Privacy Statement
(last updated on 05.02.2021)

We ONLY store your personal data

a) if we are legally obliged to do so (association law, tax and commercial law, etc.).

and or

b) we need the data for the sole purpose of the proper execution of your club membership as part of the beach volleyball tour.

Your personal data will never be processed automatically for the purpose of any data collection for marketing. With the declaration of deletion, all personal data will be deleted after the termination of your membership, unless we are legally obliged to store it or this is necessary for the purpose of historical presentation of tournament, result and ranking lists.

Below you can see the summary of the updated data protection declaration as part of the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

By providing personal data manually or electronically on our ebf registration ways, our website or by using them, you agree that any personal data you provide in the manner for the purposes described in the statute, may be processed according to this data protection declaration.

Data protection

This data protection declaration clarifies the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as “data”) within our association and your membership, the online offer and the websites, functions and content associated with it, as well as external online presences, such as ours Social media profiles up. (hereinafter jointly referred to as "Online Offer" and "Services"). With regard to the terms used, such as "processing" or "person responsible", we refer to the definitions in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data protection according to GDPR

The personal data you provide, in particular your name, address, telephone number, bank details and e-mail, which are necessary and required solely for the purpose of carrying out your association membership in the ebf and within the scope of the statutory purpose, are processed on the basis of legal authorizations (e.g. association law , tax law, commercial law) and stored by law for up to 10 years. All ebf information is stored on databases in the EU, in full compliance with data protection law. Any use of your personal data by the ebf that goes beyond the above-mentioned uses in the form of ranking and game lists, which as current tournament data and as historical data exclusively with your first and last name, your home town or club, the tournament placement and the tournament points, the ranking and seeding points are saved. All personal data created for the purpose of visualizing what is happening in sports as part of an ebf event (audio-visual recordings), as well as all audio-visual data transmitted directly by you, may be stored on our website and shown publicly. As part of the maintenance of ranking lists and tournaments, your personal data may be passed on to affiliated companies (shipping of tour shirts), associations (ranking lists) and clubs or organizers of tournaments (tournament schedules), which also declare their commitment to the GDPR. During data processing, your interests worthy of protection are taken into account in accordance with the statutory provisions.

Right to information, correction, deletion and blocking, right of objection

In accordance with Section 15 GDPR, you are entitled at any time to request that ebf provide comprehensive information on the data stored about you. In accordance with § 17 GDPR, you can request the correction, deletion and blocking of individual personal data from ebf at any time. You can also exercise your right to object at any time without giving reasons and change or completely revoke the declaration of consent you have given with effect for the future. You can send us the revocation either by post, email or fax. You will not incur any costs other than the postage costs or the transmission costs according to the existing basic tariffs. Since there is no case law regarding the naming of personal data for the creation of historical sports rankings, we expressly point out that you are publicly displayed and stored in such rankings by participating in the tour. Since these ranking lists are also used by the press in the form of unchangeable files (jpeg, png, tiff, etc.), we cannot guarantee that your game and ranking list results will be deleted, even if the data protection regulation were to oblige us to do so (which is not final is clarified).

Otherwise, the data processed by us will be deleted or their processing restricted in accordance with Articles 17 and 18 GDPR.

Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory storage requirements. If the data is not deleted because it is required for other and legally permissible purposes, its processing will be restricted. This means that the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons.

According to legal requirements in Germany, storage takes place in particular for 10 years in accordance with §§ 147 Paragraph 1 AO, 257 Paragraph 1 No. 1 and 4, Paragraph 4 HGB (books, records, management reports, accounting documents, trading books, relevant for taxation documents, etc.) and 6 years in accordance with Section 257 Paragraph 1 Nos. 2 and 3, Paragraph 4 HGB (commercial letters).

 

How can you update personal information?

Help the ebf to keep the correctness of your information up to date. You can (or have) update your data by notifying the ebf of any changes to your personal data or by changing the data in your personal login at www.ebf.li.

The personal information that we collect is subject to the version of the privacy policy at the time of collection. We reserve the right to change the privacy policy from time to time and to post those changes on this privacy page. We will inform you about changes in good time by e-mail and ask for your consent.

 

Personal information

When you register on our website, we store your contact details such as name, username, password, gender and email address. The password is transmitted and stored in encrypted form. With the purchase of the ebf membership or an upgrade, further contact data such as address, telephone number and payment information are saved.

If you wish, you will automatically receive the electronic newsletter and special offers for the ebf. Registration for this newsletter takes place as part of the registration in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after you have said that you want to register, you will receive an e-mail in which you will be asked to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that nobody can register with someone else's e-mail address. The registrations for the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process in accordance with the legal requirements. This includes storing the registration and confirmation times. You can unsubscribe from receiving our newsletter at any time via the settings in the my.ebf area, i.e. revoke your consent. You will find information on how to unsubscribe from the newsletter at the end of each newsletter. We can store the unsubscribed e-mail addresses for up to three years on the basis of our legitimate interests before we delete them in order to be able to prove a previously given consent. The processing of this data is limited to the purpose of a possible defense against claims. An individual request for deletion is possible at any time, provided that the previous existence of consent is confirmed at the same time.

As a member, you will receive automatic notification e-mails about the status of your membership or your tournament participation, as well as general information about ebf rules and events or to clarify membership, rule or tournament questions (also possible by telephone). As part of your use of our registration and login functions and the use of the user account, we save the time of the respective user action. The storage takes place on the basis of our legitimate interests, as well as the members and users to protect against misuse and other unauthorized use. In principle, this data will not be passed on to third parties unless it is necessary to pursue our claims or there is a legal obligation to do so in accordance with Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR.

 

The protection of your privacy

If you send sensitive information (e.g. your bank details) we take all necessary steps to protect you, such as: B. the SSL encryption of your input. Your personal data in our database is also protected with the necessary security measures. Your payment information will only be used for payment processing and not for marketing or other purposes!

Occasionally we need your name and address in order to be able to work confidentially for the purpose of providing you with specific services (e.g. member support). We do NOT offer any of your personal information to other companies or individuals for marketing purposes!

The ebf also offers links to third-party websites. Because we have no control over these websites, you should review the privacy policies of those websites yourself.

 

Information Disclosure Privacy Policy

Personnel and account information:

To create result, registration, event and ranking lists, the ebf creates the first and last name, the home town or club, the tournament placement and the tournament points of the tour participant and archives them in the ebf archive. These lists are can be viewed on the Internet at any time and are stored by the affiliated volleyball associations according to their association purpose. Furthermore, the ebf and its affiliated companies/associations/clubs do not disclose any personal data of their members, unless the ebf has reason to believe that the disclosure of such information is necessary to identify an individual who is taking legal action against someone undertakes which may result in damage or disruption to the rights or property of ebf and its affiliated companies/associations/clubs and ebf members, and when the law requires such disclosure.

 

Electronic communication

The ebf does NOT pass on the content of e-mails or other electronic communications in the ebf Service to any third party, except for the reasons listed below. The circumstances under which ebf will disclose electronic communications with members are:

  • it is necessary in order to provide the member with membership and participation in tour operations and purposes at the member's request;
  • it is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the ebf and its members;
  • it is necessary in order to make claims of the ebf and its members enforceable in disputes with politicians, with court decisions or other legal processes,
  • it is necessary to report this to a law enforcement agency because the content was received inadvertently from the ebf and it may relate to the commission of a crime.

The ebf rejects any intention to censor or edit an ongoing review in storage, transmission or communication by the member. However, ebf will check, delete or block access to communication if damage is caused to ebf, its affiliated companies/associations/clubs, its members or third parties or the rights of third parties are violated. The reasons for which ebf takes such measures are not limited to actual or potential violations of the Terms of Use.

 

Use of cookies

We use "cookies" (small files that are stored on your hard drive) on certain pages of our website, for example to log in to our site. We use cookies to identify you and to enable you to remain logged in or to use personal functions. You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you cannot use all functions of this website in full.

You can find more information about the use of cookies here. It also describes how you can adapt the cookie settings to your needs:

  Information on the use of cookies on ebf.li  

 

Google Analytics

If you have given your consent, Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), is used on this website. Use includes the "Universal Analytics" operating mode. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze a user's activities across devices.

Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been expanded to include IP anonymization in order to ensure that IP addresses are recorded anonymously (so-called IP masking). The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can find more information on the terms of use and data protection under https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or https://policies.google.com/?hl=de.

 

Purposes of processing
On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator.

legal basis
The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter a GDPR.

Recipients / categories of recipients
The recipient of the collected data is Google.

Transmission to third countries
The personal data is transmitted to the USA under the EU-US Privacy Shield on the basis of the European Commission's adequacy decision. You can access the certificate here.

Duration of data storage
The data sent by us and linked to cookies, user IDs (e.g. user ID) or advertising IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data that has reached the end of its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.

data subject rights
You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by preventing the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; we would like to point out to you however that in this case you will if applicable not be able to use all functions of this website in full.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser add-on. Opt-out cookies prevent future collection of your data when you visit this website. To prevent Universal Analytics from collecting data across different devices, you must opt out on all systems used. If you click here, the opt-out cookie will be set: Disable Google Analytics

 

Youtube

We embed the videos from the "YouTube" platform provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Privacy Policy: www.google.com/policies/privacy/,, Opt-Out: www.google.com/policies/privacy/,.

 

Online presence in social media

We maintain online presences within social networks and platforms in order to be able to communicate with the members, interested parties and users active there and to be able to inform them about our services there. When calling up the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and data processing guidelines of their respective operators apply.

Unless otherwise stated in our data protection declaration, we process user data if they communicate with us within social networks and platforms, e.g. to write articles on our online presence or to send us messages.

 

Comments and Posts

If members and users leave comments or other contributions, their login data and IP addresses can be stored for 7 days on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. This is for our security if someone leaves illegal content in comments and posts (insults, forbidden political propaganda, etc.). In this case, we can be prosecuted for the comment or contribution and are therefore interested in the identity of the author. Furthermore, we reserve the right to process user information for the purpose of spam detection on the basis of our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The data provided in the context of the comments and posts will be stored by us permanently until the user objects.

Hosting

The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services and technical maintenance services that we use for the purpose of operating this online offer. In doing so, we or our hosting provider process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data from customers, interested parties and visitors to this online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests in making this online offer available efficiently and securely in accordance with Article 6 (1). lit. f GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR (conclusion of order processing contract).

 

Collection of access data and log files

We or our hosting provider collect data about every access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files) on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. The access data includes the name of the accessed website, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider .

Log file information is stored for a maximum of 7 days for security reasons (e.g. to investigate misuse or fraud) and then deleted. Data whose further storage is required for evidence purposes are excluded from deletion until the respective incident has been finally clarified.

 

Integration of third-party services and content

We use content or service offers from third-party providers within our online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO) in order to improve their content and Integrate services such as videos or fonts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as "content"). This always presupposes that the third-party providers of this content perceive the IP address of the user, since without the IP address they could not send the content to their browser. The IP address is therefore required for the display of this content. We endeavor to only use content whose respective providers only use the IP address to deliver the content. Third-party providers can also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as "web beacons") for statistical or marketing purposes. The "pixel tags" can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information can also be stored in cookies on the user's device and contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, visiting times and other information on the use of our online offer, as well as being linked to such information from other sources.

 

General basics - additional information

We process data as part of administrative tasks and the organization of our operations, financial accounting and compliance with legal obligations, such as archiving. In doing so, we process the same data that we process within the scope of providing our contractual services. The basis of processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c. GDPR, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f. GDPR. Customers, interested parties, business partners and website visitors are affected by the processing. The purpose and our interest in processing lies in administration, financial accounting, office organization, archiving of data, i.e. tasks that serve to maintain our business activities, perform our tasks and provide our services. The deletion of the data with regard to contractual services and contractual communication corresponds to the information given in these processing activities.

We disclose or transmit data to the financial administration, consultants such as tax consultants or auditors as well as other fee offices and payment service providers.

Furthermore, on the basis of our business interests, we store information on suppliers, organizers and other business partners, e.g. for the purpose of later contact. We store this mostly company-related data permanently.

 

Relevant legal bases

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we will inform you of the legal basis for our data processing. If the legal basis is not mentioned in the data protection declaration, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consent is Art. 6 (1) lit. a and Art Answering inquiries is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, the legal basis for processing to fulfill our legal obligations is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR, and the legal basis for processing to safeguard our legitimate interests is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR 6 Paragraph 1 lit. f GDPR. In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. d GDPR serves as the legal basis.

 

Cooperation with processors and third parties

If, as part of our processing, we disclose data to other people, companies, associations and associations (processors or third parties), transmit it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this is only done on the basis of legal permission (e.g. if a transmission of the Data to third parties, such as to payment service providers, pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO is required for the fulfillment of the contract), you have consented, a legal obligation provides for this or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using tournament organizers, agents, web hosts, etc.).

If we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called "order processing contract", this is done on the basis of Art. 28 DSGVO.

 

Transfers to third countries

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if this happens as part of the use of third-party services or disclosure or transmission of data to third parties, this will only take place if it is to fulfill our (pre)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legal obligation or on the basis of our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we only process or have the data processed in a third country if the special requirements of Art. 44 et seq. GDPR are met. This means that the processing takes place e.g. on the basis of special guarantees, such as the officially recognized determination of a data protection level corresponding to that of the EU (e.g. for the USA through the "Privacy Shield") or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations (so-called "standard contractual clauses").

Status: February 15, 2021 with partial source texts from datenschutz-generator.de

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