Protection des données

Version-Nr.: 1.2 of December 2006

The company Frogster Online Gaming GmbH - on whose website is published this statement about data protection - strives to offer you an excellent service for all products and in every other way. We respect your right of privacy and therefore would like to inform you about the handling of your private data.

1. General information

For many internet users the protection of private data is of great importance and an essential criterion to serve without hesitation. Frogster Online Gaming GmbH pays great attention to data protection to deal with questions and doubts customers and other visitors of our website may have, and we observe the laws of data protection at home and abroad and also the corresponding guidelines of the European Community. We assure both customers and visitors calling in on our website that we don.t collect your private data unless you put it at our disposal.

Please note that our website contains links to other websites. For these other websites Frogster Online Gaming GmbH disclaims any liability with regard to data protection, statements on data protection and any other contents.

According to common law, Frogster Online Gaming GmbH as provider of information is only responsible for her own contents. There is a distinction between our own contents and any other links to contents of other providers. Frogster Online Gaming GmbH only indicates by means of the link that "other contents" are available, too. Frogster Online Gaming GmbH is only then responsible for those "other contents" if we have (full) knowledge of them (that also means illegal or criminal contents) and if it is technically feasible and reasonable to prevent its utilization (article 5, paragraph 2, TeleDienstGesetz = Tele Services Act).

However, links are always "living" (dynamic) indications. When making a link for the first time, Frogster Online Gaming GmbH examines if the "other content" might cause liability for civil or criminal reason. But according to TDG (TeleDienstGesetz = Tele Services Act) Frogster Online Gaming GmbH is not obliged to verify permanently on her website those "other contents" for modifications which might cause any liability. Only if Frogster Online Gaming GmbH finds out or is told that a link leading to a concrete offer which causes liability for civil or criminal reason, we shall cut off this link as far as it is technically feasible und reasonable. Technical feasibility and reasonableness has no influence that after cut off of the link on Frogster Online Gaming GmbH website other servers may permit access to the illegal or criminal offer.

2. Data which we collect from you

2.1 Private data

We don.t collect private data of people that visit our website unless the visitor puts it consciously and explicitly at our disposal. In no case do we collect privat data that give information about racial and ethnical origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical ideology, union membership, health or sexual life. If you only visit our website we don.t collect private data about you.

In two cases you can explicitly and consciously put certain private data at our disposal and agree that we collect it:

Requests by e-Mail for information or to register for seminars or manuals:

On our website are links which you can use for sending us e-Mails in case you have questions, or if you want information or prospectus, if you want to register for seminars or manuals or if you want to make comments or suggestions. You also have the choice to have personal contact with our staff for information about our products and services. In order to deal with your request we might ask for private data like your name and phone number.

Registration:

If you request one of our products or one of our services we need some data of you. Various private data will be collected depending on the product or service. For certain products or services we require your name, age, address, phone number, e-Mail-address, number of credit card, bank account, IP-address or similar information. Other kind of products and services might perhaps require different or supplementary information. Depending on the product or the service, you will find on the order sheet a detailed list of the kind of the required private data to be given when ordering the various products or services.

2.2 Statistical data relating to your visit

Our computers automatically collect statistical data if you visit our website. This data doesn.t contain information about your person, it only records a contact. We keep statistics about the number of visitors of our website, the IP-address, date and time, which pages are looked at, from which domain the access is made and which browser is used. This statistical data is not compared with your private data which you transmitted. This information is only used for an anonymous analysis and is destroyed at regular intervals. These statistics help us to improve the efficiency of our websites.

2.3 Use of Cookies

We use cookies only in the way as described in this paragraph. A "cookie" contains information which is sent from our website to your browser; this stores subsequently the information on your system. If cookies are used, our website can "memorize" information about you and your setting, either until you close the current browser window (temporary cookies) or until you disable or erase the cookie. Many users use cookies since it helps to navigate on a website. You can be assured that cookies contain only so many data as you permit and that they are not able to penetrate your hard disk transmitting to the sender of the cookies private data or other data of your computer. We use "cookies" only in the situations as below.

The first situation refers to temporary cookies.

We use temporary cookies in two cases:

If you use one of our online applications, our web server automatically sends a temporary cookie to your browser to facilitate the navigation on our website. The only information for these temporary cookies is a route selector to help our software identify which page to display if you click the button "back" in your browser. The cookie is erased as soon as you close the current /active browser window. If you are guided to our website via one of our business partners, our web server also sends a temporary cookie to your browser which contains a "source code" about this business partner. We use these data for purpose of statistics and marketing. If you are licensee of Frischhut Company and go to the domain of the website with admission control, we set a temporary cookie for the connection to state that you have been authenticated. These cookies contain random data that the server uses to authenticate the browser.s request to the server within this session. The cookies don.t contain any data with which you can be identified personally. The cookie is erased as soon as you close the current browser window. The second situations for us to use cookies are requests for product information, documents, services or other enquiries in the course of your visit of our website. If you fill in a form you can choose if our website should send a cookie to you local hard disk. In this case it is not a temporary cookie, but you can disable it anytime by your browser setting. If you don.t accept this kind of cookie, nevertheless you can use our website. You save time if you accept this kind of cookie because there is no need to fill in forms and/or repeat a visit of our website. If you accept this kind of cookie, you can set your browser anytime to signal if a cookie is sent to you. Thus you have the choice to decide to accept or refuse the cookie.

3. How we treat the collected private data and to whom we pass it on

Your private data is used only for the purposes as below:

3.1 Sending replies

Usually we respond to all E-Mails concerning questions, requests for product information and services and other enquiries. We store this correspondence for the purpose of improving our products, our service, our website and for own business affairs. Usually we store addresses to send individuals updates or important information about our products and services, also by newsletter. Occasionally these updates or other important information are sent on our behalf by an adherent company or by third party. If you give you.re private data in connection with a question or request for information about a certain product or service offered by a business partner of Frogster Online Gaming GmbH, we might send your data to those business partners inside or outside the European Community.

3.2 Support, renewal and purchase of our products and services

We use the data you transmitted to inform you about supports, renewal and purchase of our products and services. In addition we pass on the data you sent to adherent companies, business partners or representatives of Frogster Online Gaming GmbH (inside and outside the E.U.) so that they can contact you directly with respect to support, renewal or purchase of products and services of Frogster Online Gaming GmbH.

3.3 Providing information about interesting products and services

If at all, we only pass on the transmitted data to trustworthy business partners and suppliers of Frogster Online Gaming GmbH (inside and outside the E.U.) whose products or services in our opinion complete Frogster Online Gaming GmbH products and services and might be of interest to you. Our trustworthy business partners or suppliers might contact you directly.

3.4 Providing products and services included in the scope/extent of supply

(In case of having requested specific services or management services) Certain scopes of supplies by Frogster Online Gaming GmbH include additional products or services of third companies. In this case we might pass on your data partly or fully to third party (inside or outside the E.U.) so that they provide the product or service and can inform you with respect to this product/service or an upgrade. We confirm having agreements with these suppliers to make sure that your data will not be passed on to other parties (according to Data Protection / Surveillance Act).

3.5 Authenticating your identity

For certain services supplied by Frogster Online Gaming GmbH it is necessary / indispensable that we compare some data given in your request / order with the data bank of third party or another source of information. Thus we verify your identity as well as additional attributes and make sure that your identity is not abused.

3.6 Legal obligation to disclose and protect licenses

In case of legal obligation to pass on data to local authorities, government authorities, national or international governments or criminal prosecution authorities we shall comply with this obligation (for example tell the customer.s identity who purchases certain software products to the Office of Export Surveillance, Bureau of Export Administration, the U.S. Ministry of International Trade and Industry according to our export license/authorization. If prevailing laws and regulations stipulate disclosure of data towards third party we shall do so. In addition Frogster Online Gaming GmbH can disclose information to verify /detect illegal activities or suspected fraud, to prevent it or to take appropriate/suitable measures, or to enforce a claim that Frogster Online Gaming GmbH contracts are (fully) fulfilled.

3.7 Hold an opinion poll

Occasionally we request data from our customers in the course of doing opinion polls. Participation is completely voluntary and it is up to the customer to put this data at our disposal or to refuse participation. These opinion polls are used for monitoring and easier utilization of this website as well as for improvement of our supply of products and services.

4. Objection against future correspondence

Occasionally we inform our customers about new products, events, upgrades and updates. Mostly by newsletter If you don.t want any of it, please let us know either by clicking the button "stop any mail" on the respective page or write us at the address which you find at the bottom of this Statement about Data Protection. Please note that you can.t reject messages concerning safety, first use, and date of expiry, product improvement or services sent by us or on our behalf. If you received a message from one of our trustworthy business partners or suppliers or if we already passed on your data to them you have to contact them directly telling that you don.t want any more mail in future.

5. Our security measures

Protection of all private data which we collect from the visitors of our website and from our customers is an important part of our company philosophy. We assure you that our security measures protect your private data from loss, abuse and alteration. Nevertheless remains a minor risk when transmitting private data via internet. In order to minimize this risk we encode your data with the help of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

6. Call-in, correct or update your data

If you want to update or correct private data or if you only want to know the content of your private data which we collected, please contact us at the address given at the bottom of this Statement about Data Protection.

If you use this function, your e-Mail-address appears as sender of this E-Mail. Neither your E-Mail-address nor that of the addressee will be used for other purposes.

7. copyright

All publications, photos and graphics as well as the layout are protected by copy right and other laws for protection of intellectual property. It is not allowed to copy them for distribution or trading purpose, nor is it allowed to modify them and use them on other websites. Some websites contain illustrations that are protected by the copy right of those who put it at our disposal.