Privacy Policy of iPlayer Club for www.iplayer.club and the iPlayer Club mobile applications
February 2025
Welcome to iPlayer Club. The protection of your privacy and your personal data is taken very seriously and of utmost concern for iPlayer Club.
iPlayer Club is a community of trust. iPlayer Club ensures highest standards for the protection of your personal data and your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to help you better understand how iPlayer Club collects and deals with your personal data and information.
iPlayer Club works hard to earn and keep your trust. Therefore, iPlayer Club uses personal data solely to provide you with the iPlayer Club Services. iPlayer Club will never rent, sell, or otherwise provide personal data to any third party for advertising or for marketing purposes without your consent.
- Responsible body
As a visitor to our website, you expect a high level of quality not only from our platform, but also from the processing of your personal data. We are responsible for the handling of your data, which we process according to your wishes and the requirements of the data protection laws. Personal data is data that identifies you or makes you identifiable. We only process personal data if this is permitted by law or if you have given your prior consent.
The responsible body for the collection and processing of personal data is:
iPlayer Club
Email: iPlayerClub@gmail.com
Your rights in data protection and right to cancel
You have the following rights regarding the processing of personal data:- Right of access by the data subject to the personal data concerned
- Right to rectification or erasure or restriction of processing
- If the processing of your personal data is based on a weighing of interests (or if the processing is necessary for the performance of a task which is in the public interest or is carried out in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, the right to object to the processing. We will inform you about this in detail in the following sections.
- Right to data transfer
- If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. We will inform you about this in detail in the following sections.
- Right of appeal to a supervisory authority
- You have the right to object to the processing of your data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation if the legal requirements are met. If you object to the processing of your data for advertising purposes or wish to revoke your consent, a short message to our data protection officer by email to iplayerclub@gmail.com Your data will then no longer be processed for the advertising purposes covered by the advertising objection or the revocation of consent. This does not affect the legality of the processing carried out until the objection or revocation. After your objection to the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes or the revocation of your consent, we are obliged under data protection law in accordance with the requirements data protection supervisory authorities to include the necessary data (name, address, e-mail address) in our internal advertising blacklist and – only for this purpose – to permanently store (block) and use for comparison with our future advertising files. In this way, compliance with your advertising objection or the revocation of your consent can be permanently ensured. If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data by us, we will of course be happy to provide you with information about the data concerning you at any time. Furthermore, you have a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection, and the right to data transfer if the legal requirements are met. In all these cases, please contact our data protection officer (see contact data under item 1) at the communication addresses listed there. Finally, you have the right to complain to a competent data protection supervisory authority.
- Processing of personal data on our website
- Visiting our website
iPlayer Club – as it is usual and necessary for internet pages to be used – processes so-called server log files when you visit our internet page. When our website is accessed, our web server records the domain name or the IP address of your computer, the file name, and the URL which was requested, as well as the http response code and, if applicable, the URL referring to our website. This procedure is technically necessary and customary to enable the use of our website. Here we are supported by our technical service providers, which we use as contract processors. The above-mentioned data is logged and used for the purpose of defense against illegal use or attempted attacks on our web server . The data will be deleted after 60 days. - Registration on the platform
If you register for our platform on our website, we process the data provided for this purpose in order to provide you with the platform . The mandatory information requested during registration is a prerequisite for fulfilling the service. We require your date of birth as proof of age, as our offer is only aimed at persons who have reached the age of 13. We need your email address to send you a confirmation and notifications. Within the scope of registration and use of our service, the processing is necessary for the fulfilment of the contractual service such as the provision of the platform and payment processing. The contract with you is thus the legal basis for this processing . We will also process your data to the extent required by law to fulfill our archiving and storage obligations in accordance with commercial and tax law . The provision of personal data and registration data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract. In addition, we use your data for direct advertising – i.e. to send you information about our services and campaigns in order to win you as a customer. You can object to the use of your data for advertising purposes at any time under the above contact details. We will process your data within the scope of registration as long as you do not request deletion, unless there are contractual or legal reasons for not doing so. - Registration on the platform premium
If you order a service from us, it will be processed to fulfill the contractual service such as delivery and payment processing. The sales contract with you is the legal basis for this processing . We will also process your data to the extent required by law to fulfill our archiving and storage obligations under commercial and tax law . In addition, we use your data for direct advertising – i.e. to send you information about our products and campaigns (in accordance with law in order to win you as a customer . You can object to the use of your data for advertising purposes at any time under the above-mentioned contact data. Further recipients of this data within the scope of the handling of the contract about the order are payment service providers (only payment data). The duration of the processing depends on the purpose of the fulfillment of the contract as well as the associated further legal requirements for storage and proof. We use the data for direct advertising as long as you have not objected. - User content
After successful registration with iPlayer Club, you may provide additional information about yourself (e.g. experience, professional background, interests). Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional and on a voluntary basis but enables you to better use our services. Additionally, you can upload, publish, send, or display comments, photos, profiles, messages, notes, text, information, music, video, advertisements, listings, and other content (User Content) on or through iPlayer Club, or transmit to or share with other users accessing the iPlayer Club websites. You may also form relationships with other users, perform searches and queries, and form groups. iPlayer Club collects all the aforementioned information so that iPlayer Club can provide you with the services and offer personalized features. In most cases, iPlayer Club retains the information so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent.
If you visit a profile of another user of iPlayer Club, this user may see that you have visited his/her profile. This feature is an essential part of contact management on iPlayer Club and as such an essential part of the iPlayer Club services.
Any information and user content (except personal messages to other users) you have submitted to iPlayer Club or to others via our platform may be accessed by third parties when they visit the iPlayer Club websites. Such information and content may also be found and made accessible by search engines.
If you choose to invite other people to iPlayer Club to join your network, the names and email addresses of the invitees need to be entered. The names and email addresses of people that are invited will be used by iPlayer Club to send your invitation email (including an optional personal message) and corresponding reminders. iPlayer Club stores this information to send the invitation email, to register a contact connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of iPlayer Club’ referral program. - Google Analytics
In the context of our platform we use the functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will generally be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. The Google Analytics cookie is stored because of our legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize our website and advertising. We are supported in this by Google as a contract processor. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating the user’s use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services to website operators relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data from Google.
IP Anonymization: The IP anonymization function is activated on our website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or in a contracting state of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before transmission to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. We ensure the adequacy of data transfer to the USA through the agreement of EU Standard Contractual Clauses with Google.
Browser Plugin: You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. In addition, you can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and prevent Google from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Objection to data collection: You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. Disable Google Analytics. An opt-out cookie is set to prevent the collection of your information on future visits to this website. For more information on how Google Analytics uses user data, please refer to Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
Data processing agreement: We have concluded an agreement with Google for data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
Demographic features of Google Analytics: This website uses the “demographic features” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated that contain information on the age, gender, and interests of website visitors. This data comes from interest-related advertising by Google and from visitor data from third parties. This information cannot be associated with any specific individual. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google Account or generally prohibit Google Analytics from collecting your data as described under “Objection to data collection”. - Google Marketing Services
We use the marketing and remarketing services of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; “Google” to display advertisements in a more targeted manner in order to present advertisements of interest to users. Through remarketing advertisements are displayed to users relating to an interest established by activity on other websites within the Google Network. For these purposes, a code is used by Google when our website is accessed and what are referred to as (re)marketing tags are incorporated into the website. With their help, an individual cookie, i.e. a small file, is stored on the user’s device (comparable technologies may also be used instead of cookies). Cookies can be set by various domains, including google.com, doubleclick.net, invitemedia.com, admeld.com, googlesyndication.com or googleadservices.com. More about cookies in the dedicated section below. All user data will only be processed as pseudonymous data. Google does not store any names or e-mail addresses. All displayed ads are therefore not displayed specifically for a person, but for the owner of the cookie. This information is collected by Google and transmitted to and stored by servers in the USA. We ensure the adequacy of data transfer to the USA through the agreement of EU Standard Contractual Clauses with Google.
One of the Google marketing services we use is the online advertising program Google AdWords. In the case of Google AdWords, each AdWords customer receives a different conversion cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked through the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected by the cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. AdWords customers do not receive any information that personally identifies users. We may include third-party advertisements based on the Google Marketing Service called DoubleClick. DoubleClick uses cookies to enable Google and its partner websites to place ads based on users’ visits to this website or other websites on the Internet. Google services make use of Google’s Tag Manager. For more information about Google’s use of data for marketing purposes, please see the summary page: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads, Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy. The legal basis for the use of this service is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. If you wish to object to interest-based advertising by Google marketing services, you can do so using the settings and opt-out options provided by Google: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences. A transmission of your data to the USA cannot be excluded.
Data collected with Google may, depending on the advertisements displayed, be shared with the following common ad technology providers.
View the list - Location Services
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We do not store your precise location. We use this data to provide features of our service, to improve and customize our service, e.g. to show you the events near your location. You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time, through your device settings. - Social Media
There are no social plugins on our website. - Contact/Inquiries
If you have any questions or requests, please do not hesitate to contact us. We process your data to answer your service requests. The communication of address and telecommunication data marked as mandatory data is necessary in order to process and answer your request. The voluntary provision of further data makes it easier for us to process your enquiry. We store the information from your inquiry after answering the inquiry generally for six years, if it concerns commercial or business letters. - Email Advertising
With your explicit consent, which can be revoked at any time, we will inform you by email about our products and campaigns such as updates and events of our platform and/or about our various product newsletters. We process your obligatory information when granting your consent in order to send you the newsletter(s) you have chosen and to address you personally. In order to receive certain newsletters, you must first register (see explanation under Registration). When obtaining your consent, we use the so-called double opt-in procedure online to prevent our email messages from being sent to email addresses of persons who have not requested or do not want them. Your IP address is also recorded and stored for documentation purposes in accordance with the specifications of the data protection supervisory authorities. We store your data collected for advertising purposes as long as the advertising purpose exists or until we receive a revocation of your consent or your objection to the processing of your data for advertising purposes. - Change of Purpose
If we should change the purposes of the processing in the course of the time, we will inform you by an update of these references to the data protection in advance. - Extended retention periods
The specified storage periods may be extended accordingly if a longer statutory or contractual storage period exists in individual cases, in particular if the data are processed for different purposes.
- Visiting our website
- What are mandatory fields?
If certain data fields are designated as mandatory fields and/or marked with an asterisk ( * ), the provision of this data is either required by law or contract, or we need this data for the conclusion of the contract, the desired service, or the stated purpose. Of course, you also have the right to specify the data in the mandatory fields at your discretion. Failure to provide this information may result in the contract not being fulfilled by us or the desired service not being provided, or the stated purpose not being achieved. - Information on cookies and newsletters
- Cookies
iPlayer Club uses cookies . We need your consent to use cookies for this website. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, analyze our traffic and share information about site usage with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. More information is available in our Privacy Policy or our Imprint.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer. They are used to make your experience on the website more efficient. This website uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages. We use cookies to ensure the functionality of our website, personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. Where necessary we also share information about your use of our site with our partners who may combine it with other information that you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services. Unless you have given your separate consent, this data will not be used to identify you personally and will not be merged with personal data.
The applicable laws and regulations state that iPlayer Club is able to store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this website. For all other types of cookies, we need your permission, which we obtain on your first visit to this website. You can at any time change or withdraw your consent here.
If you have not made or do not make any other settings, cookies, which enable and are intended to ensure the necessary technical functions, will remain on your device until you close the browser, other cookies may remain on your device for longer.
Please state your consent ID and date when you contact us regarding your consent.
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- display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user.Newsletter as registered user
If you subscribe to our newsletter, you agree that we will regularly inform you about current offers and competitions of iPlayer Club and interesting facts about living abroad by email and invite you to surveys. You can revoke your consent at any time, e.g. in your account settings, via the email address iPlayerClub@gmail.com, or by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any newsletter (to unsubscribe from that newsletter). We will use your data until you revoke your consent.
- Service provider for the processing of payments
The payment and bank information that is stored or entered within the framework of an order is processed for the purpose of payment processing, so we can provide our contractual service to you. Furthermore, we use companies as contract processors in order to be able to offer our customers payment methods customary in the market. These include Amex, Visa, PayPal. The data will be kept until the statute of limitations of the mutual claims and the necessary data will be kept within the scope of fulfilling the commercial and tax retention periods. - Breach of Obligations
In the event iPlayer Club has good reason to believe that you have breached your obligations under Section 5 of the GTC, iPlayer Club will review your personal data, communication, and networking to the extent as required to verify such a breach. - Links
iPlayer Club may contain links to other websites. iPlayer Club is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. iPlayer Club encourages you to be aware when you leave the iPlayer Club websites to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by iPlayer Club. - Data security
We take technical and organizational security precautions to protect your personal data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction, or against access by unauthorized persons and to guarantee the protection of your rights and compliance with the applicable data protection regulations of the EU and the Federal Republic of Germany. The measures taken should guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your data as well as the availability and resilience of the systems and services when processing your data in the long term. They should also quickly restore data availability and access in the event of a physical or technical incident. Our security measures also include encryption of your data. All information that you enter online is technically encrypted and only then transmitted. This means that this information cannot be viewed by unauthorized third parties at any time. Our data processing and security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments. The employees of iPlayer Club are or will be obliged in writing to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the data protection requirements. - Changes
This Privacy Policy must be adapted from time to time to the actual circumstances and the legal situation. Please check the Privacy Policy before using our platform to keep up to date with any changes or updates.