Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. As a user of our online platform, you have the right to demand that we deal extra careful with your personal information and insure high data security. We are aligned in the target to respect and protect your personality and privacy.

We would like to introduce you to the private policy aspects of our platform. By submitting your registration form and / leaving a rating / feedback you give us your consent to, as following designated, data processing operations. Thus, we may collect, use and store your personal data. You always have the option to revoke your consent. For this purpose you can use the following email address: privacy@bestintest.eu. Upon request you will receive information about the stored data.

Personal data: processing, collection and use

Registration

In the context of a registration of a profile we collect inventory data as the data that is needed to provide you our services and to manage a contractual relationship. We assume your consent to the collection and storage of data. If you doubt your consent and are not agree, our service can not be provided to you. Following data will be stored: Name, surname, email, password and address. By taking our fee-based services, we collect and store PayPal data.

Visiting website

Your personal data will be stored, processed and used with a registration (on Best in Test). Our site can be visited without data storage. When you visit our website as registered users or as simple user specific data will be stored in log-files. This consists of: version and name of the browser, IP address.

Logfiles and session cookies: As part of our website we are using session cookies and logfiles. Here we pass the following information to: the website from which you arrived at our website, version and name of the browser from which you came to our website, which of our pages you have visited, when (date) you were staying there. These are small files that are stored for a short time in your computer memory. They are automatically deleted after closing your web browser (there may be a delay between your leaving and time they get deleted approx. 30 minutes). This helps us to maintain the session and allows the login.

To prevent the use of cookies, you have the option of accepting and storing the cookies in your browser. However, after that is possible that you can not use all the functions of our service.

Furthermore, we (Best in Test) are using Google Analytics, the web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 ("Google") for need-based design of web offerings. Google makes use of cookies (see § 6 Use of cookies). The evaluation and treatment of this data is usually carried on a Google server in the USA. In case of activation of the IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the EU or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the IP address is first transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use the information transmitted on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of this website, to compile reports on website activity and providing other services with the use of the website and internet related services. Google will not associate your submitted as part of Google Analytics IP address with any other data held by Google.

For more information, see http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de or at https://www.google.com/intl/de_DE/analytics/learn/privacy.html. We point out that was extended to bestintest.eu Google Analytics code "anonymizeIp" to ensure an anonymous collection of IP addresses.

References

For references, we store the email address, name (it can be anonymous) and the log file. This serves to prevent multiple ratings from a user.

Purpose of the use and collection of data

Inventory data

The inventory data serve to manage your account. To access www.bestintest.eu (only for this we use your access data) you need a user name and password. Your email will be used for emails, newsletters, notifications, support) that deal only with our product and matters related to your user account. No data will be passed to third parties. Exceptions by: implementation of the existing contract ratios, enforcement of Best in Test´s attributable claims, legally obligation or requests of authorities at dangerous for PUBLIC regulation and security, and for the prosecution of criminal offenses.

Data usage

Log-files will be stored in cases of to prevent and respond to any abuse of our online service.

From these data and by analyzing (using Google Analytics) we obtain new insights, such as: most popular pages, most visited pages, visiting hours etc. We need this knowledge in order to provide you perfect and more user friendly services. In addition, we used these insights to improve marketing of our product. The log files give us relatively detailed data in statistic form. We do not cater to any particular user, but know that there are users who have one or the other usage behaviour. We do not identify anybody as an individual by IP address.

Links to other websites

Our website www.bestintest.eu and all related pages may contain links to other websites not affiliated with us providers. If you click one of these links we don’t take any responsibility for the processing of your data by third parties, since we have no influence on the processing of your data by third parties.

Rectification, blockage, deletion of your data

You have the right to request your data, as well as to correct it. A blockage and deletion of your data can be done by us. This should be submitted in writing or in text form. The data that we need to enforce our rights/claims and we must keep by law can not be deleted and will be therefore locked.

AgileCRM

Best in Test uses Agile CRM, a CRM service of Agile CRM, Inc. ( "Agile CRM"). Agile CRM uses"Cookies", text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website are usually transferred to a server of Agile CRM in the US and stored there. Your IP address will not be merged with other data from Agile CRM. You may refuse the use of cookies by turning them off in your browser settings; however, we point out that you maybe can´t use in this case all features of this website.

Hotjar

Best in Test uses Hotjar, a web service of Hotjar Ltd (Hotjar). Hotjar uses "Cookies", text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyze how users use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website are usually transferred to a server of Hotjar in Ireland where it is stored. Your IP address will not be merged with other data from Hotjar. You may refuse the use of cookies by turning them off in your browser settings; however, we point out that you maybe can´t use in this case all features of this website. You can also turn off the Hotjar tracking by follow the instructions on http://www.hotjar.com/contact.

5 Securities

To secure personal data of our users we use security measures, which protect user data from loss and unauthorized access by third parties. The transference of the data in our website is encrypted.

6 Social Plug-ins

You can find the plug-ins of social networks on our website. They are marked with the logo of the respective social network. After clicking a connection establishes to the server of the selected social network. The content of the social network plug-in transfers to your browser and integrates into the website.

This gives the social network information about calling the page on our website. If you are logged in at the time with your social network account your visit can be assigned to your account. To avoid it, please log out of the social network before visiting our website. If you don’t have any social network account or are you logged out your IP-address can be collected and stored.

If you "share" a company, this information will be automatically transmitted to the social network and stored by your browser. We, as a side providers have no knowledge of the content of the data that is sent to social networks. Take the scope and purpose of data collection for further processing and your settings options for protecting your privacy rights and the privacy policies of the respective social network by each social network.