Privacy

The protection of your personal data is of major concern for us.
With these privacy policies, we would like to inform you of how we process your personal data and how you can exchange data with other users.

1. Basic principles of the operator for processing your personal data

The operator is subject to the following principles for the protection of personal data:

• The operator collects, processes and uses your personal data in compliance with the privacy laws of the Federal Republic of Germany and the privacy terms of the European Union.
• The operator uses your personal data exclusively to enable you to use the internet services of the platform that require a registration. The operator would never give your personal data to third-parties for promotion or marketing purposes or pass them in any other way to third-parties.
• You can use the game without entering any personal data. You can choose a personal username to be displayed in the public highscores. In this case we also require your valid email adress as confirmation.

2. Fixed terms of this privacy regulations

In this privacy regulations the operator uses fixed terms that you should know:

• "Personal data" are all single entries about your personal or factual relations.
• The web sites where the operator is offering the services are generally called "the platform".
• The registered users on the platform are called "members".
• The personal data which you have to enter at the registration for the platform (mandatory fields) are called "registration entries".

3. What does the operator know about you? What do you allow the operator and its members? What happens to your personal data?

3.1 Registration entries

In order to make the services work, you have to enter your personal data at registration. The operator then processes these registration entries. At the beginning these are the following:

• User name
• E-mail address

The operator would never pass these data on to a third party and/or let a third party know about them. The password is encrypted and never visible to members.

If you choose to enter a username, this username can be viewed by every visitor of the platform to provide highscore lists and manage multiplayer games

4. Search functions

The services make it possible to search for other members. You can search either for the members' name or for their e-mail addresses. Only e-mail addresses that are entered correctly will be found.

5. Cookies

After your registration (with e-mail address and password),the services use cookies with which you can be identified while visiting the web site. A cookie will be saved on your computer. The cookie only expires after clicking the 'logout' button and enables you to stay logged in on the computer even when you leave the plattform. For this purpose a cookie will be saved that contains parts of your registration data in encoded format.

6. Log data and event log

Whenever the web site is looked up, the access data will be saved both in a log file, the so-called server log, and in a data base, the so-called event log. The saved entity in the server log contains the following data:

• Your IP-address (with which your computer can be definitely identified),
• the remote host (name and IP address of the processor which requests the site),
• time, status, transferred data volume as well as the web site from where you were linked to the requested site (referrer), as well as
• information about product and version of the used browser (user agent).

The operator uses herefore the standardised "combined" logfile format of the Apache web server. The data in the server-log is anomymised in order to hide classifications or hints to your person. However, the operator reserves the right to check the log data later via the last known IP address of such members that raise the suspicion to use the platform and/or the services antinomianly or contrary to contract. This is how we guarantee the protection of members and the security of the data of members as well as the platforms and the services.

The entity that is saved in the event log contains the following data:

• the web address that was called up
• time of action
• if necessary your user ID (with which you can be definitely identified)
• statistic data (how long did it take to load the site)

The event log will be used for statistic analyses. This helps us to find out on which days and at what time the offers of the platform are particularly popular and how much data volume is produced on the platform.

In addition we use Google Analytics to monitor site traffic and support administration processes.

7.Changes of the privacy policies

The operator reserves the right to change these privacy policies at any time. This might be necessary due to subsequently recognised gaps in the regulations or due to new services provided by us. The operator will inform you about all changes of these privacy policies by e-mail to the e-mail address you have entered at the registration.

8.Accessibility of the privacy policies

You can access and print these privacy policies from every platform via the link Privacy.

Last change: 15.05.2008