Gliderbase

Privacy Policy

1. In General

I, Kai Rollmann (“I” or “me” or “my” or “Kai“), provider of “Gliderbase” (see the Imprint available on gliderbase.com/imprint), e-mail address: info@gliderbase.com (“E-Mail Address”), process your personal data when you use Gliderbase. The processing of your personal data takes place in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“).

In this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) I am providing you with information about Gliderbase, the nature, scope and purposes of the data collection and use, giving you insights into the processing of your personal data.

2. Controller

The controller of data processing is me, Kai Rollmann. You can contact me by email at the E-Mail Address.

3. Which Data I Collect and Process

1. In General

I process personal data that you as a user of Gliderbase make available to me, for example by using Gliderbase (“Data”).

2. Data You Provide to Me

Registration Information

Mandatory Information: You have to provide to me certain information in order to register with Gliderbase:

  • full name
  • email address

Wing-related Information

  • paragliding wing manufacturer, model, size, bought date, last checked date, serial number.
  • service check documents, such as check confirmation PDFs

3. Service Use

Google Analytics

Gliderbase uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (“Google Analytics” or “Google”). Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of Gliderbase. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.

In using Google Analytics Gliderbase employs the extension “anonymizeIp”. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it from EU/EEA member states. Google uses this information to analyze your use of Gliderbase, to compile reports for me on internet activity and to provide other services relating to Gliderbase.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of Gliderbase.

Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to me or to other web analysis services I might engage.

Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how Gliderbase is used.

You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on referenced above at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

For the cases in which personal data is transferred to the US, Google has self-certified pursuant to the EU-US Privacy Shield (https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework).

Facebook

I offer you the option of signing in through your Facebook account. If you sign in via Facebook, Facebook will ask you for your permission to release certain data in your Facebook account to me. This may include your first name and last name, so your identity can be verified, as well as, a link to your Facebook profile and your profile picture.

This data will be collected by Facebook and transmitted to us in compliance with the policies in the Facebook privacy policy. You can control the information that we receive from Facebook through the privacy settings in your Facebook account.

This data will be used to establish, provide, and personalize your account. The legal basis is article 6, par. 1 a, b, and f of the GDPR.

If you sign in via Facebook, your profile picture will automatically be displayed on the detail page of the paraglider wings you select to own ("I own this wing"). Your profile picture will be visible to any Gliderbase visitor. The wings you select to own will be displayed to you personally on a dashboard site, that allows to manage your wings. Your facebook identifier will be stored on my server.

4. Cookies

Gliderbase uses 'cookies' – small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. The basis for the processing of Data via cookies are my legitimate interests.

For more information on the cookies I use, which, if any, personal data they collect, and how to disable them, please see the Cookie Policy available on gliderbase.com/cookie-policy.

5. Device and Location Information

When you visit or leave Gliderbase, I receive

  • the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to next, as well as date and time stamp and time zone;
  • IP address, access status/HTTP status code;
  • transmitted data volume;
  • proxy server, operating system, web browser (including language and version of the browser software) and add-ons;
  • device identifier and features; and/or
  • ISP or your mobile carrier.

4. Why I Process Data (“Purposes”)

1. Operating Gliderbase

I process your Data to be able to provide you with a seamless user experience when using Gliderbase.

Providing Services. To operate Gliderbase and provide the services, including to

  • authenticate your access to an account;
  • collect and display your wing-related information;
  • show you statistics;
  • send you service check reminders via email; and

User Support. To investigate, respond to your requests, and resolve complaints and service issues, e.g. to contact you about a question you submitted.

2. Business Needs

I process your Data to manage my business needs.

Performance. I process Data to monitor, analyse and improve the use of Gliderbase, as well as protect the security or integrity of Gliderbase, and its performance and functionality. For example, I analyze user behaviour and perform research about the way you use Gliderbase.

Research and Development. I process Data, including public feedback, to conduct research for the further development of Gliderbase, in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, and drive user growth and engagement in Gliderbase.

E-Mail Marketing. With your explicit consent I will send you marketing e-mails with information on Gliderbase and paragliding-related topics. I will ask you to confirm your email address before you receive any marketing e-mails.

You can revoke your consent to the marketing e-mails at any time, by clicking the link at the end of the email or changing your account settings concerning the “Newsletter”.

3. Compliance and Enforcement

Compliance. I process your Data to comply with my obligations and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Enforcement. I process your Data, if I think it is necessary for security purposes or to investigate possible fraud or other violations of my Terms & Conditions or this Privacy Policy and/or attempts to harm Gliderbase’s users or visitors.

5. Sharing of Personal Data

1. General

I share Data with third parties

  • if this is necessary, for the Purposes,
  • due to a request from a national authority,
  • due to a court ruling,
  • if required by law,
  • if necessary to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations,
  • to exercise or protect the rights and safety of me, other users, or
  • if you have (explicitly) consented beforehand.

2. Service Providers and Other Third Party Services

I share your information to others, who help me provide and improve Gliderbase (e.g. maintenance, analysis, marketing and development). Service providers will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on my behalf, and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes. I use processors such as Uberspace.

Uberspace

Gliderbase is hosted on Uberspace servers located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Uberspace is compliant within EU-US “Privacy Shield” Frameworks and the European GDPR regulations. More information on Uberspace’s commitment to GDPR: https://uberspace.de/en/about/privacy/

Uberspace Jonas Pasche Kaiserstr. 15 55116 Mainz Germany

6. How Long I Store Data

1. Storage Period

I store your Data as long as you are a Registered User of Gliderbase or once you have logged in with Facebook. Beyond that, I only store Data, if it is legally necessary (because of warranty, limitation or retention periods) or otherwise required.

2. Account Deletion

If you decide to delete your account, all Data I have about you will be deleted, with the following exceptions:

  • Any Data required for Gliderbase’s performance of contractual obligations or compliance with statutory retention obligations shall not be deleted, but minimized to the necessary extent.
  • A deletion request does not affect Data, if the storage is legally necessary, for example for accounting purposes.

7. Which Rights You Have

1. Exercise your Rights

To exercise your rights defined in sections 7.2 to 7.8, please send a request by email to the E-Mail Address.

2. Revocation of Consent

You can revoke your consent – in those cases where consent for processing is necessary – for future data processing at any time. However, this does not affect the lawfulness of Data processing based on the consent before the revocation. In certain cases, I may continue to process your information after you have withdrawn consent, if I have another legal basis to do so or if your withdrawal of consent was limited to certain processing activities.

3. Right of Access

You have the right to obtain (i) confirmation as to whether or not your Data is being processed by me and, if so, (ii) more specific information on the Data. The more specific information concerns, among other things, processing purposes, categories of Data, potential recipients, or the duration of storage.

4. Right to Rectification

You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate Data concerning you from me. In case the Data processed by me is not correct, I will rectify these without undue delay and inform you of this rectification. Please note that (i) you can rectify much of your information in the settings and (ii) it is not technically possible for me to rectify all kinds of data in Gliderbase.

5. Right to Erasure

You have the right to delete Data I store about you. Should you decide to do so, please go to your account settings and delete your account there. If you are unable to do this, please contact me by email at the E-Mail Address.

6. Right to Restriction of Processing

You have the right to obtain a restriction of processing of your Data from me in the following cases:

  • you make an inquiry pursuant para. 7.4, if you so request;
  • you are of the opinion that the processing of your Data is unlawful, but are opposed to an erasure of Data;
  • you still require the Data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or
  • you have objected to the processing pursuant para. 7.8.

7. Right to Data Portability

You have the right to (i) receive a copy of your Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and (ii) transmit those Data to another controller without hindrance from me. If you would like to receive of copy of your Data, please contact me by email at the E-Mail Address.

8. Right to Object

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of Data for which my legitimate interests are the legal basis, including profiling based on those provisions. You also have the right to object to processing of Data for direct marketing purposes.

9. Right to File a Complaint

You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority, if you think that the processing of Data infringes applicable law.

8. Further Important Information

1. Legal Bases

Data protection laws regulate that I am only allowed to collect and process your Data, if I have lawful bases for processing. The lawfulness of processing of Data stems from:

  • your (explicit) consent in cases where you have given (explicit) consent to the processing;
  • the necessity for the performance of your user contract, e.g. where Data is needed for a satisfactory use of the Product; or
  • legitimate interests pursued by me or a third party, e.g. my use of cookies, plug-ins, or marketing e-mails.

My legitimate interests include protecting you, me, or others from security threats or fraud, complying with all applicable laws, managing and improving my business (e.g. user support, reporting) including possible corporate transactions (e.g. M&A), enabling users to share their and connect via their paragliding experiences, to express all sport-related opinions and to connect to paragliding manufacturers, service centers and other paragliding-related parties.

2. Security Measures

I am committed to protecting your Data and implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect it against any unauthorized or unlawful processing and against any accidental loss, destruction, or damage. Those security measures are constantly revised to comply with the latest technological developments.

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy

1. General

I may change this Privacy Policy.

2. Material Changes

If I make material changes to it, I will provide notice directly in Gliderbase, or by other means (e.g. via email), to offer you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. Material changes could, for example, include further tracking, profiling, and analytics services. Should your consent be necessary, I will ask for it before the changes become effective. If you object to any changes, you may need to close your account as it might not function properly.

3. Last Updated

This Privacy Policy was last modified on April 1st, 2020.

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