Data Removal
General Information for Data Processing and Security
a) We collects, processes, and uses Personally Identifiable Data provided by the user. However, Buzztests will not do so beyond the scope permitted by the law and without the consent of the user.
b) Your personal data are used for the following purposes:
• Providing you with our services
• Ensuring an efficient user experience, maintenance, technical support, and security of the service
• Responding to your requests and inquiries
c) Buzztests takes technical and administrative security measures to ensure compliance with data privacy laws and prevention of data loss, manipulation, destruction, and access by unauthorized persons. These security measures are monitored on a regular basis and updated according to industry standard as necessary.
d) Should contents, tools, or other means and mediums used by third-party providers whose registered office is abroad, it is presupposed that data transfer to the countries in which the registered office resides will take place.
Registration through Authentication Services of Facebook
a) Users may register and log into the Buzztests website through the authentication service of the third-party provider, particularly Facebook.
b) As a prerequisite for registration on the Buzztests website, the user must have a Facebook account, and enter the necessary account details or already be logged into Facebook.
c) For optimization of the service, Buzztests collects and receives the following data from Facebook, the so-called “Public Profile Information”, upon registration through its authentication services:
1) The user’s name
2) The user’s Facebook identification number (also known as the Facebook ID)
3) The gender designation the user provided Facebook with
d) After authentication, Buzztests also receives access to, but does not store, the user’s public profile pictures.
e) Buzztests only receives information on the gender if these are available for viewing by the public, as permitted by the user’s Facebook privacy settings.
f) Buzztests will not receive further data without consent from the user.
g) The user’s Facebook password cannot be seen nor saved by Buzztests.
h) The user’s data can be compared and synchronized with their user account on Facebook automatically. However, Buzztests is in no way obligated to update the data.
i) Users are encouraged to refer to Facebook's privacy policy for more information regarding the consent process, and how to revoke such consent.
j) In case the user wishes to terminate the connection between Buzztests and their Facebook account, they may do so through their account on Facebook or through the “Unregister” function on the Buzztests website.
Server Log-Files
During every visit of our Service, information about IP address, access-provider, referring URL, date/time, browser type and version and operating system, amount and state of transferred data is stored in the web server log files.
We use the log data without any other personal or pseudonymous profiling as required by law only for the purpose of the operation, security and optimization of our servers.
General Information on Usage of Facebook
a) If the Service is carried out as a Facebook application, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, and/or if authentication through Facebook is used, the permission of users is required for Buzztests to access their stored data on Facebook.
b) Users are expressly referred in the context of the Facebook consent dialog to this data collection and the data shared by Facebook with Buzztests (e.g. public profile, friends list, and "Like" information, only if these data elements are viewable by the public according to your Facebook privacy settings) through the Service.
c) Buzztests may use the requested data anonymously for statistical purposes. Buzztests may evaluate how often a posting was shared in order to help us improve our Services and its contents like our quizzes and personality tests. Buzztests perform the evaluation anonymously, meaning independently of users' Personally Identifiable Data Buzztests received with the consent of the user (e.g. without the Facebook ID). These evaluations are just for us only, without any transfers of this data to third parties.
d) Our Service uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by Facebook. The plugins are usually identifiable by a Facebook logo. For a full list of all social plugins, please see http://developers.facebook.com/doc/plugins.
e) Users are referred to Facebook’s privacy policy https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other for more information about the consent process, consent granted, and ways of revoking such consent within their Facebook profile.
f) Users have the option in the Facebook application settings to end their use of the Service at any time: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications.
Use of Facebook Re/Marketing Services
a) Buzztests makes use of "Facebook Pixel" and the "App Analytics" (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Facebook Re/Marketing Functions”) provided by Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc.
b) The Facebook Marketing Functions allow us and Facebook to determine the relevant target audiences, in order to display advertisements (hereinafter referred to as “Facebook-Ads’) in reference to potential interests of the users, as well as to users with similar attributes (so called “Lookalike Audiences”). We use the Facebook Marketing Functions, because we want to display Facebook-Ads only to users, who displayed an interest in our Service. The Facebook Marketing Functions allow us and Facebook to determine, whether our Ads were effective and satisfactory for users by being able to comprehend users’ actions, after they were forwarded to our Service by clicking a Facebook-Ad.
c) The data collected by Facebook is pseudonymous and, as such, is not Personally Identifiable. However, Facebook may link this data with the user’s profile within their network. For more information on how Facebook processes the user’s data, please refer to their privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com/policy.php).
d) In case you want to opt out of being subject to our and Facebook's use of Facebook Marketing Functions for marketing purposes please use Facebook's opt-out settings provided within your user profile: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads or for users from the EU http://www.youronlinechoices.com. Your choices are irrespective of platforms and devices and will be considered while using desktop or mobile device.
Use of Google Marketing and ReMarketing Services
a) We use the marketing and remarketing services (hereinafter referred to as the “Google Marketing Services”) provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountian View, CA 94043, USA.
b) The Google Marketing Services enable us to display ads for and on our Websites and Service in a more targeted manner so that users are only shown ads which might actually be of interest to them. For this purpose, as soon as the user accesses our Websites, or other websites on which Google Marketing Services have been activated, Google immediately executes a Google code and so called re/marketing tags (invisible graphics or code) are integrated into the Website. With the help of these tags, an individual cookie, is stored on the users’ device (comparable technology can be used instead of cookies). The cookies can be set from various domains, including google.com and doubleclick.net. This file keeps a record of which websites the user visits, what content he/she is interested in and which offers he/she has clicked on, as well as technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of access and other details about the use of the website content. The users’ IP address is also recorded, whereby we, within the context of Google Analytics, would like to point out that, within member states of the European Union or in other countries that are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the IP address is truncated and only transmitted in its entirety to a Google server in the US and truncated there in exceptional cases. The IP address will not be linked with any of the user’s data from other services offered by Google. The aforementioned information can also be combined with equivalent information from other sources. If the user visits other websites afterwards, he/she can only be shown the ads that directly reflect his/her interests.
c) Within the scope of Google Marketing Services, the users’ data is processed pseudonymously. This means that Google does not, for example, store and process the users’ name or e-mail address, instead processing the relevant data on the basis of the cookies within pseudonymous user profiles. In other words, from Google’s point of view, the ads are managed and displayed for the cookie owner, regardless of who the cookie owner is, rather than for a specifically identified person. This shall not apply where the user has expressly permitted Google to process the data without this pseudonymization. The information collected about the users via “DoubleClick” shall be transmitted to Google and stored on Google’s servers in the US.
d) On the basis of Google Marketing Services, we integrate third-party “DoubleClick“ ads. DoubleClick uses cookies that enable Google and its partner websites to run ads based on users visiting this or other websites.
e) On the basis of Google Marketing Services, we also integrate third-party “AdSense“ ads. AdSense uses cookies that enable Google and its partner websites to run ads based on users visiting this or other websites.
f) You can find further information on Google’s use of data for marketing purposes on the site map: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads, Google’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
g) If you wish to object to the collection of data by Google Marketing Services, you can use the settings and opt-out functions provided by Google: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences.
Use of Google Analytics
a) We uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
b) Google Analytics uses cookies to gather information about the user’s interaction and engagement with the We website. This information, including the user’s IP address, are used to evaluate the user’s interactions with the We website, compile reports on website activity for website operators, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage.
c) In such cases stipulated in b), Google Analytics will not associate the user’s IP address with any personally identifiable information.
d) As with other cookies, the user may opt out of granting access to cookies by modifying the appropriate settings in the user’s web browser. However, this might compromise the user’s access to the full functionality of the We website.
e) Continuous use of the We website will be considered the user’s express consent to the processing of their data by Google Analytics for the purposes stated above.
f) For additional information, please refer to Google Analytics privacy policy https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
Third Party Content
a) Third party content (e.g. tests, game, and graphics from other services) may be incorporated into the our Service.
b) This means that the third party service provider makes use of the user’s IP address in order to display such content.
c) We are not responsible for practices employed by any third party website or service linked to and/or from us. Should the user access a link to any external website, any information the user discloses to that website lies beyond our jurisdiction and the privacy policy of the aforementioned site will apply.
Data Removal
Facebook Login
If you have previously logged in with Facebook and granted Buzztests access to your public facebook data, you can revoke access at anytime in the Facebook user interface at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications