Last update: 12/12/2023
We hold your privacy and security in the highest regard, and we are fully committed to respecting and protecting them at all times. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) and the accompanying cookie notice (“Cookie Notice”) describe how we collect, use, and share information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Data”), where such persons use our Services, visit our site or otherwise communicate with us (collectively “Data Subjects” or “Users”) and is incorporated into our User Agreement by reference. Accordingly, when you agree to our User Agreement and access winomania.co.uk, you agree to our collection, use, and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please, read it carefully and make sure you understand it. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any part of this Privacy Policy, you may choose not to use the Website and our Services.
All capitalized terms not expressly defined herein are to be interpreted within the meaning of our User Agreement. We reserve the right, at our complete discretion, to change, modify, add and/or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. You shall be, in advance, informed by us of any material changes made to this Privacy Policy (as well as other terms and conditions relevant to the Website). We shall also archive and store previous versions of the Privacy Policy for your review upon request.
1. About Us
Any uses herein of “we”, “us”, “our” or the “Company” refer to Anakatech Interactive Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of Malta under Company No. 61918, with registered address at Soho Office Space, The Strand Fawwara Building, l-Imsida, GZIRA GZR1401, Malta. Anakatech Interactive Limited is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) under account No. 48789 and is the holder of Casino License 048789-R-327402-007. You may contact our customer support center (“Customer Support Center”) at [email protected] at any time.
2. Your Data Protection Rights
As an operator licensed and operating in the UK and processing the Personal Data of UK citizens, the Company is obliged to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), UK Data Protection Act 2018, and any other applicable data protection legislation (collectively, “Data Protection Laws”). As per the applicable Data Protection Laws, we undertake the following obligations and guarantee the following rights to all Users of our Website:
Right to access: Users have the right to obtain information on whether their Personal Data is being processed, and, if yes, to obtain access to that Personal Data and obtain specific information, including the purposes of the processing, categories of Personal Data processed, who the data has been or will be disclosed to, the envisaged period for which the data will be stored (if known), the existence of other rights, etc.
Data portability: Users also have their Personal Data transmitted to another controller, either by receiving it and transmitting it themselves, or by having it directly transmitted by us to another controller, where technically feasible.
Right to rectification: If you believe that the Personal Data that we’ve collected about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to rectify and/or complete such data by sending a request.
Right to erasure(The right to be forgotten): Users have the right to request for their Personal Data collected by the Company to be erased and cease the further dissemination of their data by the Company or any third parties.
Right to object to processing: You may, in certain circumstances, object to the processing of your Personal Data. This is the case when such processing is done for direct marketing purposes, or on the basis of our legitimate interest in processing, provided that in the latter case, we may have legitimate grounds to refuse your request.
Right to restrict processing: Alternatively, you may request that the processing of your Personal Data be restricted in some circumstances, provided you have the appropriate grounds, such as when you’ve contested the accuracy of your data, or you have objected to us processing your data.
Right to not be subject to automated decision-making: You have the right not to be subject to a decision when it is based on automated processing, and it produces an adverse legal effect or significantly affects you. We at winomania.co.uk guarantee that no decisions based solely on automated means will be taken with regard to you.
Please note that these rights are not absolute and may be subject to our own legitimate interests and regulatory requirements.
3. Exercising Your Data Protection Rights
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, or you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and all matters contained therein in the following ways:
Representation of data subjects in the UK
We have appointed Prighter Ltd, a company incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom under
Company No. 12854033, with a registered address at 20 Mortlake Mortlake High Street, London SW14 8JN,
United Kingdom, as our privacy representatives in the UK (“UK Representative”), as per article 27 of
the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). You may exercise your data protection rights
via our UK Representative at the following link:
https://prighter.com/q/17129819245
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
Alternatively, you may contact and address such concerns, questions, or requests to our data protection officer (“Data Protection Officer” or “DPO”) at [email protected].
4. Our Legal Grounds For Processing Your Data
Data Protection Laws allow us to process your Personal Data, provided that we have the legal grounds to do so. Depending on the data collected and the purpose of processing, we have several legal grounds for processing your Personal Data:
The performance of a contract: In order to provide our Services to you and to fulfil our obligations per our User Agreement.
Legal requirements: In order to fulfil our legal obligations under applicable laws, such as those pertaining to Anti-Money Laundering.
Legitimate interest: In order to protect our legitimate interest, such as preventing fraud and guaranteeing the security of our Services.
Note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
| PURPOSE | DATA | LEGAL BASIS |
|---|---|---|
Administer and protect the Website:
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a) Automatically collected data; b) Cookies data. |
Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Administration and protection of the Website and the Server which makes the Website available are the legitimate interests of the Company. |
| To create your account and provide you with the Services available on the Website. Without these data, we are incapable of creating your account on the Website and providing you with our Services. | a) Contact data; b) Account data; c) Bets data; d) Payment data. |
Performance of the contract in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. These data are essential to open your account and without these data, we would not be able to conclude a contract with you and open your account on the Website. |
| To conduct Verification. We conduct Verification for the purposes of a) compliance with applicable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing legislation: from this follows that provision of Verification data is required by the law. Without these data, we would be incapable of complying with our legal obligation under the legislation mentioned above; b) prevention of fraud, cheating and violation of the Terms and Conditions of the Website. In some cases, we conduct additional verification (for example, via video-call) in order to prevent violation of our Terms and Conditions (which are a contract between you and us), cheating and fraud. From this follows that additional verification is the procedure required by the contract between you and us; c) prevention of the use of the Website by children. Without Verification, we would not be able to create your account (in some cases) or allow the continuation of operation of your account. | Any data concerning you we possess. | a) When Verification is conducted for the purposes of compliance with money laundering and counter-terrorist financing legislation and prevention of the use of the Website by children: compliance with the legal obligation to which the Company is subject under Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR; b) When Verification is conducted for the purposes of prevention of fraud and cheating: Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Prevention of fraudulent activity and cheating is the legitimate interests of the Company; c) When Verification is conducted for the purposes of prevention of violation of the Terms and Conditions of the Website: performance of the contract to which you are party in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Our Terms and Conditions are the contract between you and the Company and your failure to pass the verification will be in breach of this document. |
| To comply with the requests from governmental authorities, courts and other similar bodies. | Any data concerning you we possess. | Compliance with the legal obligation to which the Company is subject under Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR; |
| To contact you. We may contact you for various purposes: a) When you contact us via the interface of the Website or via contact details available on the Website and ask a question about our Website, the Company etc.; b) When you use the Website, you communicate with the Support Team and other staff of the Company who may be engaged in provision to you our Services, or solving of your problem(s) connected with your use of the Website; c) Additionally, we can use your contact data to communicate with you about changes in our Website, products, services, and documents/rules which affect you. | Contact data and any other data which we have about you (if required by the purpose of communication). | a) If you do not have an account on the Website and communicate with us about the general issues: Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Communication with the general public is the legitimate interest of the Company; b) When we communicate with you in the course of your use of the Website, your account or our Services: performance of the contract to which you are party in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Without these communications, we would not be able to provide you with some functions of the Website and/or solve your problems that can arise during your use of the Website. |
| To comply with your data subject`s requests and other legal requests from you. | Any data concerning you we possess. | Compliance with the legal obligation to which the Company is subject under Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR. |
| To exercise your self-exclusion. If you have decided to conduct self-exclusion (to block or restrict your account for a specific time period or block your account permanently), we will use your data to conduct this self-exclusion. | a) Verification data; b) Account data; c) Contact data; d) Payment data; |
Performance of the contract to which you are party in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. |
| To improve the Website and its functionality: a. Testing new functions and features on the Website; b. Research and analysis |
a) Automatically collected data; b) Cookies data. |
Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Improvement and enhancement of the Website and the Services which are provided via the Website are the legitimate interests of the Company. |
| Provide you with the Website and with the Website tailored for your device and the settings installed on your device. Without Automatically Collected data and Cookies data, the Website may not work and/or may not work correctly. For example, if you disable cookies you will not be able to log in to the Website and we will not be able to remember your website choices (for example, the language of the Website). | a) Automatically collected data; b) Cookies data. |
Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Provision of the Website to its users is the legitimate interest of the Company. |
| To prevent violation(s) of our Terms and Conditions, cheating, collusion, use of the Website in bad faith and other similar activity. | Any data concerning you we possess | Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Prevention of violation(s) of our Terms and Conditions, cheating, collusion, use of the Website in bad faith and other similar activity are the legitimate interests of the Company. |
| To calculate commission to the referrer who has directed you to the Website. | a) Account data; b) Contact data; c) Bets data; d) Payment data. |
Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. Calculation of the commission to the referrers is the legitimate interest of the Company. |
| To establish, exercise and defence legal claims. We may use your data in order to protect our legal interests in courts disputes, legal disputes etc. | Any data concerning you we possess | Legitimate interests of the Company in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The establishment, exercise and defence of legal claims is the legitimate interest of the Company. |
| To facilitate your payments via the Website. Without your Payment data we will not be able to process your payment and, subsequently, provide you with the Services of the Website. | Payment data. | Performance of the contract to which you are party in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. |
| To calculate your Website balance (both real and bonus). | a) Payment data; b) Bonus data; c) Loyalty program data; d) Bets data. |
Performance of the contract to which you are party in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. |
| To calculate your cashback. | a) Payment data; b) Bonus data; c) Loyalty program data; d) Bets data. |
Performance of the contract to which you are party in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. |
| To share your opinion about our website |
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Your consent given in accordance with article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. |
5. The Personal Data We Collect
When you access our Website, create an account, use our Services, initiate a financial transaction, etc. we may collect a variety of information, including:
Registration data provided by you when you register and/or open your Member Account including first name, last name, username or similar identifier, date of birth, territory, applicable social security number where permitted or required by law, gender, and country of residence.
Contact data includes permanent address, email address and telephone numbers.
Identification and verification data that includes your name, surname, permanent address and proof, age, nationality, family members, degrees and qualifications, schools/universities attended, employment history and information, media involvement, financial status information (e.g., bank statement, source of income and source of wealth, tax information), masked credit card details, proof of e-wallet ownership (e.g. ID card, power of attorney).
Responsible gambling data including name, surname, postcode, email, phone number, country, date of birth, territory applicable social security number where permitted or required by law, approved transactions (deposits and withdrawals), denied transactions (deposits and withdrawals), Identification and Verification Data, Self-exclusion Data.
Self-exclusion data including data pertaining to you and your self-exclusion such as your Registration and Contact Data and your self-exclusion info such as reason, start date, utilization of self-exclusion tools such as exclusions, session limit, loss limit, wager limit, deposit limit, reality check.
Payment data includes bank/payment account details, as well as information pertaining to a transaction such as currency, location, amount/value, client IP, User ID, token.
Transaction and usage data generated through your use of our Services (e.g. playing Games) and including payments to and from you (deposits, withdrawals, failed deposits and reversed withdrawals) and other details of Services you have purchased from us (such as bets, wagers (real and bonus), wins), date and time of the transactions, account balances (bonus and real), bonuses used (conversion and forfeiture), bonuses turnover, bonuses balance, channels used, transaction games played, language, country, account balances.
Login data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your logins (first login, last login, last failed login), duration of logins, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our Services.
Profile data includes internal notes to your account, interests, preferences, feedback, information about events which you have attended; Your preferences as to whether you wish to attend any events, and what type of events you prefer; Any bonus/cash back deals, or bonus preference you have been offered or benefitted from; Whether you have received any giveaways, and your preferences regarding what type of gifts you would like to receive; Your preferences as to contact channels; information regarding your hobbies and interests.
Marketing communications data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us (opt in/opt out), as well as your Contact and Registration Data.
Other communication data provided by you in communication with us (via recorded calls, chats, emails, or SMS) which may include various data such as your intentions, interests, complaints, preferences, as well as internal communication and notes.
Analytics data include various data provided by your observed with respect to your use of our Website and Services such as your player ID, language, location, browser data, campaigns utilized, channels used, device, payment provider, Transaction and Usage Data and in case of online acquisition analytics also pages visited, postcards clicked, scroll depth. Certain information is collected using cookies and/or similar tracking technology – please see further section “Cookies”.
Special categories of Personal Data: we do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Please note that although ID cards are processed, images contained therein are not specifically technically processed to allow or confirm unique identification. Therefore, such data is not to be considered biometric data (special category of data).
6. How We Use Your Personal Data
We only use your Personal Data only when we have a valid legal basis to do so. We use your Personal Data to power our Services, to process your transactions, to communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with applicable laws. We may also use Personal Data for other purposes with your consent.
To provide our Services and process your transactions: To set up your Account and provide you with the Services, including to process any transactions initiated by you on our Website.
Security and fraud prevention: To ensure the security of your and other Users’ accounts, to prevent loss being incurred by us or by other individuals, to guarantee the legality of your use of our Services, and to monitor transactions in order to prevent fraud.
Commercial and other communications: To communicate with you about your account, transactions, etc., to send you important notices and inform you about any changes to our Services, terms, and policies, etc., to reach out to you with marketing materials about our Services and products and to request information and/or feedback from you.
Compliance with applicable laws: We collect your information in order to comply with our regulatory duties, obligations, and responsibilities, including such arising under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA), the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLR 2017) and the Terrorism Act 2000 (TA 2000), as amended, the UK Gambling Act 2005 and the UK Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, such applicable otherwise owed to the UK Gambling Commission, and such arising by virtue of any other valid and applicable legislation and to any other competent authority having any governmental, juridical, or regulatory jurisdiction over our activities. The Company is further obliged to report any crime or suspected crime, including money laundering or fraud, and assist in any law enforcement investigation or proceedings.
To improve and customize our Services: To perform research or conduct anonymous analytics in order to improve and customize our Services to your needs and interests.
7. For How Long We Retain Your Data
We are obliged to retain certain elements of your Personal Data after the termination of your account for a period of up to 10 (ten) years, in order to meet our legal obligations with regard to Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting Terrorist Financing laws and regulations. In particular, we may retain your Personal Data:
For up to one (1) year from your last activity on your account: Details of your account logins and visits to the Website, including but not limited to traffic data, weblogs, and communications to and from our Customer Support Center.
For up to five (5) years from your last activity on your account: Personal identification and communication details provided to us, contact information through the Website, such as email, live chat or other media.
For up to ten (10) years from your last from your last activity on the account: Transactions such as financial account information and game transactions.
We may keep your Personal Data for longer periods if required to do so by any competent authorities, such is a case of any legal proceedings to which you or we may be party.
8. With Whom We Share Your Data
We may share your Personal Data with our affiliates, partners, Service providers and authorities for legal reasons, to enable us to properly provide you with our Services or carry out other related functions. We only share your Personal Data in the manners described, to the extent required for the specific purpose, and in full compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
8.1. Third Party Service Providers, Affiliates or Partners
Our subcontractors, affiliated companies and other entities. The Website and Services provided via the Website are maintained and provided by a large number of people who may be employed either by the Company or by any of our affiliated companies, subcontractors, and other establishments. This means that your data may be shared with them. Please note that all these transfers are secured by proper data transfer agreements which oblige these recipients to process your data in accordance with this Policy and with the data protection legislation to which the Company is subject. We engage service providers for the following services:
- Hosting the Website and data;
- Marketing services;
- IT services and security services;
- Customer support software service providers;
- Payment service providers;
- KYC, anti-fraud, and anti-money laundering services;
- Games providers;
- Audit, legal and compliance services.
8.2. Governmental, Regulatory and Other Authorities
We are also obliged to disclose your Personal Data to regulatory authorities to satisfy our legal obligations. These authorities may include but are not limited to the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), the National Crime Agency (NCA), HM Revenue and Customs, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the police, any competent court or tribunal, and other relevant law enforcement entities. In disclosing to the relevant authorities, we are obliged to provide all personal details, including verification documents, payment and betting transaction history and records, all communication history, and any other information we hold about you. All Personal Data and records, including documentation, is transferred to the relevant authority through secure means, as may be prescribed by such authorities beyond our control.
8.3. Data Transfers Outside of the UK
Subject to the applicable UK adequacy regulations, which include the EEA and all countries, territories and international organizations covered by European Commission adequacy decisions per 31 December 2020, we transfer your data to third party providers that are located in the European Economic Area (EEA).
The Company ensures that it takes all the necessary security and standard precautions to keep your Personal Data secure. Our servers are physically located within the European Union, and they may only be accessed online through encrypted connections. In following best security practices and standards, we only use third party providers which follow and ensure an adequate level of security.
In limited circumstances, we may transfer your data outside of the EEA and the UK. When doing thus, we will always ensure to have in place the same or similar degree of protection when transferring your Personal Data outside the EEA and the UK. We do this by ensuring that we transfer to countries that are deemed to hold an adequate level of data protection measures in place as per the International data transfer agreement (IDTA) and/or the international data transfer addendum to the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses for international data transfers.
9. Our Use of Cookies
We use Cookies to be able to offer you the Service on our Website, as well as to provide marketing content and advertising that is personalized to you, and to be able to analyze the traffic to our Website. Please, read the accompanying Cookie Notice for further information on our use of cookies.
10. Marketing and Commercial Communications
The Company may, from time to time, offer you special promotions. The Company is obliged to receive your implicit or explicit consent about receiving any promotional materials before sending any marketing materials. You may be notified about the promotions by various means, including but not limited to (i) email, (ii) telephone, (iii) SMS (iv) additional windows opening from within the game platform.
As part of the account registration process, we also offer our Users the opportunity to "opt out" from keeping them informed of future events, offers and promotions from winomania.co.uk. Visitors interested in opting out can simply click on the unsubscribe button in our marketing mailers or should 'uncheck' the relevant box in the registration process. You may update your marketing preferences at any time through by contacting our Customer Support Center. If you have chosen to receive information on future events, offers and promotions by SMS message to your cellular telephone you may "opt out" from receiving such information at any time by sending an email to [email protected] or contacting our Customer Support Center or replying with the word "STOP". To opt out of third party analytics please email us at [email protected] and include your device identifier, and once processed our third-party analytics provider will discontinue any analytics on that particular device. To be unsubscribed from our mailing list, please send our support team a blank e-mail with the text "remove" in the subject at [email protected].
11. Corporate Transaction
We may share Information, including Personal Data, in the event of a corporate transaction (e.g. sale of a substantial part of our business, merger, consolidation or asset sale of an asset or transfer in the operation thereof) of the Company or of any other company within the group. In the event of the above, the acquiring company or transferee will assume the rights and obligations as described in this Privacy Policy.
12. Minors and Age of Consent
The Services are not designated to Users under the age of 18 (eighteen). If you are under 18 (eighteen), you should not download or use the Services nor provide any personal information to us. The Company uses reasonable care and due diligence in verifying the age of all Users. We reserve the right to access and verify any personal information collected from you. In the event that we become aware that a User under the age of 18 (eighteen) has shared any Personal Data, we will discard such information. If you have any reason to believe that a minor has shared any information with us, please contact us at [email protected]
13. Complaints
If you have a complaint about the way we have handled your personal data, you may raise your complaint by contacting our Data Protection Officer at [email protected]. We strive to address all complaints as quickly and effectively as possible. Nevertheless, in the event we have failed to resolve your complaint, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):
Address: Water Lane, Wycliffe House, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO Website: https://www.ico.org.uk
This cookie notice (“Cookie Notice”) is meant to inform you on what Cookies we use on our Website, as well as their purpose and which ones are required for the Website to function properly and to be able to offer you a customized experience. It’s an integral part of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. Please, read it carefully and ensure your understanding of it.
PLEASE NOTE: This Website uses different types of Cookies. Some Cookies are placed by third-party Services that appear on our pages. We are required to obtain your consent for certain Cookies, such as those for performance/analytics purposes and for targeting/advertising purposes. However, your consent is not required for Cookies that are essential to be able to provide you with our Services.
1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files which are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or smart phone) by your browser whilst browsing on our Website (“Cookies”). Each Cookie is designed to hold different data types which is specific to every User, such as recording your browsing activity on the Website. This allows us to offer you an enhanced User experience, one that is bespoke to each User whether on our Website or on our social media pages.
2. Which Cookies do we use?
We use Cookies to be able to offer you the Service on our Website, as well as to provide marketing content and advertising that is personalized to you, and to be able to analyze the traffic to our Website. The Cookies that are available on our Website can therefore be classified as essential (strictly necessary) and non-essential (functionality, statistical, and marketing). These are detailed below:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These types of Cookies are imperative for you to be able to navigate and use the Website’s features successfully. Without such Cookies, the Website will not function properly. These Cookies do not collect data about you that could be used for other purposes. Therefore, we are not required to obtain your consent for such Cookies. However, if you choose to prevent such Cookies, you may not be able to use the Website’s functionalities, nor can we ascertain that our security controls will function correctly during your use of the Website.
- Functionality Cookies: These types of Cookies allow our Website to remember your selections, such as language preferences. These Functionality Cookies are also used to remember your acceptance to reading, and understanding our Cookies Notice and your Cookie preference selections. It is important to note that some of these Cookies are managed by third parties on our behalf. However, in such cases, we do not permit the third party to use the Cookies for any purpose other than those mentioned.
- Statistical Cookies: These types of Cookies, also referred to as Performance Cookies, are used to collect information on how you use our Website for statistical purposes, such as the pages that you had viewed, and also which links you had clicked on. The information collected through such Cookies cannot be used to identify you, as the data is aggregated and anonymized. Statistical Cookies are only used by us to improve the functionalities of the Website. As a result, we are required to obtain your consent to collect such Cookies data. These Statistical Cookies are also used for: (i) Affiliates – to let our partners know if our Users visited their site or vice versa; (ii) Error and content management – to help us monitor any Website errors and content usage to be able to resolve any issues, as well as to help optimise our Website content; (iii) Maintaining and testing designs – for our web developers to maintain the current Website’s designs and to possibly test for new designs;
- Marketing Cookies: These types of Cookies are used to track your activities on the Website to help us deliver advertising and marketing content that is relevant to you, and also to limit the number of times you see a particular ad. These are persistent Cookies, which are placed throughout the Website, are linked to Services provided by third parties. Since these Cookies are not necessary for the Website to function properly, you can choose to not allow them. These Cookies work by specifically identifying your browser and your device, and are used to link to our social media page and to provide advertisers (directly or indirectly) with information on your visit to the Website.
3. Cookies Consent and Withdrawal
The first time you visit our Website, you are presented with our Cookie banner, which you are required to accept for it to be removed. If you clear your browser Cookies, the Cookie banner will become visible again. The Cookie banner is there to inform you with regards to the Cookies used on the Website and to obtain your consent where necessary. If you choose to accept and provide your consent to certain cookies, your browser will remember your preferences for the next time you visit our Website. Cookies will expire periodically – however, this depends on the type of Cookie and the type of data collected.
4. Google Services and Use of Cookies
There are also a number of Cookies which are set by different Google Services. These store your preferences and track your activity from Website to Website. The Cookies which are set by third parties’ systems are impossible for us to track and also to specify under which conditions they are set.
We have integrated the third-party tool of Google Analytics into our Website. Google Analytics allows us to evaluate your User behavior and to establish links with other Websites. Google Analytics is a web analysis Service which enables gathering, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to our Website. Web analysis is used mainly for the purpose of optimization of the Website and for the benefit of internet advertising. Web analysis Services collect data which allows us to tell among other things: from which Website a User was referred to the Website (the referrer Website), which subpages of the Website were accessed, for which period of time the subpages were viewed and how often. Google Analytics uses cookies which generate information about your use of this Website, which is then usually transmitted to a Google server and stored there. Google may transfer the personal information collected to third parties.
As IP anonymization is activated on our Website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or other states in agreement with the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by a Google server in the USA. On our behalf, as the operators of the Website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, compile reports on Website activity and provide further Services related to Website and internet use to us. The IP address transferred through your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with other data held by Google. In addition, this Website uses the Analytics feature UserID to track interaction data. This User ID will be additionally anonymized and encrypted and will not be linked with other data.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this Website to the fullest extent possible.
Opt-Out. In addition, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the Website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser Add-on available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about Website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics. In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
Personalization of Ads. The Website also uses
Google Analytics performance reports relating to
demographics and interests and reports on Google Display
Network impressions. You can disable Google Analytics for display
advertising and customize the ads on the Google Display Network.
The operator of the Google Analytics tool is Google Inc.,
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
You can find further information on Google‘s
privacy and cookie policy at
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.
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