Privacy Policy

The operating company of courtsoftheworld.com is the M4K1 UG (beschränkte Haftung), Graf-Bernadotte-Str. 70, 45133 Essen, Germany (following referred to as courtsoftheworld.com). The protection of your personal data is of utmost concern to courtsoftheworld.com. With this Privacy Policy courtsoftheworld.com wants to inform about the processing of personal data.

This Privacy Policy will amend the “Terms of Use” of the M4K1 UG (haftungsbeschränkt).

1. First Principals concerning the Storage and Processing of your Personal Data

courtsoftheworld.com collects, processes und uses your personal data complying to the data protection laws of the European Community (and respecting the data protection laws of Germany).

courtsoftheworld.com uses the personal data solely in order to make the usage of the services of courtsoftheworld.com available to its users. courtsoftheworld.com will not make the personal data of users available to third parties for commercial-, marketing- or further purposes, except courtsoftheworld.com will use the services of a third party in order to grant the performance of own services. In this case courtsoftheworld.com will commit the third party to comply with these regulations.

The liquidation of the stored personal data is carried out when the member revokes its acceptance to have personal data stored or when the storage is not compliant to federal law.

2. Invitations and Forwarding

It is possible that users invite or forward videos and comments to non-users. courtsoftheworld.com processes these personal data to make available the before mentioned services only.

3. Personal Newsletter and Notifications

By registrating to courtsoftheworld.com obtaining emails like newsletters is completely voluntary. In the settings a deactivation of all info services is possible. An exception is necessary notification of members about important matters regarding the maintance of the service(e.g. changes to the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy etc.).

4. Cookies

courtsoftheworld.com uses cookies in order to identify you as user and help improve the services. A cookie is stored locally to your computer and expires after the log-out and / or after quitting the browser.

5. Log-Files and Google Analytics

With every page request data is being stored in a log-file, the Server-Log. This data record includes the following information:

the IP-address,
the Remote Host,
the time, the status, the volume of transferred data as well as the referring website,
and the information concerning the browser version (User-Agent).

To do so courtsoftheworld.com uses the standardized “combined” logfile format of the Apache webservers. courtsoftheworld.com uses these logs for statistical analysis in an anonymous form, meaning that data cannot be allocated to individual users. By taking these measures courtsoftheworld.com is able to find out when the courtsoftheworld.com-website services are mainly frequented by the users. Further courtsoftheworld.com will be able to detect possible bugs. courtsoftheworld.com does not link the information stored in the server-log to single users. However courtsoftheworld.com reserves its right to check the log data upon the latest stored IP-address if there is reasonable suspicion that the courtsoftheworld.com services are used contrary to existing laws or the Terms of Use. This serves to protect the courtsoftheworld.com members, the safety of the courtsoftheworld.com member data, as well as the entire courtsoftheworld.com websites and services.

Furthermore courtsoftheworld.com uses Google Analytics, a service for analysing internet traffic of Google Inc. (“Google”). Personal data will never be transmitted to or analysed by Google. Analysis by Google is carried out without allocation or reference of your personal data. The information regarding the members use of courtsoftheworld.com-webservices (including the IP-address) will be stored by a Google-Cookie and will be transferred to a Google server in the United States. Google will use these information in order to analyze the members usage of the courtsoftheworld.com websites, to generate reports of website activities for courtsoftheworld.com and furthermore to build more services connected to the use of the internet. Google can also forward these data to third parties, in case that this is statutory or third parties process these data on behalf of Google. Google will in no case link the members IP-address with any other Google data. The members can disable the installation of cookies in the settings of the browser software.