Privacy Statement


Social Quest GmbH
Am Heumarkt 4, 1. Stock
A-1030 Wien
[email protected]

Social Garden is a platform that connects influencers and creators with brands. With Social Garden, customer loyalty to your own product is increased and customers generate high-quality content and stories. Social Garden business customers benefit from the qualitative customer data and the further marketing of the customer-generated content.

When this data protection declaration speaks of „Social Garden“, „Social Quest GmbH“ or „we“, it means Social Quest GmbH with registered office at Am Heumarkt 4, A-1030 Vienna, Austria, which is responsible for the processing of user-related personal data responsible under this privacy policy.

We, a company based in Austria, process data exclusively in compliance with the legal provisions (in particular the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR for short, which came into force on May 25, 2018).

When this privacy policy refers to „user“, „customer“ or „you“, the data subject is meant for the purposes of the GDPR.

When you use the Social Garden app or website, you trust us with information. This privacy policy aims to explain to you in an understandable way what happens to this information. It’s important to us that we make it clear to you how we use the information you provide and ways you can protect your privacy. We hope you take the time to read the following lines carefully. Remember, you are in control of how you control your information and protect your privacy on Social Garden.

a. Definitions:

These data protection regulations are based on the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union. Our privacy policy should be easy to understand for everyone, both our customers and our business partners. To ensure this, we would first like to explain some commonly used terms:

personal Data
“Personal Data” includes any information relating to a specific identified or identifiable natural person (“Data Subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, either directly or indirectly, by reference such as a name, identification number, location data, online identification, or one or more factors of physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

data subject
A „data subject“ is an identified or identifiable natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, based on certain information that constitutes personal data.

processing
„Processing“ is any operation or operations based on personal data (both automated and non-automated) such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or modification, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure involving transfer/transmission , dissemination or otherwise make available, alignment or combination, restriction, deletion or destruction.

restriction of processing
„Restriction of processing“ is the marking of collected personal data with the aim of limiting future processing.

profiling
Profiling means any form of automated data processing based on the processing of personal data to evaluate personal characteristics/aspects relating to a natural person, in particular aspects relating to work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, anticipate or estimate the whereabouts or movements of that individual.

pseudonymization
„Pseudonymisation“ is the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be linked to a data subject without the need for additional information, provided that such information is kept separately and technical and organizational measures are taken to ensure that the personal data cannot be traced back to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Controller or controller responsible for processing
Controller or controller responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public body, agency or other legal entity that, alone or jointly with others, determines the reasons and types of processing of personal data; where the reasons and types of data processing are governed by European Union law or the law of a member state, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination is governed by European Union law or the law of a member state.

processor
Means any individual or set of operations based on personal data, automated or not, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or modification, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure with communication/transmission, dissemination or other make available, alignment or combination, restriction, deletion or destruction.

Recipient
„Recipient“ is a natural or legal person, public body, agency or other legal entity to which the Personal Data is disclosed, whether a third party or not. Public bodies that receive personal data in the context of a specific request in accordance with European Union law or the law of a member state are not considered as recipients; the processing of this data by public bodies should be carried out in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations depending on the reason for the data processing.

Third person
„Third Party“ is a natural or legal person, public body, agency or other legal entity that is not the data subject, controller, processor or a person under direct direction of the controller or processor and is authorized to process personal data .

agreement
„Consent“ is the data subject’s free, specific consent to the processing of their data, given after receiving the necessary information and clearly indicating the data subject’s wishes. This occurs through an utterance or through setting a clear action.

b. What does Social Garden?

There are many different ways you can use our Services, find and share information. How to communicate with others and create new content. If you share information with us (e.g. by creating a Social Garden Account and specifying your personal preferences and interests), we can make our Services even better by showing you more content that is personally relevant to you, connecting you with people, you Premium Services can enjoy or we make it even easier and faster for you to share content. As the operator, we have taken several technical and organizational measures to ensure the greatest possible protection of the data processed on this website/app. Nevertheless, Internet-based data processing can have security gaps, so absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every user has the option of transmitting data to us in other ways (e.g. by telephone).

c. Why are we processing data?

Rest assured that we process your data exclusively in compliance with the legal provisions (GDPR, TKG 2003, etc.) for the following purposes:

Marketing Purposes of Social Garden
Advertising purposes of the products and for this we pass on your data to the respective product manufacturers/companies.

By completing Contributions to Campaigns on Social Garden, you grant Social Garden a nonexclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use any Content (including photos, videos, audio, text,…) that you submit to Social Garden .

Social Garden can in turn transfer the rights to your content (photos, videos, audio, texts,…) to its partners. By creating a user account and providing your data, you agree that we may process and pass on your data.

Data processing takes place on the basis of the legal provisions of § 96 Paragraph 3 TKG and Art 6 Paragraph 1 lit a (consent) and/or lit b (necessary for the fulfillment of the contract) of the DSGVO.

d. What are our principles of data processing?

Our principles of data processing are:

Data processing happens exclusively in accordance with the law, fairly and transparently („lawfulness, fairness and transparency“)
The data is specified and collected for legitimate reasons and not further processed in a way that is inconsistent with these principles.
Adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary to achieve the purposes for which the data is collected (“data minimization”)
Accurate and kept up to date
The storage is limited to the shortest possible time periods, no longer than necessary to achieve the goal (“limited storage”)
Processed in a manner that ensures adequate security of personal data, including protection against unauthorized or unlawful data processing and against loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical and organizational measures (“Integrity and Confidentiality”).

We only process personal data if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

The processing is necessary to fulfill an obligation under an agreement with a product manufacturer/company.
The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to ensure that Social Garden as a controller of personal data.
The data subject has consented to the processing of their personal data for one or more purposes. In cases where data processing is based solely on consent, the data subject has the right to withdraw consent at any time.
Withdrawal of consent by the data subject does not apply to cases falling under points 1. and 2. Social Garden, in its capacity as controller, does not process personal data that discriminates on the basis of racial or ethnic origin, political orientation, religion or philosophical belief, economic affiliation, genetic, biometric data, discrimination regarding health, sex life, sexual orientation of the natural person, as long as the data subject has not given their explicit consent to this processing.

e. Welche Daten werden verarbeitet?

The following data is stored, processed and shared with our partners:

Your master data (name, surname, address, e-mail, profile photo, …) – Conclusion: everything you share with us
Your contributions (incl. photos, text, GPS coordinates, times, likes, …) – Conclusion:

We collect data in the following ways:

Information you give us (e.g. many of our services require you to create a Social Garden account. You will be asked to provide personal information such as email address, name)

Information we receive about the use of your Social Garden account. We collect information about the Services you use and how you use them (e.g. when you watch a video). This information includes:

Device information (hardware model, system information, device identifiers, network information, mobile phone number). Social Garden may associate your device information or phone number with your Social Garden account.
Log information: when you use our services or view content provided by Social Garden, we automatically collect data and store certain information in server logs. This includes:

Details about how often you use Social Garden Services, such as time you watch videos
Internet protocol address.
Device event information, such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, date and time of your URL query
Cookies that uniquely identify your browser or Social Garden account location information.

If you use Social Garden, we may collect and process information about your current location. This allows us to show you the most relevant content in your language or country. We use different technologies to determine your location, including IP address, GPS and other sensors that give us information about devices in your vicinity, for example, WLAN access points and cell towers.
Unique registration number
Certain Services contain these numbers (e.g. operating system type and application version numbers), which may be sent to Social Garden when you install or uninstall that Service or when that Service connects to our servers.
Local memory
We may collect and store information (including Personal Information) locally on your device. We use mechanisms such as browser web storage (incl. HTML 5) and app caches.

f. What data is shared?

We do not share your personal information with companies that we do not work with, unless one of the following applies:

1. You give us your express consent to do so

In any case, we need an individual opt-in consent from you in order to pass on sensitive personal information.

2. For external data processing

We share personal data with our partner companies or trustworthy companies or persons who process data for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with data protection regulations and other protective regulations and security measures.

3. For legal reasons

We share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of Social Garden when we have reason to believe that access, use, storage or disclosure of the information is necessary to:

To comply with statutory, legal, official requirements
Enforce our Terms of Use, including to facilitate investigations of violations
Detect, prevent or otherwise expose fraud, security or technical defects
To protect, to the fullest extent legally possible, the rights, property, or safety of Social Garden, our users, or the public

We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partner companies – such as publishers, advertisers or affiliated websites. Such as, for example, to show trends regarding the general use of our services. If Social Garden is involved in a merger or share purchase/sale, we will continue to ensure that your personal information remains adequately protected and will notify our users well before personal information is released or a new privacy rule is implemented.

g. How is the information secured?

We work hard to protect Social Garden and all its users from unauthorized access or modification, publication or deletion. In particular:

We encrypt many of our services with SSL.
We monitor our information collection, storage and data processing practices, including physical security measures designed to protect against unauthorized access to our systems.
We limit access to personal data to those Social Garden employees, contractors and consultants who have a need to access that data in order to process it for us and who are subject to strict confidentiality obligations. Violations result in severe penalties or termination.

h. How does Social Garden use collected data?

We use the information we collect from all the Services we provide to improve, maintain, protect and develop our Services, and to protect Social Garden and our users. We also use this information to provide you with tailored content – such as constantly giving you new, more relevant suggestions. We also use the information for our brands that have business accounts on Social Garden and make this data available for Social Garden campaigns created by Social Garden Brands. We may use the name you use for your Social Garden profile. If you have a Social Garden account, we may use your profile name, profile photo and the activities you post on Social Garden. We will respect your privacy settings in your Social Garden account.

When you contact Social Garden, we record the communication to help you resolve issues. We will inform you about innovations or improvements. We use information from cookies and other technologies, such as pixel tags, to improve your user experience and the overall quality of our services.

For example, through your language preferences, we may provide you with the Services in the language you prefer. We will ask for your consent before we use your information for any other purpose not covered by this privacy policy. Social Garden processes information on our servers located around the world. We may store your personal information on servers located outside your country of residence (GDPR compliant countries).

i) What am I responsible for as a user?

By uploading content (e.g. photos, videos, audio material, texts…) you confirm that you have all copyrights and rights of use to this content or the consent of the authorized persons or persons recognizable on the image/video/audio materials . Social Garden assumes no liability for the content uploaded by users.

Uploading the following content is prohibited:

depiction of violence
Nudity (visibility of primary and secondary sexual characteristics)
Pornography/Child Pornography
Content that is incompatible with the applicable youth protection regulations
Generally (criminal) illegal content

The compatibility of the uploaded content with the terms of use is regularly checked by Social Garden (on a random basis and based on reports). Content that contradicts the terms of use will be deleted without exception.

Furthermore, Social Garden reserves the right to report criminal acts at any time or to inform users or other persons who are harmed by the uploaded content about the identity of the accused user in order to enable them to report the crime.

You also agree that you will be responsible for any data charges you incur while using the Service.

k. What are cookies?

Our website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your end device with the help of the browser. They do no harm.

We use cookies to make our offer user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. They enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit. If you do not want this, you can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you only allow this in individual cases. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of our website/app may be restricted.

l. Which web analysis is used?

Our website uses functions of the following web analysis services:

Google Analytics
Facebook
mailchimp
Hotjar

Cookies are used for this purpose, which enable an analysis of the use of the website by its users. The information generated in this way is transferred to the provider’s server and stored there. You can prevent this (see above „What are cookies?“)

We have concluded a corresponding contract for order data processing with the provider.

Your IP address is recorded, but immediately [e.g. pseudonymised by deleting the last 8 bits]. As a result, only a rough localization is possible.

The relationship with the web analytics provider is based on [standard contractual clauses/an adequacy decision by the European Commission (e.g. in the case of the USA: „Privacy Shield“)].

Our concern within the meaning of the GDPR (legitimate interest) is the constant improvement of our offer and our website. Since the privacy of our users is important to us, user data is pseudonymised. The user data is kept for a period of 24 months

m. Newsletter

You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter via our website. For this we need your e-mail address and your declaration that you agree to receive the newsletter. In order to provide you with targeted information, we also collect and process information voluntarily provided on areas of interest, birthday and postal code […].

{For double opt-in:} Once you have signed up for the newsletter, we will send you a confirmation email with a link to confirm your subscription.

You can cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time. Please send your cancellation to the following email address: [insert email address]. We will then immediately delete your data in connection with the newsletter dispatch. This revocation does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the revocation.

o. Which service providers does Social Garden work with?

We work with the following service providers who process your data while providing their services to us and they store your data for the period that we provide services to you. All of them are world leaders in their field and adhere to strict data protection regulations such as „PrivacyShield“, the certification technology for US companies. We have entered into strict data processing agreements with these companies, which oblige them to maintain the highest security standards in data processing.

Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp helps us when you choose to receive newsletters and helps us make newsletters more relevant by letting us know who subscribes to a newsletter and who doesn’t. This allows us to increase the relevance of newsletter content. You can unsubscribe from receiving newsletters at any time. The link to this is included in every newsletter. You can find more information about this at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy.

Hubspot, Inc. Helps us to organize our users‘ contact details and track user status, e.g. whether you are a premium user or a regular student and we also use it to maintain our blog and news section. We also use them to send out newsletters if you have subscribed to them. You can find more information about this at https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy.

Google Ireland Limited will help us with authenticating your Google user/channels and user service emails if you email [email protected] or one of our team members. They also help us to gain insights into visits and usage of our website via Google Analytics and show advertisements on our website via Google Doubleclick for publishers. You can find more information about this at https://policies.google.com/privacy, https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html.

Social Garden’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Google Analytics This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland („Google“). Google Analytics uses so-called „cookies“, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website.

The information generated by these cookies, for example about the time, place and frequency of your use of this website, is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. When using Google Analytics, it cannot be ruled out that the cookies set by Google Analytics can also collect other personal data in addition to the IP address. We would like to point out that Google may transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.

Google will use the information generated by cookies on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

You can generally prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

It cannot be ruled out that the cookies set by Google Analytics can collect other personal data in addition to the IP address. To prevent information about your use of the website from being recorded by Google Analytics and transmitted to Google Analytics, you can download and install a plugin for your browser from the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

This plugin prevents information about your visit to the website from being sent to Google Analytics. Another analysis is not prevented by this plugin.

We would like to point out that you cannot use the browser plug-in described above when visiting our website via the browser of a mobile device (smartphone or tablet). When using a mobile device, you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your usage data by clicking on the following link: Disable Google Analytics.

By clicking on this link, a so-called opt-out cookie is set in your browser. This prevents information about your visit to the website from being sent to Google Analytics. Please note that the opt-out cookie is only valid for this browser and only for this domain. If you delete the cookies in this browser, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted. To continue preventing Google Analytics from collecting data, you must click the link again. The use of opt-out cookies is also possible as an alternative to the above plug-in when using the browser on your computer.

In order to ensure the best possible protection of your personal data, Google Analytics was expanded to include the code „anonymizeIP“ on this website. This code causes the last 8 bits of the IP address to be deleted and your IP address is thus recorded anonymously (so-called IP masking). In principle, your IP address will be shortened by Google before transmission within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thereby made anonymous. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

Google Remarketing This website uses Google Remarketing technology, which is a service provided by Google. Ads may be presented within Google’s advertising network based on content previously viewed on websites within the Google advertising network by visitors who also use the Google remarketing feature. In particular, we use Google Remarketing to target our ads to you based on your previous use of this website when you visit other websites, e.g. B. Websites in the Google content network. You can deactivate this function by making the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads.

The legal basis for using Google Remarketing is Art. 6, Para. 1 (f) GDPR. STABILO has a legitimate interest in such marketing measures, as they help place advertisements with increased relevance.

You have the right to object to the use of your information for such remarketing purposes at any time. To exercise this right, you can disable this feature by making the appropriate settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads or you can opt out of the use of tracking cookies at any time in the tracking cookie settings below deactivate.

If you access this website while logged into your Google account and if you have allowed Google to associate your browsing history with your Google account and use this information to personalize advertising, Google will link the data collected via Google Analytics information with your Google account details. Google will use the information collected for cross-device marketing. In particular, based on your use of this website on one device, our ads may be targeted to you when you browse on another device. The data collected by Google on this website about Google account users does not allow STABILO to draw any conclusions about the identity of Google account users. Further information on the collection and use of data by Google can be found at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Account users can control their advertising experience and opt out of personalized ads at any time in their Google Account settings.

Facebook Pixel This website uses the Facebook Pixel of the social network „Facebook“ (Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA). This serves the purpose of presenting interest-based advertisements to visitors to our website as part of their visit to the social network Facebook. A direct connection to the Facebook servers is established via the Facebook pixel when you visit our website. It is transmitted to the Facebook server that you have visited our website and Facebook assigns this information to your personal Facebook user account. We would like to point out that as the provider of the website, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Facebook. You can find more information about the collection and use of data by Facebook and your rights in this regard and options for protecting your privacy in Facebook’s data protection information at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. We ourselves do not pass on any customer data to Facebook. You can view further information about your relevant data protection rights and setting options for protecting your privacy at: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php, https://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084.

Prevention of the storage of cookies

If you do not want cookies, sessions and log files to be used, you can block or restrict their use in your browser. However, it cannot be ruled out that you will then no longer be able to use individual functions on our website.

When you close your browser, session cookies are immediately deleted, and all other cookies relating to you are automatically deleted after one year. Cookies from partners, e.g. Google (see 4.3), have a maximum term of 24 months.

Third parties, including Google, use stored cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to this website. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google Ads Opt-out page. Alternatively, users can deactivate the use of cookies by third parties by visiting the deactivation page of the network advertising initiative.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. Helps us maintain our website and servers. When you use our services, your login and user data is stored in an encrypted and protected format. You can find more information about this at: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy.

LiveChat Inc. Helps us provide user service via live chat on our website. Any information you give us via LiveChat can be removed at any time. All you have to do is email us at .com.com and let us know. You can find more information about this at: https://www.livechatinc.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Adyen BV, Braintree Payments and PayPal Inc. Helps and processes payments Payment processing and the data we collect in the process is a legal requirement and cannot be waived. You can find more information about this at https://www.adyen.com/policies-and-disclaimer/privacy-policy, https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

Facebook Ireland Ltd., helps us to simplify registration processes. Already existing Facebook registrations can be used. Every time you visit this website, which is managed by the controller, you interact with Facebook (Facebook plug-ins).

The user’s web browser will automatically display the option to download the displayed Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. You can find more information about this at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins and https://facebook.com/about/privacy.

GetResponse Sp. Z o.o. (Polish Limited Liability Company) tracks information such as whether a newsletter was opened or which links were clicked. The purpose of using GetResponse services on our website is to optimize decisions about our future content and to increase the popularity of our content. You can find more information about this at https://www.getresponse.com/legal/privacy.html.

Hotjar Our website uses Hotjar to collect information about the behavior of our users and their end devices (e.g. IP address in anonymous form, device type, browser type, preferred language, etc.). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymised user profile. The information is not used to identify a user. You can object to the storage of the user profile and information about your visit to our website and the setting of Hotjar tracking cookies. For more information, see this link and Hotjar’s privacy policy at https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy.

p. How can I access and change my personal information?

Whenever you use our services, we want to give you access to your personal information. If this information is incorrect or out of date, we want to give you the ability to change or delete it as quickly and easily as possible – unless we need to keep it for commercial or legal reasons. If you update your personal information, we will ask you to verify your identity before we can honor your request. This is for your own protection. We have the right to refuse requests that are unnecessarily repetitive, involve disproportionate technical effort, or invade the privacy of others. Where we can, we provide access to information management free of charge, unless it involves a disproportionate effort. We always strive to protect our services from unlawful access. For this reason, we do not delete copies of information that you have deleted from our servers immediately after you delete them and keep them on our backup systems.

q. Children’s Personal Data

Our website is not suitable for use by minors/children under the age of 16. We assume that credit card purchases initiated through our website are made by adults. This Privacy Policy is designed for adult use to comply with the GDPR and other legal requirements. We will never knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If we learn that we have information from children under the age of 16, that information will be promptly deleted from our servers. Because we do not collect such information willingly/knowingly, we do not use it or pass it on to third parties. If a parent believes that his/her child has submitted personal information to us, he or she should contact us immediately via email. We will then immediately delete the information. Please note that some information may remain in our web logs and some back-up archives even after deletion. We encourage all parents to monitor their children’s online activities using parental control tools available online.

r. What rights do I have regarding my data? How can I delete my data again?

As a data subject, you have the following rights with regard to the data stored by us:

1. Information

You have the right to obtain confirmation from the controller as to whether your personal data is being processed. You can send a request to [email protected]

2. Access

You always have the right to receive free information from the controller about your stored personal data and a copy of it. Furthermore, due to the GDPR, you can receive the following information:

The aims/purposes of the processing
The categories of personal data relating to:
The recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data are transmitted and in particular recipients in third countries and international organizations
Where possible, the period for which the personal information will be stored, or where this is not possible, the criteria used to determine that period
The right to request the controller to rectify or erase personal data or to object to such processing
The possibility to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
Where the personal information is not collected from the data subject, any existing information
The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling in relation to Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in cases where meaningful information about the logic applied, as well as the relevance and consequences of such data processing
Whether the personal data will be transferred to a third country or an international organization.

3. Correction (if data is incorrect)

You have the right to receive information and correction of inaccurate personal data concerning you from the controller within one business day. You have the right to complete incomplete data

4. Deletion (right to be forgotten)

You have the right to request the controller to erase your personal data without undue delay and the controller has the obligation to process personal data without undue delay in the following cases, unless the processing is necessary:

The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the aims/purposes for which they were collected
The data subject has withdrawn consent, which means that the processing is no longer lawful (Art 6 (1), Art 9 (2) (a) GDPR)
The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Art 21(1) or (2) GDPR and there are no overriding legal grounds for the processing
The personal data have been unlawfully processed
The personal data must be deleted due to compliance with the law of a member state (to which the data subject or the controller belongs).
The personal data was collected for the purpose of providing information services in accordance with Art 8(1) GDPR
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies and you wish to have it deleted, please send an email to [email protected]
Where the controller has made personal data public and is required to erase it under Article 17(1), the controller must take all reasonable steps, given the available technology and cost, including technical measures, to inform other controllers that the data subject has requested the erasure of his/her personal data, unless the processing is necessary

5. Restriction of Processing

You have the right to have the processing of your data restricted by the controller if one of the following cases applies:

The accuracy of your personal data is confirmed by you for a period of time to enable the controller to verify the accuracy of your personal data.
The processing is not lawful and you request the restriction of your personal data instead of the deletion
The controller no longer needs your personal data for the purpose of processing, but they are necessary for you to enforce or defend your legal claims
You have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR and the verification is ongoing as to whether the rights of the controller take precedence over the interests of the data subject
If one of these cases applies and you want the personal data to be restricted, please contact [email protected] via email

6. Transmission (data transmission)

You have the right to receive all personal data concerning you, which the controller has received, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form. You have the right to transmit this data to another controller without Social Garden having any influence, provided that the processing is in accordance with the GDPR.

Furthermore, you can have your data transferred directly from one controller to another controller in accordance with Art. 20(1) GDPR, provided this is technically possible and provided that this does not restrict the rights of the controller or third parties. You have the right to object to the processing at any time based on your current situation (Art 6 (1) (e) and (f) GDPR). Once you have objected, Social Garden must stop processing your personal information unless we can demonstrate legitimate grounds to the contrary that override your interests, rights and freedoms. If we use personal data for marketing purposes, you have the right to object to this at any time. In such a case, Social Garden will not use your personal data for direct marketing in the future. Furthermore, you can object at any time to Social Garden using your personal data for scientific, historical or statistical purposes, unless the processing is in the public interest.

7. Automated individualized decision-making, including profiling

As a responsible company, we do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

8. Right to Withdraw Consent

Any data subject has the right to withdraw his or her consent to data processing at any time. Social Garden will respond to such a request from the data subject within one month of receipt. This period may be extended by a further 2 months if necessary. Social Garden will inform the data subject of such an extension within one month from receipt of the request, stating the reasons for the extension. This information shall be sent to the data subject electronically, unless the data subject requests the reply in another way.

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection rights have otherwise been violated in any way, you can complain to us ([email protected]) or the data protection authority.

s. When are these provisions applicable?

Our privacy policy applies to all services provided by Social Garden and its affiliates. This does not apply to services that are explicitly subject to their own data protection regulations.

Our privacy policy does not apply to the services of other companies or individuals, including products or services featured on our website, websites containing Social Garden Services, or pages linked from our website.

Our privacy policy is constantly being revised and may therefore change. We will not limit your rights without your consent. We will post any changes to our privacy policy on this page and, if the changes are material, we will notify you by email.


Last changes on 22nd September 2024