Privacy Policy

This privacy policy was created by

G-Assets Consulting Ltd.

19, St. Mark Street, Valletta VLT 1362, Malta, in order to provide you with information, in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act (DSG) to explain what information we collect, how data is used and what decision-making options you have as a user of our App/Website/Software or when you create a user account on the App/Website/Software and register as a user.

In our Cookie Statement you will also find supplementary information on data processing through cookies in the App/Website/Software.

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1. Contact details of the controller and the data protection officer

The controller for all processing activities described in this data protection information is

G-Assets Consulting Ltd.

19, St. Mark Street, Valletta VLT 1362, Malta.

If you have any questions regarding data protection, please contact us at the e-mail address:
office@gconsulting.info.

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2. Processing and storage of personal data

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1. Providing, improving and developing the App/Website/Software

Firstly, we use your data to be able to fulfill the contract that exists with you and to be able to provide you with the App/Website/Software and its associated services and products.

When you use our App/Website/Software offer, we use cookies, which are technically necessary within the meaning of Section 96, para. 3 of the Telecommunications Act (TKG) in order to fully provide you with our offer, as well as to be able to store your user preferences.

You can find an detailed list of these “functionality cookies” in our Cookie Statement.

Apart from those described, technically necessary cookies, further cookies that identify personal data, are only set on the basis of your consent by actively pressing the “Accept cookies” button. You can revoke your consent voluntarily given to cookies at any time without giving reasons.

In order to use the App/Website/Software, it is necessary that you create a user account.

It is necessary to provide an e-mail address. Here (technically necessary) login cookies are used, which ensure that

you are not automatically logged out. In order to administer the registration, personal data is also used on the legal basis of contract performance and the legitimate interest of G-Assets Consulting Ltd. for the following purposes:

• to enable you to access and use the App/Website/Software;
• to enable you to communicate with other members;
• to operate, protect, improve and optimize the App/Website/Software, for example by way of conducting analyses and investigations;
• to provide you with our customer service (e.g.: Support, if login does not work, processing of complaints);
• to send you service Or support news, updates, security alerts and notifications; and
• to allow you to access and use payment services .

Accordingly, we process personal data based on our legitimate interest in improving the App/Website/Software and to the extent necessary for the adequate performance of the contract with you.

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2. Providing, personalizing, measuring and improving our advertising and marketing

We may use your personal data to provide, personalize, measure and improve our advertising and marketing:

• to provide you with promotional messages, marketing, advertising and other information that may be of interest to you based on your preferences;
• to personalize, measure and improve our advertising;
• to perform profiling based on your characteristics and preferences.

We will use your personal data for the purposes set out in this section because we have a legitimate interest in doing so.

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4. Categories of personal data, recipients

The following categories of personal data reach us for processing:

personal information and contact data:

• name data (title, first name, last name, user name)
• personal details (gender (or title), date of birth, marital status, profession, nationality)
• contact data (zip code, city, street, floor, staircase, door, telephone number, fax number, e-mail)
• IP address
• sales status.

Data on deliveries and services, financial data:

• customer identification data (registration data, VAT ID number, username, password (encrypted))
• customer profile (information from surveys, interests, history of services received; consent forms)
• contract data
• third-party payment confirmation
• data from media and means of communication (IP address, browser used, hardware/software type, internet, login activation, last data change, time of registration, first access (first-time login).

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5. Storage period

The data will be stored by G-Assets Consulting Ltd. until you submit a request for deletion.

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6. Disclosure of data to third parties

In some cases, we use service providers to fulfill our contractual obligations and to provide you with our services, as well as for other data processing. To the extent necessary, we transfer personal data to the following service providers (processors):

• social media channels
• sales partners.

We also transfer your personal data to the following recipients to the extent necessary:

• to other external third parties to the extent necessary on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g., auditors)
• to authorities and other public bodies to the extent required by law

• to any third parties who assist in the performance of our obligations to you.

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7. Data subject rights (information, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection/revocation, data portability, complaint).

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

You have the right to obtain information about the personal data we process about you. In addition, you have the right to rectification of incorrect data and the right to erasure of your data (“right to be forgotten”). You may also revoke your consent to the processing of personal data with effect for the future if processing is based on your consent. You also have the right to restriction of processing of your data in a structured, common and machine-readable format (“data portability”). In the event of data processing of personal data based on legitimate interest, you may object. In the event of objection to profiling and/or direct marketing, no more personal data on the data subject will be processed for these purposes. You also have the option to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority. 

To enable us to process your request regarding your rights stated above and to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to unauthorized third parties, please >send your request to the e-mail address office@gconsulting.info, clearly identifying yourself and providing a brief description of the scope of the exercise of your data subject rights listed above.

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Cookie Policy (Cookie Declaration)
Information about cookies and social plugins on the digital platform (“App/Website/Software”)

On the digital platform (“App/Website/Software”) from G-Assets Consulting Ltd., so-called cookies, device identifiers and similar technologies (hereinafter referred to collectively as: “Cookies”) are used to make the digital products and services from G-Assets Consulting Ltd. easier and more efficient to use and to analyze the usage habits of users for the purpose of continuously improving our products. In addition, cookies can be used to tailor advertisements to the individual interests of users and their usage habits.

The G-Assets Consulting Ltd. App/Website/Software also uses so-called social plugins, by means of which users can go directly to the pages of social networks.

Below you will find more detailed information about cookies and social plugins and how you can consent to them or revoke any consent you have already given.

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1. What are cookies?
Cookies are text files that are stored on the computer or smartphone of the visitor to a website. They typically contain information about websites visited by the user, which the browser stores while browsing the internet. Cookies make it possible to recognize the user when they visit the website again and can therefore be used, for example, to ensure that a user does not have to log-in to a website again after logging in once. Furthermore, cookies are suitable for storing and transmitting information about the user’s browsing behavior.

Cookies are used to both improve the quality of service, including storing user preferences, and to recommend content and search results, as well as to track user trends, such as what content users are consuming. This allows the use of digital platforms to be evaluated and valuable insights into the needs of users to be gained. These findings help to further improve the quality of digital platforms.

For the user, cookies can be viewed and also deleted individually. Apart from technically necessary cookies (described below as “functionality cookies”), cookies are only set on the basis of the user’s prior, active consent by actively pressing the “Accept cookies” button in the cookie banner. Once given, consent to or the selection of cookies can be revoked by the user via the app at any time or

also be modified separately with regard to the cookies set. In addition, the user can also disable cookies globally via the browser by selecting the appropriate browser settings.

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2. What are the types of cookies?

a) Functionality cookies

These cookies are technically necessary so that you as a user can use our products and their functionalities to the full extent. This can be, for example, storing your input in form fields (so you don’t have to fill them out more than once), your geographic location, or user preferences. The information collected by functionality cookies relates only to the website visited, but no information is collected about browsing on other websites. Blocking these cookies may mean that the full range of functions is not available to you.

b) Performance or web analytics cookies

These cookies are used to measure and analyze the scope and performance of a website or app. We receive information about the number of visitors to the website or page views via these cookies. Furthermore, these cookies collect information about the usage habits of visitors to a website or app. Such information can be, for example, at what time most accesses occur or which (sub-) pages are visited most often. This information is aggregated and evaluated using performance and web analytics tools with the purpose of gaining insights into the use, functionality and user-friendliness of websites and apps and to be able to develop them further on an ongoing basis. The online editorial team, in turn, uses these cookies to gain valuable information about which topics and articles particularly appeal to users and can respond to this by adapting the editorial offering to the particular interests of its users.

Performance cookies also provide information about the performance (number of users, number of returning users, dwell time, etc.) of a website. Advertisers are guided by these figures when awarding their contracts, as they want to reach as many people as possible with their advertising. The information obtained through performance and web analytics cookies is therefore essential for us to be able to market our web offering. A conclusion on the individual user is neither desired nor intended.

c) Personalization cookies

These cookies are used to draw conclusions about your interests and needs based on the evaluation of your browsing behavior and to be able to segment users with the same or similar interests and needs, so that we can subsequently display advertising or content to you in a needs-based, interest-related and targeted manner to have optimum impact in your living environment. For example, it can be used to recommend articles that are thematically similar to articles that have already been viewed, or to display content in an order that corresponds to interest. Depending on the tool used, corresponding IDs can be assigned, and user profiles can be created. (see below on “Profiling”). In the case of registrierten users registered online, the user profile may be refined depending on the tool used, since behind the analyses there is then no device, but a user account holder who is not identified by name – since this is done on the basis of login data previously pseudonymized by cryptological hash functions – and information from several devices used can be merged into one client ID.

d) Ad server, advertising, targeting cookies

Based on the analyses of interests and needs, as described under “Personalization cookies”, advertisements can be displayed to a specific target group of users (“targeting”). In addition, these cookies are used to control (in particular, limit) the frequency of advertising and to measure the effect or efficiency of campaigns.

e) Targeting and recommender cookies

Based on the analyses of interests and needs, as described under “Personalization cookies”, content can also be targeted to a specific target group of users or even individual users. For example, it can be used to recommend articles that are thematically similar to articles that have already been viewed, or to display content in an order that corresponds to interest.

f) Re-targeting cookies

These cookies make it possible to recognize a user who has been on another website outside the web offering of “die Presse”. This is primarily done to be able to display advertisements according to the user’s previous visits to the site and the interests derived from them.

g) Third-party cookies

The dissemination of our own and third-party advertising in our online products is not only an important part of our business model, but also the prerequisite for making a large part of our offering available free of charge. If an advertisement is displayed or clicked on, cookies are usually also set by means of the advertising material, provided you have consented to them. These cookies are thus not created by the website just visited, but directly by the advertiser. The advertiser can thus obtain valuable information about the effectiveness of their advertising, such as information about how many users this advertisement was displayed to or how often it was visible in its entirety. The cookies associated with the advertising material may also be used to track a user’s visits to all the pages where their advertising is displayed. Cookies in advertising materials can therefore serve both the analysis of the performance of the specific advertising and targeting or re-targeting purposes. Third-party cookies may therefore fall into all of the cookie categories mentioned earlier and may occur for all of the purposes mentioned. Some browsers also allow you to specifically block third-party cookies. MySam GmbH does not receive any of the information generated by the advertiser via the cookies associated with the advertising material, cannot influence the means or purposes of third-party processing, and does not derive any benefit of its own from this information.

3. Which cookies are used on the G-Assets Consulting Ltd. digital platform (“App/Website/Software”) and how can they be controlled?

For the placement of the cookies described above, the individual advertisers and/or agencies, as well as G-Assets Consulting Ltd., use technical service providers. Service providers that set cookies on our website are named in our cookie consent tool. The service providers will serve the above purposes:

• finding storage and access to information
• rating
• personalization
• selection, placement and evaluation of ads
• selection, switching and evaluation of content
•based on the type of cookies they set, or group into which the cookie falls. In this context, a technical service provider may come under either only one or several of the above purposes. You will also find information on how to disable cookies in the respective privacy policy of the service providers visible there, which can be accessed in the cookie consent tool for the respective service provider. In addition, consent once given to cookies via the link “Cookie settings”, can

be revoked at any time in the app under “More” in the privacy settings. This makes revocation as easy for you as giving the consent itself. At your discretion, you can also revoke your consent there for individual groups of cookies only or, within these groups, also at company level.

You can also find information on how to refuse cookies below.

In addition, some technical data (e.g., operating system version, browser type and version, screen resolution, etc.), including the user’s IP address, may be collected and stored by the respective software used. Under no circumstances, however, will the persons behind this data be identified.

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4. Google and Facebook functions

a) Facebook Login/Facebook Connect

If you use the services of Facebook Connect to log in to the digital platform (“app”) from MySam GmbH, you must accept their Cookie Policy when logging in: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/?locale2=de_DE& refid=9

On this website you can read how to control Facebook cookies: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/?locale2=de_DE&refid
=9#

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b) Google Login/Google+ Connect

If you use the services of Google+ Connect to log-in to the digital platforms (“app”) from MySam GmbH, you entrust this provider with information about your activities, content created by you and personal data – also with the aid of cookies set by Google. For detailed information on the type of data collected, see: https://privacy.google.com/your-data.html. This website will inform you of how to manage your privacy settings in your Google account: https://privacy.google.com/take-control.html

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c) Facebook Custom Audiences

The user has the option to opt-out and can object to the use of their data in the context of Custom Audiences at any time by visiting the Facebook
page https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences and clicking on the

Unsubscribe button.

G-Assets Consulting Ltd. points out that, as the operator of the digital platforms, it has no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted in the context of Custom Audiences or of its use by Facebook. For more information about Facebook’s use of data, see: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy.

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5. How do I manage and delete cookies in my browser?

You can revoke your consent voluntarily given to cookies at any time without giving reasons. This makes revocation as easy for you as giving the consent itself. At your discretion, you can also revoke your consent there for individual groups of cookies only or, within these groups, also at company level.

In addition, cookies can generally be rejected or deleted through the appropriate browser settings. In this case, however, it is possible that features of the internet platform may not all be used in their entirety.

Here you can find instructions on how to manage and delete cookies in your browser:

Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Chrome: Delete, enable and manage cookies in Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies

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6. How do I manage and delete cookies on Android devices?

Android Default browser (browser, internet) Open the default browser. Press the menu or function key (depending on the device, e.g., left soft key) and go to the Settings section. There, navigate to the Privacy and Security section. There you can revoke the acceptance of cookies by deactivating the corresponding checkbox. You can also delete all cookie data by pressing the similarly named button.

If you use a Chrome browser on your Android smartphone, open it and press the menu or function key (e.g., left soft key, depending on the device). Then go to the Settings section

and then to Privacy. There, press the Clear browser data button and tick Cookies, Website data.

These instructions are based on a Samsung Galaxy GT-I9300 with Android 4.3 installed. On other device models or Android versions, cookie management and deletion may differ slightly from the description displayed above. You can find more information here:

Manage cookies in Google Chrome for Android Manage cookies in Firefox for Android

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7. How do I manage and delete cookies on iPhone and iPad?

To permanently block cookies on your Apple iPhone or iPad, go to Settings and then to Safari. After opening this page, scroll down to the Privacy &Security section. There you have the option to permanently block cookies by selecting Block cookies > Always block cookies.

To delete the cookies, press Clear history and website data on this page.

Other browsers

Manage cookies in Chrome for iOS (scroll down for iOS instructions) Manage cookies in Firefox for iOS

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8. What are device identifiers and what does G-Assets Consulting Ltd. use them for?

Device identifiers (device IDs) are identification codes that allow individual mobile devices to be recognized (“identified”), but not individual users. G-Assets Consulting Ltd. uses device identifiers in order to be able to offer certain functionalities, to adapt content and advertisements to the user’s usage habits, to provide f for social media and to evaluate accesses with the help of the analysis tools listed below.

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9. What are social plugins and what should I consider when dealing with social plugins ?

Social plugins allow content from a website on which social plugins are integrated to be shared directly with social networks (e.g., Facebook Connect, Youtube, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, etc.) .

The social plugins integrated into the digital platform from G-Assets Consulting Ltd.are marked with the logo or icon of the individual social networks.

If a social plugin is called up in the context of using our products, the user’s browser establishes a direct connection with the servers of the respective social network. The content of the social plugin is thus transmitted directly to the user’s browser and integrated by the latter into the digital platform accessed.

Through this integration, the information that the user has accessed the corresponding digital platform is forwarded to the social network. If the user is logged into the social network, the latter can assign the call to the digital platform to the user’s account.

When the user interacts with a social plugin, e.g., by pressing the
“Like” button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from the user’s browser to the social network and stored there. For more information on the purpose and scope of data use by social networks and the settings options for protecting privacy, please refer to the privacy policy of the social networks.

The following links will take you to the pages of the respective social media services where it is explained how they handle your data:
a) Instagram Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
b) For YouTube the Google Privacy Policy applies: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
c) Facebook Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
d) Twitter Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy

In order to prevent social networks from using the user’s data that accumulates when using our products, the user must log out of the social networks before accessing the respective digital platform.