Data Protection
How WhatsGaming collects, uses and protects your personal data.
1. Information About the Collection of Personal Data
(1) The website is owned and operated by UNITED TECHNOLOGY NETWORK LTD (registered address: 61 Bridge Street, Suite 34250, Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR5 3DJ).
(2) In the following statement we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail address, user behavior.
(3) Responsible according to Art. 4 para. 7 EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DS-GVO) is UNITED TECHNOLOGY NETWORK LTD (registered address: 61 Bridge Street, Suite 34250, Kington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom, HR5 3DJ), telephone, e-mail (see our imprint).
(4) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide us with (your e-mail address, possibly your name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this collection after the storage is no longer necessary, or restrict the processing if there are legal storage obligations. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO and, if your enquiry is aimed at the conclusion of a contract, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DS-GVO.
(5) If we wish to use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you below in detail about the respective processes. We also specify the fixed criteria for the storage period.
2. Your Rights
(1) You have the following rights against us with regard to your personal data:
- Right of access (Art. 15 DS-GVO),
- Right to rectification (Art. 16 DS-GVO) or deletion (Art. 17 DS-GVO),
- Right to limitation of processing (Art. 18 DS-GVO),
- Right to revoke consent granted (Art. 7 para. 3 DS-GVO),
- Right to object to the processing (see paragraph 3),
- Right to information (Art. 19 DS-GVO),
- Right to data transferability (Art. 20 DS-GVO).
(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us (Art. 77 DS-GVO).
(3) If personal data is processed for the performance of tasks in the public interest (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. e DS-GVO) or to safeguard legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO), you may object to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future. In the event of objection, we shall refrain from any further processing of your data for the aforementioned purposes unless there are compelling grounds for processing worthy of protection which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims. You can object to the use of your data for the purpose of direct advertising at any time with effect for the future; this also applies to profiling in so far as it is connected with direct advertising.
(4) In order to exercise your rights (with the exception of the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority), please contact the office named in § 1 Paragraph 2.
3. Collection of Personal Data When You Visit Our Website
(1) If you only use the website for information purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO): IP address; date and time of the request; time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT); contents of the request (concrete page); access status/HTTP status code; amount of data transferred in each case; website from which the request originates; browser; operating system and its interface; language and version of the browser software.
(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive assigned to the browser you are using and through which certain information flows to the location that sets the cookie (here by us). Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO). You can manage the cookie settings in your browser and, among other things, refuse the acceptance of cookies in general or for our website as well as delete any cookies that have already been set.
(3) Use of cookies: this website uses transient cookies (automatically deleted when you close your browser, e.g. session cookies storing a session ID) and persistent cookies (automatically deleted after a specified period, which you can delete in the security settings of your browser at any time). You can configure your browser settings to refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies; please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website if you do so. We use cookies to identify you for future visits if you have an account with us. We also use HTML5 storage objects that are stored on your device. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by using private mode in your browser, and we recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and browser history manually.
4. Use of Our Service
(1) If you would like to be referred to a seller on our platform, you must first register with your e-mail address. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for registration, i.e. your registration is not completed until you have confirmed your registration by clicking on the link contained in the confirmation e-mail sent to you. If your confirmation is not received within 24 hours, your registration will be automatically deleted from our database.
(2) If you use our portal, we store the data necessary for the fulfilment of the transaction, including details of payment method, until you finally delete your access. You can do this by simply sending a message to the contact details specified in § 1 Para. 2. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DS-GVO. On this basis, your payment data will also be transmitted to the corresponding payment service provider. For payment by PayPal (PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg): paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
(3) You will find further information on this mediation process and the associated data transfer in our General Terms and Conditions, specifically in paragraphs 4 and 7.
(4) To prevent unauthorized access by third parties to your personal data, in particular financial data, the order process is encrypted using TLS technology.
5. Use of Google Analytics
(1) This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. However, if IP anonymization is enabled on this website, Google will previously truncate your IP address within member states of the European Union or other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.
(2) The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.
(3) You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
(4) This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()”. This means that IP addresses are further processed in a shortened form, thus excluding the possibility of personal references.
(5) We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website and to improve it regularly. The statistics obtained will enable us to improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DS-GVO.
(6) Third Party Information: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. Terms of Use and privacy information are available on Google's websites.
6. Deployment of Telegram
If you would like to contact our customer service via Telegram, please note that the connection between you and us via Telegram is not encrypted and sensitive information should not be shared. We will store the chat communication and your phone number for 2 weeks for quality assurance unless you object earlier. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DS-GVO and, if your enquiry is aimed at the conclusion of a contract, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DS-GVO. We have no precise knowledge of how Telegram collects, processes, or uses the information. For more information about Telegram's privacy practices, see telegram.org/privacy.
7. Integration of YouTube Videos
(1) We have included YouTube videos on our website, which are stored at youtube.com and can be played directly from our website. These are all included in the “extended data protection mode”, i.e. no data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. Only when you play the videos will the relevant data be transmitted. We have no influence on this data transmission.
(2) By visiting the website, YouTube receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. This occurs regardless of whether YouTube provides a user account that you are logged in to. When you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not want your profile to be associated with YouTube, you must log out before activating the button. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, and you must contact YouTube to exercise this right.
(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by YouTube can be found in Google's Privacy Policy.
8. Storage Period
Unless we explicitly state otherwise, we will store personal data for as long as legal retention periods exist. After expiry of the statutory retention period, we will delete the data if we no longer need the data for the fulfilment of contractual obligations towards you or if we do not have any justified interest for further storage.