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 Treaty for Telemedia (TMG) 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, including information like your real name, your address, zip code, phone number. Information not associated with your real identity (for example your favorite website or the 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. The following information will be asked:

• Date of birth
• Country of your residence
• Your e-mail address

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

When you access our services, data which allows an identification (for example the IP address, date, time and pages looked at on our website) will be saved to our servers for backup purposes. No personal-related information will be processed. The statistical evaluation of anonymous data is reserved.

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

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

Passing of Personal Data to Third Parties

Your data will not be passed to third parties without your explicit approval. If your data is passed to other service providers due to the 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 will be collected by search engines and thus become accessible worldwide without our service being used. Foreign service providers oftentimes cannot be ordered to erase or revise these kinds of entries.

Right to Revoke

You can delete your submitted personal data 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 points. 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, only 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 of an age below 18 should not transmit personal data to us without their parents' agreement. However, you need to specify your date of birth during the registration process. Some functions are not enabled for people below the age of 18, for example credit card payment 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 development of the internet, an adjustment of our privacy policy may be required at any one time. At this point, you will be informed about the alterations.