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Privacy policy for using SIXCONTACTS.COM

Terms and Conditions on Data Protection

“SIXCONTACTS” refers to the service provided subject to these General Terms and Conditions.

The protection of your personal data is of utmost concern to SIXCONTACTS.

In these terms and conditions on data protection SIXCONTACTS would like to inform you about how SIXCONTACTS treats your personal data and how you can exchange this data with other users of SIXCONTACTS.

These terms and conditions supplement the “General Terms and Conditions” for using SIXCONTACTS.

SIXCONTACTS strictly adheres to the following basic principles in the protection of your Personal Data:

SIXCONTACTS shall use your Personal Data solely to provide you the SIXCONTACTS Services on the Internet for which you have registered. SIXCONTACTS will never pass your Personal Data on to any third party, neither for advertising, nor for marketing for any other purposes.

With the exception of some general information you alone decide which of the Personal Data you have made available to SIXCONTACTS may be displayed by SIXCONTACTS to other members of SIXCONTACTS (cf. Section 3 of these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection).

Persons not registered with SIXCONTACTS may not view your Personal Data.

The following terms used in these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection shall have the following meanings:

"Personal Data" shall mean all data and/or information about your profession or your person.

"SIXCONTACTS Websites" shall mean all websites on which SIXCONTACTS provides the SIXCONTACTS Services.

"SIXCONTACTS Members" shall mean all registered users of SIXCONTACTS on the SIXCONTACTS Websites.

"SIXCONTACTS Services" shall mean all registration based services provided by SIXCONTACTS on the SIXCONTACTS Websites.

"Registration Data" shall mean the Personal Data you are obliged to make available to SIXCONTACTS in the registration process for the SIXCONTACTS Services (mandatory fields).

"Profile" shall mean the SIXCONTACTS Website page where the Personal Data you have made available to SIXCONTACTS is displayed in accordance with your specifications and your consent.

3.1 Registration Data

In order for the SIXCONTACTS Services to function, SIXCONTACTS needs to collect and process certain elements of your Personal Data in the course of the registration process. First of all, this consists of the following data:

email account

Password

Your password and/or your email account are never visible to any SIXCONTACTS Member at any time. SIXCONTACTS shall never disclose or pass your password and/or your email account on to any third party.

Furthermore, you will need to fill out the following Personal Data in the course of the registration process (mandatory fields):

First name and surname

Birth date

Country and city of residence

This Personal Data from the mandatory fields is accessible to other SIXCONTACTS Members without any restrictions. Instead of your date of birth, your age is shown to other members.

3.2 Voluntary Data

If you wish, you may provide additional information about yourself apart from the mandatory data on a voluntary basis (hereinafter referred to as "Voluntary Data"), to allow other SIXCONTACTS Members to get to know you better and possibly encourage them to choose you as an appropriate contact. At the moment, you are able to choose from the following Voluntary Data, for example:

Motto

Places visited

Languages spoken

Photograph

Hobbies

Link to your favourite video of you on Youtube.com

Link to your homepage or your profile on another network

The Voluntary Data you choose to provide to SIXCONTACTS is accessible to all other SIXCONTACTS Members, unless a certain degree of visibility is chosen.

3.3 Your Profile, Contact Management

All other SIXCONTACTS Members may access your Profile and view the information displayed on the Profile, including such Voluntary Data you have specified to be made available to all other SIXCONTACTS Members. Certain SIXCONTACTS Members may be able to access further of your Voluntary Data in accordance with your specifications (chosen settings) for the respective SIXCONTACTS Member in each individual case.

If you send SIXCONTACTS Members a request for personal contact, these SIXCONTACTS Members are then saved in your Profile on a contact list. Should a SIXCONTACTS Member confirm your request for contact, this SIXCONTACTS Member shall be listed as a so called "confirmed contact". Confirmed and unconfirmed contacts shall be registered separate from one another. Other SIXCONTACTS Members may only ever view your list of confirmed contacts.

SIXCONTACTS has preset your privacy settings under "Privacy" per default so that the list of your confirmed contacts is displayed to all SIXCONTACTS Members. However, you may change this setting at any time by yourself to the effect that your list of confirmed contacts is not visible to anybody at all or only to certain of your contacts, for example to the direct contacts of your contacts (i.e. second degree contacts) or only to third degree or fourth degree contacts.

The following of your personal statistics are visible to all SIXCONTACTS Members at all times:

Number of your confirmed contacts

Month and year of your membership

Other SIXCONTACTS Members may send you private messages to you in order to establish contact with you. SIXCONTACTS has preset your privacy settings under "Privacy" per default so that all SIXCONTACTS Members may send you private messages. You may restrict the ability of SIXCONTACTS Members to send you private messages at any time to the effect that either no SIXCONTACTS Members or only selected contacts may send you private messages, for example only the direct contacts of your contacts (i.e. second degree contacts) or only third degree or fourth degree contacts.

As you can see, SIXCONTACTS gives you complete control over your own privacy at all times!

Your profile will not be visible to Non-Members of SIXCONTACTS.

SIXCONTACTS offer certain forums on the SIXCONTACTS Website. Each forum has one (1) or more moderator(s). Each forum is public and contributions can be read by each member of SIXCONTACTS. Any contributions you posted on a forum will remain visible even after the termination of your SIXCONTACTS membership.

As a SIXCONTACTS Member you may invite others to join SIXCONTACTS. SIXCONTACTS shall process personal data collected in the course of the invitation solely for the invitation and shall not use it for any other purposes.

Please note that the following sections of your Personal Data are displayed to the recipient of the invitation:

Your name

Your email address

The SIXCONTACTS Services offer various possibilities to search for particular SIXCONTACTS Members. These various search functions may assist you, for example, in finding other SIXCONTACTS Members with similar interests. The search functions can also help you to initiate contact with other SIXCONTACTS Members who offer exactly what you are looking for. Thus, you can find the contacts you need - and systematically expand your personal network.

SIXCONTACTS irregularly sends out newsletters to all SIXCONTACTS Members. In these newsletters SIXCONTACTS may inform you, among other things, about new features on SIXCONTACTS and SIXCONTACTS may also provide you with specific personal statistics from the respective past calendar week (i.e. the number of hits on your Profile, whether you have new contacts to be confirmed and/or new private messages, etc.).

You may choose to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending an email to the link provided at the end of each newsletter.

After you have logged in to the SIXCONTACTS Services with your email account and password, SIXCONTACTS uses cookies in order to identify you during the course of your session. A cookie will be stored on your computer. Upon the termination of your session the cookie will be automatically deleted. You can save this cookie on your computer to enable automatic login for subsequent sessions by activating the function: "Login automatically on this computer". The cookie will then store part of your login data in encrypted form. If you select automatic login, please be aware that this will then only be possible on the same computer on which the cookie was first saved, i.e. an automatic login on two (2) different computers is not possible.

Each time you access a website from the SIXCONTACTS Websites, SIXCONTACTS will save the following data in a log file (the so called "server log"):

Your IP address (by which your computer can be clearly identified),

The name and IP address of the computer requesting the respective page from the SIXCONTACTS Websites (the so called "remote host computer"),

The time, status, and amount of the transferred data, as well as the Internet website from which you have reached the requested page of the SIXCONTACTS Websites (the so called "referrer")

The product and release information from your Internet browser (the so called "user agent").

This log file will be stored by SIXCONTACTS in the standardized "combined" log file format for the Apache Web server. SIXCONTACTS uses the data from this log file in anonymous form without reference to your person for statistical purposes. In doing so, SIXCONTACTS may analyze on which days and at which time the SIXCONTACTS Services are particularly frequented and how much data volume is created on the SIXCONTACTS Websites. Furthermore, by using the log file, SIXCONTACTS can identify defects on the SIXCONTACTS Websites, such as defective hyperlinks or program defects, and thus continually improve the quality of the SIXCONTACTS Websites. SIXCONTACTS does not attribute the website demands stored in the log file to specific individual users. However, SIXCONTACTS reserves the right to review the log files from the last known IP address of a SIXCONTACTS Member where SIXCONTACTS has reasonable cause to believe that the member is using SIXCONTACTS Services in breach of contractual agreements or the applicable legislation. In doing this, SIXCONTACTS is protecting other SIXCONTACTS Members, the safety of SIXCONTACTS Members’ data, as well as SIXCONTACTS Websites and the SIXCONTACTS Services.

Membership of SIXCONTACTS Services is reserved to persons who have reached the age of thirteen (13). Parents and legal guardians are responsible for the protection of their children's privacy.

SIXCONTACTS reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection, in the event that this becomes necessary due to gaps in these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection identified after their release, or in the event that it becomes necessary with respect to additional or amended services provided by SIXCONTACTS. SIXCONTACTS will notify you of any amendments to these Terms and Conditions on Data Protection by email to the email account you provided to SIXCONTACTS in the course of your registration.

These Terms and Conditions on Data Protection are accessible from any website of the SIXCONTACTS Websites under the link "Privacy Policy".