Privacy Policy
The protection of your personal data is a central concern for zapunited. With these data protection provisions, zapunited would like to inform you of the processing of personal data.
1. Data Collection
For the registration for zapunited and for the creation of your own user profile, you provide data about yourself, such as, for example, e-mail address or gender. Such personal data are handled confidentially by zapunited in accordance with legal regulations and, without further express consent, are collected, processed and used during the contractual relationship only for the purposes of carrying out the agreement. The collection, use, and processing of data takes place electronically.
2. Personal Data
By the term "personal data," zapunited means information on your identity, such as, for example, your name, e-mail address or postal address.
You have the right, at any time, to view the personal data stored on your person and the settings of your user account, and to correct, supplement or delete the same.
The deletion of the stored personal data is to occur if the consent for storage is revoked, its knowledge is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the purpose pursued with the storage or its storage is impermissible for other legal reasons.
3. Data Use and forwarding to Third Parties
All data that you have conveyed to us are naturally treated confidentially! We generally do not make available your data for the use of others, unless you have given your agreement to this. zapunited shall forward information to third parties only if this is mandatory due to statutory and legal reasons and/or it is necessary to offer and implement services of the platform for the user and/or zapunited has the express permission of the user for this.
zapunited is furthermore entitled to forward information to a third party if such party is to undertake services and actions on behalf of and for zapunited, such as, for example, letting the software of the platform run on outsourced servers.
We are committed to the security of your data within the framework of the applicable data protection laws, but no electronic communication is fully secure. We would like to point out to you that, despite our strict requirements, information that you voluntarily release over the Internet could be used by others. Therefore, zapunited can assume no responsibility or liability for the disclosure of information based on errors upon data transmission and/or unauthorized access by third parties. You are aware that, at any time, the provider of zapunited may view the website service stored on the Web server and, under the circumstances, also additional data stored there from a technical view. To the full extent, you shall take care of the security and protection of the data that you transmit over the Internet and that are stored on the Web servers.
4. Cookies
Under the applicable legal provisions, we may analyze user profiles under a pseudonym for purposes of advertising, market research and improvements to our service, provided that you haven't exercised your legal right to object to such use of your personal data. Part of our service requires us to make use of so-called cookies. Cookies are small amounts of data stored on your computer by your Internet browser. Cookies can be used to store information about your visit to our Web site.
Most browsers accept cookies by default. However, you may reconfigure your browser to reject cookies or to require confirmation prior to accepting them. If you reject cookies, you may experience errors with some of our content.
5. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 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. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
You can also prevent Google from logging the data generated by the cookie and based on your usage of the website (incl. your IP address) and processing of these data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
6. Facebook Social Plugins
Our website uses social plugins ("plugins") provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice "Facebook Social Plugin".
When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge:
The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking "Like", or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your data like your IP-address to Facebook.
For the information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit
Facebook's privacy policy.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off Facebook before entering our website. Further you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the
Facebook Blocker.
7. Amendments to this Data Protection Declaration
zapunited is entitled to amend this data protection declaration under consideration of applicable data protection regulations. zapunited shall indicate any amendment to this declaration on its platform. The user has the option to object to an amendment in writing within 14 days; for doing so, an e-mail is sufficient. In such an event, zapunited may discontinue the service for the user.