Privacy Policy
The purpose of this privacy policy is to brief you on how personal data is processed by us. We are compliant with the legal stipulations regarding data protection because the protection of your privacy is of paramount importance to us.
Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about our data protection efforts, the processing of personal data, or ensuring your rights as a data subject, you can contact our data protection officer and us at the following address
External data protection officer
ePrivacy GmbH
represented by Prof. Dr. Christoph Bauer
Große Bleichen 21, Hamburg 20354
If you have any questions or concerns about your data, please contact us at privacy(at)adsome.com.
Direct communication with our Data Protection Officer, especially in highly sensitive cases, should be done by mail, as communication via e-mail may be subject to security breaches.
Personal Data
All information about identified or identifiable individuals is considered personal data. The categories of personal data we process include the following.
- Your contact information (e.g. name, address, email address, telephone number).
- Your correspondence with us.
- Log files containing information about your visits to our website.
- Online identifiers (e.g. cookie identifiers, IP addresses, advertising identifiers).
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a text file with an identification number that is transferred to the user’s computer and stored there along with other data actually requested when using the website. The file remains in place for later access and is used to authenticate the user. cookies do not threaten the computer, as they are not executable programs but simple files.
Internet browsers automatically accept cookies based on the settings chosen by the user. users can stop storing cookies or be notified when a cookie is set. Disabling cookies may result in certain features of the website not being available or being available only to a limited extent.
The setting of cookies on our website can be stopped at any time via your browser settings. You may also delete valid cookies anytime through your browser settings or other software programs.
Cookies from partner (third-party) companies may be placed on your hard drive when you visit our website and when we work with advertising partners to help us make our online offerings more attractive to you.
We may place cookies on your device if it is necessary for the operation of the Site. for all other types of cookies, we require your consent.
This website uses different types of cookies. some cookies are set by third parties that appear on our website.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie statement on our website.
Session cookies – cookies that are used during a session and automatically deleted when the browser is closed for execution are called session cookies. they help ensure, for example, the playback of video and audio files and the temporary storage of data that you enter while typing, thereby improving user convenience.
Persistent cookies – cookies that remain on your device after you close your browser are known as persistent cookies. these cookies can, for example, store your user preferences, such as language settings, and analyze user behavior on our website. Persistent cookies are stored for a period of time that corresponds to the respective duration of each cookie. They are then automatically deleted.
We process your data for the following purposes – to communicate with you, for advertising, for quality assurance and statistics, to provide and optimize our services and website, and to improve our services
Legal basis – The following legal basis applies to the processing of your data: your consent, if you have given it to us (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR), and the pursuit of our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Legitimate interests – When processing your data, we pursue the following legitimate interests: improving our services, protecting our systems from misuse, creating statistics, marketing purposes, data storage and security platforms for storing and retaining your data, providing services, including the website and accompanying customer support, conducting research, technical diagnostics or analysis, sending emails and updates, storing our communications with you, requesting or order Unless specifically stated, providing your data is neither necessary nor mandatory.
Source of data – We do not collect data about you from third parties.
Retention period – We retain your data.
If you have given your consent to the processing, your files until your consent is withdrawn.
If we need the data to perform a contract – for a period not exceeding the duration of our contractual relationship.
If we use the data in accordance with our legitimate interest – for a maximum period not exceeding the interest of your request for deletion or anonymization of such data.
In the case of a legal obligation to retain the data until the end of the retention period.
If you wish to delete or amend your personal data that we may currently hold, please contact us at privacy(at)adsome.com with a link to the website and request deletion. It may take up to 30 days to process your request.
Data Recipients – When we process your data, we work with the following service providers who have access to your data
Facebook, and Facebook Custom Audiences.
Facebook Custom Audiences from Facebook Ireland Ltd (4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland) is a service we use on our website that uses the Facebook pixel for integration. When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between our website and Facebook’s servers, and the pages you visit are transmitted to these servers. If you are logged in, Facebook will assign this information to your personal Facebook profile. We may find that users are redirected to our website if they click on one of our Facebook ads. This allows us to optimize our ads (“Facebook Ads”) to be shown only to users who are interested in our products.
Please see Facebook’s data use policy at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
You can adjust your advertising preferences in the “Settings” section of your profile and then in the “Ad Settings” section when you register and sign in to your Facebook account.
Facebook.
Our website is integrated with the social media plugin of Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Place, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. You can identify them by the “like” or “thumbs up” symbol or the blue “f” symbol. You can see a list of Facebook plugins here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=de_EN. Visiting our website will establish a connection to the Facebook server. If you are logged into Facebook, this visit may be linked to your user profile. Facebook will also link to your profile and save all your interactions with the plugin (for example, by clicking the “thumbs up” button). We have no influence on the scope and content of the data collected by Facebook.
Facebook Data Use Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
To prevent the collected data from being linked to your profile, you must log out of your account.
Google AdWords / Remarketing.
We use Google AdWords on our website at Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. Visiting our website through Google AdWords installs a 30-day cookie that enables us to record actions taken on the website after clicking on one of our ads. This allows us to analyze better and optimize our campaigns and present ads that are relevant to your interests.
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
To prevent your data from being processed, you can download, or more precisely, set and save an opt-out cookie through this link: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Google Analytics.
We use Google Analytics from Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. we use cookies to collect and analyse data about the use of our website in order to add functionality and improve our services.” The “_anonymizeIp()” anonymization extension is used to anonymously make IP address records.
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
You can opt out of the processing of your data by opting out of cookies at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Our website is integrated with the Outbrain service of Outbrain Inc. Outbrain directs online users to content that is of interest and relevant to them. For this reason, only data with pseudonyms is processed.
Outbrain Privacy Policy: https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy#privacy-policy.
You can opt out of Outbrain’s data collection and storage at any time, and this also applies in the future. To do so, please go to the following link: https://my.outbrain.com/recommendations-settings/home.
By clicking on “View my profile”, you can move the radio button under “Select your referral settings below” to “Non-personalized referrals (opt-out)”.
Taboola: When checking the company’s website, it is necessary to check whether it is possible to use personal data to provide access to them.
We use the Taboola service of Taboola Inc., Taboola Germany GmbH, c/o MindSpace Friedrichstraße 68, 10117 Berlin, Germany. a cookie of this service is placed on our website and detects how you move around our website and which websites you visit frequently. We can create a personalized offer for you by recommending content that matches your interests.
Taboola Privacy Policy: https://www.taboola.com/de/privacy-policy.
To prevent the processing of your data, you can download or more precisely set and save an opt-out cookie through this link: https://www.taboola.com/de/privacy-policy#user-choices-and-optout.
On Youtube. If you have decided to use the services of Tabolao, you can contact the Youtube portal.
Our website contains social media plugins from YouTube LLC (901 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA), which is part of Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland. Access to our website establishes a connection to YouTube’s servers using the “Enhanced Privacy Mode” provided by YouTube. The transmission of information about visits to our site using your IP address occurs only after you have interacted with the plugin (for example, by clicking on an embedded video). If you are logged into YouTube at this time, YouTube may associate your visit to our site with your user account. For example, interacting with an embedded video will cause YouTube to link it to your profile and save it. We have no control over the scope or content of the information collected by YouTube.
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
To prevent the collected data from being associated with your profile, you must log out of your account.
JWPlayer.
We have a partnership with LongTail Ad Solutions, Inc. d/b/a JW Player to provide video content.
8 W 38th St., Ste. 901 New York, NY 10018 USA.
By visiting the page that presents any JWPlayer video, a direct connection is established between your browser and JW Player’s servers in the United States. This is where your login credentials and your IP address are stored. Information about your interaction with the JW-Player plugin (e.g. clicking on the “Start” button) is also transmitted to JW-Player and stored there.
Further information can be found at https://www.jwplayer.com/privacy.
OneSignal
We use OneSignal (2194 Esperanca Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA) to insert push messages. OneSignal may process your data and store it in its system. Your push message subscription may be suspended or terminated at any time by withdrawing your permission through the relevant browser settings or on the following page.
For more information, please visit https://onesignal.com/privacy_policy.
Cake.
20411 SW Birch St. Suite 250 Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA, is used by us to optimize our online and marketing services, as well as to measure reach and conduct market research. We process your online identifier to obtain the necessary statistical information about the use of our online services and the behavior of our users in many of our online services. If you do not wish to consent, please go to http://getcake.com/privacy-policy/#rights.
For more information, please visit http://getcake.com/privacy-policy/#rights.
Yandex Direct
We use the Yandex Direct service to measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
YANDEX LLC is a company incorporated under the laws of Russia with its registered office at Lva Tolstogo 16, Moscow 119021, Russia (“YANDEX” LLC), or its affiliates providing specific services or in specific jurisdictions.
For users in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, Yandex is represented by its Finnish subsidiary, Yandex Oy, a company incorporated under the laws of Finland with its registered office at Moreenikatu 6, 04600 Mantsala, Finland.
For users in Israel, Yandex is represented by its Israeli company, Yandex.Go Israel Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of Israel with its registered office at 148 Menachem Begin St., Tel Aviv, Israel 6492104.
When you navigate to our website through a Yandex ad, a cookie is installed that allows us to record the actions taken on our website after you click on our ad. This allows us to better analyze and optimize our advertising campaigns and enables us to serve ads that are relevant to your interests. yandex retains your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes 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 “Bing Ads” conversion measurement and tracking tool from Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18 D18 P521, Ireland to measure advertising.
We and Microsoft may use cookies to recognize when someone arrives at a predetermined destination after clicking on an ad and is redirected to our online services. We only collect the total number of users who click on a Bing Ads ad and are redirected to a landing page (conversions). No IP addresses are stored, and no other personally identifiable information about users is disclosed.
To object/revoke your consent, please use http://choice.microsoft.com/de-DE/opt-out. The duration of the cookie feature used is 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 the recommended technology. Prista uses technology to standardize and optimize the display of advertising material for users (based on the ads used). prista uses persistent cookies to process usage data and metadata.
To revoke your consent, please use https://www.plista.com/de/about/opt-out/.
For more information, please visit https://www.plista.com/de/about/privacy/.
Transfers to third countries
We transfer data to countries outside the European Economic Area. Transfers will only occur in third countries where the European Commission has confirmed an adequate level of protection, or where we may have contractual agreements or other appropriate safeguards in place to ensure sensitive processing of personal data, such as certification or establishment of compliance with international security standards.
Rights of Data Subjects
As a data subject, you have the following rights.
To request information about the processing of your data and to obtain a copy of your personal data. Among other things, you may request information about the purpose of the processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipient of the data (in the case of transfer), the retention period or the criteria for determining
To receive personal data relating to you in a structured, standard and machine-readable format or to transfer it to another responsible person.
To correct your data. If your personal data is incomplete, you have the right to request that it be made up in accordance with the purposes for which it was processed.
To request the deletion or blocking of your data.
To restrict the processing.
To object to the processing of your data.
To withdraw your consent to the future processing of your data; and
To file a complaint with the competent supervisory authority regarding unauthorized processing.
Notice of Privacy and Disclosure Practices for California Residents
Data Recipients
This privacy statement applies only to visitors, users and others who reside in the State of California at the time of their visit to our website. We adopt this notice in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and other California privacy laws. all terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, refers to, is linkable to, or may be directly or indirectly related to a specific user or device (Personal Information).
Specifically, in the past twelve (12) months, we have collected the following categories of personal information from visitors to our website.
Category A – Identifiers
Yes
Category B – Citizens of the categories of personal information listed in the California Customer Records Act (Cal. Code § 1798.80(e)).
No.
Category C – Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
None.
Category D. Commercial information.
None.
Category E: Biometric information.
None.
Category F: Activity on the Internet or similar networks.
Yes.
Category G: Geolocation data.
Yes.
Category H: Sensor data.
No.
Category I: Information related to occupation or profession.
No.
J. Nonpublic Educational Information (as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99).
None.
Category K. Inferred from other personal information.
None.
The above categories of personal information are protected from the following sources
Directly and indirectly from you when you visit our website. For example, usage data that is automatically collected during your interaction with our platform or website.
Use of personal data
The personal information we collect may be used or disclosed for any of the following business purposes
To provide, maintain, customize and develop our website, products and services.
To personalize your experience with our website and to provide you with content and offers for products and services relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and advertising through our website, third party websites and via email or SMS (with your consent, where required by law).help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our websites, products and services, databases and other technical resources and operations
test, research, analyze and develop products, including developing and improving our websites, products and services
Sharing Personal Information
We provide your personal information to the following types of third parties for commercial purposes
Service Providers.
We have not sold any personal information in the past twelve (12) months.
Your Rights and Choices
PIPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your rights under the CCPA and explains how you can exercise those rights.
Right of Access to Certain Information and Data Portability
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information about your personal information that we have collected and used in the past twelve (12) months. We will provide this information to you upon receipt and confirmation of your verifiable user request.
The type of personal information we collect about you.
The business or commercial purposes for which we collect this personal information.
The types of third parties with whom we share this personal information.
The specific personal information we collect about you (this is also referred to as a data portability request).
Right to request deletion
You have the right to request that we delete any personal data collected and held from you, except in certain circumstances. Upon receipt and confirmation of your verifiable user request, we will delete (and instruct our service providers to delete) your personal data from our records, unless an exception applies.
Your request for deletion may be denied if retention of such information is necessary for us or our service providers.
To complete the transaction for which personal information was collected, to provide the goods or services you requested, to take reasonably anticipated steps in our ongoing business relationship with you, or to otherwise perform our contract with youTo detect security incidents, prevent malicious, fraudulent, deceptive or unlawful activities, or prosecute those responsible for such activities
Debug products to identify and correct errors that interfere with existing intended functionality
To exercise freedom of speech and to ensure that other users exercise their right to freedom of speech or any other rights provided by law.
To comply with the provisions of the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (California Penal Code Sections 1546 et seq.)
To participate in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research that complies with all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, if the removal of the information could prevent or substantially impair the conduct of the research, as long as you provide prior informed consent.
We will only permit internal uses that reasonably conform to user expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with legal obligations.
Allow other internal and lawful uses of information that are consistent with the context in which you provided the information.
To exercise rights of access, portability and deletion
To exercise the above rights of access, portability and deletion, please make a verifiable user request to us by sending an email to privacy(at)adsome.com and referring to the Site.
Response Time and Form.
We aim to respond to verifiable user requests within forty-five (45) days of receipt. If more time is required (up to 90 days), we will notify you in writing of the reason and extension. Any information we provide will only cover the twelve (12) months prior to receiving a verifiable request from a consumer. If necessary, we will include in our response the reasons why we were unable to fulfill the request. Where data portability is required, we will choose a format that is easy to use to provide your personal information and allows for the ongoing transfer of information from one entity to another. We will not charge a fee for processing or responding to your verifiable user requests, unless it is excessive, duplicative or manifestly unreasonable. If a request is determined to require a fee, we will notify you of the reason for the determination and provide you with an estimate of the fee prior to processing your request.
Non-Discrimination.
You will not be discriminated against by us for exercising any of your rights under HIPAA. We will not, except with the permission of the DPA.
Deny you access to our services
To provide you with goods or services of a different standard or quality.
However, certain CCPA-authorized financial incentives that we may offer may result in changes in price levels, rates or quality. Any CCPA-authorized financial incentives that we offer will be reasonably related to the value of your personal information and will contain written terms describing the nature of the program. Participation in the Economic Incentive Program requires your prior consent to participate, which you may withdraw at any time.
Other California Privacy Rights
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section 1798.83) allows users of this site who are California residents to request certain information about our disclosure of personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. You may make such a request by sending an email to privacy(at)adsome.com.
Contact Information
Any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, our Privacy Policy, the way we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or any desire to exercise your rights under California law may be sent to us by email at
privacy(at)adsome.com.
Privacy Policy Version
If our practices change, we may change the information in this Privacy Policy.
Status of this Privacy Policy: 22/01/2021