when we process personal data about you that: (i) are factually incorrect; (ii) are incomplete or irrelevant for the purpose for which they were collected; or (iii) are used in violation of applicable law in another way.
– Right to erasure. Under certain circumstances, you have the right to have us erase personal data that we process about you. This enables you to ask us to erase or delete personal data, among other things, when (i) the personal data are no longer necessary, (ii) you have withdrawn your consent, (iii) you have objected to the processing activities, (iv) the personal data have been unlawfully processed, or (v) the personal data must be erased on the basis of a legal obligation.
– Right to object. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data when we rely on a legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing. We will then suspend and terminate the processing unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms or are related to the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. If this is the case, we will inform you about this.
– Right to restriction of processing. The right to restriction of processing means that we must continue to store your personal data at your request, but may in principle do nothing further with it. You have this right, in short, when we no longer have a legal basis (anymore) for the processing of your personal data or when it is contested.
– Right to data portability. You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party (right to data portability). We will provide you, or such a third party, with your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. We note that this right only applies to processing carried out by us using automated means and only if our legal basis for the processing concerned is (i) your consent or (ii) the performance of a contract to which you are a party.
– Right regarding automated decision-making. You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that significantly affects you. We do not use automated decision-making in the processing of your personal data.
– Right to lodge a complaint. In addition to the above rights, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or place of work, or where an alleged infringement has occurred. For an overview of the supervisory authorities and their contact details, we refer you to this webpage. However, we would appreciate resolving your concerns ourselves before contacting the supervisory authority, so please contact us first.
Exercising rights. If you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject, you can contact us at [email protected]. Specify in your request which right you wish to exercise. If requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, especially due to their repetitive nature, we will charge you a reasonable fee or refuse to comply with the request. Additionally, we may request additional information to help us confirm your identity before further responding to your privacy request.
Confirmation of your identity. We may ask you for additional information to help confirm your identity before further responding to your privacy request.
Handling your request. Upon receipt of your request, we will send a confirmation message to verify your email address. We will provide you with information about the outcome of your request without undue delay and generally within one month of receiving the request. Depending on the complexity of the request and the number of requests, this period may be extended by another two months. We will inform you of such an extension within one month of receiving the request. Applicable privacy legislation may allow or require us to refuse your request. If we cannot comply with your request, we will inform you of the reasons for this. Requests are kept for a period of 5 years after the request has been processed. Attachments to requests are deleted 6 months after the request has been processed.
9. Changes
We may change this privacy statement from time to time to respond to new technologies, legal requirements, or for other purposes. The most recent version can always be consulted via our websites. If we make significant changes, we will inform you. For example, via a notification in our websites or via email.
10. Questions, Complaints, and/or Contact
Questions or complaints about this privacy statement or the way we handle your personal data can be sent to [email protected]