DailyAffair Privacy Policy

DailyAffair, operated by D.I.E. GmbH, (hereinafter referred to as "provider"), is committed to securing and protecting customer data. The provider undertakes to comply with the legal provisions pertaining to data protection. This privacy policy clarifies the nature, extent and purpose of collection and use of personal data by the user.

  1. Nature, extent and purpose of collection and use of personal data

    As part of the contractual provision of services, the necessary collection, storage, processing and use of personal data occurs. Personal information is information that will help a person is identifiable, ie data that can be traced back to a person. This includes the user's name, email address or telephone number. However, data on preferences, hobbies, memberships and which web pages were viewed by the user are among personal data.

    Personal data is collected by the provider, used, and passed on if permitted by law or upon the customer's consent to data collection.

    The customer agrees that the provider uses his personal data for purposes of consulting, advertising, market research, and for for research and analysis to improve the services of the provider and for the effective structuring of services. Furthermore, the customer expressly declares his consent to receive information on services of the provider and selected partners, including receiving email newsletters from the provider on services of the provider, and selected partners.

    The customer also agrees that his personal profile data may be transferred to third parties if this is necessary to provide the service offered (eg, payment processing), a legal obligation to return the data exists or if the customer has given his consent.

    The provider creates user profiles using anonymous data. The customer agrees that the provider may use anonymous or pseudonymous his data for purposes of advertising, market research and tailoring and improving the services of the provider. This may include disclosure to partners. Every customer can disagree with the transmission of anonymous usage data for the purpose of consulting, advertising and market research to third parties, as well as the creation of anonymous user profiles.

  2. Serverlogfiles

    The provider collects data each time the customer accesses the website (so-called server log files). Such data includes: name of the website, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful retrieval, browser type, together with version, the operating system of the user, referrer URL (previously visited page), IP address, and the requesting provider. The provider uses the data for statistical analysis, for the purpose of the operation, safety and optimization of the offer. The provider retains the right, however, to review the log data if there is reasonable suspicion of unlawful use of services.

  3. Contacting the seller

    When the customer contacts the provider (for example via contact form or e-mail) the details of the customer will be collected in order to process the request and in case follow-up questions arise.

  4. Use of Cookies

    The provider uses so-called "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are either temporarily stored in a computer's working memory (known as session cookies) or on a computer's hard disk (known as persistent cookies). Cookies contain, among other things, information on the times the user has previously accessed the relevant server, information on which offers have already been viewed or the payment methods agreed to in previous transactions. The main purpose of cookies is to store personal settings for websites in order to provide the customer with a specially tailored experience as well as making it as convenient as possible to use the service by allowing the customer to visit websites without having to enter all of his/her settings from scratch each time. However, cookies are not used to execute independent programs or install viruses on the customer's computer.

    DailyAffair uses session cookies, partner and affiliate cookies as well as persistent cookies.

    1. Session Cookies:

      DailyAffair uses session cookies. These are not stored on the hard disk of the customer's computer and are deleted when the browser is closed. Specifically, session cookies are used for login authentication during the registration process.

    2. Affiliate Cookies:

      The provider also uses partner cookies and affiliate cookies. These terms refer to cookies that are set when a customer accesses the provider's service via the advertising space of a cooperation partner. These cookies assist the billing process with the cooperation partner and do not contain any personal information about the customer. They are deleted either when the customer registers on the provider's website or once the cookie reaches the end of its lifetime.

    3. Persistent Cookies:

      The provider uses persistent cookies in order to store personal settings entered by a customer when using the provider's service. Firstly, this guarantees that the customer will find his/her personal settings already in place when he/she revisits the provider's website; secondly, this allows automatic identification of the customer's membership status and of whether he/she has already seen certain information and advertising or taken part in a survey. The use of persistent cookies facilitates the personalisation and improvement of the provider's service.

  5. Use of analysis programs

    The provider uses, among others, Google Analytics in order to continuously improve the service. To this end, the provider performs analysis on the behavior of the members in the course of using the service and creates anonymous utilisation profiles.

    Google pretends its users to use the following information in their privacy policies, with which the provider hereby complies:

    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 the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. 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 opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html or at http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview.html The Google Analytics code used on this website has been extended with “gat._anonymizeIp();” to enable the anonymised collection of IP addresses (IP masking). We also use Google Analytics to analyse data from AdWords and the DoubleClick cookie for statistical purposes. You can disable this function via the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en).

    The provider also uses analytical programs from various other providers in order to use the knowledge obtained in this way – in an anonymous and pseudonymous manner and pursuant to legal requirements – for the tailoring and improvement of the provider's service in accordance with customer needs and for marketing and market research purposes.

  6. Use of social plugins

    The provider uses Social Plugins ("Plugins") from the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white "f" on blue background, the word "like" or a "thumbs up" sign) or marked by an additional "Facebook Social Plugin". The list and the appearance of Facebook Social Plugins can be viewed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

    When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge:

    The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking "Like", or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is the possibility that the plugins transmit your IP-address to Facebook.

    For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook's privacy policy:http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

    If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website and delete your cookies.

    This Internet site uses the "+1" button of the Google Plus social network, operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google"). The button is recognizable from the "+1" symbol on a white or colored background.

    When the user opens a webpage with such a button on our Internet site, your browser establishes a direct connection to Google's servers. The content of the "+1" button is sent by Google directly to your browser and integrated by Google into the webpage. We therefore have no influence on the extent of data that Google collects using the button but assume that this includes your IP address. Further data is collected and processed by Google from members logged into Google+.

    The purpose and extent of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Google and your related rights and privacy options can be found in Google's privacy policy regarding the "+1" button: https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy und der FAQ: http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/+1/.

    Functions of the Twitter service are integrated in our site. These functions are being offered by Twitter, Inc. (795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). The use of Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function links the websites you visit with your Twitter account and makes this information available to other users. Data is transferred to Twitter in the process.

    When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Twitter servers. Twitter directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Twitter to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge: The embedded plugins provide Twitter with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Twitter, your visit can be assigned to your Twitter account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking "Like" or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Twitter and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Twitter, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP-address to Twitter.

    For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Twitter, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Twitter's privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy.

  7. Revocation , access to information, rectification and deletion

    The customer has the right to obtain information as to his or her stored personal data any time, and free of charge. The request for information must be made in writing, signed by hand and accompanied by a copy of one's identification card or passport, as well as one's full name, the e-mail address use to register and the user name (alternative: the allocated customer ID). The request is to be sent to: D.I.E. GmbH, Rheinpromenade 13, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Deutschland.

    You may revoke your declaration of consent regarding the storage of your personal data at any time and free of charge with effect in the future. Deletion of personal data saved by the provider can be demanded so long as there is no legal obligation to retain. Such a request is to be sent to: D.I.E. GmbH, Rheinpromenade 13, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Deutschland. In the event of the cancellation of storage and processing of data, we can no longer provide services for you.

  8. Consent

    The customer agrees with the conclusion of this contract to the use of his or her data in accordance with the preceding provisions. The consent is recorded.

  9. Addition to Privacy Policy

    The provider points out expressly that customer data protection for data transmission in open networks like the Internet can never be guaranteed. For the security of the customer's own data, the customer bears responsibility. Please do not forget that personal information that you voluntarily disclose online (eg. as in chat rooms, forums, and by e-mail) can be collected and used by others. We recommend: Be alert online at all time, behave carefully and responsibly and pay attention to the confidentiality of your password and / or other personal information.

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