1. Introduction
- We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.
- This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our
website visitors and service users; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the
processing of that personal data.
- We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our
website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
- In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Minecraft-Heads.com. For more information about us, see
Section 13.
2. Credit
- This document was created using a template from Docular (https://docular.net).
3. How we use your personal data
- In this Section 3 we have set out:
- the general categories of personal data that we may process;
- in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific
categories of that data;
- the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
- the legal bases of the processing.
- We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may
include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source,
length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency
and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage
data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for
this processing is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
- We may process your account data ("account data"). The account data may include your name and
email address. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our
services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and
communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper
administration of our website and business.
- We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website ("profile
data"). The profile data may include your name, address, email address, profile pictures, gender
and date of birth. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of
our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper
administration of our website and business.
- We may process your personal data that are provided in the course of the use of our services ("service
data"). The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our
services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and
communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper
administration of our website and business.
- We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services
("publication data"). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such
publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is our
legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
- We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications
and/or newsletters ("notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes
of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is the
performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a
contract.
- We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us
("correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and
metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with
communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the
purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate
interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.
- We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment,
exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court
procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and
assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
- In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3,
we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary in order to protect your
vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
- Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
4. Providing your personal data to others
- We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our
ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on
the legal bases, set out in this policy.
- We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably
necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining
professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings
or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
- In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your
personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are
subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
5. International transfers of your personal data
- In this Section 5, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be
transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
- The hosting facilities for our website are situated in Germany. The European Commission has made an
"adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws of each of these countries.
- You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be
available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data
by others.
6. Retaining and deleting personal data
- This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we
comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
- Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for
that purpose or those purposes.
- We will retain your personal data as follows:
- Profile data containing personal information will be retained until you opt for it to be deleted.
- Cookie data will be retained for no longer than 365 days.
- Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such
retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to
protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Amendments
- We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
- You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
- We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
8. Your rights
- In this Section 8, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights
are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read
the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
- Your principal rights under data protection law are:
- the right to access;
- the right to rectification;
- the right to erasure;
- the right to restrict processing;
- the right to object to processing;
- the right to data portability;
- the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
- the right to withdraw consent.
- You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do,
access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information
includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the
recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will
supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional
copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
- You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the
purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
- In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those
circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they
were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the
processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing
purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right
to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of
freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment,
exercise or defence of legal claims.
- In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those
circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose
erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal
data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing,
pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may
continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the
establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or
legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
- You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular
situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is
necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any
official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third
party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can
demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and
freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
- You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes
(including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process
your personal data for this purpose.
- If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a
legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so
in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged
infringement.
- To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the
right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before
the withdrawal.
- You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data [by written notice to us] OR [by
[methods]], in addition to the other methods specified in this Section 8.
9. About cookies
- A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server
to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the
browser requests a page from the server.
- Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web
browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date;
a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is
closed.
- Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information
that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
10. Cookies that we use
- We use cookies for the following purposes:
- authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our
website;
- status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
- personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the
website for you;
- security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts,
including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services
generally;
- advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;
- analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services;
and
- cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more
generally.
11. Cookies used by our service providers
- Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our
website.
- We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about
website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports
about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
- We publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website. To determine your interests, Google will track your
behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. This behaviour tracking allows
Google to tailor the advertisements that you see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not
publish interest-based advertisements on our website). You can view, delete or add interest categories
associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the
AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative's
multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these
opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will
not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish
to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
12. Managing cookies
- Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary
from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about
blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
- https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
(Firefox);
- http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
(Internet Explorer);
- https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411
(Safari); and
- https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
(Edge).
- Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
- If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
13. Our details
- This website is owned and operated by Matthias Hilger.
- You can contact us:
- by post, to the postal address given on "Legal Notice" page; or
- by email, using the email address given on "Legal Notice" page.
Forum Privacy Policy
This policy explains in detail how "Minecraft Heads" along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter "we", "us", "our",
"Minecraft Heads") and phpBB (hereinafter "they", "them", "their", "phpBB software", "www.phpbb.com", "phpBB Limited",
"phpBB Teams") use any information collected during any session of usage by you (hereinafter "your information").
Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing "Minecraft Heads" will cause the phpBB software to
create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer's web browser temporary
files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter "user-id") and an anonymous session identifier
(hereinafter "session-id"), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you
have browsed topics within "Minecraft Heads" and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your
user experience.
We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing "Minecraft Heads", though these are outside
the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in
which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an
anonymous user (hereinafter "anonymous posts"), registering on "Minecraft Heads" (hereinafter "your account") and posts
submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter "your posts").
Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter "your user name"), a personal
password used for logging into your account (hereinafter "your password") and a personal, valid email address
(hereinafter "your email"). Your information for your account at "Minecraft Heads" is protected by data-protection laws
applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your email address
required by "Minecraft Heads" during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of
"Minecraft Heads". In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed.
Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated emails from the
phpBB software.
Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the
same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at "Minecraft
Heads", so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with "Minecraft Heads", phpBB or
another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use
the "I forgot my password" feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name
and your email, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.