Bitbond Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement
I. Scope
Bitbond GmbH (hereinafter also referred to as “we”) is the provider responsible for this website and its sub-pages (hereinafter also referred to as “offer”). Bitbond GmbH uses this website to mediate loans between investors and borrowers. The following privacy statement explains the nature, the scope and the purposes of levying, processing and usage of personal data by Bitbond GmbH on our website and sub-pages.
II. The input of data by you
1. Personal data and its usage
Personal data is specific information about personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. These include the name, the e-mail address or the phone number. As part of our offer, personal data is only levied, processed and used where applicable and as permitted by law, or you have given consent. The same applies to the disclosure of personal data.
2. Cookies
Our offer causes the storage of cookies on your browser. Cookies are text files that help to facilitate our offer, by storing Login data or registering when and how frequently you visit our offer. The storing of cookies can be disabled completely in all major browsers.
3. Making contact
Our offer enables you to establish contact to us. This is possible, for example by sending an email to us. The information you provide while contacting us is stored, in order to process the request and, where appropriate, the following correspondence.
4. Comments and contributions
Our offer also contains areas where the possibility of commenting is present (the blog and individual loan listings). To protect ourselves from illegal content, we store your IP-address if you leave a comment or comment on your own, or the comments of other individuals.
5. Blog: Subscription to comments
In order to allow discussion in our blog to flourish, you are given the opportunity to subscribe to the comments on your comments. This is done by entering your own email address. In order to ensure that the person who enters the email address is the owner of the email address, we send a confirmation email to the entered email address, which also contains information on how to unsubscribe. We also store the IP address and the date of the subscription, in order to prevent potential abuse. The data necessary to register for the subscription and email transmission is not used for other purposes or forwarded to third parties. The consent for the storage of this data can be revoked any time by sending an email to the provider or by clicking the link contained in every information email.
III. Visiting our Website
In addition to the entering of personal data, data is collected by us and third parties automatically during the utilisation of our offer. The use of our service includes interacting with third parties.
1. Access Data/Server Log Files
Your visit to our site is stored in a log file (so-called server log files). To this end, we collect (or our internet provider) the following data on each access to our offer:
- IP address of the accessing computer
- Name of the requested file
- Date and time of the request
- Amount of data transmitted
- Notification of successful request
- Browser type and version along with the operating system you use
- Referrer URL
- Requesting Provider
- Screen resolution.
The log data is used by us only for statistical analysis in the context of the operation of our offer. In the case of illegal use of our service, the log data also serves to inform a resolution in the eventuality of any violation of the law.
2. Google Analytics
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 (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address 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. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under this link.
This website and its sub-pages exclusively sends shortened (i.e. anonymized) IP addresses to Google.
3. Liability for Links
Our offer contains Links to websites of external providers. The referred domains were checked at the time of the placement of the link. Their content are not and will not become part of our offer. Should we become aware that the content behind a link has changed and become illegal, we will remove the link automatically.
IV. Right to Information
To a reasonable extent, you can demand to be informed by us about which personal data we have stored concerning yourself, free of charge.
V. Changes, Corrections and Updates, Revocation
You have the right to ask for the review and update of your data if you can not do so yourself. You can also have your personal data locked and deleted if they are not subject to statutory retention obligation. The data is also deleted, if you revoke your permission for storage, or the storage of the data is no longer possible due to legal reasons. Given consent for the future collection, processing and utilization of your personal data can be revoked by sending an email to the following address: [email protected]