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Privacy Policy
The use of our site is possible without providing personal data. For the use of individual services on our site, different regulations may apply, which are explained separately below in such cases.
Your personal data (e.g., name, address, email, telephone number, etc.) is processed by us only in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law. Data is considered personal when it can be clearly assigned to a specific natural person. The legal foundations of data protection can be found in the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Digital Services Act (DDG).
Cookies
We use so-called 'cookies' on our site to recognize repeated use of our offering by the same user/internet connection holder. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores and saves on your computer. They serve to optimize our web presence and our offerings. In some cases, these cookies provide information to automatically recognize you again. This recognition occurs based on the IP address stored in the cookies. The information obtained in this way serves to optimize our offerings and to enable easier access to our site for you. You can prevent the installation of cookies through appropriate settings in your browser; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent.
Server Data
For technical reasons, the following data that your internet browser transmits to us or to our web hosting provider is collected (so-called server log files):
- Browser type and version
- Operating system used
- Website from which you visit us (referrer URL)
- Website that you visit
- Date and time of your access
- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address
This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data you may have provided and does not allow conclusions about a specific person. It is evaluated for statistical purposes to optimize our web presence and our offerings.
Registration Function
We offer you the possibility to register on our site. The data entered during this registration, which is visible from the input mask of the registration form:
- Username and optionally the email address are collected and stored exclusively for the use of our offering. With your registration on our site, we will also store your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This serves as our safeguard in case a third party misuses your data and registers on our site with this data without your knowledge. No data is passed on to third parties. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site also does not take place.
Newsletter
We offer you the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter on our site. With this newsletter, we inform you at regular intervals about our offerings. To receive our newsletter, you need a valid email address. We will check the email address you entered to verify whether you are actually the owner of the specified email address or whether its owner is authorized to receive the newsletter. With your registration for our newsletter, we will store your IP address and the date and time of your registration. This serves as our safeguard in case a third party misuses your email address and subscribes to our newsletter without your knowledge. No further data is collected by us. The data collected in this way is used exclusively for receiving our newsletter. No data is passed on to third parties. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site also does not take place. You can cancel the subscription to this newsletter at any time. Details can be found in the confirmation email and in each individual newsletter.
Contact Option
We offer you the possibility to contact us by email and/or via a contact form on our site. In this case, the information provided by the user is stored for the purpose of processing their contact request. No data is passed on to third parties. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site also does not take place.
Comment Option
We offer you the possibility to leave comments on individual posts on our site. The IP address of the author/connection holder is stored. This storage is done for our security in case the author interferes with third party rights through their comment and/or posts unlawful content. Thus, we have a legitimate interest in the stored data of the author, especially since we may be held liable for such legal violations. No data is passed on to third parties. A comparison of the data collected in this way with data that may be collected by other components of our site also does not take place.
Use of Google Analytics with Anonymization Function
We use Google Analytics on our site, a web analysis service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google". Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and thereby enable analysis of your use of the website.
The information generated by these cookies, for example time, place and frequency of your website visit including your IP address, is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there.
We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization function on our website. In this case, your IP address is already shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thereby anonymized.
Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our site, to compile reports on website activities for us, and to provide other services related to website usage and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is legally required or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.
According to its own statements, Google will never associate your IP address with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies through appropriate settings of your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent.
Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation option for the most common browsers, which gives you more control over what data is collected and processed by Google. If you activate this option, no information about website visits will be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, activation does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may use. For more information about the deactivation option provided by Google and how to activate this option, please visit the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Use of Facebook Components
We use components from facebook.com on our site. Facebook is a service of facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
With each individual access to our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from facebook. Through this process, facebook is informed about which specific page of our web presence is currently being visited by you.
If you access our site while being logged into facebook at the same time, facebook recognizes through the information collected by the component which specific page you visit and assigns this information to your personal account on facebook. If you click, for example, the "Like" button or make corresponding comments, this information is transmitted to your personal user account on facebook and stored there. Furthermore, the information that you have visited our site is passed on to facebook. This happens regardless of whether you click on the component or not.
If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data about you and your behavior on our website by facebook, you must log out of facebook before visiting our site. Facebook's privacy policy provides more detailed information, particularly regarding the collection and use of data by facebook, your related rights, and the setting options for protecting your privacy: https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/
Additionally, external tools are available on the market with which Facebook social plugins can be blocked with add-ons for all common browsers https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/stop-facebook-tracking/
An overview of Facebook plugins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
Use of Twitter Recommendation Components
We use components from Twitter on our site. Twitter is a service of Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
With each individual access to our website that is equipped with such a component, this component causes the browser you are using to download a corresponding representation of the component from Twitter. Through this process, Twitter is informed about which specific page of our web presence is currently being visited.
We have no influence on the data that Twitter collects through this, nor on the scope of this data collected by Twitter. To our knowledge, Twitter collects the URL of the respective accessed website as well as the user's IP address, but does not use it for purposes other than displaying the Twitter component. More information can be found in Twitter's privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your privacy settings in the account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.
Use of YouTube Components with Enhanced Privacy Mode
On our website, we use components (videos) from YouTube, LLC 901 Cherry Ave., 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, a company of Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
We use the option provided by YouTube "- enhanced privacy mode -".
When you access a page that has an embedded video, a connection to the YouTube servers is established and the content is displayed on the website by notification to your browser.
According to YouTube's information, in "- enhanced privacy mode -" only data is transmitted to the YouTube server, particularly which of our web pages you have visited, when you watch the video. If you are simultaneously logged into YouTube, this information is assigned to your member account at YouTube. You can prevent this by logging out of your member account before visiting our website.
Further information about YouTube's privacy policy is provided by Google at the following link: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
Use of PayPal as Payment Method
Should you decide to pay with the online payment service provider PayPal during your order process, your contact data will be transmitted to PayPal as part of the order triggered in this way. PayPal is an offering of PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. & Cie. S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. PayPal takes on the function of an online payment service provider as well as a trustee and offers buyer protection services.
The personal data transmitted to PayPal usually consists of first name, last name, address, telephone number, IP address, email address, or other data required for order processing, as well as data related to the order, such as number of items, item number, invoice amount and taxes in percent, billing information, etc.
This transmission is necessary for processing your order with the payment method you selected, particularly for confirming your identity, for administering your payment and the customer relationship.
Please note: Personal data may also be passed on by PayPal to service providers, subcontractors or other affiliated companies, insofar as this is necessary to fulfill the contractual obligations from your order or the personal data is to be processed on behalf.
Depending on the payment method selected via PayPal, e.g., invoice or direct debit, the personal data transmitted to PayPal is forwarded by PayPal to credit agencies. This transmission serves for identity and credit checks regarding the order you placed. Which agencies these are and what data PayPal generally collects, processes, stores and passes on can be found in PayPal's privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Use of Google AdWords
We also use the Google advertising tool "Google AdWords" to promote our website. In this context, we use the analysis service "Conversion Tracking" from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google" on our website. If you have reached our website via a Google ad, a cookie is placed on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores and saves on your computer. These so-called "conversion cookies" lose their validity after 30 days and do not serve for your personal identification. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that you as a user clicked on one of our ads placed with Google and were redirected to our site.
The information obtained with the help of "conversion cookies" serves Google to create visit statistics for our website. Through these statistics, we learn the total number of users who clicked on our ad and also which pages of our website were subsequently accessed by the respective user. However, we or other advertisers via "Google AdWords" do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.
You can prevent the installation of "conversion cookies" through appropriate settings of your browser, for example through browser settings that generally deactivate the automatic setting of cookies or specifically block only cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com".
Google's privacy policy in this regard can be found at the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html
Use of Affilinet Tracking Cookies
We use affilinet tracking cookies on our website for the correct recording of sales and/or leads. Cookies are small text files that your computer saves when you visit a website. These Affilinet tracking cookies do not store any personal data. Rather, only the identification number of the mediating partner as well as the order number of the advertising material clicked by the website visitor is recorded. This information is needed for payment processing between the website operator and the advertiser. The partner identification number serves to assign the commission to be paid to the mediating partner when a transaction is completed.
You can prevent the installation of cookies through appropriate settings of your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of our website to their full extent.
Information/Withdrawal/Deletion
Based on the Federal Data Protection Act, you can contact us free of charge with questions about the collection, processing or use of your personal data and their correction, blocking, deletion or withdrawal of given consent. We point out that you have the right to correction of incorrect data or deletion of personal data, provided no legal retention obligation stands in the way of this claim.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
CoinTracking reserves the right to change this privacy policy at any time by publishing a new privacy policy at this location. Any change to the privacy policy becomes effective thirty (30) days after these changes have been published. By continuing to use the service after the expiration of the 30 days, you agree to the changes.
This document was last updated on June 1, 2022.
Questions about this privacy policy can be sent by email to support@coinfox.io.