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Privacy information

We hereby inform you about the processing of personal data in connection with the website referee.academy:

  1. Responsible body and data protection contact

Referee Academy UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Volgersweg 49
30175 Hannover
Germany
CEO: Nils Voigt

E-Mail: ref@referee.academy
(here in after “Provider”, “We”)

  1. Categories of data processed, purposes and legal basis
    • Data for technical Internet use

If you only use the website in an informative way, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 sec. 1 p. 1 lit. b GDPR):

  • IP address
  • Date and time of the request
  • Content of the request (concrete page)
  • Access Status/HTTP Status Code
  • Website from which the request comes (“Referer”)
  • About operating system and browser software
  • Preferred language setting and screen resolution

This data may be personal only via the IP address. Depending on the access you use on the Internet, the IP address may be completely anonymous, or your access intermediary may store the assignment of an IP address to you. In this case, merging the above-case data with those of your access intermediary could lead to the connection of the above-case data to you. However, we will only initiate this if this is indicated in individual cases for the purposes of legal proceedings, and we will otherwise only participate in this if this is ordered by the authorities or the courts in individual cases.

In addition, we process this data in order to compile aggregated anonymous usage statistics to improve our website (legal basis is Art. 6 sec. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR).

The data will be stored until the end of the calendar month following the use and then (unless it is required in individual cases for the purpose of legal proceedings) within two working days.

  • Account and booking data

When you register with us and/or book a learning module, we collect additional personal data. This data is:

  • Name
  • Address (post and e-mail)
  • Your orders
  • Payment method, payment data and billing information
  • Information about your learning success (answers to rule questions, etc.)

These data are collected and processed for the purpose of fulfilling the contract; the legal basis is Article 6(4) 1 p. 1 lit. b GDPR.

When you register, we will keep this data permanently until you delete your account. You can view and delete the data about your learning success in your account at any time.

In addition, the contract data of orders shall be stored until the expiry of six months after the third calendar year following the end of the contract and, if they are not still required for legal defence in individual cases, will be processed within two years. working days deleted; the legal basis is Article 6(4) 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR.

We are obliged by commercial and tax law to retain the invoice information until the end of the tenth calendar year following the invoice date; The legal basis in this respect is Article 6(6) of the 1 p. 1 lit. c GDPR. After that, the data will be deleted within one month.

  1. Transmission

With the exception of the intended transmission on the Internet to you, the data will not be transmitted.

  1. Facebook page

Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”) stores data about the use of our Facebook page and makes aggregated statistical data accessible to us. In this respect, we are jointly responsible for data processing with Facebook. For more information on the collection and processing of data by Facebook, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

  1. Use of cookies:

This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functioning of which are explained below:

  • Transient Cookies
  • Persistent cookies

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser program. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common one session. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a predetermined period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in your browser’s security settings at any time.

You can configure your browser setting according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all the features of this website. We use cookies to identify you for follow-up visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise, you would have to log in again for each visit.

We also use HTML5 storage objects that are stored on your device. These objects store the required data independently of your browser and do not have an automatic expiration date. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by using private mode in your browser. We also recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and browsing history manually.

  1. Your rights

You are entitled to require us to:

  • Access to your personal data (claim for information) in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR;
  • Correction of any inaccurate personal data in accordance with Article 16 GDPR.
  • Deletion of your personal data in certain cases in accordance with Article 17 GDPR.
  • blocking of your personal data for the period during which a claim for correction or deletion is verified in accordance with Article 18 GDPR;
  • A copy of your personal data in a structured, standard and machine-readable format in order to transfer it to another location (data portability) in accordance with Article 20 GDPR.

You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, insofar as we base the processing on our legitimate interest. We will then check whether we have a legitimate interest that outweighs your interests, rights and freedoms.

  1. Complaints

If you would like to complain about data processing, you can contact the provider.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority. This is the State Commissioner for Data Protection in Lower Saxony.