Privacy Policy

The following privacy policy applies to the use of our online offers sinners & saints (hereinafter "Website").

The security and safety of your data is our utmost priority. The collection and processing of your personal data is followed by the applicable data protection law regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Responsible operator and contradiction by you

Responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data in the sense of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is the operator of the page as stated in the legal notice.

If you want to contradict the collection, processing or use of your data by us in accordance with this you can object to data protection regulations in total or for individual measures.

Which data do we collect and how do we use it?

In order to be able to implement the services offered on the website, i.e. to be able to provide contact searches and run an online community, users must create profiles about themselves and post contributions to the community. This inevitably reveals information about yourself, but you keep full control over it, how much information you actually fill out and put online. We only use the information that you put online yourself.

It is important for you to know at this point that we use a complex infrastructure behind the website and the associated services on various servers, hosters and service providers. For the operation of our services, it is necessary that the data you provide online is also processed by these service providers. In order to give you an overview, we list in the following to what purpose which service provider will use your data.

Hosting

The hosting services we use serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services and technical maintenance services that we use for the purpose of operating the website.

Here we or our hosting providers process inventory data, contact details, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data from customers, interested parties and visitors to this website based on our legitimate interests on an efficient and secure provision of our website in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 f) GDPR i.V.M. Art. 28 GDPR.

Access data

If you use the services offered, you involuntarily leave communication and access data. This information is saved by us anonymously. This is information about your usage behavior and your interaction with us as well as data about your computer, mobile device or end device and browser. We collect, save and use data about any access to our website in so called server log files. In detail, these are the following things:

• Name and URL of the accessed file or website
• Date and time of access
• Data volume
• Report on successful access (http response code) or the fault
• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system
• Referral URL (i.e. the previously attended page)
• Internet service provider of the user
• IP address and the requesting provider or internet provider of the user

We use this log data without assignment to you for statistical evaluations and the purpose of the company, the security and optimization of our website, but also for anonymous recording the number of visitors on our website as well as the scope and type of use of our website and services.
Based on this information, we can provide personalized and/or location related content and analyze data traffic, search and fix errors and improve our services.
This is also our legitimate interest in accordance with Art 6 Para. 1 S. 1 f) GDPR.
For example, we also reserve the right to check the protocol data retrospectively if there is a legal suspicion of illegal use on the basis of concrete indications. We save IP addresses in the log files for a limited period of time if this is necessary for security purposes or for the provision of services or billing a service, e.g. if you use one of our services. We delete IP addresses if this is no longer necessary for security purposes. We also save IP addresses when we have the specific suspicion of a crime in connection with the use of our website. In addition, as part of your account, we save the date of your last visit (e.g. when registering, login, click on links, etc.).

Cookies

We use so called cookies to optimize our website and its user experience, to personalize the experience and to evaluate marketing campaigns.
A cookie is a small text file that is imperceptibly stored for you when visiting a website in your browser. These cookies are managed automatically in the browser. You can completely deactivate the use of cookies in the browser. However, you usually restrict the functionality of the affected website.
The lifespan of cookies is defined when the cookies are created, but can be endlessly long. After the end of the service life, the cookies are usually automatically deleted by the browser.
Our legitimate interest in the use of cookies in accordance with Art 6 Para. 1 S. 1 f) GDPR is to make our website more user friendly, effective and safer. The following data and information are stored in the cookies:

• Log-in information
• Language settings
• Search terms entered
• Information about the number of views of our website and the use of individual functions of our website
• Information about the advertising campaign through which the user came to the website or carried out actions on it
• Activation of error analysis functions

If cookies are activated, they are assigned an identification number. The assignment of your personal data for this identification number is not made. Your name, IP address or similar data that would enable you to assign the cookies are not inserted into the cookie. Based on cookie technology, we only receive pseudonymized information, for example about which of our pages were visited, which profiles were viewed, etc. However, you can set your browser at any time so that you will be informed about the setting of cookies in advance and can decide in individual cases whether you want to rule out the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, or that cookies are completely prevented. However, the functionality of the website can be restricted.

User account

In order to be able to use our services, you have to create a user account on our website.
You have to be at least 18 years old for registration, so we ask you when registering for your date of birth.
In principle, only your email address and a password is required for registration unless you register via your Facebook or Google account. In this case, we receive your user identifier from the respective service (Facebook or Google), along with its registered email address.
The email adress primarily serves as a contact option for contractual matters as well as for notifications.
Your email address and your password (or your Facebook or Google identifier) will be saved in our database and reused when logging in.

If you have registered by email, you will receive an activation link by email after your registration to activate your user account and verify your email address. This serves to ensure your proper registration and prevent unauthorized registrations by third parties.

You can delete a user account once created in your account settings or have us delete it. A message in text form to us (see legal notice) is usually sufficient for this. We will then delete your stored personal data, unless we require it for further processing our services or on the basis of legal retention obligations.
The legal basis for the processing of this data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 a) GDPR.

Profiles

It is part of our service that users can create profiles.
The profiles serve to present yourself on the platform, as a contact to be found and find others, and to post content under the pseudonym of the profile (i.e. texts and photos) to engage with like-minded users, etc.

It is in the nature of the matter that we as a provider of a platform for match making also require data from you, such as your gender, your hobbies, etc. Most of this information is voluntary and must not specified by you. The purpose of storage and processing thus results from Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 a) GDPR.
All information you specified in your profile will be saved by us in databases and used in our services. This includes displaying your information as soon as the profile is visited by another user, find your profile when searching for users, and have other users send you private messages.

Messaging

In the event that you want to establish contact with other profiles or users and write messages on our platform these messages are saved by us based on Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 f) GDPR. This includes the date of the message as well as the reading status and the IP address, from where the the message was sent.
The messages are only displayed to you and the recipient.

Email notification

You can receive notices of our services by email. This is the case, for example, if you get a message by another user. The email address requested in the registration process is used for this.
You can activate or deactivate notifications in your settings at any time.

Customer support

If you want to get in touch with us (e.g. by email), we process your information upon handling the request and in the event that follow up questions come up.
We will only process further personal data if you agree to this (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 a) GDPR) or we have a legitimate interest in the processing of your data (Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 f) GDPR). A legitimate interest is, for example, to respond to your email.

Duration of persistance

Unless otherwise specified, we only save personal data for as long as fulfillment of the persecuted purposes is necessary.
In some cases, the legislature requires the storage of personal data, for example in tax or commercial law. In these cases, the data is only stored further for these statutory purposes, but is not otherwise processed, and is going to be deleted after the end of the statutory retention period.
In case of suspicious or criminal activities, the corresponding user data will be stored for the duration of the successive activities and made available to the investigative authorities.

Data security

We care about the security of your data within the framework of the applicable data protection laws and our technical possibilities. Your personal data will be encrypted with us. This applies to your interactions with the page and also for the login or registration. We use SSL technology (Secure Socket Layer). However, communication via internet has security gaps that eludes our responsibility. A complete protection of the data from access by third parties is not possible (e.g. we don't control the processing of emails).

To secure your data, we maintain technical and organizational security measures according to Art. 32 GDPR, which we always adapt to the state of the art.

No guarantee against failure

We do not ensure that our service is continuously available or available at certain times; Disruptions, interruptions or failures cannot be excluded.

Transfer of data to third parties

Basically, we strive to use your personal data within our company only.
If third parties are involved, only as few data as necessary is used to fulfill the corresponding service.
In the event that we outsource certain parts of data processing ("order processing"), we contractually oblige the provider to use your personal data only in accordance with the requirements of the data protection laws and the protection of the rights of to affected person.

Change of this policy

In the event of the further development of our platform or amended legal or official requirements, we reserve the right to change and adapt this policy.