This privacy policy informs you about processing of personal data by us.
This privacy policy is available on our website and may be printed at any time.
We reserve the right to adjust this privacy policy at any point in time to ensure that it is in line with the current legal requirements at all times, or in order to accommodate changes in the application process or other processes.
GENERAL INFORMATION
What are Personal Data?
“Personal data” are any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual person, such as a person’s name or also their hobbies.
“Processing” of data means any operation or set of operations carried out with or without the aid of automated processes relating to personal data, such as collection, recording, organization, sorting, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or integration, limitation, erasure or destruction.
The legal basis for data protection can be found in particular in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“General Data Protection Regulation”, GDPR), as well as in the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and Telemedia Act (TMG).
We process personal data only to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly internet presence, including its contents and the services offered there.
Controller
earthTV network GmbH
Neue Schönhauser Str., 10178 Berlin/Germany
Registered with the local court (Amtsgericht) Berlin-Charlottenburg under registration number HRB 160373 B
Represented by the managing directors: Nikolaus Lohmann, Claudius Lohmann
Fon: +49 (0) 30 4431942-0
Email: legal(at)earthtv(dot)com
We also refer to the further third party providers named in this privacy policy who control your data.
Controller is any natural or business person, which decides on the purpose and means of data processing on its own or jointly with others.
Scope and Location of Data Processing
We as well as our external service partners process your data for the purpose of providing the website and our services, including providing hard- and software through such external service partners. The data categories affected are contact information, user behavior or other information that constitutes personal data provided to us. In general, we process your personal data in the EU/EEA. If third party providers engaged by us process personal data outside the EU/EEA, data protection standards applicable in the EU are ensured. A list of the third party providers engaged by us is set out below. For more information you may also contact us via email to: legal(at)earthtv(dot)com
We process your personal data as follows (or as otherwise described in this privacy policy or information provided to you):
| Data | Purpose | Legal Basis |
| contact data, contract data, usage data, other data provided | Communication in order to establish, implement and/or process a contractual relationship (also orally) with you | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. b. GDPR |
| contact data, contract data, other data provided | compliance with legal obligations, e.g. commercial, tax and social security detention obligations | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. c. GDPR |
| contact data, contract data, other data provided | enforcement, exercise and defense of legal claims with our legitimate interest that may be, for example, in the assertion of legal claims and defense in legal disputes | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR |
| contact data, usage data, other data provided | analysis of data with our legitimate interest of, for example, quality assurance or marketing | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR |
| contact data, usage data, other data provided | consent to data processing for the purpose named in this privacy policy or information provided to you | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a. GDPR |
In the event you refrain from providing such data you may face legal disadvantages, for example, no answer to your email sent to us.
Furthermore, we have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed both by us and by external service providers. The website is operated through a safe SSL-connection. If an SSL-connection is activated third parties are prevented from reading any data that are transferred by you to us.
Your Rights
You have the following rights:
– the right to access,
– the right to rectification or erasure,
– the right to restriction of processing
– the right to data portability,
– the right to withdraw your consent.
– You further have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your personal data based on point e or f of Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions.
To act according to your rights set forth above you may contact us via email to: legal(a)earthtv.com.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of your choice (for example: Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Friedrichstr. 219, 10969 Berlin or mailbox@datenschutz-berlin.de).
Storing and Deleting Data
The data are deleted if you withdraw your consent and/or such data are no longer necessary for the purpose of processing. We or the engaged third party services delete your data according to the following criteria: Time and completion of requests, lapse of legal retention periods, settings provided by third party providers etc. Furthermore, we store your data if we are obliged to do so in accordance with legal retention periods (e.g. German Commercial Code (HGB) or German Fiscal Code (AO)).
DATA PROCESSING WHEN VISITING OUR WEBSITE OR CONTACTING US/YOU
Visiting the Website
We (or the web space provider or other engaged third party provider) collect data on each visit to our website (so-called server log files) for statistical evaluations for the purpose of optimizing our services and in order to guarantee the stability and operational security of the website.
| Data | Purpose | Legal Basis |
| name of the website visited, file, date and time of the visit, data amount transferred, information on a successful call, browser type as well as version, operating system of the user, referrer URL (the page visited before), IP address and the requesting provider as well as the following, if a mobile end device is being used: country code, language, name of device, name of operating system and version | optimizing our services and in order to guarantee the stability and operational security of the website | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR based on our legitimate interest of quality assurance |
| compliance with legal obligations | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. c. GDPR |
Cookies
Our website partly uses so-called technical cookies for a user friendly and technical adequate presentation of the website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your device and in your browser.
We use so-called session cookies. After the end of the session these cookies will be deleted automatically. The session cookies are used in order to associate successive page requests with the individual users, who at the same time access our website. Other cookies will be stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser during your next visit. We also use third party cookies for different purposes, including marketing. For details please refer to the following section and the list of third party cookies and providers used by us.
OPT-OUT: You can adjust your browser to notify you, before you receive a cookie or to decide to accept cookies on a case-by-case basis, to completely or partly exclude all incoming cookies and to activate the deletion of cookies automatically when the browser is closed. You may manage many online advertisement cookies provided by companies via the American web page //www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the web page of the European Union //www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/. We would like to inform you that the usage and especially the convenience of usage without using any cookies may be limited.
In the event personal data are processed such processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR with our legitimate interest of the presentation of a user friendly and technical correct website, or, where required, your consent (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a. GDPR).
Third Party Cookies and similar technologies on the website
This website uses third party cookies and similar technologies. Some of these third party cookies and similar technologies are necessary for our online service, some are needed for improving the functionality of our online services or used by us for marketing purposes. Details about the third party cookies, similar technologies as well as other third party services used on our website are set out here:
| Name, provider: | Google Analytics by Google (inter alia Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA) | Google Adsense by Google (inter alia Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA) | Doubleclick by Google (inter alia Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA) |
| Personal data affected: | Cookies; Usage Data | Cookies; Usage Data | Cookies; Usage data (IP-address) |
| Purpose: | Tracking and Analytics | Tracking and Analytics | Tracking and Analytics |
| Legal basis for data processing: | In the event personal data are processed such processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR with our legitimate interest of the presentation of a user friendly website, or, where required, your consent (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a. GDPR). | In the event personal data are processed such processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR with our legitimate interest of marketing, or, where required, your consent (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a. GDPR). | In the event personal data are processed such processing is based on Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f. GDPR with our legitimate interest of marketing, or, where required, your consent (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a. GDPR). |
| More information / OPT-OUT: | OPT-OUT: //tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=enGoogle privacy policy: Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google | OPT-OUT: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/blocked-cookies.htmlGoogle privacy policy: Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google | OPT-OUT: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/blocked-cookies.htmlGoogle privacy policy: Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google |
| Data processing outside the EU/EEA and applicable safeguards: | This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening users’ IP addresses within member states of the EU/EEA. Google LLC processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: Data Privacy Framework ) | Google LLC processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: Data Privacy Framework ) | Google LLC processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: Data Privacy Framework ) |
Contacting us; emails
If you send us any requests via email, online chat or otherwise contact us your details in this request are processed by us as follows:
| Data | Purpose | Legal Basis |
| contact data, name, email address and other data provided | deal with your inquiry or to be able to contact you at a later time for follow up questions | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a GDPRArt. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. b GDPR |
Newsletter
With the email newsletter we inform you about our products and services. We may send you newsletters based on an existing contractual relationship with you.
| Data | Purpose | Legal Basis |
| email address, IP address, the device name, the mail provider as well as the first and last name | Sending newsletters based on an existing relationship with you | Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. b GDPR, Section 7 para. 3 German Unfair Competition Act (UWG) |
OPT-OUT: You can withdraw consent to the processing of Data for the purpose of sending the newsletter or evaluation of related data at any time. The withdrawal can take place over a link, which is contained in each newsletter, or by separate message to us. YOU WILL NOT INCUR ANY COSTS OTHER THAN THE TRANSMISSION COSTS ACCORDING TO THE BASIC TARIFFS.
DATA PROCESSING WHEN USING OUR SERVICES
When signing up for our service or entering into an agreement with us, we will process your data on the basis of initiating a business relationship or continuing an existing business relationship (legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. b GDPR) as well as further described in this privacy policy or information provided to you. For more details please also refer to the respective terms [global.earthtv.com/terms/]. You may also contact us for details via a message to: legal(a)earthtv.com.
DATA PROCESSING ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES
We operate social media pages, whereas data are processed by us and the provider of the social media. This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms.
The respective provider of social media assumes the data protection obligations towards you, such as information on data processing, and is the contact person for rights. This follows from the fact that such provider has direct access to the relevant information on the social media pages and the processing of data. However, you are also welcome to contact us if this should become necessary and we will then forward the request to the respective provider if necessary.
With social media pages we can communicate with and provide you with interesting information. We may receive further Data through comments, shared images, messages and reactions, which we then processes to answer or communicate with you. If you use social media on several end devices, a cross-device analysis of the data can take place. Furthermore, the providers of the social media pages may also use cookies and tracking technologies to analyze and improve their services.
Data processing takes place with consent or for the purpose of answering user enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. a or b GDPR) or on the basis of legitimate interests in improving the services, advertising and marketing activities and presentation to the outside world (Art. 6 para. 1 s.1 lit. f GDPR). The interaction and information obtained through our website are always subject to your privacy settings for each social network. This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when you do not use it.
It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on our website isn’t being connected back to your social media profile.
The social media providers may process your data outside the EU/EEA (mainly: USA). The US companies by Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are each certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ).
Page Insights on Facebook
Facebook (by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland) and we use the Page Insights function to process statistical data from Users of Facebook pages (see also the agreement at: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum ). This involves the processing of data in the form of so-called ‘page insights’, which are described in more detail at https://www.facebook.com/business/a/page/page-insights .
Evaluations and statistics are generated in the form of page insights from the usage data of the Facebook pages, which support us in improving marketing activities and external presence. We may also learn about users and their behavior who interact with or use our Facebook Pages to display relevant content and develop features that may be of interest to them. These page statistics show, for example, which people from certain target groups interact most with Facebook Pages or which content on the Facebook Page was visited, shared or licked when and how often. When classifying people into target groups, demographic data or data about the location of a person is also included in order to place targeted advertisements with these people. The data collected in this way is statistically processed and usually anonymous, i.e. we cannot establish any reference to the individual person. Information on these page insights and data processing can be found, for example, in Facebook’s data protection statement at https://www.facebook.com/policy.php or at https://www.facebook.com/business/a/page/page-insights . Facebook also uses cookies and storage technologies. More information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ .
OPT-OUT/Settings: https://www.facebook.com/settings.
Page Insights on Instagram
When using Instagram and you have an account there, Instagram can assign your activities to your profiles there. Instagram (by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland) and we use the Instagram Insights function to process statistical data from users of our Instagram pages (see also for Facebook which is connected to the provider of Instagram the agreement at: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum ). This involves the processing of data in the form of so-called ‘Instagram Insights’ which are described in more detail at https://help.instagram.com/788388387972460?helpref=faq_content . Instagram also uses cookies and similar technologies. For more information please refer to: //instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
OPT-OUT/Settings: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/privacy_and_security/.
Data processing on our Twitter Page
The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network by us. We may interact with data included on the Twitter Page via the service by Twitter (Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street #900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA / Twitter International Company, Attn: Data Protection Officer, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07 Ireland). Twitter also uses Cookies. More information: https://twitter.com/de/privacy .
Settings: https://help.twitter.com/de/managing-your-account/ / https://twitter.com/personalization .
Data processing on our LinkedIn Page
We may interact with data included on the LinkedIn Page via the service by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland / LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA. LinkedIn also uses Cookies. More information: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-privacy-policy.
Settings: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/privacy
DATA PROCESSING BY THRID PARTY PROVIDERS ENGAGED BY US IN AND OUTSIDE THE EU/EEA
In addition to the data processing through third party providers of cookies and similar technologies on the website as well as the data processing on our social media pages (as set out above) the following third party providers process your data for the purposes described below and based on the legal basis as described in this privacy policy or other information provided to you:
| Name, provider | Personal data affected | Purpose | (as applicable) Data processing outside the EU/EEA and applicable safeguards |
| Schuko.net Internetdienste, Thomas Kochler, Grellstr.36, 10409 Berlin/Germany | Usage Data (IP-address); email address and communication data | DNS (Domain Name System) resolution; email support | |
| Rage4 Network Limited, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU, UK | Usage Data (IP-address) | DNS (Domain Name System) resolution | Data processing in the UK. |
| Amazon Web Services by Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North , Seattle WA 98109, USA | Usage Data (IP-address); content data | Hosting of websites, web player and live streams | Amazon Web Services Inc. processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ). |
| Scaleway.com, Online.net, 8 rue de la ville l’Evêque, 75008 Paris, France | Usage Data (IP-address); content data | Hosting of clip content | |
| Server4You, Hoste Europe GmbH, Hansestr. 11, 51149 Cologne/Germany | Usage Data (IP-address); content data | Hosting of websites, live streams, clip content, data bases | |
| Fastly, Inc. 475 Brannan St, Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94107, USA | Usage Data (IP-address); content data | Content Delivery Network for websites and live streams | Fastly, Inc. processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ). |
| 1&1 Internet SE Elgendorfer Straße 57, 56410 Montabaur/Germany | Usage Data (IP-address); content data | Hosting of websites, live streams, clip content, data bases | |
| Typeform S.L. Bac de Roda, 163, 08018 Barcelona, Spain | Usage Data (IP-address); contact data (email address); content data | Contact form on the website | |
| Infoonline GmbH, Brühler Straße 9, 53119 Bonn/Germany | Usage data (IP-address, browser-fingerprint, installation-ID, Advertising-ID, Android-ID, Cookie-ID, Tizen-ID, Vendor-ID) | Measuring user behavior for advertising | |
| Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, California 94107, USA | Usage data (IP-address) | Hosting of additional libaries | Cloudflare, Inc. processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ). |
| Google Maps by Google (inter alia Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA) | Usage data (IP-address) | Display maps and related data on our websites | Google LLC processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ) |
| G Suite by Google (inter alia Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA) | Contact data (including email addresses) | Address and contact data management | Google LLC processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ) |
| Smartclip AG, Kleiner Burstah 12, 20457 Hamburg, Germany | Cookies; User data (IP-address) | advertising space marketing on our behalfon our website and in our web player | |
| Flowplayer AB, Mäster Samuelsgatan 36 111 57, Stockholm, Sweden | IP-address | Some plugins and libraries are supported byFlowplayer loaded directly | |
| Heroku Inc., USA by Salesforce, Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission St., San Francisco, California 94105, USA | User data (IP-address) | Hosting of our website | Heroku, Inc. processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ) |
| Highrise HQ LLC, 30 North Racine Avenue #200, Chicago, IL 60607, USA (by Basecamp, LLC., 30 N. Racine Ave, Suite 200, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA) | contact and communication data | Management of contact and communication data | Highrise HQ LLC processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ) |
| Chime by Amazon Web Services by Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North Seattle WA 98109, USA | Contact data (email address, phone number), User data (IP-address) | phone conferences | Amazon Web Services Inc. processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ). |
| Compose by IBM (IBM’s Corporate Privacy Office 1 New Orchard Road, Armonk, NY 10540, USA) | Contact data (email address, name(s)) | Hosting of data bases | International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ). |
| Vultr Holding Corporation 14 Cliffwood Ave Suite 300, Matawan, NJ 07747, USA | IP-address; Content data (Live Streams, Recordings, Snapshots); email addresses | Hosting of website, live streams, clip content, data bases | Vultr Holding Corporation processes data outside the EU/EEA (mainly: USA), more information: https://www.vultr.com/legal/gdpr/ |
| Auth0 Inc. 10900 NE 8th Street Suite 700, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA | IP-address, email address | Access management to our products | Auth0 Inc. processes data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ). |
| Slack Technologies Limited 4th Floor, One Park Place, Hatch Street Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland | User data (IP-address); Contact data (name, email address) | communication with clients | |
| Rapid7, 100 Summer Street, 13th Floor, Boston, MA 02110-2115, USA | log data (IP-address) | Analysis of log data | Rapid7 Inc./LLC process data in the USA and is certified according to the EU-US-Privacy-Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.privacyshield.gov/list ). |
| Atlassian Pty Ltd, Level 6, 341 George St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia | User data; Contact data; content data | Cloud service for service desk, wiki, ticketing | Atlassian commits to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and thus guarantees compliance with data protection regulations in the EU (see: https://www.atlassian.com/legal/data-processing-addendum ) |
| DATEV e.G 90329 Nuremberg, Germany | Accounting data | Accounting | |
| GetMyInvoices by fino data services GmbH, Universitätsplatz 12, 34127 Kassel, Germany | Accounting data | Accounting |