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Privacy Policy

Welcome to BitcoinPuzzlePirates  Privacy Policy

1) Introduction and Contact Details of the Controller

1.1

We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data includes all data with which you can be personally identified.

1.2

The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Daniel Jung, BitcoinPuzzlePirates, Küllenhahnerstrasse 199, 42349 Wuppertal, Germany, Tel.: +49 202 25131370, E-Mail: captain@bitcoinpuzzlepirates.com.

The controller responsible for processing personal data is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

2) Data collection when you visit our website

2.1 When you use our website purely for informational purposes, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the server (so-called “server log files”). When you access our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

  • Our website that you visited

  • Date and time at the time of access

  • Amount of data sent in bytes

  • Source/referrer from which you came to the page

  • Browser used

  • Operating system used

  • IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data is not passed on or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to subsequently review the server log files if there are concrete indications of unlawful use.

2.2 This website uses SSL/TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries sent to us). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network

For hosting our website and displaying the page content, we use a provider who provides its services itself or through selected subcontractors exclusively on servers within the European Union.
All data collected on our website is processed on these servers.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

4) Cookies

To make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use cookies, i.e. small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for longer and enable the storage of page settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of the cookie settings of your web browser.
If personal data is also processed by individual cookies used by us, processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR either for the performance of the contract, in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in the case of consent given, or in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the site visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually on their acceptance or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

5) Contacting us

When you contact us (e.g. via contact form or email), personal data is processed—exclusively for the purpose of handling and responding to your request and only to the extent necessary for this purpose.
The legal basis for processing this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, an additional legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. Your data will be deleted when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that no statutory retention obligations conflict with this.

6) Comment function

As part of the comment function on this website, in addition to your comment, details of the time the comment was created and the commenter name you chose are stored and published on this website. In addition, your IP address is logged and stored. This storage of the IP address is carried out for security reasons and in the event that the person concerned violates the rights of third parties or posts unlawful content by submitting a comment. We require your email address in order to contact you if a third party should object to your published content as unlawful.
The legal bases for storing your data are Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR. We reserve the right to delete comments if they are objected to by third parties as unlawful.

7) Data processing when opening a customer account

Pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, personal data is collected and processed to the extent necessary when you provide it to us when opening a customer account. Which data is required for opening the account can be seen from the input mask of the corresponding form on our website.
Deletion of your customer account is possible at any time and can be carried out by sending a message to the controller’s address stated above. After deletion of your customer account, your data will be deleted provided that all contracts concluded via the account have been fully processed, no statutory retention periods prevent deletion, and we have no legitimate interest in continued storage.

8) Data processing for order processing

8.1 To the extent necessary for contract performance for delivery and payment purposes, the personal data collected by us will be passed on to the commissioned transport company and the commissioned credit institution in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
If, on the basis of a corresponding contract, we owe you updates for goods with digital elements or for digital products, we process the contact data you provided when ordering (name, address, email address) in order to inform you personally about upcoming updates within the legally prescribed period via a suitable communication channel (e.g. by post or email) in accordance with Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. Your contact data is used strictly for the purpose of notifications about updates owed by us and is processed by us only insofar as necessary for the respective information.
For processing your order, we also work with the following service provider(s) who support us in whole or in part in fulfilling concluded contracts. Certain personal data is transmitted to these service providers in accordance with the following information.

8.2 To fulfill our contractual obligations to you, we work with external shipping partners. We pass on your name as well as your delivery address and, insofar as necessary for delivery, your telephone number exclusively for the purpose of delivering the goods to a shipping partner selected by us pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.

8.3 Use of payment service providers (payment services)

  • PayPal
    One or more online payment methods of the following provider are available on this website: PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg
    If you select a payment method of the provider in which you make an advance payment, your payment data provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card information, currency and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be passed on to the provider in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. In this case, your data is passed on exclusively for the purpose of processing the payment with the provider and only insofar as necessary for this purpose.
    If you select a payment method in which we make an advance payment, you will also be asked during the ordering process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, telephone number, if applicable data on an alternative means of payment).
    In such cases, to safeguard our legitimate interest in determining your ability to pay, we forward this data to the provider for the purpose of a credit check in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The provider checks, on the basis of the personal data you provide as well as additional data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experience), whether the payment option you selected can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.
    The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data, among other things, but not exclusively, is included in the calculation of score values.
    You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to us or to the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data insofar as this is necessary for contractual payment processing.

  • PayPal Checkout
    This website uses PayPal Checkout, an online payment system from PayPal that consists of PayPal’s own payment methods and local payment methods from third-party providers.
    If you pay via PayPal, credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or—if offered—“Pay Later” via PayPal, we pass on your payment data to PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter “PayPal”) for payment processing. The transfer takes place in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR and only insofar as necessary for payment processing.
    PayPal reserves the right to carry out a credit check for the payment methods credit card via PayPal, direct debit via PayPal, or—if offered—“Pay Later” via PayPal. For this purpose, your payment data may be passed on to credit agencies in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of PayPal’s legitimate interest in determining your ability to pay. PayPal uses the result of the credit check regarding the statistical probability of payment default for the purpose of deciding on the provision of the respective payment method. The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data, among other things, but not exclusively, is included in the calculation of score values. You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to PayPal. However, PayPal may still be entitled to process your personal data insofar as this is necessary for contractual payment processing.
    If the PayPal payment method “purchase on account” is available and selected, your payment data will first be transmitted to PayPal to prepare the payment, after which PayPal forwards it to Ratepay GmbH, Franklinstraße 28-29, 10587 Berlin (“Ratepay”) for payment execution. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR in each case. In this case, Ratepay carries out an identity and creditworthiness check in its own name to determine your ability to pay in accordance with the principle already stated above and forwards your payment data to credit agencies on the basis of its legitimate interest in determining your ability to pay pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. A list of the credit agencies Ratepay may use can be found here: https://www.ratepay.com/legal-payment-creditagencies/
    When using the payment method of a local third-party provider, your payment data is first transferred to PayPal in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR to prepare the payment. Depending on your selection of an available local payment method, PayPal then transfers your payment data for payment execution in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR to the respective provider:

  • Apple Pay (Apple Distribution International (Apple), Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland)

  • Google Pay (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland)

  • iDeal (Currence Holding BV, Beethovenstraat 300 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • bancontact (Bancontact Payconiq Company, Rue d’Arlon 82, 1040 Brussels, Belgium)

  • blik (Polski Standard Płatności sp. z o.o., ul. Czerniakowska 87A, 00-718 Warsaw, Poland)

  • eps (PSA Payment Services Austria GmbH, Handelskai 92, Gate 2 1200 Vienna, Austria)

  • MyBank (PRETA S.A.S, 40 Rue de Courcelles, F-75008 Paris, France)

  • Przelewy24 (PayPro SA, Kanclerska 15A, 60-326 Poznań, Poland)
    For further data protection information, please refer to PayPal’s privacy policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full

  • Stripe
    One or more online payment methods of the following provider are available on this website: Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland
    If you select a payment method of the provider in which you make an advance payment (e.g. credit card payment), your payment data provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card information, currency and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be passed on to the provider in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The transfer of your data in this case takes place exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only insofar as necessary for this purpose.
    If you select a payment method in which the provider makes an advance payment (e.g. purchase on account or installment purchase or direct debit), you will also be asked during the ordering process to provide certain personal data (first and last name, street, house number, postal code, city, date of birth, email address, telephone number, if applicable data on an alternative means of payment).
    In order to safeguard our legitimate interest in determining the creditworthiness of our customers, this data is forwarded to the provider for the purpose of a credit check in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The provider checks, on the basis of the personal data you provide as well as additional data (such as shopping cart, invoice amount, order history, payment experience), whether the payment option you selected can be granted with regard to payment and/or default risks.
    The credit report may contain probability values (so-called score values). Insofar as score values are included in the result of the credit report, they are based on a scientifically recognized mathematical-statistical procedure. Address data, among other things, but not exclusively, is included in the calculation of score values.
    You can object to this processing of your data at any time by sending a message to us or to the provider. However, the provider may still be entitled to process your personal data insofar as this is necessary for contractual payment processing.

  • WooCommerce Payments
    One or more online payment methods of the following provider are available on this website: Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110-4929, USA
    If you select a payment method of the provider in which you make an advance payment (e.g. credit card payment), your payment data provided during the ordering process (including name, address, bank and payment card information, currency and transaction number) as well as information about the content of your order will be passed on to the provider in accordance with Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The transfer of your data in this case takes place exclusively for the purpose of payment processing with the provider and only insofar as necessary for this purpose.
    For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

9) Website functionalities

9.1 Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by the following provider for the uniform display of fonts: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland
When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly and establishes a direct connection to the provider’s servers. Certain browser information, including your IP address, is transmitted to the provider.
Data may also be transmitted to: Google LLC, USA
Personal data is only processed in connection with establishing a connection to the font provider if you have given us your express consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by disabling this service via the “cookie consent tool” provided on the website. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

9.2 Google Translate
This site uses the translation service “Google Translate” by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland (“Google”) via an API integration. In order for the translation to be displayed automatically after you select a language, the browser you use connects to Google’s servers. Google uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including the shortened IP address) is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server; this may also involve transmission to servers of Google LLC in the USA.
If personal data is processed, this is done pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in barrier-free and universal accessibility of our website.
Where legally required, we have obtained your consent for the processing of your data described above pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, deactivate this service in the “cookie consent tool” provided on the website.
For data transfers to the USA, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with the European level of data protection on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission.

9.3 Weglot
This website uses the translation service of the following provider via an API integration: Weglot SAS, 7 cité Paradis, 75010 Paris, France
In order for the translation to be displayed automatically after you select a language, the browser you use connects to the provider’s servers. The provider uses so-called “cookies”, i.e. text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including the shortened IP address) is usually transmitted to and stored on a server of the provider.
All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies for reading information on the device used, is only carried out if you have given us your express consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future by disabling this service in the “cookie consent tool” provided on the website.
We have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

10) Tools and miscellaneous

Cookie consent tool
This website uses a so-called “cookie consent tool” to obtain effective user consent for cookies requiring consent and cookie-based applications. The “cookie consent tool” is displayed to you as an interactive user interface when you access the site, on which you can give consent for certain cookies and/or cookie-based applications by checking boxes. By using the tool, all cookies/services requiring consent are only loaded if you grant the respective consent by ticking the checkbox. This ensures that such cookies are only set on your device if consent has been given.
The tool sets technically necessary cookies to store your cookie preferences. In principle, personal usage data is not processed.
If, in individual cases, personal data (such as the IP address) is processed for the purpose of storing, allocating or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly consent management for cookies and thus in a legally compliant design of our website.
A further legal basis for processing is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. As controllers, we are subject to the legal obligation to make the use of technically unnecessary cookies dependent on the respective user consent.
Where necessary, we have concluded a data processing agreement with the provider, which ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
Further information about the operator and the setting options of the cookie consent tool can be found directly in the corresponding user interface on our website.

11) Rights of the data subject

11.1 Applicable data protection law grants you the following data subject rights vis-à-vis us as the controller regarding the processing of your personal data (rights of access and intervention), whereby reference is made to the stated legal basis for the respective requirements for exercising these rights:

  • Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR;

  • Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;

  • Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR;

  • Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR;

  • Right to be informed pursuant to Art. 19 GDPR;

  • Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR;

  • Right to withdraw consent given pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR;

  • Right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR.

11.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF, WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO OBJECT TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, FURTHER PROCESSING REMAINS RESERVED IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES THE ESTABLISHMENT, EXERCISE OR DEFENCE OF LEGAL CLAIMS.
IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS PROCESSED BY US FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE OBJECTION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.

12) Duration of storage of personal data

The duration of storage of personal data is determined by the respective legal basis, the processing purpose and—where applicable—additionally by the respective statutory retention period (e.g. retention periods under commercial and tax law).
When processing personal data on the basis of express consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, the data concerned is stored until you revoke your consent.
If statutory retention periods exist for data processed within the framework of contractual or quasi-contractual obligations on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, this data is routinely deleted after expiry of the retention periods, provided that it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation and/or no legitimate interest in continued storage exists on our part.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(2) GDPR.
Unless otherwise stated in the other information in this policy about specific processing situations, stored personal data is otherwise deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

Copyright notice: This privacy policy was created by the specialist lawyers of IT-Recht Kanzlei and is protected by copyright (https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de)