Privacy Policy

This is an English courtesy translation. The legally binding version is the German original: https://www.sportbros.de/datenschutz/

1. Data protection at a glance

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally.

2. Who is responsible for data collection?

The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

SportBros
Semih Akalin
Zum Gewerbepark 3
44532 Lünen, Germany
Phone: +49 2306 99 88 000
Email: info@sportbros.de

3. Your rights

Under the applicable statutory provisions you have the right at any time to: free information about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) and to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR).

If you have given consent to data processing, you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal remains unaffected.

Right to lodge a complaint: In the event of breaches of the GDPR you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your residence, workplace or the place of the alleged infringement. The authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDI NRW), Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany.

4. Cookies and consent

This website uses technically necessary storage technologies required for its operation. Analytics technologies are only used if you have expressly consented via our cookie banner. Your choice is stored in your browser's local storage (entry "sb_cookie_consent") so the banner does not reappear on every visit. Legal basis: § 25 (2) TDDDG and Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR for essential storage; your consent under § 25 (1) TDDDG and Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR for all optional technologies.

5. Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent. Processing is based on Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

For the technical transmission of form data we use the service Web3Forms (web3forms.com). Your entries are delivered to us by email via the provider's servers and are not used by the provider for its own purposes. Transfer to third countries outside the EU cannot be excluded. Further information: web3forms.com/privacy.

6. Google Analytics

Subject to your consent via the cookie banner, this website uses Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. IP addresses are processed in truncated form (IP anonymisation). Legal basis: your consent under Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TDDDG. Without consent, Google Analytics is not loaded. Data may be transferred to servers of Google LLC in the USA; Google is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. You can withdraw consent at any time and may additionally install the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

7. Hosting

This website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. Personal data collected on this website is stored on the host's servers. The host is used in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offering (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR).

8. Cloudflare

To deliver this website securely and quickly, we additionally use the content delivery network (CDN) and security services of Cloudflare, Inc., San Francisco, USA. Traffic between your browser and this website is routed through Cloudflare servers. Cloudflare processes technical access data in the process, in particular your IP address, the date and time of access, the page requested, and your browser type and operating system.

Processing is based on our legitimate interest in providing our website securely, reliably and with good performance, and in defending against attacks (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Processing takes place on servers in the EU West region. A transfer to third countries, in particular the USA, cannot be entirely ruled out; Cloudflare bases such transfers on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses. More information: Cloudflare privacy policy.

9. Server log files

The provider of this website automatically collects and stores information in server log files, which your browser transmits automatically. These are: browser type and version, operating system used, referrer URL, host name of the accessing computer, time of the server request and IP address. This data is not merged with other data sources. Collection is based on Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR: the website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and security of the website.

10. SSL/TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the browser address bar changing from "http://" to "https://".

11. Contact for data protection matters

For questions regarding data protection please write to info@sportbros.de.