Last updated: March 27, 2021
Your rights as a user of our services
You have the right to information, correction, blocking or deletion of your data at any time. Any given consent can be revoked at any time and you may partially object to the processing of your data, even if no consent was required from you for the processing. You can contact our data protection officer at any time for further information on privacy issues by email at privacy@blaklisted.com.
Data we collect about you
On the one hand, your data is captured because you communicate it to us. This may, for example, be data that you enter in our contact form. Other data is collected automatically when visiting the website through our IT systems. These are above all technical data (e.g. Internet browser, operating system or time of the page request). The collection of this data is automatic as soon as you visit our platform.
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Registration Information: When you register for BlaklistEd (for our free offer, paid subscription, or use of a code), we collect the personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering through your access device.
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Mobile Advertising ID: If not disabled by the user, we collect the Mobile Advertising ID provided by your mobile device. If you do not want us to collect this Mobile Advertising ID, you can always disable or change this on your device. Please see this manual for iOS devices and this manual for Android devices.
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Cookies and Cookie-Policy: For the provision of the BlaklistEd service and to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure, we also use so-called cookies for data collection and storage. Cookies are small data packets that are stored on your device and do no harm. We collect Cookies in the following categories:
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Necessary technical or functional cookies: They help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
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Statistical cookies: They help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
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Marketing cookies: They are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user.
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Tracking Services: We use tracking services to collect information about the behavior of visitors to our pages. So we can ensure an optimal user experience. These services use pseudonymised user profiles with the help of cookies, so that a direct inference to persons is not possible. Of course you can contradict the creation of these profiles at any time. Incidentally, each access device can be configured in such a way that basically no cookies can be created at all, or they can be deleted directly after the session.
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Social Plugins: Our pages contain buttons from various social networks so that you can recommend our offers, services and / or products to other interested people. If you click on such a button, data such as your current IP address, browser and access device information (type and operating system), the resolution of the screen, if you have plug-ins installed will be the referrer (from where you came to the site) and the current URL to the site operator.
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Newsletter: When you sign up for our newsletter, your email address will be used for information on advertising and advertising purposes. Of course, this is voluntary and you can even after the consent at any time unsubscribe.
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Personal Data of Children: We are not aware of collecting personal data from children under 16 years of age; if you are under 16 years of age, please do not register for BlaklistEd or send us any personal data. If we learn we have collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 may have provided us personal data, please contact us at privacy@blaklisted.com.
How we collect your data
We collect your data in three different ways:
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automated when you visit our website
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through cookies
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through your voluntary input
What we use your data for
We want to offer you a faultless use of our services. Therefore, data is needed for the administration and troubleshooting of our websites. We pass on the collected data for processing to the respective internal departments or to external service providers and contract processors according to the required purposes. However, as we are constantly improving ourselves and offering you optimized services, data in pseudonymised form (through usage profiles) are also needed for advertising and / or market research. Of course, this can be contradicted at any time.
How we work with partners
In some cases, your data is also processed with the help of third-party providers of various online services (please refer to our privacy policy in detail further below). However, this is exclusively regulated by data processing agreements and the processing is instruction-bound, so that we always keep the responsibility for the processing.
Use of your data for other purposes
In addition to the purposes already mentioned, we are also subject to legal requirements. These are:
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any request for information (and the related disclosure) to governmental authorities
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any request for information (and the related disclosure) to copyright holders
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for the misuse recognition of our provided services
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trouble-shooting or -avoidance
Our Privacy Policy in detail
General and Responsible Entity
We are glad that you are interested in BlaklistEd. In order to provide you with our service, we need certain information about you. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect about you for what purpose and what we use it for. It also explains what rights you have with regard to the data processing operations affecting you.
BlaklistEd LLC (hereafter referred to as “BlaklistEd” or “we”) operates on the internet site https://www.blaklisted.com as well as via the mobile application a platform for mobile learning (hereinafter “platform”).
Responsible body is the natural or legal person who, alone or together with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).
Revocation of consent
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke an existing consent at any time. An informal message by email to privacy@blaklisted.com is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Data Collection and Use
Cookies
We use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your access device and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your access device and stored by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They will be deleted automatically at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and enable the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of our website.
Cookies which are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions which you wish to use. We as website operators have a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimized provision of our services. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for the analysis of your surfing behavior) are stored, they will be treated separately in this privacy policy. We collect Cookies in the following categories:
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Necessary technical or functional cookies: Functional cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function without these cookies.
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Analytical cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use the website. We might also use analytics cookies to test new ads, pages, or features.
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Marketing cookies: These cookies are placed by third-party advertising platforms to deliver ads and track ad performance, enabling advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant to you.
Registration on this Website
You can register on our platform to use our services. We only use the data entered for the purpose of using the respective offer for which you have registered. The mandatory information requested during registration, such as name and email address, must be provided, otherwise the registration can not be completed.
For important changes such as the scope of the offer or in case of technical changes, we use the email address given at registration to inform you in this way.
The processing of the data entered during registration takes place at your request in order to be able to comply with the user contract, including precontractual measures.
The data collected during registration will be stored by us as long as you are registered for our services and will subsequently be deleted. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.
Analysis Tools and Advertising
For marketing optimization purposes, we send, if not disabled by the user in the system settings of its device, the Mobile Advertising ID, the hashed email address given during registration and the parameters specified in the section “Social Plugins” (such as IP address, browser and access device information) to Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 USA (“Google”). The data processing takes place on the basis of our legitimate interests of analyzing user behavior and optimization of our website and our advertising. If you do not want us to collect the Mobile Advertising ID and send it to Google, you can find a manual for deactivation under the topic “Mobile Advertising ID”. Further details to different Google services are mentioned below.
Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking
This website uses Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 USA (“Google”). As part of Google AdWords, we use the so-called conversion tracking. When you click on an ad served by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is set. Cookies are small text files that the Internet browser stores on the user’s computer. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for the personal identification of the users. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not expired yet, Google and we can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.
Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. The cookies can not be tracked through the websites of advertisers. The information gathered using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords advertisers who have opted for conversion tracking. Customers are told the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, they do not receive information that personally identifies users. If you do not wish to participate in tracking, you can opt-out of this use by disabling the Google Conversion Tracking cookie from your Internet browser under User Preferences. You will not be included in the conversion tracking statistics.
You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and cookies only on a case by case basis, the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or generally exclude and can activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising. More information about Google AdWords and Google Conversion Tracking can be found in the Google Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics
Our sites use functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics for the purpose of needs-based design and continuous optimization. Provider is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043 USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there.
The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its website and its advertising.
Here’re the details in regard to how we’re using Google Analytics:
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Browser Plugin: You can prevent the storage of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the features of this website in full. In addition, you may prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under this link.
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Opposition to Data Collection: With the help of this browser add-on for disabling Google Analytics JavaScript, you can prevent Google Analytics from using your data during future visits to this website. For more information about how to handle user data on Google Analytics, see the Google Privacy Policy.
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Demographic Data: This website uses the “demographics” feature of Google Analytics. As a result, reports can be produced that contain statements on the age, gender and interests of the site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google and third-party visitor data. This data can not be assigned to a specific person. You can disable this feature at any time through the Ads settings in your Google account, or generally prohibit Google Analytics from collecting your data as outlined in the “Opposition to Data Collection” section.
