Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

As of February 2021

We are pleased that you are visiting our website www.classic-trader.com. The protection of your personal data is very important to us and we want you to feel safe when visiting our website. Data protection and data security have a high priority for us. We comply with data protection regulations, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and the Federal Data Protection Act ("BDSG"), and would like to explain to you in this privacy policy what personal data we collect during your visit and use of our websites, for what purpose and how we use it.
This privacy policy is valid from 28 February 2021.

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

This privacy policy applies to the website www.classic-trader.com and all associated websites, applications, services and tools that refer to this privacy policy, regardless of the type of access, including access via mobile devices.
Classic Trader GmbH, Jacobsenweg 51-59, 13509 Berlin, Germany, Telephone: +49 30 437 75 19 19, Fax: +49 30 437 75 19 10, Email: mail@classic-trader.com is the controller within the meaning of the GDPR.
Our Data Protection Officer can be reached via the aforementioned contact details and at datenschutz@classic-trader.com.
Where this privacy policy refers to "we" or "us", this refers to Classic Trader GmbH.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:
We may change this privacy policy at any time by publishing the amended version on this website, including the effective date of the amended version. We will announce all material changes to this privacy policy by email.

In accordance with data protection regulations, we only process your personal data if a legal provision permits us to do so or if you have given your consent. This also applies to the processing of personal data for advertising and marketing purposes.

On our website, we may also collect information that does not allow us to draw direct conclusions about you. In certain cases – particularly when combined with other data – this information may still be considered "personal data" within the meaning of data protection law. Furthermore, on our website, we may also collect such information on the basis of which we can neither directly nor indirectly identify you; this is the case, for example, with aggregated information about all users of our website.

2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

You can generally visit our website without providing information about yourself (such as your name, postal address or email address). We collect, use and store personal data from you and the devices (including mobile devices) that you use when:

  • You use our services
  • You set up an account
  • You provide us with information through a web form
  • You add or update information to your account
  • You participate in community discussions or chats
  • Or when you contact us in any other way.
We also use plug-ins from social networks, through which these social networks can collect data.
Some of your personal data (email address, billing address data if applicable) is required to conclude and execute the user agreement. The provision of all other personal data is voluntary, but may be necessary to use our services, such as the offer or contact information required to place an advertisement or the data required to create an appraisal commissioned by you.

We may also collect personal data from other sources, as listed below.

Personal data you provide when using our services or when language up an account:

  • Data that personally identifies you, such as your name, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, which you provide when registering, language up a user account or registering with us or otherwise (such as in the context of a survey or to carry out an information request).
  • Placing advertisements, responding to advertisements, data you provide in a transaction or financing request, and other transaction-related content you generate (e.g. advertisements and other content you generate or that relates to your user account, your search queries, views and saved advertisements or searches, use of the contact function in advertisements, commissioning appraisals or financing requests).
  • Payment information (e.g. credit card or bank account numbers).
  • In certain cases, you indicate your interests and personal preferences when using our services.
  • Data you provide through a web form, by updating or adding data to your account, by participating in community discussions, chats or when we communicate with you for other reasons (problem resolution and correspondence / feedback etc.).
  • Data which we are obliged or entitled to collect and process under applicable law and which we need for your authentication, identification or to verify the data we have collected (e.g. also in the event of suspected violation of our General Terms of Use, such as a copy of an identity document or invoice to verify your address or identity, where legally permitted).
  • Newsletter registration: If you wish to receive the newsletter offered by Classic Trader GmbH, we require a valid email address from you. In order to check that you are the owner of the email address provided or that its owner agrees to receive the newsletter, we send an automated email to the email address provided after the first registration step. Only after you confirm the newsletter registration via a link in the confirmation email will we add the email address provided to our distribution list. We do not collect any further data beyond the email address and the information confirming registration.

Personal data that we automatically collect when using our services or when language up an account:

  • We collect data by default about your interaction with our services, your advertising preferences and your communication with us. This is information we receive from devices (including mobile devices) that you use to access our services. This data may include: device ID or unique identifier, device type, ID for advertising and unique device token. This data is only assigned to you if you log in as a registered user or if you provide us with your email address or other identification data when using our websites, applications, services or tools.
  • Location information and geolocation data, including from your mobile device. Please note that most mobile devices allow you to control or disable the use of location services by an application in the device's settings menu.
  • Computer and connection information such as statistics about your page views, traffic to and from the websites, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, the pages you visit within our website and services, and information from web server log files.

Personal data we collect using cookies, web beacons and similar technologies:

  • We use cookies and web beacons, unique identifiers and similar technologies to collect data on the pages you view, the links you click on, and other actions you take within our services and in our advertising or email content.
  • Further information on our use of these technologies and how you can restrict them can be found in our Cookie Policy.

Personal data from other sources:

  • We supplement the personal data that we collect directly from you with information collected from third parties and add it to your account information, to the extent permitted under applicable law. The information we obtain from third parties includes, for example, demographic data that is publicly available, additional contact details, credit check data and information from credit agencies or authorities.
  • Social Networks: We enable you to share information via social networks or to link your account with the respective social network page. These social networks may automatically grant us access to certain personal data stored there about you (e.g. content you have viewed, content you liked, and information about the advertising that was shown to you or that you clicked on, etc.). You control what personal data we can access via the privacy settings on the respective social network's website and the permissions you give us when granting access. If you link an account managed by a social media website to your account and grant us access to this information, we will process the information provided by these social media websites in accordance with this privacy policy.

Personal data collected by social networks (Social Media Plug-Ins)

  • Plug-ins from various social networks are integrated on our website. These include Facebook Inc., USA ("Facebook"; Overview of Facebook plug-ins), Twitter Inc., USA ("Twitter", Overview of the "Tweet button" or "Follow button"), Pinterest Inc., USA ("Pinterest", Pin-It button) and Instagram LLC., USA ("Instagram", Overview of "Camera" buttons) (You can find information about this by clicking on the link of the respective network). If you visit a page of our website that contains such a plug-in, a direct connection is established between your browser and the server of the respective social network via the plug-in. The provider of the social network thereby receives the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. If you click on the plug-in while you are logged in to your respective user account, you can link the content of our website to your respective social network profile. This allows the social network to assign the visit to our website to your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of our website, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by the provider of the social network. Further information can be found in the privacy policy of the social networks, which you can find here for the social networks Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.
  • Please note that you must be logged out of the user account of the respective social network if you visit our website and do not want the social network to be able to assign your visit to our website to your respective user account.

3. FOR WHAT PURPOSES AND ON WHAT LEGAL BASES WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We use your personal data for various business purposes and according to different legal bases for processing. Below you will find a summary of how and on what legal bases we use your personal data:

To fulfill and execute a contract with you and to provide our services (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) GDPR), to fulfill legal obligations (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR) or to protect your vital interests (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d) GDPR):

  • to ensure access to and use of our services (including billing), in particular to publish advertisements and other user content and to enable financing requests to be carried out, to commission and create appraisals within the framework of CT Inspections (including any desired transmission of the created appraisal to an insurance company named by you), and to measure and improve the quality and success of our services, to keep our services secure and operational and to adapt the content of the website and services based on the actions you take to what you might like;
  • to verify the data for accuracy and verify it with the help of third-party providers;
  • to provide you with the desired customer service by email or telephone;
  • to give you access to your saved vehicles and searches and other features we offer;
  • to contact you regarding your account, to resolve problems with your account, to settle disputes, to enforce fee claims or to provide other necessary customer services (if we contact you for the aforementioned purposes, we may contact you by email, telephone, SMS or post);
  • to offer you location-based services (such as advertising, search results and other personalized content) using general location information;
  • to detect, prevent and investigate fraud, security breaches or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities;
  • to enforce our General Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy or other policies.

To pursue our legitimate interests, provided your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms do not override them (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR):

  • to improve our services, e.g. by reviewing information related to blocked or crashed pages so that we can identify and fix problems and provide you with a better user experience;
  • to carry out our services within the framework of CT Inspections, e.g. to control and monitor the services provided by the appraisers through their respective franchisors and for the collective billing of the services provided by the appraisers via the franchisors;
  • to contact you within the framework of applicable law by email or post to offer you vouchers, discounts and special promotions, to obtain your opinion through surveys or questionnaires and to inform you about our services;
  • to determine your exact geographical location so that we can provide you with location-based services:
  • to verify the quality and success of our email marketing campaigns (e.g. by analyzing opening and click rates);
  • to monitor and improve the information security of our services.

We have introduced control mechanisms to balance our interests with your rights.

With your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR):

  • to provide you with advertising by telephone, email or SMS or surveys or market research;
  • to personalize, measure and improve our advertisements and third-party advertisements in our online offerings based on what you might like
  • to provide you with the Classic Trader newsletter;
  • to provide you with advertising from third parties;
  • to customize third-party advertising that you may see on third-party websites;
  • to transmit your personal data for financing offers or payment options to our corresponding partners.

You may have given us the following consent expressly and we have recorded your consent:
"Yes, please inform me regularly by email about surveys, news and offers from Classic Trader. I can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future."
You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future and to exercise your right to object.
Objection to the use of your personal data
If you do not want to receive marketing and advertising messages from us, you can indicate this in direct contact with us (e.g. by email to service@classic-trader.com) or unsubscribe via the unsubscribe link in the marketing or advertising message.

We may use technologies that are considered automated decision-making or profiling (Art. 22 GDPR). We will not make any automated decisions about you that would significantly affect you, unless such a decision is necessary in the context of a contract concluded with you, we have obtained your consent or we are legally obliged to use this technology.

4. DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR DATA BY US

Your personal data is generally processed within our company. Depending on the type of personal data, only certain departments / organizational units have access to your personal data. These include in particular the specialist departments involved in providing our digital offerings (e.g. website) and our IT department.

We may transfer your personal data to third parties for the following purposes:

  • To Classic Trader sellers (dealers and private sellers), e.g. to carry out a contact request initiated by you to the respective dealer;
  • To appraisers who cooperate with us and who are commissioned by you within the framework of CT Inspections. Within the framework of the request to take on a specific appraisal assignment, only your location and postcode are transmitted. You can find a list of the appraisers who cooperate with us here.
  • To insurance companies named by you, which are to receive appraisals created within the framework of CT Inspections in accordance with your wishes.
  • To law enforcement agencies, to third parties in the context of court proceedings and to third parties authorized by law:
    • To comply with our legal obligations, to enforce our General Terms of Use, to defend claims that an offer or other content infringes the rights of third parties, or to protect the rights, property or security of third parties;
    • To law enforcement agencies, government agencies or authorized third parties in response to an information request in connection with an investigation or suspected crime, an illegal act or another act that could result in legal liability for us, you or another user. We will only disclose information that is relevant to the investigation or request, such as name, city, postcode, telephone number, email address, IP address, advertisement content, fraud complaints;
    • To rights holders who have entered into a confidentiality agreement with us, in connection with an investigation of fraud, infringement of intellectual property or another illegal act, if we consider this necessary or appropriate at our discretion. In such cases, we share the name, address, city, postcode, country, telephone number, email address, company name and advertisement content; the confidentiality agreement provides, among other things, that the data may only be used in connection with legal proceedings and/or obtaining legal advice and/or to answer questions from the user who placed the advertisement;
    • To third parties who initiate or are involved in court proceedings, if they present us with a legal order, a court order or an equivalent legal order, or if we may assume in good faith that the disclosure of the data is necessary to avert an imminent danger to life and limb or financial loss or to report a suspected illegal act.
  • To credit agencies, if permitted under applicable law.
  • To commissioned service providers, such as third-party service providers who support us in our business operations and with whom we work in accordance with our General Terms of Use or principles in the event of fraud and/or security breaches. If we transmit personal data (including the content of your advertisements) to such third-party providers, this is done exclusively on the basis of a written contract (data processing), which restricts the use of the personal data by the third-party provider and obliges them to implement security measures with regard to this data. These third parties also include:
    • Third parties who support us in operating the website and providing our services (including the feedback solution, hosting and email dispatch) as well as extended display options, in particular the integration of maps into advertisements with dealer location information, and in providing personalized advertising. The location information of registered commercial automobile dealers for the purpose of displaying map material with location information in advertisements is transmitted to external service providers who may be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) while observing appropriate guarantees to ensure a comparable level of data protection. You can request the specific third-party service providers from us at any time using the contact details provided.
    • Third-party providers of websites, applications and tools with which we work in accordance with our General Terms of Use so that they can publish or promote your advertisements and their content on their website or in their applications and tools. In particular, third-party providers are not permitted to sell, rent or otherwise pass on the personal data contained in your advertisements to third parties.
    • Third parties who support us with payment processing and in connection with debt collection;
    • Transport service providers;
    • Third parties within the framework of partner programs or cooperation partners, such as guarantors for classic vehicles, (valuation) appraisers or insurance companies for classic vehicles; we also pass on the content of the advertisements to print magazines in order to be able to promote them there as well and to extend the reach of your advertisements;
    • Financial institutions and other partners from the financial sector with whom we work so that we can arrange financial products such as vehicle financing for you and offer an insurance or financing comparison. These financial partners only use your personal data if and to the extent that you have given appropriate consent.
  • Other third-party providers to whom we send your data at your express request (or of whom you have expressly been notified and to whom you have given appropriate consent when using a specific service).
  • Holders of commercial property rights, if the relevant holder of a commercial property right or a third party authorized by the holder in good faith believes that an advertisement infringes the rights of the holder. Before the holder of commercial property rights receives personal data (such as name, address, location, postcode, country, telephone number, email address and company), they must conclude a confidentiality agreement, which provides, among other things, that this data may only be used in connection with legal proceedings and/or obtaining legal advice and/or to answer questions from the user who placed the advertisement.

Some of the recipients of your personal data are located outside the European Union or the European Economic Area Agreement ("third countries") or your country or have branches in countries where data protection laws may offer a different level of protection than the laws in your country. Before transferring your personal data to such recipients, we ensure appropriate guarantees to ensure an adequate level of data protection, e.g. by concluding data protection contracts issued by the European Commission (e.g. Standard Contractual Clauses (2010/87/EU, 2001/497/EC or 2004/915/EC)) with the recipients and additional measures, or through other measures provided for by law. You can request further information on this on request using the contact details provided.

Information you publish on our website and transmit to other users
Our online marketplace allows users to publish advertisements and other information and transmit them to other users so that other users can access this information. Since you can also contact other users directly via our online marketplace, we recommend that you pay close attention to how you publish your personal data and to whom you transmit it. You alone are responsible for what personal data you publish via our online marketplace and transmit to other users, and we cannot guarantee the protection or security of the data shared in this way.

Stay logged in
If you log in to your account for our services, you will remain logged in to your account for a certain period of time until you log out. In the event that you visit our website from a computer shared by multiple users or a computer in an internet café, we strongly recommend that you log out properly after each session. If you do not want the shared computer to store information about you and/or your login details, you must delete the cookies and/or the browsing history for your website visits.

5. HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR DATA

We generally only store your personal data for as long as we have a legitimate interest in this storage and your interests in not continuing the storage do not override.
Even without a legitimate interest, we can continue to store the data if we are legally or officially obliged to do so, in particular for regulatory reasons, such as to fulfill commercial law and tax law retention obligations. We also delete your personal data without your intervention as soon as knowledge of it is no longer necessary to fulfill the purpose of processing or storage is otherwise legally inadmissible.
Our specific retention periods for personal data are documented in our retention policies. How long we retain personal data can vary significantly depending on the context of the services we offer and depending on our legal obligations. Factors such as the sensitivity of the data in question, the need to store your data to provide our service, your consent for longer storage, contractual or similar obligations to retain your personal data typically influence the retention period.
As a rule

  • the data processed in connection with an order is deleted no later than after the expiry of the statutory retention periods; and
  • the data processed in connection with registration as a user is deleted after the termination of the registration or with the deletion of the customer account.

The personal data that we must store to fulfill retention obligations is stored until the end of the respective retention obligation. To the extent that we store personal data exclusively to fulfill retention obligations, this is generally blocked so that it can only be accessed if this is necessary with regard to the purpose of the retention obligation.

6. DATA SECURITY

Classic Trader takes all necessary technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, unauthorized access or other misuse. Your data is stored in a secure operating environment that is not accessible to the public.
If you wish to contact us by email, we would like to point out that the confidentiality of the information transmitted is not guaranteed. The content of emails can be viewed by third parties.
We protect your data through technical and organizational security measures to minimize risks related to loss, misuse, unauthorized access and unauthorized disclosure and modification of this data. For this purpose, we use firewalls and data encryption, for example, but also physical access restrictions for our data centers and authorization controls for data access. If you nevertheless believe that your account has been misused, please report this to us at service@classic-trader.com.

7. YOUR RIGHTS: ACCESS, MODIFICATION, INFORMATION, CORRECTION, DELETION, BLOCKING AND OBJECTION

You can view, review and modify your personal data by logging into your account. Please update your personal data promptly if it changes or is incorrect. Please remember that you may no longer be able to change or remove a public post once you have published it.
We respect your legal rights:

  • You have the right to find out what personal data we store about you (Art. 15 GDPR). If your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to request us to correct or complete it (Art. 16 GDPR).
  • You can also request us to delete or restrict your personal data; this right is determined by applicable law and may affect your access to some of our services (Art. 17 and 18 GDPR).
  • We will provide you with a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format on request (Art. 20 GDPR).
  • You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time in certain cases (particularly in the case of data processing based on our legitimate interest or for direct marketing) in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.

To request information and find out whether fees may apply for this in accordance with applicable law, please contact us using the contact options below. If you have a right to information or to modify or delete your personal data, we may refuse such information or refuse to correct or delete your personal data in certain circumstances in accordance with applicable national law.

If you ask us to stop processing your personal data in whole or in part or to revoke your consent to the use or disclosure of your personal data for the purposes stated in this privacy policy, we may not be able to offer you all services and customer support services that are offered to our users within the framework of this privacy policy and our General Terms of Use.

Please note, if you are a dealer, that your advertisement data may remain visible in the sales history in the event of a successful sale. This happens if you mark your advertisement as "sold". Advertisements are therefore only deleted if an advertisement is removed or expires. Even in the case of merely paused advertisements, your data is not automatically deleted.

At your request, we will close your account and delete your personal data as quickly as possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law. To do this, you are welcome to contact us at datenschutz@classic-trader.com.

8. OTHER INFORMATION

Misuse and unwanted communication ("spam")
We do not tolerate misuse of our website. You are not permitted to add other users of our website to your (email or postal) distribution list for commercial purposes. This also applies in the event that you have carried out a transaction with this user, unless the user has expressly given their consent. If you notice that someone is misusing our website (in the form of spam or spoof emails), please report this to us at service@classic-trader.com.
Email/message tools
Your name appears as the sender when using our email/message tools.
You may not use our email/message tools to send spam or other content that violates our Terms of Use.
Third parties
Unless expressly stated otherwise in this privacy policy, the information in this privacy policy relates exclusively to the use and disclosure of data that we collect from you. If you disclose your data to others, whether they are prospective buyers or sellers on our online marketplace or other websites on the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the data you pass on. We have no influence on the privacy policies of third parties that may apply to you in such cases. If we work with third parties to provide certain services or use third-party tools for this purpose, we expressly state which privacy policy applies to you. We recommend that you ask and inform yourself about their data protection procedures before passing on personal data to third parties.

Questions and contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the processing of your personal data, as well as in the event of information or correction requests, suggestions or complaints, you can contact the following contact details at any time:
Classic Trader GmbH
Jacobsenweg 51-59
13509 Berlin
Telephone: +49 30 437 751 90
Fax: +49 30 437 751 910
Email: service@classic-trader.com

You can revoke your consent to the use of your personal data at any time with effect for the future by arranging for your user account to be deleted by sending us a message using the contact details above.

(Cookies, Web Beacons and Similar Technologies)

Like most websites, we or our authorized service providers use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies to store data within the framework of our website www.classic-trader.com and our applications, services and tools. These technologies are essentially small data files that are stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or another device and enable us to collect certain data each time you visit our website or use our services, applications, messaging functions and tools to provide you with a better, faster and more secure user experience and to customize content and advertisements.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?

The specific names and types of cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies that we use may change. To help you understand this explanation and our use of these technologies better, we have compiled the following short list of important terms and their definitions for you:

"Cookies" are small files that enable us to store specific information relating to you on your PC while you visit our website. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our web pages, and to make our offers as safe, comfortable and efficient as possible for you.

We use "session cookies" on the one hand, which are temporarily stored only for the duration of your use of our website. On the other hand, we use "persistent cookies" to retain information about computers that repeatedly access our website. This enables us to offer you optimal user guidance and to "recognize" you and present you with a varied website and new content when you use it repeatedly. The content of a persistent cookie is limited to an identification number. The validity period of a persistent cookie is 100 days; after these 100 days have expired, the cookie is automatically deleted. Name, IP address or other information about your real identity is not stored, and we also do not create individual profiles of your usage behavior. In addition, when using our website, you may also be affected by so-called "first-party cookies". These are stored by the website you are visiting. It is also possible that so-called "third-party cookies" are present, which are stored by a website other than the one you are visiting.

Web beacons are small graphic files (also known as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs") that may be contained in our website, our services, applications, messaging functions and tools and are usually used in conjunction with cookies to identify users or user behavior.

Similar technologies are technologies that store data in your browser or on your device using shared local objects or local storage functions such as Flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and other web application software methods. These technologies can work across all your browsers and in some cases are not fully managed by your browser, but may need to be managed directly via your installed applications or your device. We do not use these technologies to store data for personalizing advertisements on our or other websites.

2. YOUR CHOICES AND OUR USE OF COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We may store cookies on your device if they are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website (necessary cookies). For all other types of cookies, in particular for the purposes of preferences, statistics and marketing, we need your consent.

Necessary cookies: We offer certain website functions, services, applications and tools that are only available through the use of these technologies. You can block, delete or deactivate these technologies at any time without hindrance if your browser, installed application or device supports this. In particular, it is possible to use our offers without cookies by deactivating the storage of cookies in your respective browser (e.g. under Tools/Internet Options), restricting it to certain websites or language your browser to notify you as soon as a cookie is sent. The settings must be set separately for each browser you use. For this purpose, the various browsers offer different functions and options. You can also delete cookies from your PC's hard drive at any time (e.g. Firefox: Tools > Settings > Privacy > Show cookies > Remove cookie / Remove all cookies; Internet Explorer: Tools > Internet Options > General Browse history delete / Delete cookies). However, please note that in these cases you must expect a limited display of our website and limited user guidance.

Other cookies: We also use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies for the purpose of retargeting and remarketing, i.e. to provide content tailored to your interests, including advertisements, in connection with the provision of our services or on third-party online offerings. This includes the use of technologies that serve to determine how relevant the advertisements and content provided to you are, which advertisements have already been shown to you, how often they have been shown to you, when and where they have been shown to you and whether you have taken an action, such as clicking on an advertisement or making a purchase. For this purpose, data is combined with data already collected about your interests. We also collect data about the device you use (e.g. operating system and version), among other things, in order to provide a uniform service for all your devices.

You can revoke your consent to the use of these analysis, marketing and tracking cookies at any time. You can make a differentiated choice in our privacy settings.

3. USE OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES BY AUTHORIZED EXTERNAL SERVICE PROVIDERS

We work with external companies, so-called service providers, who are authorized to place third-party cookies, web beacons or similar technologies with our permission to store data on our website or in our services, applications and tools. These service providers help us to provide you with a better, faster and more secure user experience.

These service providers use these technologies to help us provide our own content and advertisements and to create anonymous website metrics and analyses. You can find further information on the use of Google Analytics in the section Reach Measurement and Google Analytics below. We do not allow any of these service providers to collect any personal data for their own purposes on our website or in our services, applications and tools. The use or collection of personal data by these service providers is subject to data protection and confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions. Third-party cookies are subject to the privacy policies of the respective third-party providers.

With the exception of the use of these technologies by our service providers or other authorized third-party providers, we do not allow third-party content (such as offers, communication between users, comments, test reports, etc.) on our website that contains or uses cookies, web beacons or similar technologies for tracking or collecting your personal data. If you suspect that an offer or third-party content on our website is collecting personal data or could be using tracking technologies, please report this to service@classic-trader.com.

4. REACH MEASUREMENT AND GOOGLE ANALYTICS

Reach measurement SZMnG

Our website uses the "Scalable Central Measurement Method" (SZM) from the company INFOnline (https://www.infonline.de) to determine statistical parameters for the use of our offers. The purpose of usage measurement is to statistically determine the number of visits to our website, the number of website visitors and their surfing behavior based on a standardized standard procedure and thus to obtain market-wide comparable values. Further information can be found in our privacy policy on the "SZMnG" procedure for reach measurement.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (hereinafter "Google"), in order to be able to analyze and regularly improve the use of our website. We can use the statistics obtained to improve our offering and make it more interesting for you as a user. Google Analytics uses methods such as cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. By activating IP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before transmission within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases and in compliance with appropriate guarantees to ensure a comparable level of data protection will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use the collected information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide us with further services related to the use of the website. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

We only use Google Analytics in connection with your personal data if you have previously given us your express consent. Your consent is the legal basis for the use of Google Analytics in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR. You can decide on the language of cookies as described above via the privacy settings on our website and in particular deactivate previously activated cookies and thus revoke your consent. In addition, you can also deactivate the language of cookies altogether in the settings of your browser. Your personal data collected in connection with Google Analytics will be deleted or anonymized after 14 months.

You can also find further information on language and objection options and on data protection at Google overall in Google's general privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords and the Double-Click cookie for statistical purposes. If you do not wish this, you can deactivate it via the Ads Preferences Manager.

If you only want to deactivate or change Google Analytics with regard to the display of content tailored to your interests, including advertisements, you can adjust your settings for the Google Display Network in the ad settings.

5. WHICH COOKIES DO WE USE?

Necessary Cookies

Provider Name Purpose Storage duration
classic-trader.com AWSALB Required for the load balancing service and ensures that a single user is assigned to a single website host 1 hour
classic-trader.com AWSALBCORS Required for the load balancing service and ensures that a single user is assigned to a single website host 1 hour
classic-trader.com cookie_state Stores all cookie preferences of the user. 1 year
classic-trader.com hl Stores the user's language language. 1 year
classic-trader.com PHPSESSID Session cookie 100 days
classic-trader.com device_view Used for adaptive/reactive sites to determine which version should be served depending on the user's device (e.g. desktop or mobile). End of session
classic-trader.com _cfduid Collects and anonymizes IP addresses of end users using a one-way hash with specific values so that they cannot be personally identified. 30 days

Privacy Policy on the "SZMnG" Procedure for Reach Measurement

Our website uses the measurement procedure ("SZMnG") from INFOnline GmbH (https://www.INFOnline.de) to determine statistical parameters on the use of our offers. The aim of usage measurement is to statistically determine the number of visits to our website, the number of website visitors and their surfing behavior – based on a standardized standard procedure – and thus to obtain market-wide comparable values.

For all digital offerings that are members of the Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern e.V. (IVW – http://www.ivw.eu) or participate in the studies of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online-Forschung e.V. (AGOF - http://www.agof.de), the usage statistics are regularly further processed by the AGOF and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse e.V. (agma – http://www.agma-mmc.de) to reach and published with the performance value "Unique User" and by the IVW with the performance values "Page Impression" and "Visits". These reaches and statistics can be viewed on the respective websites.

1. Legal basis for processing

The measurement using the SZMnG measurement procedure by INFOnline GmbH is based on legitimate interests according to Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR.

The purpose of processing the personal data is the creation of statistics and the formation of user categories. The statistics serve to trace and prove the use of our offering. For the marketing of this website, usage measurement that ensures comparability with other market participants is essential. Our legitimate interest arises from the economic usability of the insights resulting from the statistics and the market value of our website – also in direct comparison with third-party websites – which can be determined using the statistics.

In addition, we have a legitimate interest in making the pseudonymized data available to INFOnline and the IVW for statistical purposes (INFOnline, IVW). Furthermore, we have a legitimate interest in making the pseudonymized data available to INFOnline for the further development and provision of interest-based advertising material.

The measurement using the SZMnG measurement procedure for by INFOnline GmbH as part of usage measurement and participation in the agof study is carried out with your consent according to Art 6 para 1 lit. a) GDPR.

The purpose of processing the personal data is the creation of statistics and the formation of user categories. The statistics serve to trace and prove the use of our offering. The user categories form the basis for an interest-based orientation of advertising material or advertising measures. For the marketing of this website, usage measurement that ensures comparability with other market participants is essential. The pseudonymized data is made available to INFOnline and the agof e.V. for the purpose of market research (agof, agma).

2. Type of data

INFOnline GmbH collects the following data, which has a personal reference according to the GDPR:

  • IP address: On the Internet, each device requires a unique address, the so-called IP address, for the transmission of data. At least the temporary storage of the IP address is technically necessary due to the functionality of the Internet. The IP addresses are shortened by 1 byte before any processing and only further processed anonymously. The unshortened IP addresses are not stored or further processed.
  • A randomly generated client identifier: The reach processing uses either a third-party cookie, a first-party cookie, a "Local Storage Object" or a signature that is created from various automatically transmitted information from your browser to recognize computer systems. This identifier is unique for a browser as long as the cookie or Local Storage Object is not deleted. A measurement of the data and subsequent assignment to the respective ClientIdentifier is therefore also possible if you call up other websites that also use the measurement procedure ("SZMnG") from INFOnline GmbH.
    The validity of the cookie is limited to a maximum of 1 year.

3. Use of data

The measurement procedure from INFOnline GmbH, which is used on this website, determines usage data. This is done to collect the performance values Page Impressions, Visits and Clients.
As part of the agof study, further key figures are formed from this (e.g. qualified clients).
In addition, the measured data is used as follows:

  • So-called geolocation, i.e. the assignment of a website call to the location of the call, is carried out exclusively on the basis of the anonymized IP address and only up to the geographical level of the federal states / regions. Under no circumstances can conclusions about the specific location of a user be drawn from the geographical information obtained in this way.
  • The usage data of a technical client (e.g. a browser on a device) is merged across websites and stored in a database. This information is used for the technical estimation of the socio-information age and gender and passed on to the AGOF's service providers for further reach processing. As part of the AGOF study, socio-characteristics are technically estimated based on a random sample, which can be assigned to the following categories: Age, gender, nationality, occupation, marital status, general information on the household, household income, place of residence, internet use, online interests, place of use, user type.

4. Storage duration of the data

The full IP address is not stored by INFOnline GmbH. The shortened IP address is stored for a maximum of 60 days. The usage data in connection with the unique identifier is stored for a maximum of 6 months.

5. Disclosure of data

The IP address as well as the shortened IP address are not passed on. For the creation of the AGOF study, data with client identifiers is passed on to the following AGOF service providers:

  • Kantar Deutschland GmbH (https://www.tns-infratest.com/)
  • Ankordata GmbH & Co. KG (http://www.ankordata.de/homepage/)
  • Interrogare GmbH (https://www.interrogare.de/)

6. Rights of the data subject

The data subject has the following rights:

  • Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR)
  • Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
  • Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)
  • Right to deletion (Art. 17 GDPR)
  • Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18f. GDPR)
  • Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
  • Right to revoke (Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR) (in case of consent)

For requests of this kind, please contact datenschutz@classic-trader.com.
Please note that we must ensure that it is actually the data subject in the case of such requests.

Right to object

If you do not wish to participate in the measurement, you can object using the following link: https://optout.ioam.de
In order to guarantee exclusion from the measurement, it is technically necessary to set a cookie. If you delete the cookies in your browser, it is necessary to repeat the opt-out process using the link mentioned above.

The data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority. The data protection authority responsible for us is:
Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
Friedrichstr. 219
10969 Berlin
Telephone: 030 13889-0
Fax: 030 2155050
Email: mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de

Further information on data protection in the measurement procedure can be found on the website of INFOnline GmbH (https://www.infonline.de), which operates the measurement procedure, the data protection website of the AGOF (http://www.agof.de/datenschutz) and the data protection website of the IVW (http://www.ivw.eu).