PRIVACY POLICY

1. Our ultimate ambition: a happy customer! - Which means that the protection of your personal data is a chief concern of ours. As a matter of course, we subject to the regulations of the Federal Data Protection Act and the German Teleservices Act and shall collect and process any personal data solely to the extent defined by this present privacy policy. To offer you the very best possible service of Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games, we’d like to make sure you gain a clear notion of how exactly Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games will collect, process and utilise your personal data. We have taken certain measures to ensure that both we and external service providers respect the data protection regulations.


2. Mode and extent of the collection, processing and utilisation of personal data

The definition of personal data includes information given as to the identity of an individual (e.g. name, address, date of birth or e-mail address) as well as user name and personal password (the so-called inventory data).

None of your personal data will be collected, processed and/or utilised through your mere visit on the site of Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games, neither by your general usage of our online offers.

Personal data will however be particularly collected upon registration, upon the usage of certain services (e.g. forums, chats, blogs, etc.), upon delivery of a subscribed newsletter, in response to individual questions or though the participation at a raffle. Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games will inform you in the respective cases of which data is required.

Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games will only save, process and utilise your supplied personal data insofar as this is indispensable to allow access to and usage of Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games services and settlement. In connection with your registration and your contract obligations, respectively, we therefore need your personal data upon registration. If you wish to receive the newsletter offered on our web site we shall require your e-mail address as well as information allowing us to ascertain that you are the owner of the supplied e-mail address and that its owner agrees to the delivery of the newsletter, respectively. If you object to the storing and utilisation of your data for the purpose of the newsletter’s delivery, you may at any moment withdraw your consent.

In case you should be using your real name or another name or e-mail address, Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games urgently recommends you to check if that chosen name would not allow a third party to deduce your true identity.

Two Pi Team’s / Wheel of Games’ servers electronically store the contributions you made after your registration (the so-called content data) in order to make the data retrievable for third parties, but only to the extent you are comfortable with. Other than that, your content data will not be processed or utilised by us.

Beyond that we will only and exclusively store and process such data as you will be voluntarily supplying. Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games will neither sell your personal data nor market it in any other way – which means you need not worry of another company gaining knowledge of information like your postal address or e-mail address for sending advertisements to your address. Customer care relations however may render it necessary for us (or for a third company commissioned by us) to use these personal data, in order to send you information on product offerings which might be beneficial for your business operations, or to conduct online surveys so as to better adapt ourselves to our tasks and to the demands of our customers. If your personal data should be processed, within the course of central data processing for amelioration of customer service or for technical reasons within the company, we shall take suitable measures to ensure that our customers’ privacy interests will be absolutely respected. On principle, data will only be stored as long as is required by contract and under compliance with applicable legal regulations; after that all data will immediately be deleted by Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games.

Naturally, we respect your decision in this matter. So if you should not want to disclose your personal data for purposes of customer care relations (in particular with regard to direct marketing or to market research purposes), simply inform us of your refusal by e-mail or mail.


3. Automatic collection of non-personal data

Upon usage of our web sites, the following data will be stored for organisational and technical reasons: the names of accessed pages, used browser and operating system, date and time of access, uses search engies, names of downloaded files and their IP address.

We evaluate these technical data solely in anonymised form and for statistic purposes only, in order to optimise our web presence and to still more attractively design our web offerings for you. These anonymised data are stored apart from personal data on secured systems and won’t permit any conclusion as to an individual. Your personal data and your privacy are thus always, at any moment, secured and safe.


4. Transfer of data to third parties / Publicity of content data

We shall only ever transfer any data of yours to a third party in case this is indispensable to conduct our mutual contractual relationship, to enforce our claims and rights or on the demand of public authorities, in particular that of penal or inspector authorities which require the data transfer for the defense of public safety as well as for criminal prosecution and/or in all other cases where we are lawfully bound to oblige.

Your contributions and comments shall be made public on our web sites and therefore „transmitted“ to others – as is the intention of forums and commentary functions. However, the decision of what kind of content you will be making public resides with you alone of course. Moreover, you have the possibility to decide in your user profile settings whether along with your posts your e-mail address shall be made accessible to other users or not. In any case, since at least your contribution itself, including your user name shall be displayed and accessible through the internet, we again recommend you to consider whether you want to be identified through your user name or not. With regard to the contents of your posts, we would ask you to bear in mind that your contributions will be locatable and retraceable through search engines. So in your own interest please avoid to include contents in your posts that you do not wish to be made public. Besides, you may and should decide in your user profile settings as to who may access your profile, and to which extent: whether the entire web public, all registered users or certain registered users only. The used user name will at all times be displayed and may be tracked through search engines. Your user profile will show you all the possible settings.


5. Placing “Cookies“

A part of Two Pi Team’s / Wheel of Games’ offered services use so-called cookies. "Cookies" are small informations stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive which facilitate the usage of our web site – for example, by making it during your visit only once necessary to login with password and user name. Insofar as Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games use cookies, this includes only so-called „session cookies“ which your browser will remove upon your logout.

Of course you can look at our web site without having to use cookies. If you do not wish for us to recognise your computer, you can prevent the saving of cookies to your hard drive by simply ticking off the option „do not accept cookies“ in your browser settings. Please consult your browser’s provider’s manual as to the details of this. However, should you choose not to use any cookies, this might result in a limited functioning of our offerings.


6. Safety precautions

Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games use high technical safety standards that won’t allow third parties to access your data. We particularly endeavour to shield your personal data from loss, deletion, manipulation or illicit access of third parties. Furthermore, your password will be anonymously conveyed only. In case of collection and processing of personal data, informations will be transmitted in encoded form to prevent their abuse through a third party. Our safety measures are being constantly revised in order to keep up to date with the latest technological progress. All of our staff and all third parties involved in data processing subject to the Federal Data Protection Act and are bound to handle personal data confidentially. If we entrust external service providers with the discharge of tasks for our company they are under contractual obligation to abide by our data protection standards. Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games aperiodically verifies their compliance with our provisions.


7. Agreement

Beyond the presently stated extent, Two Pi Team / Wheel of Games will handle all data absolutely confidentially and in accordance with the wishes of the respective user. A further collection or processing of personal data will only take place after your prior consent.


8. Minors

Minors and under-age persons should not transfer any personal data to us without the prior consent of their parents or legal guardians. We neither solicit personal data from minors and juveniles, nor do we collect it or transfer it to a third party.


9. Information, rectification, deletion, blocking

Upon written or textual application we shall directly inform you of which kind of personal data or data concerning your alias is being stored by us. Furthermore, you may at any time rectify, block or delete the data of your user account through us. Excepted of deletion are merely the data required for the execution of remaining tasks or of the enforcement of our rights and claims, in particular those relating to billing, as well as data that we are lawfully obligated to store.

If you wish to delete your account without giving us any further directions, all your contributions posted up to that point shall remain avalaible, yet anonymised – with the exception of your contributions quoted in discussions which remain unchanged for technical reasons. In view of that case, we leave it to your discretion not to use your real name.


10. Modification of data protection regulations

We reserve the right to modify our safety and data protection measures as far as technical progress requires us to. In that case we shall modify our privacy-related references as well. We therefore ask you to mind the actual version of our privacy policy whenever you log in on our site.


11. External links

If you use external links offered within the framework of our web sites, this privacy policy does not extend to these links. When we offer links, we endeavour to warrant that they comply with our privacy and safety standards. However, we do not have any influence over other providers’ compliance with our privacy and safety standards. We therefore recommend that you check the privacy policy of your other providers on their respective web sites.


12. Improvement suggestions and complaints

In the interests of our clients, we constantly strive to enhance our services. Should you wish to make an improvement suggestion or a complaint, please contact our team via e-mail or mail.

Effective on January the 15th, 2009