2.1 Personal Data

We collect the following personally identifiable information provided by you while registering for and using our Services:

while registering for and using our Services: 

Mandatory 

• Email address
• First name and last name 

Optional 

• Telephone Number
• Profile Picture
• Position
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Billing Information
• Link to Social Media Channels
• The content you create on BABLE   

Legal Basis for Processing:

• Mandatory data is processed under GDPR Article 6(1)(b) as necessary for providing our Services.

Optional data is collected with your explicit consent under GDPR Article 6(1)(a).

2.2 Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. This includes: information such as your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, device type, ID for listing, geo-location information and other diagnostic data.

Mobile Device: When you access the Service by or through a mobile Device, we collect certain information automatically. This includes, but is not limited to: the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, geo-location information, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Browser Data: We also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device. This includes: computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, and your IP address. 

Purpose and Legal Basis: This data is collected to monitor and improve the functionality, security, and usability of our Service. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest in maintaining and enhancing our platform (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).

2.3 Embedding Videos and other content

If you provide us with access to video content hosted on third-party platforms (e.g., social media), you agree that we may share or obtain information about this content in accordance with your privacy settings on those platforms. The processing of such data is based on your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time by contacting us.

Retention: Unless you withdraw your consent earlier, we may retain this data for up to two years to provide and improve our services.

2.4 Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies on this website and our other Services, for the following purposes: 

• To enable you to use and access the BABLE Platform and the Payment Services.
• To enable, facilitate and streamline the functioning of and your access to the BABLE Platform.
• To better understand how you navigate through and interact with the BABLE Platform and to improve the BABLE Platform.
• To show you content that is more relevant to you.
• To monitor and analyse the performance, operation, and effectiveness of the BABLE Platform and BABLE advertisements.
• To enforce legal agreements that govern use of the BABLE Platform.
• For fraud detection and prevention, and investigations.
• For purposes of our own customer support, analytics, research, product development, and regulatory compliance. 

Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse Our Service. The technologies we use include: 

• Cookies or Browser Cookies: 
  A Cookie is a small file placed on your Device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. If you have not adjusted your browser setting to refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons.
  Certain sections of our Service (including our Newsletter) contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity). 
  Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device after you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
• Necessary / Essential Cookies 
  Type: Session Cookies 
  Administered by: BABLE 
  Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.
• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies 
  Type: Persistent Cookies 
  Administered by: BABLE 
  Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of Cookies on the Website.
• Functionality Cookies 
  Type: Persistent Cookies 
  Administered by: BABLE 
  Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.
• Matomo 
  We use Matomo to analyse the use of this Website. Matomo generates statistical and other information about Website use by means of Cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our Website is used to create reports about the use of the website. We store and use this information safety on our system.
  
  Matomo is processing the following personal data:
  • Cookies
  • IP address
  • User ID
  • Custom Dimensions
  • Custom Variables
  • Order ID
  • Location of the user
  • Date and time
  • Title of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page being viewed
  • URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page
  • Screen resolution
  • Time in local timezone
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded
  • Link clicks to an outside domain
  • Pages generation time
  • Country, region, city
  • Main Language of the browser
  • User Agent of the browser
  • Session recording, mouse events (movements, content forms and clicks)

3.1 Internal

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.  This information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

3.2 Service Providers and financial institutions partners

Third party service providers may also be provided with your Personal Data. These are organisations who help us to provide our Service and assist us in providing customised advertising. These are also organisations who assist us with the prevention, detection, mitigation and investigation of potentially illegal acts as well as with violations of our Terms and Conditions, fraud and/or security breaches, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards and other business operations.

We use the following external services: 

1. Hubspot for customer relationship management 
   1. Data Shared: First Name and Last Name, E-Mail, Phone No., Position 
   2. Hubspot’s Privacy Policy: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy
2. Microsoft Office 365 Suite for our day-to day business activities including Outlook for E-Mail, and Sharepoint and One Drive for Storage.  
   1. Data Shared: First name, Last Name, E-Mail and Phone No. 
   2. Microsoft’s Privacy Statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement 
3. Slack for our day-to day business activities including communications. 
   1. Data Shared: First Name and Last Name, E-Mail, Phone No., Position 
   2. Slack Privacy Policy: https://slack.com/intl/de-de/trust/privacy/privacy-policy  
4. Stripe for managing payments on the platform 
   1. Data Shared: First names, Last name, E-mail, Payment Details (Credit Card no., Bank account details)
   2. Stripe’s Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/en-de/privacy
5. Cloudflare for security, performance, and reliability of the platform
   1. Data Shared: Device Information, Geographical Data, Interaction Data
   2. Cloudflare Privacy Policy: www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

3.3 Law enforcement, legal proceedings, and as authorized by law

We may release your Data: 

• to comply with our legal requirements, enforce our Terms and Conditions, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others or protect anyone's rights, property or safety.
• to law enforcement or governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability. We will only disclose information we deem relevant to the investigation or inquiry, such as name, city, state, postcode, telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud complaints, or bidding and listing history.
• to third parties involved in a legal proceeding, if they provide us with a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, or we otherwise believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity. 

3.4 Change of Ownership

If we were to merge with, be acquired by another company, have a change in our ownership structure, type legal entity or settle legally in a different country, we may share information with the involved stakeholders in accordance with our global privacy standards. Should such an event occur, we will require that the new (combined) entity follow this Privacy Notice with respect to your personal information. If your personal information is  collected, used, disclosed, or retained for any purposes not covered in this Privacy Notice, you will receive prior notification of the processing of your personal information for the new purposes.

If your data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure that appropriate safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, are in place to protect your information. For more details about these safeguards, please contact us.

8.1 Contact details of the person responsible for data processing

Responsible person within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection laws in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions with data protection character is the company:

BABLE GmbH 
Legal representation: Alexander Schmidt
Reuchlinstr. 27,
70176 Stuttgart – Germany
Telephone: +49 711 968813 10
E-Mail: [email protected]  

8.2 Contact details of the data protection officer

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data and your inquiries regarding information, correction, blocking, deletion or restriction of processing, please contact our data protection officer:

Gregory O‘Connor
E-Mail: [email protected]