Privacy policy

Version: 31.01.2023

Thank you for using the www.parshipmeet.com website! Here you will find information about what personal data www.parshipmeet.com collects, how we use this data, and what rights you have as a user in relation to your personal data. The controller of your personal data is ParshipMeet Holding GmbH (hereafter “ParshipMeet Group”, “us”, “our”, “we”) is.

Table of Contents:

Contact / Data controller
Collection, processing and use of personal data
Processing purposes
Legal basis for the processing of personal data
Transfer of personal data to third parties; service provider
Duration of storage; retention obligations
Rights of the data subject at a glance
Cookies and Tracking

Contact / Data controller

Unless otherwise stated in this privacy policy, the controller of your personal data is ParshipMeet Holding GmbH.

If you would like to contact us, you can contact us as follows:

ParshipMeet Holding GmbH, Speersort 10, 20095 Hamburg, Germany, +49 (40) 460026 – 590 (fax number), privacy@parshipmeet.com (email)

You can reach our data protection officers at:

Dr. Stefanie Wegener, privacy@parshipmeet.com (email)

If you have any questions or suggestions about how we use your personal data, please contact us or our data protection officer.

Collection, processing and use of personal data

The provision of your personal data takes place voluntarily when using the website www.parshipmeet.com. Please refer to the following information for details on which data we collect.

What data does ParshipMeet Group collect from the use of the website?

Every time you access the website www.parshipmeet.com, certain usage data is transmitted through the respective Internet browser and these data are stored in log files, so-called server log files. These data are:

» IP address (Internet Protocol address) of the device you use to access our website (e.g. computer, tablet or smartphone). We will also compare your IP address against a geo-database to collect information about your location, such as your country, state and city. In this context, ParshipMeet Group uses MaxMind.

» Name of the accessed page

» Date and time of the access

» The referrer URL (origin URL) from which the user came to the accessed page

» Statistics about the amount of data transmitted during your use of the website

» Status message as to whether you were successfully able to access the website

» Session identifier

» Session participant’s pseudonym

» Screen resolution you used on your device.

While using the ParshipMeet Group website, and in addition to the data mentioned above, cookies or pseudonym IDs (such as user-ID, ad-ID) are also stored on your device, when you visit, or after you visited, our online content. For more information about this, please refer to “Cookies and Tracking When Using the ParshipMeet Group Website” below.

Communication with ParshipMeet Group

The website offers the possibility to contact ParshipMeet Group through the imprint via email. In this context, ParshipMeet Group stores the following data:

» Email address

» Content of the email

The transmission of your e-mail is encrypted only if your email provider supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) transport encryption.

Our reply to your request will be protected in transit, if your email provider supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) transfer encryption.

If you would prefer not to contact our customer care by email (for example, because you are concerned that your email provider does not support TLS encryption or the content of our email is not encrypted), please contact ParshipMeet Group by post or fax instead. You will find our contact details under Contact.

Processing purposes

The ParshipMeet Group processes the personal data for the following purposes:

• For the functionality of the website, to optimize and analyse the website and to ensure the security of the ParshipMeet Group’s information technology systems. ParshipMeet Group uses technically necessary cookies for this purpose. ParshipMeet Group will not create a user profile in this context. (The legal basis is ParshipMeet Group’s and its website’s users’ legitimate interest in the website being safe and easy to use, and in the constant improvement of the website and its content.) You will find specific information about this below, under “Cookies and Tracking.”
• If applicable, for archiving purposes in the public interest, for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) (the legal basis in these cases is Article 9(2)(j) GDPR or Article 6(1)(e) GDPR in conjunction with Article 6(2) GDPR; Art. 6 para. 2 GDPR)
• Furthermore, for the purposes of data security (in particular availability in accordance with the obligations of Art. 6(1) f, Art. 32 GDPR). (The legal basis is Parship’s legitimate interest in ensuring data security and Parship members that the Parship service is not misused for contractual and / or illegal actions by third parties. In doing so, we also fulfil our legal obligation in the area of data security to ensure system security and the detection and tracking of unauthorised access attempts or accesses).

Legal basis for the processing of personal data

• When the processing of your personal data is required to fulfill contractual and pre-contractual relationship, our legal basis for the processing is point (b) of Article 6(1) S. 1 of the GDPR, unless otherwise stated above.
• If the processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interest of the ParshipMeet Group or a third party, and the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject do not override those legitimate interests, our legal basis for the processing is point (f) of Article 6(1) S.1 of the GDPR.
• If we store information in your terminal equipment or access such information that is already stored in your terminal equipment, PECR Reg. 6(4) serves as the legal basis.
• If storing information in the end user’s terminal equipment or accessing information already stored in the end user’s terminal equipment is absolutely necessary, PECR Reg. 6(4) serves as the legal basis.
• In the case of possible processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1), Art. 9(2)(j) GDPR or Art. 6(1)(1)(e) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 6(2) GDPR is the legal basis. Art. 6 para. 2 GDPR; the legal basis.

If the legal basis is a legitimate interest, you are also entitled, in general, to object to the processing of your personal data, at any time, for reasons arising from your specific situation. Article 21 GDPR applies in this respect.

Transfer of personal data to third parties; service provider

In principle, ParshipMeet Group will only pass your personal data within the corporate group. These include ParshipMeet Holding GmbH, Parship Group GmbH, PE Digital GmbH and Parship Elite Service GmbH. In addition, ParshipMeet Group may transfer personal data to third parties as far as ParshipMeet Group should be obliged to do so by law or or enforceable official or court orders.

Service provider

ParshipMeet Group reserves the right to use service providers when collecting or processing personal data. Service providers receive from the ParshipMeet Group only the personal data they need for their specific activity.

As a rule, service providers are integrated as so-called data processors, who are only allowed to process the personal data of the users of this online service in accordance with the instructions of the ParshipMeet Group.

Transfer of data to non-EEA countries

ParshipMeet Group may disclose personal data to third parties or to our processors, who are located outside the EEA. When this happens (and before disclosing your data), we ensure that the recipient has an adequate level of protection to enable the lawful transfer of your data. For example, this may be because the recipient is in an adequate country, or has entered into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (If applicable, including UK Addendum as far as relevant) and using additional technical and organizational protection measures or (where permitted by law) because you have expressly consented to this transfer.

Duration of storage; retention obligations

We store your data for as long as is necessary for the provision of our online offer or where we have a legitimate interest which permits the further storage of that information. In all other cases, we will erase your personal information.

Rights of the data subject at a glance

You have the right to access and -under certain conditions- to rectify, erase, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to data portability.

If you would like to exercise any of your rights, please use the information under Contact. Please make also ensure that when you do so, we will be able to clearly identify you.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You have the right to file a complaint with a data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority or our appointed data protection authority.This is:

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Hamburg, Germany, Email: mailbox@datenschutz.hamburg.de.

Cookies & Tracking

In addition to the processing of personal data mentioned above, cookies and/or other tracking technologies are stored on your device during or after your visit to www.parshipmeet.com.

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your device when you access a website and is stored in your browser. If you then access the same webpage again, your browser will check its cookies and will recognize you as a returning user.

What cookies does ParshipMeet Group use in general?

ParshipMeet Group classifies cookies into different categories depending on their function and purpose.

“Essential” cookies

Certain cookies are required for us to provide our website in a secure and user-friendly manner. This category includes, for example:

• Cookies that identify or authenticate our users,
• Cookies that ensure the security of ParshipMeet Group’s information system that our website is secure,
• Cookies that control abuse,
• Cookies that temporarily store certain user entries,
• Cookies that store certain user preferences.

These cookies enable you to navigate safely on our website and use the functions as desired. Without these cookies, ParshipMeet Group cannot provide essential services. We only use these cookies when you visit our website. They are usually deleted after closing your browser. These cookies are also used to retrieve the optimized website display when you access our website with a mobile device, so that your mobile data volume is not unnecessarily consumed.

The legal basis is the legitimate interest of ParshipMeet Group and of users of ParshipMeet Group’s website that the ParshipMeet Group service is safe and easy to use and that the quality of our website and content is constantly being improved.

A consent is not required to use “necessary” cookies. They cannot be deactivated.

“Functional” cookies

“Functional” cookies enable us to record our users’ usage behaviour (e.g. clicked advertising banners, visited subpages, search queries made).

This involves collecting information about how users interact with a website. This allows us to identify which pages have been visited and gain a complete picture of user activity on our website.

ParshipMeet Group has decided not to use “functional” cookies.

“Marketing” cookies

Cookies that are set for advertising purposes (“marketing” cookies), make it possible to create profiles on user behavior (e.g. clicked advertising banners, visited sub-pages, search queries made) in order to display advertising or offers that are tailored to the user’s interest (“interest-based advertising”).

ParshipMeet Group has decided not to use “marketing” cookies.

What “necessary” cookies does ParshipMeet Group use in particular?

Cloudflare

To secure this website and optimize loading times (e.g. SSL certificate) we use a “Content Delivery Network” (CDN). This CDN is a service of Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Therefore, registration and login requests are routed through the Cloudflare server and consolidated into statistics that cannot be deactivated.

We have reached an agreement with Cloudflare for order processing based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

Here you can find information about the data collected by Cloudflare.