Privacy Policy

Mainstream Media AG, Bavariafilmplatz 7, 82031 Grünwald (“Mainstream Media“, “we” or “us“) processes your personal data in connection with your use of our website www.worldoffreesports-tv.de (“Website“). The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We process your personal data in order to provide you with the Website, respond to your contact inquiries, send you our newsletter, conduct prize draws, provide videos, or use cookies on our Website. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the processing of your personal data in connection with your use of the Website.

1. Who is responsible for the data processing? Mainstream Media is responsible for the processing of your personal data in connection with the Website.
2. How can you reach our Data Protection Officer? You can reach our Data Protection Officer by email at datenschutz@mainstream-media.ag or by mail at our postal address (see point 7).
3. For what purposes, for how long, and on what legal basis do we process which personal data? “Personal data” within the meaning of this Privacy Policy is any information relating to the personal or factual circumstances of an individual that makes it possible to identify that person. This includes, for example, your name and email address, but also, for example, your IP address. We collect, process, and use (collectively “process” or “processing”) your personal data for the purposes set out below:
1. 3.1. When using the Website You can browse our Website without us processing any personal data about you, provided you have objected to the use of cookies. Information on data processing through cookies, if you have not disabled cookies, can be found in section 3.5 of this Privacy Policy. In addition, we process the following data about your use of the Website to ensure its proper functioning and to guarantee IT security (“Usage Data”): browser type, browser version, operating system used, referrer URL, hostname of the accessing device, time of the server request, IP address.We process this Usage Data on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in providing the Website in a functional and secure manner.
  We delete your Usage Data immediately after the usage process and once it is no longer required to perform the contractual relationship or for IT security purposes. Beyond that, we only process your Usage Data to assert or defend against legal claims or to comply with statutory retention obligations.
2. 3.2. When sending the newsletter You can sign up for our email newsletter. We then process the following personal data (“Newsletter Data”): email address and newsletter content. We also evaluate your use of our email newsletter in order to further optimize it. For this purpose, we process the following personal data (“Newsletter Usage Data”): whether you opened the newsletter and which links you clicked. We process your Newsletter Data and Newsletter Usage Data on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent to receive our email newsletter at any time with effect for the future, e.g. by email to kontakt@mainstream-media.ag. The processing of Newsletter Data prior to the withdrawal of consent remains lawful.We also process the following personal data in order to be able to demonstrate your consent (“DOI Data”): IP address, time of sign-up for the email newsletter and confirmation of the email address, click on the confirmation link in the confirmation email, and content of the consent declaration.
  We process your Newsletter Data, DOI Data, and Newsletter Usage Data only until you withdraw your consent. Beyond that, we only process your Newsletter Data, DOI Data, and Newsletter Usage Data to assert or defend against legal claims or to comply with statutory retention obligations.
3. 3.3. When you participate in prize draws We process the following personal data when you take part in prize draws on www.worldoffreesports-tv.de via the Website (“Prize Draw Data”): name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, cable/IPTV/satellite provider, materials submitted (e.g. for photo contests). We process your Prize Draw Data so that you can take part in our prize draws and so that we can conduct the draws, notify you of any prize won, and report on winners in the media (e.g. on the Website or the websites of cooperation partners). If you have won a sum of money, we also process your bank details and may transmit them to our payment service provider so that the amount won can be transferred to you. If partners of ours fulfill the prize (e.g. for travel or event prizes), we also transmit the winner’s Prize Draw Data to our cooperation partners (e.g. travel or event organizers) for this purpose. We process your Prize Draw Data for contract performance (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). The relevant contract is the prize draw participation agreement.We process your Prize Draw Data for the duration of the prize draw. Beyond that, we only process your Prize Draw Data to assert or defend against legal claims or to comply with statutory retention obligations.
  Please note our specific terms of participation for prize draws and any supplementary privacy notices contained therein.
4. 3.4. When you contact us When you contact us, we receive personal data from you. Depending on the type of contact (e.g. contact form, email, or phone), this may include the following personal data in particular (“Communication Data”): name, email address, subject of your inquiry, how you receive our channel www.worldoffreesports-tv.de, timestamp of the inquiry, IP address, any information relating to your inquiry, and any other information you provide to us when contacting us. We process this Communication Data exclusively to handle your contact inquiry. We process your Communication Data to perform the contract with you, insofar as it concerns general contact, use of the Website, or inquiries regarding data subject rights, or for the initiation of a contract if, for example, you contact us regarding advertising inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). We process other feedback on the basis of our legitimate interest in handling your feedback and, where applicable, improving the Website and our services (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).We process your Communication Data until we have fully responded to your inquiry. Beyond that, we only process your Communication Data to assert or defend against legal claims or to comply with statutory retention obligations.
5. 3.5. When using cookies We use small text files, known as cookies, and similar technologies to track how you use our Website, to provide you with the Website conveniently, to tailor the Website to your interests, and to evaluate system security and stability (“Cookies”). This allows the Website to record and/or store your actions and preferences. Cookies collect data on your device, which is transmitted to us or our service providers. As a user and data subject within the meaning of the GDPR, you therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By changing the settings in your internet browser or in our cookie settings tool at www.worldoffreesports-tv.de/cookie-erklaerung, you can enable, disable, or restrict cookies.We use the following categories of cookies:
  - Necessary cookies: These cookies are required for the Website to function properly; they allow you to navigate the Website and use its features.
  - Preference cookies enable our Website to remember information that affects how a website behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in.
  - Statistics cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by providing information about which areas they visited, how much time they spent on the Website, and any issues they encountered, such as error messages. This helps us improve the performance of our Website.
  - Marketing cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies remember your visits to the Website. This information may be shared with other companies.
  The cookies used on the Website are either first-party or third-party cookies. First-party cookies are set by Mainstream Media and share the same domain. Third-party cookies, on the other hand, are stored by a third-party provider or external company.
  
  We use both cookies that are deleted when you close your browser (so-called session cookies) and cookies that remain on your device until you delete them or until they expire (so-called persistent cookies).
6. 3.6. When using Vimeo Our Website includes Vimeo videos that can be played directly on our Website. This involves the use of plugins from the video portal Vimeo. The operator is Vimeo, Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA (“Vimeo”). We have integrated Vimeo’s videos using a privacy-friendly solution. Only when you click on a video is a connection established to Vimeo’s servers, and certain personal usage data (e.g. your IP address and which video you are watching) is transmitted to Vimeo. As long as you do not click on the video to watch it, you remain invisible to Vimeo. We use this privacy-friendly solution so that Vimeo does not track your usage behavior without your active involvement. By clicking on the video, you consent to data processing by Vimeo. Vimeo then processes at least the aforementioned usage data. Vimeo is responsible for the data processing it carries out and for its use of cookies. Please note that this transmission occurs regardless of whether you have a Vimeo user account and are logged in or not. If you are logged into your personal Vimeo account, Vimeo will be able to associate your browsing behavior with your personal profile. If you do not want such an association to be made, you must log out of your Vimeo account before visiting our Website. We do not receive this information. Further information on the scope and purpose of the data collection and its processing by Vimeo can be found in Vimeo’s privacy policy, available at www.vimeo.com/privacy.
7. 3.7. When using messaging services To use messaging services, you need an account with the respective provider. Depending on the messenger used, data is transmitted to us. The respective provider’s privacy policy applies: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook” and “Instagram”), privacy policy available at: www.facebook.com/about/privacyData transmitted to us: user ID, first and last name, profile picture, location, time zone, gender, and all messages sent to the service.
  Websites linked to in messages can detect that you accessed the website via the respective messaging service. Messages sent to us are read and processed by a dedicated team and are therefore not confidential.
  
  Use of a messaging service is, of course, voluntary. If you have subscribed to a messaging service and no longer wish to use it, you can unsubscribe at any time. The lawfulness of processing based on your consent up until withdrawal remains unaffected.
8. 3.8. Social media presence / use of fan pages on social networks If you use social networks, the purpose and scope of data collection, as well as the further processing and use of data by the social networks, along with your related rights and settings options for protecting your privacy, are generally governed by the privacy notices of the respective social network:
  - Facebook and Instagram: Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”), privacy policy available at: www.facebook.com/about/privacy — Instagram, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Instagram”), privacy policy available at: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
  - YouTube, Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, privacy policy available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de
  If you have questions regarding the protection of your rights as a data subject, you can contact Facebook, Instagram, or us directly. Primary responsibility under the GDPR for processing Facebook/Instagram’s so-called Insights data lies with Facebook/Instagram (Meta). The corresponding GDPR obligations are fulfilled accordingly. Facebook/Instagram provide data subjects with the essential content of the agreement regarding Insights data between Facebook/Instagram and the fan page operator. This means, in particular, that as the operator of the fan page, we do not make any decisions regarding the processing of Insights data and any further information arising from Art. 13 GDPR in this regard, including the legal basis, the identity of the controller, and the storage period of cookies on users’ devices.
  
  If you visit our fan pages on social networks and comment on and/or rate posts there, or send us personal messages via these networks, we process the personal data provided in this context, such as your name, in order to respond to your comments and messages. Of course, you can also visit our fan pages without providing us with any personal data.
4. To which recipients do we transmit your personal data? We disclose your personal data in the specific cases mentioned above for the individual data processing operations. In addition, we only disclose your personal data to third parties in the rare cases described below:
1. 4.1. Processors We may transmit personal data to service providers with whom we cooperate, for example, to provide the Website (e.g. IT service providers such as ETES GmbH as the Website’s hosting provider). We have carefully selected these service providers and entered into data processing agreements where legally required.
2. 4.2. Contractual partners We disclose your personal data to other controllers who process personal data for their own purposes, insofar as this is necessary for the performance of a contract or the provision of a service. Our contractual partners may use the personal data transmitted to them only for the purpose for which we transmitted it. The transmission of your personal data takes place for the performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) or on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in organizing our operations efficiently.
3. 4.3. Statutory obligation or enforcement of legal claims We transmit your personal data to third parties where this is required or permitted by law and in order to investigate or prevent suspected or actual unlawful activities. Some of the recipients of your personal data mentioned above may be located in countries outside the EU/EEA that do not have the same level of data protection as required within the EU/EEA, and for which no adequacy decision by the European Commission exists. In such cases, Mainstream Media ensures an appropriate level of data protection through suitable safeguards, e.g. EU standard contractual clauses or BCR certification. If you would like to receive a copy of the safeguards used by Mainstream Media, please contact us using the contact details provided in section 2.
5. What are your rights? With regard to the personal data concerning you, you have the following statutory rights, provided the respective requirements are met.
1. 5.1. Right of access You have the right to obtain information about the processing of personal data concerning you, as well as further information, e.g. the purposes of processing, the recipients, and the planned duration of storage.
2. 5.2. Right to rectification and completion You have the right to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data. Taking into account the purposes of processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data.
3. 5.3. Right to erasure Under certain circumstances, you have a right to erasure. This is the case, for example, if your personal data is no longer necessary for the original purposes, if you have withdrawn your consent under data protection law, or if the personal data was processed unlawfully.
4. 5.4. Right to restriction of processing You have the right to restrict processing in the cases provided for by law.
5. 5.5. Right to data portability You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. The right to data portability includes the right to have the data transmitted to another controller.
6. 5.6. Right to object You have the right, at any time, to object to the processing of certain personal data concerning you for reasons arising from your particular situation. In the case of direct marketing, you as a data subject have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purposes of such marketing.
7. 5.7. Right to withdraw your consent under data protection law You may withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future. However, this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out prior to the withdrawal.
8. 5.8. Right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority You may also lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority if you believe that we are unable to adequately assist you.
6. Is there any automated decision-making? We do not use automated decision-making, including profiling, within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR to provide our respective services.
7. Who can you contact with questions? Please contact our Data Protection Officer (see section 2 above) or us if you have any questions about data protection in connection with the Website: Mainstream Media AG
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Grünwald
Tel.: +49 89 552 909-0
Email: kontakt@mainstream-media.agLast updated: January 2025