Thank you for your interest in Transfermarkt. To enable us to provide our services, we require some data about you. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and will al-ways process it in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, in particular with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The purpose of this Data Privacy Statement is to inform you in detail about the nature, scope and purpose of the personal data processed by us and your rights as a data subject.

1. Data Controller and General Information

Your data will be processed by Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, Wandsbeker Zollstr. 5a, 22041 Hamburg; telephone: +49 40 670482120; email: info@transfermarkt.de (service provid-er within the meaning of the German Telemedia Act (TMG) and data controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)). Please note that whenever we use formulations such as “we” or “us”, we are referring to Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG. Within this document, “Transfermarkt” refers to www.transfermarkt.de, www.transfermarkt.be, www.transfermarkt.bg, www.transfermarkt.dk, www.transfermarkt.ee, www.transfermarkt.fi, www.transfermarkt.fr, www.transfermarkt.gr, www.transfermarkt.ie, www.transfermarkt.it, www.transfermarkt.com.hr, www.transfermarkt.lv, www.transfermarkt.lt, www.transfermarkt.lu, www.transfermarkt.com.mt, www.transfermarkt.nl, www.transfermarkt.at, www.transfermarkt.pl, www.transfermarkt.pt, www.transfermarkt.ro, www.transfermarkt.se, www.transfermarkt.sk, www.transfermarkt.si, www.transfermarkt.es, www.transfermarkt.cz, www.transfermarkt.hu, www.transfermarkt.co.uk, www.transfermarkt.tv and to the various apps provided by Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, including all sub-pages, content and functions provided therein (e.g. internet fora, competitions) and the Transfermarkt season guide (“Saisonheft”). Certain parts of Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG are also referred to in the following as “Online Services”. Whenever we mention the website or app, these should also be taken to represent online services.

Our services are provided for the general public and are not intended to be used by children. We do not knowingly collect any personal data from users classified as children under national legislation.

2. Collection and Processing of Personal Data

In general, insofar as any of the Online Services provided by us do not require payment or registration, you can use them without providing personal information. In certain cases, how-ever, we will process the personal data listed in Section 3. This will generally only occur insofar as the processing of this personal data is necessary to ensure the functioning of the website or app, or to provide you with out content and services. Furthermore, we process personal data in connection with your use of Transfermarkt in circumstances where this data is provided volun-tarily by you, e.g. in the context of registration, a competition entry, an inquiry to us, an applica-tion, the conclusion of a subscription or another legal basis (see Section 4). If you do not wish this to happen, you may be unable to use our services, or at least be restricted from accessing their full range of functions.

3. Categories of Data Processed By Us

As soon as you begin using Transfermarkt, our system automatically collects information from the system of the requesting machine. Data collected can include the following:

- Information about the browser type and version

- The operating system of the user

- Mobile Device ID

- Date and time of request

- Web analysis data / pseudonymised user profiles (cookie ID, ad ID, etc.)

- Websites from which users are referred to our website

- Websites accessed by users via our website

In addition, we process the following personal data insofar as there is a contractual relationship between you and us, or if you have transmitted the data to us in other ways:

- Personal master data (name, address, date of birth)

- Communication data (telephone number, email address)

- Contractual master data (contractual relationship, contractual or product interest, order history)

- Login data with password

- Comments, posts, etc.

- Employee data (name, address and communication data, contractual master data and accounting data, date of birth, marital status, nationality, denomination, field of activity, social insurance status, wage tax data, social data, bank details, HR administration and management data, access and access control data).

4. Legal Basis and Purpose of Processing

We process your data exclusively on the basis of one or more of the possible legal bases for data processing.

According to the GDPR, personal data may, in particular, be processed on the basis of a con-tract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legitimate interest or law and/or for the protection of vital or public interests.

Registration is required for the provision of certain content or services on our website. All users can register with Transfermarkt free of charge, stating their given name, last name, email ad-dress and a password, whereby this registration data is transmitted to us. The collection and processing of this data takes place for the purpose of fulfilling the user agreement between us and the user pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

Where you have provided an email address in the course of registration or in connection with the performance of a contract, we also use this email address to send you information about similar goods or services as well as about existing subscriptions or about Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG in general. In this case, the processing of the email address is based on our legiti-mate interest in the advertising of our goods and services (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

In addition, if you have issued your prior express consent for receiving a newsletter or advertis-ing materials, we will use your email address to send you our newsletter. In this case, we will process your email address in order to be able to deliver the newsletter as per your request (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR). You can object to the use of your email address by sending an email or letter to datenschutz@transfermarkt.de or Wandsbeker Zollstraße 5a, 22041 Hamburg, with effect for the future and without incurring any costs other than transmission costs according to the basic tariffs. Naturally, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time in your user profile or by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the newsletter itself.

On the internet, each device capable of transmitting data requires its own unique address, commonly known as an “IP address”. The (at least temporary) storage of the IP address is technically necessary to allow the website to be delivered to the user’s computer. We truncate IP addresses prior to processing them and carry out any further processing anonymously.

We offer a comment function (forum) for registered users on our website, in connection with which additional personal data is stored. The same applies to any surveys in which the user chooses to participate. If you wish to post a comment, you will need to register in order to do so. You may use a pseudonym as your “username”. We collect and process the data provided by you to enable us to publish your comment as per your request (Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR). In particular, we require your email address to be able to contact you in case of complaints re-garding your comment and to give you the opportunity to respond (Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR).

In the case of processing activities not covered by one or more of the aforementioned legal bases, processing will take place only if it is necessary to safeguard a legitimate interest and if your interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms do not override this legitimate interest in the context of a comprehensive balancing of interests (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR). A legitimate interest can be assumed if the data subject is a customer of the data controller. Inso-far as it relates to the processing of personal data, our legitimate interest consists, in particular, in conducting our business for the benefit of all of our employees and our shareholders.

Our legitimate interest in offering you tailored products, notifying you about our products, inno-vations and quality features and continually improving our products and services forms the legal basis for any and all processing that takes place for the purpose of big data, direct mar-keting (own advertising and third-party advertising), usage-based online advertising, web/app analysis and lead scoring (combining different selection criteria to determine which adverts to show). For more information on web analysis services, see Section 9.

Our legitimate interest in fraud prevention, network and information security and the reliability of our services and/or products also constitute a legal basis for the processing of certain data.

Another of our legitimate interests lies in the functionality of the business processes on the ba-sis of which processing occurs for internal administrative purposes (e.g. address manage-ment/accounting).

When processing the personal data of data subjects covered by our reporting, we also invoke our legitimate interest in exercising freedom of expression and information.

You can object at any time to data processing that occurs on the basis of a legitimate interest (see Section 14).

In the event that the data is processed for a purpose other than that specified in connection with the original data collection, a compatibility check will be carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (4) GDPR. Further processing will only be permitted if the original purpose is compatible with the new purpose or is permitted on a separate legal basis. Recognised compatible purposes include the assertion, exercise or defence of civil law claims, insofar as the interest of the data subject does not override these purposes. In such cases, we will inform you of the new pur-pose. If the new purpose is incompatible with the purpose cited in connection with the original data collection, collection will be re-established on a new legal basis. In this case, too, we will inform you about the change of purpose.

5. Location of Processing

We do not transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area, ex-cept in cases where this is permitted under the GDPR. We have no knowledge of or influence over whether third parties with whom you have a separate contractual relationship (e.g. Face-book, if you have a Facebook account) transfer data to countries outside the European Eco-nomic Area.

We sometimes process data in countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). In order to ensure the protection of your personal rights in connection with these data transfers, we use the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission to structure our contractual relationships with recipients in third countries in accordance with Art. 46 (2) (c) GDPR. These are available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:039:0005:0018:EN:PDF at any time. Alternatively, you can download these documents from us using one of the con-tact methods below.

6. Origin of the Data

In certain cases, we also receive data because you have consented for it to be transmitted to us.

As you know, apps are regularly made available for download from third-party sites (e.g. iTunes, Google, etc.). If, in accordance with the applicable terms of use of such a provider, Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG becomes your contractual partner for the purchase of the app, we will process the data provided to us by the third party to the extent necessary for the fulfilment of the contract, such that you are able to download the app on a mobile device.

Information on the Use of Apps

Our app uses the following permissions for the purposes listed below, as a result of which it gains access to certain functions of your mobile device.

• SMS / messages - Sending push notifications, e.g. football news or football results.

• Storage - For caching data and storing user settings, such as preferred language or fa-vourite club.

7. Transfer of Your Data to Third Parties

We transmit your personal data to third parties only if this transmission is necessary in order to fulfil our contractual obligations towards you and it occurs in cooperation with another provider (e.g. a partnership), if we are legally entitled or obliged to make the transfer on any other grounds, or you have issued a corresponding consent.

To enable us to provide our services, selected personal information may be shared with certain departments within our company. This includes employees in the accounting, product man-agement, marketing and IT departments.

In certain cases, we also use external service providers or affiliates who have been contracted by us to process data on our behalf. Such service providers are contractually obligated by us to adhere to the strict requirements of the GDPR in their role as a processor and may not re-use your data for any other purpose. Our contractors provide us with the following services: subscription management, content recommendations, hosting, survey and comment ser-vice(s), maintenance and support, and web & app analytics.

The transfer of data to contract data processors takes place on the basis of Art. 28 (1) GDPR or, alternatively, based on our legitimate interest in the economic and technical advantages associated with the use of specialist contract data processors pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Insofar as we are legally obliged to do so, or if it is permitted under data protection law, we transfer personal data to authorities, e.g. the police or the public prosecution services (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR). The disclosure of this data is based on our legitimate interest in the fight against abuse, the prosecution of crimes and the securing, assertion and enforcement of claims, It may only occur if your rights and interests in the protection of your personal data do not over-ride these interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

8. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies. Cookies are small files that your browser stores on your device in a designat-ed directory. Among other things, they enable you to be identified as a repeat visitor to our website. If you give your consent, cookies may also store login information for online services so that you do not need to re-enter the information each time you visit the site. Many cookies contain a so-called “cookie ID”: a unique identifier for the cookie. This consists of a string via which websites and servers can be assigned to the specific internet browser in which the cook-ie was stored, thus allowing visited websites and servers to distinguish the data subject’s browser from other internet browsers containing other cookies. A particular web browser can be recognised and identified by the unique cookie ID.

We use two types of cookies. The first type are cookies which are technically necessarily and without which the functionality of our website would be limited. The second type are optional cookies, which are used to make our website more user-friendly. The user data collected via the essential cookies is not used to create user profiles, while the analysis (optional) cookies are used to improve the quality of our website and its contents. Through the setting of analysis cookies, we learn how the website is used and how we can optimise it. Further information on the analysis services we use can be found in Section 9 of this Privacy Statement.

Ads are usually provided by third parties. These third parties may, to the extent permitted by your device settings, use information about your website visits to display ads about products and services that may interest you. Specific contact data such as your name, address, email address and telephone number will not be transmitted under any circumstances.

You can prevent the setting of cookies at any time by adjusting the settings in your internet browser to object permanently to the setting of cookies. In addition, previously set cookies can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software program. This can be accom-plished in all standard internet browsers. Deactivating the setting of cookies in your internet browser may mean that not all features of our website are fully usable.

When you use apps instead of a browser, a comparable technology is used in place of cookies. In the course of this, we possibly use an advertising ID, which the manufacturer of your operating system provides for such purposes. “Identifier for Advertisting” (IDFA) for iOS devices or “Google Advertising ID” for Android devices. The advertising ID is not related to the app, but connected with your terminal device as such. With the assistance of this advertising ID, Media Impact can deliver advertising contents matching your usage of the app (so-called “behaviour-oriented advertising”). The purpose of this is to display more interesting and relevant advertising to you than it would be possible without the usage of the respective data. If the advertising ID of your terminal device shall not be used for behaviour-oriented advertising, you can set up your device accordingly: If you use a terminal device from the manufacturer Apple: Open the settings and choose the option “privacy”. Under “advertising”, you can now activate the feature “no ad-tracking”. If you use a terminal device with the operating system Android: Open the the app “Google settings” and choose the option “ads”. There you can “Opt out of Ads Personalisation”.

Cookies cannot identify you as a person. Moreover, our use of cookies is justified on the basis of our legitimate interest in the optimisation of our website and the statistical analysis of Trans-fermarkt GmbH & Co. KG justified (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

9. Google reCAPTCHA

In order to ensure sufficient data security when submitting forms, we use the reCAPTCHA service of Google Inc. in certain cases. This is used primarily to distinguish whether the input is made by a natural person or abusive by automated and automated processing. The service includes the sending of the IP address and, if applicable, other data needed by Google for the reCAPTCHA service to Google. This is subject to the deviating privacy policies of Google Inc. For more information about the Google Inc. Privacy Policy, please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy or https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

10. Web / App Analysis Services

In order to improve our content on an ongoing basis, to adapt it to the interests of our users and to display usage-based online advertising, we use a number of services that collect and evalu-ate data on our website or in our app. Insofar as these service providers do not themselves constitute data controllers within the meaning of data protection law, they always process the pseudonymised user data according to the provisions of a contract data processing agree-ment. You can disable these individual analysis services at any time with effect for the future. The following paragraphs contain more information about the analysis services we use.

Google Analytics
We have integrated functions of Google Analytics (including IP anonymisation) into our Online Services. Google Analytics is a web analytics service and is designed to collect, compile and analyse data about the behaviour of website visitors. Among other things, a web analytics ser-vice collects information about the referrer URL, the pages of the website that were accessed, and how often and for what length of time a page was viewed. Web analytics data is used pri-marily to optimise websites and for the cost-benefit analysis of internet advertising.

The operator of Google Analytics is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. We use the anonymisation function “ga ('set', 'anonymizelp', true)”, which prompts to Google to truncate and anonymise the user’s IP address if the access request comes from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

The purpose of Google Analytics is to analyse visitor flows on our website. Among other things, Google uses the data and information obtained to evaluate visitors’ use of our website, to com-pile reports for us about activity on our web pages and to provide other services related to the use of our website.

Google Analytics places a cookie on the data subject’s computer system (for the definition of a cookie, please see above). Google can use the cookie-generated information to analyse your use of our website. Each time you visit any of the pages of our website into which a Google Analytics component has been incorporated, the internet browser on your computer system is automatically prompted by the respective Google Analytics component to submit the data to Google for online analysis. As part of this technical process, Google will become aware of per-sonal data such as your IP address. This serves, among other things, to enable Google to track the origin of visitors and clicks and thus to reach subsequent commission settlements.

The cookie stores personally identifiable information, such as access time, the location from which the access was requested and the frequency of site visits by the data subject. Each time you, as the data subject, visit our website, your personal information - including the IP address of your internet connection - is transferred to Google in the United States of America and stored there. Google may transfer the personal data collected via this technical process to third parties.

As described above, data subjects can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by adjusting the settings of their internet browser and thus objecting permanently to the setting of cookies. Adjusting the browser settings in this way will also prevent Google from set-ting a cookie on the computer system. In addition, cookies already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the internet browser or other software programs.

Furthermore, data subjects have the option to object to and block the collection of Google Ana-lytics-generated data about the use of this website and the processing of this data by Google. In order to do this, the data subject must download and install the browser add-on accessible under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. This browser add-on informs Google Analytics, via JavaScript, that no data or information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics. Google classes the installation of the browser add-on as an objection on the part of the data subject. If the data subject’s com-puter system is later deleted, formatted or reinstalled, the data subject must re-install the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on is uninstalled or disabled by the data subject or by another person within the data subject’s sphere of influence, it is possible to reinstall or reactivate it as desired.

Other information and Google’s own data privacy guidelines can be found at https://privacy.google.com/intl/en-GB/index.html and https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. More details about Google Analytics can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/#?modal_active=none.

Google DoubleClick
We have integrated components of DoubleClick by Google into this website. DoubleClick is a Google brand under which special online marketing solutions are marketed to advertising agencies and publishers.

The operator of DoubleClick by Google is is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

DoubleClick by Google transmits data to the DoubleClick server with every impression, click, or other activity. Each of these data transfers triggers a cookie request to the data subject’s browser. If the browser accepts this request, DoubleClick sets a cookie on the data subject’s computer system (for the definition of a cookie, please see above). The purpose of the cookie is to optimise and display advertising. The cookie is used, among other things, to serve and display user-relevant advertisements as well as to generate reports on or optimise advertising campaigns. The cookie is used to avoid multiple impressions of the same advertising message.

DoubleClick uses a cookie ID, which is necessary for the execution of the technical process. It is required, for example, to display an ad in a browser. DoubleClick can also use the cookie ID to see which ads have already appeared in a browser and thus to avoid avoid duplication. The cookie ID further enables DoubleClick to track conversions. A “conversion” is recorded when, for example, a user has previously been shown a DoubleClick ad and then makes a purchase on the advertiser’s site using the same internet browser.

A DoubleClick cookie does not contain any personally identifiable information. However, a DoubleClick cookie may contain additional campaign identifiers. A campaign identifier identi-fies the campaigns with which the user has already come into contact.

Each time you visit any of the pages of this website that are operated by us and into which a DoubleClick component has been integrated, the Internet browser on your computer system will be automatically prompted, by the respective DoubleClick component, to transmit the data to Google for the purpose of online advertising and calculating commission settlements. As part of this technical process, Google will gain knowledge of the data it uses to draw up com-mission settlements. Google learns, among other things, that you, as the data subject, have clicked on certain links on our website.

As already described above, you can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by adjusting the corresponding settings on your internet browser and thus objecting permanent-ly to the setting of cookies. Adjusting the settings in this way will also prevent Google from set-ting a cookie on the computer system. In addition, cookies already set by Google can be delet-ed at any time via an internet browser or other software program.

Further information and the respective data privacy guidelines of DoubleClick by Google can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

Scalable Central Measurement System (AGOF/IVW)
We use the scalable central measurement system provided by INFOnline GmbH (
https://www.INFOnline.de) to generate statistical indicators about the use of our website. The purpose of measuring web-site use is to generate statistical information about the number of visitors and their surfing be-haviour using a uniform standard procedure, and thus to be able to obtain comparable values across an entire market. The resulting user categories form the basis for the interest-based alignment of advertising material and campaigns. As part of this process, INFOnline GmbH stores the IP address, shortened by 1 byte, for a maximum of 60 days. As part of the measurement of advertising reach, one of the following four methods is used to recognise returning visitors: a Third Party Cookie, a First Party Cookie , a Local Storge Object or a signature created from the various items of information automatically transmitted by your browser for the purpose of recognition. If the user uses an app, the following device IDs can be transmitted to INFOnline GmbH as hash values: advertising identifier, installation ID, Android ID and vendor ID. It is also possible for the data to be measured and subsequently assigned to the respective client identifier if the user accesses other websites making use of the scalable central measurement system provided by INFOnline GmbH. The usage data is stored in connection with a unique identifier for a maximum of 6 months.

For all digital products and services having membership of the German Audit Bureau of Circu-lation (Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern e.V. / IVW, (http://www.ivw.eu) or participating in the Working Group for Online Media Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Online-Forschung e.V. / AGOF, http://www.agof.de) , usage statistics on advertising reach will be regularly processed by AGOF and the Working Group for Media Analysis (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse e.V. / agma, http://www.agma-mmc.de) and published under the performance criterion “unique users” as well as by the IVW under the performance criteria “page impressions” and “visits”. These reach measurements and statistics can be viewed on the respective organisations’ websites. To enable the creation of AGOF studies, data is passed to the following AGOF service providers, with a client identifier but without an IP address: Kantar Deutschland GmbH( https://www.tns-infratest.com/), Ankordata GmbH & Co. KG (http://www.ankordata.de/homepage/ ) and Interrogare GmbH (https://www.interrogare.de/).

The measurement of data using the scalable central measurement system provided by IN-FOnline GmbH takes place in accordance with a legitimate interest. In order to market web-site, it is essential for us to have a measurement of use that ensures comparability with other market participants. In addition, we have a legitimate interest in making available the pseudon-ymised data of INFOnline, AGOF and IVW for the purposes of market research (AGOF, ag-ma) and for statistical purposes (INFOnline, IVW). Furthermore, we have a legitimate interest in making the pseudonymised data of INFOnline available for the further development and provision of interest-based advertising material.

Other information on data protection in connection with measurement processes can be found on the websites of INFOnline GmbH ( https://www.infonline.de), which operates the measuring system, and the data protection pages of AGOF ( http://www.agof.de/datenschutz) and IVW(https://optout.ioam.de/).

If you do not wish to be included in these statistics, you can object by clicking the following link: https://optout.ioam.de . In order to guarantee exclusion from the measurement, it is necessary to set a cookie. If you subsequently delete the cookies in your browser, you will need to repeat the opt-out process accessible at the above link.

Tealium Audience Stream
This website uses the “Tealium Audience Stream”, a service provided by Tealium Inc., 11085 Torreyana Road, San Diego, Calif. 92121, USA (Tealium), which collects and stores data for the creation of pseudonymised usage profiles. On behalf of the operator of this website, Tea-lium uses this information to automatically tailor the website to individual users in real time and to deliver advertising. Information collected for this purpose includes viewed and clicked ads, products, advertising, visitor numbers, subject of the page, etc.

The pseudonymised user profiles are not held in connection with personal data about the bear-er of the pseudonym unless they have given their specific consent. In addition, the IP address transmitted by your browser is not associated with a usage profile.

Cookies are used to create usage profiles or technologies similar to mobile devices. The infor-mation generated by the cookie about your use of this website is stored exclusively in Germany. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the corresponding settings in your browser software; however, please note that if you choose to do so, you may not be able to access all functions of this website in full.

You can object to the collection and storage of data for the purpose of web analysis and adver-tising at any time with effect for the future by following the instructions provided at http://tealium.com/de/privacy/.

Tealium Tag Management System
This website uses a Tag Management System (TMS), a service provided by Tealium Inc., 11085 Torreyana Road, San Diego, CA 92121, USA (Tealium), to dynamically adapt portions of the website. To enable this functionality, a cookie called utag_main is created. The TMS is necessary to provide the service and as such cannot be disabled.

Tisoomi
Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG uses tisoomi, a service provided by tisoomi GmbH, Steind-amm 3, 20099 Hamburg, to display advertising. This website works together with tisoomi-services (a service of tisoomi GmbH, Gänsemarkt 31, 20354 Hamburg) to display advertising. Tisoomi also uses “cookies”: text files that are stored on your computer and enable the display of interest-based advertising. Cookie-generated information about your use of this website (in-cluding your IP address) is transmitted to a tisoomi server in Germany and stored there in a pseudonymised form. tisoomi uses this information to optimise the content of advertising mate-rial and, where necessary, to compile reports for website operators. You can prevent the instal-lation of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly. By using this website, you agree to the processing of the data collected by tisoomi and to the manner and purpose of pro-cessing described above. You can object to the display of interest-based advertising by tisoomi at any time by using the “opt-out” option provided on the following webpage:
https://www.tisoomi-services.com/datasecurity

Whappodo
The Whappodo service, which is provided by Whappodo.COM! GmbH, Walter-Kolb-Straße, 560594 Frankfurt am Main, is used by Transfermarkt to communicate with you via messenger services such as Whatsapp®.

When you send or receive messages …, personal information concerning you will be collected and processed in accordance with the following provisions.

Data transmitted to Whappodo may contain: the first and last names stored with us or with the respective provider of the messenger service, device, profile picture and messages to and from Transfermarkt. Please also make sure you have reviewed the privacy policy of the mes-senger service in question.

Whappodo processes personal data only in the context of its provision of services for Trans-fermarkt. Whappodo provides us with a message management system. Whappodo itself sends messages only in exceptional cases, e.g. SMS messages in safety-critical evets.

Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties. The only exceptions from this rule are service partners of Transfermarkt, who require data to be transmitted in order to render their information services. In these cases, however, the scope of the transmitted data is limited to the minimum required.

Any personal data of yours that is required for the business relationship will be stored in ac-cordance with applicable data protection laws and the German Telemedia Act (TMG) and will be treated confidentially. You have the right to access, correct, block and, where applicable, delete your stored data at any time. Please contact privacy@whappodo.com or send your re-quest by post.

Yieldlove
Data on Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG is collected and stored by Yieldlove, a web analysis service provided by Ligatus GmbH, Christophstr. 19, 50670 Cologne, and used to create pseu-donymous usage profiles. These user profiles are used to analyse visitor behaviour and are evaluated for the purpose of improving and tailoring our services. Cookies may be used for this purpose. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the corresponding settings in your browser software. You may object to the collection and storage of data for web analysis purposes at any time with effect for the future by clicking here:
http://optout.networkadvertising.org.

Ligatus
Data on Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG is collected and stored by Yieldlove, a web analysis service by the provider Yieldlove GmbH, Kehrwieder 9, 20457 Hamburg, and used to create pseudonymous usage profiles. These user profiles are used to analyse visitor behaviour and are evaluated for the purpose of improving and tailoring our services. Cookies may be used for this purpose. You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the corresponding settings in your browser software. You may object to the collection and storage of data for web analysis purposes at any time with effect for the future by clicking here:
https://www.ligatus.com/de/privacy-policy.

11. Online Marketing and Internet Advertising

This website is marketed by our online marketing partner Perform Group. As part of this pro-cess, advertising is optimised for you through the collection and processing of information about your usage behaviour, and is aligned to your predicted interests. As a result, you, as a user and data subject, benefit by receiving advertising that is more in line with your interests. A cookie is stored on your computer to record your usage behaviour, but does not enable you to be personally identified

12. contentpass

On our website we offer you a service for advertising and tracking-free access with contentpass an. This is an offer of Content Pass GmbH, Wolfswerder 58, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany. When you take out the service, contentpass becomes your contractual partner.

In order to be able to display and thus offer you this service on our website, contentpass, on our behalf, processes your IP address at the beginning of your website visit. For the registration as well as the contract processing of contentpass and the associated data processing, contentpass is the controller within the meaning of the DS-GVO. We are exclusively responsible for the processing of your IP address.

The basis for the data processing of the IP address, within the scope of our contract processing with contentpass, is our legitimate interest in offering you the opportunity to access our website free of advertising and tracking and your interest in using our website practically without advertising and tracking [Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f) GDPR]. In addition, we hereby fulfil the legal obligation to obtain legally compliant consent to data processing requiring consent [Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) GDPR].

Please click on the following links to learn more about data protection at contentpass, to log in to your contentpass account , or to register for contentpass.

13. Social Networks

You can find us on the social networks of third party companies, such as Facebook or Twitter. We have also integrated certain functions of these networks into our Online Services; howev-er, you can only use these if you are registered and logged in to the respective social network at the time. Please note that use of the social network is governed by the usage and privacy conditions of the respective third party company and that we have no influence over these. However, we are happy to provide some information about how such networks process your personal data in this regard.

YouTube
We have chosen to integrate certain YouTube components into this website. YouTube is a free internet video portal that allows video publishers to upload videos and other users to view, rate and comment on them. YouTube allows the publication of all types of videos. As such, it offers complete film and television broadcasts as well as music videos, trailers and user-made vide-os.

The operator of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Each time you visit any of the page of this website that … and into which a YouTube compo-nent (YouTube video) has been integrated, the internet browser on your computer system will be automatically prompted, by the respective YouTube component, to download a representa-tion of that component from YouTube. More information about YouTube can be found at https://www.youtube.com/intl/en-GB/yt/about/. As a result of this technical process, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of the specific pag-es of our site that you visit.

If you, as the data subject, are logged in to YouTube at the same time as accessing a page containing a YouTube component, YouTube can identify which specific page of the website you are visiting. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to your individual YouTube account.

If a data subject is logged into YouTube at the time of accessing our website, YouTube and Google will receive information from the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website. This happens regardless of whether or not they click on a YouTube video or not. If the data subject does not wish such information to be transmitted to YouTube, they may pre-vent this from happening by logging out of their YouTube account before accessing our web-site.
YouTube's privacy policy, which can be viewed at
https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, gives information about the collection, pro-cessing, and use of personally identifiable information by YouTube and Google.

On smartphones and tablets, the abovementioned services are typicaly not implemented through the use of plug-ins, but by a “sharing” function that is internal to the device. Depending on the device settings, information can also be transferred to other social media service pro-viders. Please refer to your device information.

14. Other Services

Other services we use:

Outbrain Custom Audiences Pixel
Our website features the “Custom Audiences” pixel provided by Outbrain UK Limited, which is based in London, UK. This means that there are “tracking pixels” integrated into the pages of our website. When you visit our website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Outbrain server via these tracking pixels. Outbrain receives information from your browser that our website has been accessed by your device. As a result of this, we can then select the groups of website visitors (e.g. those who have visited a particular section) to whom particular advertising should be shown. Advertising will only be displayed on external websites that have chosen to integrate the Outbrain widget (see 12.d.). For more information, see the Outbrain privacy policy at
http://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy.

If you do not wish any data to be collected vis Custom Audiences, please click here
http://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy and choose “Opt Out” under point 4.

MapTiler
In our services there are functions of the map service MapTiler integrated. These functions are provided by Klokan Technologies GmbH (Hofnerstrasse 98, 6314 Unterageri, Switzerland). By using MapTiler, data is usually transferred to the servers of Klokan Technologies GmbH in Switzerland and processed there. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the services, we have no influence on the contents of the data transmitted or their use by MapTiler. Further information on this can be found in MapTiler's privacy policy at
https://www.maptiler.com/privacy-policy/.

15. Externe Links

Our website contains links referring to third-party sites. Transfermarkt has no influence over whether or not these website operators comply with data protection regulations.

16. Duration of Storage

We store personal data for only as long as we are entitled to do so and the purpose of pro-cessing remains in place. The respective statutory retention period applies in respect of the duration of storage of personal data. Once the period has expired, and insofar as is the corre-sponding data is no longer required to fulfil or initiate a contract, the data will be routinely deleted.

17. Partner offers

If you have given your consent to the use of our offer with tracking and cookies, we also integrate interesting offers from selected partners (“partner offers”) into our website. You can recognize these by the corresponding marking (e.g. “An offer from”). The partner offers are provided by the partner specified there. In order to display the partner offers, your browser must establish a direct connection to the partner's servers. This requires the processing of your IP address. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The partner is responsible for the data processing operations that take place via the partner offer in accordance with Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR. For information on the data processing operations carried out via the partner offers and your rights as a data subject, please refer to the partner's privacy policy linked in the respective partner off.

18. Partner service pages

If you have given your consent to the use of our offer with tracking and cookies, you will also be shown service pages from selected partners (“partner service page”). You can recognize these by the corresponding marking (e.g. “A service from”). The partner service page is provided by the partner specified there. With the exception of the header and footer of the website, the partner is responsible for the content of the partner service page and the data processing operations that take place there in accordance with Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR. Information about the partner can be found in the partner's legal notice linked on the partner service page. For information on the data processing operations carried out via the partner service page and your rights as a data subject, please refer to the partner's privacy policy, which is also linked there.

19. Contact Data and Your Rights as a Data Subject

If you have any questions or suggestions about privacy and the exercise of your rights as a data subject, you are welcome to contact our Data Protection Officer at any time:

Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG
Datenschutz
Wandsbeker Zollstraße 5a
22041 Hamburg
datenschutz@transfermarkt.de

Access and Rectification

At any time, and free of charge (a maximum of once per year), you can obtain information from us about whether or not personal data about you is being processed by us. You can also request specific details about the data being stored and obtain a copy of this stored data. You have the right to correct incorrect data and to have incomplete personal data completed.

Deletion, Restriction and the Right to be Forgotten

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data or the restriction of its pro-cessing. Please keep in mind that legal storage obligations exist in respect of (e.g.) paid con-tracts, such as the purchase of a subscription from Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG, and that we may not be able to delete your data fully anyway. In this case, your data will be marked with the aim of restricting its future processing.

Data Portability

Where applicable, you also have the right to have personal information concerning you trans-mitted to you or another person in a structured, common and machine-readable format, pro-vided the processing is based on your consent or on a contract and occurs in an automated fashion. Please note that this does not apply insofar as processing is not necessary for the per-formance of a task in the public interest or for the exercise of the official authority afforded to the controller.
You also have the right to obtain the personal data that is transmitted directly from one data controller to another, insofar as this is technically feasible and it does not affect the rights and freedoms of other persons.

Revocation / Objection

The consent you provide can be revoked at any time with effect for the future by contact-ing the address given earlier in this Privacy Statement. In particular, you may object to the use of your email address for the purpose of sending the newsletter at any time by sending an email or letter to datenschutz@transfermarkt.de or Wandsbeker Zollstraße 5a, 22041 Hamburg. You may do this with effect for the future and without incurring any costs other than transmission costs in accordance with the basic tariffs. You also have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you that is based on a legitimate or public interest. This also ap-plies to profiling activities based on the same provisions. We will cease the processing of personal data in the event of such an objection, unless we can establish compelling and worthwhile grounds for processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or unless the processing is for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defend-ing legal claims.

Insofar we process personal data for the purpose of carrying out direct advertising, you have the right, at any time, to object to the processing of personal data for the purpose of such advertising by contacting the address given earlier in this Privacy Statement. This also applies to profiling activities, insofar as they occur in connection with direct advertis-ing. You also have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object to the processing of personal data concerning you for scientific or historical research purpos-es or for statistical purposes, unless such processing is necessary to fulfil a task in the pub-lic interest.

Right to Complain

Further to the abovementioned right of objection, you have a right to complain to the responsi-ble supervisory authority and to appeal a decision. The supervisory authority to which the complaint has been submitted shall inform the complainant of the status and results of the complaint, including the possibility of judicial remedy.

Automated Decision-Making

We do not carry out automated decision-making or profiling.

As at: December 11, 2019