Source: http://open-cards.de/node/4623
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 19:53:16+00:00

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I am pleased that you are visiting my website and thank you for your interest in my websites www.open-cards.de and www.open-cards.com (in summary: my website). Privacy and data security in the use of my website are very important to me. I would therefore like to inform you here which of your personal data I collect when you visit my website and for what purposes these are used.
Since changes in the law or changes in my internal processes may make it necessary to adapt this data protection declaration, I ask you to read this data protection declaration regularly.
Note: There are no commercial purposes associated with my website.
This data protection declaration applies to the internet offer of openCards, which can be accessed under the domains www.open-cards.de and www.open-cards.com (hereinafter referred to as my website).
Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as your name, age, address, telephone number, date of birth, e-mail address, IP address or user behavior; information that I cannot relate to you (or only with disproportionate effort), e.g. by anonymizing the information, is not personal data; the processing of personal data (e.g. the collection, retrieval, use, storage or transmission) always requires a legal basis or your consent. Processed personal data will be deleted as soon as the purpose of the processing has been achieved and no legally prescribed retention obligations are to be observed.
If I process your personal data for the provision of certain services, I will inform you below about the specific processes, the scope and purpose of data processing, the legal basis for processing and the respective storage period.
For the aforementioned data processing art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR serves as legal basis, the processing of the aforementioned data is necessary for the provision of my website.
As soon as these data are no longer required to display the website, they will be deleted. The collection of the data for the provision of the website and the storage of the data in log files is mandatory for the operation of the website and therefore there is no possibility of objection on the part of the user. Further storage may take place in individual cases if this is required by law..
On my website, I offer you the opportunity to register by providing personal data: https://open-cards.de/users/register or at https://open-cards.com/users/register. This gives you access to functions of my website that are reserved exclusively for registered users.
With the processed data I create an individualized user account for you.
I will process your email address so that I can send you new access data for your user account in case you forget them.
Only your e-mail address, your “user name openCards”, your first and last name and the country in which you currently live are mandatory data for registration (marked with an * above) and will be processed together with your technically determined IP address. All other information will only be processed if you provide it voluntarily during registration or voluntarily add it to your profile at a later date.
"Visible to all openCards users" - Everyone who registers on my website can see this information, for example when calling up your personal profile.
"Visible to all your "contacts" - Any user registered on my website with whom you have networked on my website can see this information (cf. § 4 Section 9 "Contacts").
"Visible to No One" - With this setting, the information you enter in your profile is not visible to any user of my website except yourself.
User name openCards: The user name is used to identify all content you create on my website and is always visible to all users of my website as long as you do not close your user account.
Email address: Your email address is only visible or changeable for yourself in your profile and in principle NOT visible for other users of my website.
Country: The country in which you currently live is always visible to all users of my website and is used for various statistics that are accessible to all users.
IP address: Your IP address is processed exclusively for technical operation and log files created in this context and is not visible to any user of my website.
Using the first setting you can use the default "No" to ensure that non-registered users of my website with the exception of your "user name openCards" are not shown any further data from your profile (regardless of the settings for "Visibility control" described above).
With the second setting you can use the default "No" to ensure that search engines that access my website cannot evaluate any data from your profile.
Even after registration on my website these configuration options are available to you in your user profile and can therefore be changed at any time according to your wishes.
Your address (street + house number; zip code; city) and your telephone number will only be recorded and processed as mandatory information if you as tournament director want to publish your own tournaments on my website (see §4 Section 12 "Tournament announcement and registration"). For all other functions of my website these data are not relevant.
Information on the form in which the data is presented to you on the start page of my website after registration (pure data for the configuration of my website and therefore no personal data).
When specifying your preferred game systems, you can indicate whether you are collecting this game system, playing with friends and/or playing at tournaments; this information will be used on my website to generate statistics and to give you dynamic hints on further functions of my website.
Private Messages: Use the "private messages" function to send and receive messages to and from other users of my website. This "inbox" is part of their user account on my website. See §4 section 4.
Comment function: Publishing comments on the content on my website, see also §4 section 5.
Participation in discussions: This feature includes participating in discussions and starting your own discussions in the forums available for the different game systems on my website. See §4 section 6.
Publish articles: You can publish your own articles on my website so that they can be read by all users on my website The following types of articles are available to you as a registered user depending on the respective game system: "News"; "Interview"; "Card Review"; "Strategy Articles"; "Deck"; "Tournament"; "Tournament Report"; "Fun-Stuff"; "House-Rule"; "Dreamard". As the author of these articles, you are responsible for their content. See also §4 Section 7.
Tradeplace: The use of the card exchange on my website allows you to manage your own collection of cards per game system and to publish exchange lists (offers & requests) so that they can be viewed by all users of my website. See also §4 section 8.
Contacts: This function allows you to add other registered users of my website to your contacts, to make data from your profile "visible" to your contacts that is not displayed to other users of my website, and to invite new users to use my website (see also §4 section 9).
Groups: This function allows you to create a group to which other users can then join my website, you can also join existing groups yourself, and you can send messages to groups to several users of my website at the same time via the "private messages" function, see also §4 section 10.
Maintenance card database: As a registered user you can support me in the maintenance of the existing card database for each game system, which contains all card of a game system, see also §4 section 11.
Tournament announcement & publish results: As a registered user you have the possibility to announce tournaments and publish the results of your tournament on my website. See §4 section 12.
Tournament registration: For tournaments registered on my website (see tournament announcement) you as a registered user have the possibility to register online, so that the tournament director will be informed in advance of his tournament that you intend to participate in his tournament and that a tournament director can enter your "openCards username" as a participant in his tournament to publish the results of his tournament. See also §4 section 13.
"Hall of Fame": As a registered user of my website, you collect "honor points" for the activities you perform on my website; the users with the most "honor points" are displayed in the "Hall of Fame" for all users of my website; see also §4 Section 14.
A large part of these functions serves to enable you to publish content on my website (in the future called "content") This content is always linked to and stored by your "user name openCards" with your user account in order to make it comprehensible to all users of my website from whom which content originates on my website and when it was published.
According to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR, the aforementioned data processing is based on the declaration of consent voluntarily given by you under §2 section 14 "Declaration of consent".
Even after your user account has been closed, it may be necessary to store personal data in order to comply with legal obligations; further storage may take place in individual cases if this is required by law.
As a user you have the possibility to cancel your registration at any time (your user account with all personal data contained therein will be deleted, the link to content created by you on my website will be anonymized) by clicking on the "cancel user account" button in your user account.
Content created by you on my website will not be completely deleted when your user account is closed, but will only be anonymized in parts.
All other types of content that you have created on openCards will not be deleted from my website, but anonymized when your user account is closed, see §2 section 7.
This means that this content will be reassigned to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a randomly selected five-digit number) when your user account is closed and can therefore no longer be assigned to you or your user account.
The openCards Newsletter includes information about (new) generally functions of openCards and news around the different supported game systems.
Your e-mail address will be stored for as long as you are registered as a user on my website. Further storage may take place in individual cases if this is required by law.
The "Private Messages" feature on my website provides a feature that allows you to send and receive messages from other registered users of my website, but these messages remain exclusively on my website and are not sent to external email addresses.
Depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "username openCards", but also your full first and last name will be displayed on my website together with the "private messages" sent by you for the recipient of the respective message.
In your user profile you have the possibility to activate the function that sends you an email whenever you have received a new private message, which contains only a note that you have received a new private message on my website and a link to your private messages on my website (registration required for access).
Private messages" published by you on my website will remain permanently on my website, even after termination of your user account.
When you terminate your user account, the "private messages" you have created will be made anonymous, meaning that your "private messages" will be reassigned to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a random five-digit number).
This ensures that the "private messages" you originally created cannot be assigned to you or your user account via the "openCards" user name.
There are several places on my website where you can comment on the content displayed on a page.
A comment published by you will always be linked to your "username openCards" and saved. Depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "username openCards" and the date of publication, but also your full first and last name will be displayed on my website together with the comments you have published.
Comments you post on my website will remain on my website permanently, even after your account is terminated.
When you terminate your account, your comments will be made anonymous, meaning that your comments will be reassigned to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a random five-digit number).
This ensures that the comments you originally created can no longer be assigned to you or your user account via the "user name openCards".
On my website different forums are offered to the individual game systems and to the general functions of my website. In these forums you as a registered user can start your own discussions and publish your own discussion contributions to existing discussions (in the following "discussion contributions").
Depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "username openCards" and the date of publication of your discussion post, but also your full first and last name will be displayed on my website together with your published discussion posts.
Discussions posted by you on my website will remain permanently on my website, even after termination of your user account.
When you cancel your user account, the discussion posts you have created will be made anonymous, which means that your discussion posts will be reassigned to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a randomly selected five-digit number).
This ensures that the discussion posts you originally created can no longer be assigned to you or your user account via the "user name openCards".
The differences between the different types of articles are explained on my website and the types of articles available to you as a registered user on my website may vary per game system.
Depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "username openCards" and the date of publication, but also your full first and last name will be displayed on my website together with the articles you have published.
In principle, you have the possibility to save a draft of all articles, which can only be viewed and edited by yourself via your profile; other users of my website do not have access to articles that have been saved as a draft; only when you publish your article will it become visible to all users on my website.
Articles published by you on my website will remain permanently on my website, even after termination of your user account.
When you cancel your account, the articles you have created will be made anonymous, which means that your articles will be reassigned to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a random five-digit number).
This ensures that the content you originally created is no longer assigned to you or your user account via the "user name openCards".
On my website you as a registered user have the possibility to manage your card collection and to publish exchange offers and requests to the different game systems shown on my website.
Depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "username openCards", but also your full first and last name will be displayed on my website together with the lists you have created, and the last time you updated this list will be saved for each list.
The exchange lists you create under the heading "Collection" are only visible to you and cannot be viewed by other users of my website, but the exchange lists you create are visible to every user of my website and are used in the "Tradefinder" function to automatically find and display exchange possibilities between users of my website (the results of "Tradefinder" show results in the following sense: user X searches for a card and user Y offers them).
To initiate an exchange with another user of my website, you can use the function "Private Messages" (see §2 Section 4).
With the termination of your user account, the requests/offers you have made on my site and the information on your collection will be deleted within 3 months.
With the "Contacts" function on my website, I offer you the possibility of networking with other registered users of my website, either by sending a contact request to another user who accepts your request, or by accepting a contact request sent to you by another user of my website.
Once you have networked with a user, this user will be displayed with a summary of his profile data on the "myContacts" page, which is only visible to registered users and is always personalized for the user who visits this page, as well as indicating that this is one of your contacts when you visit a page that displays his "user name openCards" (e.g. because the content displayed on the page originates from this user).
For your contacts, you can set separately in your profile which data from your profile is visible to your contacts, which settings may differ from those that apply to users of my website with whom you are not networked (cf. Visibility of data under §2 Section 2).
At any time, you have the option of cancelling a network with another user once it has been established ("Delete" link on the "myContacts" page for each closed contact).
With the cancellation of your user account, the contacts you have created on my site will be deleted within 3 months.
On my website you as a registered user have the possibility to create groups or to join existing groups, which are used to send messages to a group of users using the function "private messages" (cf. §2 section 4).
Groups are always public to all users of my website, the list of members of a group is public to all users of my website.Itt is not possible to create closed groups, which means that any registered user of my website can join a group, even if you have created a group yourself, you do not have the right to exclude other members of the group from the group.
If you create a group yourself, it will always be linked and saved with your "username openCards" and, depending on your professional settings, not only your "username openCards" and the date you joined, but also your full first and last name will be displayed on my website together with the group you created.
When you join a group, your membership in that group will always be linked and saved with your "username openCards", and depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "username openCards", but also your full first and last name will appear in the group's member list on my website.
Upon termination of your account, your membership in all groups you are a member of will be terminated within three months, including groups you have created, and if you are the only member of those groups, the group will be terminated at the same time.
As a registered user on my website, you can participate in the collection of newly published trading cards; as a rule, I enter new cards in the database and two other users of my website can then check and confirm them in order to avoid data entry errors and ensure the quality of the database with regard to search queries, for example; you can also support me in the initial collection of the cards when setting up new game systems.
To help you capture cards in the card database, you will receive "honor points" for the "openCards Hall of Fame" (see also §2 Section 14 "Hall of Fame") by linking and saving the capture of the card or the check you have made with your "user name openCards" Depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "user name openCards" and the date of your capture, but also your full first and last name will be saved on my website together with the card you captured or checked.
Cards that you have entered or verified on my website will remain on my website permanently, even after you cancel your account.
When you cancel your user account, the reference to your support in the card database will be made anonymous, which means that the support you provided in the card database will be "rebooked" to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a randomly selected five-digit number). When a card is displayed, it will no longer refer to your user name, but to the newly created anonymous user.
As a registered user of my website, you have the possibility to plan and "advertise" tournaments and to record the results of these tournaments. To use this function, I require that you enter your address data (city, street, house number, telephone number) in your user profile in addition to the minimum user data (surname, first name and e-mail address), whereby the visibility of this data can be limited to yourself.
Afterwards you have the possibility to publish the participants of your tournament and the results of your tournament (see §2 section 13 "Tournament registration").
In order to use the functions "Tournament Announcement & Publish Tournament Results" on openCards, you need to enter my address and phone number in my profile and I hereby give my consent to the processing of my address and phone number in order to use this function.
With the cancellation of your user account all information in your user profile including the address data will be deleted within 6 months.
Tournaments published by you will remain on my website permanently, even after termination of your account.
Termination of your account will make the tournament announcements you have created anonymous, meaning that your tournaments will be reassigned to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a consecutive number).
On my website, as a registered user you have the possibility to register as a participant in tournaments published on my website in order to inform the tournament director in advance that you would like to participate.
Furthermore, every user of my website who publishes the results of his tournament can enter your "username openCards" as a participant in his tournament (and then publish the corresponding results for this username on my website).
If you register yourself for a tournament or if another user assigns you to his tournament as a participant, this registration or assignment will always be linked and saved with your "user name openCards". Depending on your professional settings, not only your "user name openCards" and the date of your accession, but also your full first and last name will be displayed on my website together with your registration for the tournament.
Tournament registrations published on my website and the results of a tournament, if any, will remain permanently on my website, even after termination of your user account.
Upon termination of your account, the published tournament registrations and any results recorded for a tournament will be made anonymous, which means that they will be reassigned to a newly created anonymous user ("anonymous user X", where X is a randomly selected five-digit number).
This ensures that this content is no longer assigned to you or your user account via the "user name openCards”.
For publishing articles (the author of the article or the person who published the article on my website receives "honor points").
For articles to be "clicked" on my page (the author receives one "honor point" per "click").
For support in the quality assurance of new cards in the card database, you will receive "honor points" for recording and quality assurance of the respective cards.
For special merits on my website, e.g. the provision of card scans when building up the card database for new game systems.
Depending on the settings in your profile, not only your "username openCards", but also your full first and last name will be shown on my website together with the honor points (see visibility of data under §2 section 2 - Registration and user account).
To determine the "clicks" described under point 2, the user behaviour of the respective users of my website is recorded (user profile) by logging in a database all page views of content pages (cf. §2 section 7 "Publication of articles"), processing the page ID, the accessing user (user ID and host ID) and the time of access, and storing the clicks of non-registered users under the user ID "0", which is then used to calculate the respective "honor points" in the "clicks" area.
By registering on openCards, I agree to the processing of my first and last name, my chosen "user name openCards", my use ID and my host ID for the creation and storage of usage statistics on openCards.
I hereby declare my agreement that an overview of all articles published by me will be displayed in the "Hall of Fame" for my "user name openCards" and my first and last name.
The statistics per user including the listings of which articles have received how many "click honor points" are permanently stored (as long as your user account exists) and no longer contain a reference to the respective user, but only the pure number of "clicks".
The data processing mentioned in this paragraph in sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 are based on the voluntary declaration of consent given by you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR below.
By registering on openCards, I consent to the processing of my first and last name, my e-mail address, the country in which I currently reside and the user name I have chosen "openCards" for the creation and storage of a user account on openCards, and I also consent to the processing of further data in my user profile, the collection of which is in my sole discretion and not necessary for the use of the website.
By registering on openCards, I also agree to the processing of my "user name openCards" and my first and last name for the identification of content, which I myself have published on openCards.
By registering on openCards, I agree to the processing of my "user name openCards" and my first and last name for the identification of registration and/or participation in tournaments, which were published either by myself or by other users on openCards.
the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f GDPR is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests and to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data.
Various types of cookies are used on my website, the type and function of which will be explained in more detail below.
My website uses transient cookies that are automatically deleted when you close your browser, this type of cookie allows you to record your session ID, which allows me to associate different requests from your browser to a common session and to recognize your device when you visit the website later.
Persistent cookies are cookies that are stored in your browser for a long period of time and transmit information to me, depending on the cookie, and you can delete persistent cookies independently using your browser settings.
These cookies are required for technical reasons so that you can visit my website and use the functions. I offer, for example in the following applications: Firstly, cookies are used to automatically enter your personal data in the input mask on future logins in order to ensure your authorization.
These cookies enable me to analyze website usage and improve the performance and functionality of my website, such as how visitors use my website, which pages are most frequently visited, or whether error messages are displayed on certain pages.
As soon as the data transmitted to us via cookies is no longer necessary for the purposes described above, this information will be deleted. Further storage may take place in individual cases if this is required by law.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default, but you can configure your browser to accept only certain cookies or no cookies at all, but I would point out that if cookies are disabled by your browser settings on my website, you may not be able to use all the features of my website, you can also delete cookies already stored in your browser, and it is possible to set your browser to notify you before cookies are stored.
If you want a comprehensive overview of all third-party accesses to your Internet browser, I recommend the installation of specially developed plug-ins.
No tracking and analysis tools such as Google Analytics (Google Inc) are used on my website.
On my website no plugins are used e.g. for linking to social networks like "Facebook".
On my website there are so-called hyperlinks to websites of other providers. When activating these hyperlinks you will be redirected from my website directly to the websites of other providers, as you can see from the change of the URL, I cannot take responsibility for the confidential handling of your data on these websites of third parties, as I have no influence on whether these providers comply with the data protection regulations.
Pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR, you may request information about your personal data processed by me, in particular about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right of rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if not collected by me, about a transfer to third countries or international organisation and about the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information.
In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR you can immediately demand the correction of incorrect or the completion of your personal data stored with me.
Pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, you may request the deletion of your personal data stored by me, provided that the processing is not necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
Pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, you may request the processing of your personal data to be restricted if you dispute the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful, if I no longer need the data and if you refuse their deletion because you need them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. You are also entitled to the right under Art. 18 GDPR if you have filed an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR.
Pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, you can request that the personal data you have provided me with be received in a structured, current and machine-readable format or you can request that it be transmitted to another person responsible.
In accordance with art. 7 para. 3 GDPR you can revoke your consent at any time, with the consequence that I may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent for the future.
According to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, usually by contacting the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence, your workplace or my adress.
When processing your personal data on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this which arise from your particular situation or the objection to direct advertising.
I commit myself to protect your privacy and to treat your personal data confidentially. In order to avoid any manipulation, loss or misuse of your personal data stored with us, I take technical and organisational security precautions which are regularly checked and adapted to technological progress, but I would like to point out that due to the structure of the Internet it is possible that the rules of data protection and the above security measures of other persons or institutions not within my area of responsibility may not be observed, in particular unencrypted data - e.g. if this is done by e-mail. It is the responsibility of the user to protect the data provided by him against misuse by encryption or in any other way.

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