Data Protection Declaration

This Web site www.glossymagonline.com is operated by Beauty Trend GmbH, Mauerstrasse 79, D-10117 Berlin, Germany (hereinafter referred to as “we” or “us”). Here, we supply users with general and topical information relating to different subjects such as fashion, beauty and culture and invite users to take part in certain promotion actions (hereinafter referred to as “contents”). Users are required to register for certain contents.

The protection of your personal data is of paramount importance to us. We deal with this with the utmost care and adhere strictly to the regulations of the data protection law. The subsequent Declaration gives you a survey of how we assure this protection and which kind of data are collected for which purpose.

 You remain anonymous while you visit this Web site. The data transmitted with each site access by your Internet browser, e.g. IP address, date, call time, the amount of data transmitted, the dwell duration and a message relating to the success of the call (so called Web-Log), are collected and stored by us without any reference to the given person. We use these access data in a non-personalised form for the continuous improvement of our service. We only store your IP address during the utilization process (so-called Session-ID).

We do not evaluate these data in a user-related manner!

We only collect person-related data when you order, via this Web site, our Newsletter or when using similar personally related functions.

Such data can consist of the following:

  • First name and surname
  • Address
  • E-mail address
  • Telephone and fax numbers

With the registration for our Newsletter or similar personally related functions, you are agreeing that we can store and process the supplied data.

Within the framework of the corresponding legal regulations we are entitled to evaluate utilization profiles for advertising, market research and to improve our services. Such utilization profiles are integrated in a pseudonym, i.e. a label that replaces the name or other identification characteristics so that it is impossible to identify the given person. The utilization profiles are not related to the data of the holder of the pseudonym. You can always revoke the use of your data to produce a utilization profile.

We set so-called cookies on our Web sites. Cookies are small amounts of data which your Internet browser places on the hard disk of your computer. Cookies can contain information relating to your Web site visit. Most browsers are configured in such a manner that they will accept cookies. However, you can reconfigure your browser in such a manner that it will reject cookies or you will be asked to confirm beforehand. If you reject our cookies, then the consequence could be that not all our offers will function free of disruptions for you.

As many all Web site operators, we use on our Web site the technologies Google Analytics® and Adobe® Test&Target™, powered by Omniture® (“Test&Target”).

Google Analytics – a Webanalysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”) – also uses so-called cookies. The information relating to your use of this Web site that is generated by this cookie (including your IP address) is transmitted to a server of Google in the USA where it is stored. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Web site, to activate the compilation of reports on the Web site for the Web site operators and to render more services associated with the Web site and Internet utilization. In this context Google will also transmit this information to third parties, provided that this remains within the given legal regulations or in the event that third parties process these data on behalf of Google. Data collection and storage can be revoked with future effect at any time. For this purpose please visit the Web site

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

and activate the opt-out cookie.

In order to learn more about the frequency of visits, the behavior and the number of our users we use the software Test&Target. We do not track personal data and IP-adresses with this software. The data is used exclusively in an anonymized and compiled form for statistical purposes and for the development and optimization of our Web site. Test&Target uses session cookies, that are stored only during the visit to our Web site. In addition, Test&Target uses permanent cookies. The purpose is to offer you the optimal guidance through our Web site. The content of the permanent cookies is limited to a permanent identification number. Name, IP-address etc. are not stored. There is no profiling in view of your user behavior.

Our Internet presence uses the social plug-ins of Facebook and Twitter, e.g. the Facebook-I-like-button and the Twitter-follow-button. When these are displayed, or when clicking on these buttons, a direct link is established between your computer and the service provider of the given plug-in (e.g. Facebook, Twitter). In the course of this operation you can obtain from Facebook Twitter person and non-person related data. We advise you to obtain information on the most comprehensive kind of data, as well as for the purpose and extent of data collection, and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook and Twitter, and on your rights in this respect and to set possibilities to protect your private sphere, by reading, e.g.

http://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php – and

http://twitter.com/privacy

You have the right to ask at any time for information concerning your stored personal data, its origin, the recipients and the manner of use; you can also have this corrected. Please refer to our Imprint for our contact data.

We reserve the right to change this Data Protection Declaration at any time.