Privacy Policy

App and Website

Below we inform you in detail about the handling of your data which we process in connection with our website under the URL https://www.besportyapp.com/ (hereinafter referred to as "Website") and our social sport app (hereinafter also referred to as "App").

This privacy policy only applies to our Website and App. If you are redirected to other sites via links on our pages, please inform yourself there about the respective handling of your personal data. This applies in particular for links to our partner services.

I. General Information

The general information presented in Section I. also apply to our App, unless otherwise stated or supplemented in Section II.

1. Responsibility

The person responsible within the meaning of data protection law is Markus Klemann, D-49074 Osnabrück, Germany, e-mail address contact@besportyapp.com (hereinafter also referred to as "beSporty" or "we").

2. Access to our Website

We automatically collect and store so-called log files data, which your browser transmits to us. These are:

  • • Browser type/version,
  • • Operating system,
  • • URL of the previously visited website,
  • • URL of the page you are viewing on the website,
  • • IP address of the accessing terminal device,
  • • the name and URL of the requested file,
  • • the amount of data transferred,
  • • the message as to whether the call was successful, and
  • • Date and time of access to our website.

The collection of this data is necessary for technical reasons. Unfortunately, it is not technically possible to use the website without providing your IP address. The data is collected for pre-contractual purposes or in our legitimate interest to provide you with the content of our website and for prosecution in the event of illegal use of our website.

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4. Newsletter Subscription

When you sign up for our newsletter on our website, we collect and use your email address to keep you informed about current sport topics and news about using our website by sending you newsletters. We use the double opt-in process to subscribe to our newsletter. This means that once you have subscribed, we will send you an email to the email address you provided, asking you to confirm your subscription. The e-mail address is mandatory and without it you will not receive any newsletter from us.

The data processing associated with the dispatch of the newsletter serves the purpose of providing you with interesting information about our website and thus of user retention.

Your data will not be passed on to third parties at any time.

By registering for our newsletter you have given the following consent:

"I agree that beSporty will inform me by e-mail a maximum of once a month about current sport topics and news regarding the use of the website and app and that my user behaviour in connection with receiving the newsletter will be evaluated by my participation in a performance measurement by the service provider Mailchimp (operated by Rocket Science Group LLC (675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Suite 500, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, USA). My e-mail address will be forwarded to Mailchimp and stored there for the duration of my newsletter subscription. Success measurement involves storing data on when and how often a newsletter is opened and what content I click on at what time. I can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The legality of the newsletters sent until receipt of the revocation remains affected. Further information can be found in the data protection declaration".

If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time. You can unsubscribe by clicking on the link in the newsletter or by informing us directly, e.g. by e-mail.

5. Cookies

The use of our website is associated with the creation and use of cookies, as long as you have given us your consent via our banner (see section I., 5.2.). Cookies are small text files that are sent from our web server to the browser of your terminal device and stored there. In most cases the browser of your terminal is set in such a way that it accepts the creation and storage of cookies. You can prevent cookies from being saved by setting your browser accordingly. The presentation of the cookies will later be structured as follows:

NameDescriptionStorage duration
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You can set your browser to being informed when cookies are set and decide individually whether to fully accept them or to only accept them in certain cases or not to accept them at all. If cookies are deactivated, however, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

5.1 Google Analytics

Our website also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). Google uses cookies to help the website analyze how users use the site. The data can be used to create user profiles under a pseudonym. The cookies make it possible to recognise your browser. However, the data collected will not be used to identify you personally and will not be merged with your personal data.

The following cookies will be set and used:

NameDescriptionStorage Duration
_gaAnonymous ID for analyzing page views in Google Analytics2 years
_gatCookie to throttle the request requests.1 minute
_gidUnique User Identification24 hours

Google will use this data on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The data processing associated with analyses of website usage carried out by Google serves the purpose of optimally adapting the website to the needs and wishes of users.

Google and its affiliated companies operate servers worldwide on which personal data can be stored. When transferring data to third countries, Google ensures an adequate level of data protection in accordance with its data protection declaration.

In order to guarantee an anonymized collection of IP addresses, the source code of Google Analytics was extended by the code "_anonymizeIP". The IP addresses are thus only processed in abbreviated form in order to exclude the possibility of personal references. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is also not merged with other Google data.

A link in the cookie banner gives you the opportunity to obtain further information about the individual cookies. You can prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google not only through your browser settings, but also by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link:

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

By clicking this link an Opt-Out Cookie is set, which prevents that your data are seized by Google.

Please do not delete the respective opt-out cookie as long as you wish to maintain your revocation.

For more information about Google's terms of use and privacy policy, please visit the links below:

5.2 Cookie Banner

If you give us permission to set and use tracking cookies via our cookie banner, you have made the following declaration:

"I consent to beSporty, D-49074 Osnabrück, Germany, using tracking cookies to optimize its website and to analyze my usage patterns using Google Analytics from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. beSporty will pass this information on to Google Ireland Limited, whereby my IP address will be anonymised as soon as possible. The information transmitted by Google to beSporty does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about my person. I can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, without affecting the legality and permissibility of the cookies set and used up to the time of exercising the revocation. Further information can be found in the data protection declaration".

6. Social Media

We are present on various platforms and social networks. This enables us to get in touch with our users and interested parties active there and to inform them about our services of the social sport app. The terms and conditions and data protection information of the respective operators apply on the respective platforms. By maintaining a presence there, we are jointly responsible with the operator in the sense of data protection law.

If you visit the presences held by us, we process your data, which you communicate to us in the course of an interaction with our presence (in particular by posting contents, etc.) on the basis of your consent, provided that you have given this, otherwise the processing takes place on the basis of our legitimate interest in being able to offer you a presence on the respective platform. If you communicate with us via the comment or message function, your data will be processed in order to reply to your message or comment and thus to implement the contract or because of our legitimate interest in being able to react to your message or comment. In addition, the platforms generally use cookies, which enable an analysis of your user behaviour and on the basis of which user profiles of your interests or preferences are created. Based on these usage profiles, advertisements will be placed with the respective operator of the platform or with your activity on the Internet that correspond to your interests. If you have an account with the respective platform, the data you have stored there can also be merged with the user profiles. This applies in particular if you as a registered user of the platform have an account and are logged in. We have no influence on the concrete data processing of the respective operator. You can find further information about data processing by the respective operator of the platform in the links below. Please note that your rights (as described in section I., 11. below) in connection with data processing on the respective platform may only be asserted against the respective operator. You are welcome to send us your request and we will forward it to the respective operator.

We are represented in the following social media:

6.1 Facebook

We maintain a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/besportyapp . Facebook is operated by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. Please refer to Facebook's Privacy Policy for Facebook privacy notices and information:

https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php

6.2 Instagram

We also have an Instagram account at https://www.instagram.com/besportyapp/ Instagram is operated by Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland. Please refer to Instagram's Privacy Policy for information about Instagram's privacy practices:

https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

6.3 Twitter

6.4 LinkedIn

We operate a LinkedIn account at https://de.linkedin.com/company/besporty LinkedIn is operated by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland. You can find notes and information on data protection at LinkedIn in LinkedIn's privacy policy:

https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

7. Legal and Contractual Obligations to make available

The provision of all data to us is neither contractually nor legally prescribed.

8. Further Processing for Legal Defence or Prosecution

We can use your data for our own legal prosecution or defense as a legitimate interest.

9. Storage Duration and Deletion of Data

10. Transmission of your Data

11. Your rights (Objection, Revocation, Information, Correction, Blocking, Deletion, Transfer, Complaint)

11.1 Opposition

11.2 Revocation

11.3 Other rights

12. Data Security

II. Additional Information on the App

1. Access to our App

2. Registration with beSporty

2.1. Registration with Username and Password

2.2. Registration via Facebook Connect

2.3. Registration via Google Account

2.4 Registration via Apple ID

3. Push Notifications

4. Location Data

5. Invite Friends and add Participants

6. Video Chat

7. Feedback Form and how to contact us

8. Integration of Services of Third Parties

8.1 Google Firebase

8.2 Crashlytics

8.3 Google Maps

8.4 Payment Service Provider PayPal

8.5 Facebook Pixel

8.3 Google Maps